120582395
The performance of an L3 hadron calorimeter prototype module with BGO
Abstract A prototype of a gas sampling uranium module of the L3 hadron calorimeter was built and subsequently tested with pion beams of energies between 4 and 20 GeV. The construction of the proportional chambers, the assembling of the module, the readout electronics, and the beam test are briefly described. The energy resolution of the calorimeter module alone was measured to be 30.5 ± 3% at 6 GeV, 21 ± 2% at 10 GeV and 18 ± 2% at 20 GeV. For the module together with a BGO crystal matrix in resolution was 29 ± 3% at 4 GeV, 21 ± 2% at 10 GeV, and 17 ± 2% at 20 GeV.
120528491
Tau-Charm factory project at Beijing
Abstract The Tau-Charm Factory (TCF) is a proposed high luminosity e + e − collider at the threshold region of the production of τ and charm. It could provide many precision measurements and search for new phenomena in the flavor physics. IHEP, Beijing, is an ideal cite to build a TCF. The status of the feasibility study of Beijing Tau-Charm Factory (BTCF) is reported.
9037500
Searches for supersymmetry using the MT2 variable in hadronic events produced in pp collisions at 8 TeV
A bstractSearches for supersymmetry (SUSY) are performed using a sample of hadronic events produced in 8 TeV pp collisions at the CERN LHC. The searches are based on the MT2 variable, which is a measure of the transverse momentum imbalance in an event. The data were collected with the CMS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb−1. Two related searches are performed. The first is an inclusive search based on signal regions defined by the value of the MT2 variable, the hadronic energy in the event, the jet multiplicity, and the number of jets identified as originating from bottom quarks. The second is a search for a mass peak corresponding to a Higgs boson decaying to a bottom quark-antiquark pair, where the Higgs boson is produced as a decay product of a SUSY particle. For both searches, the principal backgrounds are evaluated with data control samples. No significant excess over the expected number of background events is observed, and exclusion limits on various SUSY models are derived.

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PERFORMANCES OF THE AMS-02 ELECTROMAGNETIC CALORIMETER
119474898
The topological branching fractions of $\tau$ decay at LEP
The paper has heen withdrawn.
120032974
Analysis and simulation of hadronic showers in a uranium gas-sampling calorimeter
Abstract The results of a simulation of the response of the L3 detector to hadrons is presented. The simulation is made on the basis of data obtained in the beam with the setup consisting of a uranium gas-sampling calorimeter with a bismuth germanium oxide calorimeter in front of it.
10607038
Geometry and topology of bubble solutions from gauge theory
We study how geometrical and topological aspects of certain 1 -BPS type IIB supergravity solutions are captured by the N = 4 Super Yang-Mills gauge theory in the AdS/CFT context. The type IIB solutions are completely characterized by arbitrary droplets in a plane and we consider, in particular, concentric droplets. We probe the dual 1 -BPS operators of the gauge theory with single traces and extract their one-loop anomalous dimensions. The action of the one-loop dilatation operator can be reformulated as the Hamiltonian of a bosonic lattice. The operators defining the Hamiltonian encode the topology of the droplet. The axial symmetry of the droplets turns out to be essential for obtaining the spectrum of the Hamiltonians. In appropriate BMN limits, the near-BPS spectrum reproduces the spectrum of near-BPS string excitations propagating along each individual edge of the droplet of the dual geometric background. We also study semiclassical regimes for the Hamiltonians. We show that for droplets having disconnected constituents, the Hamiltonian admits different complimentary semiclassical descriptions, each one replicating the semiclassical description for closed strings extending in each of the constituents.
119588455
A new 2d/4d duality via integrability
We prove a duality, recently conjectured in arXiv:1103.5726, which relates the F-terms of supersymmetric gauge theories defined in two and four dimensions respectively. The proof proceeds by a saddle point analysis of the four-dimensional partition function in the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit. At special quantized values of the Coulomb branch moduli, the saddle point condition becomes the Bethe Ansatz Equation of the SL(2) Heisenberg spin chain which coincides with the F-term equation of the dual two-dimensional theory. The on-shell values of the superpotential in the two theories are shown to coincide in corresponding vacua. We also identify two-dimensional duals for a large set of quiver gauge theories in four dimensions and generalize our proof to these cases.
17286551
Indicators for cluster survivability in a dispersing cloud
We use N-body simulations to survey the response of embedded star clusters to the dispersal of their parent molecular cloud. The final stages of the clusters can be divided into three classes: the cluster (1) is destroyed, (2) has a loose structure, and (3) has a compact core. We are interested in three of the governing parameters of the parent cloud: (1) the mass, (2) the size, and (3) the dispersing rate. It is known that the final stage of the cluster is well correlated with the star formation efficiency (SFE) for systems with the same cluster and cloud profile. We deem that the SFE alone is not enough to address systems with clouds of different sizes. Our result shows that the initial cluster-cloud mass ratio at a certain Lagrangian radius and the initial kinetic energy are better indicators for the survivability of embedded clusters.
15021640
The Kähler potential of Abelian Higgs vortices
We calculate the Kahler potential for the Samols metric on the moduli space of Abelian Higgs vortices on R2, in two different ways. The first uses a scaling argument. The second depends on a variant of the relationship between accessory parameters and the regularized action in Liouville field theory. The Kahler potential on the moduli space of vortices on H2 is also derived, and we are led to a geometrical reinterpretation of these vortices.
17544914
Precision test of AdS/CFT in Lunin-Maldacena background
We obtain the solutions and explicitly calculate the energy for a class of two-spin semiclassical string states in the Lunin-Maldacena background. These configurations are the β-deformed versions of the folded string solutions in AdS5 × S5 background. They correspond to certain single trace operators in the = 1 superconformal β deformation of = 4 Yang-Mills. We calculate the one loop anomalous dimension for the dual single trace operators from the associated twisted spin chain with a general two-cut distribution of Bethe roots. Our results show a striking match between the two calculations. We demonstrate the natural identification of parameters on the two sides of the analysis, and explain the significance of the Virasoro constraint associated with the winding motion of semiclassical strings from the perspective of the spin chain solution.