Application of the parametric for mulae for electromagnetic showers in unconverted γ/π~0 discrimination

In the LHC experiment, the neutral pions produced during jet fragmentation are the background sources for all physics channels with high-energy photons in their final state. In this paper, the application of the three-dimensional parametric formula for electromagnetic (EM) showers, which we developed in the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer II experiment, is presented to distinguish the unconverted photons from the neutral pions. With the constructed electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) in a GEANT4 simulation, the parametric formulae were validated and the unconverted γπ⁰ discrimination was performed with the Toolkit for Multivariate Data Analysis (TMVA) package in ROOT for different transverse energies ranging from 15 GeV to 75 GeV, which is the most sensitive region for light Higgs (with mass ～120 GeV) searches with the channel H→γγ. With this discrimination method and the selected transverse energy region, we can reject π⁰ with the efficiency from ～40% (65--75 GeV) to ～90% (15--25 GeV) when keeping 90% γ efficiency.     

Measuring D0-D0 mixing in D→f0(980) K and more

We investigate the D⁰-D⁰ mixing through the doubly Cabibbo suppressed (DCS) channel D0→f₀(980)K^*0 and its charge conjugate channel, in which the K^*0 meson is reconstructed in both K⁺π^－ and K_Sπ⁰ final state. Although the decay D⁰→f₀(980)K^* has a small branching ratio, the final state mesons are relatively easy to identify. The f₀(980) meson can be replaced by the S-wave π⁺π^－ state, or a longitudinally polarized vector meson ρ⁰. All mixing parameters, including the mass difference and decay width difference, can be extracted by studying the time-dependent decay width of these channels. We show that the method is valid in all regions for mixing parameters and it does not depend on the strong phase difference.     

Study of diphoton decays of the lightest scalar Higgs boson in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

The CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC have announced the discovery of a Higgs boson with mass at approximately 125 GeV/c² in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson via, notably, the γγ and ZZ to four leptons final states. Considering the recent results of the Higgs boson searches from the LHC, we study the lightest scalar Higgs boson h₁ in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model by restricting the next-to-lightest scalar Higgs boson h₂ to be the observed to the 125 GeV/c² state. We perform a scan over the relevant NMSSM parameter space that is favoured by low fine-tuning considerations. Moreover, we also take the experimental constraints from direct searches, B-physics observables, relic density, and anomalous magnetic moment of the muon measurements, as well as the theoretical considerations, into account in our specific scan. We find that the signal rate in the two-photon final state for the NMSSM Higgs boson h₁ with the mass range from about 80 GeV/c² to about 122 GeV/c² can be enhanced by a factor of up to 3.5 when the Higgs boson h₂ is required to be compatible with the excess from latest LHC results. This motivates the extension of the search at the LHC for the Higgs boson h₁ in the diphoton final state down to masses of 80 GeV/c², particularly with the upcoming proton-proton collision data to be taken at center-of-mass energies of 13-14 TeV.     

Developing AMS measurement of 59Ni at CIAE

Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) measurement of ⁵⁹Ni has been established at CIAE with the HI-13 tandem accelerator and the recently developed ΔE-Q3D detection system. ⁵⁹Ni standard and commercial NiO samples were measured to check the performance of the ΔE-Q3D detection system on ⁵⁹Ni isobar separation and suppression. An overall suppression factor of about 10⁷ for the interfering isobar ⁵⁹Co resulting in detection sensitivity as low as 3.8×10^-13 atomic ratio (⁵⁹Ni/Ni) has been obtained. Based on these techniques, the AMS measurement method of ⁵⁹Ni with high sensitivity is developed.     

O(α_sv~2) correction to J/ψ plus η_c production in e~+e~- annihilation at √s=10.6 GeV

Based on the nonrelativistic QCD factorization approach, O(α_sv2) corrections to J/ψ plus η_c production in m e⁺e^- annihilation at √s=10.6 ≥v are calculated in this work. The numerical results show that the correction at α_sv2 order is only about a few percent of the total theoretical result. This indicates that the perturbative expansions become convergent and that a higher order correction will be smaller. The uncertainties from the long-distance matrix elements, renormalization scale and the measurement in the experiment are also discussed. Our result is in agreement with the previous result by Jia.     

A simulation study on the measurement of D0-D0 mixing parameter y at BESⅢ

We established a method on measuring the D⁰-D⁰ mixing parameter y for BESⅢ experiment at the BEPCⅡ e⁺e^－ collider. In this method, the doubly tagged π(3770) →D⁰-D⁰ events, with one D decays to CP-eigenstates and the other D decays semileptonically, are used to reconstruct the signals. Since this analysis requires good e/π separation, a likelihood approach, which combines the dE/dx, time of flight and the electromagnetic shower detectors information, is used for particle identification. We estimate the sensitivity of the measurement of y to be 0.007 based on a 20fb^-1 fully simulated MC sample.     

Production of the new gauge boson BH via e－ collision in the littlest Higgs model

The lightest new gauge boson B_H with mass of hundreds GeV is predicted in the littlest Higgs model. B_H should be accessible in the planned ILC and the observation of such particle can strongly support the littlest Higgs model. The realization of γγ and e^－γ collisions would open a wider window to probe B_H. In this paper, we study the new gauge boson B_H production processes e－γ→e－γ     

Production and decay of the 125 GeV Higgs boson in thelittlest Higgs model with T-parity

Motivated by recent search results for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), we revisit the Higgs phenomenology in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity (LHT). We present the signal strength modifier μ, respectively, for the main search channels qq' → jjh→ jjγγ, qq'→ Vh→ Vγγ, qq'→ Vh → Vbb, gg→ h → γγ, and gg → h → VV in the LHT model. It is found that an enhancement factor of 1.09-1.56 in the qq' → jjh→ jjγγ channel can be obtained for this model in Case B with parameter f in the range 500-1000~GeV. However, the rates for bb, ττ are significantly suppressed relative to the SM predictions, which are still consistent with the current sensitivity. It is hoped that this will be further tested with larger integrated luminosity at the LHC.     

Efficiency calibration of neutron detector array for β decay of exotic nuclei

The research of the in-beam efficiency calibration of Neutron Detector Array of Peking University using ¹⁷N and ¹⁶C beams was introduced in this paper. The efficiency of neutron wall and ball are comparable to the foreign similar devices and neutrons can be detected from low to high energies in high efficiency.     

Comparison of thermal neutron detection efficiency of 6Li scintillation glass and 3He gas proportional tube

We report on a comparison study of the ³He gas proportional tube and the ⁶Li incorporated scintillation glasses on thermal neutron detection efficiency. Both ³He and ⁶Li are used commonly for thermal neutron detection because of their high neutron capture absorption coefficient. By using a neutron source ²⁵²Cf and a paraffin moderator in an alignment system, we can get a small beam of thermal neutrons. A flash ADC is used to measure the thermal neutron spectrum of each detector, and the detected number of events is determined from the spectrum, then we can calculate the detection efficiency of different detectors. Meanwhile, the experiment has been modeled with GEANT4 to validate the results against the Monte Carlo simulation.