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The search for quarks in terrestrial matter
Abstract Recent experimental searches for physical quarks stopped in terrestrial matter are reviewed and summarized.
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Evidence of a Quark in a High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Bubble-Chamber Picture
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The effect of kaon condensation on quark-antiquark condensate in dense matter
Abstract Assuming that at sufficiently high densities the constituent quarks become relevant degrees of freedom, we study within the framework of a chiral quark model the influence of s -wave K − condensation on the quark–antiquark condensates. We find that, in linear density approximation, the presence of a K − condensate quenches the u ¯ u condensate, but that the d ¯ d condensate remains unaffected up to the chiral order under consideration. We discuss the implication of the suppressed u ¯ u condensate for flavor-dependent chiral symmetry restoration in dense matter.
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Coupled Harmonic Oscillators and Feynman's Rest of the Universe
According to Feynman, the universe consists of two parts - the system in which we are interested and the rest of the universe which our measurement process does not reach. Feynman then formulates the density matrix in terms of the observable world and the rest of the universe. It is shown that coupled harmonic oscillators can serve as an illustrative example for Feynman's ``rest of the universe.'' It is pointed out that this simple example has far-reaching consequences in many branches of physics, including statistical mechanics, measurement theory, information theory, thermo-field dynamics, quantum optics, and relativistic quantum mechanics. It is shown that our ignorance of the rest of the universe increases the uncertainty and entropy in the system in which we are interested.
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Mass and Spin Measurement with M(T2) and MAOS Momentum
We discuss the M T 2 -kink method to determine the masses of both the dark matter WIMP and its mother particle produced at the LHC. We then introduce a new kinematic variable, the M T 2 -Assisted-On-Shell (MAOS) momentum, that provides a systematic approximation to the invisible particle momenta in hadron collider events producing a pair of invisible particles, and apply it to certain SUSY processes and their UED equivalents to determine the spin of gluino/KK-gluon and of slepton/KK-lepton. An application of the MAOS momentum to the SM Higgs mass measurement is briefly discussed also.
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Space-time symmetries of confined quarks
The first paragraph of Rotbart's recent paper is amplified. It is shown that the minimum symmetry for the spacetime separation of the confined quarks is that of the O(3)-like little group of the Poincare group for massive hadrons. It is then pointed out that the existence of additional coordinate dependences is determined from the way in which specific models are constructed.
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Growth time of the longitudinal coupled bunch mode beam instability at the Duke FEL facility
To determine the required power of an amplifier for the longitudinal feedback (LFB) system, the growth time of the strongest longitudinal coupled bunch mode instability (CBMI) in the Duke storage ring should be measured in advance. In 2005, we measured strength of the strongest longitudinal beam instability in the Duke storage ring with four and eight symmetrically filled buckets. By analyzing measured data, the growth time of the strongest dipole mode of the longitudinal CBMI in the Duke storage ring can be estimated. At a beam energy of 274 MeV, the growth time is about 0.365 ms for a total stored beam current of 160 mA. From the measured growth time, we estimated the required power of the amplifier for the LFB system. To damp all harmful longitudinal CBMIs with an energy deviation of 0.1 % (rms) within its growth time of 0.365 ms, we have to supply about HOW (rms) to an LFB kicker whose a central frequency is 937.3875 MHz. In this paper, we describe the growth time of the longitudinal CBMI at the Duke storage ring and the estimation of the required power for the LFB system to damp all CBMIs within 0.365 ms.