Control of the Trajectories of Positively and Negatively Charged Particles by Reflection from a Chain of Bent Single Crystals

Technical Physics - A fast algorithm of calculating the passage of particles through a chain of bent single crystals is proposed based on the phenomenon of reflection of a relativistic-particle...     

Increased yield of ttbb at Hadron Colliders in low-energy supersymmetry

Light bottom squarks and gluinos have been invoked to explain the b quark pair production excess at the Fermilab Tevatron. We investigate the associated production of ttbb at hadron colliders in this scenario, and find that the rates for this process are enhanced over the standard model prediction. If light gluinos exist, it may be possible to detect them at the Tevatron, and they could easily be observed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.     

Emission of Photons at the Interaction of a High-Energy Electron Beam with a Sequence of Bent Single Crystals

A radiation source based on the emission of electrons and positrons moving in a short bent crystal has been recently discovered. The emission of particles is due to oscillations of their trajectories near the point of reflections, where trajectories approach a tangent to bent atomic planes. In the experiment performed with the secondary electron beam of the U70 accelerator, it has been shown that the emission intensity can be increased by using a sequence of oriented bent crystals. Passing through six 2.5-mm-long silicon crystals, 7-GeV electrons lose on average 2.0 GeV on emission. This value is several times larger than that in an amorphous medium. Thus, an intense source of radiation has been demonstrated with prospects of application at accelerators.     

周期弯晶作为束流控制元件的动力学稳定性

在经典力学框架内和偶极近似下,引入正弦平方势,把粒子运动方程化为具有阻尼项和受迫项的广义摆方程。利用Melnikov方法讨论了沟道运动次谐分叉及其稳定性, 导出了周期弯晶的临界条件和退道长度。结果表明, 要试图获得高的引出效率, 除了要求弯晶长度必须小于退道长度外, 还必须保证沟道粒子的运动是稳定的。对临界条件的分析表明, 系统的稳定性与它的参数有关, 只须适当调节系统参数, 就可以保证周期弯晶作为引出元件的稳定性。In the classical mechanics frame and with a dipole approximation the particle motion equation in the periodic bent crystal is reduced to the general pendulum equation with a damping term and the forced term by using the sine squared potential． This paper discusses the problem of the sub harmonic bifurcation of the periodic orbit and the stabilities of the channeling motion by using Melnikov method, so as to derive the critical condition and the dechanneling length of the periodic bent crystal. The results show that channeling motion must be stable in addition that the crystal length is smaller than the dechanneling length in order to ensure higher extracted efficiency. The analysis of the critical condition shows that the system stabilities are related to its parameters. Just by properly regulating the parameters of the system, the dynamic stabilities by the use of periodic bent crystal as beam control cell can be ensured.     

Hadron Multiplicities in Pb＋Pb Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider and Pomeron Loop Effects

We study the pseudo-rapidity distribution of hadron multiplicities of high energy Pb＋Pb collisions by using color glass condensate dynamics at LHC/ALICE in the fixed coupling case. It is found that after including the pomeron loop effects the charged hadron multiplicities at central rapidity are about 1500 for central Pb＋Pb collisions, which are significantly smaller than the saturation based calculations, ～ 1700 ÷ 2500 and compatible with that based on a study of multiplicities in the fragmentation region.     

The CERN Large Hadron Collider as a tool to study high-energy density matter

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will generate two extremely powerful 7 TeV proton beams. Each beam will consist of 2808 bunches with an intensity per bunch of 1.15x10(11) protons so that the total number of protons in one beam will be about 3x10(14) and the total energy will be 362 MJ. Each bunch will have a duration of 0.5 ns and two successive bunches will be separated by 25 ns, while the power distribution in the radial direction will be Gaussian with a standard deviation, sigma=0.2 mm. The total duration of the beam will be about 89 mus. Using a 2D hydrodynamic code, we have carried out numerical simulations of the thermodynamic and hydrodynamic response of a solid copper target that is irradiated with one of the LHC beams. These calculations show that only the first few hundred proton bunches will deposit a high specific energy of 400 kJ/g that will induce exotic states of high energy density in matter.     

Large Hadron collider tests of the little Higgs model

The little Higgs model provides an alternative to traditional candidates for new physics at the TeV scale. The new heavy gauge bosons predicted by this model should be observable at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We discuss how the LHC experiments could test the little Higgs model by studying the production and decay of these particles.     

Status of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

The European Physical Journal C - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), due to be commissioned in 2007, will provide particle physics with the first laboratory tool to access the energy frontier above 1...     

How to probe high gluon densities in pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

We present a model for hadron production in the proton fragmentation region in pp collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider which accounts for the first time for effects of very strong small x gluon fields. Average transverse momenta acquired by the valence quarks exceed 1 GeV/c for central collisions and result in the suppression of leading baryon production and an additional energy flow to smaller rapidities. A strong dependence on the impact parameter will allow one to investigate the propagation of leading partons through gluon fields of a strength comparable to the ones encountered in heavy ion collisions at the LHC and in cosmic-ray-air interactions at highest energies.     

Jet substructure as a new Higgs-search channel at the Large Hadron Collider

It is widely considered that, for Higgs boson searches at the CERN Large Hadron Colider, WH and ZH production where the Higgs boson decays to bb are poor search channels due to large backgrounds. We show that at high transverse momenta, employing state-of-the-art jet reconstruction and decomposition techniques, these processes can be recovered as promising search channels for the standard model Higgs boson around 120 GeV in mass.     

Hadronic Interactions in the Energy Region of Future Hadron Colliders,Dual Topological Unitarization of Hard and Soft Hadronic Cross Sections

The dual topological unitarization of hard and soft hadronic collisions is formulated as a Monte Carlo event generator for events containing both the soft (low p ?) and hard (jets, minijets) component of hadron production. The parameters of the model are determined from fits to the energy dependence of the total and inelastic hadron cross-sections and from the predictions of the QCD-parton model for the perturbative hard constituent scattering cross sections. The predictions of the model for TeV colliders are presented. Interesting changes of the produced multiparticle system are found when selecting classes of events with and without hard jets or minijets.     

Signatures of gravitational fixed points at the Large Hadron Collider

We study quantum-gravitational signatures at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the context of theories with extra spatial dimensions and a low fundamental Planck scale in the TeV range. Implications of a gravitational fixed point at high energies are worked out using Wilson's renormalization group. We find that relevant cross sections involving virtual gravitons become finite. Based on gravitational lepton pair production we conclude that the LHC is sensitive to a fundamental Planck scale of up to 6 TeV.     

A clean signal for a top-like isosinglet fermion at the Large Hadron Collider

We predict a clean signal at the Large Hadron Collider ( $\sqrt{s}=$ 14 TeV) for a scenario where there is a top-like, charge +?2/3 vector-like isosinglet fermion. Such a quark, via mixing with the standard model top, can undergo decays via both flavour-changing Z-boson coupling and flavour-changing Yukawa interactions. We concentrate on the latter channel, and study the situation where, following its pair production, the heavy quark pair gives rise to two tops and two Higgs bosons. We show that when each Higgs decays in the $b\bar{b}$ channel, there can be a rather distinct and background-free signal that can unveil the existence of the vector-like isosinglet quark of this kind.     

在大型强子对撞机上探索物质本源的大型重离子实验

欧洲核子研究中心的大型重离子实验探测器(ALICE),利用2008年开始运行的大型强子对撞机(LHC),将核物质加热到太阳中心温度的几十万倍,研究在高温高密的极端环境下生成的新物质形态（夸克胶子等离子体或夸克物质）的性质.这样的实验有可能从本源上探索:强作用力如何支配物质结构？夸克作为强作用力的基本量子,如何禁闭于质子和中子内部？夸克作为物质的基本组成单元,质量从何而来？文章介绍了在大型强子对撞机上探索物质本源的大型重离子实验,内容包括：强作用力与夸克模型、渐进自c由与夸克禁闭、重离子碰撞与夸克物质、LHC上的ALICE实验、连通夸克和宇宙.     

Design and implementation of a crystal collimation test stand at the Large Hadron Collider

Future upgrades of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) demand improved cleaning performance of its collimation system. Very efficient collimation is required during regular operations at high intensities, because even a small amount of energy deposited on superconducting magnets can cause an abrupt loss of superconducting conditions (quench). The possibility to use a crystal-based collimation system represents an option for improving both cleaning performance and impedance compared to the present system. Before relying on crystal collimation for the LHC, a demonstration under LHC conditions (energy, beam parameters, etc.) and a comparison against the present system is considered mandatory. Thus, a prototype crystal collimation system has been designed and installed in the LHC during the Long Shutdown 1 (LS1), to perform feasibility tests during the Run 2 at energies up to 6.5 TeV. The layout is suitable for operation with proton as well as heavy ion beams. In this paper, the design constraints and the solutions proposed for this test stand for feasibility demonstration of crystal collimation at the LHC are presented. The expected cleaning performance achievable with this test stand, as assessed in simulations, is presented and compared to that of the present LHC collimation system. The first experimental observation of crystal channeling in the LHC at the record beam energy of 6.5 TeV has been obtained in 2015 using the layout presented (Scandale et al., Phys Lett B 758:129, 2016). First tests to measure the cleaning performance of this test stand have been carried out in 2016 and the detailed data analysis is still on-going.     

On the Theory of X-Ray Diffractional Laue Focusing on Two Bent Crystals

The Laue focusing of a spherical x-ray wave onto dynamical diffraction by a double-bent crystal system is studied. The geometrical equations of two-dimensional Laue focusing and the intensity distribution formula are derived. A high sensitivity of the two-dimensional Laue focusing to the crystal thickness and bending radii difference is revealed. It is shown that this sensitivity can be used to control the crystal thickness with accuracy up to 100 and bending radii up to 10^-2 m. The focusing process of the spherical wave inside crystals as well as in vacuum is investigated. The possibility of using the two-crystal Laue system as a lens for x-ray microscopy is studied. The spectral characteristics of a twice-diffracted wave are discussed. The spectral resolution is demonstrated to be 10⁶.     

Explanation of dijet asymmetry in Pb-Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

We investigate the medium modification of a partonic jet shower traversing in a hot quark-gluon plasma. We derive and solve a differential equation that governs the evolution of the radiated gluon distribution as the jet propagates through the medium. Energy contained inside the jet cone is lost by dissipation through elastic collisions with the medium and by scattering of shower partons to larger angles. We find that the jet energy loss at early times is dominated by medium effects on the vacuum radiation, and by medium-induced radiation effects at late times. We compare our numerical results for the nuclear modification of the dijet asymmetry with that recently reported by the ATLAS Collaboration.