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Scaling-variable distributions in high-energy inelastic neutrino interactions
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A liquid-scintillator total-absorption hadron calorimeter for the study of neutrino interactions
Abstract We describe the performance of a large-volume liquid-scintillator calorimeter which has been used to measure the total energy of hadrons produced by interactions of neutrinos with nucleons. The resolution of the calorimeter is about 12% rms for incident pions over the energy range 20–150 GeV, and about 15% for neutrino-induced hadron systems in the chosen fiducial volume after corrections for imperfect energy containment.
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Megaton Modular Multi-Purpose Neutrino Detector
This brief note outlines a detector for the Homestake Laboratory and the physics experiments that might be done with it. The note might go on record as a letter of intent to be converted to a formal proposal at a later time.
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New Features of Neutrino Physics as Observed in Fermilab Exp. 1A
With the advent of large counter experiments and high energy accelerators many new phenomena have appeared in neutrino physics. Apart from the discovery of weak neutral currents [1] the most striking development has been the observation of v and v interactions with two muons in the final state [2a] (dimuon events) and more recently of v interactions with a muon and a positron in the final state [3]. Of equal importance has been the observation of departure from the scaling predictions observed in high energy v weak charged current reactions [4].
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Measurement of the Elastic Scattering of Neutrinos and Antineutrinos by Protons
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A possible new probe of the energy generating mechanisms of GRBs and AGN
Abstract The suggestion is made here to search for possible time and angular position correlations between energetic gamma-rays detected by the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory and upward-going muons produced by energetic neutrino interactions in the rock surrounding the cavity in which the massive, underground neutrino detector Superkamiokande resides. The motivation and feasibility of the search are discussed.
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Collective effects in the collapse-revival phenomenon and squeezing in the Dicke model
Resonant interaction of a collection of two-level atoms with a single-mode coherent cavity field is considered in the framework of the Dicke model. We focus on the role of collective atomic effects in the phenomenon of collapses and revivals of the Rabi oscillations. It is shown that the behavior of the system strongly depends on the initial atomic state. In the case of the initial half-excited Dicke state we account for a number of interesting phenomena. The correlations between the atoms result in a suppression of the revival amplitude, and the revival time is halved, compared to the uncorrelated fully excited and ground states. The phenomenon of squeezing of the radiation field in the atom-field interaction is also discussed. For the initial fully excited and ground atomic states, the field is squeezed on the short-time scale, and squeezing can be enhanced by increasing the number of atoms. Some empirical formulas are found which describe the behavior of the system in excellent agreement with numerical results. For the half-excited Dicke state, the field can be strongly squeezed on the long-time scale in the case of two atoms. This kind of squeezing is enhanced by increasing the intensity of the initial coherent field and is of the same nature as revival-time squeezing in the Jaynes-Cummings model. The appearance of this long-time squeezing can be explained using the factorization approximation for semiclassical atomic states. @S1050-2947~98!07309-0#
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Study of Neutrino Interactions in Hydrogen and Deuterium. 1. Description of the Experiment and Study of the Reaction Neutrino d --> mu- p p(s)
This paper gives a detailed description of an experiment which studies the interactions of muon-type neutrinos in hydrogen and deuterium. The experiment was performed at the Zero Gradient Synchrotron using the wide-band neutrino beam incident on the Argonne 12-foot bubble chamber filled with hydrogen and deuterium. The neutrino energy spectrum peaks at 0.5 GeV and has a tail extending to 6 GeV. The shape and intensity of the flux is determined using measurements of pion yields from beryllium. The produced pions are focused by one or (for the latter part of the experiment) two magnetic horns. A total of 364000 pictures were taken with a hydrogen filling of the bubble chamber and 903 000 with a deuterium filling. The scanning and other analyses of the events are described. The most abundant reaction occurs off neutrons and is quasi-elastic scattering $\ensuremath{\nu}d\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{\ensuremath{-}}p{p}_{s}$. The separation of these events from background channels is discussed. The total and differential cross sections are analyzed to obtain the axial-vector form factor of the nucleon. Our result, expressed in terms of a dipole form factor, gives an axial-vector mass of 0.95\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.09 GeV. A comparison is made to previous measurements using neutrino beams, and also to determinations based upon threshold pion electroproduction experiments. In addition, the data are used to measure the weak vector form factor and so check the conserved-vector-current hypothesis.
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Development of a high-rate GEM-based TPC for PANDA
An ungated GEM-based TPC with continuous readout is considered as the central tracker of the PANDA experiment. Particles from up to 2ldr107 p macrp annih./s have to be tracked over a wide momentum range (0.1-8 GeV/c). Simulations demonstrate a space charge accumulation of up to 55 fC/cm3, leading to correctable track distortions of up to 6 mm. Ion backflow studies in triple-GEM structures have been performed. A spatial resolution of down to 140 mum has been achieved with a GEM-TPC test chamber, operated with an Ar/CO2 gas mixture and without magnetic field, recording the signals of cosmic muons.
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Maximumvs. Critical temperature in a superfluid approach to strong interactions
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Derivation of the critical temperature for the superfluid phase of hadronic matter
Abstract We give a quantitative derivation of the temperature at which superfluidity of hadronic matter ends. Using considerations similar to those used by Landau for 4 He, we find T c ⩽ 190 MeV in close agreement with Hagedorn's “limiting” temperature.