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OBSERVATION OF TeV GAMMA RAYS FROM THE UNIDENTIFIED SOURCE HESS J1841–055 WITH THE ARGO-YBJ EXPERIMENT
We report the observation of a very high energy γ-ray source whose position is coincident with HESS J1841–055. This source has been observed for 4.5 years by the ARGO-YBJ experiment from 2007 November to 2012 July. Its emission is detected with a statistical significance of 5.3 standard deviations. Parameterizing the source shape with a two-dimensional Gaussian function, we estimate an extension , which is consistent with the HESS measurement. The observed energy spectrum is dN/dE = (9.0 ± 1.6) × 10–13(E/5 TeV)–2.32 ± 0.23 photons cm–2 s–1 TeV–1, in the energy range 0.9-50 TeV. The integral γ-ray flux above 1 TeV is 1.3 ± 0.4 Crab, which is 3.2 ± 1.0 times the flux derived by HESS. The differences in the flux determination between HESS and ARGO-YBJ and possible counterparts at other wavelengths are discussed.
119348940
Detecting the dark matter annihilation at the ground EAS detectors
Abstract In this paper we study the possibility of detecting gamma rays from dark matter annihilation in the subhalos of the Milky Way by the ground based EAS detectors within the frame of the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model. Based on the Monte Carlo simulation we also study the properties of two specific EAS detectors, the ARGO and HAWC, and the sensitivities of these detectors on the detection of dark matter annihilation. We find the ground EAS detectors have the possibility to observe such signals. Conversely if no signal observed we give the constraints on the supersymmetric parameter space, which however depends on the subhalos properties.
209869998
Observation of the decay psi(2S) ---> K*(892)anti-K + c.c.
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Energy spectrum of cosmic protons and helium nuclei by a hybrid measurement at 4300 m a.s.l.
The energy spectrum of cosmic Hydrogen and Helium nuclei has been measured below the so-called "knee" by using a hybrid experiment with a wide field-of-view Cherenkov telescope and the Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) array of the ARGO-YBJ experiment at 4300 m above sea level. The Hydrogen and Helium nuclei have been well separated from other cosmic ray components by using a multi-parameter technique. A highly uniform energy resolution of about 25% is achieved throughout the whole energy range (100–700 TeV). The observed energy spectrum is compatible with a single power law with index γ=−2.63±0.06.
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Search for Invisible Decays of eta and eta-prime in the Processes J/psi ---> phi eta and phi eta-prime
Using a data sample of 58x10{sup 6} J/{psi} decays collected with the Beijing Spectrometer II detector at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider, searches for invisible decays of {eta} and {eta}{sup '} in J/{psi} to {phi}{eta} and {phi}{eta}{sup '} are performed. The {phi} signals, which are reconstructed in K{sup +}K{sup -} final states, are used to tag the {eta} and {eta}{sup '} decays. No signals are found for the invisible decays of either {eta} or {eta}{sup '}, and upper limits at the 90% confidence level are determined to be 1.65x10{sup -3} for the ratio (B({eta}{yields}invisible)/B({eta}{yields}{gamma}{gamma})) and 6.69x10{sup -2} for (B({eta}{sup '}{yields}invisible)/B({eta}{sup '}{yields}{gamma}{gamma})). These are the first searches for {eta} and {eta}{sup '} decays into invisible final states.
125260045
Evidence of sigma particle in J / psi ---> omega pi pi
119288954
Rigidity of SU(2, 2|2)-symmetric solutions in Type IIB
We investigate the existence of half-BPS solutions in Type IIB supergravity which are invariant under the superalgebra SU(2, 2|2) realized on either AdS5 × S2 × S1 or AdS5 × S3 warped over a Riemann surface Σ with boundary. We prove that, in both cases, the only solution is AdS5 × S5 itself. We argue that this result provides evidence for the non-existence of fully back-reacted intersecting D3/D7 branes with either AdS5 × S2 × S1 × Σ or AdS5 × S3 × Σ near-horizon limits.
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Search for quark compositeness in dijet angular distributions from pp collisions at $ \sqrt {s} = 7{ } $ TeV
A bstractA search for quark compositeness using dijet angular distributions from pp collisions at $ \sqrt {s} = 7 $ TeV is presented. The search has been carried out using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 fb−1, recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. Normalized dijet angular distributions have been measured for dijet invariant masses from 0.4 TeV to above 3 TeV and compared with a variety of contact interaction models, including those which take into account the effects of next-to-leading-order QCD corrections. The data are found to be in agreement with the predictions of perturbative QCD, and lower limits are obtained on the contact interaction scale, ranging from 7.5 up to 14.5 TeV at 95 % confidence level.
1321352
Search for new physics with same-sign isolated dilepton events with jets and missing transverse energy.
A search for new physics is performed in events with two same-sign isolated leptons, hadronic jets, and missing transverse energy in the final state. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.98 fb(-1) produced in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. This constitutes a factor of 140 increase in integrated luminosity over previously published results. The observed yields agree with the standard model predictions and thus no evidence for new physics is found. The observations are used to set upper limits on possible new physics contributions and to constrain supersymmetric models. To facilitate the interpretation of the data in a broader range of new physics scenarios, information on the event selection, detector response, and efficiencies is provided.
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SEARCH FOR NEW MASSIVE PARTICLES IN COSMIC RAYS
In this paper, some unusual cosmic ray events are reviewed. They are the Yunnan event recorded in 1972 using a cloud chamber at Yunnan Cosmic Ray Station (YCRS) near Kunming, the south-west of China; the six exotic events (Kolar events) collected during 1965 to 1975 in the Kolar Gold Mine Field (KGF) in south India; and a double-core event obtained also in KGF in 1979 at a depth different from that where the other six were obtained, In addition, some interesting phenomena were also noticed: the abnormal upward muon flux observed by the MINI collaboration, and several intriguing signals seen in the proton detector in KGF, A careful kinematics analysis has shown that all these exotic events are likely to be related to a kind of heavy and slow-moving (i.e. with a Lorentz factor gamma approximate to 2-5) particles produced from cosmic ray interactions. Besides, the rough flux estimates in these experiments seem to indicate that the event rate does not depend on the depth. Thus a natural hypothesis is that there is a heavy and neutral component in the cosmic rays which might be related with the long-sought weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) - one of the most promising candidates of the dark matter of our Universe. Moreover, from the tracks seen in these events, there is also a signal of the possible existence of a kind of heavy and charged particles with a relatively long lifetime (say, longer than 10(-9) s) which might be the interacting products of the unknown cosmic ray particles mentioned above. We then turn to the question of how to search for these exotic particles in cosmic rays, and propose to build a dedicated magnetic spectrometer for identifying them.
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Search for supersymmetry at the LHC in events with jets and missing transverse energy.
A search for events with jets and missing transverse energy is performed in a data sample of pp collisions collected at √s=7 TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analyzed data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.14 fb(-1). In this search, a kinematic variable α(T) is used as the main discriminator between events with genuine and misreconstructed missing transverse energy. No excess of events over the standard model expectation is found. Exclusion limits in the parameter space of the constrained minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model are set. In this model, squark masses below 1.1 TeV are excluded at 95% C.L. Gluino masses below 1.1 TeV are also ruled out at 95% C.L. for values of the universal scalar mass parameter below 500 GeV.