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Time-projection chamber for the PEN experiment
The PEN collaboration carries out a precision measurement of the π+ → e +ν decay branching ratio at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland). A special mini time-projection chamber (mTPC) has been developed for registration of particles in the pion beam. The chamber contains 14 × 10−3 g/cm2 of matter on the particle path. The chamber was successfully used during one-year-long run. Design and characteristics of the mTPC are described.
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Detector with a profile-based cathode and the two-coordinate pad-strip readout system
A detector with a profile-based cathode and a two-coordinate cathode readout system has been experimentally investigated. Cathode pads located in each profile along the anode wire are diagonally interconnected, thus forming strips that cross the detector at some angle with respect to the anode wire. Owing to the availability of the two cathode coordinates and the coordinate associated with the anode wire, it is possible to solve the problem of identifying high-multiplicity events in a single detector.
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ARES — a spectrometer for the investigation of rare particle decays and rare nuclear processes
Abstract A magnetic spectrometer intended for a wide range of investigations of rare particle and nuclear processes is described. The spectrometer consists of cylindrical proportional chambers (∼ 15000 signal wires) with gas supply and gas leakage systems, cylindrical scintillation hodoscopes, a magnet, electronics with power supplies, and a data acquisition system. Basic characteristics of the spectrometer are discussed and results of first physics experiments are presented.
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Shock tensiometer for multiwire chambers
This paper describes the operation and circuit of a tensometer based on a new method of determining the frequency of natural oscillations of multiwire chambers filaments by means of shock excitation of oscillations that provide sufficient accuracy under the indicated measurement conditions. The device is suitable for measuring the filament tension of chambers of various designs, is simple to operate, and provides high productivity. The range of tension measurement of 0.5-70 g for gold-plated tungsten filaments 20 microm in diameter and 60 cm long is established with the device.
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Connection between the behavior of electromagnetic form factors in the Bjorken limit and singularities of their Fourier transforms on the light cone
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Development of a data acquisition system for the SPHERE spectrometer
Abstract The 4π-detector SPHERE for studying multiple particle cumulative production is currently under construction at the Laboratory of High Energies, JINR, Dubna. This paper briefly describes the present status and future developments of the data acquisition system for this setup. A multiprocessor system based on VMEbus will be implemented for parallel readout, event-building, and data preprocessing. A workstation will be used for data analysis and experimental control. The investigation has been performed at the Laboratory of High Energies, JINR.
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Dimensional regularization and infrared divergences
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Nine-Propagator Master Integrals for Massless Three-Loop Form Factors
Abstract We complete the calculation of master integrals for massless three-loop form factors by computing the previously-unknown three diagrams with nine propagators in dimensional regularisation. Each of the integrals yields a six-fold Mellin–Barnes representation which we use to compute the coefficients of the Laurent expansion in ϵ. Using Riemann ζ functions of up to weight six, we give fully analytic results for one integral; for a second, analytic results for all but the finite term; for the third, analytic results for all but the last two coefficients in the Laurent expansion. The remaining coefficients are given numerically to sufficiently high accuracy for phenomenological applications.
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Hepp and Speer sectors within modern strategies of sector decomposition
Hepp and Speer sectors were successfully used in the sixties and seventies for proving mathematical theorems on analytically or/and dimensionally regularized and renormalized Feynman integrals at Euclidean external momenta. We describe them within recently developed strategies of introducing iterative sector decompositions. We prove that Speer sectors are reproduced within one of the existing strategies.