13962394
Combination of Heavy Quark with Partons from Quark-Gluon Matter: a Scaling Probe
In relativistic heavy ion collisions, the cross section of heavy hadron production via the combination of a heavy quark with a light one from the quark-gluon matter can be factorized. It is the convolution of twist-4 combination matrix elements, the parameters corresponding to the parton distributions of the quark-gluon matter, as well as the hard partonic cross section of heavy quark production calculable in PQCD. These parton distributions and combination matrix elements are functions of a scaling variable which is the momentum fraction of the heavy quark w.r.t. the heavy hadron. In the same factorization framework, the combination matrix elements appear in other `simpler' processes and can be extracted. Taking them as inputs, comparing with data from RHIC and (future) LHC, we can get the parton distributions of the quark-gluon matter just as the similar way we get those of nucleon, pion, or photon, etc..
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.
118215851
Identify Charged Higgs Boson in $W^\pm H^\mp$ Associated Production at LHC
We investigate the possibility to discover the charged Higgs via $pp\to W^{\pm}H^{\mp}\to l+\met+b\bar{b}jj$ process at LHC, which suffers from large QCD backgrounds. We optimize the kinematic cuts to suppress the backgrounds, so that the reconstruction of the charged Higgs through hadronic decay is possible. The angular distribution of the b-jet from $H^{\pm}$ decay is investigated as a way to identify the charged scalar from vector bosons.
119182320
Colour connections of four quark $Q\bar{Q}Q'\bar{Q}'$ system and doubly heavy baryon production in $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilation
The hadronization effects induced by various colour connections of the four quark system in $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilation are briefly reviewed. A special colour connection of four heavy quark system without colour-separation favours the production of doubly heavy baryons. For the related three-jet case, the corresponding hadronization has not been considered. We argue that it can be effectively described as two string fragmentation besides the leading heavy diquark fragmentation. The production rate and the properties of final state hadron systems are discussed. Emphasis is on the string effect as a finger print of this hadronization procedure.
204940116
power counting of various Dirac covariants in hadronic Bethe-Salpeter wave functions for decay constant calculations of pseudoscalar mesons
We have employed the framework of Bethe-Salpeter equation under covariant instantaneous ansatz to calculate leptonic decay constants of unequal mass pseudoscalar mesons like π, K, D, Ds and B and radiative decay constants of neutral pseudoscalar mesons like π0 and ηc in two photons. In the Dirac structure of hadronic Bethe-Salpeter wave function, the covariants are incorporated from their complete set in accordance with a recently proposed power counting rule. The decay constants are calculated with the incorporation of both Leading order and Next-to-leading order Dirac covariants. The results validate the power counting rule which provides a practical means of incorporating Dirac covariants in the Bethe-Salpeter wave function for a hadron.
37649879
LAr TPC Electronics CMOS Lifetime at 300 K and 77 K and Reliability Under Thermal Cycling
A study of hot-carrier effects (HCE) on the 180-nm CMOS device lifetime has been performed at 300 K and 77 K for Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC). Two different measurements were used: accelerated lifetime measurement under severe electric field stress by the drain-source voltage Vds, and a separate measurement of the substrate current as a function of 1/Vds. The former verifies the canonical very steep slope of the inverse relation between the lifetime and the substrate current, and the latter confirms that below a certain value of Vds a lifetime margin of several orders of magnitude can be achieved for the cold electronics TPC readout. The low power ASIC design for LAr TPC falls naturally into this domain, where hot-electron effects are negligible. Lifetime of digital circuits (ac operation) is extended by the inverse duty factor 1/(fclockteff) compared to dc operation. This factor is large (> 100) for deep submicron technology and clock frequency needed for TPC readout. As an additional margin, Vds may be reduced by ~ 10%. Extremely low failure rate (incidence) in previous large experiments demonstrates that surface mount circuit board technology withstands very well even multiple abrupt immersion in liquid nitrogen applied in board testing, and that the total failure incidence in continuous operation over time is very low.
15957415
The topological structure of the space–time disclination
The space–time disclination is studied by making use of the decomposition theory of gauge potential in terms of the antisymmetric tensor field and φ-mapping method. It is shown that the self-dual and anti-self-dual parts of the curvature compose the space–time disclinations which are classified in terms of topological invariants—winding number. The projection of space–time disclination density along an antisymmetric tensor field is quantized topologically and characterized by Brouwer degree and Hopf index.
109836098
Design and characterization of the VMM1 ASIC for micropattern gas detectors
Abstract Measurements of the first prototype VMM1 ASIC designed at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 130 nm CMOS and fabricated in spring 2012 are presented. The 64-channel ASIC features a novel design for use with several types of micropattern gas detectors. The data driven system measures peak amplitude and timing information in tracking mode including sub-threshold neighbors and first channel hit address in trigger mode. Several programmable gain and integration times allows the flexibility to work with Micromegas, Thin Gap Chambers (TGCs), and Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors. The IC design and features are presented along with measurements characterizing the performance of the VMM1 such as noise, linearity of the response, time walk, and calibration range.
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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.
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Inhomogeneous reheating scenario with DBI fields
We discuss a new mechanism which can be responsible for the origin of the primordial perturbation in inflationary models, the inhomogeneous DBI reheating scenario. Light DBI fields fluctuate during inflation, and finally create the density perturbations through modulation of the inflation decay rate. In this note, we investigate the curvature perturbation and its non-Gaussianity from this new mechanism. Presenting generalized expressions for them, we show that the curvature perturbation not only depends on the particular process of decay but is also dependent on the sound speed cs from the DBI action. More interestingly we find that the non-Gaussianity parameter fNL is independent of cs. As an application we exemplify some decay processes which give a viable and detectable non-Gaussianity. Finally we find a possible connection between our model and the DBI-Curvaton mechanism.