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The SOUDAN 2 detector: the operation and performance of the tracking calorimeter modules
SOUDAN 2 is a 960-ton tracking calorimeter which has been constructed to search for nucleon decay and other phenomena. The full detector consists of 224 calorimeter modules each weighing 4.3 tons. The modules consist of finely segmented iron instrumented with 1 m long drift tubes of 15 mm internal diameter. The tubes enable three spatial coordinates and dEdx to be recorded for charged particles traversing the tubes. The spatial resolution is 0.38 cm in the x−y plane and 0.65 cm in the z, or drift, direction. The operation and performance of the modules are discussed.
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Ultrahigh energy cosmic ray composition from surface air shower and underground muon measurements at Soudan 2.
The Soudan 2 experiment has performed time-coincident cosmic ray air shower and underground muon measurements. Comparisons to Monte Carlo predictions show that such measurements can make statistically significant tests of the primary composition in the knee region of the cosmic ray spectrum. The results do not support any significant increase in the average primary mass with energy in the range of {similar_to}10{sup 4} TeV per nucleus. Some systematic uncertainties remain, however, particularly in the Monte Carlo modeling of the cosmic ray shower.
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Search for flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions by MINOS
We report new constraints on flavor-changing non-standard neutrino interactions from the MINOS experiment, in which neutrino versus antineutrino interactions can be distinguished on an event-by-event basis. We analyzed a combined set of beam neutrino and antineutrino data from the well-understood NuMI beam, and found no evidence for deviations from standard neutrino mixing. The observed energy spectra constrain the non-standard neutrino interactions parameter to the range −0.20
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Testing Lorentz invariance and CPT conservation with NuMI neutrinos in the MINOS near detector.
A search for a sidereal modulation in the MINOS near detector neutrino data was performed. If present, this signature could be a consequence of Lorentz and CPT violation as predicted by the effective field theory called the standard-model extension. No evidence for a sidereal signal in the data set was found, implying that there is no significant change in neutrino propagation that depends on the direction of the neutrino beam in a sun-centered inertial frame. Upper limits on the magnitudes of the Lorentz and CPT violating terms in the standard-model extension lie between 10(-4) and 10(-2) of the maximum expected, assuming a suppression of these signatures by a factor of 10(-17).
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The MINOS scintillator calorimeter system
The MINOS detectors will use extruded plastic scintillator strips, which are readout by wavelength-shifting fibres coupled to multi-pixel photodetectors. This technique provides excellent energy and spatial resolution. The MINOS detectors are described in detail along with results from the light output tests.
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Search for magnetic monopoles with the Soudan 2 detector.
A search for grand unified theory magnetic monopoles making highly ionizing tracks in argon gas has been conducted using the Soudan 2 nucleon decay detector. This underground detector is a large fine-grained tracking calorimeter comprised of long drift tubes read out by proportional wires. No monopole candidates were observed in data taken over almost three years, yielding an upper flux limit of 8.7{times}10{sup {minus}15} cm{sup {minus}2}s{sup {minus}1}sr{sup {minus}1} for monopole velocities of {beta}{gt}2{times}10{sup {minus}3}.
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Cabling for an SSC silicon tracking system
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Superintegrability and higher order integrals for quantum systems
We refine a method for finding a canonical form of symmetry operators of arbitrary order for the Schrodinger eigenvalue equation HΨ ≡ (Δ2 + V)Ψ = EΨ on any 2D Riemannian manifold, real or complex, that admits a separation of variables in some orthogonal coordinate system. The flat space equations with potentials V = α(x + iy)k − 1/(x − iy)k + 1 in Cartesian coordinates, and V = αr2 + β/r2cos 2kθ + γ/r2sin 2kθ (the Tremblay, Turbiner and Winternitz system) in polar coordinates, have each been shown to be classically superintegrable for all rational numbers k. We apply the canonical operator method to give a constructive proof that each of these systems is also quantum superintegrable for all rational k. We develop the classical analog of the quantum canonical form for a symmetry. It is clear that our methods will generalize to other Hamiltonian systems.
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Development of Large Area Integrated Silicon Tracking Elements for the LHC Luminosity Upgrade
A natural upgrade of the CERN LHC would be to increase the luminosity to 1035 cm-2s-1. For charged particle tracking at this Super-LHC, all-silicon systems are considered appropriate. For tracking in an upgraded ATLAS detector, outside a radius of 20 cm, large area integrated elements ("staves") containing silicon strip detectors are under design and development. Each stave would hold of order 30 individual modules and contain integrated electrical services, mechanical support, and cooling. Prototype tests of such staves are reported here including studies of noise, interference, and a comparison of power distribution by parallel and serial current flow. Mechanical design and simulation on full length staves are presented as well.
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The CLEO III silicon tracker
Abstract The Cornell Electron Storage Ring is being upgraded to B-factory luminosities. The CLEO detector is also being upgraded with a new charged particle tracking system and with the addition of a ring imaging Cerenkov particle identification system. A major part of the tracking system upgrade is the construction of a new four-layer double-sided silicon tracker with 93% solid angle coverage and new readout electronics. The status of the silicon tracker including production tests and the expected performance of the final system are discussed.
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Clebsch‐Gordan Coefficients and Special Function Identities. I. The Harmonic Oscillator Group
It is shown that by constructing explicit realizations of the Clebsch‐Gordan decomposition for tensor products of irreducible representations of a group G, one can derive a wide variety of special function identities with physical interest. In this paper, the representation theory of the harmonic oscillator group is used to give elegant derivations of identities involving Hermite, Laguerre, Bessel, and hypergeometric functions.