CMS physics technical design report : Addendum on high density QCD with heavy ions

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Nonrelativistic Arbitrary l -States of Quarkonium through Asymptotic Iteration Method

The energy eigenvalues with any l≠0 states and mass of heavy quark-antiquark system (quarkonium) are obtained by using Asymptotic Iteration Method in the view of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics, in which the quarks are considered as spinless for easiness and are bounded by Cornell potential. A semianalytical formula for energy eigenvalues and mass is achieved via the method in scope of the perturbation theory. The accuracy of this formula is checked by comparing the eigenvalues with the ones numerically obtained in this study and with exact ones in literature. Furthermore, semianalytical formula is applied to cc-, bb-, and cb- meson systems for comparing the masses with the experimental data

Performance studies of a full-length prototype for the CASTOR forward calorimeter at the CMS experiment

We present performance studies of a full-length prototype for the CASTOR quartz-tungsten sampling calorimeter, installed in the very forward region of the CMS experiment at the LHC. The response linearity and energy resolution, the uniformity, as well as the showers' spatial properties in the prototype have been studied with electrons, pions and muons of various energies. A special study was also carried out for testing the light-output with a 90-degree cut of the quartz plates of the calorimeter. The data were taken during the CASTOR test beam at CERN/SPS in 2007. © 2010 The Author(s)