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Performance of a large liquid argon shower detector used at Fermilab
Abstract Details of the construction and operation of a lead, liquid argon electromagnetic calorimeter used in Fermilab experiment E515 are presented. The system had an active projected area of 1.2×2.4 m 2 . Its performance in low intensity electron beams and in exposure to intense, high multiplicity 200 GeV/ c π − Be interactions are described.
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The use of waveform digitizers with drift chambers for D0
Abstract A prototype drift chamber cell with good space resolution, d E d x , and two particle separation has been constructed. A 100 MHz, 11 bit waveform digitizer readout scheme has been used for the tests.
118465845
Recent results on charm from Fermilab experiment E-687
About 10{sup 4} charm decays have been reconstructed from first-run data of Fermilab experiment E687 using the Fermilab Wide-Band Photon Spectrometer with the world's highest energy photon beam. The success of techniques for isolating and reconstructing charm event samples based on two complementary vertexing strategies is illustrated. Preliminary results are presented. These include lifetime value of (0.50 {plus minus} 0.06 {plus minus} 0.03)ps for the D{sub s}{sup +}, and (0.20 {plus minus} 0.03 {plus minus} 0.03)ps for the {Lambda}{sub c}{sup +}. Preliminary values for the D{sup +} and D{sup 0} lifetimes are consistent with currently accepted world averages. Signals for the Cabibbo-suppressed decays D{sup 0} {yields} {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup {minus}}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup {minus}}, D{sup +} {yields} K{sup +}K{sup {minus}}{pi}{sup +}, and D{sup +} {yields} {phi}{pi}{sup +} are shown; for B(D{sup 0} {yields} {pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup {minus}}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup {minus}})/B(D{sup 0} {yields} K{sup {minus}}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup {minus}}) our preliminary value is 0.10 {plus minus} 0.02 {plus minus} 0.02. Preliminary values for ratios B(D{sup 0} {yields} {ovr K}{sup 0}K{sup +}K{sup {minus}})/B(D{sup 0} {yields} {ovr K}{sup 0}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup {minus}}) and B(D{sup 0} {yields} {ovr K}{sup 0}{phi})/B(D{sup 0} {yields} {ovr K}{sup 0}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup {minus}}) are 0.20 {plus minus} 0.06 and 0.16 {plus minus} 0.06. Preliminary results are givenmore » for cross sections of D*{sup {plus minus}} and D{sup {plus minus}} photoproduction on a Be target for the p{sup 2}{sub {tau}} dependence of D{sup {minus plus}} photoproduction and for the ratios D{double prime}/D*{sup +} and D*{sup {minus}}/D{sup {minus plus}}. The energy dependence of the total open charm photoproduction cross section is compared with model predictions for photon energies up to 350 GeV. 18 refs., 5 figs.« less
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Neural network based neutral particles reconstruction with the E687 hadron calorimeter
Abstract We present a neutral particle reconstruction algorithm based on a neural network approach applied to the E687 hadron calorimeter. A measurement of the invariant mass of the Σ ± → nπ ± is presented to verify the reliability of the reconstruction. The reconstructed invariant mass of the charmed meson D + → K L 0 π + π + π − is also presented to show the possible application of this technique to charmed particles decaying into a neutral hadron. An example of this would be Λ c + → n K − π + π + .
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$D^0$ hot topics
The authors present recent D0 results based on approximately 1 fb{sup -1} of p{bar p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.96 TeV recorded at the Fermilab Tevatron. Preliminary results on a search for the flavor changing neutral current process D{sup +} {yields} {pi}{sup +}{mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -}, a measurement of the Cp violation parameter in B mixing, {epsilon}{sub B}, and a two sided limit on the B{sub s} oscillation frequency {Delta}m{sub s} are presented. The limits on {epsilon}{sub B} and {Beta}(D{sup +} {yields} {pi}{sup +}{mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -}) are the world's best limits. The two sided bound on {Delta}m{sub s} is the first direct indication by a single experiment that {Delta}m{sub s} is bounded from above.
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Pion pion phase shift and form-factors in the decays k+- ---> pi+ pi- e+- nu(e)
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Locality and the structure of particle states
Starting from the principle of locality of observables we derive localization properties of massive particle states which hold in all models of relativistic quantum theory, including gauge theories. It turns out that particles may always be regarded as well localized distributions of matter, although their mathematical description might require the introduction of non-local (unobservable) fields, which are assigned to infinite string-like regions. In spite of the non-locality of these fields one can show that such particles obey Bose- or Fermi (para) statistics, that to each particle there exists an antiparticle and that collision states of particles exist. A selfcontained exposition of the underlying physical ideas is given in the Introduction, and some perspectives for the structure of field-theoretic models arising from our analysis are discussed in the Conclusions.
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Causal independence and the energy-level density of states in local quantum field theory
Within the general framework of local quantum field theory a physically motivated condition on the energy-level density of well-localized states is proposed and discussed. It is shown that any model satisfying this condition obeys a strong form of the principle of causal (statistical) independence, which manifests itself in a specific algebraic structure of the local algebras (“split property”). It is also shown that the proposed condition holds in a free field theory.
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On Noether's theorem in quantum field theory
Abstract Extending the construction of local generators of symmetries in (S. Doplicher, Commun. Math. Phys.85 (1982), 73; S. Doplicher and R. Longo, Commun. Math. Phys.88 (1983), 399) to space-time and supersymmetries, we establish a weak form of Noether's theorem in quantum field theory. We also comment on the physical significance of the “split property,” underlying our analysis, and discuss some local aspects of superselection rules following from our results.
11137586
Quantum statistics and locality
It is shown that two observers have mutually commuting observables if they are able to prepare in each subsector of their common state space some state exhibiting no mutual correlations. This result establishes a heretofore missing link between statistical and locality (commensurability) properties of observables in relativistic quantum physics. The analysis is based on a discussion of coincidence experiments and leads to a quantitative measure of deviation from locality. Hence, it may be applied in intrinsically nonlocal theories such as string theory and field theory on noncommutative spacetime.
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The Current Algebra on the Circle as a Germ of Local Field Theories
Abstract Methods of algebraic quantum field theory are used to classify all field- and observable algebras, whose common germ is the U (1)-current algebra. An elementary way is described to compute characters of such algebras. It exploits the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger condition for Gibbs states..