161 research outputs found
TeV blazars and their distance
Recently, a new method to constrain the distance of blazars with unknown
redshift using combined observations in the GeV and TeV regimes has been
developed, with the underlying assumption that the Very High Energy (VHE)
spectrum corrected for the absorption of TeV photons by the Extragalactic
Background Light (EBL) via photon-photon interaction should still be softer
than the gamma-ray spectrum observed by Fermi/LAT. The constraints found are
related to the real redshifts by a simple linear relation, that has been used
to infer the unknown distance of blazars. The sample will be revised with the
up-to-date spectra in both TeV and GeV bands, the method tested with the more
recent EBL models and finally applied to the unknown distance blazars detected
at VHE.Comment: Contribution to "Cosmic Radiation Fields: Sources in the early
Universe", Desy, Germany, November 9-12, 2010; 6 pages, 3 figures (revised
version
Blazars distance indications from Fermi and TeV data
A new method to constrain the distance of blazars with unknown redshift using
combined observations in the GeV and TeV regimes will be presented. The
underlying assumption is that the Very High Energy (VHE) spectrum corrected for
the absorption of TeV photons by the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) via
photon-photon interaction should still be softer than the extrapolation of the
gamma-ray spectrum observed by Fermi/LAT. Starting from the observed spectral
data at VHE, the EBL-corrected spectra are derived as a function of the
redshift z and fitted with power laws. Comparing the redshift dependent VHE
slopes with the power law fits to the LAT data an upper limit to the source
redshift can be derived. The method is applied to all TeV blazars detected by
LAT with known distance and an empirical law describing the relation between
the upper limits and the true redshifts is derived. This law can be used to
estimate the distance of unknown redshift blazars: as an example, the distance
of PKS 1424+240 is inferred.Comment: Contribution to SciNeGHE 2010, Trieste, Italy, September 2010; 4
pages, 2 figur
First results of the two square meters multilayer glass composite mirror design proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array developed at INFN
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based gamma-ray
astronomy detector that will consist of more than 100 Imaging Atmospheric
Cherenkov Telescopes of different sizes. The total reflective surface of
roughly 10 000 m requires unprecedented technological efforts towards a
cost-efficient production of light-weight and reliable mirror substrates at
high production rate. We report on a new mirror concept proposed for CTA
developed by INFN, which is based on the replication from a spherical convex
mold under low pressure. The mirror substrate is an open structure design made
by thin glass layers at the mirror's front and rear interspaced by steel
cylinders. A first series of nominal size mirrors has been produced, for which
we discuss the optical properties in terms of radius of curvature and focusing
power
Trinity: An Air-Shower Imaging Instrument to detect Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos
Trinity is a proposed air-shower imaging system optimized for the detection
of earth-skimming ultrahigh energy tau neutrinos with energies between
GeV and GeV. Trinity will pursue three major scientific objectives.
1) It will narrow in on possible source classes responsible for the
astrophysical neutrino flux measured by IceCube. 2) It will help find the
sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) and understand the composition
of UHECR. 3) It will test fundamental neutrino physics at the highest energies.
Trinity uses the imaging technique, which is well established and successfully
used by the very high-energy gamma-ray community (CTA, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and
VERITAS) and the UHECR community (Telescope Array, Pierre Auger
Observation of Hadronic W Decays in t-tbar Events with the Collider Detector at Fermilab
We observe hadronic W decays in t-tbar -> W (-> l nu) + >= 4 jet events using
a 109 pb-1 data sample of p-pbar collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV collected with
the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). A peak in the dijet invariant mass
distribution is obtained that is consistent with W decay and inconsistent with
the background prediction by 3.3 standard deviations. From this peak we measure
the W mass to be 77.2 +- 4.6 (stat+syst) GeV/c^2. This result demonstrates the
presence of two W bosons in t-tbar candidates in the W (-> l nu) + >= 4 jet
channel.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PR
Search for charged Higgs decays of the top quark using hadronic tau decays
We present the result of a search for charged Higgs decays of the top quark,
produced in collisions at 1.8 TeV. When the charged
Higgs is heavy and decays to a tau lepton, which subsequently decays
hadronically, the resulting events have a unique signature: large missing
transverse energy and the low-charged-multiplicity tau. Data collected in the
period 1992-1993 at the Collider Detector at Fermilab, corresponding to
18.70.7~pb, exclude new regions of combined top quark and charged
Higgs mass, in extensions to the standard model with two Higgs doublets.Comment: uuencoded, gzipped tar file of LaTeX and 6 Postscript figures; 11 pp;
submitted to Phys. Rev.
Inclusive jet cross section in collisions at TeV
The inclusive jet differential cross section has been measured for jet
transverse energies, , from 15 to 440 GeV, in the pseudorapidity region
0.10.7. The results are based on 19.5 pb of data
collected by the CDF collaboration at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The data
are compared with QCD predictions for various sets of parton distribution
functions. The cross section for jets with GeV is significantly
higher than current predictions based on O() perturbative QCD
calculations. Various possible explanations for the high- excess are
discussed.Comment: 8 pages with 2 eps uu-encoded figures Submitted to Physical Review
Letter
Measurement of the Associated Production Cross Section in Collisions at TeV
We present the first measurement of associated direct photon + muon
production in hadronic collisions, from a sample of 1.8 TeV
collisions recorded with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Quantum
chromodynamics (QCD) predicts that these events are primarily from the Compton
scattering process , with the final state charm quark producing
a muon. Hence this measurement is sensitive to the charm quark content of the
proton. The measured cross section of is compared to a
leading-order QCD parton shower model as well as a next-to-leading-order QCD
calculation.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures Added more detailed description of muon
background estimat
Measurement of Dijet Angular Distributions at CDF
We have used 106 pb^-1 of data collected in proton-antiproton collisions at
sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV by the Collider Detector at Fermilab to measure jet angular
distributions in events with two jets in the final state. The angular
distributions agree with next to leading order (NLO) predictions of Quantum
Chromodynamics (QCD) in all dijet invariant mass regions. The data exclude at
95% confidence level (CL) a model of quark substructure in which only up and
down quarks are composite and the contact interaction scale is Lambda_ud(+) <
1.6 TeV or Lambda_ud(-) < 1.4 TeV. For a model in which all quarks are
composite the excluded regions are Lambda(+) < 1.8 TeV and Lambda(-) < 1. 6
TeV.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, LaTex, using epsf.sty. Submitted to
Physical Review Letters on September 17, 1996. Postscript file of full paper
available at http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/physics/pub96/cdf3773_dijet_angle_prl.p
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