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Asai, M.; Cortes-Giraldo, M.A.; Gimenez-Alventosa, V.; Gimenez, V.; Salvat, F. |
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The PENELOPE Physics Models and Transport Mechanics. Implementation into Geant4 |
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2021 |
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Frontiers in Physics |
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Front. Physics |
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coupled electron-photon transport; Monte Carlo simulation; PENELOPE code system; random-hinge method; Geant4 toolkit |
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A translation of the penelope physics subroutines to C++, designed as an extension of the Geant4 toolkit, is presented. The Fortran code system penelope performs Monte Carlo simulation of coupled electron-photon transport in arbitrary materials for a wide energy range, nominally from 50 eV up to 1 GeV. Penelope implements the most reliable interaction models that are currently available, limited only by the required generality of the code. In addition, the transport of electrons and positrons is simulated by means of an elaborate class II scheme in which hard interactions (involving deflection angles or energy transfers larger than pre-defined cutoffs) are simulated from the associated restricted differential cross sections. After a brief description of the interaction models adopted for photons and electrons/positrons, we describe the details of the class-II algorithm used for tracking electrons and positrons. The C++ classes are adapted to the specific code structure of Geant4. They provide a complete description of the interactions and transport mechanics of electrons/positrons and photons in arbitrary materials, which can be activated from the G4ProcessManager to produce simulation results equivalent to those from the original penelope programs. The combined code, named PenG4, benefits from the multi-threading capabilities and advanced geometry and statistical tools of Geant4. |
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[Asai, Makoto] SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Menlo Pk, CA USA, Email: miancortes@us.es; |
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Barenboim, G. |
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Some Aspects About Pushing the CPT and Lorentz Invariance Frontier With Neutrinos |
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2022 |
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Front. Physics |
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CPT symmetry; neutrino properties; lorentz violation; fundamental symmetries; discrete symmetries |
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The CPT symmetry, which combines Charge Conjugation, Parity, and Time Reversal, is a cornerstone of our model-building method, and its probable violation will endanger the most extended tool we presently utilize to explain physics, namely local relativistic quantum fields. However, the kaon system's conservation constraints appear to be rather severe. We will show in this paper that neutrino oscillation experiments can enhance this limit by many orders of magnitude, making them an excellent instrument for investigating the basis of our understanding of Nature. As a result, verifying CPT invariance does not evaluate a specific model, but rather the entire paradigm. Therefore, as the CPT's status in the neutrino sector, linked or not to Lorentz invariance violation, will be assessed at an unprecedented level by current and future long baseline experiments, distinguishing it from comparable experimental fingerprints coming from non-standard interactions is critical. Whether the entire paradigm or simply the conventional model of neutrinos is at jeopardy is significantly dependent on this. |
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[Barenboim, Gabriela] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, Burjassot, Spain, Email: gabriela.barenboim@uv.es |
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De La Torre Luque, P.; Gaggero, D.; Grasso, D.; Marinelli, A. |
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Prospects for detection of a galactic diffuse neutrino flux |
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2022 |
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Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences |
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Front. Astron. Space Sci. |
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galactic cosmic rays; cosmic-ray transport; diffuse gamma rays; high energy gamma rays; diffuse neutrinos; galactic plane |
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A Galactic cosmic-ray transport model featuring non-homogeneous transport has been developed over the latest years. This setup is aimed at reproducing gamma-ray observations in different regions of the Galaxy (with particular focus on the progressive hardening of the hadronic spectrum in the inner Galaxy) and was shown to be compatible with the very-high-energy gamma-ray diffuse emission recently detected up to PeV energies. In this work, we extend the results previously presented to test the reliability of that model throughout the whole sky. To this aim, we compare our predictions with detailed longitude and latitude profiles of the diffuse gamma-ray emission measured by Fermi-LAT for different energies and compute the expected Galactic nu diffuse emission, comparing it with current limits from the ANTARES collaboration. We emphasize that the possible detection of a Galactic nu component will allow us to break the degeneracy between our model and other scenarios featuring prominent contributions from unresolved sources and TeV halos. |
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[Luque, P. De La Torre] Stockholm Univ, Stockholm, Sweden, Email: pedro.delatorreluque@fysik.su.se; |
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Calefice, L.; Hennequin, A.; Henry, L.; Jashal, B.K.; Mendoza, D.; Oyanguren, A.; Sanderswood, I.; Sierra, C.V.; Zhuo, J.H. |
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Effect of the high-level trigger for detecting long-lived particles at LHCb |
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2022 |
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Frontiers in Big Data |
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LHCb; trigger; real time analysis; long-lived particles; GPU; SciFi; beyond standard physics |
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Long-lived particles (LLPs) show up in many extensions of the Standard Model, but they are challenging to search for with current detectors, due to their very displaced vertices. This study evaluated the ability of the trigger algorithms used in the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment to detect long-lived particles and attempted to adapt them to enhance the sensitivity of this experiment to undiscovered long-lived particles. A model with a Higgs portal to a dark sector is tested, and the sensitivity reach is discussed. In the LHCb tracking system, the farthest tracking station from the collision point is the scintillating fiber tracker, the SciFi detector. One of the challenges in the track reconstruction is to deal with the large amount of and combinatorics of hits in the LHCb detector. A dedicated algorithm has been developed to cope with the large data output. When fully implemented, this algorithm would greatly increase the available statistics for any long-lived particle search in the forward region and would additionally improve the sensitivity of analyses dealing with Standard Model particles of large lifetime, such as KS0 or Lambda (0) hadrons. |
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[Calefice, Lukas] Sorbonne Univ, Lab Phys Nucl & Hautes Energies, CNRS, IN2P3, Paris, France, Email: arantza.oyanguren@ific.uv.es |
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Bonilla, J. et al; Vos, M. |
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Jets and Jet Substructure at Future Colliders |
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2022 |
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Frontiers in Physics |
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Front. Physics |
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jets; jet substructure; collider; artificial intelligence; machine learning; snowmass; top quark; Higgs boson |
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Even though jet substructure was not an original design consideration for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, it has emerged as an essential tool for the current physics program. We examine the role of jet substructure on the motivation for and design of future energy Frontier colliders. In particular, we discuss the need for a vibrant theory and experimental research and development program to extend jet substructure physics into the new regimes probed by future colliders. Jet substructure has organically evolved with a close connection between theorists and experimentalists and has catalyzed exciting innovations in both communities. We expect such developments will play an important role in the future energy Frontier physics program. |
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[Bonilla, Johan; Erbacher, Robin] Univ Calif, Dept Phys & Astron, Davis, CA USA, Email: bpnachman@lbl.gov; |
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Martinez-Reviriego, P.; Esperante, D.; Grudiev, A.; Gimeno, B.; Blanch, C.; Gonzalez-Iglesias, D.; Fuster-Martinez, N.; Martin-Luna, P.; Martinez, E.; Menendez, A.; Fuster, J. |
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Dielectric assist accelerating structures for compact linear accelerators of low energy particles in hadrontherapy treatments |
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Front. Physics |
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dielectric assist accelerating (DAA) structures; radio frequency (RF); LINAC; hadrontherapy; standing wave |
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Dielectric Assist Accelerating (DAA) structures based on ultralow-loss ceramic are being studied as an alternative to conventional disk-loaded copper cavities. This accelerating structure consists of dielectric disks with irises arranged periodically in metallic structures working under the TM02-pi mode. In this paper, the numerical design of an S-band DAA structure for low beta particles, such as protons or carbon ions used for Hadrontherapy treatments, is shown. Four dielectric materials with different permittivity and loss tangent are studied as well as different particle velocities. Through optimization, a design that concentrates most of the RF power in the vacuum space near the beam axis is obtained, leading to a significant reduction of power loss on the metallic walls. This allows to fabricate cavities with an extremely high quality factor, over 100,000, and shunt impedance over 300 M omega/m at room temperature. During the numerical study, the design optimization has been improved by adjusting some of the cell parameters in order to both increase the shunt impedance and reduce the peak electric field in certain locations of the cavity, which can lead to instabilities in its normal functioning. |
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[Martinez-Reviriego, Pablo; Esperante, Daniel; Gimeno, Benito; Blanch, Cesar; Gonzalez-Iglesias, Daniel; Fuster-Martinez, Nuria; Martin-Luna, Pablo; Martinez, Eduardo; Menendez, Abraham; Fuster, Juan] CSIC Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, Paterna, Spain, Email: pablo.martinez.reviriego@ific.uv.es |
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Olivares Herrador, J.; Latina, A.; Aksoy, A.; Fuster Martinez, N.; Gimeno, B.; Esperante, D. |
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Implementation of the beam-loading effect in the tracking code RF-track based on a power-diffusive model |
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beam loading; LINAC; energy loss; tracking simulation; transient; high-intensity beam; CLEAR; gradient reduction |
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The need to achieve high energies in particle accelerators has led to the development of new accelerator technologies, resulting in higher beam intensities and more compact devices with stronger accelerating fields. In such scenarios, beam-loading effects occur, and intensity-dependent gradient reduction affects the accelerated beam as a consequence of its interaction with the surrounding cavity. In this study, a power-diffusive partial differential equation is derived to account for this effect. Its numerical resolution has been implemented in the tracking code RF-Track, allowing the simulation of apparatuses where transient beam loading plays an important role. Finally, measurements of this effect have been carried out in the CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research (CLEAR) facility at CERN, finding good agreement with the RF-Track simulations. |
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[Olivares Herrador, Javier; Latina, Andrea; Aksoy, Avni] CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland, Email: javier.olivares.herrador@cern.ch |
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Farzan, Y.; Tortola, M. |
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Neutrino oscillations and non-standard Interactions |
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Front. Physics |
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neutrino oscillations; leptonic CP violation; non-standard neutrino interactions; neutrino masses; neutrino physics |
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Current neutrino experiments are measuring the neutrino mixing parameters with an unprecedented accuracy. The upcoming generation of neutrino experiments will be sensitive to subdominant neutrino oscillation effects that can in principle give information on the yet-unknown neutrino parameters: the Dirac CP-violating phase in the PMNS mixing matrix, the neutrino mass ordering and the octant of.23. Determining the exact values of neutrino mass and mixing parameters is crucial to test various neutrino models and flavor symmetries that are designed to predict these neutrino parameters. In the first part of this review, we summarize the current status of the neutrino oscillation parameter determination. We consider the most recent data from all solar neutrino experiments and the atmospheric neutrino data from Super-Kamiokande, IceCube, and ANTARES. We also implement the data from the reactor neutrino experiments KamLAND, Daya Bay, RENO, and Double Chooz as well as the long baseline neutrino data from MINOS, T2K, and NO.A. If in addition to the standard interactions, neutrinos have subdominant yet-unknown Non-Standard Interactions (NSI) with matter fields, extracting the values of these parameters will suffer from new degeneracies and ambiguities. We review such effects and formulate the conditions on the NSI parameters under which the precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters can be distorted. Like standard weak interactions, the non-standard interaction can be categorized into two groups: Charged Current (CC) NSI and Neutral Current (NC) NSI. Our focus will bemainly on neutral current NSI because it is possible to build a class of models that give rise to sizeable NC NSI with discernible effects on neutrino oscillation. These models are based on new U(1) gauge symmetry with a gauge boson of mass. 10 MeV. The UV complete model should be of course electroweak invariant which in general implies that along with neutrinos, charged fermions also acquire new interactions on which there are strong bounds. We enumerate the bounds that already exist on the electroweak symmetric models and demonstrate that it is possible to build viable models avoiding all these bounds. In the end, we review methods to test these models and suggest approaches to break the degeneracies in deriving neutrino mass parameters caused by NSI. |
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[Farzan, Yasaman] Inst Res Fundamental Sci, Sch Phys, Tehran, Iran, Email: mariam@ific.uv.es |
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Cai, Y.; Herrero-Garcia, J.; Schmidt, M.A.; Vicente, A.; Volkas, R.R. |
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From the Trees to the Forest: A Review of Radiative Neutrino Mass Models |
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neutrino masses; lepton flavor violation; lepton number violation; beyond the standard model; effective field theory; model building; LHC; dark matter |
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A plausible explanation for the lightness of neutrino masses is that neutrinos are massless at tree level, with their mass (typically Majorana) being generated radiatively at one or more loops. The new couplings, together with the suppression coming from the loop factors, imply that the new degrees of freedom cannot be too heavy (they are typically at the TeV scale). Therefore, in these models there are no large mass hierarchies and they can be tested using different searches, making their detailed phenomenological study very appealing. In particular, the new particles can be searched for at colliders and generically induce signals in lepton-flavor and lepton-number violating processes (in the case of Majorana neutrinos), which are not independent from reproducing correctly the neutrino masses and mixings. The main focus of the review is on Majorana neutrinos. We order the allowed theory space from three different perspectives: (i) using an effective operator approach to lepton number violation, (ii) by the number of loops at which the Weinberg operator is generated, (iii) within a given loop order, by the possible irreducible topologies. We also discuss in more detail some popular radiative models which involve qualitatively different features, revisiting their most important phenomenological implications. Finally, we list some promising avenues to pursue. |
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[Cai, Yi] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Phys, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China, Email: juan.herrero-garcia@coepp.org.au; |
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Aguilar, A.C.; Binosi, D.; Papavassiliou, J. |
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The gluon mass generation mechanism: A concise primer |
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nonperturbative physics; Schwinger-Dyson equations; dynamical mass generation |
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We present a pedagogical overview of the nonperturbative mechanism that endows gluons with a dynamical mass. This analysis is performed based on pure Yang-Mills theories in the Landau gauge, within the theoretical framework that emerges from the combination of the pinch technique with the background field method. In particular, we concentrate on the Schwinger-Dyson equation satisfied by the gluon propagator and examine the necessary conditions for obtaining finite solutions within the infrared region. The role of seagull diagrams receives particular attention, as do the identities that enforce the cancellation of all potential quadratic divergences. We stress the necessity of introducing nonperturbative massless poles in the fully dressed vertices of the theory in order to trigger the Schwinger mechanism, and explain in detail the instrumental role of these poles in maintaining the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin symmetry at every step of the mass-generating procedure. The dynamical equation governing the evolution of the gluon mass is derived, and its solutions are determined numerically following implementation of a set of simplifying assumptions. The obtained mass function is positive definite, and exhibits a power law running that is consistent with general arguments based on the operator product expansion in the ultraviolet region. A possible connection between confinement and the presence of an inflection point in the gluon propagator is briefly discussed. |
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[Aguilar, A. C.] Univ Campinas UNICAMP, Gleb Wataghin Inst Phys, BR-13083859 Campinas, SP, Brazil, Email: Joannis.Papavassiliou@uv.es |
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Higher Education Press |
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English |
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2095-0462 |
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WOS:000387550300001 |
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2859 |
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