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Abstract:

The first superconducting magnets to be installed in the muon ionization cooling experiment (MICE) will be the tracker solenoids. The tracker solenoid module is a five coil superconducting solenoid with a 400 mm diameter warm bore that is used to provide a 4 T magnetic field for the experiment tracker module. Three of the coils are used to produce a uniform field (up to 4 T with better than 1 percent uniformity) in a region that is 300 mm in diameter and 1000 mm long. The other two coils are used to match the muon beam into the MICE cooling channel. Two 2.94-meter long superconducting tracker solenoid modules have been ordered for MICE. The tracker solenoid will be cooled using two-coolers that produce 1.5 W each at 4.2 K. The magnet system is described. The decisions that drive the magnet design will be discussed in this report. © 2007 IEEE.

Abstract:

A key issue in the construction of the MICE cooling channel is the magnetic forces between various elements in the cooling channel and the detector magnets. This report describes how the MICE cooling channel magnets are hooked to together so that the longitudinal magnetic forces within the cooling channel can be effectively connected to the base of the experiment. This report presents a magnetic force and stress analysis for the MICE cooling channel magnets, even when longitudinal magnetic forces as large as 700 kN (70 tons) are applied to the vacuum vessel of various magnets within the MICE channel. This report also shows that the detector magnets can be effectively separated from the central MICE cooling channel magnets without damage to either type of magnet component. © 2007 IEEE.

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The production of D^{* ±} (2010) mesons in e^± p scattering in the range of exchanged photon virtuality 0.05 < Q² < 0.7   GeV² has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 82 pb^-1. The decay channels D^{* +} → D⁰ π⁺ with D⁰ → K^- π⁺ and corresponding antiparticle decay were used to identify D^* mesons and the ZEUS beampipe calorimeter was used to identify the scattered electron. Differential D^* cross sections as functions of Q², inelasticity, y, transverse momentum of the D^* meson, pT (D^*), and pseudorapidity of the D^* meson, η (D^*), have been measured in the kinematic region 0.02 < y < 0.85, 1.5 < pT (D^*) < 9.0   GeV and | η (D^*) | < 1.5. The measured differential cross sections are in agreement with two different NLO QCD calculations. The cross sections are also compared to previous ZEUS measurements in the photoproduction and DIS regimes. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Abstract:

We search for the technicolor process pp̄→ρT/ ωT→WπT in events containing one electron and two jets, in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 390pb-1, recorded by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. Technicolor predicts that technipions πT decay dominantly into bb̄, bc̄, or b̄c, depending on their charge. In these events b and c quarks are identified by their secondary decay vertices within jets. Two analysis methods based on topological variables are presented. Since no excess above the standard model prediction was found, the result is presented as an exclusion in the πT vs ρT mass plane for a given set of model parameters. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

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We present a search for electroweak production of single top quarks in the s-channel (pp̄→tb̄+X) and t-channel (pp̄→tqb̄+X) modes. We have analyzed 230pb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of s=1.96TeV. No evidence for a single top quark signal is found. We set 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross sections, based on binned likelihoods formed from a neural network output. The observed (expected) limits are 6.4 pb (4.5 pb) in the s-channel and 5.0 pb (5.8 pb) in the t-channel. © 2007 The American Physical Society.