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Commissioning of horizontal-bend superconducting magnet for Jefferson Lab's 11-GeV super high momentum spectrometer

Commissioning characteristics of the Superconducting High Momentum Spectrometer (SHMS) Horizontal Bend (HB) magnet was presented. Pre-commissioning peer review of the magnet uncovered issues with eddy currents in the thermal shield, resulting in additional testing and modeling of the magnet. A three-stage test plan was discussed. A solution of using a small dump resistor and a warm thermal shield was presented. Analyses illustrated that it was safe to run the magnet to full test current. As a result, the HB magnet was successfully cooled to 4 K and reached its maximum test current of 4000 A.

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Measurements of forward jet production in polarized pp collisions at √s = 500 GeV

The A{sub N }DY project at RHIC was proposed to measure the analyzing power for Drell-Yan production. Test runs took place during polarized proton operations of RHIC in 2011 and 2012 with a model of the A {sub N }DY apparatus in place. In total, an integrated luminosity of 9 pb{sup −1} with beam polarization of 50% was sampled. The primary detector components were a hadron calorimeter (HCal) that spanned the pseudorapidity interval 2.4 < η < 4.0 and a small electromagnetic calorimeter (ECal). Basic goals for A {sub N }DY test running were to establish the impact of a third interaction region on RHIC performance and to demonstrate HCal calibration. Energy scale of HCal was established using neutral pion reconstruction and checked with hadronic response. In addition, data with a trigger based on HCal energy sum were taken to study jet events. First measurements of analyzing power in the forward jet production are reported.

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Meson Photo-Production in GEANT4 for $E_\gamma = 0.225$ E γ = 0 . 225 -3.0 GeV using the $\gamma + p \rightarrow p + \pi^{0}$ reaction

The study of nuclear resonances in the intermediate energy regime requires accurate modeling of the experimental physics background. The cross sections in the GEANT4 toolkit do not adequately treat meson photo-production. The purpose of this study is to compare experimental data and theoretical models implemented in version 9.6.p02 of the GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit for the exclusive and differential cross sections of $\pi^0$ photo-production. Two models were studied: the Chiral Invariant Phase Space (CHIPS) and Bertini Cascade (BERT). The cross section data from the models were compared to the experimental data from the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) of Jefferson Lab and the phenomenological Scattering Analysis Interactive Dial-in (SAID) model. Relativistic Breit-Wigner fits were used to compare the $\Delta(1232)$, N*(1520), N*(1650) and N*(1875) resonances from SAID, CLAS and CHIPS, giving agreements to within 3% for the mass of each resonance. The limited tabulated data set of BERT does not allow for an accurate description of the energy distribution, even following its improvement in version 10p02. The angular distributions of the cross sections show significant differences between CHIPS and both CLAS and SAID data, the latter being the most accurate model to describe the $\gamma p\rightarrow p\pi ^0$ exclusive cross section. Finally, the physics in CHIPS appears to be correct but it needs further development for the individual resonances contributions that could be useful since it is also the only model able to treat electromagnetically induced meson production for $A>1$.

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Erratum to: Hadron transverse momentum distributions in muon deep inelastic scattering at 160 GeV/ $$c$$ c

This paper is an erratum to a previous paper (EPJC 73 (2013) 2531) published by C. Adolph et al. (The COMPASS Collaboration) using a data sample taken in 2004. In the course of the ongoing analysis of the more recent 2006 data sample, and following some additional hints we identified a problem in the analysis of the 2004 data presented in EPJC 73 (2013) 2531. The acceptance correction for the 2004 data sample did not properly account for the use of semi-inclusive triggers on top of the inclusive triggers.

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Measurement of $\phi $ meson production in $p + p$ interactions at 40, 80 and $158 \, \hbox {GeV}/c$ with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Results on $\phi$ meson production in inelastic p+p collisions at CERN SPS energies are presented. They are derived from data collected by the NA61/SHINE fixed target experiment, by means of invariant mass spectra fits in the $\phi \to K^+K^-$ decay channel. They include the first ever measured double differential spectra of $\phi$ mesons as a function of rapidity $y$ and transverse momentum $p_T$ for proton beam momenta of 80 GeV/c and 158 GeV/c, as well as single differential spectra of $y$ or $p_T$ for beam momentum of 40 GeV/c. The corresponding total $\phi$ yields per inelastic p+p event are obtained. These results are compared with existing data on $\phi$ meson production in p+p collisions. The comparison shows consistency but superior accuracy of the present measurements. The emission of $\phi$ mesons in p+p reactions is confronted with that occurring in Pb+Pb collisions, and the experimental results are compared with model predictions. It appears that none of the considered models can properly describe all the experimental observables.

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K*(892) 0 meson production in inelastic p+p interactions at 158 GeV/ c beam momentum measured by NA61/SHINEat the CERN SPS

The measurement of Κ*(892) 0 resonance production via its Κ⁺π⁻ decay mode in inelastic p+p collisions at beam momentum 158 Ge V/c (√ S ΝΝ = 17.3 Ge V) is presented. The data were recorded by the NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The template method was used to extract the K*(892) 0 signal and double-differential transverse momentum and rapidity spectra were obtained. The full phase-space mean multiplicity of K*(892) 0 mesons was found to be (78.44 ± 0.38(stat) ± 6.0(sys)) ∙ 10 -3 . The NA61/SHINE results are compared with the EPOS1.99 and Hadron Resonance Gas models as well as with world data from p+p and nucleus-nucleus collisions.

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Measurement of antiproton production from antihyperon decays in ${p} \textrm{He}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\scriptscriptstyle \mathrm NN}} =110$ GeV

The interpretation of cosmic antiproton flux measurements from space-borne experiments is currently limited by the knowledge of the antiproton production cross-section in collisions between primary cosmic rays and the interstellar medium. Using collisions of protons with an energy of 6.5 TeV incident on helium nuclei at rest in the proximity of the interaction region of the LHCb experiment, the ratio of antiprotons originating from antihyperon decays to prompt production is measured for antiproton momenta between 12 and 110 GeV/c. The dominant antihyperon contribution, namely ${\overline{\varLambda }} \rightarrow {\overline{{p}}} {{\pi } ^+}$ decays from promptly produced $\overline{\varLambda }$ particles, is also exclusively measured. The results complement the measurement of prompt antiproton production obtained from the same data sample. At the energy scale of this measurement, the antihyperon contributions to antiproton production are observed to be significantly larger than predictions of commonly used hadronic production models.

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Review of Particle Physics

The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 3,200 new measurements from 903 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We summarize searches for hypothetical particles such as supersymmetric particles, heavy bosons, axions, dark photons, etc. Particle properties and search limits are listed in Summary Tables. We give numerous tables, figures, formulae, and reviews of topics such as Higgs Boson Physics, Supersymmetry, Grand Unified Theories, Neutrino Mixing, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Cosmology, Particle Detectors, Colliders, Probability and Statistics. Most of the 118 reviews are updated, including many that are heavily revised.

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Jefferson Lab 12 GeV Science Program

The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) and associated experimental equipment at Jefferson Lab are presently being upgraded, which will enable a new experimental program with substantial discovery potential to address important topics in nuclear, hadronic, and electroweak physics. Further in the future, it is envisioned that the Laboratory will evolve into an electron-ion colliding beam facility.

McKeown, R. D.↗

A development of wide dynamic-range halo monitor for 8 GeV proton beams at FNAL

The FNAL accelerator complex has been upgrading in increasing beam intensity and beam quality. A new beam halo diagnostic device is required in the beam transport line between booster and Recycler. For this purpose, it was decided to introduce the wide dynamic range monitor technique that was developed in 2012 and has been in operation at the J-PARC beam transport line. The device is a two-dimensional beam profile monitor, and it has a dynamic range of approximately six digits of magnitude by using of Optical Transition Radiation and fluorescence screens. Eliminating harmful beam halos is the most important technique for high-intensity proton accelerators. Therefore, beam halo diagnosis is indispensable and becomes more and more important. New FNAL device has been manufactured in a collaboration between J-PARC and FNAL as a part of U.S.-Japan Science and Technology Cooperation Program in High Energy Physics. The equipment will be manufactured at J-PARC and will be shipped to FNAL in 2025.We designed the device to satisfy FNAL specifications: the beam energy, intensity, and size. Currently, most of the equipments are under construction. The large-aperture optical system has been completed and its optical characteristics are being evaluated at J-PARC. We have been also investigating measurement methods corresponding to FNAL bunch trains. This paper reports on the current status of these developments.

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Software Tools for Emittance Measurement and Matching for 12 GeV CEBAF

This paper discusses model-driven setup of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) for the 12GeV era, focusing on qsUtility. qsUtility is a set of software tools created to perform emittance measurements, analyze those measurements, and compute optics corrections based upon the measurements.qsUtility was developed as a toolset to facilitate reducing machine configuration time and reproducibility by way of an accurate accelerator model, and to provide Operations staff with tools to measure and correct machine optics with little or no assistance from optics experts.

Turner, Dennis L.↗