A joint search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and LIGO
The first simultaneous operation of the AURIGA detector* and the LIGO observatory* was an opportunity to explore real data, joint analysis methods between two very different types of gravitational wave detectors: resonant bars and interferometers. This paper describes a coincident gravitational wave burst search, where data from the LIGO interferometers are cross-correlated at the time of AURIGA candidate events to identify coincident transients. The analysis pipeline is tuned with two thresholds, on the signal-to-noise ratio of AURIGA candidate events and on the significance of the cross-correlation test in LIGO. The false alarm rate is estimated by introducing time shifts between data sets and the network detection efficiency is measured by adding simulated gravitational wave signals to the detector output. The simulated waveforms have a significant fraction of power in the narrower AURIGA band. In the absence of a detection, we discuss how to set an upper limit on the rate of gravitational waves and to interpret it according to different source models. Due to the short amount of analyzed data and to the high rate of non-Gaussian transients in the detectors' noise at the time, the relevance of this study is methodological: this was the first joint search for gravitational wave bursts among detectors with such different spectral sensitivity and the first opportunity for the resonant and interferometric communities to unify languages and techniques in the pursuit of their common goal.

title: Energy Resolution Performance of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter

title: Beam impact studies on ILC collimators
abstract: Spoilers in the ILC Beam Delivery System are required to survive without failure a minimum of 1-2 direct impacts from each energetic electron or positron bunch of charged particles, in addition to maintaining low geometric and resistive wall wake fields. The transient shock wave resulting from rapid localised beam heating and its implications for spoiler design are studied using ANSYS. Shockwave propagation is modelled in 2 dimensions showing the effect of dilatational Shockwaves striking free surfaces, producing reflected dilatational and distortional waves. The implication of these reflected waves on the damage of the collimators is also discussed.

title: Reconstruction of the signal amplitude of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter
abstract: The amplitude of the signal collected from the PbWO4 crystals of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter is reconstructed by a digital filtering technique. The amplitude reconstruction has been studied with test beam data recorded from a fully equipped barrel supermodule. Issues specific to data taken in the test beam are investigated, and the implementation of the method for CMS data taking is discussed.

title: Design of the superconducting end cap toroids for the ATLAS experiment at LHC
abstract: The ATLAS experiment proposed for LHC will use a toroidal magnet system to achieve high efficiency muon momentum resolution. The end cap toroids are designed to provide bending powers in the range 4-8 Tm over the rapidity span 1.5-2.8 in the important forward/backward regions. Each end cap toroid will have an outer diameter of approximately 11 m and an axial length of 5.6 m. This paper presents the magnetic, mechanical and cryogenic design of the end cap toroid magnet systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the interactive design issues imposed by the close proximity of the ATLAS barrel toroid. Proposals for the magnet fabrication and assembly are given.

title: Results of the first performance tests * of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter
abstract: Performance tests of some aspects of the CMS ECAL were carried out on modules of the "barrel" sub-system in 2002 and 2003. A brief test with high energy electron beams was made in late 2003 to validate prototypes of the new Very Front End electronics. The final versions of the monitoring and cooling systems, and of the high and low voltage regulation were used in these tests. The results are consistent with the performance targets including those for noise and overall energy resolution, required to fulfil the physics programme of CMS at the LHC.

title: Report of the Fixed-Target Proton-Accelerator Group
abstract: The fixed target proton accelerator group divided itself into two roughly equal parts. One sub-group concentrated on a high intensity (10/sup 14/ protons/sec) moderate energy (30 GeV) machine while the other worked on a moderate intensity (5 x 10/sup 11/ protons/sec) very high energy (20 TeV) machine. For experiments where the total available energy is adequate, the fixed target option added to a anti p p 20 TeV collider ring has several attractive features: (1) high luminosity afforded by intense beams striking thick solid targets; (2) secondary beams of hadrons, photons, and leptons; and (3) the versatility of a fixed target facility, where many experiments can be performed independently. The proposed experiments considered by the subgroup, including neutrino, photon, hadron, and very short lived particle beams were based both on scaled up versions of similar experiments proposed for Tevatron II at Fermilab and on the 400 GeV fixed target programs at Fermilab and CERN.

title: A Study of Photons from Decays of the K0(L)

title: Two rare kaon decays: A primer