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SHINIE: Simulation of High Energy Neutrinos Interacting with the Earth
SHINIE is acronym for Simulation of High-energy Neutrinos Interacting with the Earth, which is a Monte-Carlo simulation code for the interactions and propagations of neutrinos and leptons inside the Earth at energy greater than 10 14 eV. This code can be used for underground or above-ground neutrino telescopes. Since 2004, we had made several major updates, which include stochastic energy loss for τ and μ , modification for underground detector, addition of ν μ , ν e , μ , and electron, and a new material salt for simulation of underground salt dome neutrino detector. Details of this code are described here. A benchmark test of tau lepton flux passing through 100 km of standard rock are performed and concluded that all processes behave properly and consistent with previous versions.
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Design of mechanical structure and cryostat for IASW superconducting wiggler at NSRRC
An in-achromatic superconducting wiggler (IASW) was successfully constructed and installed at the Taiwan Light Source (TLS) in January 2006. The cryostat with a 30 L liquid nitrogen aluminum reservoir shielding surrounds the helium vessel, which comprises the cold mass and 100 L liquid helium. The helium vessel is suspended by eight suspension links, which are thermally intercepted at 80 K and can be adjusted by applying tension, such that the center of the cold mass does not move during cooled to 4.2 K. A three-layered stainless tube was designed to prevent the transfer port from freezing and the steam- electricity separation system is designed to supply electricity and return the helium gas to prevent freezing of the power feedthrough.
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Design and initial performance of the Askaryan Radio Array prototype EeV neutrino detector at the South Pole
Abstract We report on studies of the viability and sensitivity of the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), a new initiative to develop a Teraton-scale ultra-high energy neutrino detector in deep, radio-transparent ice near Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole. An initial prototype ARA detector system was installed in January 2011, and has been operating continuously since then. We describe measurements of the background radio noise levels, the radio clarity of the ice, and the estimated sensitivity of the planned ARA array given these results, based on the first five months of operation. Anthropogenic radio interference in the vicinity of the South Pole currently leads to a few-percent loss of data, but no overall effect on the background noise levels, which are dominated by the thermal noise floor of the cold polar ice, and galactic noise at lower frequencies. We have also successfully detected signals originating from a 2.5 km deep impulse generator at a distance of over 3 km from our prototype detector, confirming prior estimates of kilometer-scale attenuation lengths for cold polar ice. These are also the first such measurements for propagation over such large slant distances in ice. Based on these data, ARA-37, the ∼200 km 2 array now in its initial construction phase, will achieve the highest sensitivity of any planned or existing neutrino detector in the 10 16 –10 19  eV energy range.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF GRADIENT DAMPING WIGGLER FOR ALPHA STORAGE RING
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Conceptual Designs of Magnet Systems for the Taiwan Photon Source
The National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) at Taiwan is designing a 3 GeV energy with ultra-low emittance storage ring for the new Taiwan Photon Source (TPS). The storage ring has a circumference of 514 m with 24 periods of a double-bend achromatic magnet system. The conceptual designs of each magnet family to be used in the storage ring are optimized for operation at an electronic energy of 3.0 GeV. This investigation reviews the preliminary design and the core issue related to the accelerator magnet.
10260007
Atmospheric Secondary Particles In Near Earth Space
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer detects a large amount of particles below rigidity cutoff. Those high energy particles create questions related to radiation belts and atmospheric neutrinos. To understand the origin of these particles, we use a trajectory tracing program to simulate particle trajectories in realistic geomagnetic field. The complex behaviors and large e + /e are explained here.
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D-branes in Yang-Mills theory and emergent gauge symmetry
Four-dimensional supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory on a sphere has highly charged baryon-like states built from anti-symmetric combinations of the adjoint scalars. We show that these states, which are equivalently described as holes in a free fermi sea of a reduced matrix model, are D-branes. Their excitations are stringlike and effectively realize Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions in various directions. The low energy brane dynamics should realize an emergent gauge theory that is local on a new space. We show that the Gauss' Law associated to this emergent gauge symmetry appears from combinatorial identities relating the stringy excitations. Although these excitations are not BPS, they can be near-BPS and we can hope to study them in perturbation theory. Accordingly, we show that the Chan-Paton factors expected for strings propagating on multiple branes arise dynamically, allowing the emergent gauge symmetry to be non-abelian.
119323160
On gauge theory and topological string in Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit
We study the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit of the $ \mathcal{N} $ = 2 supersymmetric gauge theory and topological string theory on certain local toric Calabi-Yau manifolds. In this limit one of the two deformation parameters ϵ1,2 of the Ω background is set to zero and we study the perturbative expansion of the topological amplitudes around the remaining parameter. We derive differential equations from Seiberg-Witten curves and mirror geometries, which determine the higher genus topological amplitudes up to a constant. We show that the higher genus formulae previously obtained from holomorphic anomaly equations and boundary conditions satisfy these differential equations. We also provide a derivation of the holomorphic anomaly equations in the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit from these differential equations.
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Direct integration for general $\Omega$ backgrounds
We extend the direct integration method of the holomorphic anomaly equations to general Ω backgrounds ǫ1 6= −ǫ2 for pure SU(2) N=2 Super-Yang-Mills theory and topological string theory on non-compact Calabi-Yau threefolds. We find that an extension of the holomorphic anomaly equation, modularity and boundary conditions provided by the perturbative terms as well as by the gap condition at the conifold are sufficient to solve the generalized theory in the above cases. In particular we use the method to solve the topological string for the general Ω backgrounds on non-compact toric Calabi-Yau spaces. The conifold boundary condition follows from that the N=2 Schwinger-Loop calculation with BPS states coupled to a self-dual and an anti-self-dual field strength. We calculate such BPS states also for the decompactification limit of Calabi-Yau spaces with regular K3 fibrations and half K3s embedded in Calabi-Yau backgrounds. minxin.huang@ipmu.jp aklemm@th.physik.uni-bonn.de
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Holomorphicity and modularity in Seiberg-Witten theories with matter
We calculate the gravitational corrections to the effective action of N=2 SU(2) Seiberg-Witten theory with matter using modularity, the holomorphic anomaly equation and expected behavior at the boundaries of the moduli space. As in pure gauge theory we show that the gap condition at the dyon singularities completely fixes the gravitational corrections. We discuss the behavior of the gravitational corrections at the conformal points. We compare our results with the recursive solution of the loop equation in the matrix model approach, which provides in addition open amplitudes.
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Holomorphic anomaly in gauge theories and matrix models
We use the holomorphic anomaly equation to solve the gravitational corrections to Seiberg-Witten theory and a two-cut matrix model, which is related by the Dijkgraaf-Vafa conjecture to the topological B-model on a local Calabi-Yau manifold. In both cases we construct propagators that give a recursive solution in the genus modulo a holomorphic ambiguity. In the case of Seiberg-Witten theory the gravitational corrections can be calculated to all genus as quasimodular functions of Γ(2). In the matrix model we fix the holomorphic ambiguity up to genus two. The latter result establishes the Dijkgraaf-Vafa conjecture at that genus and yields a new method for solving the matrix model at fixed genus in closed form in terms of generalized hypergeometric functions.