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The NuMI off-axis long baseline experiment

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C 33 (2004) S843-S845
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Measurement of prompt charm meson production cross sections in p p̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV

Physical Review Letters 91:24 (2003) 241804/7

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D Acosta, T Affolder, MH Ahn, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, JF Arguin, T Arisawa, A Artikov, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, S Bailey, A Barbaro-Galtieri, G Barker, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, WH Bell, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, PSL Booth, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, P Calafiura, M Campanelli, M Campbell, A Canepa, D Carlsmith, S Carron, R Carosi, M Casarsa, W Caskey, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, A Cerri, C Cerri, L Cerrito, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, K Cho, D Chokheli, ML Chu, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, MN Coca, A Connolly, ME Convery

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Differential cross sections dσ/dPT for prompt charm meson production in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV were measured. The measured differential cross sections are higher than the theoretical predictions by about 100% at low pT and 50% at high pT. However, they are compatible within uncertainties. The models also underestimate Β meson productions at √s=1.8 TeV by similar factors [2,4,5].
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Superconducting solenoids for the MICE channel

Proceedings of the IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference 3 (2003) 1987-1989

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MA Green, G Barr, DE Baynham, JH Rockford, P Fabbricatore, S Farinon, RB Palmer, JM Rey

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This report describes the channel of superconducting solenoids for the proposed international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE). MICE consists of two cells of a SFOFO cooling channel that is similar to that studied in the level 2 study of a neutrino factory[1], MICE also consists of two detector solenoids at either end of the cooling channel section. The superconducting solenoids for MICE perform three functions. The coupling solenoids, which are large solenoids around 201.25 MHz RF cavities, couple the muon beam between the focusing sections as it passes along the cooling channel. The focusing solenoids are around the liquid hydrogen absorber that reduces the momentum of the muons in all directions. These solenoids generate a gradient field along the axis as they reduce the beta of the muon beam before it enters the absorber. Each detector solenoid system consists of five coils that match the muon beam coming to or from an absorber to a 4.0 T uniform solenoidal field section that that contains the particle detectors at the ends of the experiment. There are detector solenoids at the beginning and at the end of the experiment. This report describes the parameters of the eighteen superconducting coils that make up the MICE magnetic channel.
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Neutrino mass measurements

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences The Royal Society 361:1812 (2003) 2527-2551
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Observation of diffractively produced W and Z bosons in p̄p collisions at √s = 1800 GeV

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics 574:3-4 (2003) 169-179

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VM Abazov, B Abbott, A Abdesselam, M Abolins, V Abramov, BS Acharya, DL Adams, M Adams, SN Ahmed, GD Alexeev, A Alton, GA Alves, EW Anderson, Y Arnoud, C Avila, VV Babintsev, L Babukhadia, TC Bacon, A Baden, S Baffioni, B Baldin, PW Balm, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Baringer, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, F Beaudette, M Begel, A Belyaev, SB Beri, G Bernardi, I Bertram, A Besson, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Bhattacharjee, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, A Boehnlein, NI Bojko, TA Bolton, F Borcherding, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, G Briskin, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, VS Burtovoi, JM Butler, F Canelli, W Carvalho, D Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, SV Chekulaev, DK Cho, S Choi, S Chopra, D Claes, AR Clark, L Coney, B Connolly, WE Cooper, D Coppage, S Crépé-Renaudin, MAC Cummings, D Cutts, H da Motta, GA Davis, K De, SJ de Jong, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, S Doulas, LV Dudko, S Duensing, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, A Dyshkant, D Edmunds

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Using the DØ detector, we have observed events produced in p̄p collisions that contain W or Z bosons in conjunction with very little energy deposition ("rapidity gaps") in large forward regions of the detector. The fraction of W boson events with a rapidity gap (a signature for diffraction) is 0.89±0.170.19%, and the probability that the non-diffractive background fluctuated to yield the observed diffractive signal is 3 × 10-14, corresponding to a significance of 7.5σ. The Z boson sample has a gap fraction of 1.44±0.520.61% with a significance of 4.4σ. The diffractive events have very similar properties to the more common non-diffractive component. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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