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Thin, high gain wire chambers for electromagnetic presampling in OPAL
Abstract Thin multiwire chambers, operating in a high gain mode, are used for electromagnetic presampling in the endcaps of the OPAL detector at LEP. The design, setup and performance of these chambers with respect to energy and space resolution for electromagnetic showers as well as to pion/electron separation is described.
117771343
Supersymmetry Searches at the Tevatron
Current supersymmetry searches at the Tevatron pp collider are reviewed. The Fermilab Tevatron with integrated luminosities now exceeding 1 fb−1 per experiment at a center‐of‐mass energy of 1.96 TeV is starting to test supersymmetric particle production at mass scales exceeding previous colliders.
117846935
Completing the sparticle spectrum at a multi-TeV linear collider?
If supersymmetry is realised in nature, the approved LHC and the planned sub-TeV linear collider should unravel some, maybe many, of the features of the sparticle world. We survey in this paper the task of comprehensively identifying, understanding and measuring all the particles predicted by the model. We start to address whether a multi-TeV linear collider such as CLIC whose energy may well exceed all the new particle production thresholds is suited to completing this challenging task.
119005178
Standard model processes
118184457
Improving the Prompt Electromagnetic Energy Component of Jet Energy Resolution with pi0 Fitting in High Granularity Electromagnetic Calorimeters
We investigate improving the hadronic jet energy resolution using mass-constrained fits of pi0 decays using high granularity electromagnetic calorimeters. Single pi0 studies have indicated a large potential for improvement in the energy resolution of pi0's, typically reducing the average energy resolution by a factor of two for 4 GeV pi0's. We apply this method to fully simulated multi-hadronic events with multiple pi0's with widely varying energies using the ILD00 detector model. Several methods for identifying the correct pairings of photons with parent pi0's were explored. The combinatorics become challenging as the number of pi0's increases and we employ the Blossom V implementation of Edmonds' matching algorithm for handling this. For events where both photons of the pi0 are detected, the resulting solutions lead to an improvement in the pi0 component of the event energy resolution for 91.2 GeV Z0 events from 18.0%/sqrt(E) to 13.9%/sqrt(E) using the ILD00 detector and its reconstruction algorithms. This can be compared to a maximum potential improvement to 12.2%/sqrt(E) if all photon pairs are matched correctly using the current photon reconstruction.
184776927
Searches for new particles at LEP2 and 4-jet status
6458964
A Photometric Study of the Supercluster MS0302 with the UH8K CCD Camera: Image Processing and Object Catalogs
We describe in detail the processing of a set of images of the z = 0.42 supercluster MS0302 taken with the UH8K camera at CFHT. The result of this is a pair of seamless combined V- and I-band images of the field, along with a characterization of the noise properties and of the point spread function (PSF), and catalogs of about 30,000 faint galaxies. The analysis involves the following steps: image preparation; detection of stars and registration to find the transformation from detector to sky coordinates; correction for extinction and/or gain variations; modeling of the PSF; generation of images with a circular PSF; image warping and averaging; modeling of the noise auto-correlation function; faint object detection, aperture photometry, and shape measurement. The shear analysis is described elsewhere.
13454609
The parkes observatory pulsar data archive
The Parkes pulsar data archive currently provides access to 144044 data files obtained from observations carried out at the Parkes observatory since the year 1991. Around 105 files are from surveys of the sky, the remainder are observations of 775 individual pulsars and their corresponding calibration signals. Survey observations are included from the Parkes 70 cm and the Swinburne Intermediate Latitude surveys. Individual pulsar observations are included from young pulsar timing projects, the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array and from the PULSE@Parkes outreach program. The data files and access methods are compatible with Virtual Observatory protocols. This paper describes the data currently stored in the archive and presents ways in which these data can be searched and downloaded.
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Direct Evidence from Spitzer for a Low-Luminosity AGN at the Center of the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 315
We present Spitzer Space Telescope InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC) and Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) 
observations of the elliptical galaxy NGC 315. After removal of the host galaxy’s stellar emission, we detected 
for the first time an infrared-red nucleus in NGC 315. We measured the spectral energy distribution (SED) for 
this active nucleus with a wavelength range from radio to X-ray, and obtained a bolometric luminosity of 
Lbol ≈ 1.9 x 10^43 ergs s^(-1), corresponding to an extremely low Eddington ratio L/L_(Edd) of 4.97 x 10^(-4). Our results 
confirm that the physical nature of the nucleus of NGC 315 is a low-luminosity AGN, consistent with recent 
optical and Chandra X-ray observations.
117828898
Cluster states in C-12 and C-14
The cluster structure of 12C is explored and recent measurements of proton inelastic scattering, suggesting a 2+ state close to 9.6 MeV are presented. Resonant scattering studies of 10Be + 4He used to populate resonances in 14C are briefly discussed.
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NEAR-INFRARED-IMAGING POLARIMETRY TOWARD SERPENS SOUTH: REVEALING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD
The Serpens South embedded cluster, which is located in the constricted part of a long, filamentary, infrared dark cloud, is believed to be in a very early stage of cluster formation. We present results of near-infrared (JHKs) polarization observations of the filamentary cloud. Our polarization measurements of near-infrared point sources indicate a well-ordered global magnetic field that is perpendicular to the main filament, implying that the magnetic field is likely to have controlled the formation of the main filament. On the other hand, the sub-filaments, which converge on the central part of the cluster, tend to run along the magnetic field. The global magnetic field appears to be curved in the southern part of the main filament. Such morphology is consistent with the idea that the global magnetic field is distorted by gravitational contraction along the main filament toward the northern part, which contains larger mass. Applying the Chandrasekhar-Fermi method, the magnetic field strength is roughly estimated to be a few ×100 μG, suggesting that the filamentary cloud is close to magnetically critical.