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The Electric Neutrality of Matter
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The non-relativistic quark model
The classification scheme and decay properties of hadron states are investigated in the framework of the non relativistic quark model. The main successes and the unsolved difficulties of the model are presented indicating the future work which could be done to understand and exploit the non-relativistic quark ideas.РезюмеИсследованы схема классификации и распадные свойства адронов в рамках статической модели кварков. Изложены главные успехи и нерешенные проблемы модели, указывая задачи, которые должны быть решены для лучшего понимания и использования нерелятивистских идей.
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SEARCH FOR QUARKS WITH THE FERROMAGNETIC LEVITATION ELECTROMETER
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The relation between QCD and constituent quark models
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New Results in the Search of Quarks in Matter by the Magnetic Levitation Electrometer
Abstract The results of many runs performed levitating in succession several spheres without opening the levitation chamber show the existence of an additional (magneto-electric) force acting on the sphere. Ignoring this force in the analysis of the data produces “spurious” fractional charges.
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Comment on "Chiral symmetry and the intrinsic structure of the nucleon"- by D.B.Leinweber,A.W.Thomas and R.D.Young
Some remarks are presented on a recent paper (Leinweber,Thomas and Young, Phys.Rev.Lett. 86, 5011, 2001). In particular a statement of the above paper on the fact that the ratio between the magnetic moments of proton and neutron should remain constant at -3/2, independent of the change of the quark mass is discussed on the basis of the general parameterization.
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THE CERN DETECTOR SAFETY SYSTEM FOR THE LHC EXPERIMENTS
The Detector Safety System (DSS), developed at CERN in common for the four LHC experiments under the auspices of the Joint Controls Project (JCOP), will be responsible for assuring the equipment protection for these experiments. Therefore, the DSS requires a high degree of both availability and reliability. It is composed of a Front-end and a Back-end part. The Front-end is based on a redundant Siemens PLC, to which the safetycritical part of the DSS task is delegated. The PLC Frontend is capable of running autonomously and of automatically taking predefined protective actions whenever required. It is supervised and configured by the CERN-chosen PVSS SCADA system via a Siemens OPC server. The supervisory layer provides the operator with a status display and with limited online reconfiguration capabilities. Configuration of the code running in the PLCs is completely data driven via the contents of a “Configuration Database”. Thus, the DSS can easily adapt to the different and constantly evolving requirements of the LHC experiments during their construction, commissioning and exploitation phases. Currently, the DSS is being installed and commissioned for the construction of the CMS and LHCb experiments.
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REAL-TIME MONITORING OF BEAM-BEAM MODES AT LEP
By slightly exciting one of two colliding bunches in LEP, it is possible to enhance the eigenfrequencies of the resonant system of the two bunches coupled by the space charge force. The LEP Qmeter has been adapted to detect, among these excited frequencies, the so called - and - modes, whose distance is proportional to the luminosity. A real time display of these quantities provides the Operators with an effective way of finely optimizing the luminosity.
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Multiturn Measurements at the CERN SPS
The CERN SPS multiturn facility, based on the new beam orbit measurement system MOPOS, enables the User to acquire the position of the beam at each beam position monitor (BPM) over a number of consecutive turns. When the multiturn acquisition is synchronised with a perturbation imposed on the beam (for instance a fast kick), useful information about the optics of the SPS and the dynamic behaviour of the beam can be extracted from the data. A measurement of the amplitude and phase of the betatron oscillation at each BPM can be used to compare the theoretical optics functions with the real ones, and possibly to detect localised errors. Differences between two such measurements can be used to study the dependence on a variable parameter (e.g. beam intensity, beam energy, etc.) and therefore indirectly measure quantities, like the impedance, distributed along the ring. Finally, due to the 90 degrees phase advance lattice, plotting the positions measured at two consecutive BPMs against each other gives information about the behaviour of the beam in the transverse phase space. Results of measurements performed at the CERN SPS are presented.
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Electron-positron collisions at 209 GeV in LEP
The Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN closed down in November 2000. During the year 2000 electron-positron collisions were established at centre-of-mass energies of up to 209 GeV. The energy reach of LEP was thus extended by another 7 GeV compared to the year 1999. At the same time the luminosity production was kept high and the total delivered luminosity for the year was 233 pb/sup -1/. High beam energy and high luminosity extended the discovery reach of LEP. The successful energy increase of LEP is analysed and the operation and performance in the regime of ultra-strong damping is described.
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The Software for the CERN Detector Safety System
The CERN Detector Safety System (DSS) has been developed to monitor the state of the LHC detectors and protect their components against emer gency situations which other less reliable systems could possibly fail to handle, or which were not co vered by any other system. The DSS consists of two main components: a PLC-based Front-End and a supervisor Back-End. The two parts communicate via the OPC mechanism. The Front-End is the core of the DSS, to which all the runtime safety-critical actions are delegated. These are encoded in an "Alarm-Action Matrix", that can be seen as a set of user-defined rules relating the Input Channels (analogue and digital senso rs) to the Output Channels (actuators, typically on/off interlock switches). One of the user requireme nts is the possibility of modifying these rules at any time, without stopping the system. New Input and Output Channels can also be incrementally added to the system without perturbing the prev iously existing part. To fulfil these requirements without detriment to the safety-critical part, the PLC software has been designed in a completely datadriven way. This approach allowed the PLC code to be kept as simple as possible and independent from the user-defined rules. The rules, as well as the parameteri zation for the Input and Output Channels, are stored into PLC "datablocks", whose contents drive the execution of the PLC code. The supervisor Back-End, based on the CERN-chosen PVSS SCADA system, represents both the “Configuration Interface” and the “Operator Display” for the DSS. The User is able to define and parameterize Input and Output Channels and to modify the set of rules defining the Alarm-Action Matrix. These modifications, after passing some c onsistency checks, are accepted by the Back-End, permanently stored in PVSS "datapoints", and finally mirrored into the PLC datablocks via the OPC mechanism. In addition to this, the Back-End is constantly informed, again through OPC, of any changes in the status of the monitored system . The Back-End then displays all the relevant information to the User, both via an alarm screen and via an interactive synoptic system. This paper describes in greater details some of the ideas behind the design and the implementation of this system.