The Muon Filter of the L3 detector
In this article we describe the outer part (Muon Filter) of the Hadron Calorimeter of the L3 detector. Construction and performance of the brass chambers, which form the sensitive part of the detector, are reviewed. We also report the results from data taken on two beam tests, at CERN.

title: A water Cherenkov calorimeter for long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments
abstract: We propose a water-based large homogeneous calorimeter as the next generation neutrino detector for ν factories and/or conventional ν beams. The Cherenkov light produced in water is sufficient to have good energy resolution, and the pattern recognition is realized by a modular water tank structure. Monte Carlo simulations show that the detector performance is excellent for identifying neutrino CC events while rejecting backgrounds.

title: TUBE CHAMBERS FOR THE MUON FILTER OF THE L3 DETECTOR

title: Physics of tau and charm
abstract: The physics of tau and charm started in early 70's after J/$\psi$ and $\tau$ were discovered. Since then several dedicated accelerators and experiments were built with increasing luminosities and studies on light hadron spectroscopy, charmonium, electroweak and QCD were never interupted. New interests and surprises are not rare in this area. With the newly built BEPCII/BESIII, an even brighter future is foreseen.

title: Inclusive J production in Z0 decays
abstract: Inclusive J production in Z0 decays is observed via the leptonic decay mode J → l+l− (l = e,μ). We measure the branching ratio Br(Z0 → J + X) = (4.1 ± 0.7 (stat.) ± 0.3 (sys.)) × 10−3. We have calculated the fraction of the J mesons from b-hadron decay and find a branching ratio of Br(b → J + X)= (1.3±0.2(stat.)±0.2(sys.)) × 10−2. We determine the average fractional energy of bottom hadrons 〈XE > = 0.70±0.03 (stat.)+0.02−0.01 (sys.) using the momentum spectrum of the J mesons. From a study of the angle between the J and the most energetic jet, we set an upper limit on the branching ratio Br ( Z 0 → q q g ∗ ; g ∗ → J + X ) −4 at 90% confidence level.

title: The mass production and quality control of RPCs for the Daya Bay experiment
abstract: Resistive plate chambers will be used in the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment to help veto backgrounds created by cosmic-ray muons. The mass production of RPCs began in 2008 and by the end of 2009, 1600 RPCs (3500 m 2 ) had been produced and tested. This paper describes the production and quality control procedures, and quality assurance using cosmic-ray testing.

title: Design, commissioning and performance of the PIBETA detector at PSI
abstract: We describe the design, construction and performance of the PIBETA detector built for the precise measurement of the branching ratio of pion beta decay, π + →π 0 e + ν e , at the Paul Scherrer Institute. The central part of the detector is a 240-module spherical pure CsI calorimeter covering ∼3 π sr solid angle. The calorimeter is supplemented with an active collimator/beam degrader system, an active segmented plastic target, a pair of low-mass cylindrical wire chambers and a 20-element cylindrical plastic scintillator hodoscope. The whole detector system is housed inside a temperature-controlled lead brick enclosure, which in turn is lined with cosmic muon plastic veto counters. Commissioning and calibration data were taken during two 3-month beam periods in 1999/2000 with π + stopping rates between 1.3·10 3 π + / s and 1.3·10 6 π + / s . We examine the timing, energy and angular detector resolution for photons, positrons and protons in the energy range of 5– 150 MeV , as well as the response of the detector to cosmic muons. We illustrate the detector signatures for the assorted rare pion and muon decays and their associated backgrounds.

title: Inhomogeneous and Interacting Vacuum Energy
abstract: Vacuum energy is a simple model for dark energy driving an accelerated expansion of the universe. If the vacuum energy is inhomogeneous in spacetime then it must be interacting. We present the general equations for a spacetime-dependent vacuum energy in cosmology, including inhomogeneous perturbations. We show how any dark energy cosmology can be described by an interacting vacuum+matter. Different models for the interaction can lead to different behaviour (e.g., sound speed for dark energy perturbations) and hence could be distinguished by cosmological observations. As an example we present the cosmic microwave microwave background anisotropies and the matter power spectrum for two different versions of a generalised Chaplygin gas cosmology.

title: Parallel Supercomputing PC Cluster and Some Physical Results in Lattice QCD
abstract: We describe the construction of a high performance parallel computer composed of PC components, present some physical results for light hadron and hybrid meson masses from lattice QCD. We also show that the smearing technique is very useful for improving the spectrum calculations.

title: Update of the status report on RD25: Continuing studies on lead scintillating fibers calorimetry (LFC)

title: Impedance Database II for the Advanced Photon Source storage ring
abstract: The first impedance database constructed at the advanced photon source was successfully used in reproducing the main characteristics of single-bunch instabilities observed in the storage ring. However, the finite bandwidth of the corresponding impedance model was limited to 40 GHz, which happens to be the resolution limit of the density modulation observed in the microwave instability simulation. In order to resolve simulation results never verified in the experiments, we decided to extend the calculated bandwidth of impedance to 100-200 GHz by recalculating the wake potentials excited by a shorter bunch. Since low-order electromagnetic code requires 20-40 grid points per wavelength, reducing the bunch length required a large number of grids for the 3D structure. We used bunch lengths of 1- and 2-mm in the Gaussian distribution in the impedance database II project. For the large-scale computation we used the 3D electromagnetic code GdfidL for wake potential calculation at the cluster equipped with 240 GB of memory. The resultant wake potential excited by the short bunch together with application to the storage ring for collective effects is presented in this paper.