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The magnets for the LHC experiments
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presently under construction at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) will provide proton-proton collisions at the 14 TeV level. Each of the four approved detectors (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb) to be installed at the interaction points of this machine relies on a sophisticated magnet system for separation and momentum measurements of the charged particles. The magnets are being designed, manufactured, tested and installed under the technical and financial responsibility of the experiment collaborations, but must satisfy constraints imposed by the laboratory, regarding in particular the cryogenics, powering, controls, and safety. The delivery and assembly schedules are also highly constrained by the requirement to have the magnet systems fully installed before the projected commissioning of the accelerator in 2005. The report compares the salient features of these magnet systems, and of their integration into the CERN environment.
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The Choice of Spectrometer Magnets for LEP
Many experiments at LEP will require matching spectrometer magnets. In this report, guidelines are established for providing a starting point in the iterative process of choosing the best device for a particular detector. Magnets are compared in terms of their resolving power based on measurements of sagitta. This approach draws attention to the importance of detector size, and also helps to define the preferred areas of application of normal and superconducting technology. Although most emphasis is placed on the solenoid, toroids and dipoles are also discussed.
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Quench and Mechanical Behaviour of an LHC Low-$\beta$ Quadrupole Model
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Test results of a variant-design LHC twin-aperture dipole magnet
Since 1989, KEK and CERN carried out jointly an experimental program in the frame of the R&D work for the LHC main dipole. The mechanical structure of this design is based on a separate coil/collar and "horizontally split iron" concept. A total of four single aperture and two twin-aperture 1 m long dipole magnets were built. The last twin-aperture magnet was tested at CERN, reaching a maximum field of 9.55 T at 1.9 K. This paper reports the magnet training performance and quench localization at 1.9 K and 4.5 K. The performance as a function of current ramp rate and measurements of the field quality are also reported.
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A design concept for the LHC insertion quadrupoles
It is noted that the low- beta insertion optics imposes severe constraints on the desired characteristics of the local quadrupoles. In order to obtain the necessary degree of focusing at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), triplets made up of four 250 T/m superconducting quadrupoles, about 6- to 7-m long, are presently envisaged. The large value of the betatron functions through these magnets is such that, besides being the principal source of chromatic aberrations, errors in their gradient will also contribute significantly to the excitation of resonance in the circulating beams. The magnets should therefore provide a gradient field of very high quality. The relatively small number of quadrupoles involved means that the cost constraints are less binding on these than on the lattice magnets. Their single aperture also opens up the possibility of an approach different from that adopted for the regular twin-aperture quadrupoles. One of the design concepts being investigated involves the use of flat cable wound in rectangular blocks to approximate the required quadrupole producing current density. The characteristics of the magnet are described, as is the method of applying the required prestress to the winding.<<ETX>>
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Design, test and performance of the prototype superconducting quadrupole for the LEP low-beta insertions
The prototype of the superconducting quadrupoles for the low-beta insertions at the Large Electron-Positron collider has been tested successfully. This industry-built quadrupole, which has a warm bore of 130 mm and a magnetic length of 2 m, is required to provide a gradient of 36 T/m over a field aperture of 1000 mm diameter. It achieved its maximum operating current without training. While retaining the main characteristics of its ISR predecessors, the design of this magnet incorporates several novel features, due to constraints imposed by the environment of the LEP experiments. In particular the quadrupole is slender and ironless, and has a horizontally oriented cryogenic service funnel. Following a description of the major aspects of the design, the results are given of the magnetic and cryogenic tests and measurements. >
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Searching for string resonances in $e^+e^-$ and $\gamma \gamma$ collisions
If the fundamental mass scale of superstring theory is as low as few TeVs, the massive modes of vibrating strings, Regge excitations, will be copiously produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We discuss the complementary signals of low mass superstrings at the proposed electron-positron facility (CLIC), in e^+e^- and \gamma \gamma collisions. We examine all relevant four-particle amplitudes evaluated at the center of mass energies near the mass of lightest Regge excitations and extract the corresponding pole terms. The Regge poles of all four-point amplitudes, in particular the spin content of the resonances, are completely model independent, universal properties of the entire landscape of string compactifications. We show that \gamma \gamma \to e^+ e^- scattering proceeds only through a spin-2 Regge state. We estimate that for this particular channel, string scales as high as 4 TeV can be discovered at the 11\sigma level with the first fb^{-1} of data collected at a center-of-mass energy \approx 5 TeV. We also show that for e^+e^- annihilation into fermion-antifermion pairs, string theory predicts the precise value, equal 1/3, of the relative weight of spin 2 and spin 1 contributions. This yields a dimuon angular distribution with a pronounced forward-backward asymmetry, which will help distinguishing between low mass strings and other beyond the standard model scenarios.
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LHC phenomenology of lowest massive Regge recurrences in the Randall-Sundrum orbifold
We consider string realizations of the Randall-Sundrum effective theory for electroweak symmetry breaking and explore the search for the lowest massive Regge excitation of the gluon and of the extra (color singlet) gauge boson inherent in D-brane constructions. In these curved backgrounds, the higher-spin Regge recurrences of standard model fields localized near the IR brane are warped down to close to the TeV range and hence can be produced at collider experiments. Assuming that the theory is weakly coupled, we make use of four gauge boson amplitudes evaluated near the first Regge pole to determine the discovery potential of LHC. We study the inclusive dijet mass spectrum in the central rapidity region |y{sub jet}| =}2.5 TeV. We find that with an integrated luminosity of 100 fb{sup -1}, the 5{sigma} discovery reach can be as high as 4.7 TeV. Observations of resonant structures in pp{yields}direct{gamma}+jet can provide interesting corroboration for string physics up to 3.0 TeV. We also study the ratio of dijet mass spectra at small and large scattering angles. We show that with the first fb{sup -1} such a ratio can probe lowest-lying Regge states for masses {approx}2.5 TeV.
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Jet signals for low mass strings at the LHC
The mass scale Ms of superstring theory is an arbitrary parameter that can be as low as few TeVs if the Universe contains large extra dimensions. We propose a search for the effects of Regge excitations of fundamental strings at LHC, in the process pp → γ + jet. The underlying parton process is dominantly the single photon production in gluon fusion, gg → γg, with open string states propagating in intermediate channels. If the photon mixes with the gauge boson of the baryon number, which is a common feature of D-brane quivers, the amplitude appears already at the string disk level. It is completely determined by the mixing parameter – and it is otherwise model-(compactification-) independent. Even for relatively small mixing, 100 fb−1 of LHC data could probe deviations from standard model physics, at a 5σ significance, for Ms as large as 3.3 TeV.
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String Phenomenology at the LHC
We consider extensions of the standard model based on open strings ending on D-branes, with gauge bosons due to strings attached to stacks of D-branes and chiral matter due to strings stretching between intersecting D-branes. Assuming that the fundamental string mass scale is in the TeV range and the theory is weakly coupled, we review possible signals of string physics at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Z'-gauge Bosons as Harbingers of Low Mass Strings
Massive Z'-gauge bosons act as excellent harbingers for string compactifications with a low string scale. In D-brane models they are associated to U(1) gauge symmetries that are either anomalous in four dimensions or exhibit a hidden higher dimensional anomaly. We discuss the possible signals of massive Z'-gauge bosons at hadron collider machines (Tevatron, LHC) in a minimal D-brane model consisting out of four stacks of D-branes. In this construction, there are two massive gauge bosons, which can be naturally associated with baryon number B and B-L (L being lepton number). Here baryon number is always anomalous in four dimensions, whereas the presence of a four-dimensional B-L anomaly depends on the U(1)-charges of the right handed neutrinos. In case B-L is anomaly free, a mass hierarchy between the two associated Z'-gauge bosons can be explained. In our phenomenological discussion about the possible discovery of massive Z'-gauge bosons, we take as a benchmark scenario the dijet plus W signal, recently observed by the CDF Collaboration at Tevatron. It reveals an excess in the dijet mass range 150 GeV/c^2, 4.1\sigma beyond SM expectations. We show that in the context of low-mass string theory this excess can be associated with the production and decay of a leptophobic Z', a singlet partner of SU(3) gluons coupled primarily to baryon number. Even if the CDF signal disappears, as indicated by the more recent D0 results, our analysis can still serve as the basis for future experimental search for massive Z'-gauge bosons in low string scale models. We provide the relevant cross sections for the production of Z'-gauge bosons in the TeV region, leading to predictions that are within reach of the present or the next LHC run.