A search for neutrinos from the solar hep reaction and the diffuse supernova neutrino background with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 653:2 (2006) 1545-1551

Authors:

B Aharmim, SN Ahmed, AE Anthony, EW Beier, A Bellerive, M Bergevin, SD Biller, MG Boulay, YD Chan, M Chen, X Chen, BT Cleveland, GA Cox, CA Currat, X Dai, F Dalnoki-Veress, H Deng, J Detwiler, M DiMarco, PJ Doe, G Doucas, P-L Drouin, FA Duncan, M Dunford, JA Dunmore, ED Earle, HC Evans, GT Ewan, J Farine, H Fergani, F Fleurot, RJ Ford, JA Formaggio, N Gagnon, J Tm Goon, K Graham, E Guillian, RL Hahn, AL Hallin, ED Hallman, PJ Harvey, R Hazama, KM Heeger, WJ Heintzelman, J Heise, RL Helmer, RJ Hemingway, R Henning, A Hime, C Howard, MA Howe, M Huang, P Jagam, NA Jelley, JR Klein, LL Kormos, M Kos, A Kruger, C Kraus, CB Krauss, T Kutter, CCM Kyba, H Labranche, R Lange, J Law, IT Lawson, KT Lesko, JR Leslie, JC Loach, S Luoma, R MacLellan, S Majerus, HB Mak, J Maneira, AD Marino, R Martin, N McCauley, AB McDonald, S McGee, C Mifflin, KKS Miknaitis, ML Miller, B Monreal, BG Nickel, AJ Noble, EB Norman, NS Oblath, CE Okada, HM O'Keeffe, GD Orebi Gann, SM Oser, R Ott, SJM Peeters, AWP Poon, G Prior, K Rielage, BC Robertson, RGH Robertson, E Rollin, MH Schwendener, JA Secrest, SR Seibert, O Simard, CJ Sims, D Sinclair, P Skensved, RG Stokstad, LC Stonehill, G Tesic, N Tolich, T Tsui, R Van Berg, RG Van de Water, BA VanDevender, CJ Virtue, TJ Walker, BL Wall, D Waller, H Wan Chan Tseung, DL Wark, J Wendland, N West, JF Wilkerson, JR Wilson, JM Wouters, A Wright, M Yeh, F Zhang, K Zuber

Measurement of the azimuthal angle distribution of leptons from W boson decays as a function of the W transverse momentum in p(p)over-bar collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV -: art. no. 052002

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 73:5 (2006) ARTN 052002

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, 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, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campbell, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, ML Chu, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, A Dominguez, S Donati, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, N Eddy, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, S Farrington, RG Feild, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, I Fiori, B Flaugher, LR Flores-Castillo, GW Foster, M Franklin, J Friedman, I Furic, M Gallinaro, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, DW Gerdes, E Gerstein, S Giagu, P Giannetti, K Giolo, M Giordani, P Giromini, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, J Goldstein, G Gomez, M Goncharov, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, J Guimaraes da Costa, C Haber, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, J Heinrich, M Hennecke, M Herndon, C Hill, A Hocker, KD Hoffman, S Hou, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, C Issever, A Ivanov, Y Iwata, B Iyutin, E James, M Jones, T Kamon, J Kang, KM Unel, S Kartal, H Kasha, Y Kato, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, TH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, A Korn, A Korytov, J Kroll, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, N Kuznetsova, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, M Lancaster, R Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, Y Le, J Lee, SW Lee, N Leonardo, S Leone, JD Lewis, K Li, CS Lin, M Lindgren, TM Liss, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, L Lyons, J Lys, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, M Mangano, G Manca, M Mariotti, M Martin, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, M Menguzzato, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Meyer, T Miao, JS Miller, R Miller, S Miscetti, G Mitselmakher, N Moggi, R Moore, T Moulik, A Mukherjee, M Mulhearn, T Muller, A Munar, P Murat, J Nachtman, S Nahn, I Nakano, R Napora, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, MS Neubauer, C Newman-Holmes, F Niell, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Ohsugi, T Okusawa, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, T Pauly, C Paus, D Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, KT Pitts, A Pompos, L Pondrom, G Pope, O Poukov, T Pratt, F Prokoshin, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, J Rademacker, A Rakitine, F Ratnikov, H Ray, A Reichold, P Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, A Roy, A Ruiz, D Ryan, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, S Sarkar, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, MD Shapiro, PF Shepard, T Shibayama, M Shimojima, M Shochet, A Sidoti, A Sill, P Sinervo, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, FD Snider, R Snihur, M Spezziga, L Spiegel, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, A Stefanini, J Strologas, D Stuart, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, T Suzuki, R Takashima, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, RJ Tesarek, S Tether, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, D Tonelli, M Tönnesmann, H Toyoda, W Trischuk, J Tseng, D Tsybychev, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, T Vaiciulis, A Varganov, E Vataga, S Vejcik, G Velev, G Veramendi, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Volobouev, M von der Mey, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, Z Wan, C Wang, MJ Wang, SM Wang, B Ward, S Waschke, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, S Wolbers, M Wolter, S Worm, X Wu, F Würthwein, UK Yang, W Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, F Zetti, S Zucchelli

Search for W and Z bosons in the reaction (p)over-barp → two jets plus γ at √s=1.8 TeV -: art. no. 012001

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 73:1 (2006) ARTN 012001

Authors:

D Acosta, T Affolder, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, D Amidei, K Anikeev, J Antos, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, 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, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, C Bromberg, M Brozovic, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campbell, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, ML Chu, JY Chung, WH Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, AG Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, M Cordelli, J Cranshaw, R Culbertson, D Dagenhart, S D'Auria, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, S Demers, L Demortier, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, A Dominguez, S Donati, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, N Eddy, R Erbacher, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, S Farrington, RG Feild, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, I Fiori, B Flaugher, LR Flores-Castillo, GW Foster, M Franklin, J Friedman, H Frisch, I Furic, M Gallinaro, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, DW Gerdes, E Gerstein, S Giagu, P Giannetti, K Giolo, M Giordani, P Giromini, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, J Goldstein, G Gomez, M Goncharov, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, C Grosso-Pilcher, M Guenther, J Guimaraes da Costa, C Haber, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, J Heinrich, M Hennecke, M Herndon, C Hill, A Hocker, KD Hoffman, S Hou, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, C Issever, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, Y Iwata, B Iyutin, E James, M Jones, T Kamon, J Kang, MK Unel, S Kartal, H Kasha, Y Kato, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, MJ Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, TH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, A Korn, A Korytov, J Kroll, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, N Kuznetsova, AT Laasanen, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, K Lannon, M Lancaster, R Lander, A Lath, G Latino, T LeCompte, Y Le, J Lee, SW Lee, N Leonardo, S Leone, JD Lewis, K Li, CS Lin, M Lindgren, TM Liss, T Liu, DO Litvintsev, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, L Lyons, J Lys, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, M Mangano, G Manca, M Mariotti, M Martin, A Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, P McIntyre, M Menguzzato, A Menzione, P Merkel, C Mesropian, A Meyer, T Miao, R Miller, JS Miller, S Miscetti, G Mitselmakher, N Moggi, R Moore, T Moulik, M Mulhearn, A Mukherjee, T Muller, A Munar, P Murat, J Nachtman, S Nahn, I Nakano, R Napora, F Niell, C Nelson, T Nelson, C Neu, MS Neubauer, C Newman-Holmes, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Ohsugi, T Okusawa, W Orejudos, C Pagliarone, F Palmonari, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, T Pauly, C Paus, D Pellett, A Penzo, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, J Piedra, KT Pitts, A Pompos, L Pondrom, G Pope, T Pratt, F Prokoshin, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, O Poukhov, G Punzi, J Rademacker, A Rakitine, F Ratnikov, H Ray, A Reichold, P Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, A Roy, A Ruiz, D Ryan, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, S Sarkar, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, A Scribano, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Semeria, MD Shapiro, PF Shepard, T Shibayama, M Shimojima, M Shochet, A Sidoti, A Sill, P Sinervo, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, FD Snider, R Snihur, M Spezziga, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, A Stefanini, J Strologas, D Stuart, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, T Suzuki, R Takashima, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, M Tecchio, RJ Tesarek, PK Teng, K Terashi, S Tether, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, D Tonelli, M Tönnesmann, H Toyoda, W Trischuk, J Tseng, D Tsybychev, N Turini, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, T Vaiciulis, A Varganov, E Vataga, S Vejcik, G Velev, G Veramendi, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Volobouev, M von der Mey, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, Z Wan, C Wang, MJ Wang, SM Wang, B Ward, S Waschke, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, S Wolbers, M Wolter, S Worm, X Wu, F Würthwein, UK Yang, W Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, F Zetti, S Zucchelli

Performance implications of virtualization and hyper-threading on high energy physics applications in a grid environment

Proceedings - 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2005 2005 (2005)

Authors:

L Gilbert, J Tseng, R Newman, S Iqbal, R Pepper, O Celebioglu, J Hsieh, M Cobban

Abstract:

The simulations used in the field of high energy physics are compute intensive and exhibit a high level of data parallelism. These features make such simulations ideal candidates for Grid computing. We are taking as an example the GEANT4 detector simulation used for physics studies within the ATLAS experiment at CERN. One key issue in Grid computing is that of network and system security, which can potentially inhibit the wide spread use of such simulations. Virtualization provides a feasible solution because it allows the creation of virtual compute nodes in both local and remote compute clusters, thus providing an insulating layer which can play an important role in satisfying the security concerns of all parties involved. However, it has performance implications. This study provides quantitative estimates of the visualization and hyper-threading overhead for GEANT on commodity clusters. Results show that virtualization has less than 15% run-time overhead, and that the best run time (with the non-SMP licence of ESX VMware) is achieved by using one virtual machine per CPU. We also observe that hyper-threading does not provide an advantage in this application. Finally, the effect of virtualization on run-time, throughput, mean response time and utilization is estimated using simulations.

Search for periodicities in the B8 solar neutrino flux measured by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 72:5 (2005)

Authors:

B Aharmim, SN Ahmed, AE Anthony, EW Beier, A Bellerive, M Bergevin, SD Biller, MG Boulay, MG Bowler, YD Chan, M Chen, X Chen, BT Cleveland, T Costin, GA Cox, CA Currat, X Dai, H Deng, J Detwiler, PJ Doe, RS Dosanjh, G Doucas, CA Duba, FA Duncan, M Dunford, JA Dunmore, ED Earle, SR Elliott, HC Evans, GT Ewan, J Farine, H Fergani, F Fleurot, JA Formaggio, W Frati, BG Fulsom, N Gagnon, JTM Goon, K Graham, RL Hahn, AL Hallin, ED Hallman, WB Handler, CK Hargrove, PJ Harvey, R Hazama, KM Heeger, L Heelan, WJ Heintzelman, J Heise, RL Helmer, RJ Hemingway, A Hime, MA Howe, M Huang, E Inrig, P Jagam, NA Jelley, JR Klein, LL Kormos, MS Kos, A Krüger, C Kraus, CB Krauss, AV Krumins, T Kutter, CCM Kyba, H Labranche, R Lange, J Law, IT Lawson, KT Lesko, JR Leslie, I Levine, JC Loach, S Luoma, R MacLellan, S Majerus, J Maneira, AD Marino, N McCauley, AB McDonald, S McGee, C Mifflin, KKS Miknaitis, BG Nickel, AJ Noble, EB Norman, NS Oblath, CE Okada, HM O'Keeffe, RW Ollerhead, GDO Gann, JL Orrell, SM Oser, T Ouvarova, SJM Peeters, AWP Poon, CSJ Pun, K Rielage

Abstract:

A search has been made for sinusoidal periodic variations in the B8 solar neutrino flux using data collected by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory over a 4-year time interval. The variation at a period of 1 yr is consistent with modulation of the B8 neutrino flux by the Earth's orbital eccentricity. No significant sinusoidal periodicities are found with periods between 1 d and 10 years with either an unbinned maximum likelihood analysis or a Lomb-Scargle periodogram analysis. The data are inconsistent with the hypothesis that the results of the recent analysis by Sturrock et al., based on elastic scattering events in Super-Kamiokande, can be attributed to a 7% sinusoidal modulation of the total B8 neutrino flux. © 2005 The American Physical Society.