Detection of scintillation light in coincidence with ionizing tracks in a liquid argon time projection chamber
A system to detect light from liquid argon scintillation has been implemented in a small, ICARUS-like, liquid argon time projection chamber. The system, which uses a VUV-sensitive photomultiplier to collect the light, has recorded many ionizing tracks from cosmic-rays in coincidence with scintillation signals. Our measurements demonstrate that scintillation light detection can provide an effective method for absolute time measurement of events and eventually a useful trigger signal.

title: DESIGN OF BEAM TRANSPORT LINE FROM RCS TO TARGET FOR CSNS
abstract: China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) uses the high energy proton beam to strike the Tungsten target to generate neutrons through spallation reaction. The proton beam is extracted from the Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS), whose beam power reaches 100 kW. For the sake of target lifetime, beam distribution at the target surface is required as uniform as possible. Nonlinear beam density redistribution method with two octupole magnets has been studied. Also some simulation and theoretical calculation have been done. According to the simulation result, the beam density at the target is optimized and the beam loss is under control.

title: BEAM DYNAMIC ISSUES IN THE BEPCII LUMINOSITY COMMISSIONING
abstract: As a τ-charm factory like collider, the upgrade project of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII), has reached 1/3 of the design luminosity. During the luminosity commissioning, beam optics recovery, machine parameters measurement, detector solenoid compensation, and instability cure are main problems we met. Besides commissioning the machine, beams were delivered to the users from high energy physics and synchrotron radiation. This paper summarizes the accelerator physics issues in the BEPCII luminosity commissioning from 2009.  BEPCII was designed as a factory-like collider with a design luminosity of 1×10cms at the beam energy of 1.89GeV. It is characterized as “one machine, two purposes”, which means to provide beam not only for high energy physics experiment, but also for synchrotron radiation (SR) users in parasitic or dedicated mode. Using the BEPC tunnel, BEPCII keeps the linac and two transport lines same as BEPC, but was upgraded as two rings in parallel to store e and e beams, respectively, and named as BER and BPR. The two halves of the outer rings are connected as an SR ring, the third ring named as BSR, with 9 beam lines extracted from 5 wigglers, and other 6 beam lines from bending magnets. To save the budget, all the beam line extraction ports are kept the same as BEPC. The layout of BEPCII is shown in Fig. 1.

title: THE BUNCH LENGTH MEASUREMENT OF BEPC WITH A STREAK CAMERA
abstract: A dual-axis streak camera Hamamatsu model C5680-11, has been installed on Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) to measure the bunch length and the bunch lengthening in the storage ring. The results of the measurement are more accurate and reliable than that measured with other instruments, and play important roles in the future upgrade of BEPC. In this paper we describe the synchrotron light extracting optics setup, the operating principle, features, the basic system configuration of the streak camera. Some typical results of the measurement in recent years are presented. The measurement errors including systematic and random are also analyzed.

title: Study of solar neutrinos with the 600 t liquid argon ICARUS detector
abstract: The ICARUS time projection chamber can yield sound information on 8 B solar neutrinos. Owing to the high-energy resolution and the good capability of event reconstruction it can make a contribution to our understanding of neutrino intensities and their energy spectrum. Moreover, the MSW oscillation probability for sterile and active neutrinos can be well studied because both elastic scattering by electrons and absorption reaction on argon nuclei can be measured independently. The main problem in detecting the low-energy neutrino interactions arises from the environmental radioactivity. In the present work we study by Monte Carlo simulation the topology and the rates of the events, induced by neutrinos and background neutrons, in a 470 t (fiducial mass) liquid-argon TPC detector. For neutrino interactions we use the standard solar model BP98 and the recent experimental confirmation of the shell model computation of absorption cross section. The noise is estimated from new data on natural neutron background, collected in the hall C of the Gran Sasso laboratory. It is confirmed that, with a relatively modest neutron shielding and particular off-line event triggers, the weight of spurious events can be made to have little influence on the ICARUS solar neutrino measurement. Indeed, we expect 6 (26) background events per year in the 212 (759) elastic scattering (absorption reaction) sample.

title: LUMINOSITY ENHANCEMENT AND PERFORMANCE IN BEPCII

title: Partial wave analysis of ψ(2S) → $p\overline{p}η$
abstract: Using a sample of 1.06 x 10(8) psi(2) events collected with the BESIII detector at BEPCII, the decay psi(2S) -> p (p) over bar eta is studied. A partial wave analysis determines that the intermediate state N(1535) with a mass of 1524 +/- 5(-4)(+10) MeV/c(2) and a width of 130(-24-10)(+27+57) MeV/c(2) is dominant in the decay; the product branching fraction is determined to be B(psi(2S) -> N(1535)(p) over bar x B(N(1535) -> p eta + c.c. = 5.2 +/- 0.3(-1.2)(+3.2)) x 10(-5). Furthermore, the branching fraction of psi(2S) -> p (p) over bar eta is measured to be (6.4 +/- 0.2 +/- 0.6) x 10(-5). Here, the first error is statistical and the second is systematic.

title: New results from KLOE

title: The measurement of the absolute branching ratio of the K+ to pi+ pi0 (gamma) decay at KLOE

title: Light hadron physics
abstract: Our knowledge about the structure of matter and the nature of the interactions between its constituent components follows a hierarchy that closely tracks the evolution of experimental measurements from low to higher and higher energies. For example, with an electron beam of a given energy, one can access the microscopic structure of matter at length scales corresponding to the de-Brogie wave length of the electrons that are being used: λ = 2π × 197.3 Mev·fm/Eγ, were Eγ is the energy of the photon that is exchanged in the experimentally observed process. As the energy of the beams that are available get higher and higher, the sizes of objects that can be probed get smaller and smaller…

title: Study of $J/\psi\to p\bar{p}$ and $J/\psi\to n\bar{n}$
abstract: The decays $J/\psi\to p\bar{p}$ and $J/\psi\to n\bar{n}$ have been investigated with a sample of 225.2 million $J/\psi$ events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII $e^+e^-$ collider. The branching fractions are determined to be $\mathcal{B}(J/\psi\to p\bar{p})=(2.112\pm0.004\pm0.031)\times10^{-3}$ and $\mathcal{B}(J/\psi\to n\bar{n})=(2.07\pm0.01\pm0.17)\times10^{-3}$. Distributions of the angle $\theta$ between the proton or anti-neutron and the beam direction are well described by the form $1+\alpha\cos^2\theta$, and we find $\alpha=0.595\pm0.012\pm0.015$ for $J/\psi\to p\bar{p}$ and $\alpha=0.50\pm0.04\pm0.21$ for $J/\psi\to n\bar{n}$. Our branching-fraction results suggest a large phase angle between the strong and electromagnetic amplitudes describing the $J/\psi\to N\bar{N}$ decay.