2,863 research outputs found
Temperature dependent characterization of optical fibres for distributed temperature sensing in hot geothermal wells
This study was performed in order to select a proper fibre for the
application of a distributed temperature sensing system within a hot geothermal
well in Iceland. Commercially available high temperature graded index fibres
have been tested under in-situ temperature conditions. Experiments have been
performed with four different polyimide coated fibres, a fibre with an aluminum
coating and a fibre with a gold coating. To select a fibre, the relationship
between attenuation, temperature, and time has been analyzed together with SEM
micrographs. On the basis of these experiments, polyimide fibres have been
chosen for utilisation. Further tests in ambient and inert atmosphere have been
conducted with two polyimide coated fibres to set an operating temperature
limit for these fibres. SEM micrographs, together with coating colour changes
have been used to characterize the high temperature performance of the fibres.
A novel cable design has been developed, a deployment strategy has been worked
out and a suitable well for deployment has been selected.Comment: PACS: 42.81.Pa, 93.85.Fg, 47.80.Fg, 91.35.Dc, 07.20.Dt, 07.60.V
Stochastic background from extra-galactic double neutron stars
We present Monte Carlo simulations of the extra galactic population of
inspiralling double neutron stars, and estimate its contribution to the
astrophysical gravitational wave background, in the frequency range of ground
based interferometers, corresponding to the last thousand seconds before the
last stable orbit when more than 96 percent of the signal is released. We show
that sources at redshift z>0.5 contribute to a truly continuous background
which may be detected by correlating third generation interferometers.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures - proceeding of a talk given at the 11th GWDAW,
to appear in CQ
PNM27 FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (FAMS): EVALUATING THE LINGUISTIC VALIDITY OF 5 NEW LANGUAGES: PORTUGUESE, JAPANESE, HEBREW, RUSSIAN, AND KOREAN
Improving the sensitivity of future GW observatories in the 1-10 Hz band: Newtonian and seismic noise
The next generation gravitational wave interferometric detectors will likely be underground detectors to extend the GW detection frequency band to frequencies below the Newtonian noise limit. Newtonian noise originates from the continuous motion of the Earthâs crust driven by human activity, tidal stresses and seismic motion, and from mass density fluctuations in the atmosphere. It is calculated that on Earthâs surface, on a typical day, it will exceed the expected GW signals at frequencies below 10 Hz. The noise will decrease underground by an unknown amount. It is
important to investigate and to quantify this expected reduction and its effect on the sensitivity of future detectors, to plan for further improvement strategies. We report about some of these aspects. Analytical models can be used in the simplest scenarios to get a better qualitative and semi-quantitative understanding. As more complete modeling can be done numerically, we will discuss also some results obtained with a finite-element-based modeling tool. The method is verified by comparing its results with the results of analytic calculations for surface detectors. A key point about noise models is their initial parameters and conditions, which require detailed information about seismic motion in a real scenario. We will describe an effort to characterize the seismic activity at the Homestake mine which is currently in progress. This activity is specifically aimed to provide informations and to explore the site as a possible candidate for an underground observatory. Although the only compelling reason to put the interferometer underground is to reduce the Newtonian noise, we expect that the more stable underground environment will have a more general positive impact on the sensitivity.We will end this report with some considerations about seismic and suspension noise
Exact Calculation of , \
We present an exact calculation of the Wilson coefficients
associated with the dipole moment operators. We also give an estimate of the
branching ratio for . We find that higher dimensional
effects are under control within for .Comment: 12 pages (plain TeX), 2 postscript figures available upon request.
UM-TH-93-20 , IP-ASTP-29-9
Constraints From on the Left-Right Symmetric Model
Recent results from the CLEO Collaboration on both inclusive and exclusive
radiative decays are used to constrain the parameter space of two versions
of the Left-Right Symmetric Model. In the first scenario, when the left- and
right-handed Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing matrices are equal, ,
the radiative decay data is shown to lead to strong bounds on the
mixing angle that are quite insensitive to either the top quark or mass.
The second scenario examined is that of Gronau and Wakaizumi wherein -quark
decays proceed only via right-handed currents and and are quite
distinct. For this model, the combined constraints from Tevatron
searches, the lifetime, and radiative decays lead to a very highly
restricted allowed range for the mixing angle.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures(not included), LaTex, SLAC-PUB-642
The transition in softly broken supersymmetry
We study the effect of supersymmetric contributions to the effective quark
transition , including leading order QCD effects. We apply
the discussion to the decay . Even though one-particle
irreducible contributions could play a role, numerical cancelations make the
amplitude for the two-photon emission strongly correlated to the
amplitude which is sharply constrained by experiment. A quite general statement
follows: as long as non-standard physics effects appear only in the matching of
the Wilson coefficients of the standard effective operator basis, the
deviations from the standard model expectations of the decay rates induced by
are bound to follow closely the corresponding deviations
on . Effects of new physics are therefore bound to be small.Comment: Latex2e, RevTex, 22 pages, 8 eps figures, comments and references
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Scaling, asymptotic scaling and Symanzik improvement. Deconfinement temperature in SU(2) pure gauge theory
We report on a high statistics simulation of SU(2) pure gauge field theory at
finite temperature, using Symanzik action. We determine the critical coupling
for the deconfinement phase transition on lattices up to 8 x 24, using Finite
Size Scaling techniques. We find that the pattern of asymptotic scaling
violation is essentially the same as the one observed with conventional, not
improved action. On the other hand, the use of effective couplings defined in
terms of plaquette expectation values shows a precocious scaling, with respect
to an analogous analysis of data obtained by the use of Wilson action, which we
interpret as an effect of improvement.Comment: 43 pages ( REVTeX 3.0, self-extracting shell archive, 13 PostScript
figs.), report IFUP-TH 21/93 (2 TYPOS IN FORMULAS CORRECTED,1 CITATION
UPDATED,CITATIONS IN TEXT ADDED
Using to Probe Top Quark Couplings
Possible anomalous couplings of the top-quark to on-shell photons and gluons
are constrained by the recent results of the CLEO Collaboration on both
inclusive and exclusive radiative decays. We find that the process \bsg\
can lead to reasonable bounds on both the anomalous electric and magnetic
dipole moments of the top-quark, while essentially no limits are obtained on
the corresponding chromoelectric and chromomagnetic moments, which enter the
expression for the decay rate only through operator mixing.Comment: 10 pages plus 6 figures (available by request), LaTex,
ANL-HEP-PR-93-3
Exclusive B --> K^* l^+ l^-$ decay in the three Higgs doublet model
We study the differential Branching ratio and CP asymmetry for the exclusive
decay B --> K^* l^+ l^- in the three Higgs doublet model with additional global
O(2) symmetry in the Higgs sector. We analyse dilepton mass square q^2
dependency of the these quantities. Further, we study the effect of new
parameter of the global symmetry in the Higgs sector on the differential
branching ratio and CP asymmetry. We see that there exist an enhancement in the
branching ratio and a considerable CP violation for the relevant process. In
addition to this, we realize that fixing dilepton mass gives information about
the sign of the Wilson coefficient C_7^{eff}.Therefore, the future measurements
of the CP asymmetry for B\to K^* l^+ l^- decay will give a powerful information
about the sign of Wilson coefficient C_{7}^{eff} and new physics beyond the SM.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figure
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