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The ATLAS pixel detector
After a ten years planning and construction phase, the ATLAS pixel detector
is nearing its completion and is scheduled to be integrated into the ATLAS
detector to take data with the first LHC collisions in 2007. An overview of the
construction is presented with particular emphasis on some of the major and
most recent problems encountered and solved.Comment: 5 pages, 11 figures, conference proceedings XVth International
Workshop on Vertex detectors (Vertex06), Perugia, September 200
Recent results on top physics at ATLAS
During the 2010 pp run of the Large Hadron Collider at \surd s = 7 TeV, a
substantial data sample of high pT triggers, 35/pb, has been collected by the
ATLAS detector, corresponding to about 2,500 produced top-quark pair events
containing at least one lepton (e or mu) in the final state. Measurements of
the top-quark pair production cross-section, the top mass, the W helicity
fractions in top-quark decays and studies of single-top quark production and
top-quark pair production with anomalous missing transverse energy are
presented.Comment: Proceedings of the 46th Rencontres de Moriond QCD, La Thuille, Italy;
4 pages, 2 figure
Test beam Characterizations of 3D Silicon Pixel detectors
3D silicon detectors are characterized by cylindrical electrodes
perpendicular to the surface and penetrating into the bulk material in contrast
to standard Si detectors with planar electrodes on its top and bottom. This
geometry renders them particularly interesting to be used in environments where
standard silicon detectors have limitations, such as for example the radiation
environment expected in an LHC upgrade. For the first time, several 3D sensors
were assembled as hybrid pixel detectors using the ATLAS-pixel front-end chip
and readout electronics. Devices with different electrode configurations have
been characterized in a 100 GeV pion beam at the CERN SPS. Here we report
results on unirradiated devices with three 3D electrodes per 50 x 400 um2 pixel
area. Full charge collection is obtained already with comparatively low bias
voltages around 10 V. Spatial resolution with binary readout is obtained as
expected from the cell dimensions. Efficiencies of 95.9% +- 0.1 % for tracks
parallel to the electrodes and of 99.9% +- 0.1 % at 15 degrees are measured.
The homogeneity of the efficiency over the pixel area and charge sharing are
characterized.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figure
Tests of the Standard Model with Early LHC Data
Talk at USTRO?'09, XXXIII International Conference of Theoretical Physics MATTER TO THE DEEPEST: Recent Developments in Physics of Fundamental Interactions
Characterization of a Single Crystal Diamond Pixel Detector in a High Energy Particle Beam
Diamond has been developed as a material for the detection of charged
particles by ionization. Its radiation hardness makes it an attractive material
for detectors operated in a harsh radiation environment e.g. close to a
particle beam as is the case for beam monitoring and for pixel vertex
detectors. Poly-crystalline chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond has been
studied as strip and pixel detectors so far. We report on a first-time
characterization of a single-crystal diamond pixel detector in a 100 GeV
particle beam at CERN. The detectors are made from irregularly shaped single
crystal sensors, 395mm thick, mated by bump bonding to a front-end readout IC
as used in the ATLAS pixel detector with pixel sizes of 50 x 400 mm2. The
diamond sensors show excellent charge collection properties: full collection
over the entire detector volume, clean and narrow signal charge distributions
with a S/N value of >100 and a hit detection efficiency of (99.9 +- 0.1)%. The
measured spatial resolution for particles under normal incidence in the shorter
pixel direction is (8.9 +- 0.1) um.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
Measurement of the quasi-elastic axial vector mass in neutrino-oxygen interactions
The weak nucleon axial-vector form factor for quasi-elastic interactions is
determined using neutrino interaction data from the K2K Scintillating Fiber
detector in the neutrino beam at KEK. More than 12,000 events are analyzed, of
which half are charged-current quasi-elastic interactions nu-mu n to mu- p
occurring primarily in oxygen nuclei. We use a relativistic Fermi gas model for
oxygen and assume the form factor is approximately a dipole with one parameter,
the axial vector mass M_A, and fit to the shape of the distribution of the
square of the momentum transfer from the nucleon to the nucleus. Our best fit
result for M_A = 1.20 \pm 0.12 GeV. Furthermore, this analysis includes updated
vector form factors from recent electron scattering experiments and a
discussion of the effects of the nucleon momentum on the shape of the fitted
distributions.Comment: 14 pages, 10 figures, 6 table
Two-proton correlations from 158 AGeV Pb+Pb central collisions
The two-proton correlation function at midrapidity from Pb+Pb central
collisions at 158 AGeV has been measured by the NA49 experiment. The results
are compared to model predictions from static thermal Gaussian proton source
distributions and transport models RQMD and VENUS. An effective proton source
size is determined by minimizing CHI-square/ndf between the correlation
functions of the data and those calculated for the Gaussian sources, yielding
3.85 +-0.15(stat.) +0.60-0.25(syst.) fm. Both the RQMD and the VENUS model are
consistent with the data within the error in the correlation peak region.Comment: RevTeX style, 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. More discussion are added
about the structure on the tail of the correlation function. The systematic
error is revised. To appear in Phys. Lett.
Measurement of the Branching Fraction for B- --> D0 K*-
We present a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B- --> D0
K*- using a sample of approximately 86 million BBbar pairs collected by the
BaBar detector from e+e- collisions near the Y(4S) resonance. The D0 is
detected through its decays to K- pi+, K- pi+ pi0 and K- pi+ pi- pi+, and the
K*- through its decay to K0S pi-. We measure the branching fraction to be
B.F.(B- --> D0 K*-)= (6.3 +/- 0.7(stat.) +/- 0.5(syst.)) x 10^{-4}.Comment: 7 pages, 1 postscript figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. D (Rapid
Communications
A Study of Cosmic Ray Secondaries Induced by the Mir Space Station Using AMS-01
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a high energy particle physics
experiment that will study cosmic rays in the to range and will be installed on the International Space Station
(ISS) for at least 3 years. A first version of AMS-02, AMS-01, flew aboard the
space shuttle \emph{Discovery} from June 2 to June 12, 1998, and collected
cosmic ray triggers. Part of the \emph{Mir} space station was within the
AMS-01 field of view during the four day \emph{Mir} docking phase of this
flight. We have reconstructed an image of this part of the \emph{Mir} space
station using secondary and emissions from primary cosmic rays
interacting with \emph{Mir}. This is the first time this reconstruction was
performed in AMS-01, and it is important for understanding potential
backgrounds during the 3 year AMS-02 mission.Comment: To be submitted to NIM B Added material requested by referee. Minor
stylistic and grammer change
Protons in near earth orbit
The proton spectrum in the kinetic energy range 0.1 to 200 GeV was measured
by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) during space shuttle flight STS-91 at
an altitude of 380 km. Above the geomagnetic cutoff the observed spectrum is
parameterized by a power law. Below the geomagnetic cutoff a substantial second
spectrum was observed concentrated at equatorial latitudes with a flux ~ 70
m^-2 sec^-1 sr^-1. Most of these second spectrum protons follow a complicated
trajectory and originate from a restricted geographic region.Comment: 19 pages, Latex, 7 .eps figure
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