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CYCLOTRON ORBITS: A 709 RAY-TRACE PROGRAM FOR CYLIN-DRICALLY SYMMETRIC MAGNETIC FIELDS
CYCLOTRON ORBITS is a 709 program for tracing secondary beams out of a cylindrically symmetric magnetic field. Development of a 6-by-6 transfer matrix allows one to couple to external quadrupole and bending magnets. (auth)
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ELASTICALLY SCATTERED POLARIZATION OF 40-MeV PROTONS FROM DEUTERIUM
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Production of High Transverse Energy Events in p - Nucleus Collisions at 400-GeV/c
High-transverse-energy events produced in pp collisions at 400 GeV/c were studied using the large-acceptance Fermilab multiparticle spectrometer. The cross sections for such interactions exhibit an exponential dependence on transverse energy with values of the slope increasing with the decreasing azimuthal acceptance of the trigger. The majority of events selected with full azimuthal acceptance are nonplanar; hence they do not show jet-like event structure. The fraction of planar events is small and remains constant as a function of transverse energy.
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Time variation of the fine structure constant driven by quintessence
There are indications from the study of quasar absorption spectra that the fine structure constant $\alpha$ may have been measurably smaller for redshifts $z>2.$ Analyses of other data ($^{149}$Sm fission rate for the Oklo natural reactor, variation of $^{187}$Re $\beta$-decay rate in meteorite studies, atomic clock measurements) which probe variations of $\alpha$ in the more recent past imply much smaller deviations from its present value. In this work we tie the variation of $\alpha$ to the evolution of the quintessence field proposed by Albrecht and Skordis, and show that agreement with all these data, as well as consistency with WMAP observations, can be achieved for a range of parameters. Some definite predictions follow for upcoming space missions searching for violations of the equivalence principle.
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Experimental signature for black hole production in neutrino air showers
The existence of extra degrees of freedom beyond the electroweak scale may allow the formation of black holes in nearly horizontal neutrino air showers. In this paper we examine the average properties of the light descendants of these black holes. Our analysis indicates that black hole decay gives rise to deeply penetrating showers with an electromagnetic component which differs substantially from that in conventional neutrino interactions, allowing a good characterization of the phenomenon against background. Naturally occurring black holes in horizontal neutrino showers could be detected and studied with the Auger air shower array. Since the expected black hole production rate at Auger is $> 1$ event/year, this cosmic ray observatory could be potentially powerful in probing models with extra dimensions and TeV-scale gravity.