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Design of a crystal extraction facility in the east utility straight
Parasitic extraction of a small fraction of the 20-TeV circulating beam of the Superconducting Super Collider can be done using a bent crystal situated in the halo of the orbiting beam. The authors present a design of a crystal extraction system that is compatible with current plans for momentum scraping in the east utility straight. The only modification to the collider tunnel is the addition of a 160-m-long alcove in the east utility straight to mate the extracted beam line microtunnel with the collider tunnel. No other changes to the east utility straight tunnel are needed.
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Neutrino intraction studies at Tevatron energies using a beam dump technique to produce the neutrino beam
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FRACTION OF STOPPED ANTIPROTONS WHICH ANNIHILATE ON FREE HYDROGEN IN PROPANE.
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The Design and Performance of a Halo Free Intense Extracted Proton Beam at Fermilab
Abstract A set of refocussing and collimation stages has been constructed in the Proton West beam line of the Proton Area at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory which allows the operation of a halo-free intense proton beam. Measurements made at the first target point in the Proton West experimental hall demonstrate that this system is capable of targeting 10 12 pprotons in a 4 mm diameter spot with a halo density of about 150 particle/mm 2 at a distance of 5.6 cm from the focus. This system has been operated at 200, 300, and 400 GeV.
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A Search for the production of prompt neutrinos in high energy proton nucleus collisions
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A-sector Kautzy valve tests in SITU
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Operating a production pilot factory serving several scientific domains
Pilot infrastructures are becoming prominent players in the Grid environment. One of the major advantages is represented by the reduced effort required by the user communities (also known as Virtual Organizations or VOs) due to the outsourcing of the Grid interfacing services, i.e. the pilot factory, to Grid experts. One such pilot factory, based on the glideinWMS pilot infrastructure, is being operated by the Open Science Grid at University of California San Diego (UCSD). This pilot factory is serving multiple VOs from several scientific domains. Currently the three major clients are the analysis operations of the HEP experiment CMS, the community VO HCC, which serves mostly math, biology and computer science users, and the structural biology VO NEBioGrid. The UCSD glidein factory allows the served VOs to use Grid resources distributed over 150 sites in North and South America, in Europe, and in Asia. This paper presents the steps taken to create a production quality pilot factory, together with the challenges encountered along the road.
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Theoretical constraints on additional Higgs bosons in light of the 126 GeV Higgs
A bstractWe present a sum rule for Higgs fields in general representations under SU(2)L × U(1)Y that follows from the connection between the Higgs couplings and the mechanism that gives the electroweak bosons their masses, and at the same time restricts these couplings. Sum rules that follow from perturbative unitarity will require us to include singly and doubly charged Higgses in our analysis. We examine the consequences of these sum rules for Higgs phenomenology in both model independent and model specific ways. The relation between our sum rules and other works, based on dispersion relations, is also clarified.
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Bottom-quark forward-backward asymmetry in the standard model and beyond.
We computed the bottom-quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron in the standard model (SM) and for several new physics scenarios. Near the Z pole, the SM bottom asymmetry is dominated by tree level exchanges of electroweak gauge bosons. While above the Z pole, next-to-leading order QCD dominates the SM asymmetry as was the case with the top-quark forward-backward asymmetry. Light new physics, M(NP)≲150  GeV, can cause significant deviations from the SM prediction for the bottom asymmetry. The bottom asymmetry can be used to distinguish between competing new physics (NP) explanations of the top asymmetry based on how the NP interferes with s-channel gluon and Z exchange.
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Searching for new physics in the three-body decays of the Higgs-like particle
A bstractWe show that the three-body decays of the resonance recently discovered at the LHC are potentially sensitive to effects of new physics. Even if the fully integrated partial decay widths are consistent with the minimal Standard Model there is information that is lost upon integration, which can be uncovered in the differential decay widths. Concentrating on the decay h → Zℓ$ \overline{\ell} $, we identify the regions in the three-body phase space in which these effects become especially pronounced and could be detected in future experiments.
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A high precision, compact electromechanical ground rotation sensor.
We present a mechanical rotation sensor consisting of a balance pivoting on a tungsten carbide knife edge. These sensors are important for precision seismic isolation systems, as employed in land-based gravitational wave interferometers and for the new field of rotational seismology. The position sensor used is an air-core linear variable differential transformer with a demonstrated noise floor of 1 × 10⁻¹¹ m/√Hz. We describe the instrument construction and demonstrate low noise operation with a noise floor upper bound of 5.7 × 10⁻⁹ rad/√Hz at 10 mHz and 6.4 × 10⁻¹⁰ rad/√Hz at 0.1 Hz. The performance of the knife edge hinge is compatible with a behaviorur free of noise from dislocation self-organized criticality.