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SEARCH FOR QUARKS WITH THE FERROMAGNETIC LEVITATION ELECTROMETER
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Some remarks on a paper by G.-S. Yang and H.-C.Kim: Mass splitting of SU(3) baryons within a chiral soliton model
In a recent paper Yang and Kim discuss the lowest baryon mass formulas using a chiral soliton model. However, contrary to their assertion, their result is not equivalent to a generalized Gell Mann-Okubo mass formula derived (G.Morpurgo,1992) using only general properties of QCD (The General Parameterization method). The reason for the non equivalence is that the generalized mass formula includes all the main terms that break flavor at second order, whereas the Authors above do not go beyond first order flavor breaking (and should therefore find the usual Gell Mann Okubo formula). This is not so, due to some inconsistencies. Below we confine to the part of the Yang-Kim paper dealing with the mass formula. We will not consider the other items of their paper. 1.Second order versus first order in flavor breaking. As stated in the Abstract, I will consider only the part of the paper of Yang and Kim [1] dealing with the Gell Mann-Okubo mass formula (see the generalized Gell Mann-Okubo mass formula Eqs.(1) below) derived [2] many years ago. In the Eqs.(1,2) below the particle symbols stay for the particle masses. 1 2 (p+ Ξ) + T = 1 4 (3Λ + 2Σ − Σ) (1) where T stays for T ≡ Ξ∗− − 1 2 (Ω + Σ∗−) (2) The fit to the data depends on whether we use the conventional or the pole values for the masses of the resonances appearing in T : l.h.s. = 1132.36± 0.7MeV, r.h.s. = 1133.93± 0.04MeV (conventional) l.h.s. = 1133.86± 1.25MeV, r.h.s. = 1133.93± 0.04MeV (pole) (3) In Eq.(1) the value of T is 5.7±0.7MeV . The Eq.(1), written with the signs of the charges indicated in it, includes correctly the effects of the e.m. contributions to the masses. (See in Ref.[2], the text and the footnote 9). Note from Eq.(3) e-mail morpurgo@ge.infn.it
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The QCD parametrization of baryon magnetic moments
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Electromagnetic mass differences of the octet and decuplet baryons.
The general parametrization method (Phys. Rev. D 40, 2997 (1989)), an exact consequence of any QCD-like relativistic field theory, is used to parametrize the electromagnetic mass differences of the baryons. First we show that the Coleman-Glashow relationship, derived neglecting flavor breaking, continues to hold if all flavor-breaking terms are kept, except the three-quark ones; this may explain why the formula agrees so well with the data. In addition, neglecting only three-quark terms, we reproduce some equalities between electromagnetic mass differences of {bold 8} and 1{bold 0} baryons derived a long time ago (A. Gal and F. Scheck, Nucl. Phys. B2, 110 (1967)) by the nonrelativistic quark model (NRQM). Also these equalities, now testable due to the improved knowledge of decuplet masses, are well satisfied; they now appear as a general consequence of a relativistic QCD-like field theory, not just of the NRQM.
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Field theory and the nonrelativistic quark model: A parametrization of the meson masses.
We apply the method developed in previous papers (Phys. Rev. D 40, 2997 (1989); 40, 3111 (1989)) to write a general parametrization of the masses of the lowest meson nonets. We compare the mass formulas obtained in this way with those used currently in a nonrelativistic quark model (NRQM). As in the previous work, the aim is to separate the features specific to the NRQM from those that follow from a relativistic field theory satisfying a few rather general conditions (satisfied by QCD). For the meson masses it turns out that the formulas obtained from field theory have essentially the same structure and number of parameters as those in the NRQM. This explains the good fit that the NRQM provides in this case; the internal {ital v}/{ital c} of the {ital q{bar q}} pair is irrelevant. As a by- product, the mixing angle for the {ital I}=0 mesons (e.g., {eta} and {eta}{prime}) predicted from the masses turns out to be model independent to first order in flavor breaking. We discuss the question of the linear versus quadratic or, say, square-root mixing angles.
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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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Non-linear Resonances with Stong Radiation Damping in LEP
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THE CERN DETECTOR SAFETY SYSTEM FOR THE LHC EXPERIMENTS
The Detector Safety System (DSS), developed at CERN in common for the four LHC experiments under the auspices of the Joint Controls Project (JCOP), will be responsible for assuring the equipment protection for these experiments. Therefore, the DSS requires a high degree of both availability and reliability. It is composed of a Front-end and a Back-end part. The Front-end is based on a redundant Siemens PLC, to which the safetycritical part of the DSS task is delegated. The PLC Frontend is capable of running autonomously and of automatically taking predefined protective actions whenever required. It is supervised and configured by the CERN-chosen PVSS SCADA system via a Siemens OPC server. The supervisory layer provides the operator with a status display and with limited online reconfiguration capabilities. Configuration of the code running in the PLCs is completely data driven via the contents of a “Configuration Database”. Thus, the DSS can easily adapt to the different and constantly evolving requirements of the LHC experiments during their construction, commissioning and exploitation phases. Currently, the DSS is being installed and commissioned for the construction of the CMS and LHCb experiments.
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Electron-positron collisions at 209 GeV in LEP
The Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN closed down in November 2000. During the year 2000 electron-positron collisions were established at centre-of-mass energies of up to 209 GeV. The energy reach of LEP was thus extended by another 7 GeV compared to the year 1999. At the same time the luminosity production was kept high and the total delivered luminosity for the year was 233 pb/sup -1/. High beam energy and high luminosity extended the discovery reach of LEP. The successful energy increase of LEP is analysed and the operation and performance in the regime of ultra-strong damping is described.
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A METHOD TO MEASURE THE BETA-BEATING IN A 90 DEGREES PHASE ADVANCE LATTICE
A method to compute the beta-beating in an accelerator, using as input the measurement of the phase advance of a betatron oscillation between three BPMs (beam position monitors), had been developed in the past[1]. The beauty of this method is that the result does not depend on the the BPM relative errors on the measurement of the oscillation amplitude. Unfortunately this method is not applicable when the phase advance between two of the three BPMs is (close to) 180 degrees. In this latter case the measurement of the amplitude of the beam oscillation should be combined with the phase advance measurement to get a complete picture of the beta-beating. Detecting and filtering BPMs with large gain errors requires some care. A method dealing with these aspects has been developed. Examples obtained by applying the method to real data from LEP and SPS are shown.
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Multiturn Measurements at the CERN SPS
The CERN SPS multiturn facility, based on the new beam orbit measurement system MOPOS, enables the User to acquire the position of the beam at each beam position monitor (BPM) over a number of consecutive turns. When the multiturn acquisition is synchronised with a perturbation imposed on the beam (for instance a fast kick), useful information about the optics of the SPS and the dynamic behaviour of the beam can be extracted from the data. A measurement of the amplitude and phase of the betatron oscillation at each BPM can be used to compare the theoretical optics functions with the real ones, and possibly to detect localised errors. Differences between two such measurements can be used to study the dependence on a variable parameter (e.g. beam intensity, beam energy, etc.) and therefore indirectly measure quantities, like the impedance, distributed along the ring. Finally, due to the 90 degrees phase advance lattice, plotting the positions measured at two consecutive BPMs against each other gives information about the behaviour of the beam in the transverse phase space. Results of measurements performed at the CERN SPS are presented.