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BEPCII Interaction Region Design and Construction Status
BEPC (Beijing Electron Positron Collider) is now upgrading to a double-ring collider which requires a new storage ring to be built in the existing tunnel. A new and compact interaction region (IR) has been designed to allow a peak luminosity of 1033cm-2s-1from an equal beam energy of 1.89 GeV, a crossing angle, 93 bunches with maximum beam current of 0.91 A . The multi-purpose superconducting magnets and conventional dual aperture quadrupoles are used as final focusing quadrupole in the interaction region. The two beams collide at the interaction point with a crossing angle of ± 11 mrad and further beams separation is enhanced with the help of a septum bending magnet which locates just beyond the superconducting magnet and acts on the outgoing beam lines only. This paper will describe the IR design and the construction status.
120440896
Longitudinal Single Bunch Instability Caused by Wake Field of Electron Cloud
The electron cloud accumulated in the vicinity of positron beam generates longitudinal electric field during the passage of bunch. The longitudinal interaction between bunch and electron cloud can lead to the distortion of the bunch shape. We use a simple analytic formula to calculate the longitudinal electric field due to electron cloud. Based on the longitudinal wake field, the macro-particle tracking method is used to simulate the variation of bunch longitudinal profile in different electron cloud densities and the simulation also shows that the synchrotron oscillation tune is slightly shifted by the wake field. By comparing the simulation results and the analytical estimation from potential distortion theory, the longitudinal wake field from electron cloud can be seen as a potential well effect.
121335136
Design and field measurement of the BEPC-II interaction region dual-aperture quadrupoles
With the Beijing Electron Positron Collider upgrade project (BEPC-II), two dual-aperture septum-style quadrupole magnets are used in the interaction region for the final focusing of the electron and positron beams. The BEPC-II lattice design calls for the same high quality integral quadrupole field and large good field region in both apertures for each magnet. Two-dimensional contour optimization and pole-end chamfer iteration are used to minimize the systematic harmonic errors. Unexpected non-systematic errors induced by the unsymmetrical structure and the manufacturing errors are compensated with the pole-end shimming. Magnet measurements with rotating coils are performed to guide and confirm the magnet design. This paper discusses the design consideration, optimizing procedure and measurement results of these dual-aperture magnets.
119237175
Taking a Razor to Dark Matter Parameter Space at the LHC
Dark matter (DM) has been searched for at colliders in a largely model independent fashion by looking for an excess number of events involving a single jet, or photon, and missing energy. We investigate the possibility of looking for excesses in more inclusive jet channels. Events with multiple jets contain more information and thus more handles to increase the signal to background ratio. In particular, we adapt the recent CMS "razor" analysis from a search for supersymmetry to a search for DM. We consider simplified models where DM is a Dirac fermion that couples to the quarks of the Standard Model (SM) through exchange of vector or axial-vector mediators or to gluons through scalar exchange. We consider both light and heavy (leading to effective contact interactions) mediators. Since the razor analysis requires multiple jets in the final state, the data set is complementary to that used for the monojet search and thus the bounds can be combined.
119191703
Low background signal readout electronics for the Majorana Demonstrator
The Majorana Demonstrator is a planned 40 kg array of Germanium detectors intended to demonstrate the feasibility of constructing a tonne-scale experiment that will seek neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) in 76Ge. Such an experiment would require backgrounds of less than 1 count/tonne-year in the 4 keV region of interest around the 2039 keV Q-value of the ββ decay. Designing low-noise electronics, which must be placed in close proximity to the detectors, presents a challenge to reaching this background target. This paper will discuss the Majorana collaboration's solutions to some of these challenges.
119248652
MAJORANA Collaboration's Experience with Germanium Detectors
The goal of the \textsc{Majorana} \textsc{Demonstrator} project is to search for 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$. Of all candidate isotopes for 0$\nu\beta\beta$, $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$ has some of the most favorable characteristics. Germanium detectors are a well established technology, and in searches for 0$\nu\beta\beta$, the high purity germanium crystal acts simultaneously as source and detector. Furthermore, p-type germanium detectors provide excellent energy resolution and a specially designed point contact geometry allows for sensitive pulse shape discrimination. This paper will summarize the experiences the \textsc{Majorana} collaboration made with enriched germanium detectors manufactured by ORTEC$^{\circledR}$. The process from production, to characterization and integration in \textsc{Majorana} mounting structure will be described. A summary of the performance of all enriched germanium detectors will be given.
119301804
The Majorana Demonstrator: A Search for Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay of 76Ge
Neutrinoless double-beta decay is a hypothesized process where in some even-even nuclei it might be possible for two neutrons to simultaneously decay into two protons and two electrons without emitting neutrinos. This is possible only if neutrinos are Majorana particles, i.e. fermions that are their own antiparticles. Neutrinos being Majorana particles would explicitly violate lepton number conservation, and might play a role in the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay would also provide complementary information related to neutrino masses. The Majorana Collaboration is constructing the Majorana Demonstrator, a 40-kg modular germanium detector array, to search for the Neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76Ge and to demonstrate a background rate at or below 3 counts/(ROI-t-y) in the 4 keV region of interest (ROI) around the 2039 keV Q-value for 76Ge Neutrinoless double-beta decay. In this paper, we discuss the physics of neutrinoless double beta decay and then focus on the Majorana Demonstrator, including its design and approach to achieve ultra-low backgrounds and the status of the experiment.
119205976
Tevatron Asymmetry of Tops in a W, Z Model
Recent results from the CDF Collaboration indicate that the top-pair forward-backward asymmetry is largest in regions of high rapidity dierence j yj and invariant mass Mt t: We show that experimental observations can be explained by our previously proposed Asymmetric Left-Right Model (ALRM). The gauge symmetry U 0 (1) SU 0 (2) SU(2) is broken by a triplet Higgs in the primed sector. The W 0 boson has a (t;d) right-handed coupling and the Z 0 boson has diagonal fermion couplings. We determine the model parameters to be MW0 = 700 GeV, MZ0 = 1 TeV, and charged current coupling g 0 = 3. The W 0 and Z 0 total decay widths are ofO(100 GeV). The signals from Z 0 ! t t and W 0 ! tb at the LHC will test the model.