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A water Cherenkov calorimeter for long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments
Abstract We propose a water-based large homogeneous calorimeter as the next generation neutrino detector for ν factories and/or conventional ν beams. The Cherenkov light produced in water is sufficient to have good energy resolution, and the pattern recognition is realized by a modular water tank structure. Monte Carlo simulations show that the detector performance is excellent for identifying neutrino CC events while rejecting backgrounds.
120261584
Overveiw of the BES physics
Recent physics results at Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) are reviewed, especially on excited baryons. Substantial improvements are expected at the newly built BESIII experiment, which is operational since 2008. The detector performance is excellent and a total of 100 million Ψ(2S) and 200 million J/Ψ event are collected in 2009. Preliminary results shows that a new era of excited baryon physics will begin.
56005177
Inclusive J production in Z0 decays
Abstract Inclusive J production in Z0 decays is observed via the leptonic decay mode J → l+l− (l = e,μ). We measure the branching ratio Br(Z0 → J + X) = (4.1 ± 0.7 (stat.) ± 0.3 (sys.)) × 10−3. We have calculated the fraction of the J mesons from b-hadron decay and find a branching ratio of Br(b → J + X)= (1.3±0.2(stat.)±0.2(sys.)) × 10−2. We determine the average fractional energy of bottom hadrons 〈XE > = 0.70±0.03 (stat.)+0.02−0.01 (sys.) using the momentum spectrum of the J mesons. From a study of the angle between the J and the most energetic jet, we set an upper limit on the branching ratio Br ( Z 0 → q q g ∗ ; g ∗ → J + X ) −4 at 90% confidence level.
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The mass production and quality control of RPCs for the Daya Bay experiment
Abstract Resistive plate chambers will be used in the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment to help veto backgrounds created by cosmic-ray muons. The mass production of RPCs began in 2008 and by the end of 2009, 1600 RPCs (3500 m 2 ) had been produced and tested. This paper describes the production and quality control procedures, and quality assurance using cosmic-ray testing.
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A side-by-side comparison of Daya Bay antineutrino detectors
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is designed to determine precisely the neutrino mixing angle θ_(13) with a sensitivity better than 0.01 in the parameter sin^22θ_(13) at the 90% confidence level. To achieve this goal, the collaboration will build eight functionally identical antineutrino detectors. The first two detectors have been constructed, installed and commissioned in Experimental Hall 1, with steady data-taking beginning September 23, 2011. A comparison of the data collected over the subsequent three months indicates that the detectors are functionally identical, and that detector-related systematic uncertainties are smaller than requirements.
118039047
Physics of tau and charm
The physics of tau and charm started in early 70's after J/$\psi$ and $\tau$ were discovered. Since then several dedicated accelerators and experiments were built with increasing luminosities and studies on light hadron spectroscopy, charmonium, electroweak and QCD were never interupted. New interests and surprises are not rare in this area. With the newly built BEPCII/BESIII, an even brighter future is foreseen.
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Using multipoles of the correlation function to measure H(z), DA(z) and β(z) from Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxies
Galaxy clustering data can be used to measure the cosmic expansion history H(z), the angular-diameter distance D_A(z), and the linear redshift-space distortion parameter beta(z). Here we present a method for using effective multipoles of the galaxy two-point correlation function (\xi_0(s), \xi_2(s), \xi}_4(s), and \xi_6(s), with s denoting the comoving separation) to measure H(z), D_A(z)$, and beta(z), and validate it using LasDamas mock galaxy catalogs. Our definition of effective multipoles explicitly incorporates the discreteness of measurements, and treats the measured correlation function and its theoretical model on the same footing. We find that for the mock data, \xi_0+\xi_2+\xi_4 captures nearly all the information, and gives significantly stronger constraints on H(z), D_A(z), and beta(z), compared to using only \xi_0+\xi_2. 
We apply our method to the sample of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) without assuming a dark energy model or a flat Universe. We find that \xi}_4(s) deviates on scales of s<60Mpc/h from the measurement from mock data (in contrast to \xi_0(s), \xi_2(s), and \xi_6(s)), thus we only use \xi_0+\xi_2 for our fiducial constraints. We obtain {H(0.35), D_A(0.35), Omega_mh^2, beta(z)} = {79.6_{-8.7}^{+8.3} km/s/Mpc, 1057_{-87}^{+88}Mpc, 0.103\pm0.015, 0.44\pm0.15} using \xi_0+\xi_2. We find that H(0.35)r_s(z_d)/c and D_A(0.35)/r_s(z_d) (where r_s(z_d) is the sound horizon at the drag epoch) are more tightly constrained: {H(0.35)r_s(z_d)/c, D_A(0.35)/r_s(z_d)} = {0.0437_{-0.0043}^{+0.0041}, 6.48_{-0.43}^{+0.44}\} using \xi_0+\xi_2.
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The BES detector
Abstract The Beijing Spectrometer (BES) is a general purpose solenoidal detector at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC). It is designed to study exclusive final states in e + e − annihilations at the center of mass energy from 3.0 to 5.6 GeV. This requires large solid angle coverage combined with good charged particle momentum resolution, good particle identification and high photon detection efficiency at low energies. In this paper we describe the construction and the performance of BES detector.
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A Model-Independent Photometric Redshift Estimator
We derive a simple empirical photometric redshift estimator using a training set of galaxies with multiband photometry and measured redshifts in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF). This estimator is model-independent; it does not use spectral templates. The dispersion between the estimated redshifts and the spectroscopically measured ones is small; the dispersions range from $\sigma_z\simeq 0.03$ to 0.1 for $z\la 2$ galaxies, and from $\sigma_z\simeq 0.14$ to 0.25 for $z\ga 2$ galaxies. The predictions provided by our empirical redshift estimator agree well with recently measured galaxy redshifts. We illustrate how our empirical redshift estimator can be modified to include flat spectrum galaxies with $1.4\la z \la 2$.
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Crystallization in the Thin and Ultrathin Films of Poly(ethylene-vinyl acetate) and Linear Low-Density Polyethylene
The crystallization of poly(ethylene−vinyl acetate) and linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) films spun-cast from the polymer/toluene solutions with as-cast thickness from 460 to 10 nm was studied. The lamellar thickness was measured using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and found to increase from 14 to 21 nm for films thinner than 100 nm. The morphology of LLDPE measured by scanning probe microscopy (SPM) showed an edge-on lamellae for the films thicker than 30 nm and flat-on lamellae for the films thinner than 15 nm. A pseudo-“shish-kebab” tiny crystal structure was observed in between the larger lamellae. Crystallinity was confirmed using attenuated total reflectance−Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy. The shear modulation force microscopy technique (SMFM) was used to measure the melting point, Tm, which was found to decrease for films thinner than 100 nm. The rate of decrease was a function of the annealing pr...
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THE LIQUID SCINTILLATOR NEUTRINO DETECTOR AND LAMPF NEUTRINO SOURCE
Abstract A search for neutrino oscillations of the type ν μ → ν c has been conducted at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility using ν μ from muon decay at rest. Evidence for this transition has been reported previously. This paper discusses in detail the experimental setup, detector operation and neutrino source, including aspects relevant to oscillation searches in the muon decay-at-rest and pion decay in flight channels.