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Inclusive Diffraction at HERA
New precision measurements of inclusive diffractive deep-inelastic ep
scattering interactions, performed by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at the
HERA collider, are discussed. A new set of diffractive parton distributions,
determined from recent high precision H1 data, is presented.Comment: 5 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the 31st Intl. Conference on
High Energy Physics ICHEP 2002, Amsterdam, July 200
MICROMEGAS chambers for hadronic calorimetry at a future linear collider
Prototypes of MICROMEGAS chambers, using bulk technology and analog readout,
with 1x1cm2 readout segmentation have been built and tested. Measurements in
Ar/iC4H10 (95/5) and Ar/CO2 (80/20) are reported. The dependency of the
prototypes gas gain versus pressure, gas temperature and amplification gap
thickness variations has been measured with an 55Fe source and a method for
temperature and pressure correction of data is presented. A stack of four
chambers has been tested in 200GeV/c and 7GeV/c muon and pion beams
respectively. Measurements of response uniformity, detection efficiency and hit
multiplicity are reported. A bulk MICROMEGAS prototype with embedded digital
readout electronics has been assembled and tested. The chamber layout and first
results are presented
The impact of new neutrino DIS and Drell-Yan data on large-x parton distributions
New data sets have recently become available for neutrino and antineutrino
deep inelastic scattering on nuclear targets and for inclusive dimuon
production in pp pd interactions. These data sets are sensitive to different
combinations of parton distribution functions in the large-x region and,
therefore, provide different constraints when incorporated into global parton
distribution function fits. We compare and contrast the effects of these new
data on parton distribution fits, with special emphasis on the effects at large
x. The effects of the use of nuclear targets in the neutrino and antineutrino
data sets are also investigated.Comment: 24 pages, 13 figure
Production of orbitally excited vector mesons in diffractive DIS
Within the k_t-factorization framework, we study diffractive production of
orbitally excited vector mesons and compare it with the production of radial
excitations, focusing on the rho(1450)/rho(1700) case. At small Q^2, orbital
excitation of light quarkonia is found to dominate over radial excitations in
diffractive production. We predict strong suppression of the production of
orbital excitations by longitudinal photons, which leads to very small
sigma_L/sigma_T ratio. At small Q^2, the s-channel helicity violating
transitions contribute \sim 10-15% of the transverse cross section and \sim 50%
of the longitudinal cross section. We also study mixing between radial and
orbital excitations and determine strategies towards clarification of
S-wave/D-wave assignment to rho(1450) and rho(1700) mesons. The results are
compared with the experimental data available, and predictions for future
experiments are given.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
Spin Physics at Compass
COMPASS is a new fixed target experiment presently in operation at CERN. It
has the goal to investigate hadron structure and hadron spectroscopy by using
either muon or hadron beams. From measurements of various hadron asymmetries in
polarized muon - nucleon scattering it will be possible to determine the
contribution of the gluons to the nucleon spin. Main objective of the hadron
program is the search of exotic states, and glueballs in particular. This
physics programme is carried out with a two-stage magnetic spectrometer, with
particle identification and calorimetry in both stages, which has started
collecting physics data in 2002, and will run at the CERN SPS at least until
2010. Preliminary results from the 2002 run with a 160 GeV muon beam are
presented for several physics channels under investigation.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures. Invited paper at the 26th Course of the
"International School of Nuclear Physics": Lepton Scattering and the
Structure of Hadrons and Nuclei. Erice-Sicily: 16 - 24 September 2004. to be
published on "Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
Evidence for Factorization Breaking in Diffractive Low-Q^2 Dijet Production
We calculate diffractive dijet production in deep-inelastic scattering at
next-to-leading order of perturbative QCD, including contributions from direct
and resolved photons, and compare our predictions to preliminary data from the
H1 collaboration at HERA. In contrast to recent experimental claims, evidence
for factorization breaking is found only for resolved, and not direct, photon
contributions. No evidence is found for large normalization uncertainties in
diffractive parton densities. The results confirm theoretical expectations for
the (non-)cancellation of soft singularities in diffractive scattering as well
as previous results for (almost) real photoproduction.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Deep Exclusive Scattering and Generalized Parton Distributions : Experimental Review
Since the Generalized Parton Distribution theoretical framework was
introduced in the late 90's, a few published and numerous preliminary results
from Deep Exclusive Scattering (DES) have been extracted from non-dedicated
experiments at HERA and Jefferson Lab. We review most of these results, comment
on the ongoing dedicated research in this topic and conclude with the
expectations from the next generation of experiments in the near future.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, Baryons '04 proceeding
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Upper ocean climate of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the Holocene Insolation Maximum – a model study
ine thousand years ago (9 ka BP), the Northern Hemisphere experienced enhanced seasonality caused by an orbital configuration close to the minimum of the precession index. To assess the impact of this "Holocene Insolation Maximum" (HIM) on the Mediterranean Sea, we use a regional ocean general circulation model forced by atmospheric input derived from global simulations. A stronger seasonal cycle is simulated by the model, which shows a relatively homogeneous winter cooling and a summer warming with well-defined spatial patterns, in particular, a subsurface warming in the Cretan and western Levantine areas.
The comparison between the SST simulated for the HIM and a reconstruction from planktonic foraminifera transfer functions shows a poor agreement, especially for summer, when the vertical temperature gradient is strong. As a novel approach, we propose a reinterpretation of the reconstruction, to consider the conditions throughout the upper water column rather than at a single depth. We claim that such a depth-integrated approach is more adequate for surface temperature comparison purposes in a situation where the upper ocean structure in the past was different from the present-day. In this case, the depth-integrated interpretation of the proxy data strongly improves the agreement between modelled and reconstructed temperature signal with the subsurface summer warming being recorded by both model and proxies, with a small shift to the south in the model results.
The mechanisms responsible for the peculiar subsurface pattern are found to be a combination of enhanced downwelling and wind mixing due to strengthened Etesian winds, and enhanced thermal forcing due to the stronger summer insolation in the Northern Hemisphere. Together, these processes induce a stronger heat transfer from the surface to the subsurface during late summer in the western Levantine; this leads to an enhanced heat piracy in this region, a process never identified before, but potentially characteristic of time slices with enhanced insolation
Parton Distributions
I discuss our current understanding of parton distributions. I begin with the
underlying theoretical framework, and the way in which different data sets
constrain different partons, highlighting recent developments. The methods of
examining the uncertainties on the distributions and those physical quantities
dependent on them is analysed. Finally I look at the evidence that additional
theoretical corrections beyond NLO perturbative QCD may be necessary, what type
of corrections are indicated and the impact these may have on the
uncertainties.Comment: Invited talk at "XXI International Symposium on Lepton and Photon
Interactions at High Energies," (Fermilab, Chicago, August 2003). 12 pages,
21 figure
Micromegas for imaging hadronic calorimetry
The recent progress in R&D of the Micromegas detectors for hadronic
calorimetry including new engineering-technical solutions, electronics
development, and accompanying simulation studies with emphasis on the
comparison of the physics performance of the analog and digital readout is
described. The developed prototypes are with 2 bit digital readout to exploit
the Micromegas proportional mode and thus improve the calorimeter linearity. In
addition, measurements of detection efficiency, hit multiplicity, and energy
shower profiles obtained during the exposure of small size prototypes to
radioactive source quanta, cosmic particles and accelerator beams are reported.
Eventually, the status of a large scale chamber (1{\times}1 m2) are also
presented with prospective towards the construction of a 1 m3 digital
calorimeter consisting of 40 such chambers.Comment: 6 pages, 9 figures, CALOR2010 conferenc
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