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First beam collision in the KEKB
The first beam collision study was done in the KEKB double ring collider. Beam collision conditions were found by searching beam-beam deflection curves in a trial-and-error method. From these curves, beam sizes at IP and a luminosity was estimated.
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Experiences at the KEK B-factory vacuum system
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Direct electron acceleration by stochastic laser fields in the presence of self-generated magnetic fields.
A simple direct acceleration model is proposed, taking into account the stochastic phase disturbance of the coherent driving laser fields. A relativistic single particle simulation shows that plasma electrons are efficiently accelerated far above the ponderomotive energy. The energy and momentum distributions of the accelerated electrons are derived to examine the effects of the self-generated magnetic field on the characteristics of the electron beams. In addition to the beam collimation effect, the magnetic field is found to further enhance the electron acceleration, resulting in the generation of ultrahigh energy electrons.
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Recent progress of KEKB
We summarize the machine operation of KEKB during past one year focusing on progress for this period.
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Present Status of KEKB Vacuum System
The commissioning of KEKB (KEK B-factory) started in December 1998. The vacuum system has been working almost satisfactorily. The photon stimulated gas desorption coefficient of copper beam chamber is decreasing steadily and reached to about 2 - 4 × 10 -6
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Study of timing degradation and light attenuation in long plastic scintillation rods for time-of-flight counters in relativistic heavy ion experiments
Abstract We have studied the timing and light yield characteristics of long and thin scintillator samples of various sizes. Both the light yield and the time resolution degrade exponentially with respect to the distance from one end; the inverse slope parameters for the time resolutions are found to be twice those of the light yield. This is interpreted in terms of a photoelectron statistics picture, which can also explain the observed position dependence of time resolution for time-of-flight counters.
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Frequency Correlations of QPOs Based on a Disk Oscillation Model in Warped Disks
In previous papers, we proposed a model that high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in black-hole and neutron-star X-ray binaries are disk oscillations (inertial-acoustic and/or g-mode oscillations) resonantly excited on warped disks. In this paper we examine whether time variations of the QPOs and their frequenc yc orrelations observed in neutron-star X-ray binaries can be accounted for by this disk-oscillation model. By assuming that a warp has a time-dependent precession, we can well describe the observed frequency correlations among kHz QPOs and low-frequency QPOs over a wide range of frequencies.
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Differential cross sections for proton compton scattering at incident photon energies between 900 MeV and 1150 MeV
Abstract Differential cross sections of proton Compton scattering have been measured in the angular range between 50° and 130° at incident photon energies from 900 MeV to 1150 MeV. A sharp dip in the angular distribution found by a Bonn group at 110° in the photon energy region around 900 MeV is not observed in the present measurement. A new dip-bump structure is found at photon energies above 1050 MeV, which is similar to that for pion-nucleon scattering.
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An Attempt to Describe Frequency Correlations among kHz QPOs and HBOs by Two-Armed Nearly Vertical Oscillations
We examine whether the two-armed ($m=2$) vertical p-mode oscillations trapped in the innermost region of magnetized accretion disks with finite disk thickness can describe kHz QPOs and HBOs in LMXBs. First, we derive the frequency-frequency correlation of the two basic oscillations (both are fundamental modes in the vertical direction, but one is the fundamental and the other the first overtone in the radial direction), and compare it with the observed frequency correlation of twin kHz QPOs. Results show that the calculated frequency correlation can well describe observed correlation with reasonable values of parameters. Second, we examine whether the observed frequency correlation between kHz QPOs and HBO can be described by regarding HBO as the first overtone oscillation in the vertical direction (and the fundamental in the radial direction). The results suggest that i) innermost parts of disks on the horizontal branch are strongly diminished in their vertical thickness (presumably by hot coronae) and ii) the branch is roughly a sequence of variations of magnetic fields or disk temperature.
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The TOPAZ inner drift chamber
We have constructed a cylindrical drift chamber with anode and cathode delay-line readouts, which is the innermost tracking device of the TOPAZ detector. This inner drift chamber (IDC) is used for the tracking of charged particles in both rφ and rz planes. Fast track-finding logics have been developed for the event triggering. We describe the design, the construction and the performances of the IDC in the first beam run.
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Differential cross sections for photoemission of deuterons from the nitrogen nucleus
Abstract Momentum distributions for inclusive photoemission of deuterons from nitrogen have been measured at laboratory angles of 43° and 50°, and for maximum energies of the bremsstrahlung photon beam of 725, 775 and 825 MeV. The double differential cross sections of deuterons emitted from nitrogen are obtained for photon energies of 750 and 800 MeV and for laboratory angles of 43° and 50°. The photon energy is determined by the photon subtraction method. Results are examined by a π 0 photoproduction process off a quasi-deuteron in nitrogen ( γ ″d″→ π 0 d) and by a two-step process. The two-step process means the following: first, a nucleon is produced by a photo-pion production process from a quasi-free nucleon in the nitrogen nucleus ( γ ″N″→ π N); second, the nucleon produced at the first step picks up another nucleon in the nucleus and then a deuteron is emitted (N+A→d+anything).