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The results of mass testing of the plastic streamer tubes for the DELPHI hadron calorimeter
Abstract The procedure and results of mass testing of plastic streamer tubes for the DELPHI hadron calorimeter are described in detail. The mass testing includes three stages: high voltage test and conditioning, X-ray test on radiation load capability and wire tension control in ready detectors. The productivity of the test workshop was 240 detectors per day at maximum. After testing of about 25 000 streamer tubes, 8% have been rejected on the ground of severe rejection criteria which exceed significantly the working conditions in the DELPHI experiment.
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Test of a compact Si-strip detector for the forward region in DELPHI
Abstract The DELPHI detector will be upgraded by a new silicon detector in the very forward region to fulfil the physics demands of the LEP200 program. This detector will cover the angular region between 10° and 25° with respect to the beam pipe and will have a two dimensional readout. The severe space restrictions in this region lead us to develop a new arrangement of detectors and electronic hybrids. In beam tests the layout of the detectors was optimised. Special attention was given to the charge loss in intermediate strips for detectors with large strip pitch. Beam test results obtained with different detector layouts, e.g. various implant widths, and different angle of the incident particles will be shown.
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Monitoring setup of Prague T2 site
Quality monitoring is a crucial part in struggle for reliability of every Tier 2 site. We present a solution based on Nagios installation in Prague. Our solution includes both third party and in-house developed add-ons and plug-ins. We focus on integrating results from grid-wise monitoring tools (such as SAM or Gstat) at one place (our Nagios instance). We also present an automated way to generate configuration files for Nagios from local database of hardware and services.
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JINR (Dubna) and Prague Tier2 sites: Common experience in the WLCG grid infrastructure
The paper describes the cooperation of JINR specialists and Czech colleagues in the field of deployment and development of modern grid technologies within the framework of the WLCG global infrastructure project. Special attention is paid to the development and usage of monitoring systems.
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RD19: status report on 1993 development of hybrid and monolithic silicon micropattern detectors
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STUDY OF THE REACTION anti-D P ---> anti-P P anti-N AT 12-GeV/c AND anti-N P ELASTIC SCATTERING AT 6-GeV/c
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Critical comments on the standard description of elastic hadron scattering
Abstract The standard description of elastic scattering is often based on some assumptions that are not fully valid or contradict the measured experimental data.
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Luminosity-independent measurements of total, elastic and inelastic cross-sections at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV
The TOTEM experiment at the LHC has performed the first luminosity-independent determination of the total proton-proton cross-section at . This technique is based on the optical theorem and requires simultaneous measurements of the inelastic rate – accomplished with the forward charged-particle telescopes T1 and T2 in the range 3.1 < |η| < 6.5 – and of the elastic rate by detecting the outcoming protons with Roman Pot detectors. The data presented here were collected in a dedicated run in 2011 with special beam optics (β* = 90 m) and Roman Pots approaching the beam close enough to register elastic events with squared four-momentum transfers |t| as low as 5·10−3 GeV2. The luminosity-independent results for the elastic, inelastic and total cross-sections are σel = (25.1 ± 1.1) mb, σinel = (72.9 ± 1.5) mb and σtot = (98.0 ± 2.5) mb, respectively. At the same time this method yields the integrated luminosity, in agreement with measurements by CMS. TOTEM has also determined the total cross-section in two complementary ways, both using the CMS luminosity measurement as an input. The first method sums the elastic and inelastic cross-sections and thus does not depend on the ρ parameter. The second applies the optical theorem to the elastic-scattering measurements only and therefore is free of the T1 and T2 measurement uncertainties. The methods, having very different systematic dependences, give results in excellent agreement. Moreover, the ρ-independent measurement makes a first estimate for the ρ parameter at possible: |ρ| = 0.145 ± 0.091.
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Optical theorem and elastic nucleon scattering
In the theoretical analysis of high-energy elastic nucleon scattering one starts commonly from the description based on the validity of optical theorem, which allows to derive the value of total cross section directly from the experimentally measured t-dependence of elastic differential cross section. It may be shown, however, that this theorem has been derived on the basis of one assumption that might be regarded perhaps as acceptable for long-range (e.g., Coulomb) forces but must be denoted as quite unacceptable for finite-range hadron forces. Consequently, the conclusions leading to the increase of total cross section with energy at higher collision energies must be newly analyzed. The necessity of new analysis concerns also the derivation of elastic scattering t-dependence at very low transverse momenta from measured data.
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Applicability of Martin’s equations in high-energy elastic hadron scattering
The validity region of Martin`s equations enabling one to determine the t dependence of the real part of the elastic hadron amplitude from its imaginary part is critically reexamined. It can be concluded on the basis of a more precise analysis that quite unjustified and in principle incorrect physical results are obtained if the equations are used outside this region, i.e., for {vert_bar}t{vert_bar}{approx_gt}0.15 GeV{sup 2}. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
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The TOTEM experiment at LHC
The TOTEM experiment is dedicated to the measurement of the total proton-proton cross-section with the luminosity-independent method and the study of elastic and diffractive scattering processes. Two tracking telescopes, T1 and T2, integrated in the CMS detector, cover the pseudo-rapidity region between 3.1 and 6.5 on both sides of the interaction point IP5. The Roman Pot (RP) stations are located at distances of ± 147m and ± 220 m with respect to the interaction point to measure the very forward scattered protons at very small angles. During the LHC technical stop in winter 2010/2011, the TOTEM experiment was completed with the installation of the T1 telescope and the RP stations at ± 147 m. In 2011, the LHC machine provided special optics with the large s* = 90 m, allowing TOTEM to measure the elastic scattering differential cross section, down to the four-momentum transfer squared |t| = 2×10−2 GeV2. Using the optical theorem and extrapolation of the differential cross section to t = 0 (optical point), the total p-p cross section at the LHC energy of √v = 7 TeV could be computed for the first time. The status of the experiment, the performance of the detectors with emphasis on the RPs are described and the first physics results are presented.