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A Novel Use of Light Guides and Wavelength Shifting Plates for the Detection of Scintillation Photons in Large Liquid Argon Detectors
Scintillation light generated as charged particles traverse large liquid
argon detectors adds valuable information to studies of weakly-interacting
particles. This paper uses both laboratory measurements and cosmic ray data
from the Blanche dewar facility at Fermilab to characterize the efficiency of
the photon detector technology developed at Indiana University for the single
phase far detector of DUNE. The efficiency of this technology was found to be
0.48% at the readout end when the detector components were characterized with
laboratory measurements. A second determination of the efficiency using cosmic
ray tracks is in reasonable agreement with the laboratory determination. The
agreement of these two efficiency determinations supports the result that
minimum ionizing muons generate photons/MeV as
they cross the LAr volume.Comment: Accepted version (without final editorial corrections
Far-infrared vibrational properties of linear C60 polymers: A comparison between neutral and charged materials
We report the far-infrared transmittance spectrum of a pure phase of the orthorhombic high-temperature and high-pressure C-60 polymer and compare the results with a previously published spectrum of the charged RbC60 orthorhombic polymer. Assignments for both spectra are made with the aid of first-principles quantum molecular dynamics simulations of the two materials. We find that the striking spectral differences between the neutral and charged linear fullerene polymers can be fully accounted for by charge effects on the C-60 ball
Reciprocal space mapping of magnetic order in thick epitaxial MnSi films
We report grazing incidence small angle neutron scattering (GISANS) and
complementary off-specular neutron reflectometry (OSR) of the magnetic order in
a single-crystalline epitaxial MnSi film on Si(111) in the thick film limit.
Providing a means of direct reciprocal space mapping, GISANS and OSR reveal a
magnetic modulation perpendicular to the films under magnetic fields parallel
and perpendicular to the film, where additional polarized neutron reflectometry
(PNR) and magnetization measurements are in excellent agreement with the
literature. Regardless of field orientation, our data does not suggest the
presence of more complex spin textures, notably the formation of skyrmions.
This observation establishes a distinct difference with bulk samples of MnSi of
similar thickness under perpendicular field, in which a skyrmion lattice
dominates the phase diagram. Extended x-ray absorption fine structure
measurements suggest that small shifts of the Si positions within the
unstrained unit cell control the magnetic state, representing the main
difference between the films and thin bulk samples
Experimental data on the single spin asymmetry and their interpretations by the chromo-magnetic string model
An attempt is made to interpret the various existing experimental data on the
single spin asymmetries in inclusive pion production by the polarized proton
and antiproton beams. As the basis of analysis the chromo-magnetic string model
is used. A whole measured kinematic region is covered. The successes and fails
of such approach are outlined. The possible improvements of model are
discussed.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figure
Singlet-Triplet Excitations in the Unconventional Spin-Peierls System TiOBr
We have performed time-of-flight neutron scattering measurements on powder
samples of the unconventional spin-Peierls compound TiOBr using the
fine-resolution Fermi chopper spectrometer (SEQUOIA) at the SNS. These
measurements reveal two branches of magnetic excitations within the
commensurate and incommensurate spin-Peierls phases, which we associate with n
= 1 and n = 2 triplet excitations out of the singlet ground state. These
measurements represent the first direct measure of the singlet-triplet energy
gap in TiOBr, which is determined to be Eg = 21.2 +/- 1.0 meV.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted for publicatio
How important are next-to-leading order models in predicting strange particle spectra in p+p collisions at STAR ?
STAR has measured a variety of strange particle species in p + p collisions
at = 200 GeV. These high statistics data are ideal for comparing to
existing leading- and next-to-leading order perturbative QCD (pQCD) models.
Next-to-leading (NLO) models have been successful in describing inclusive
hadron production using parameterized fragmentation functions (FF) for quarks
and gluons. However, in order to describe identied strange particle spectra at
NLO, knowledge of flavor separated FF is essential. Such FF have recently been
parameterized using data by the OPAL experiment and allow for the first time to
perform NLO calculation for strange baryons. In fact, comparing the STAR Lambda
data with these calculations allow to put a constraint on the gluon
fragmentation function. We show that the Leading-order (LO) event generator
PYTHIA has to be tuned significantly to reproduce the STAR identified strange
particle data. In particular, it fails to describe the observed enhancement of
baryon-to-meson ratio at intermediate pT (2-6 GeV/c). In heavy-ion (HI)
collisions this observable has been extensively compared with models and shows
a strong dependency on collision centrality or parton density. In the HI
context the observed enhancement has been explained by recent approaches in
terms of parton coalescense and recombination models.Comment: 5 pages, HotQuarks 2006 conference proceeding
RHIC physics overview
The results from data taken during the last several years at the Relativistic
Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) will be reviewed in the paper. Several selected
topics that further our understanding of constituent quark scaling, jet
quenching and color screening effect of heavy quarkonia in the hot dense medium
will be presented. Detector upgrades will further probe the properties of Quark
Gluon Plasma. Future measurements with upgraded detectors will be presented.
The discovery perspectives from future measurements will also be discussed.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, invited review article, published by Frontier of
Physics in Chin
Darboux Coordinates and Liouville-Arnold Integration in Loop Algebras
Darboux coordinates are constructed on rational coadjoint orbits of the
positive frequency part \wt{\frak{g}}^+ of loop algebras. These are given by
the values of the spectral parameters at the divisors corresponding to
eigenvector line bundles over the associated spectral curves, defined within a
given matrix representation. A Liouville generating function is obtained in
completely separated form and shown, through the Liouville-Arnold integration
method, to lead to the Abel map linearization of all Hamiltonian flows induced
by the spectral invariants. Serre duality is used to define a natural
symplectic structure on the space of line bundles of suitable degree over a
permissible class of spectral curves, and this is shown to be equivalent to the
Kostant-Kirillov symplectic structure on rational coadjoint orbits. The general
construction is given for or , with
reductions to orbits of subalgebras determined as invariant fixed point sets
under involutive automorphisms. The case is shown to reproduce
the classical integration methods for finite dimensional systems defined on
quadrics, as well as the quasi-periodic solutions of the cubically nonlinear
Schr\"odinger equation. For , the method is applied to the
computation of quasi-periodic solutions of the two component coupled nonlinear
Schr\"odinger equation.Comment: 61 pg
Testing the Master Constraint Programme for Loop Quantum Gravity III. SL(2,R) Models
This is the third paper in our series of five in which we test the Master
Constraint Programme for solving the Hamiltonian constraint in Loop Quantum
Gravity. In this work we analyze models which, despite the fact that the phase
space is finite dimensional, are much more complicated than in the second
paper: These are systems with an SL(2,\Rl) gauge symmetry and the
complications arise because non -- compact semisimple Lie groups are not
amenable (have no finite translation invariant measure). This leads to severe
obstacles in the refined algebraic quantization programme (group averaging) and
we see a trace of that in the fact that the spectrum of the Master Constraint
does not contain the point zero. However, the minimum of the spectrum is of
order which can be interpreted as a normal ordering constant arising
from first class constraints (while second class systems lead to normal
ordering constants). The physical Hilbert space can then be be obtained after
subtracting this normal ordering correction.Comment: 33 pages, no figure
Construction and Assembly of the Wire Planes for the MicroBooNE Time Projection Chamber
In this paper we describe how the readout planes for the MicroBooNE Time
Projection Chamber were constructed, assembled and installed. We present the
individual wire preparation using semi-automatic winding machines and the
assembly of wire carrier boards. The details of the wire installation on the
detector frame and the tensioning of the wires are given. A strict quality
assurance plan ensured the integrity of the readout planes. The different tests
performed at all stages of construction and installation provided crucial
information to achieve the successful realisation of the MicroBooNE wire
planes.Comment: 24 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication as Technical Report in
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