Fluorocarbon evaporative cooling developments for the ATLAS pixel and semiconductor tracking detectors

Heat transfer coefficients 2-5.103 Wm-2K-1 have been measured in a 3.6 mm I.D. heated tube dissipating 100 Watts - close to the full equivalent power (~110 W) of a barrel SCT detector "stave" - over a range of power dissipations and mass flows in the above fluids. Aspects of full-scale evaporative cooling circulator design for the ATLAS experiment are discussed, together with plans for future development

New limits on D0 (1.865) production in proton-nucleus collisions at 400 GeV/c

We present final results of a sensitive search for new particles in [pi]+/-K[mnplus] effective mass spectra observed in proton-nucleus collisions at 400 GeV/c. We establish a limit for D0 (1.865) production B[pi]+[pi]- d[sigma]/dy ycm[approximate] -0.4. For D0 --> [pi]-K+ the limit is 290 nb/nucleon.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/22811/1/0000369.pd

Hadronic photon-photon interactions at high energies

Photon-photon collisions are investigated in the framework of the two-component Dual Parton Model. The model is shown to agree well to hadron production data from hadron-hadron and photon-hadron collisions. The multiparticle production in hadron-hadron, photon-hadron and photon-photon collisions as predicted by the model is compared. Strong differences are only found as function of the transverse momentum variable. The hadron production in photon-photon collisions at present and future electron-positron colliders is studied using photon spectra according to the equivalent photon approximation, according to beamstrahlung and according to backscattered laser radiation.Comment: 18 pages + 26 figures, latex with poscript figures uuencode