120239957
Threshold behavior of direct electron production in proton‐beryllium collisions
We report measurements of direct electron pair production in p‐Be interactions at 1.0, 2.1 and 4.9 GeV kinetic beam energies. The invariant mass and pt spectra along with the total cross sections are presented. A rapid decrease in the total cross section is observed at the lowest energy.
117522082
First results on dilepton production at the Bevalac
We report on preliminary results of direct electron pair measurements in p+Be at 4.9 GeV and 2.1 GeV and Ca+Ca at 1.95 GeVA collisions at the Bevalac. The results are compared to existing data in p+Be at 12.1 GeV and ..pi../sup -/p at 15.9 and 16.9 GeV.
44598663
Measurement of dielectron production in niobium-niobium collisions at 1.05 GeV/nucleon.
A dielectron signal for pair masses greater than [ital M][sub [pi]] is observed in Nb+Nb collisions at 1.05 GeV/nucleon beam kinetic energy. The invariant mass spectrum and the associated multiplicity distribution are presented. Comparisons are made with previous cross section measurements in [ital p]+Be and Ca+Ca.
121663887
Mass and transverse momentum dependence of the dielectron yield in p-Be collisions at 4.9 GeV
We present the invariant mass and transverse momentum dependence of direct electron-positron pair production in {ital p}-Be collisions at a beam kinetic energy of 4.9 GeV. The acceptance of our apparatus is shown to have no significant effect for masses above 0.15 GeV. After a correction is made for the available phase space, the transverse momentum dependence of the data is found to be comparable to hadron-hadron observations. A phenomenological calculation involving {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup {minus}} annihilation into {ital e}{sup +}e{sup {minus}} is shown to be in good agreement with our measurements.
119395992
Dilepton production from p-p to CaCa at the Bevalac
Abstract The DLS collaboration has recently completed a high statistics study of dilepton production at the Bevalac. In particular, we have measured dielectrons (e + e − ) from p - p and p - d collisions to understand the basic dilepton production mechanisms in the energy range from 1.05 – 4.9 GeV. These data can be used to determine the basic processes which contribute to nucleon-nucleon dilepton production such as hadronic bremsstrahlung, vector meson processes, and hadronic Dalitz decay. The data show that a simple elastic bremsstrahlung calculation is insufficient to explain the data. Theoretical models are compared with the data. A new high statistics study of Ca  Ca at 1.05 A·GeV has been made to study the collectivity of A - A collisions.
6986761
Threshold behavior of electron pair production in p-Be collisions.
We report on the measurements of electron pair production in /ital p/-Becollisions at 1.0, 2.1, and 4.9 GeV beam kinetic energies. The invariant-massand transverse-momentum spectra are presented, along with the total crosssections. A rapid decrease in the integrated cross section is observed as thebeam energy is reduced. Comparison of the excitation function for dielectron(/ital e//sup +/e/sup /minus//) and dipion (..pi../sup +/..pi../sup /minus//)production suggests that the dominant production mechanism at beam kineticenergies 2.1 and 4.9 GeV may be ..pi../sup +/..pi../sup /minus// annihilation.
558694
Confinement of a large number of antiprotons and production of an ultraslow antiproton beam.
We have used a radio frequency quadrupole decelerator to decelerate antiprotons emerging from the CERN Antiproton Decelerator from MeV- to keV-scale energy, and collected five decelerated pulses in a multiring trap. Some 5 x 10(6) antiprotons were stacked in this way. Cooling of the trapped antiprotons by a simultaneously trapped electron plasma was studied nondestructively via shifts in plasma mode frequencies. We have also demonstrated the first step in extracting a 10-500 eV antiproton beam from the trap.
26132013
Towards hard x-ray imaging at GHz frame rate.
Gigahertz (GHz) imaging using hard x-rays (> or approximately equal to 10 keV) can be useful to high-temperature plasma experiments, as well as research and applications using coherent photons from synchrotron radiation and x-ray free electron lasers. GHz framing rate can be achieved by using multiple cameras through multiplexing. The advantages and trade-offs of single-photon detection mode, when no more than one x-ray photon is detected per pixel, are given. Two possible paths towards x-ray imaging at GHz frame rates using a single camera are: (a) avalanche photodiode arrays of high-Z materials and (b) microchannel plate photomultipliers in conjunction with materials with large indices of refraction.
119073212
Relativistic free-motion time-of-arrival
Relativistic free-motion time-of-arrival theory for massive spin-1/2 particles is systematically developed. Contrary to the nonrelativistic time-of-arrival operator studied thoroughly in the previous literatures, the relativistic time-of-arrival operator possesses self-adjoint extensions because of the particle–antiparticle symmetry. The nonrelativistic limit of our theory is in agreement with the nonrelativistic time-of-arrival theory.
119627570
How to Resum Feynman Graphs
In this paper, we reformulate the combinatorial core of constructive quantum field theory. We define universal rational combinatorial weights for pairs made of a graph and any of its spanning trees. These weights are simply the percentage of Hepp’s sectors of the graph in which the tree is leading, in the sense of Kruskal’s greedy algorithm. Our main new mathematical result is an integral representation of these weights in terms of the positive matrix appearing in the symmetric “BKAR” Taylor forest formula. Then, we explain how the new constructive technique called Loop Vertex Expansion reshuffles according to these weights the divergent series of the intermediate field representation into a convergent series which is the Borel sum of the ordinary perturbative Feynman’s series.
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Electron cooling of high-energy protons in a multiring trap with a tank circuit monitoring the electron-plasma oscillations.
Electron cooling of energetic protons in a multiring trap was investigated experimentally with a tank circuit monitoring electron-plasma oscillations in the trap. The energy of protons was determined by time-of-flight measurements. It is found that a simple model can explain the qualitative behavior of both electron and proton energy when the initial energy of protons is less than 2 keV. Monitoring the electron-plasma temperature with a tank circuit can be an effective tool when energetic particles are electron cooled in a multiring trap.