Photoluminescence studies of modulation doped coupled double quantum wells in magnetic fields

We have studied the photoluminescence spectra of a series of mudulation doped couple double quantum well structures in parallel and perpendicular magnetic fields to 62 tesla at 4K and 77K, for B{parallel}a, the spectra display distinct Landau level transitions which show anti-crossing with the e1-hh1 exciton. At high fields, the lowest conduction band-valence exciton approaches the extrapolated 0- 0 Landau level. About 25 Tesla, there is valence band mixing of the e1-lh1, e1-hh2, e1-hh1 transitions. The spectral peaks display a diamagnetic shift in low in-plane magnetic fields which become linear in high fields. At magnetic fields beyond 40T, spin splitting is observed for both B{parallel}z and B{perpendicular} geometries. The partial energy gap discovered in conductance measurements in in-plane fields was not conclusively observed using photoluminescence spectroscopy, although anomalies in the energy dependence of the lowest level with magnetic field were evident at similar field values

Commissioning of the CMS High-Level Trigger with Cosmic Rays

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Commissioning and Performance of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker with Cosmic Ray Muons

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Performance of CMS Muon Reconstruction in Cosmic-Ray Events

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Alignment of the CMS Silicon Tracker during Commissioning with Cosmic Rays

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Observation of Long-Range, Near-Side Angular Correlations in Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC

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The Spin Structure of the Nucleon

We present an overview of recent experimental and theoretical advances in our understanding of the spin structure of protons and neutrons.Comment: 84 pages, 29 figure

Spatial Resolution Attainable with Cathode Strip Chambers at the Trigger Level

A simple network of comparators applied to the strip signals of a cathode strip chamber allows quick hit localization to within a halfstrip width, or +/- a quarter-strip. A six-plane chamber with 6.4 mm wide strips was tested in a high-energy muon beam. The chamber was placed behind a 30 cm thick iron block. We show that patterns of hits localized to within a halfstrip allowed us to identify 300 GeV/c muon tracks with 99% probability and 0.7 mm spatial resolution in the presence of muon bremsstrahlung radiation. This technique of finding muon tracks will be used in the cathode strip chambers of the CMS Endcap Muon System

X-ray emission from the Sombrero galaxy: discrete sources

We present a study of discrete X-ray sources in and around the bulge-dominated, massive Sa galaxy, Sombrero (M104), based on new and archival Chandra observations with a total exposure of ~200 ks. With a detection limit of L_X = 1E37 erg/s and a field of view covering a galactocentric radius of ~30 kpc (11.5 arcminute), 383 sources are detected. Cross-correlation with Spitler et al.'s catalogue of Sombrero globular clusters (GCs) identified from HST/ACS observations reveals 41 X-rays sources in GCs, presumably low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). We quantify the differential luminosity functions (LFs) for both the detected GC and field LMXBs, whose power-low indices (~1.1 for the GC-LF and ~1.6 for field-LF) are consistent with previous studies for elliptical galaxies. With precise sky positions of the GCs without a detected X-ray source, we further quantify, through a fluctuation analysis, the GC LF at fainter luminosities down to 1E35 erg/s. The derived index rules out a faint-end slope flatter than 1.1 at a 2 sigma significance, contrary to recent findings in several elliptical galaxies and the bulge of M31. On the other hand, the 2-6 keV unresolved emission places a tight constraint on the field LF, implying a flattened index of ~1.0 below 1E37 erg/s. We also detect 101 sources in the halo of Sombrero. The presence of these sources cannot be interpreted as galactic LMXBs whose spatial distribution empirically follows the starlight. Their number is also higher than the expected number of cosmic AGNs (52+/-11 [1 sigma]) whose surface density is constrained by deep X-ray surveys. We suggest that either the cosmic X-ray background is unusually high in the direction of Sombrero, or a distinct population of X-ray sources is present in the halo of Sombrero.Comment: 11 figures, 5 tables, ApJ in pres