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Shaping Collaboration 2006: action items for the LHC
Shaping Collaboration 2006 [1] was a workshop held in Geneva, on December 11-13, 2006, to examine the status and future of collaborative tool technology and its usage for large global scientific collaborations, such as those of the CERN LHC [2]. The workshop brought together some of the leading experts in the field of collaborative tools (WACE 2006) [3] with physicists and developers of the LHC collaborations and HENP (High-Energy and Nuclear Physics). We highlight important presentations and key discussions held during the workshop, then focus on a large and aggressive set of goals and specific action items targeted at institutes from all levels of the LHC organization. This list of action items, assembled during a panel discussion at the close of the LHC sessions, includes recommendations for the LHC Users, their Universities, Project Managers, Spokespersons, National Funding Agencies and Host Laboratories. We present this list, along with suggestions for priorities in addressing the immediate and long-term needs of HENP.
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LARGE ANGLE PROTON--PROTON ELASTIC SCATTERING AT INTERMEDIATE MOMENTA.
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Polarization in p-p elastic scattering at high energies
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A Study of Inclusive Proton Polarization
The authors propose to measure the polarization of the outgoing proton in the inclusive reaction p + p {yields} p {up_arrow} + X in the region .98 > x{sub R} > .6. The measurements would include beam momenta from p{sub LAB} = 50 GeV/c to p{sub LAB} = 400 GeV/c at t = -.3 (GeV/c){sup 2}, -.8 (GeV/c){sup 2}, -1.4 (GeV/c){sup 2}, and -3.0 (GeV/c){sup 2} over the range .6 < x{sub F} < .95. The experiment would use the existing E313 polarimeter and internal target spectrometer.
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Advances in the Study of Spin Effects in Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering at Small and Intermediate Momentum Transfers
There has been remarkable progress made in the field of high energy physics in the past five years. We have recently witnessed the discovery of new quantum numbers, the spectra of particles associated with these quantum numbers, and a much improved understanding of the role that all quantum numbers play in high energy interactions. With the wide assortment of experiments and studies being conducted in high energy physics at any one time, it is very easy for one to get the impression that, the activity in the field is highly unfocused. On the one hand, it is precisely this apparent unfocused nature that has given rise to much of the excitement and richness of the field. On the other hand, as one examines the situation more closely, one finds that much of the effort in the field is indeed directed toward the solution of a few central problems. One of these problems which I will continually refer to today is that of understanding the details of the structure of the elementary particles. This problem—one of the most fascinating and most difficult problems ever tackled by man-can be approached from several different angles.
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Lecture archiving on a larger scale at the University of Michigan and CERN
The ATLAS Collaboratory Project at the University of Michigan has been a leader in the area of collaborative tools since 1999. Its activities include the development of standards, software and hardware tools for lecture archiving, and making recommendations for videoconferencing and remote teaching facilities. Starting in 2006 our group became involved in classroom recordings, and in early 2008 we spawned CARMA, a University-wide recording service. This service uses a new portable recording system that we developed. Capture, archiving and dissemination of rich multimedia content from lectures, tutorials and classes are increasingly widespread activities among universities and research institutes. A growing array of related commercial and open source technologies is becoming available, with several new products introduced in the last couple years. As the result of a new close partnership between U-M and CERN IT, a market survey of these products was conducted and a summary of the results are presented here. It is informing an ambitious effort in 2009 to equip many CERN rooms with automated lecture archiving systems, on a much larger scale than before. This new technology is being integrated with CERN's existing webcast, CDS, and Indico applications.
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Search for a light Higgs resonance in radiative decays of the (1S) with a charm tag
A search is presented for the decay Υ(1S)→ γA^0, A^0 → cc[bar], where A^0 is a candidate for the CP-odd Higgs boson of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model. The search is based on data collected with the BABAR detector at the Υ(2S) resonance. A sample of Υ(1S) mesons is selected via the decay Υ(2S)→π + π − Υ(1S). The A^0 → cc[bar] decay is identified through the reconstruction of hadronic D^0, D^+, and D^∗ (2010)^+ meson decays. No significant signal is observed. The measured 90% confidence-level upper limits on the product branching fraction B(Υ(1S) → γA^0 ) × B(A^0 → cc[bar] ) range from 7.4×10^(−5) to 2.4×10^(−3) for A^0 masses from 4.00 to 8.95  GeV/c^2 and 9.10 to 9.25  GeV/c^2, where the region between 8.95 and 9.10  GeV/c^2 is excluded because of background from Υ(2S) → γχ_(bJ) (1P), χ_(bJ) (1P) → γΥ(1S) decays.
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Ideas on DC-DC Converters for Delivery of Low Voltage and High Currents for the SLHC / ILC Detector Electronics in Magnetic field and Radiation environments
For more efficient power transport to the electronics embedded inside large colliding beam detectors, we explore the feasibility of supplying 48 Volts DC and using local DCDC conversion to 2 V (or lower, depending upon on the lithography of the embedded electronics) using switch mode regulators located very close to the front end electronics. These devices will be exposed to high radiation and high magnetic fields, 10 – 100 Mrads and 2 4 Tesla at the SLHC, and 20 Krads and 6 Tesla at the ILC.
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Validating Geant4 Versions 7.1 and 8.3 Against 6.1 for BaBar
Since 2005 and 2006, respectively, Geant4 versions 7.1 and 8.3 have been available, providing: improvements in modeling of multiple scattering; corrections to muon ionization and improved MIP signature; widening of the core of electromagnetic shower shape profiles; newer implementation of elastic scattering for hadronic processes; detailed implementation of Bertini cascade model for kaons and lambdas, and updated hadronic cross-sections from calorimeter beam tests. The effects of these changes in simulation are studied in terms of closer agreement of simulation using Geant4 versions 7.1 and 8.3 as compared to Geant4 version 6.1 with respect to data distributions of: the hit residuals of tracks in BABAR silicon vertex tracker; the photon and KOL shower shapes in the electromagnetic calorimeter; the ratio of energy deposited in the electromagnetic calorimeter and the flux return of the magnet instrumented with a muon detection system composed of resistive plate chambers and limited-streamer tubes; and the muon identification efficiency in the muon detector system of the BaBar detector.
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Data preservation and long term accessibility in high energy physics at the 2nd International Conference on Frontiers in Diagnostic Technologies in Frascati, Italy
Abstract Recently there have been significant developments in high energy physics (HEP) data preservation projects while other large data volume experiments are now also facing for the first time insuring the long term accessibility of their data. In this presentation, the status of advanced HEP data preservation projects as well as the challenges and plans for projects newly facing this task will be presented. The continuing efforts to develop guidelines and tools, the justifications for these efforts and the state of discussions of more open accessibility of the data and how this is foreseen to be managed are included.
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Monolithic CMOS Pixel Detectors for ILC Vertex Detection
A CMOS pixel vertex detector suited for use at the International Linear Collider (ILC) is proposed. The proposed detector consists of 50µm ◊ 50µm macropixels, each with integrated bunch clock memory, on top of 5µm ◊ 5µm micropixels that record amplitude information. The micropixels integrate over all bunch crossing in a train. Using the time recorded by the macropixels, the fine position measurements made in the micropixels can be associated to only a few of the 3000 bunch crossings in a bunch train.