Scaled momentum spectra in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
Journal of High Energy Physics 2010:6 (2010)
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Charged particle production has been studied in neutral current deep inelastic ep scattering with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 0.44 fb?1. Distributions of scaled momenta in the Breit frame are presented for particles in the current fragmentation region. The evolution of these spectra with the photon virtuality, Q2, is described in the kinematic region 10 < Q2< 41000Ge V2. Next-to-leading-order and modified leading-log-approximation QCD calculations as well as predictions from Monte Carlo models are compared to the data. The results are also compared to e+e? annihilation data. The dependences of the pseudorapidity distribution of the particles on Q2 and on the energy in the p system, W, are presented and interpreted in the context of the hypothesis of limiting fragmentation.Searches in dilepton and diphoton final states at the tevatron
Proceedings of Science 120 (2010)
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Neutral resonances decaying to dileptons or diphotons are common in models of physics beyond the standard model. The Tevatron experiments have analyzed up to 5.4 fb−1 of dilepton and diphoton data, and found no significant evidence of such neutral resonances. The CDF and D0 experiments set the world's highest mass limits on new spin-0 sneutrinos, spin-1 gauge bosons, and spin-2 gravitons.The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure
European Physical Journal C 70:3 (2010) 823-874
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The simulation software for the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is being used for large-scale production of events on the LHC Computing Grid. This simulation requires many components, from the generators that simulate particle collisions, through packages simulating the response of the various detectors and triggers. All of these components come together under the ATLAS simulation infrastructure. In this paper, that infrastructure is discussed, including that supporting the detector description, interfacing the event generation, and combining the GEANT4 simulation of the response of the individual detectors. Also described are the tools allowing the software validation, performance testing, and the validation of the simulated output against known physics processes. © 2010 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.Time reconstruction and performance of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter
Journal of Instrumentation 5:3 (2010)
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The resolution and the linearity of time measurements made with the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter are studied with samples of data from test beam electrons, cosmic rays, and beam-produced muons. The resulting time resolution measured by lead tungstate crystals is better than 100 ps for energy deposits larger than 10 GeV. Crystal-to-crystal synchronization with a precision of 500 ps is performed using muons produced with the first LHC beams in 2008. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA.A QCD analysis of ZEUS diffractive data
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B 831:1-2 (2010) 1-25