118901774
Gluon Shadowing and Hadron Production at RHIC
Nuclear Science Division, Mailstop 70-319, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720.(October 3,2001)Hadron multiplicity in the central rapidity region of high-energy heavy-ion collisions is investi-gated within a two-component mini-jet model which consists of soft and semi-hard particle produc-tion. The hard contribution from mini-jets is reevaluated using the latest parameterization of partondistributions and nuclear shadowing. The energy dependence of the experimental data from RHICrequires a strong nuclear shadowing of the gluon distribution in this model. The centrality depen-dence of the hadron multiplicity at√s = 130 GeV is reproduced well with the impact-parameterdependent parton shadowing. However, energy variation of the centrality dependence is needed todistinguish diﬀerent particle production mechanisms such as the parton saturation model.25.75.-q,12.38.Bx,12.38.Mh,24.85.+p
118680063
Search for a doubly charmed hadron at B factories
The doubly charmed hadron production at B factories is of special importance for the study of the hadron structure and the color connections before hadronization. To suppress the combination background fluctuations of the reconstructed hadron mass spectra, we suggest a three-jet event shape trigger. After these three jets are identified by their energy and angular distributions, it is found that: 1) The background process $e^+ e^- \to c\bar {c} \to h's$ in consideration of the final hadron system $\Lambda_c^+K^-\pi^+ +X$ are significantly suppressed. 2) For the selected events, about half of the particles, $\Lambda_c^+$, $K^-$, $\pi^+$, which obviously can not belong to the decay products of doubly charmed hadron, can be vetoed. The relevant hadronization is investigated.
119280900
Observational constraints on K-inflation models
We extend the ModeCode software of Mortonson, Peiris and Easther [1] to enable numerical computation of perturbations in K-inflation models, where the scalar field no longer has a canonical kinetic term. Focussing on models where the kinetic and potential terms can be separated into a sum, we compute slow-roll predictions for various models and use these to verify the numerical code. A Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis is then used to impose constraints from WMAP7 data on the addition of a term quadratic in the kinetic energy to the Lagrangian of simple chaotic inflation models. For a quadratic potential, the data do not discriminate against addition of such a term, while for a quartic (λ4) potential inclusion of such a term is actually favoured. Overall, constraints on such a term from present data are found to be extremely weak.
118740978
Constraints on Randall-Sundrum model from the events of dijet production with QCD next-to-leading order accuracy at the LHC
We study the dijet production in Randall-Sundrum model at the LHC with QCD next-to-leading(NLO) order accuracy. Our results show that the QCD NLO corrections can increase the total cross sections by more than $80\%$ and reduce the scale dependence. We also explore in detail several important kinematic distributions at the NLO level. Moreover, we discuss the upper limits of the KK graviton excluded mass range and the allowed parameter space for the coupling constant and KK graviton mass, using the experiment data.
119232075
Renormalization group improved predictions for $t\bar{t}W^\pm$ production at hadron colliders
We study the factorization and resummation of the $t\bar{t}W^\pm$ production at hadron colliders. The cross section in the threshold limit can be factorized into a convolution of hard and soft functions and parton distribution functions with the soft-collinear effective theory. We calculate the next-to-leading order soft function for the associated production of the heavy quark pair and colorless particle, and we perform the resummation calculation with the next-to-next-to-leading logarithms accuracy. Our results show that the resummation effects reduce the dependence of the cross section on the scales significantly and increase the total cross section by $7-13\%$ compared with NLO QCD results.
16179887
First calculation of cosmic-ray muon spallation backgrounds for MeV astrophysical neutrino signals in Super-Kamiokande
signals is much larger than the signal rates for kinetic energies of about 6 { 18 MeV. Surprisingly, there is no published calculation of the production and properties of these backgrounds in water, though there are such studies for scintillator. Using the simulation code FLUKA and theoretical insights, we detail how muons lose energy in water, produce secondary particles, how and where these secondaries produce isotopes, and the properties of the backgrounds from their decays. We reproduce Super-Kamiokande measurements of the total background to within a factor of 2, which is good given that the isotope yields vary by orders of magnitude and that some details of the experiment are unknown to us at this level. Our results break aggregate data into component isotopes, reveal their separate production mechanisms, and preserve correlations between them. We outline how to implement more eective background rejection techniques using this information. Reducing backgrounds in solar and DSNB studies by even a factor of a few could help lead to important new discoveries.
120721773
PRELIMINARY COMMISSIONING OF SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS AND CRYOGENIC SYSTEM OF BEPC II
A helium cryogenic system with cooling capacity of 1 kW at 4.5 K was set up at Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. This helium refrigerating system is dedicated for the cooling of two superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities, two interaction region superconducting collision quadrupole (SCQ) magnets, a detector superconducting solenoid magnet (SSM), which are the key items of the upgrade project of Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC II). Commissioning with the detector and SCQ magnets was carried out, which will be introduced in this paper. The cryogenic system shows very robust as SSM quench. This paper presents the overall status and some test results of superconducting and cryogenic system.