Measurement of the decay K(L) ---> pi0 gamma gamma

title: Alignment of the CMS Silicon Tracker during Commissioning with Cosmic Rays
abstract: This is the Pre-print version of the Article. The official published version of the Paper can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2010 IOP

title: Beam Position Monitoring Using the Hom-Signals from a Damped and Detuned Accelerating Structure
abstract: The Next and Global Linear Collider (NLC/GLC) designs require precision alignment of the beam in the accelerator structures to reduce short range wakefields. The moderately damped and detuned structures themselves provide suitable higher order mode (HOM) signals to measure this alignment. The modes in the lowest dipole band, whose frequencies range from 14-16 GHz, provide the strongest signals. To determine the position resolution they provide, an NLC/GLC prototype structure that was installed in the ASSET facility of the SLAC Linac was instrumented to downmix and digitize these signals. The beam position within the structure was determined by simultaneously measuring the signals at three frequencies (14.3, 15, 15.7 GHz) corresponding to modes localized at the beginning, the middle and the end of the 60 cm long structure. A resolution of 1 micron was achieved even with 28 dB signal attenuation, which is better than the 5 micron resolution required for the NLC/GLC.

title: CMS Data Processing Workflows during an Extended Cosmic Ray Run
abstract: The CMS Collaboration conducted a month-long data taking exercise, the Cosmic Run At Four Tesla, during October-November 2008, with the goal of commissioning the experiment for extended operation. With all installed detector systems participating, CMS recorded 270 million cosmic ray events with the solenoid at a magnetic field strength of 3.8 T. This paper describes the data flow from the detector through the various online and offline computing systems, as well as the workflows used for recording the data, for aligning and calibrating the detector, and for analysis of the data.

title: STATUS OF THE X-BAND RF POWER SOURCE DEVELOPMENT FOR JLC
abstract: In this paper, we summarize the status of X-band RF power source development for the Japan Linear Collider (JLC) project. The periodic permanent magnet (PPM) klystrons are under development in the two-year/two-stage project with Toshiba. The goal is to produce 50MW output power at 1.5 µs pulse length at the first klystron and then to advance to 75MW at the second one. The high power testing of the first klystron is scheduled to start in July 2000. The multi-mode RF windows have been high power tested at KEK and SLAC. The window with smaller diameter (53mm) achieved a circulation power of 80MW with 1.5µs duration at 30Hz repetition. It was not destroyed during the testing. As for the modulator, the SIthyristor solid state switches were tested successfully. KEK is developing the multi-mode 2x2 DLDS (Delay Line Distribution System) power distribution system, in which the stability of linearly polarized TE12 mode in a long (up to 160m) waveguide is the key for low loss power transport. The experiment was carried out successfully in the ATF linac tunnel in collaboration with SLAC using a specially installed 55m long waveguide. Details of these developments and measurement results are presented.

title: T2K neutrino flux prediction
abstract: The Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) experiment studies neutrino oscillations using an off-axis muon neutrino beam with a peak energy of about 0.6 GeV that originates at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex accelerator facility. Interactions of the neutrinos are observed at near detectors placed at 280 m from the production target and at the far detector—Super-Kamiokande—located 295 km away. The flux prediction is an essential part of the successful prediction of neutrino interaction rates at the T2K detectors and is an important input to T2K neutrino oscillation and cross section measurements. A FLUKA and GEANT3-based simulation models the physical processes involved in the neutrino production, from the interaction of primary beam protons in the T2K target, to the decay of hadrons and muons that produce neutrinos. The simulation uses proton beam monitor measurements as inputs. The modeling of hadronic interactions is reweighted using thin target hadron production data, including recent charged pion and kaon measurements from the NA61/SHINE experiment. For the first T2K analyses the uncertainties on the flux prediction are evaluated to be below 15% near the flux peak. The uncertainty on the ratio of the flux predictions at the far and near detectors is less than 2% near the flux peak.

title: Top-quark spin correlation at Linear Colliders with anomalous couplings
abstract: We investigate the feasibility of probing anomalous top-quark couplings of Wtb, Zt (t) over bar, and gammat (t) over bar in terms of an effective Lagrangian with dimension-six operators at future e(+)e(-) linear colliders with a c.m. energy roots similar to500-800 GeV. We first examine the constraints on these anomalous couplings from the Z-->b (b) over bar data at CERN LEP I and from unitarity considerations. We then consider in detail the effects of anomalous couplings on t (t) over bar spin correlations in the top-pair production and decay with three spin bases: the helicity, beamline, and off-diagonal bases. Our results show that the polarized beams are more suitable for exploring the effects of different new operators. For polarized beams, the helicity basis yields the best sensitivity.

title: MARVELS-1b: A Short-period, Brown Dwarf Desert Candidate from the SDSS-III Marvels Planet Search
abstract: We present a new short-period brown dwarf (BD) candidate around the star TYC 1240-00945-1. This candidate was discovered in the first year of the Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanets Large-area Survey (MARVELS), which is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III, and we designate the BD as MARVELS-1b. MARVELS uses the technique of dispersed fixed-delay interferometery to simultaneously obtain radial velocity (RV) measurements for 60 objects per field using a single, custom-built instrument that is fiber fed from the SDSS 2.5 m telescope. From our 20 RV measurements spread over a ~370 day time baseline, we derive a Keplerian orbital fit with semi-amplitude K = 2.533 ± 0.025 km s^(–1), period P = 5.8953 ± 0.0004 days, and eccentricity consistent with circular. Independent follow-up RV data confirm the orbit. Adopting a mass of 1.37 ± 0.11 M_☉ for the slightly evolved F9 host star, we infer that the companion has a minimum mass of 28.0 ± 1.5 M_(Jup), a semimajor axis 0.071 ± 0.002 AU assuming an edge-on orbit, and is probably tidally synchronized. We find no evidence for coherent intrinsic variability of the host star at the period of the companion at levels greater than a few millimagnitudes. The companion has an a priori transit probability of ~14%. Although we find no evidence for transits, we cannot definitively rule them out for companion radii ≲ R_(Jup).

title: Tune optimization of modern light sources
abstract: How to find suitable working points plays an important role in the optimization of the third-generation light sources. Different methods of frequency map analysis, super-periodic structural resonance analysis, and single resonance approach are applied to study the effects of various resonances on the beam dynamics for different working points, trying to find some general strategies of tune optimization. Several guidelines for tune choosing are given at the end of this paper.

title: Cabibbo suppressed decays of D+ ---> pi+ pi0, K+ anti-K0, K+ pi0

title: Search for the decay $B_s^0 \to D^{*\mp} \pi^\pm$