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Opportunities for Use and Development of Collaborative Tools in ATLAS
This document presents an assessment of the current and expected needs of the ATLAS Collaboration in the development, deployment, usage, and maintenance of collaborative tools to facilitate its internal and external communications, member training, education, and public outreach. It is prepared in response to a request by the ATLAS management to investigate these needs, to survey the current status, and to propose solutions where needed. We conclude the document with a set of recommendations designed to address selected immediate needs and to position the Collaboration for the anticipated growing demands for collaborative tools in a Grid-enabled analysis environment. 2 Opportunities for Use and Development of Collaborative Tools in ATLAS
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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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Polarization in p-p elastic scattering at high energies
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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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LARGE ANGLE PROTON--PROTON ELASTIC SCATTERING AT INTERMEDIATE MOMENTA.
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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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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 detector for international linear collider vertex detection
A monolithic CMS pixel detector is under development for an ILC experiment. This chronopixel array provides a time stamp resolution of one bunch crossing, a critical feature for background suppression. The status of this effort is summarized.
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Status of the Compact Muon Solenoid Detector at the Large Hadron Collider
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is being constructed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN for the purpose of exploring new physics in proton‐proton collisions at 14 TeV. The detector is to be designed, constructed and commissioned in time for the start of the LHC in April 2007. This article summarizes the current status of the detector and foreseen program for completion.
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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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Measurements of helicity sensitive quantities and Rb from SLD