The Synthesis Telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory

We describe an aperture synthesis radio telescope optimized for studies of the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM), providing the ability to image extended structures with high angular resolution over wide fields. The telescope produces images of atomic hydrogen emission using the 21-cm HI spectral line, and, simultaneously, continuum emission in two bands centred at 1420 MHz and 408 MHz, including linearly polarized emission at 1420 MHz, with synthesized beams of 1 degree and 3.4 degrees at the respective frequencies.Comment: Accepted for publication by Astronomy and Astrophysics, Supplement Serie

FIRST EVIDENCE OF HARD SCATTERING PROCESSES IN SINGLE TAGGED GAMMA-GAMMA-COLLISIONS

For the first time, multihadronic production from single tagged γγ collisions has been studied, where one of the scattered leptons was tagged at very low virtual photon absolute mass squared (〈Q2〉 = 0.06 (GeV/c2)2). Data collected during 1991 and 1992 in the DELPHI experiment at LEP are shown to agree well with predictions which included the non-perturbative vector meson dominance model in which the interacting photons are assumed to have converted into a vector meson (ρ{variant}, ω or π), a quark-parton model which describes direct photon interactions and a QCD-based model which considers the photon to have quark and gluon structure functions. Five different parametrizations of these structure functions were used and the predictions compared with the data. This study confirms recent results from no-tag experiments in requiring a QCD-based component to successfully describe the data, indicating that the photon has a significant partonic content. © 1995

Measurement of the electron structure function F2e at LEP energies

The hadronic part of the electron structure function F2e has been measured for the first time, using e+e− data collected by the DELPHI experiment at LEP, at centre-of-mass energies of s=91.2–209.5 GeV . The data analysis is simpler than that of the measurement of the photon structure function. The electron structure function F2e data are compared to predictions of phenomenological models based on the photon structure function. It is shown that the contribution of large target photon virtualities is significant. The data presented can serve as a cross-check of the photon structure function F2γ analyses and help in refining existing parameterisations

Production of Strange B-baryons Decaying Into Xi-/+-l-/+ Pairs At Lep

An excess of events containing, in a jet, a same-sign Xi(-/+) - l(-/+) pair as compared to those with an opposite-sign Xi(-/+) - l(-/+) pair has been observed in an analysis of 1.7 million hadronic Z(o) decays collected by the DELPHI detector at LEP between 1991 and 1993 inclusive. The probability for this signal to come from non B-baryon decays is less than 5 x 10(-4). The measured production fraction corresponds to: P(b --> B - baryon) x BR(B - baryon --> Xi(-) l(-) X) = (5.9 +/- 2.1 +/- 1.0) x 10(-4), per lepton species, averaged for electrons and muons and assuming the two channels have an equal contribution. Semileptonic decays of Lambda(b) baryons can account for less than 10% of these events and the major part of the signal has to originate from Xi(b) semileptonic decays, Using the subsample of these events where the Xi(-/+) trajectory has been measured in the Vertex Detector, the lifetime of B-baryons producing a Xi(-/+) in their semileptonic decay final state is found to be: tau(B - baryon --> Xi(-) l(-) X) = 1.5(-0.4)(+0.7) +/- 0.3 ps

Measurement of the B-d(0) oscillation frequency using kaons, leptons and jet charge

A measurement of the mass difference, Delta m(d), be tween the two physical B-d(0) states has been obtained from the analysis of the impact parameter distribution of a lepton emitted at large transverse momentum (p(t)) relative to the jet axis and from the analysis of the flight distance distribution of secondary vertices tagged by either a high p(t) lepton or an identified kaon. In the opposite hemisphere of the event, the charge of the initial quark has been evaluated using a high p(t) lepton, a charged kaon or the mean jet charge, With 1.7 million hadronic Z(0) decays recorded by DELPHI between 1991 and 1993, Delta m(d) is found to be: Delta m(d) = 0.531 (+0.050)(-0.046) (stat.) +/- 0.078 (syst.) ps(-1)