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Calibration of the STAR Forward Time Projection Chamber with Krypton-83m
The principles of the calibration of a time projection chamber with radioactive Krypton-83 are explained. The calculation of gain correction factors and the methods of obtaining a precise energy calibration are illustrated. The properties and advantages of \nuc{83m}{Kr} are summarized and compared to other radioactive calibration sources. It was shown that the Krypton calibration for the STAR FTPC is feasible and recommendable although the pad geometry of the FTPC causes a considerable deterioration of the measured spectrum due to only partially detected charge clusters.
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Search for charmed particles with the heavy liquid bubble chamber BIBC
Abstract In a search for short lived particles with a high resolution C 3 F 8 bubble chamber and a streamer chamber, 21 charmed meson candidates produced by 340 GeV cπ − have been identified. The cross section for associated charm production is (28±11) μb per nucleon assuming a linear A -dependence. The mean lifetimes of the D mesons in units of 10 −13 s are τ( D 0 , D 0 ) = 4.1 −1.3 +2.6 ± 0.5, τ( D ± ) = 6.3 −2.3 4.8 ± 1.5 .
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Level-3 calorimeter resolution available for the Level-1 and Level-2 CDF triggers
As the Tevatron luminosity increases more sophisticated selections are required to be efficient in selecting rare events from a very huge background. To cope with this problem, CDF has pushed the Level-3 calorimeter algorithm resolutions up to Level-2 and, when possible, at Level-1, increasing efficiency and, at the same time, keeping under control the rates. This strategy increases the purity of the Level-2 and Level-1 samples, produces free-bandwidth that allows to reduce the thresholds. The global effect is an increase of the signal efficiency of important Tevatron Standard Model Higgs search channels (H → WW, ZH, WH). The L2 upgrade improves the cluster finding algorithm, the resolution of the Missing Transverse Energy (MET) and the SUM Transverse Energy (SUMET) calculations. The same Level-2 MET and SUMET improved resolution has been made available to the Level-1 system, exploiting the same hardware used for the Level-2 upgrade. The upgrade is based on the Pulsar board, a general purpose VME board developed at CDF and already used for upgrading both the Level-2 tracking and the Level-2 global decision crate. The Level-2 upgrade has been designed, built, tested and commissioned in six months. It was accepted as the default system for CDF in August 2007. The same Level-2 hardware can be used in such a way to provide the Level-1 calorimeter system of the same MET, SUMET resolution provided to Level-2. While in the upgraded Level-2 system the algorithms are executed in a commercial CPU within the typical Level-2 processing timing of 20 μs, in the upgraded Level-1 system, MET and SUMET are calculated by powerful FPGAs within 5 μs. The Level-1 upgrade is currently ongoing and in commissioning phase.We describe the CDF Level-2 and the new Level-1 calorimeter upgrades, the architecture and the trigger performances, with particular emphasis on a new calorimeter MET_JET-based trigger performances used for CDF Higgs search.
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Higgs Physics at CMS
Searches for the Higgs boson at CMS, based on the data collected in 2011 and 2012 at 7 and 8 TeV centre-of-mass energy, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5 and 20 fb −1 , are presented. The observed new boson is found to be consistent with the Standard Model Higgs boson in all investigated properties such as the spin and couplings to bosons and fermions. The measured mass of this new particle is 125.7 ± 0.3 (stat.) ± 0.3 (syst.) GeV.
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New constraints on the Polarization of Anomalous Microwave Emission in nearby molecular clouds
Anomalous microwave emission (AME) has been previously studied in two well-known molecular clouds and is thought to be due to electric dipole radiation from small spinning dust grains. It is important to measure the polarization properties of this radiation both for component separation in future cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments and also to constrain dust models. We have searched for linearly polarized radio emission associated with the ?� Ophiuchi and Perseus molecular clouds using WMAP 7-year data. We found no significant polarization within an aperture of 2�? diameter. The upper limits on the fractional polarization of spinning dust in the ?� Ophiuchi cloud are 1.7, 1.6 and 2.6 per cent (at 95 per cent confidence level) at K, Ka and Q bands, respectively. In the Perseus cloud we derived upper limits of 1.4, 1.9 and 4.7 per cent, at K, Ka and Q bands, respectively; these are similar to those found by L??pez-Caraballo et al. If AME at high Galactic latitudes has a similarly low level of polarization, this will simplify component separation for CMB polarization measurements. We can also rule out single domain magnetic dipole radiation as the dominant emission mechanism for the 20-40 GHz. The polarization levels are consistent with spinning dust models.
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Level-2 Calorimeter Trigger Upgrade at CDF
The CDF Run II level-2 calorimeter trigger is implemented in hardware and is based on a simple algorithm used in Run I. This system has worked well for Run II at low luminosity. However, as the Tevatron instantaneous luminosity increases, the limitation due to the simple algorithm starts to become clear. In this paper, we will present an upgrade path to the level-2 calorimeter trigger system at CDF. This upgrade approach is based on the Pulsar board, a general purpose VME board developed at CDF and used for upgrading both the level-2 tracking and the Level-2 global decision crate. This paper will describe the design, hardware and software implementation, as well as the advantages of this approach over the existing system.
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The CDF level 2 calorimetric trigger upgrade
Abstract CDF II upgraded the calorimeter trigger to cope with the higher detector occupancy due to the increased Tevatron instantaneous luminosity ( ∼ 2.8 × 10 32 cm - 2 s - 1 ) . While the original system was implemented in custom hardware and provided to the L2 trigger a limited-quality jet clustering performed using a reduced resolution measurement of the transverse energy in the calorimeter trigger towers, the upgraded system provides offline-quality jet reconstruction of the full resolution calorimeter data. This allows to keep better under control the dependence of the trigger rates on the instantaneous luminosity and to improve the efficiency and purity of the trigger selections. The upgraded calorimeter trigger uses the general purpose VME board Pulsar, developed at CDF II and already widely used to upgrade the L2 tracking and L2 decision systems. A battery of Pulsars is used to merge and send the calorimeter data to the L2 CPUs, where software-implemented algorithms perform offline-like clustering. In this paper we review the design and the performance of the upgraded system.