15862525
Physics Results From Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer 1998 Shuttle Flight
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a particle detector designed to detect antimatter. During the 10-day test flight on the space shuttle in June 1998, AMS detected $10^8$ events. Upon analysis, no antimatter was found and the antimatter limit was reduced to $1.1\times10^{-6}$. The proton spectrum shows some differences with the cosmic ray flux used in atmospheric neutrino simulation. A large amount of protons, positrons, and electrons were found below the geomagnetic rigidity cutoff. The energy of these particles are as high as several GeV, one order of magnitude higher than any previously measured energy in radiation belts. These particles also exhibit many interesting features. This paper reviews the results in the four published papers of the AMS collaboration and provides explanation for some features of the albedo particles.
120451450
SHINIE: Simulation of High Energy Neutrinos Interacting with the Earth
SHINIE is acronym for Simulation of High-energy Neutrinos Interacting with the Earth, which is a Monte-Carlo simulation code for the interactions and propagations of neutrinos and leptons inside the Earth at energy greater than 10 14 eV. This code can be used for underground or above-ground neutrino telescopes. Since 2004, we had made several major updates, which include stochastic energy loss for τ and μ , modification for underground detector, addition of ν μ , ν e , μ , and electron, and a new material salt for simulation of underground salt dome neutrino detector. Details of this code are described here. A benchmark test of tau lepton flux passing through 100 km of standard rock are performed and concluded that all processes behave properly and consistent with previous versions.
120445064
Superconducting wiggler with semi-cold beam duct at Taiwan light source
Abstract A 3.2 T superconducting wiggler with a periodic length of 6 cm and 32 poles was designed and fabricated as an X-ray source. The beam duct of this magnet is a semi-cold, ultra-high vacuum chamber that consists of an aluminum and stainless steel taper. The number of poles in this magnet design is even, to minimize the integral strengths of the multipole components. Two measurement systems—involving room-temperature and cryogenic Hall probes—were set up to measure the field of the superconducting wiggler. A cryogenic plant that supplied liquid helium and nitrogen to the superconducting wiggler has already been established. The performance of magnet construction is good and the commissioning of the superconducting wiggler in the storage ring has been successful. No trim coil compensation on the magnet is required to adjust the electron beam orbit. Furthermore, the electron beams exhibit no loss and remain highly stable after the superconducting wiggler has been quenched.
30348524
Design of mechanical structure and cryostat for IASW superconducting wiggler at NSRRC
An in-achromatic superconducting wiggler (IASW) was successfully constructed and installed at the Taiwan Light Source (TLS) in January 2006. The cryostat with a 30 L liquid nitrogen aluminum reservoir shielding surrounds the helium vessel, which comprises the cold mass and 100 L liquid helium. The helium vessel is suspended by eight suspension links, which are thermally intercepted at 80 K and can be adjusted by applying tension, such that the center of the cold mass does not move during cooled to 4.2 K. A three-layered stainless tube was designed to prevent the transfer port from freezing and the steam- electricity separation system is designed to supply electricity and return the helium gas to prevent freezing of the power feedthrough.
9467125
Conceptual Designs of Magnet Systems for the Taiwan Photon Source
The National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) at Taiwan is designing a 3 GeV energy with ultra-low emittance storage ring for the new Taiwan Photon Source (TPS). The storage ring has a circumference of 514 m with 24 periods of a double-bend achromatic magnet system. The conceptual designs of each magnet family to be used in the storage ring are optimized for operation at an electronic energy of 3.0 GeV. This investigation reviews the preliminary design and the core issue related to the accelerator magnet.
122312631
Design and initial performance of the Askaryan Radio Array prototype EeV neutrino detector at the South Pole
Abstract We report on studies of the viability and sensitivity of the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), a new initiative to develop a Teraton-scale ultra-high energy neutrino detector in deep, radio-transparent ice near Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole. An initial prototype ARA detector system was installed in January 2011, and has been operating continuously since then. We describe measurements of the background radio noise levels, the radio clarity of the ice, and the estimated sensitivity of the planned ARA array given these results, based on the first five months of operation. Anthropogenic radio interference in the vicinity of the South Pole currently leads to a few-percent loss of data, but no overall effect on the background noise levels, which are dominated by the thermal noise floor of the cold polar ice, and galactic noise at lower frequencies. We have also successfully detected signals originating from a 2.5 km deep impulse generator at a distance of over 3 km from our prototype detector, confirming prior estimates of kilometer-scale attenuation lengths for cold polar ice. These are also the first such measurements for propagation over such large slant distances in ice. Based on these data, ARA-37, the ∼200 km 2 array now in its initial construction phase, will achieve the highest sensitivity of any planned or existing neutrino detector in the 10 16 –10 19  eV energy range.
17522567
Three-point functions of N=4 super-Yang–Mills from light cone string field theory in pp-wave
Abstract In this Letter we calculate three-string interaction from light cone string field theory in pp-wave. We find exact agreements with the free planar three point functions of non-chiral BMN operators of N =4 super-Yang–Mills. The three string interaction vertex involving the Neumann matrices was derived in a recent paper hep-th/0204146 . We explicitly calculate the bosonic Neumann matrices in the limit of large μp + α ′. Using the Neumann matrices we are able to compute the cubic interactions of three string modes in a pp-wave background.
119474735
String Interactions in PP Wave from N=4 Superyang-Mills
We consider non-planar contributions to the correlation functions of BMN operators in free N = 4 super Yang Mills theory. We recalculate these non-planar contributions from a different kind of diagram and find some exact agreements. The vertices of these diagrams are represented by free planar three point functions, thus our calculations provide some interesting identities for correlation functions of BMN operators in N = 4 super Yang Mills theory. These diagrams look very much like loop diagrams in a second quantized string field theory, thus these identities could possibly be interpreted as natural consequences of the pp-wave/CFT correspondence.
14331676
Black holes and large order quantum geometry
We study five-dimensional black holes obtained by compactifying M theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds. Recent progress in solving topological string theory on compact, one-parameter models allows us to test numerically various conjectures about these black holes. We give convincing evidence that a microscopic description based on Gopakumar-Vafa invariants accounts correctly for their macroscopic entropy, and we check that highly nontrivial cancellations--which seem necessary to resolve the so-called entropy enigma in the Ooguri-Strominger-Vafa conjecture--do in fact occur. We also study analytically small 5d black holes obtained by wrapping M2 branes in the fiber of K3 fibrations. By using heterotic/type II duality we obtain exact formulae for the microscopic degeneracies in various geometries, and we compute their asymptotic expansion for large charges.
16820034
Holomorphicity and modularity in Seiberg-Witten theories with matter
We calculate the gravitational corrections to the effective action of N=2 SU(2) Seiberg-Witten theory with matter using modularity, the holomorphic anomaly equation and expected behavior at the boundaries of the moduli space. As in pure gauge theory we show that the gap condition at the dyon singularities completely fixes the gravitational corrections. We discuss the behavior of the gravitational corrections at the conformal points. We compare our results with the recursive solution of the loop equation in the matrix model approach, which provides in addition open amplitudes.
7671725
Phases of N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories with flavors
Abstract We explore the phases of N =1 supersymmetric U ( N ) gauge theories with fundamental matter that arise as deformations of N =2 SQCD by the addition of a superpotential for the adjoint chiral multiplet. As the parameters in the superpotential are varied, the vacua of this theory sweep out various branches, which in some cases have multiple semiclassical limits. In such limits, we recover the vacua of various product gauge group theories, with flavors charged under some group factors. We describe in detail the structure of the vacua in both classical and quantum regimes, and develop general techniques such as an addition and a multiplication map which relate vacua of different gauge theories. We also consider possible indices characterizing different branches and potential relationships with matrix models.