735 research outputs found

    The Antares Neutrino Telescope and Multi-Messenger Astronomy

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    Antares is currently the largest neutrino telescope operating in the Northern Hemisphere, aiming at the detection of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources. Such observations would provide important clues about the processes at work in those sources, and possibly help solve the puzzle of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. In this context, Antares is developing several programs to improve its capabilities of revealing possible spatial and/or temporal correlations of neutrinos with other cosmic messengers: photons, cosmic rays and gravitational waves. The neutrino telescope and its most recent results are presented, together with these multi-messenger programs.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures. Proceedings of the 14th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (GWDAW-14) in Roma - January 26th-29th, 201

    Age Changes in the Distribution of Visual Attention

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    Response latency and accuracy in visual word recogniton

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    Neutron charge form factor at large q2q^2

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    The neutron charge form factor GEn(q)G_{En}(q) is determined from an analysis of the deuteron quadrupole form factor FC2F_{C2} data. Recent calculations, based on a variety of different model interactions and currents, indicate that the contributions associated with the uncertain two-body operators of shorter range are relatively small for FC2F_{C2}, even at large momentum transfer qq. Hence, GEn(q)G_{En}(q) can be extracted from FC2F_{C2} at large q2q^2 without undue systematic uncertainties from theory.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure

    Point-Form Analysis of Elastic Deuteron Form Factors

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    Point-form relativistic quantum mechanics is applied to elastic electron-deuteron scattering. The deuteron is modeled using relativistic interactions that are scattering-equivalent to the nonrelativistic Argonne v18v_{18} and Reid '93 interactions. A point-form spectator approximation (PFSA) is introduced to define a conserved covariant current in terms of single-nucleon form factors. The PFSA is shown to provide an accurate description of data up to momentum transfers of 0.5 GeV2{\rm GeV}^2, but falls below the data at higher momentum transfers. Results are sensitive to the nucleon form factor parameterization chosen, particularly to the neutron electric form factor.Comment: RevTex, 31 pages, 1 table, 13 figure

    Radiative corrections to polarization observables in elastic electron-deuteron scattering in leptonic variables

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    The model--independent QED radiative corrections to polarization observables in elastic scattering of unpolarized and longitudinally--polarized electron beam by the deuteron target have been calculated in leptonic variables. The experimental setup when the deuteron target is arbitrarily polarized is considered and the procedure for applying derived results to the vector or tensor polarization of the recoil deuteron is discussed. The basis of the calculations consists of the account for all essential Feynman diagrams which results in the form of the Drell-Yan representation for the cross-section and use of the covariant parametrization of the deuteron polarization state. The numerical estimates of the radiative corrections are given for the case when event selection allows the undetected particles (photons and electron-positron pairs) and the restriction on the lost invariant mass is used.Comment: 43 pages,3 figures. To be published in ZhTEF. revised 14.02.2012. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:nucl-ex/0002003 by other author

    Measurements of electron-proton elastic cross sections for 0.4<Q2<5.5(GeV/c)20.4 < Q^2 < 5.5 (GeV/c)^2

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    We report on precision measurements of the elastic cross section for electron-proton scattering performed in Hall C at Jefferson Lab. The measurements were made at 28 unique kinematic settings covering a range in momentum transfer of 0.4 << Q2Q^2 << 5.5 (GeV/c)2(\rm GeV/c)^2. These measurements represent a significant contribution to the world's cross section data set in the Q2Q^2 range where a large discrepancy currently exists between the ratio of electric to magnetic proton form factors extracted from previous cross section measurements and that recently measured via polarization transfer in Hall A at Jefferson Lab.Comment: 17 pages, 18 figures; text added, some figures replace

    Spin-Momentum Correlations in Quasi-Elastic Electron Scattering from Deuterium

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    We report on a measurement of spin-momentum correlations in quasi-elastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons with an energy of 720 MeV from vector-polarized deuterium. The spin correlation parameter AedVA^V_{ed} was measured for the 2H(e,ep)n^2 \vec{\rm H}(\vec e,e^\prime p)n reaction for missing momenta up to 350 MeV/cc at a four-momentum transfer squared of 0.21 (GeV/c)2^2. The data give detailed information about the spin structure of the deuteron, and are in good agreement with the predictions of microscopic calculations based on realistic nucleon-nucleon potentials and including various spin-dependent reaction mechanism effects. The experiment demonstrates in a most direct manner the effects of the D-state in the deuteron ground-state wave function and shows the importance of isobar configurations for this reaction.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. for publicatio
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