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Experimental tests of neutron shielding for the ATLAS forward region
Abstract Experimental tests devoted to the optimization of the neutron shielding for the ATLAS forward region were performed at the CERN-PS with a 4 GeV/ c proton beam. Spectra of fast neutrons, slow neutrons and gamma rays escaping a block of iron (40×40×80 cm 3 ) shielded with different types of neutron and gamma shields (pure polyethylene – PE; borated polyethylene – BPE; lithium filled polyethylene – LiPE; lead; iron) were measured by means of plastic scintillators, a Bonner spectrometer, a HPGe detector and a slow neutron detector. Effectiveness of different types of shielding against neutrons and γ-rays were compared. The idea of a segmented outer layer shielding (iron, BPE, iron, LiPE) for the ATLAS forward region was also tested.
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First operation of a 72 k element hybrid silicon micropattern pixel detector array
Abstract We have constructed and tested silicon pixel detector arrays of 96 × 378 (36 288) sensor elements with 75 μm × 500 μm area. The low-noise signal processing circuit associated with each element occupies an identical area on a bump-bonded readout chip. The pixel cell response for ionizing particles is binary with an adjustable threshold between 4000 e − and 15 000 e − . Single chips, the array of 6 ladders and a double array have been characterized in particle test beams and in the Omega experiment WA97 at CERN. The two arrays together, staggered by ∼ 4 mm cover hermetically a 53 mm × 55 mm area with 72 576 pixels. The proportion of properly functioning pixels was 98% in the first 36 k pixel array and 80% in the second one. The ∼ 1% “always-on” pixels could be masked electronically. After masking the rate of “spurious noise hits” was −8 of the identified particle hits while with beam off no hits at all were recorded With a beam trigger most events consisted of a single cluster with a single hit. At the 8000 e − threshold an efficiency > 99% was measured. Tracks were reconstructed with a precision of 22 μm. The proportion of double hits (∼ 11%) depends only slightly on threshold and detector bias voltage, and for these double hits a precision of 10 μm on the particle position was obtained.
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The results of mass testing of the plastic streamer tubes for the DELPHI hadron calorimeter
Abstract The procedure and results of mass testing of plastic streamer tubes for the DELPHI hadron calorimeter are described in detail. The mass testing includes three stages: high voltage test and conditioning, X-ray test on radiation load capability and wire tension control in ready detectors. The productivity of the test workshop was 240 detectors per day at maximum. After testing of about 25 000 streamer tubes, 8% have been rejected on the ground of severe rejection criteria which exceed significantly the working conditions in the DELPHI experiment.
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RD19: status report on 1993 development of hybrid and monolithic silicon micropattern detectors
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RD19: status report and addendum. Development of hybrid and monolithic silicon micropattern detectors
109716342
Monitoring setup of Prague T2 site
Quality monitoring is a crucial part in struggle for reliability of every Tier 2 site. We present a solution based on Nagios installation in Prague. Our solution includes both third party and in-house developed add-ons and plug-ins. We focus on integrating results from grid-wise monitoring tools (such as SAM or Gstat) at one place (our Nagios instance). We also present an automated way to generate configuration files for Nagios from local database of hardware and services.
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Critical comments on the standard description of elastic hadron scattering
Abstract The standard description of elastic scattering is often based on some assumptions that are not fully valid or contradict the measured experimental data.
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Locality problem, Bell's inequalities and EPR experiments
The question has been solved whether Bell's inequalities cover all possible kinds of hidden-variable theories. It has been shown that the given nequalities can be hardly derived when the changing space position of photon-pair source together with the microscopic space structure of measuring devices are taken into account; and when corresponding impact parameters (i.e., exact impact points) of photons in individual measuring devices (polarizers) influence measured values, in addition to usually considered characteristics.
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Double diffractive cross-section measurement in the forward region at the LHC.
The first double diffractive cross-section measurement in the very forward region has been carried out by the TOTEM experiment at the LHC with a center-of-mass energy of sqrt[s]=7  TeV. By utilizing the very forward TOTEM tracking detectors T1 and T2, which extend up to |η|=6.5, a clean sample of double diffractive pp events was extracted. From these events, we determined the cross section σDD=(116±25)  μb for events where both diffractive systems have 4.7<|η|min<6.5.
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Realistic theory of microscopic phenomena; a new solution of hidden-variable problem
It has been shown that quantum paradoxes have followed from one special assumption, i.e., from attributing basic physical meaning to Hamiltonian eigenfunctions and representing all physical states by vectors of the Hilbert space spanned on these eigenfunctions. However, any paradoxical properties disappear if the physical states are represented by vectors from the extended Hilbert space on which the scattering theory of Lax and Phillips has been based. On the other side, all stationary characteristics and experimentally verified quantum-mechanical predictions remain the same. The extended mathematical model is also in full agreement with results of EPR experiments, if one takes into account that a further assumption (in addition to locality condition) is involved in derivation of Bell's inequalities as shown recently (see: quant-ph/9808005).
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Physical meaning of the phase of high energy elastic scattering amplitude
The influence of the phaset-dependence on the profiles of high energy elastic hadron scattering in the impact-parameter plane are discussed. The analysis of interference experimental data concerning pp, ¯pp and p4He scattering is summarized. It is shown that in all these cases the high-energy elastic scattering can be interpreted as a peripheral process.