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Real Time Global Tests of the ALICE High Level Trigger Data Transport Framework
The High Level Trigger (HLT) system of the ALICE experiment is an online event filter and trigger system designed for input bandwidths of up to 25 GB/s at event rates of up to 1 kHz. The system is designed as a scalable PC cluster, implementing several hundred nodes. The transport of data in the system is handled by an object-oriented data flow framework operating on the basis of the publisher-subscriber principle, being designed fully pipelined with lowest processing overhead and communication latency in the cluster. In this paper, we report the latest measurements where this framework has been operated on five different sites over a global north-south link extending more than 10,000 km, processing a ldquoreal-timerdquo data flow.
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Mechanical prototype of tracking chamber in station 2 in dimuon spectrometer of ALICE
To explore the physics of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision, a large ion collider experiment (ALICE) [1] is proposed to carry out at large hadron collider (LHC). Forward muon spectrometer (FMS) [2] is included in ALICE to look for the signals of quark gluon plasma (QGP) using dileptonic decay of heavy quarkonia (J=ψ , γ) produced in the collision as a probe. The production of these states will be suppressed in a deconfined medium of QGP which can be estimated from the invariant mass spectrum of dimuonic decay channel. The spectrometer is designed to track down the flight path of the dimuons with the help of five tracking stations from which the opening angle of the pair can be known by reconstruction and extrapolation of their tracks. The momenta of the pairs can be obtained from the deviation of the tracks in a dipole magnetic field. The invariant mass of the pair can be determined from the opening angle and momenta of dimuon pairs. Each of the five tracking stations is equipped with two planes of cathode pad chamber each divided into four quadrants to detect the position of the dimuon passing through them and reconstruct their tracks from their positions. The tracking chambers are designed following the basic feature of a position sensitive multi-wire proportional counter (MWPC) where an anode wire plane is interposed between two cathode planes and a high electric field is maintained near the anode with respect to the cathodes. The chambers are capable of providing X, Y position readout of an event from the charge distribution induced over the cathode planes equipped with pad matrices due to the avalanche produced in the gaseous medium. However, the mechanical design of the large chamber (diameter 2 m) for the second tracking station is a challenging task as it concerns good surface planarity to achieve position resolution better than 100 μm (necessary to meet mass resolution about 100 MeV) as well as minimum usage of material to keep radiation length low (2–3% of X0) in order to minimise the energy loss and scattering of the incident lepton. The calculation was carried out at IPN, Orsay to simulate a full scale quadrant with different design parameters and materials to study its mechanical characteristics [3,4]. In the simulation, various options in material and design aspects were studied to seek an optimum design for the chamber to enhance its mechanical
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Anomalous increase in width of fission fragment mass distribution inF19+Th232
Fission fragment mass distribution has been studied for the system $^{19}\mathrm{F}+^{232}\mathrm{Th}$ over an energy range of $105.4\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\text{MeV}$ to $84.2\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\text{MeV}$ in laboratory frame. For energies, above the Coulomb barrier, the variance of the mass distributions ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{m}^{2}$ varies linearly with temperature of the fused system, signifying statistical fusion-fission reaction. However, as energy decreases through the Coulomb barrier, a rapid increase in ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{m}^{2}$ is observed for the first time which may be a signal of onset of orientation dependent quasifission reaction.
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Heat partition in damped reactions.
The effect of driving force on the division of excitation energy between the asymmetric colliding partners in deep inelastic heavy-ion collisions is studied in the nucleon-exchange model. For this purpose an event-by-event analysis using Monte Carlo simulation technique is performed. It is seen that the fraction of the total excitation energy carried by the projectile-like fragment is sensitive to the mass drift. The model is also applied to analyze the correlation between fragment mass and excitation energy for a given total energy loss and significant correlation is found. The reactions induced by {sup 56}Fe at 9 MeV/nucleon and {sup 74}Ge at 8.5 MeV/nucleon on {sup 165}Ho are considered in our analysis and the calculated correlations are in good agreement with the results obtained from the kinematic coincidence experiments.
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Inclusion of fluctuations in Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck dynamics: A method of simulation.
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Effect of trajectory fluctuations on nucleon drift and diffusion in deep inelastic heavy ion collisions.
The role of trajectory fluctuations on the first and second moments obtained in the mean trajectory approximation for the proton and neutron distributions of the projectile-like fragments produced in deep inelastic heavy ion collisions has been studied in the framework of stochastic transfer of single nucleons. At each instant of time the neutron and proton numbers of the colliding nuclei are considered to be given by dynamically evolving Gaussian distributions generating trajectory fluctuations. The first moments calculated in this method differ considerably from those obtained in the mean trajectory approximation for the systems with strong gradient in the driving force around the point of injection. The second moments, however, do not change appreciably for all the systems studied.
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Progress on plasma lens experiment at the final focus test beam
The Plasma Lens Collaboration proposed and has been approved to perform the Plasma Lens Experiment at the Final Focus Test Beam (SLAC E-150bis). The experiment is a revised and simplified proposition which reflects the pertinent scientific and technological advances since an earlier proposal (1) was submitted. The goals of the experiment are to study plasma focusing of high energy, high density particle beams: to investigate plasma beamsstrahlung suppression: and to develop technologies for plasma lens applications in present and future linear colliders.
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PERFORMANCES OF HIGH PURITY NIOBIUM CAVITIES WITH DIFFERENT GRAIN SIZES
Grain boundaries have for some time been suspected of influencing the performance of RF cavities made from high purity niobium by limiting the temperature dependent BCS surface resistance to a residual resistance because of impurity segregation and by causing field limitations due to flux penetration. We have carried out a comparative study of the RF behavior of 2.2 GHz TM010 cavities of identical shape, fabricated from single crystal niobium, niobium of grain sizes of the order of several cm2 and standard poly-crystalline material. All the cavities were treated with buffered chemical polishing (BCP), post-purified at 1250 C and ''in-situ'' baked at 120 C. This contribution reports about the results of the measurements of the temperature dependence of the surface resistance Rs(T) and the Q0 vs. Eacc behavior at 2 K. From the analysis of the Rs(T) data at low RF fields material parameters such as gap value, mean free path and residual resistance could be extracted. The dependence of the Q-value on RF field was analyzed with respect to the medium field Q-slope, ''Q-drop'' at high fields and the ''quench'' fields. The best performance resulted in a breakdown field of {approx} 165 mT, corresponding to an accelerating gradient of Eaccmore » {approx} 38 MV/m.« less
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Design of a relativistic klystron two-beam accelerator prototype
We are designing an experiment to study physics, engineering, and costing issues of an extended Relativistic Klystron Two-Beam Accelerator (RK-TBA). The experiment is a prototype for an RK-TBA based microwave power source suitable for driving a 1 TeV linear collider. Major components of the experiment include a 2.5-MV, 1.5-kA electron source, a 11.4-GHz modulator, a bunch compressor, and a 8-m extraction section. The extraction section will be comprised of 4 traveling-wave output structures, each generating about 360 MW of RF power. Induction cells will be used in the extraction section to maintain the average beam energy at 5 MeV. Status of the design is presented.
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EMERGENT UNIVERSE IN THE CHAMELEON, f(R) AND f(T) GRAVITY THEORIES
In this work, we consider an emergent Universe in generalized gravity theories like the chameleon, f(R) and f(T) gravities. We reconstruct the potential of the chameleon field under the emergent scenario of the Universe and observe its increasing nature with the evolution of the Universe. We reveal that in the emergent Universe scenario, the equation-of-state parameter behaves like quintessence in the case of f(R) gravity and like phantom in the case of f(T) gravity.
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THE CEBAF ENERGY RECOVERY EXPERIMENT: UPDATE AND FUTURE PLANS ∗
A successful GeV scale energy recovery demonstration with a high ratio of peak-to-injection energies (50:1) was carried out on the CEBAF (Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility) recirculating superconducting linear accelerator in the spring of 2003. To gain a quantitative understanding of the beam behavior through the machine, data was taken to characterize the 6D phase space during the CEBAF-ER (CEBAF with Energy Recovery) experimental run. The transverse emittance of the accelerating and energy recovered beams was measured in several locations to ascertain the beam quality preservation during energy recovery. Measurements also included the RF system’s response to the energy recovery process and transverse beam profile of the energy recovered beam. One of the salient conclusions from the experiment is that the energy recovery process does not contribute significantly to the emittance degradation. The current status of the data analysis will be presented as well as plans for a GeV scale energy recovery experimental run with current doubling.