ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ЗМІНИ ТЕПЛОФІЗИЧНИХ ВЛАСТИВОСТЕЙ НАДКРИТИЧНОЇ ВОДИ ПІД ЧАС ТЕЧІЇ В КРУГЛИХ ТРУБАХ, ЩО ОБІГРІВАЮТЬСЯ

In the nuclear power industry, one of the promising development paths is related to the transition to supercritical parameters, in particular, to the development of water-cooled fourth-generation reactors. Such transition requires the solution of a number of complex problems, among which one can single out the problem of heat and mass transfer during the upstream flow of supercritical water in heated channels. This work is devoted to the study of the influence of the temperature dependence of the physical properties of supercritical water on their space distribution in the channel. The axisymmetric problem of hydrodynamics and heat transfer in a vertically round tube with an upstream flow of supercritical water was considered. The internal diameter of the tube is 10 mm, the length of the heated part of the tube is 4 m, the mass flux of the water is 1000 kg/(m2·s), the inlet water temperature is 342°C, and the pressure is 24 MPa, input heat flux: q = 392 kW/m2 (option 1) and q = 826 kW/m2 (option 2). The study was conducted on the basis of CFD modeling using Fluent code. The results of the studies showed that the nature of the distribution of the physical properties of supercritical water in the heated channel is largely due to the motion of the front of the pseudo-phase transition in it and depends on the value of the heat flux. For a relatively small input heat flux, in almost the entire considered region the coolant temperature is noted to be lower than the pseudo-phase transition temperature. In this case, as for the sufficiently high input heat flux, the region between the beginning and the end of the pseudo-phase transition zone covers almost the entire length of the tube. The position of the front of the pseudo-phase transition near the tube axis is displaced along its length from the end of the tube to its middle. Accordingly, the positions of the maximum specific heat and thermal conductivity, calculated from the temperature at the axis of the tube, are displaced. The nature of the specific heat distribution along the tube radius is also analysed for the two heat transfer values considered. The position of the specific heat maximum in the cross section of the tube essentially is shown to depend on the level of the heat flux supplied. As a result of the studies, it has been defined that the above described complex character of the space distribution of the physical properties of the coolant in the region of the pseudo-phase transition leads to a significant acceleration of the flow, the variability of the buoyancy forces, the restructuring of the velocity profiles and tangential stresses.Для процесу течії надкритичної води в каналі, що обігрівається, проведено дослідження особливостей просторового розподілу фізичних властивостей води, зумовлених їх істотною температурною залежністю, характерною для надкритичних середовищ у ділянці псевдофазового переходу. На основі комп'ютерного моделювання розв'язано задачу тепломасоперенесення у вертикальній круглій трубі під час висхідного руху в ній води надкритичних параметрів. Показано, що характер розподілу властивостей теплоносія у поздовжньому перетині труби певною мірою визначається рухом в ньому фронту псевдофазового переходу. Проаналізовано вплив величини густини теплового потоку, що підводиться до стінки труби, на положення границь початку і кінця зони псевдофазового переходу і на пов'язані з цим особливості просторової зміни фізичних властивостей теплоносія. Наведено результати СFD моделювання з розподілу уздовж довжини труби, що обігрівається, таких властивостей надкритичної води, як густина, динамічна в'язкість, коефіцієнт теплопровідності і питома теплоємність. Виконано зіставлення особливостей розподілу зазначених властивостей, розрахованих за температурою на стінці труби і на її осі. Досліджено характер зміни питомої теплоємності по радіусу труби і проаналізовано вплив рівня теплового потоку, що підводиться, на положення максимуму теплоємності в різних поперечних перетинах каналу

Search for charginos in e+e- interactions at sqrt(s) = 189 GeV

An update of the searches for charginos and gravitinos is presented, based on a data sample corresponding to the 158 pb^{-1} recorded by the DELPHI detector in 1998, at a centre-of-mass energy of 189 GeV. No evidence for a signal was found. The lower mass limits are 4-5 GeV/c^2 higher than those obtained at a centre-of-mass energy of 183 GeV. The (\mu,M_2) MSSM domain excluded by combining the chargino searches with neutralino searches at the Z resonance implies a limit on the mass of the lightest neutralino which, for a heavy sneutrino, is constrained to be above 31.0 GeV/c^2 for tan(beta) \geq 1.Comment: 22 pages, 8 figure

Hadronization properties of b quarks compared to light quarks in e+e- -> q qbar from 183 to 200 GeV

The DELPHI detector at LEP has collected 54 pb^{-1} of data at a centre-of-mass energy around 183 GeV during 1997, 158 pb^{-1} around 189 GeV during 1998, and 187 pb^{-1} between 192 and 200 GeV during 1999. These data were used to measure the average charged particle multiplicity in e+e- -> b bbar events, _{bb}, and the difference delta_{bl} between _{bb} and the multiplicity, _{ll}, in generic light quark (u,d,s) events: delta_{bl}(183 GeV) = 4.55 +/- 1.31 (stat) +/- 0.73 (syst) delta_{bl}(189 GeV) = 4.43 +/- 0.85 (stat) +/- 0.61 (syst) delta_{bl}(200 GeV) = 3.39 +/- 0.89 (stat) +/- 1.01 (syst). This result is consistent with QCD predictions, while it is inconsistent with calculations assuming that the multiplicity accompanying the decay of a heavy quark is independent of the mass of the quark itself.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figure

Measurement of the flavour composition of dijet events in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

This paper describes a measurement of the flavour composition of dijet events produced in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector. The measurement uses the full 2010 data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 39 pb−1. Six possible combinations of light, charm and bottom jets are identified in the dijet events, where the jet flavour is defined by the presence of bottom, charm or solely light flavour hadrons in the jet. Kinematic variables, based on the properties of displaced decay vertices and optimised for jet flavour identification, are used in a multidimensional template fit to measure the fractions of these dijet flavour states as functions of the leading jet transverse momentum in the range 40 GeV to 500 GeV and jet rapidity |y|<2.1. The fit results agree with the predictions of leading- and next-to-leading-order calculations, with the exception of the dijet fraction composed of bottom and light flavour jets, which is underestimated by all models at large transverse jet momenta. The ability to identify jets containing two b-hadrons, originating from e.g. gluon splitting, is demonstrated. The difference between bottom jet production rates in leading and subleading jets is consistent with the next-to-leading-order predictions

Observation of associated near-side and away-side long-range correlations in √sNN=5.02 TeV proton-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector

Two-particle correlations in relative azimuthal angle (Δϕ) and pseudorapidity (Δη) are measured in √sNN=5.02  TeV p+Pb collisions using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The measurements are performed using approximately 1  μb-1 of data as a function of transverse momentum (pT) and the transverse energy (ΣETPb) summed over 3.1<η<4.9 in the direction of the Pb beam. The correlation function, constructed from charged particles, exhibits a long-range (2<|Δη|<5) “near-side” (Δϕ∼0) correlation that grows rapidly with increasing ΣETPb. A long-range “away-side” (Δϕ∼π) correlation, obtained by subtracting the expected contributions from recoiling dijets and other sources estimated using events with small ΣETPb, is found to match the near-side correlation in magnitude, shape (in Δη and Δϕ) and ΣETPb dependence. The resultant Δϕ correlation is approximately symmetric about π/2, and is consistent with a dominant cos⁡2Δϕ modulation for all ΣETPb ranges and particle pT

Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with three electrons or muons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is based on 4.7 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded with the ATLAS detector. Observations are consistent with Standard Model expectations in three signal regions that are either depleted or enriched in Z-boson decays. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set in R-parity conserving phenomenological minimal supersymmetric models and in simplified models, significantly extending previous results

Jet size dependence of single jet suppression in lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s(NN)) = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Measurements of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions at the LHC provide direct sensitivity to the physics of jet quenching. In a sample of lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 7 inverse microbarns, ATLAS has measured jets with a calorimeter over the pseudorapidity interval |eta| < 2.1 and over the transverse momentum range 38 < pT < 210 GeV. Jets were reconstructed using the anti-kt algorithm with values for the distance parameter that determines the nominal jet radius of R = 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5. The centrality dependence of the jet yield is characterized by the jet "central-to-peripheral ratio," Rcp. Jet production is found to be suppressed by approximately a factor of two in the 10% most central collisions relative to peripheral collisions. Rcp varies smoothly with centrality as characterized by the number of participating nucleons. The observed suppression is only weakly dependent on jet radius and transverse momentum. These results provide the first direct measurement of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions and complement previous measurements of dijet transverse energy imbalance at the LHC.Comment: 15 pages plus author list (30 pages total), 8 figures, 2 tables, submitted to Physics Letters B. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2011-02

Search for the neutral Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A search for neutral Higgs bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is reported. The analysis is based on a sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The data were recorded in 2011 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb-1 to 4.8 fb-1. Higgs boson decays into oppositely-charged muon or τ lepton pairs are considered for final states requiring either the presence or absence of b-jets. No statistically significant excess over the expected background is observed and exclusion limits at the 95% confidence level are derived. The exclusion limits are for the production cross-section of a generic neutral Higgs boson, φ, as a function of the Higgs boson mass and for h/A/H production in the MSSM as a function of the parameters mA and tan β in the mhmax scenario for mA in the range of 90GeV to 500 GeV. Copyright CERN