The CMS Collaboration

Nuclear Physics A 830:1-4 (2009) 946c-956c

Authors:

D Abbaneo, G Abbiendi, M Abbrescia, B Abelev, D Acosta, JG Acosta, O Actis, N Adam, W Adam, T Adams, MR Adams, A Adiguzel, V Adler, P Adzic, L Agostino, JL Agram, M Aguilar-Benitez, D Aharoni, M Ahmad, I Ahmed, S Ahuja, N Akchurin, B Akgun, U Akgun, IV Akin, E Alagoz, C Albajar, EA Albayrak, S Albergo, M Albrow, J Alcaraz Maestre, J Alexander, T Aliev, P Allfrey, N Almeida, G Altenhöfer, I Altsybeev, RL Alvarez, B Alver, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Alwarawrah, N Amapane, F Ambroglini, C Amsler, G Anagnostou, A Anastassov, M Anderson, J Andrea, V Andreev, Y Andreev, IM Anghel, L Antonelli, Z Antunovic, L Apanasevich, G Apollinari, A Aranyi, P Arce, R Arcidiacono, MW Arenton, H Arfaei, S Argiro, K Arisaka, M Arneodo, J Asaadi, MI Asghar, S Ashby, A Ashimova, A Askew, AC Assis Jesus, M Atac, O Atramentov, A Attikis, E Auffray, A Aurisano, C Autermann, P Avery, A Avetisyan, A Ayhan, I Azhgirey, T Aziz, P Azzi, P Azzurri, M Baarmand, J Babb, N Bacchetta, W Bacchi, M Bachtis, D Baden, P Baesso, S Baffioni, G Bagliesi, P Baillon, R Bainbridge, H Bakhshiansohi, MN Bakirci, JA Bakken, M Balazs, G Ball, A Ball

SiD Letter of Intent

(2009)

Authors:

H Aihara, P Burrows, M Oreglia

Precise Mapping of the Magnetic Field in the CMS Barrel Yoke using Cosmic Rays

ArXiv 0910.5530 (2009)

On the possibility of light string resonances at the LHC and Tevatron from Randall-Sundrum throats

Journal of High Energy Physics 2009:7 (2009)

Authors:

B Hassanain, J March-Russell, JG Rosa

Abstract:

In string realizations of the Randall-Sundrum scenario, the higher-spin Regge excitations of Standard Model states localized near the IR brane are warped down to close to the TeV scale. We argue that, as a consequence of the localization properties of Randall-Sundrum models of flavour, the lightest such resonance is the spin-3/2 excitation, t R*, of the right-handed top quark over a significant region of parameter space. A mild accidental cancellation allows the t R* to be as light or lighter than the Kaluza-Klein excitations of the Standard Model states. We consider from a bottom-up effective theory point of view the production and possible observability of such a spin-3/2 excitation at the LHC and Tevatron. Current limits are weaker than might be expected because of the excess of WWjj events at the Tevatron reported by CDF at M inv ≃400-500 GeV. © SISSA 2009.

Light scattering for thermometry of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice

Physical Review Letters 103:17 (2009)

Authors:

J Ruostekoski, CJ Foot, AB Deb

Abstract:

We propose a method of using off-resonant light scattering to measure the temperature of fermionic atoms tightly confined in a two-dimensional optical-lattice potential. We show that fluctuations of the intensity in the far-field diffraction pattern arising from thermal correlations of the atoms can be accurately detected above the shot noise by collecting photons scattered in a forward direction, with the diffraction maxima blocked. The sensitivity of this method of thermometry is enhanced by an additional harmonic trapping potential. © 2009 The American Physical Society.