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Method of probing inner-structure of geophysical substance with the horizontal cosmic-ray muons and possible application to volcanic eruption prediction
Abstract One potential use of cosmic-ray muons arriving nearly horizontally along the earth is a probe of the inner-structure of a gigantic geophysical substance, such as a volcanic mountain. A simple detection system comprising a plastic scintillator hodoscope which is expandable to a larger scale was developed. The first successful measurement of the inner-structure of Mt. Tsukuba is described. The future perspective of the application of the present method towards the prediction of volcanic eruption is discussed.
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Muon catalyzed fusion experiments on muonic deuterium atom deceleration in thin solid deuterium films
Abstract Muon catalyzed fusion was investigated in a series of thin solid deuterium films by detecting protons from dd fusion. Two different contributions to the total fusion yield resulting from dμ atoms emitted from a primary hydrogen layer and from incident muons directly stopped in the deuterium film itself were observed. The thickness dependence of the fusion yield suggested the importance of molecular effects in dμ elastic scattering in D 2 .
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Radioactive Muonic Atom Studies with Intense Muon Beams
New intense muon beams with flux several orders of magnitude higher than at present muon facilities would allow many novel experimental studies that were until now statistically not feasible. The investigation of the nuclear properties of short‐lived nuclei using muonic atom spectroscopy would become possible. In this paper, the recent progress of a feasibility study at RIKEN‐RAL muon facility using the cold hydrogen film method to produce radioactive muonic atoms is being reported. The first experimental results have just been obtained with stable argon ions implanted in solid deuterium films.
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SEARCH FOR LORENTZ AND CPT VIOLATION EFFECTS IN MUON SPIN PRECESSION
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Measure of the spatial size for the monopole excitation in proton scattering
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Discovery of the repulsive energy shift of the kaonic hydrogen 1s state
Abstract The aim in this manuscript is to clarify the progress in understanding the nature of the K ¯ N interaction at the lowest energy, given by the recent kaonic hydrogen X-ray experiment at KEK [1]. We have observed a clear spectrum showing the kaonic hydrogen K α line, for the first time. The analysis gives the repulsive energy shift to be Δ E (1 s ) = −323 ± 63(statistical) ± 11 (systematic) eV and the energy width to be Λ(1 s ) = 407 ± 208 ± 100 eV. This result is consistent with analyses of the previous low-energy scattering data and resolves the long-standing kaonic hydrogen puzzle.
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A Modified Glauber Approximation and the Formation of Shock Waves in High-Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
Coherent features in high energy heavy ion collisions are investigated from a microscopic viewpoint. A modified Glauber approximation which enables us to include the slowing down of the relative motion between the centers of masses of both nuclei is presented. The generation of the shock wave is shown to be suppressed by this slowing down effect. As an application inclusive nucleon spectra and the two-particle correlation are calculated in the case of Ne+U collision at 400 Me V! A. l ) (which are referred to as I hereafter) we investigated a possible microscopic mechanism for shock wave generation in high energy heavy ion collisions. The nuclear excitation induced by a nuclear collision was de­ scribed in terms of phonons. It was shown that as the collision proceeds phonons are coherently excited and show a characteristic feature of the shock wave. In this treatment the action of the projectile on the target was replaced by that of a potential moving with a constant velocity. We may construct this potential by superposing the nucleonic potential between projectile nucleons and the target ones with amplitudes of nucleonic states in both nuclei. To treat both systems equally from a microscopic viewpoint, one of the authors (M.I) proposed a formalism which is essentially an application of the Glauber approximation to the process. 2 ) The assembly of nucleons in the projectile nucleus was assumed to move in a group during the collision and the Glauber approximation was applied to the relative motion between the centers of masses of the projectile and the target nucleus. In this treatment the deceleration of the relative motion due to the nuclear excitation was not taken into account. In this paper we extend the Glauber approximation so as to take into account the slowing down of the relative motion. In § 2 the formulation of the modified Glauber approximation is presented.
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A Rotating Bag Model for Hadrons. II Regge Trajectories of Baryons
The MIT bag model is modified in order to describe rotational motion of hadrons. It has a kind of «diatomic molecular» structure. The rotational excitation of the MIT bag is described by the polarized two colored sub-bags which are connected with each other by the gluon flux. One sub-bag contains a quark and the other has an antiquark for mesons. For baryons, the latter sub-bag contains the remaining two quarks instead of the antiquark. The Regge trajectories of hadrons are explained qualitatively by our new model with the usual MIT bag parameters. In particular the Regge slopes are reproduced fairly well. It is also pointed out that the gluon flux plays an important role in the rotational motion of hadrons
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A Variational Foundation of the Improper Hartree-Bogoliubov Formalism
We give a variational foundation for the improper Hartree-Bogoliubov (HE) formalism by which odd fermion systems can be treated in an analogous way as the formalism of even fermion systems. Because of the difference of the normalization for the improper HE amplitudes from that for the proper ones, the improper HE equation cannot be diagonalized with the conventional BCS ansatz. We decompose the improper liB amplitudes into the amplitudes describing paired and unpaired modes of fermions and the variational procedure is applied to them. We obtain a new form of the improper HE equation with respect to the paired mode amplitudes. It includes the effects of unpaired modes but can be diago­ nalized with the conventional manner.
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Magnetic Field Measurement System for the SuperKEKB Final Focus Superconducting Magnets
SuperKEKB final beam focusing system consists of different types of superconducting magnets: 8 quadrupole magnets, 4 solenoids and 43 corrector coils. In order to measure the field performances of the magnets and the coils, KEK prepared one set of harmonic coil system during the production stage in a factory, and two sets of harmonic coil systems for the cold tests at 4K for the vertical cryostat test stand in KEK. In this paper, we report these magnetic field measurement systems
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Mass spectra and decay widths of hadrons in the relativistic string model
A relativistic string model for hadrons is presented. The center-of-mass motion is separated correctly. The vibrational and rotational motions of the string are solved by using the WKB approximation. Moreover, their decay widths are calculated by taking into account the pair creation of quarks inside the string. Both the mass spectra and the decay widths are reproduced fairly well in comparison with experimental data.