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Review of Final LEP Results or A Tribute to LEP
After a comment on the performance of LEP some highlights of the LEP1 and
LEP2 physics programmes are reviewed. The talk concentrates on the precision
measurements at the Z resonance, two fermion production above the Z, W+W-
production, ZZ production, indirect limits on the Higgs mass, LEP contributions
to the exploration of the CKM matrix, and on the LEP measurements of alpha_s.Comment: Proceedings of the XX International Symposium on Lepton and Photon
Interactions at High Energies Rome, Italy, July 200
The Modern FPGA as Discriminator, TDC and ADC
Recent generations of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become
indispensible tools for complex state machine control and signal processing,
and now routinely incorporate CPU cores to allow execution of user software
code. At the same time, their exceptional performance permits low-power
implementation of functionality previously the exclusive domain of dedicated
analog electronics. Specific examples presented here use FPGAs as
discriminator, time-to-digital (TDC) and analog-to-digital converter (ADC). All
three cases are examples of instrumentation for current or future astroparticle
experiments.Comment: 7 pages, v3 minor JINST editorial correction
Triggering on hard probes in heavy ion collisions with CMS
We present a study of the CMS trigger system in heavy-ion collisions.
Concentrating on two physics channels, dimuons from decays of quarkonia and
single jets, we evaluate a possible trigger strategy for Pb+Pb running that
relies on event selection solely in the High-Level Trigger (HLT). The study is
based on measurements of the timing performance of the offline algorithms and
event-size distributions using full simulations. Using a trigger simulation
chain, we compare the physics reach for the jet and dimuon channels using
online selection in the HLT to minimum bias running. The results demonstrate
the crucial role the HLT will play for CMS heavy-ion physics.Comment: 4 pages, 4 fugures, contribution to QM'06 conferenc
Particle Flow Calorimetry at the ILC
One of the most important requirements for a detector at the ILC is good jet
energy resolution. It is widely believed that the particle flow approach to
calorimetry is the key to achieving the goal of 0.3/sqrt(E[GeV]). This paper
describes the current performance of the PandoraPFA particle flow algorithm.
For 45 GeV jets in the Tesla TDR detector concept, the ILC jet energy
resolution goal is reached. At higher energies the jet energy resolution
becomes worse and can be described by the empirical expression: sigma_E/E ~
0.265/sqrt(E[GeV]) + 1.2x10^{-4}E[GeV].Comment: 5 pages, 2 .eps figures, to appear in Proc. LCWS06, Bangalore, March
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Remarks Concerning the Study of Four-Jet Events from Hadronic Decays of the Z0
The angular correlations of four-jet events from hadronic decays of the Z0
have been studied in the past mainly to extract from them the fundamental
constants of quantum chromodynamics called colour factors. Previous studies
have used all the available phase-space in order to maximize statistics. In
this note we want to point out the possibility that significant differences
between experiment and theory in restricted regions of phase-space might have
escaped detection. Such differences could be a harbinger of the existence of
new particles. Some preliminary results are presented.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
A QCD analysis of diffractive deep-inelastic scattering data
We perform a novel type of analysis of diffractive deep-inelastic scattering
data, in which the input parton distributions of the Pomeron are parameterised
using the perturbative QCD expressions. In particular, we treat individually
the components of the Pomeron of different size. We are able to describe
simultaneously both the recent ZEUS and H1 diffractive data. In addition to the
usual two-gluon model for the perturbative Pomeron, we allow for the
possibility that it may be made from two sea quarks.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures. Version published in Eur. Phys. J.
Nucleon form factors, B-meson factories and the radiative return
The feasibility of a measurement of the electric and magnetic nucleon form
factors at -meson factories through the radiative return is studied. Angular
distributions allow a separation of the contributions from the two form
factors. The distributions are presented for the laboratory and the hadronic
rest frame, and the advantages of different coordinate systems are
investigated. It is demonstrated that values up to 8 or even 9 GeV
are within reach. The Monte Carlo event generator PHOKHARA is extended to
nucleon final states, and results are presented which include Next-to-Leading
Order radiative corrections from initial-state radiation. The impact of angular
cuts on rates and distributions is investigated and the relative importance of
radiative corrections is analysed.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figures. Final version to appear in Eur. Phys. J.
Unintegrated parton distributions and inclusive jet production at HERA
We describe how unintegrated parton distributions can be calculated from
conventional integrated distributions. We extend and improve the 'last-step'
evolution approach, and explain why doubly-unintegrated parton distributions
are necessary. We generalise k_t-factorisation to (z,k_t)-factorisation. We
apply the formalism to inclusive jet production in deep-inelastic scattering,
mainly at leading-order, but we also study the extension to next-to-leading
order. We compare the predictions with recent HERA data.Comment: 32 pages, 11 figures. Version to appear in Eur. Phys. J.
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