Discovery of Circularly Polarized Radio Emission from SS 433.

The Astrophysical journal 530:1 (2000) L29-L32

Authors:

R Fender, D Rayner, R Norris, RJ Sault, G Pooley

Abstract:

We report the discovery of circularly polarized radio emission from the radio-jet X-ray binary SS 433 with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The flux density spectrum of the circular polarization, clearly detected at four frequencies between 1 and 9 GHz, is of the form V~nu-0.9+/-0.1. Multiple components in the source and a lack of very high spatial resolution do not allow a unique determination of the origin of the circular polarization or of the spectrum of fractional polarization. However, we argue that the emission is likely to arise in the inner regions of the binary, possibly via propagation-induced conversion of linear to circular polarization, and the fractional circular polarization of these regions may be as high as 10%. Observations such as these have the potential to help us investigate the composition, whether pairs or baryonic, of the ejecta from X-ray binaries.

The radio luminosity of persistent X-ray binaries

(2000)

Authors:

RP Fender, MA Hendry

Correlated X-ray Spectral and Timing Behavior of the Black Hole Candidate XTE J1550-564: A New Interpretation of Black Hole States

(2000)

Authors:

Jeroen Homan, Rudy Wijnands, Michiel van der Klis, Tomaso Belloni, Jan van Paradijs, Marc Klein-Wolt, Rob Fender, Mariano Mendez

Limit on the tau neutrino mass from τ→π-π+π-π 0ντ

Physical Review D 61:5 (2000)

Authors:

M Athanas, P Avery, CD Jones, M Lohner, C Prescott, AI Rubiera, J Yelton, J Zheng, G Brandenburg, RA Briere, A Ershov, YS Gao, DYJ Kim, R Wilson, TE Browder, Y Li, JL Rodriguez, H Yamamoto, T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, RM Hans, E Johnson, I Karliner, MA Marsh, M Palmer, C Plager, C Sedlack, M Selen, JJ Thaler, J Williams, KW Edwards, R Janicek, PM Patel, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, P Baringer, A Bean, D Besson, D Coppage, R Davis, S Kotov, I Kravchenko, N Kwak, X Zhao, L Zhou, S Anderson, VV Frolov, Y Kubota, SJ Lee, R Mahapatra, JJ O'Neill, R Poling, T Riehle, A Smith, MS Alam, SB Athar, AH Mahmood, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, JE Duboscq, KK Gan, C Gwon, T Hart, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lorenc, H Schwarthoff, E von Toerne, MM Zoeller, SJ Richichi, H Severini, P Skubic, A Undrus, M Bishai, S Chen, J Fast, JW Hinson, J Lee, N Menon, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, S Glenn, Y Kwon, AL Lyon, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, K Lingel, H Marsiske, ML Perl, V Savinov, D Ugolini, X Zhou, TE Coan, V Fadeyev

Abstract:

From a data sample of 29058 τ+→π±π+π -π0ντdecays observed in the CLEO detector we derive a 95% confidence upper limit on the tau neutrino mass of 28 MeV. ©2000 The American Physical Society.

Measurement of J/ψ and ψ(2S) polarization in pp collisions at √ s = 1.8 Tev

Physical Review Letters 85:14 (2000) 2886-2891

Authors:

T Affolder, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, P Amaral, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, MW Bailey, S Bailey, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Bensinger, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, B Bevensee, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, SR Blusk, A Bocci, A Bodek, W Bokhari, G Bolla, Y Bonushkin, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Brandl, S van den Brink, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, N Bruner, E Buckley Geer, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon Wagner, KL Byrum, P Calafiura, M Campbell, W Carithers, J Carlson, D Carlsmith, J Cassada, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, AW Chan, PS Chang, PT Chang, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, MT Cheng, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, I Chirikov Zorin, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, L Christofek, ML Chu, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, A Connolly, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, D Cronin Hennessy, R Cropp, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, F De Jongh, S Dell Agnello, M Dell Orso, R Demina

Abstract:

We have measured the polarization of J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons produced in pp collisions at √ = 1.8 TeV using data collected at the Collider Detector at Fermilab during 1992–1995. The polarization of promptly produced J/ψ [ψ(2S)] mesons is isolated from those produced in B-hadron decay and measured over the kinematic range 4 [5.5] < PT < 20 GeV/c and |y| < 0.6. For PT ≾ 12 GeV/c we do not observe significant polarization in the prompt component. © 2000 The American Physical Society.