91 research outputs found
START as the detector of choice for large-scale muon triggering systems
Further progress in building high-granular large-scale systems based on Scintillation Tiles with MRS APD light readout (START) became possible thanks to the creation of an improved version of MRS APD. The cost of the system may now be significantly reduced by using inexpensive extruded scintillator. More than 160 START samples were assembled based on this design modification and proved to possess 100% MIP detection efficiency and the intrinsic noise rate of less than 0.08 Hz. Long-term stability of START characteristics was confirmed after 3.5 months of operation
Subthreshold and near-threshold kaon and antikaon production in proton-nucleus reactions
The differential production cross sections of K^+ and K^- mesons have been
measured at the ITEP proton synchrotron in p+Be, p+Cu collisions under lab
angle of 10.5^0, respectively, at 1.7 and 2.25, 2.4 GeV beam energies. A
detailed comparison of these data with the results of calculations within an
appropriate folding model for incoherent primary proton-nucleon, secondary
pion-nucleon kaon and antikaon production processes and processes associated
with the creation of antikaons via the decay of intermediate phi mesons is
given. We show that the strangeness exchange process YN->NNK^- gives a small
contribution to the antikaon yield in the kinematics of the performed
experiment. We argue that in the case when antikaon production processes are
dominated by the channels with KK^- in the final state, the cross sections of
the corresponding reactions are weakly influenced by the in-medium kaon and
antikaon mean fields.Comment: 24 pages. accepted for publication at J.Phys.
New method of studying slow strange meson properties in nuclear matter
We suggest the new experimental method to explore the properties of slow
strange mesons at normal nuclear matter density. We show that the and
mesons with extremely small momenta relative to the surrounding medium
rest frame can be produced in nucleus-nucleon collisions and their production
cross sections are experimentally measurable. The experiments on study of the
momentum dependence of meson-nuclear potentials are discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Stable ÏH-adducts in the reactions of the acridinium cation with heterocyclic N-nucleophiles
Results of Cryotrasologic Indication of Paleosols Revealed to the North of the European and Western Siberian Loess Belt
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