Publications (40)
A xenon gas purity monitor for EXO
EXO Collaboration, A. Dobi, C. Hall +57
We discuss the design, operation, and calibration of two versions of a xenon gas purity monitor (GPM) developed for the EXO double beta decay program. The devices are sensitive to…
Homoclinic bifurcations in low-Prandtl-number Rayleigh-Bénard convection with uniform rotation
P. Maity, K. Kumar, P. Pal
We present results of direct numerical simulations on homoclinic gluing and ungluing bifurcations in low-Prandtl-number () Rayleigh-Bénard system rotating…
Probing Nuclear Effects with Transverse Kinematic Imbalance in Muon-neutrino Induced Charged-Current Production on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +192
Neutrino-nucleus cross-section measurements are needed to improve interaction modeling and to enable precision neutrino oscillation measurements in upcoming experiments such as the…
Gluons and the quark sea at high energies: distributions, polarization, tomography
D. Boer, M. Diehl, R. Milner +186
This report is based on a ten-week program on "Gluons and the quark sea at high-energies", which took place at the Institute for Nuclear Theory in Seattle in Fall 2010. The princip…
A Novel Approach Towards Cost Effective Region-Based Group Key Agreement Protocol for Peer - to - Peer Information Sharing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
K. Kumar, J. Nafeesa Begum, V. Sumathy
Peer-to-peer systems have gained a lot of attention as information sharing systems for the widespread exchange of resources and voluminous information that is easily accessible amo…
Quantum Phase Transitions in Ba(1-x)CaxFe12O19
K. Kumar, D. Pandey
The ground state of BaFe12O19 (BFO) is controversial as three different quantum states, namely quantum paraelectric, frustrated antiferroelectric and quantum electric dipole liquid…
Improved muon energy estimation using a detailed model of multiple Coulomb scattering in the MicroBooNE LArTPC
MicroBooNE Collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +189
The paper introduces an enhanced method for estimating muon energy in the MicroBooNE liquid‑argon time projection chamber by measuring multiple Coulomb scattering, achieving lower…
Measurements of the electron neutrino-argon differential cross section without pions in the final state in MicroBooNE
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +190
We present a new measurement of the electron neutrino charged current cross section on argon without pions in the final state. This measurement uses the full MicroBooNE Booster Neu…
Impact of Time-Dependent Wettability Alteration on the Dynamics of Capillary Pressure
Abay M. Kassa, Sarah E. Gasda, K. Kumar +1
Wettability is a pore-scale property that has an important impact on capillarity, residual trapping, and hysteresis in porous media systems. In many applications, the wettability o…
3He Spin-Dependent Cross Sections and Sum Rules
E94010 Collaboration, K. Slifer, M. Amarian +110
We present a measurement of the spin-dependent cross sections for the \vec{^3He}(\vec{e},e')X} reaction in the quasielastic and resonance regions at four-momentum transfer 0.1 < Q^…
Discovering the New Standard Model: Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos
V. Cianciolo, A. B. Balantekin, A. Bernstein +28
This White Paper describes recent progress and future opportunities in the area of fundamental symmetries and neutrinos.
Discrimination of neutron- in the low energy regime using machine learning for an EJ-276D plastic scintillator
S. Panda, P. K. Netrakanti, S. P. Behera +5
In this work, we present results for discrimination of neutron and events using a plastic scintillator detector with pulse shape discrimination capabilities. Machine learning…
A magnetically-driven piston pump for ultra-clean applications
F. LePort, R. Neilson, P. S. Barbeau +77
A magnetically driven piston pump for xenon gas recirculation is presented. The pump is designed to satisfy extreme purity and containment requirements, as is appropriate for the r…
First Measurement of Sub-GeV Charged-Current Coherent Pion Production on Argon in MicroBooNE
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +189
We report a measurement of the charged-current coherent pion production cross section on argon using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber exposed to the Booster Neut…
Charged Leptons
J. Albrecht, M. Artuso, K. Babu +34
This is the report of the Intensity Frontier Charged Lepton Working Group of the 2013 Community Summer Study "Snowmass on the Mississippi", summarizing the current status and futur…
Modeling of relative permeabilities including dynamic wettability transition zones
Abay M. Kassa, Sarah E. Gasda, K. Kumar +1
Wettability is a pore-scale property that impacts the relative movement and distribution of fluids in a porous medium. There are reservoir fluids that provoke the surface within po…
Results from a Prototype Chicane-Based Energy Spectrometer for a Linear Collider
A. Lyapin, H. J. Schreiber, M. Viti +29
The International Linear Collider and other proposed high energy e+ e- machines aim to measure with unprecedented precision Standard Model quantities and new, not yet discovered ph…
Characterization of large area APDs for the EXO-200 detector
R. Neilson, F. LePort, A. Pocar +49
EXO-200 uses 468 large area avalanche photodiodes (LAAPDs) for detection of scintillation light in an ultra-low-background liquid xenon (LXe) detector. We describe initial measurem…
Autonomous Traffic Control System Using Agent Based Technology
Venkatesh. M, K. Kumar, Srinivas. V
The way of analyzing, designing and building of real-time projects has been changed due to the rapid growth of internet, mobile technologies and intelligent applications. Most of t…
Chemical equilibration and thermal dilepton production from the quark gluon plasma at finite baryon density
D. Dutta, K. Kumar, A. K. Mohanty +1
The chemical equilibration of a highly unsaturated quark-gluon plasma has been studied at finite baryon density. It is found that in the presence of small amount of baryon density,…
Planning the Future of U.S. Particle Physics (Snowmass 2013): Chapter 2: Intensity Frontier
J. L. Hewett, H. Weerts, K. S. Babu +17
These reports present the results of the 2013 Community Summer Study of the APS Division of Particles and Fields ("Snowmass 2013") on the future program of particle physics in the…
Measurement of charged-current muon neutrino-argon interactions without pions in the final state using the MicroBooNE detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +177
We report a new measurement of flux-integrated differential cross sections for charged-current (CC) muon neutrino interactions with argon nuclei that produce no final-state pions (…
A simple radionuclide-driven single-ion source
M. Montero DÃez, K. Twelker, W. Fairbank +54
We describe a source capable of producing single barium ions through nuclear recoils in radioactive decay. The source is fabricated by electroplating 148Gd onto a silicon α-partic…
Measurements of differential charged-current cross sections on argon for electron neutrinos with final-state protons in MicroBooNE
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +178
This work presents single-differential electron-neutrino charged-current cross sections on argon measured using the MicroBooNE detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory…
Measurement of single charged pion production in charged-current -Ar interactions with the MicroBooNE detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +178
We present flux-averaged charged-current cross-section measurements on argon for final states containing exactly one and no other hadrons except nucleons. The anal…
Design And Implementation Of Multilevel Access Control In Medical Image Transmission Using Symmetric Polynomial Based Audio Steganography
J. Nafeesa Begum, K. Kumar, V. Sumathy
...The steganography scheme makes it possible to hide the medical image in different bit locations of host media without inviting suspicion. The Secret file is embedded in a cover…
Scintillation light calibrations, systematic uncertainties, and triggering efficiency in the MicroBooNE detector
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +191
Scintillation light, produced alongside ionisation charge from particle interactions, plays a critical role in liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detectors. A detailed u…
Demonstration and performance of an online data selection algorithm for liquid argon time projection chambers using MicroBooNE
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +191
The MicroBooNE detector is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) that produces three-dimensional images of particle interactions using ionization charge collected by anod…
Electromagnetic properties of copper doped lead apatite Pb9Cu(PO4)6O
M. Singh, P. Saha, K. Kumar +4
We report on the structural, electrical and magnetic measurements in as-grown polycrystalline samples of Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O. This compound has been recently reported to be a room tem…
Dissipative phenomena in chemically non-equilibrated quark gluon plasma
D. Dutta, A. K. Mohanty, K. Kumar +1
The dissipative corrections to the hydrodynamic equations describing the evolution of energy-momentum tensor and parton densities are derived in a simple way using the scaling appr…
Characterizing the energy resolution of the MicroBooNE LArTPC at the MeV scale using monoenergetic features of Tl decays
MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana +189
A detailed understanding of the capabilities and fidelity of low-energy reconstruction is crucial for taking advantage of MeV-scale neutrino physics opportunities in liquid argon t…
Simultaneous study of acoustic and optic phonon scattering of electrons and holes in undoped / heterostructures
Y. Ashlea Alava, K. Kumar, C. Harsas +5
The study of phonon coupling in doped semiconductors via electrical transport measurements is challenging due to unwanted temperature-induced effects such as dopant ionisation and…
ePIC Early Science Report
D. Abbott, N. Abdelrahman, S. Abhijit +781
This Early Science Report from the ePIC Collaboration outlines the compelling physics program achievable during the first years of operation of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), pri…
Hard Photon production from unsaturated quark gluon plasma at two loop level
D. Dutta, S. V. S. Sastry, A. K. Mohanty +2
The hard photon productions from bremsstrahlung and annihilation with scattering that arise at two loop level are estimated from a chemically non-equilibrated quark gluon plasma us…
Higgs Working Group Report of the Snowmass 2013 Community Planning Study
S. Dawson, A. Gritsan, H. Logan +131
This report summarizes the work of the Energy Frontier Higgs Boson working group of the 2013 Community Summer Study (Snowmass). We identify the key elements of a precision Higgs ph…
Effect of baryon density on parton production, chemical equilibration and thermal photon emission from quark gluon plasma
D. Dutta, A. K. Mohanty, K. Kumar +1
The effect of baryon density on parton production processes of and is studied using full phase space distribution functi…
Xenon purity analysis for EXO-200 via mass spectrometry
A. Dobi, C. Hall, S. Slutsky +73
We describe purity measurements of the natural and enriched xenon stockpiles used by the EXO-200 double beta decay experiment based on a mass spectrometry technique. The sensitivit…
Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier - Understanding the glue that binds us all
A. Accardi, J. L. Albacete, M. Anselmino +75
This White Paper presents the science case of an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), focused on the structure and interactions of gluon-dominated matter, with the intent to articulate it…
Modulation of N- to C-terminal interactions enhances protein stability
P. Mahanta, A. Bhardwaj, K. Kumar +2
Although, several factors have been attributed to thermostability, the stabilization strategies used by proteins are still enigmatic. Studies on recombinant xylanase which has the…
A singlet-triplet hole-spin qubit in MOS silicon
S. D. Liles, D. J. Halverson, Z. Wang +14
Holes in silicon quantum dots are promising for spin qubit applications due to the strong intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. The spin-orbit coupling produces complex hole-spin dynamics…