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Active to sterile neutrino mixing limits from neutral-current interactions in MINOS.
Results are reported from a search for active to sterile neutrino oscillations in the MINOS long-baseline experiment, based on the observation of neutral-current neutrino interactions, from an exposure to the NuMI neutrino beam of 7.07×10(20) protons on target. A total of 802 neutral-current event candidates is observed in the Far Detector, compared to an expected number of 754 ± 28(stat) ± 37(syst) for oscillations among three active flavors. The fraction f(s) of disappearing ν(μ) that may transition to ν(s) is found to be less than 22% at the 90% C.L.
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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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ATLAS pixel detector electronics and sensors
The silicon pixel tracking system for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is described and the performance requirements are summarized. Detailed descriptions of the pixel detector electronics and the silicon sensors are given. The design, fabrication, assembly and performance of the pixel detector modules are presented. Data obtained from test beams as well as studies using cosmic rays are also discussed.
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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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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 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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Separation of variables in Einstein spaces. I. Two ignorable and one null coordinate
Computes and classifies all Einstein spaces and their corresponding coordinate systems such that the Hamilton-Jacobi equation admits a separation of variables with two ignorable and one essential null coordinates. The authors find that all such spaces correspond to plane-fronted gravitational waves of Petrov type N. They also give necessary conditions which a general space-time must have in order to admit coordinates of the type studied. Furthermore, the integrability conditions for Helmholtz (Schrodinger) separability are completely solved.
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The silicon tracker of the beam test engineering model of the GLAST large-area telescope
The silicon tracker for the engineering model of the GLAST Large Area Telescope(LAT) has at least two unique features: it employs self triggering readout electronics, dissipating less than 200 mu-W per channel and to date represents the largest surface of silicon microstrip detectors assembled in a tracker (2.7 m{sup 2}). It demonstrates the feasibility of employing this technology for satellite based experiments, in which low power consumption, large effective areas and high reliability are required. This note describes the construction of this silicon tracker, which was installed in a beam test of positrons, hadrons and tagged photons at SLAC in December of 1999 and January of 2000.
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Complete sets of commuting operators and O (3) scalars in the enveloping algebra of SU (3)
We consider the ``missing label'' problem for basis vectors of SU(3) representations in a basis corresponding to the group reduction SU(3)⊃O(3)⊃O(2). We prove that only two independent O (3) scalars exist in the enveloping algebra of S U (3), in addition to the obvious ones, namely the angular momentum L2 and the two SU(3) Casimir operators C(2) and C(3). Any one of these two operators (of third and fourth order in the generators) can be added to C(2), C(3), L2, and L3 to form a complete set of commuting operators. The eigenvalues of the third and fourth order scalars X(3) and X(4) are calculated analytically or numerically for many cases of physical interest. The methods developed in this article can be used to resolve a missing label problem for any semisimple group G, when reduced to any semisimple subgroup H.
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A classification of second‐order raising operators for Hamiltonians in two variables
We develop a group theoretic method based on results of Winternitz et al. to compute and classify all first‐ and second‐order raising and lowering operators admitted by Hamiltonians of the form H¯=−(1/2)Δ2+V(x,y). The key to our results, which generalize to higher dimensions, is a proof that H¯ admits a second‐order raising operator only if the Schrodinger equation separates in Cartesian, polar, or elliptic coordinates.
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Series solutions for the Dirac equation in Kerr-Newman space-time
The Dirac equation is solved for an electron in a Kerr–Newman geometry using an adaptation of the procedure of Chandrasekhar. The corresponding eigenfunctions obtained can be represented as series of Jacobi polynomials. The spectrum of eigenvalues can be calculated using continued fraction techniques. Representations for the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are obtained for various ranges of the parameters appearing in the Kerr–Newman metric. Some comments concerning the bag model of nucleons are made.