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MONOLITH: a next generation experiment for athospheric neutrinos
MONOLITH is a massive magnetized tracking calorimeter, optimized for the
detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos, proposed at the Gran Sasso laboratory
in Italy. The main goal is to establish (or reject) the neutrino oscillation
hypothesis through an explicit observation of the full first oscillation swing
(the ``L/E pattern''). Its performance, status and prospects are briefly
reviewed.Comment: Talk given at Europhysics Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (NOW2000),
Otranto, Italy, September 9-16, 2000 (4 pages, 3 figures
Isolated tau leptons in events with large missing transverse momentum at HERA
A search for events containing isolated tau leptons and large missing
transverse momentum, not originating from the tau decay, has been performed
with the ZEUS detector at the electron-proton collider HERA, using 130 pb^-1 of
integrated luminosity. A search was made for isolated tracks coming from
hadronic tau decays. Observables based on the internal jet structure were
exploited to discriminate between tau decays and quark- or gluon-induced jets.
Three tau candidates were found, while 0.40 +0.12 -0.13 were expected from
Standard Model processes, such as charged current deep inelastic scattering and
single W-boson production. To search for heavy-particle decays, a more
restrictive selection was applied to isolate tau leptons produced together with
a hadronic final state with high transverse momentum. Two candidate events
survive, while 0.20 +-0.05 events are expected from Standard Model processes.Comment: 28 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, accepted by Phys. Lett. B. Updated
with minor changes to the text requested by the journal refere
A novel concept for the detection of tau neutrino appearance
A novel concept for the detection of tau neutrinos is presented, potentially
suitable for use in a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. It relies
on the direct identification of the tau leptons produced in charged-current
interactions, by imaging the Cherenkov light that the tau generates in C6F14
liquid. In a simple simulation about half of the tau leptons can be
successfully identified in this way.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
On-line recognition of supernova neutrino bursts in the LVD detector
In this paper we show the capabilities of the Large Volume Detector (INFN
Gran Sasso National Laboratory) to identify a neutrino burst associated to a
supernova explosion, in the absence of an "external trigger", e.g., an optical
observation. We describe how the detector trigger and event selection have been
optimized for this purpose, and we detail the algorithm used for the on-line
burst recognition. The on-line sensitivity of the detector is defined and
discussed in terms of supernova distance and electron anti-neutrino intensity
at the source.Comment: Accepted for pubblication on Astroparticle Physics. 13 pages, 10
figure
Observation of Scaling Violations in Scaled Momentum Distributions at HERA
Charged particle production has been measured in deep inelastic scattering
(DIS) events over a large range of and using the ZEUS detector. The
evolution of the scaled momentum, , with in the range 10 to 1280
, has been investigated in the current fragmentation region of the Breit
frame. The results show clear evidence, in a single experiment, for scaling
violations in scaled momenta as a function of .Comment: 21 pages including 4 figures, to be published in Physics Letters B.
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Measurement of the open-charm contribution to the diffractive proton structure function
Production of D*+/-(2010) mesons in diffractive deep inelastic scattering has
been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of
82 pb^{-1}. Diffractive events were identified by the presence of a large
rapidity gap in the final state. Differential cross sections have been measured
in the kinematic region 1.5 < Q^2 < 200 GeV^2, 0.02 < y < 0.7, x_{IP} < 0.035,
beta 1.5 GeV and |\eta(D*+/-)| < 1.5. The measured cross
sections are compared to theoretical predictions. The results are presented in
terms of the open-charm contribution to the diffractive proton structure
function. The data demonstrate a strong sensitivity to the diffractive parton
densities.Comment: 35 pages, 11 figures, 6 table
Design, development and performance study of six-gap glass MRPC detectors
The Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) are gas ionization detectors
with multiple gas sub-gaps made of resistive electrodes. The high voltage (HV)
is applied on the outer surfaces of outermost resistive plates only, while the
interior plates are left electrically floating. The presence of multiple narrow
sub--gaps with high electric field results in faster signals on the outer
electrodes, thus improving the detector's time resolution. Due to their
excellent performance and relatively low cost, the MRPC detector has found
potential application in Time-of-Flight (TOF) systems. Here we present the
design, fabrication, optimization of the operating parameters such as the HV,
the gas mixture composition, and, performance of six--gap glass MRPC detectors
of area 27cm 27 cm, which are developed in order to find application
as trigger detectors, in TOF measurement etc. The design has been optimized
with unique spacers and blockers to ensure a proper gas flow through the narrow
sub-gaps, which are 250 m wide. The gas mixture consisting of R134A,
Isobutane and SF, and the fraction of each constituting gases has been
optimized after studying the MRPC performance for a set of different
concentrations. The counting efficiency of the MRPC is about 95% at kV.
At the same operating voltage, the time resolution, after correcting for the
walk effect, is found to be about ps.Comment: Revised version with 15 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for
publication in the European Physical Journal
Low Multiplicity Burst Search at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Results are reported from a search for low-multiplicity neutrino bursts in
the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). Such bursts could indicate detection of
a nearby core-collapse supernova explosion. The data were taken from Phase I
(November 1999 - May 2001), when the detector was filled with heavy water, and
Phase II (July 2001 - August 2003), when NaCl was added to the target. The
search was a blind analysis in which the potential backgrounds were estimated
and analysis cuts were developed to eliminate such backgrounds with 90%
confidence before the data were examined. The search maintained a greater than
50% detection probability for standard supernovae occurring at a distance of up
to 60 kpc for Phase I and up to 70 kpc for Phase II. No low-multiplicity bursts
were observed during the data-taking period.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Ap
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