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An Integrated and Collaborative Approach for NASA Earth Science Data
Earth science research requires coordination and collaboration across multiple disparate science domains. Data systems that support this research are often as disparate as the disciplines that they support. These distinctions can create barriers limiting access to measurements, which could otherwise enable cross-discipline Earth science. NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) is continuing to bridge the gap between discipline-centric data systems with a coherent and transparent system of systems that offers up to date and engaging science related content, creates an active and immersive science user experience, and encourages the use of EOSDIS earth data and services. The new Earthdata Coherent Web (ECW) project encourages cohesiveness by combining existing websites, data and services into a unified website with a common look and feel, common tools and common processes. It includes cross-linking and cross-referencing across the Earthdata site and NASA's Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAAC), and by leveraging existing EOSDIS Cyber-infrastructure and Web Service technologies to foster re-use and to reduce barriers to discovering Earth science data (http://earthdata.nasa.gov)
Testing the Higgs Mechanism in the Lepton Sector with multi-TeV e+e- Collisions
Multi-TeV e+e- collisions provide with a large enough sample of Higgs bosons
to enable measurements of its suppressed decays. Results of a detailed study of
the determination of the muon Yukawa coupling at 3 TeV, based on full detector
simulation and event reconstruction, are presented. The muon Yukawa coupling
can be determined with a relative accuracy of 0.04 to 0.08 for Higgs bosons
masses from 120 GeV to 150 GeV, with an integrated luminosity of 5 inverse-ab.
The result is not affected by overlapping two-photon background.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to J Phys G.: Nucl. Phy
Background Rejection in the DMTPC Dark Matter Search Using Charge Signals
The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) collaboration is developing
low-pressure gas TPC detectors for measuring WIMP-nucleon interactions. Optical
readout with CCD cameras allows for the detection for the daily modulation in
the direction of the dark matter wind, while several charge readout channels
allow for the measurement of additional recoil properties. In this article, we
show that the addition of the charge readout analysis to the CCD allows us too
obtain a statistics-limited 90% C.L. upper limit on the rejection factor
of for recoils with energies between 40 and 200
keV. In addition, requiring coincidence between charge signals
and light in the CCD reduces CCD-specific backgrounds by more than two orders
of magnitude.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures. For proceedings of DPF 2011 conferenc
Cosmological Production of Vector Bosons and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
The intensive cosmological creation of vector W, Z- bosons in the
cosmological model with the relative units is considered. Field theoretical
models are studied, which predict that the CMB radiation and the baryon matter
in the universe can be products of decay and annihilation processes of these
primordial bosons.Comment: 31 pages, 1 figur
Is it possible to estimate the Higgs Mass from the CMB Power Spectrum?
General Relativity and Standard Model are considered as a theory of dynamical
scale symmetry with definite initial data compatible with the accepted Higgs
mechanism. In this theory the Early Universe behaves like a factory of
electroweak bosons and Higgs scalars, and it gives a possibility to identify
three peaks in the Cosmic Microwave Background power spectrum with the
contributions of photonic decays and annihilation processes of primordial
Higgs, W, and Z bosons in agreement with the QED coupling constant, Weinberg's
angle, and Higgs' particle mass of about 118 GeV.Comment: version to appear in Yadernaya Fizik
First Dark Matter Search Results from a Surface Run of the 10-L DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Detector
The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) is a low pressure (75 Torr
CF4) 10 liter detector capable of measuring the vector direction of nuclear
recoils with the goal of directional dark matter detection. In this paper we
present the first dark matter limit from DMTPC. In an analysis window of 80-200
keV recoil energy, based on a 35.7 g-day exposure, we set a 90% C.L. upper
limit on the spin-dependent WIMP-proton cross section of 2.0 x 10^{-33} cm^{2}
for 115 GeV/c^2 dark matter particle mass.Comment: accepted for publication in Physics Letters
The Tevatron at the Frontier of Dark Matter Direct Detection
Direct detection of dark matter (DM) requires an interaction of dark matter
particles with nucleons. The same interaction can lead to dark matter pair
production at a hadron collider, and with the addition of initial state
radiation this may lead to mono-jet signals. Mono-jet searches at the Tevatron
can thus place limits on DM direct detection rates. We study these bounds both
in the case where there is a contact interaction between DM and the standard
model and where there is a mediator kinematically accessible at the Tevatron.
We find that in many cases the Tevatron provides the current best limit,
particularly for light dark matter, below 5 GeV, and for spin dependent
interactions. Non-standard dark matter candidates are also constrained. The
introduction of a light mediator significantly weakens the collider bound. A
direct detection discovery that is in apparent conflict with mono-jet limits
will thus point to a new light state coupling the standard model to the dark
sector. Mono-jet searches with more luminosity and including the spectrum shape
in the analysis can improve the constraints on DM-nucleon scattering cross
section.Comment: 20 pages, 8 figures, final version in JHE
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