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Confirmation of the electric neutrality of matter at the milligram level
Abstract The procedure to identify, measure and subtract the magneto-electric force acting on levitating spheres is described. All the 25 steel spheres (with a total mass of 1.75 mg) examined after the elimination of the effects of such a force produce the result: N quarks / N nucleons ⩽ 10 −21 .
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The relation between QCD and constituent quark models
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The non-relativistic quark model
The classification scheme and decay properties of hadron states are investigated in the framework of the non relativistic quark model. The main successes and the unsolved difficulties of the model are presented indicating the future work which could be done to understand and exploit the non-relativistic quark ideas.РезюмеИсследованы схема классификации и распадные свойства адронов в рамках статической модели кварков. Изложены главные успехи и нерешенные проблемы модели, указывая задачи, которые должны быть решены для лучшего понимания и использования нерелятивистских идей.
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Comment on "Chiral symmetry and the intrinsic structure of the nucleon"- by D.B.Leinweber,A.W.Thomas and R.D.Young
Some remarks are presented on a recent paper (Leinweber,Thomas and Young, Phys.Rev.Lett. 86, 5011, 2001). In particular a statement of the above paper on the fact that the ratio between the magnetic moments of proton and neutron should remain constant at -3/2, independent of the change of the quark mass is discussed on the basis of the general parameterization.
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SEARCH FOR QUARKS WITH THE FERROMAGNETIC LEVITATION ELECTROMETER
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New Results in the Search of Quarks in Matter by the Magnetic Levitation Electrometer
Abstract The results of many runs performed levitating in succession several spheres without opening the levitation chamber show the existence of an additional (magneto-electric) force acting on the sphere. Ignoring this force in the analysis of the data produces “spurious” fractional charges.
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LEP performance at 91.5 GeV
The 1997 LEP collider run was the first year of the LEP2 program devoted to stable high luminosity running. The good performance of the LEP superconducting RF system allowed to run at beam energies of 91.5 GeV. In addition to the to usual optimisation procedures to minimise the vertical beam emittances, the horizontal beam sizes were reduced by increasing the horizontal damping partition number and reducing the betatron function at the interaction points. Vertical beam-beam tune shifts in excess of 0.05 were achieved with total beam currents of 5 mA. The total integrated luminosity of 73 pb-1 is the highest ever recorded in a single year of LEP operation.
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The Q-Loop : a Function Driven Feedback System for the Betatron Tunes During the LEP Energy Ramp
In normal operation LEP is ramped from injection energy, typically 22 GeV, to energies of over 90 GeV where physics taking takes place. Effective control of the betatron during the ramp is essential to ensure good transmission of stored current. The LEP Q-loop is a feedback system used to control the tunes during the energy ramp. By following a pre-programmed tune function it provides a means of avoiding dangerous resonances and thus beam loss. The basic components the Q-loop will be described, and operational results presented. Emphasis will be given to the problems encountered and the solutions found.
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The RTC-a software support system for the control of the CERN SPS
The RTC (Run Time Coordinator) is described. It is a software support system designed for the SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) control system to provide a run time environment for application software. It coordinates the execution of individual programs or processes and supervises the process control, i.e. process synchronization, interprocess communication, data transfer, and operator I/O (input/output). This supervision includes the control of processes distributed on a Unix-based network. A standard language independent data interface is part of the system. The system includes tools for data presentation, error logging, and contention resolution. Separating system-dependent features for the body of the application programs leads to high flexibility and simplifies the software development. The basic philosophy of the RTC is discussed and its implementation is described.<<ETX>>
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SASD and the CERN / SPS run-time coordinator
Abstract Structured Analysis and Structure Design (SASD) provides us with a handy way of specifying the flow of data between the different modules (functional units) of a system. But the formalism loses its immediacy when the control flow has to be taken into account as well. Moreover, due to the lack of appropriate software infrastructure, very often the actual implementation of the system does not reflect the module decoupling and independence so much emphasized at the design stage. In this paper the run-time coordinator, a complete software infrastructure to support a real decoupling of the functional units, is described. Special attention is given to the complementarity of our approach and the SASD methodology.
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The BOM 1000 Turn Display : a Tool to Visualize the Transverse Phase-Space Topology at LEP
The LEP BOM 1000 Turn facility enables the User to acquire the position of the beam at each beam position monitor over a number of consecutive turns. By kicking the beam and acquiring the first 1000 turns after the kick, the dynamic behavior of the beam in such a condition can be studied. In particular, by selecting a position monitor and plotting the position of the beam at a given turn against the position shifted by one (or n) turn(s), the evolution of the beam in the phase-space can be observed. Fixed points in the phase-space can be put in evidence, as well as the beam behavior in their neighbourhood. Quantities like the beam damping, or the beam detuning as function of the position amplitude can also be studied in this way. Significant examples from real life will be shown.