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Recent NA48 results on rare kaon decays
Recent NA48 results from detailed studies of
and decay modes are presented. The results are based
on the data collected with the NA48 detector at the CERN SPS during the
1998-199 9 and 2000 data taking periods, respectively. Prospects for future
results on charged kaon decays are briefly described.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, Moriond QCD 2003 Conferenc
Overview of detector descriptions
The present overview describes the detector description frameworks implemented by the four LHC experiments. The main reviewed items include the detector geometry implementation, the usage of alignment constants in the simulation and the reconstruction, and the storage and retrieval of the alignment constants. The review concludes with a brief comparison of the experiment frameworks.
Application of avalanche photodiodes as a readout for scintillator tile-fiber systems
The application of reach-through avalanche photodiodes (R'APD) as a
photodetector for scintillator tiles has been investigated. The light collected
by WLS fibers (0.84mm and 1mm diameter) embedded in the scintillator has been
transmited to the 0.5mm2 active surface of APD by clear optical fibers and
optical connectors. A low noise charge sensitive preamplifier (approximately
400 electrons equivalent noise charge) has been used to gain the photodiode
signal. Various configurations of tile-fibre systems, suitable for CMS and LHCb
experiments at LHC have been studied using cosmic muons and muon beam at SPS at
CERN. In order to optimize the performance of APD, measurments in the
temperature range from -10C to +25C have been done. The MIP detection
efficiency and electron/MIP separation have been estimated in order to
determine applicability of the readout for LHCb preshower.Comment: 20 pages,13 figure
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Emittance Control In Laser Wakefield Accelerator
In this paper we summarize our recent effort and results in theoretical study of the emittance issues of multistaged Laser Wakefield Accelerator (LWFA) in TeV energy range, In such an energy regime the luminosity and therefore the emittance requirements become very stringent and tantamount to the success or failure of such an accelerator. The system of such a machine is very sensitive to jitters due to misalignment between the beam and the wakefield. In particular, the effect of jitters in the presence of a strong focusing wakefield and initial longitudinal phase space spread of the beam leads to severe transverse emittance degradation of the beam. To improve the emittance we introduce several methods: a mitigated wakefield focusing by working with a plasma channel, an approximately synchronous acceleration in a superunit setup, the >horn> model based on exactly synchronous acceleration achieved through plasma density variation and lastly an algorithm based on minimization of the final beam emittance to actively control the stage displacement of such an accelerator.Physic
Interactions of a boson in the component theory
The amplitudes for boson-boson and fermion-boson interactions are calculated
in the second order of perturbation theory in the Lobachevsky space. An
essential ingredient of the used model is the Weinberg's component
formalism for describing a particle of spin , recently developed
substantially. The boson-boson amplitude is then compared with the two-fermion
amplitude obtained long ago by Skachkov on the ground of the hamiltonian
formulation of quantum field theory on the mass hyperboloid, , proposed by Kadyshevsky. The parametrization of the amplitudes by
means of the momentum transfer in the Lobachevsky space leads to same spin
structures in the expressions of matrices for the fermion and the boson
cases. However, certain differences are found. Possible physical applications
are discussed.Comment: REVTeX 3.0 file. 12pp. Substantially revised version of IFUNAM
preprints FT-93-24, FT-93-3
Measurement of the branching ratio of the decay
From the 2002 data taking with a neutral kaon beam extracted from the
CERN-SPS, the NA48/1 experiment observed 97 candidates with a background contamination of events.
From this sample, the BR() is measured to be
First Observation and Measurement of the Decay K+- -> pi+- e+ e- gamma
Using the full data set of the NA48/2 experiment, the decay K+- -> pi+- e+ e-
gamma is observed for the first time, selecting 120 candidates with 7.3 +- 1.7
estimated background events. With K+- -> pi+- pi0D as normalisation channel,
the branching ratio is determined in a model-independent way to be Br(K+- ->
pi+- e+ e- gamma, m_eegamma > 260 MeV/c^2) = (1.19 +- 0.12_stat +- 0.04_syst) x
10^-8. This measured value and the spectrum of the e+ e- gamma invariant mass
allow a comparison with predictions of Chiral Perturbation Theory.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys.Lett.
Empirical parameterization of the K+- -> pi+- pi0 pi0 decay Dalitz plot
As first observed by the NA48/2 experiment at the CERN SPS, the \p0p0
invariant mass (M00) distribution from \kcnn decay shows a cusp-like anomaly
at M00=2m+, where m+ is the charged pion mass. An analysis to extract the pi pi
scattering lengths in the isospin I=0 and I=2 states, a0 and a2, respectively,
has been recently reported. In the present work the Dalitz plot of this decay
is fitted to a new empirical parameterization suitable for practical purposes,
such as Monte Carlo simulations of K+- -> pi+- pi0 pi0 decays.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures
Observation of the rare decay K_S -> pi^0mu^+mu^-
A search for the decay K_S -> pi^0mu^+mu^- has been made by the NA48/1
Collaboration at the CERN SPS accelerator. The data were collected during 2002
with a high-intensity K_S beam. Six events were found with a background
expectation of 0.22^+0.18_-0.11 event. Using a vector matrix element and unit
form factor, the measured branching ratio is B(K_S ->
pi^0mu^+mu^-)=[2.9^+1.5_-1.2(stat)+/-0.2(syst)]x10^{-9}.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. To be published in Physics Letters
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