Design, construction and tests of the ICARUS T600 detector
We have constructed and operated the ICARUS T600 liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC). The ICARUS T600 detector is the largest LAr TPC ever built, with a size of about 500 tons of fully imaging mass. The design and assembly of the detector relied on industrial support and represents the applications of concepts matured in laboratory tests to the kton scale. The ICARUS T600 was commissioned for a technical run that lasted about 3 months. During this period all the detector features were extensively tested with an exposure to cosmic-rays at surface with a resulting data collection of about 30 000 events. The detector was developed as the first element of a modular design. Thanks to the concept of modularity, it will be possible to realize a detector with several ktons active mass, to act as an observatory for astroparticle and neutrino physics at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory and a second-generation nucleon decay experiment. In this paper a description of the ICARUS T600 is given, detailing its design specifications, assembly procedures and acceptance tests. Commissioning procedures and results of the technical run are also reported, as well as results from the off-line event reconstruction.

title: Experimental study of hadron inclusive production in J / psi energy region

title: Substructural dependence of the multiparticle production in relativistic heavy-ion interactions

title: KLOE measurement of the $\sigma(\pi^+ \pi^- (\gamma))$ cross section and the pi+ pi- contribution to the muon anomaly

title: Evidence of sigma particle in J / psi ---> omega pi pi

title: Measurement of the DAΦNE luminosity with the KLOE detector using large angle Bhabha scattering
abstract: We describe the method of measuring the integrated luminosity of the e+e- collider DAΦNE, the Frascati φ-factory. The measurement is done with the KLOE detector selecting large angle Bhabha scattering events and normalizing them to the effective cross section. The e+e-→e+e-(γ) cross section is calculated using different event generators which account for the $\mathcal{O}(\alpha)$ radiative initial and final state corrections, and the φ resonance contribution. The accuracy of the measurement is 0.6%, where 0.3% comes from systematic errors related to the event counting and 0.5% from theoretical evaluations of the cross section.

title: Studies of bunch lengthening at the BEPC
abstract: The Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) has been operating for more than ten years. In addition to providing colliding beams for high energy physics and a single beam for synchrotron radiation study, we carried out many machine related beam experiments for understanding better the beam physics and for improving performance. Among them, measurements of bunch length and its lengthening, and the impedance implied thereby, play crucial roles in the future plans for luminosity upgrades. This paper reviews the measurement of the bunch length in the BEPC storage ring, concluding with the scaling law for the bunch lengthening above the microwave instability threshold. The low frequency impedance of the storage ring is also obtained from the bunch lengthening due to the potential well distortion in low bunch current.

title: PEPX-type lattice design and optimization for the High Energy Photon Source
abstract: A new generation of storage ring-based light source, called diffraction-limited storage ring (DLSR), with the emittance approaching the diffraction limit for multi-keV photons by using the multi-bend achromat lattice, has attracted worldwide and extensive studies of several laboratories, and been seriously considered as a goal of upgrading the existing facilities in the imminent future. Among various DLSR proposals, the PEPX design based on the third-order achromat concept and with the special design of a high-beta injection straight section demonstrated that, it is feasible to achieve sufficient ring acceptance for off-axis injection in a DLSR. For the High Energy Photon Source planned to be built in Beijing, PEPX-type lattice has been designed and continuously improved. In this paper, we report the evolution of the PEPX-type design, and discuss the main issues relevant to the linear optics design and nonlinear optimization.

title: DESIGN STUDIES ON 100MeV / 100kW ELECTRON LINAC FOR NSC KIPT NEUTRON SOURCE ON THE BASE OF SUBCRITICAL ASSEMBLY DRIVEN BY LINAC
abstract: In NSC KIPT, Kharkov, Ukraine a neutron source based on a subcritical assembly and driven by a 100 MeV/100kW electron linac is under design and development. Design and construction of such a linac with high average beam current, low emittance and low beam losses are challenging tasks. In this paper the linac physical design with beam simulation results are described, the accelerating structures and some key technical solutions are presented.

title: Simultaneous multiplicity and forward energy characterization of particle spectra in Au + Au collisions at 11.6-A-GeV/c
abstract: In this paper Au+Au collisions at 11.6A GeV/c are characterized by two global observables: the energy measured near zero degrees (E{sub ZCAL}) and the total event multiplicity. Particle spectra are measured for different event classes that are defined in a two-dimensional grid of both global observables. For moderately central events ({sigma}/{sigma}{sub int}{lt}12{percent}) the proton dN/dy distributions do not depend on E{sub ZCAL} but only on the event multiplicity. In contrast the shape of the proton transverse spectra shows little dependence on the event multiplicity. The change in the proton dN/dy distributions suggests that different conditions are formed in the collision for different event classes. These event classes are studied for signals of new physics by measuring pion and kaon spectra and yields. In the event classes doubly selected on E{sub ZCAL} and multiplicity there is no indication of any unusual pion or kaon yields, spectra, or K/{pi} ratio even in the events with extreme multiplicity.

title: A preliminary lattice design of a tau-charm factory storage ring in Beijing
abstract: A preliminary lattice design of a tau-charm factory (/spl tau/cF) storage ring is described. This storage ring is suggested to be built to the east of the injector, BEL, of BEPC. In addition, some considerations on improving the design will be outlined.