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Rapidity Gaps Between Jets
An excess of events with a rapidity gap between jets, over what would be
expected from non-diffractive processes, has been observed at HERA. A process
based on a perturbative QCD calculation of colour singlet exchange has been
added to HERWIG. With this addition, HERWIG is able to describe the number of
events with a gap between jets over the number without a gap. This gap fraction
is predicted to rise at large rapidity intervals between jets which would only
be visible if the detector coverage were increased.Comment: 5 pages including 3 figures. To appear in the conference proceedings
of the Workshop "Future Physics at HERA
HepForge: A lightweight development environment for HEP software
Setting up the infrastructure to manage a software project can become a task
as significant writing the software itself. A variety of useful open source
tools are available, such as Web-based viewers for version control systems,
"wikis" for collaborative discussions and bug-tracking systems, but their use
in high-energy physics, outside large collaborations, is insubstantial.
Understandably, physicists would rather do physics than configure project
management tools.
We introduce the CEDAR HepForge system, which provides a lightweight
development environment for HEP software. Services available as part of
HepForge include the above-mentioned tools as well as mailing lists, shell
accounts, archiving of releases and low-maintenance Web space. HepForge also
exists to promote best-practice software development methods and to provide a
central repository for re-usable HEP software and phenomenology codes.Comment: 3 pages, 0 figures. To be published in proceedings of CHEP06. Refers
to the HepForge facility at http://hepforge.cedar.ac.u
HepData and JetWeb: HEP data archiving and model validation
The CEDAR collaboration is extending and combining the JetWeb and HepData
systems to provide a single service for tuning and validating models of
high-energy physics processes. The centrepiece of this activity is the fitting
by JetWeb of observables computed from Monte Carlo event generator events
against their experimentally determined distributions, as stored in HepData.
Caching the results of the JetWeb simulation and comparison stages provides a
single cumulative database of event generator tunings, fitted against a wide
range of experimental quantities. An important feature of this integration is a
family of XML data formats, called HepML.Comment: 4 pages, 0 figures. To be published in proceedings of CHEP0
TLEP: A High-Performance Circular e+e- Collider to Study the Higgs Boson
The recent discovery of a light Higgs boson has opened up considerable
interest in circular e+e- Higgs factories around the world. We report on the
progress of the TLEP concept since last year. TLEP is an e+e- circular collider
capable of very high luminosities in a wide centre-of-mass (ECM) spectrum from
90 to 350 GeV. TLEP could be housed in a new 80 to 100 km tunnel in the Geneva
region. The design can be adapted to different ring circumference (e.g. LEP3 in
the 27 km LHC tunnel). TLEP is an ideal complementary machine to the LHC thanks
to high luminosity, exquisite determination of ECM and the possibility of four
interaction points, both for precision measurements of the Higgs boson
properties and for precision tests of the closure of the Standard Model from
the Z pole to the top threshold.Comment: Contribution to IPAC13, 12-17 May 2013, Shanghai, Chin
Photon Structure and Quantum Fluctuation
Photon structure derives from quantum fluctuation in quantum field theory to
fermion and anti-fermion, and has been an experimentally established feature of
electrodynamics since the discovery of the positron. In hadronic physics, the
observation of factorisable photon structure is similarly a fundamental test of
the quantum field theory Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). An overview of
measurements of hadronic photon structure in e+e- and ep interactions is
presented, and comparison made with theoretical expectation, drawing on the
essential features of photon fluctuation into quark and anti-quark in QCD.Comment: 29 pages, 15 figures, to appear in Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society of London (Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering
Sciences
KtJet: A C++ implementation of the Kt clustering algorithm
A C++ implementation of the Kt jet algorithm for high energy particle collisions is presented. The time performance of this implementation is comparable to the widely used Fortran implementation. Identical algorithmic functionality is provided, with a clean and intuitive user interface and additional recombination schemes. A short description of the algorithm and examples of its use are given
Quadrupole moments of rotating neutron stars
Numerical models of rotating neutron stars are constructed for four equations
of state using the computer code RNS written by Stergioulas. For five selected
values of the star's gravitational mass (in the interval between 1.0 and 1.8
solar masses) and for each equation of state, the star's angular momentum is
varied from J=0 to the Keplerian limit J=J_{max}. For each neutron-star
configuration we compute Q, the quadrupole moment of the mass distribution. We
show that for given values of M and J, |Q| increases with the stiffness of the
equation of state. For fixed mass and equation of state, the dependence on J is
well reproduced with a simple quadratic fit, Q \simeq - aJ^2/M c^2, where c is
the speed of light, and a is a parameter of order unity depending on the mass
and the equation of state.Comment: ReVTeX, 7 pages, 5 figures, additional material, and references adde
Quasars: a supermassive rotating toroidal black hole interpretation
A supermassive rotating toroidal black hole (TBH) is proposed as the
fundamental structure of quasars and other jet-producing active galactic
nuclei. Rotating protogalaxies gather matter from the central gaseous region
leading to the birth of massive toroidal stars whose internal nuclear reactions
proceed very rapidly. Once the nuclear fuel is spent, gravitational collapse
produces a slender ring-shaped TBH remnant. These events are typically the
first supernovae of the host galaxies. Given time the TBH mass increases
through continued accretion by several orders of magnitude, the event horizon
swells whilst the central aperture shrinks. The difference in angular
velocities between the accreting matter and the TBH induces a magnetic field
that is strongest in the region of the central aperture and innermost
ergoregion. Due to the presence of negative energy states when such a
gravitational vortex is immersed in an electromagnetic field, circumstances are
near ideal for energy extraction via non-thermal radiation including the
Penrose process and superradiant scattering. This establishes a self-sustaining
mechanism whereby the transport of angular momentum away from the quasar by
relativistic bi-directional jets reinforces both the modulating magnetic field
and the TBH/accretion disk angular velocity differential. Quasar behaviour is
extinguished once the BH topology becomes spheroidal. Similar mechanisms may be
operating in microquasars, SNe and GRBs when neutron density or BH tori arise.
In certain circumstances, long-term TBH stability can be maintained by a
negative cosmological constant, otherwise the classical topology theorems must
somehow be circumvented. Preliminary evidence is presented that Planck-scale
quantum effects may be responsible.Comment: 26 pages, 14 figs, various corrections and enhancements, final
versio
Snowmass 2001: Jet Energy Flow Project
Conventional cone jet algorithms arose from heuristic considerations of LO
hard scattering coupled to independent showering. These algorithms implicitly
assume that the final states of individual events can be mapped onto a unique
set of jets that are in turn associated with a unique set of underlying hard
scattering partons. Thus each final state hadron is assigned to a unique
underlying parton. The Jet Energy Flow (JEF) analysis described here does not
make such assumptions. The final states of individual events are instead
described in terms of flow distributions of hadronic energy. Quantities of
physical interest are constructed from the energy flow distribution summed over
all events. The resulting analysis is less sensitive to higher order
perturbative corrections and the impact of showering and hadronization than the
standard cone algorithms.Comment: REVTeX4, 13 pages, 6 figures; Contribution to the P5 Working Group on
QCD and Strong Interactions at Snowmass 200
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