Publications (20)
Fully three-dimensional sound speed-corrected multi-wavelength photoacoustic breast tomography
M. Dantuma, F. Lucka, S. C. Kruitwagen +21
Photoacoustic tomography is a contrast agent-free imaging technique capable of visualizing blood vessels and tumor-associated vascularization in breast tissue. While sophisticated…
Measurement of the Decay KL -> pi0 e+ e- gamma
KTeV Collaboration, E. Abouzaid, M. Arenton +48
We report on a new measurement of the branching ratio B(KL -> pi0 e+ e- gamma) using the KTeV detector. This analysis uses the full KTeV data set collected from 1997 to 2000. We re…
Beam extraction studies at 900 GeV using a channeling crystal
R. A. Carrigan, D. Chen, G. Jackson +23
Luminosity-driven channeling extraction has been observed for the first time in a 900 GeV study at the Fermilab Tevatron. This experiment, Fermilab E853, demonstrated that useful T…
Radiation hardness qualification of PbWO4 scintillation crystals for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter
The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter Group, P. Adzic, N. Almeida +267
Ensuring the radiation hardness of PbWO4 crystals was one of the main priorities during the construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS experiment at CERN. The produ…
Final Results from the KTeV Experiment on the Decay KL -> pi0 gamma gamma
KTeV Collaboration, E. Abouzaid, M. Arenton +45
We report on a new measurement of the branching ratio B(KL->pi0 gamma gamma)using the KTeV detector. We reconstruct 1982 events with an estimated background of 608, that results in…
Physics at the CLIC Multi-TeV Linear Collider
CLIC Physics Working Group, E. Accomando, A. Aranda +81
This report summarizes a study of the physics potential of the CLIC e+e- linear collider operating at centre-of-mass energies from 1 TeV to 5 TeV with luminosity of the order of 10…
Observation of the Decay Xi^0 --> Sigma^+ mu^- nu(bar)
KTeV Collaboration, E. Abouzaid, T. Alexopoulos +57
The Xi^0 muon semi-leptonic decay has been observed for the first time with nine identified events using the KTeV beam line and detector at Fermilab. The decay is normalized to the…
Measurements of the Branching Fractions and Decay Distributions for KL->Ïμνγand KL->Ïeνγ
T. Alexopoulos, T. Andre, M. Arenton +56
We present measurements of R_Kl3rad = Gamma(KL->Ï\ellνγ; Egcm > 10 MeV)/Gamma(KL->Ï\ellν), where ell = mu or e, and Egcm is the photon energy in the kaon rest frame. These mea…
The CMS Barrel Timing Layer: test beam confirmation of module timing performance
F. Addesa, P. Akrap, A. Albert +127
First of its kind, the barrel section of the MIP Timing Detector is a large area timing detector based on LYSO:Ce crystals and SiPMs which are required to operate in an unprecedent…
Integration of thermo-electric coolers into the CMS MTD SiPM arrays for operation under high neutron fluence
A. Bornheim, W. Lustermann, K. Stachon +27
The barrel section of the novel MIP Timing Detector (MTD) will be constructed as part of the upgrade of the CMS experiment to provide a time resolution for single charged tracks in…
Test beam characterization of sensor prototypes for the CMS Barrel MIP Timing Detector
R. Abbott, A. Abreu, F. Addesa +196
The MIP Timing Detector will provide additional timing capabilities for detection of minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) at CMS during the High Luminosity LHC era, improving event re…
LHC Forward Physics
K. Akiba, M. Akbiyik, M. Albrow +184
The goal of this report is to give a comprehensive overview of the rich field of forward physics, with a special attention to the topics that can be studied at the LHC. The report…
A Measurement of the Branching Ratio of Dalitz Decay using Decays
E. Abouzaid, M. Arenton, A. R. Barker +44
We present a measurement of , the Dalitz branching ratio, using data taken in 1999 by the E832 KTeV experiment at Fermi Nati…
Observation of the rare decay from the combined analysis of CMS and LHCb data
The CMS, LHCb Collaborations, : +2807
A joint measurement is presented of the branching fractions and in proton-proton collisions at the LHC by the CMS and LHCb experiments. The data…
Search for the Rare Decay K_{L}\toÏ^{0}Ï^{0}γ
KTeV Collaboration, E. Abouzaid, M. Arenton +49
The KTeV E799 experiment has conducted a search for the rare decay via the topology (where ). Due to Bose sta…
Precise Measurements of Direct CP Violation, CPT Symmetry, and Other Parameters in the Neutral Kaon System
KTeV Collaboration, E. Abouzaid, M. Arenton +56
We present precise tests of CP and CPT symmetry based on the full dataset of K to pipi decays collected by the KTeV experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory during 1996,…
RADiCAL: Precision-timing, Ultracompact, Radiation-hard Electromagnetic Calorimetry
T. Anderson, T. Barbera, D. Blend +22
To address the challenges of providing high performance calorimetry in future hadron collider experiments under conditions of high luminosity and high radiation (FCChh environments…
Les Houches Guidebook to Monte Carlo Generators for Hadron Collider Physics
M. A. Dobbs, S. Frixione, E. Laenen +22
Recently the collider physics community has seen significant advances in the formalisms and implementations of event generators. This review is a primer of the methods commonly use…
Search for the Rare Decays KL->pi0pi0mu+mu- and KL->pi0pi0X0->pi0pi0mu+mu-
KTeV Collaboration, E. Abouzaid, M. Arenton +47
The KTeV E799 experiment has conducted a search for the rare decays KL->pi0pi0mu+mu- and KL->pi0pi0X0->pi0pi0mu+mu-, where the X0 is a possible new neutral boson that was reported…
Determination of the Parity of the Neutral Pion via the Four-Electron Decay
E. Abouzaid, M. Arenton, A. R. Barker +44
We present a new determination of the parity of the neutral pion via the double Dalitz decay pi^0 -> e+ e- e+ e-. Our sample, which consists of 30511 candidate decays, was collecte…