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The standard model and the constituents of leptons and quarks
A complete set of postulates of the standard model of the electroweak
interaction and mass generation is formulated and confirmed deriving the
Lagrangian for the standard model. A massive fermion is formed by a
right-handed and a left-handed elementary massless fermion, exchanging a scalar
doublet. The elementary massless fermions forming leptons belong to an
approximate SU(3) octet. The charges are quantised due to this symmetry
Die Entwicklung eines Systems von digitalisierten Funkenkammern in Verbindung mit einem Prozessrechner
Quasielastic Electron-Deuteron Scattering at Four Momentum Transfers in the Range 0.25(GeV/c)²<q²<0.85(GeV/c)²
Quasielastic Electron-Deuteron-Scattering at Four Momentum Transfers in the Range 0,25 (GeV/c)² < q² < 1 (GeV/c)²
Fermion Masses without Higgs: A Supersymmetric Technicolor Model
We propose a supersymmetric technicolor model in which the electroweak
symmetry breaking is communicated to the quarks and leptons by technicolored
-singlet scalars. When the technifermions condense, the quarks and
leptons of the third generation acquire mass. The fermions of the other
generations do not couple to the technicolored scalars but they receive masses
from radiative corrections involving superpartners. As a result, the mass
hierarchy between the fermion generations arises naturally. The model predicts
the CP asymmetries in meson decays and in transitions to be
smaller by two orders of magnitude than the ones predicted in the Standard
Model.Comment: 27 pages, latex, 4 figures (require feynman.tex). Changes in the
notation. An Appendix presenting the soft supersymmetric breaking terms is
added. Few more details included in the discussion of the flavor-changing
neutral current
Aging Studies for the Large Honeycomb Drift Tube System of the Outer Tracker of HERA-B
The HERA-B Outer Tracker consists of drift tubes folded from polycarbonate
foil and is operated with Ar/CF4/CO2 as drift gas. The detector has to stand
radiation levels which are similar to LHC conditions. The first prototypes
exposed to radiation in HERA-B suffered severe radiation damage due to the
development of self-sustaining currents (Malter effect). In a subsequent
extended R&D program major changes to the original concept for the drift tubes
(surface conductivity, drift gas, production materials) have been developed and
validated for use in harsh radiation environments. In the test program various
aging effects (like Malter currents, gain loss due to anode aging and etching
of the anode gold surface) have been observed and cures by tuning of operation
parameters have been developed.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the
International Workshop On Aging Phenomena In Gaseous Detectors, 2-5 Oct 2001,
Hamburg, German
The HERA-B Ring Imaging Cherenkov Counter
The HERA-B RICH uses a radiation path length of 2.8 m in C_4F_10 gas and a
large 24 square meters spherical mirror for imaging Cherenkov rings. The photon
detector consists of 2240 Hamamatsu multi-anode photomultipliers with about
27000 channels. A 2:1 reducing two-lens telescope in front of each PMT
increases the sensitive area at the expense of increased pixel size, resulting
in a contribution to the resolution which roughly matches that of dispersion.
The counter was completed in January of 1999, and its performance has been
steady and reliable over the years it has been in operation. The design
performance of the RICH was fully reached: the average number of detected
photons in the RICH for a beta=1 particle was found to be 33 with a single hit
resolution of 0.7 mrad and 1 mrad in the fine and coarse granularity regions,
respectively.Comment: 29 pages, 23 figure
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