124870077
Abrupt change of rotation axis inAg109
The electromagnetic transition rates for all the high spin levels of the yrast sequence of 109 Ag have been measured. The observed behavior of the magnetic dipole transition rates as a function of angular momentum establishes that there is a sudden change in rotation axis associated with rotational alignment of two neutrons. The projected shell model calculations give a consistent picture of the observed phenomena in 109 Ag.
31869814
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.
38532982
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.
21552932
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.
122669506
High voltage characteristic of large area cathode pad chambers for muon spectrometer of ALICE
AbstractLarge area Cathode Pad Chambers (CPC) with inner and outer radii of 23.7 cm and 117 cm respectively have been fabricated and tested for 2nd Tracking station of Muon Spectrometer of ALICE.The active area of this detector has a radiation length of less than 2 % and the frames are fabricated with Peek GF-30. The anode wire plane consists of 474 anode wires of which 53 % have lengths greater than 1 meter. The separation between the wire plane and the grounded cathode plane is 2.5 mm. The high voltage behaviour of the chamber have been tested under two situations.
With no support below the wires to reduce sagging of long wires.With a G10 strip-support whose dimension is 950 mm × 2 mm × 2.4 mm.
 The High Voltage (HV) tests show that a better stability is achieved when the strip support is implemented. Therefore this solution has been adopted for operation in ALICE.
31583612
Inclusion of fluctuations in Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck dynamics: A method of simulation.
54044861
Extended Holographic Ricci Dark Energy in Chameleon Brans-Dicke Cosmology
In the present work, we have studied some features of the generalized Brans-Dicke (BD) model in which the scalar field is allowed to couple nonminimally with the matter sector. Extended holographic Ricci dark energy (EHRDE) has been considered in the above framework 
of BD cosmology. Some restrictions have been derived for the BD parameter , and a stronger matter-chameleon coupling has been observed with the expansion of the universe. In this framework, the equation of the state parameter of EHRDE has behaved like quintom. Also, we have reconstructed the potential and coupling function for BD model for the EHRDE. It has been observed that the potential function is increasing as the matter-chameleon coupling is getting stronger.
117890840
Dependence of coherent instabilities and parasitic heating on vacuum chamber radius for the SSC
The impedance budget for SSC may have to be changed as a result of optimization of the cell lattice and aperture design. We have investigated the impact on the collective instabilities and parasitic heating if the vacuum chamber radius differs from the CDR value by as much as {plus minus}0.5 cm. We conclude that the corresponding changes on the cryogenic load due to parasitic heating are small, and the most of the CDR conclusions on the collective instabilities remain intact. The requirements for the feedback gain and Landau damping to stabilize the transverse multibunch are modified somewhat, but can be met easily. 9 refs.
38657414
Role of Lasers in Linear Accelerators
While time-dependent electromagnetic fields using microwave technology have been exploited for decades in acceleration and manipulation of charged particle beams, modern lasers stand poised to be exploited for these purposes with great promise. The advent of compact sub-picosecond terawatt lasers has renewed the interest in phenomena that involve scattering or collective interaction of lasers with relativistic particles for various purposes such as diagnostics and control of beams, ultra-high gradient particle acceleration, laser-driven high brightness particle sources, etc. We will give examples of laser-linac interaction already in use or being contemplated in such areas as TeV-scale gamma-gamma colliders, laser monitoring of beams, laser injectors and prospects for laser acceleration of particles.
118375636
A study of generalized second law of thermodynamics in modified f(R) Horava–Lifshitz gravity
This work investigates the validity of the generalized second law of thermodynamics in modified f(R) Horava–Lifshitz gravity proposed by Chaichian et al. (Class. Quantum Grav. 27: 185021, 2010), which is invariant under foliation-preserving diffeomorphisms. It has been observed that the equation of state parameter behaves like quintessence (w>−1). We study the thermodynamics of the apparent, event and particle horizons in this modified gravity. We observe that under this gravity, the time derivative of total entropy stays at positive level and hence the generalized second law is validated.
117818804
Status of the LBL experiment on femtosecond x-ray generation through 90{degree} Thomson scattering
A status report on the generation of femtosecond X-ray pulses through 90{degrees} Thompson scattering is presented. The experiment involves a relativistic electron beam (tunable from 25--50 MeV) with a bunch length of 10 ps containing 1 {minus}2 nC, and a ultrashort pulse (50--200 fs), high power (4 TW) 0.8 {mu}m Ti:Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} laser system. Both beams are focussed down to about a 50 {mu}m waist size and intersect at 90{degrees}. The laser field acts as an electromagnetic undulator for the relativistic electron beam generating radiation upshifted by 2 {gamma}{sup 2} and a pulse length given by the transit time of the laser beam across the electron beam. For a 50 MeV electron beam we expect 10{sup 5} photons at 0.4 {angstrom} (10% bandwidth) in a cone angle of 6 mrad in a 170 fs pulse.