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Freitas, E.D.C.; Monteiro, C.M.B.; Ball, M.; Gomez-Cadenas, J.J.; Lopes, J.A.M.; Lux, T.; Sanchez, F.; dos Santos, J.M.F. |
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Secondary scintillation yield in high-pressure xenon gas for neutrinoless double beta decay (0 nu beta beta) search |
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Journal Article |
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2010 |
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Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
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684 |
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4-5 |
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205-210 |
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Neutrino; Neutrinoless double-beta decay; Secondary scintillation; Xenon; High-pressure |
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The search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0 nu beta beta) is an important topic in contemporary physics with many active experiments. New projects are planning to use high-pressure xenon gas as both source and detection medium. The secondary scintillation processes available in noble gases permit large amplification with negligible statistical fluctuations, offering the prospect of energy resolution approaching the Fano factor limit. This Letter reports results for xenon secondary scintillation yield, at room temperature, as a function of electric field in the gas scintillation gap for pressures ranging from 2 to 10 bar. A Large Area Avalanche Photodiode (LAAPD) collected the VUV secondary scintillation produced in the gas. X-rays directly absorbed in the LAAPD are used as a reference for determining the number of charge carriers produced by the scintillation pulse and, hence, the number of photons impinging the LAAPD. The number of photons produced per drifting electron and per kilovolt, the so-called scintillation amplification parameter, displays a small increase with pressure, ranging from 141 +/- 6 at 2 bar to 170 +/- 10 at 8 bar. In our setup, this Parameter does not increase above 8 bar due to nonnegligible electron attachment. The results are in good agreement with those presented in the literature in the 1 to 3 bar range. The increase of the scintillation amplification parameter with pressure for high gas densities has been also observed in former work at cryogenic temperatures. |
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[Freitas, E. D. C.; Monteiro, C. M. B.; Lopes, J. A. M.; dos Santos, J. M. F.] Univ Coimbra, GIAN CI, Dept Fis, P-3004516 Coimbra, Portugal, Email: jmf@gian.fis.uc.pt |
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Gomez Dumm, D.; Roig, P.; Pich, A.; Portoles, J. |
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tau -> pi pi pi nu(tau) decays and the a(1)(1260) off-shell width revisited |
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Journal Article |
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2010 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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685 |
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2-3 |
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158-164 |
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Hadron tau decays; Chiral Lagrangians; QCD; 1/N expansion |
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The tau -> pi pi pi nu(tau) decay is driven by the hadronization of the axial-vector current. Within the resonance chiral theory, and considering the large-N-C expansion, this process has been studied in Ref. [1] (D. Gomez Dumm, A. Pich, J. Portoles, 2004). In the light of later developments we revise here this previous work by including a new off-shell width for the lightest a(1) resonance that provides a good description of the tau -> pi pi pi nu(tau) spectrum and branching ratio. We also consider the role of the rho(1450) resonance in these observables. Thus we bring in an overall description of the tau -> pi pi pi nu(tau) process in excellent agreement with our present experimental knowledge. |
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[Pich, A.; Portoles, J.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, IFIC, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: Jorge.Portoles@ific.uv.es |
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Albertus, C.; Hernandez, E.; Nieves, J. |
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Hyperfine mixing in b -> c semileptonic decay of doubly heavy baryons |
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Journal Article |
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2010 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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683 |
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1 |
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21-25 |
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We qualitatively corroborate the results of [W. Roberts, M. Pervin, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 24 (2009) 2401] according to which hyperfine mixing greatly affects the decay widths of b -> c semileptonic decays involving doubly heavy bc baryons. However, our predictions for the decay widths of the unmixed states differ from those reported in the work of Roberts and Pervin by a factor of 2, and this discrepancy translates to the mixed case. We further show that the predictions of heavy quark spin symmetry, might be used in the future to experimentally extract information on the admixtures in the actual physical bc baryons, in a model independent manner. |
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[Hernandez, E.] Univ Salamanca, Dept Fis Fundamental, E-37008 Salamanca, Spain, Email: gajatee@usal.es |
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IFIC @ elepoucu @ |
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ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al); Amoros, G.; Cabrera Urban, S.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Costa, M.J.; Escobar, C.; Ferrer, A.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Hernandez Jimenez, Y.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Irles Quiles, A.; Kaci, M.; Lacasta, C.; Lacuesta, V.R.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Miñano, M.; Mitsou, V.A.; Moles-Valls, R.; Moreno Llacer, M.; Oliver Garcia, E.; Perez Garcia-Estañ, M.T.; Ros, E.; Salt, J.; Sanchis-Lozano, M.A.; Solans, C.A.; Sanchez, J.; Torro Pastor, E.; Valladolid Gallego, E.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Villaplana Perez, M.; Vos, M.; Wildauer, A. |
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Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions at root s=900 GeV measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC |
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Journal Article |
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2010 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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688 |
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1 |
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21-42 |
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Charged-particle; Multiplicities; 900 GeV; ATLAS; LHC; Minimum bias |
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The first measurements from proton-proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. Data were collected in December 2009 using a minimum-bias trigger during collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 900 GeV. The charged-particle multiplicity, its dependence on transverse momentum and pseudorapidity, and the relationship between mean transverse momentum and charged-particle multiplicity are measured for events with at least one charged particle in the kinematic range vertical bar eta vertical bar < 2.5 and p(T) > 500 MeV. The measurements are compared to Monte Carlo models of proton-proton collisions and to results from other experiments at the same centre-of-mass energy. The charged-particle multiplicity per event and unit of pseudorapidity eta = 0 is measured to be 1.333 +/- 0.003(stat.) +/- 0.040(syst.), which is 5-15% higher than the Monte Carlo models predict. |
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[Aad, G.; Ahles, F.; Aktas, A.; Anders, C. F.; Beckingham, M.; Bernhard, R.; Bianchi, R. M.; Bitenc, U.; Bruneliere, R.; Caron, S.; Carpentieri, C.; Christov, A.; Dahlhoff, A.; Dietrich, J.; Dingfelder, D. J.; Eckert, S.; Hartert, J.; Heldmann, M.; Herten, G.; Horner, S.; Jakobs, K.; Janus, M.; Joos, D.; Ketterer, C.; Koenig, S.; Kollefrath, M.; Kononov, A. I.; Kramer, A.; Kuehn, S.; Lai, S.; Landgraf, U.; Lohwasser, K.; Ludwig, I.; Ludwig, J.; Lumb, D.; Maassen, M.; Mahboubi, K.; Mazur, M.; Meinhardt, J.; Meirose, B.; Messmer, I.; Mohr, W.; Nilsen, H.; Parzefall, U.; Pfeifer, B.; Bueso, X. Portell; Rammensee, M.; Runge, K.; Rurikova, Z.; Schroff, D.; Schumacher, M.; Stoerig, K.; Sundermann, J. E.; Thoma, S.; Tobias, J.; Venturi, M.; Vivarelli, I.; von Radziewski, H.; Warsinsky, M.; Webel, M.; Weiser, C.; Werner, M.; Wiik, L. A. M.; Xie, S.; Zimmermann, S.] Univ Freiburg, Fak Math & Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany, Email: atlas.secretariat@cern.ch |
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Montanari, D. et al; Gadea, A. |
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Probing the nature of particle-core couplings in Ca-49 with gamma spectroscopy and heavy-ion transfer reactions |
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Journal Article |
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2011 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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697 |
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4 |
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288-293 |
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Multi-nucleon transfer; Gamma spectroscopy; Magnetic spectrometer; Particle-core coupling |
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Neutron rich nuclei around Ca-48 have been measured with the CLARA-PRISMA setup, making use of Ca-48 on Ni-64 binary reactions, at 5.9 MeV/A. Angular distributions of gamma rays give evidence, in several transfer channels, for a large spin alignment (approximate to 70%) perpendicular to the reaction plane, making it possible to firmly establish spin and parities of the excited states. In the case of Ca-49, states arising from different types of particle-core couplings are, for the first time, unambiguously identified on basis of angular distribution, polarization and lifetime measurements. Shell model and particle-vibration coupling calculations are used to pin down the nature of the states. Evidence is found for the presence, in the same excitation energy region, of two types of coupled states, i.e. single particle coupled to either Ca-48 or Ca-50 simple configurations, and particle-vibration coupled states based on the 3- phonon of Ca-48. |
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[Montanari, D.; Leoni, S.; Bocchi, G.; Bortignon, P. F.; Bracco, A.; Camera, F.; Colo, G.; Corsi, A.; Crespi, F. C. L.; Nicolini, R.] Univ Milan, Dipartimento Fis, Milan, Italy, Email: silvia.leoni@mi.infn.it |
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