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CONSTRUCTION AND COMMISSIONING OF EVENT TIMING SYSTEM AT SUPERKEKB
KEK linac upgrades its Event Timing System for the coming SuperKEKB project. The Event Timing System is required more complicated injection control. The damping ring is used to suppress emittance in the positron injection. The number of top-up filling rings is increased. We installed the new configuration of Event modules at Main Trigger Station for satisfying the new requirements. Besides, the upgrade of software, rearrange of optical wiring, and feasibility study are performed as the upgrade work. We conclude the new Event Timing System becomes valid. The commissioning of beamline and operation for injections with new system will be performed soon.
56000332
PROGRESS OF DESIGN STUDY OF INTERACTION REGION QUADRUPOLES FOR THE SUPER-KEKB
For KEKB upgrade, we are studying the design of the final focus quadrupoles to achieve very small β-functions at the interaction point (IP). For each beam, the final beam focusing system consists of quadrupole-doublet of the superconducting and permanent magnets. In this paper, the design progress of final focusing magnets is reported.
15071400
LCD ROOT simulation and analysis tools
The North American Linear Collider Detector group has developed a simulation program package based on the ROOT system. The package consists of Fast simulation, the reconstruction of the Full simulated data, and physics analysis utilities.
16601897
Mechanisms affecting performance of the BaBar resistive plate chambers and searches for remediation
The BaBar experiment at PEPII relies on the instrumentation of the flux return (IFR) for both muon identification and KL detection. The active detector is composed of resistive plate chambers (RPCs) operated in streamer mode. Since the start of operation the RPCs have suffered persistent efficiency deterioration and dark current increase problems. The ‘‘autopsy’’ of bad BaBar RPCs revealed that in many cases uncured linseed oil droplets had formed on the inner surface of the Bakelite plates, leading to current paths from oil ‘‘stalagmites’’ bridging the 2mm gap. In this paper, a possible model of this ‘‘stalagmite’’ formation and its effect on the dark current and efficiency of RPC chambers is presented. Laboratory test results strongly support this model. ARTICLE IN PRESS *Corresponding author. Tel.: +1-609-258-4391; fax: +1-609-258-6360. E-mail address: changguo@princeton.edu (C. Lu). 0168-9002/03/$ see front matter r 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01292-0 Based upon this model we are searching for solutions to eliminate the unfavorable effect of the oil stalagmites. The lab tests show that the stalagmite resistivity increases dramatically if exposed to the air, an observation that points to a possible way to remedy the damage and increase the efficiency. We have seen that flowing an oxygen gas mixture into the chamber helps to polymerize the uncured linseed oil. Consequently, the resistivity of the bridged oil stalagmites increases, as does that of the oil coating on the frame edges and spacers, significantly reducing the RPC dark currents and low-efficiency regions. We have tested this idea on two chambers removed from BaBar because of their low efficiency and high dark current. These test results are reported in the paper, and two other remediation methods also mentioned. We continue to study this problem, and try to find new treatments with permanent improvement. r 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
54880563
Design and Status of the SuperKEKB Accelerator Control Network System
We have upgraded the accelerator control network system for SuperKEKB, the next generation B-factory experiment in Japan. The designed network system has the higher performance based on the wider bandwidth data transfer, and more reliable and redundant configuration. For the SuperKEKB beamline construction and accelerator components maintenance, we have installed the new wireless network system consists with the Leaky Coaxial (LCX) cable antennas and collinear antennas into the 3 km circumference accelerator tunnel. In this paper, we describe the design and current status of the SuperKEKB accelerator control network system.
13435498
Study of top-quark production and decay vertices with LCD fast simulation
We report a study of top-quark reconstruction in e+e−→tt events at a 500 GeV linear collider using the LCD Fast simulator. The initial study of top-quark anomalous couplings is also reported. The final states of 4 jets and lepton as well as 6 jets are used. Using the 4 jets and lepton final state, we estimate the preliminary sensitivities for form factors at the γ/Z0tt vertex. In the 6 jets reconstruction, we show abilities of the top-quark charge identification and the c-quark tagging in W decays.
73685731
Flux tube model for glueballs
We calculate the mass spectra and decay widths of glueballs in the flux tube model. The glueball is assumed to be a flux tube ring. The breathing and the rotational motions are investigated using the WKB approximation. The calculated spectrum is consistent with those obtained by lattice QCD. The decay widths are also computed using the Schwinger mechanism, and it is shown that they have rather large values. It is widely believed that the strong interaction is de- scribed by quantum chromodynamics ~QCD !@ 1#. It is, how- ever, very difficult to solve QCD, so that several effective models have been devised to explain the physical properties of many hadrons. The flux tube model @2#, or hadron string model @3,4#, is one such model. According to this model, mesons are made up of a quark and antiquark connected by a color flux tube and baryons are described by a quark and diquark connected by the same flux tube. We showed in a previous paper @5# that various excited states of the hadrons can be explained systematically using such a simple model. On the other hand, recent lattice QCD simulations @6# predict the existence of glueballs, which are composed of only gluons. It is the purpose of this paper to present an intuitive and analytic approach to glueballs using a flux tube model. We assume that the glueball is a closed color flux tube ~flux tube ring !. Moreover, the flux tube that constitutes the ring is assumed to have the same properties as the flux tube that constitutes a meson or a baryon. Consequently, our model has no free parameter. We study the relativistic motion of the closed string and obtain the mass spectrum of the glueballs. This simple picture has already been considered by several authors. In particular, Koma, Suganuma, and Toki @7# studied the relativistic breathing motion analytically with the use of the dual Ginzburg-Landau theory @ 8-1 0#. We study not only the vibrational motion but also the rotational one. Moreover, the decay widths in @7# are also calculated by taking into account qqpair production inside the flux tube ~Schwinger mechanism!. This paper is organized as follows. In the next section, the flux tube model for the glueballs is formulated. Section III is devoted to calculation of the mass spectra and the decay widths of the glueballs. In Sec. IV, the numerical results are presented and some discussion is given.
96033935
Pulsed source of ultra low energy positive muons for near-surface μSR studies
Abstract We have produced a pulsed beam of low energy (ultra slow) polarized positive muons (LE-μ+) and performed several demonstration muon spin rotation/relaxation (μSR) experiments at ISIS RIKEN-RAL muon facility in UK. The energy of the muons implanted into a sample is tuneable between 0.1 keV and 18 keV. This allows us to use muons as local magnetic microprobes on a nanometre scale. The control over the implantation depth is from several nanometres to hundreds of nanometres depending on the sample density and muon energy. The LE-μ+ are produced by two-photon resonant laser ionization of thermal muonium atoms. Currently ∼15 LE-μ+/s with 50% spin polarization are transported to the μSR sample position, where they are focused to a small spot with a diameter of only 4 mm. The overall LE-μ+ generation efficiency of 3 × 10−5 is comparable to that obtained when moderating the muon beam to epithermal energies in simple van der Waals bound solids. In contrast to other methods of LE-μ+ generation, the implantation of the muons into the sample can be externally triggered with the duration of the LE-μ+ pulse being only 7.5 ns. This allows us to measure spin rotation frequencies of up to 40 MHz.
15085801
Search for a kaonic nuclear state via 4He(K−, N) reaction at rest
Very recently, we have performed a couple of experiments, KEK PS-E549/E570, for the detailed study of the strange tribaryon S 0(3115) obtained in KEK PS-E471. These experiments were performed to accumulate much higher statistics with improved experimental apparatus especially for the better proton spectroscopy of the 4He(stopped K −, N) reaction. In contrast to the previous proton spectrum, no narrow (∼ 20 MeV) peak structure was found either in the inclusive 4He(stopped K −, p) or in the semi-inclusive 4He(stopped K −, pX ±) reaction channel, which is equivalent to the previous E471 event trigger condition. Detailed analysis of the present data and simulation shows that the peak, corresponding to S 0(3115), has been an experimental artifact. Present analysis does not exclude the possible existence of a much wider structure. To be sensitive to such structure and for better understanding of the non-mesonic K − absorption reaction channel, detailed analysis of the data is in progress.
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Unveiling the strangeness secrets: low-energy kaon-nucleon/nuclei interactions studies at DAΦNE
The DAΦNE electron-positron collider at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN, Italy has made available a unique quality low-energy negatively charged kaons "beam", which is used to unveil the secrets of the kaon-nucleon/nuclei interactions at low energies by the SIDDHARTA-2 and AMADEUS experiments. SIDDHARTA has already performed unprecedented precision measurements of kaonic atoms, and is being presently upgraded, as SIDDHARTA-2, to approach new frontiers. The AMADEUS experiment plans to perform in the coming years precision measurements on kaon-nuclei interactions at low-energies, to study the possible formation of kaonic nuclei, of the Λ(1405) and of many other processes involving strangeness.
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Excited baryons in the MIT bag model
Abstract The Johnson-Thorn bag model which explains the rotational motion of the elongated MIT bag is extended so as to describe the longitudinal vibration along the elongated bag. Our model is a kind of string model for baryons but it reduces to the ordinary spherical MIT bag model in the ground states. It is shown that the mass spectra of the P 11 and P 33 resonances of baryons can be reproduced by the present model as well as the Regge trajectories.