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151. The MOLLER Experiment: An Ultra-Precise Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle Using M{\o}ller Scattering

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MOLLER Collaboration, Benesch, J., Brindza, P., Carlini, R. D., Chen, J-P., Chudakov, E., Covrig, S., Dalton, M. M., Deur, A., Gaskell, D., Gavalya, A., Gomez, J., Higinbotham, D. W., Keppel, C., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Roblin, Y., Suleiman, R., Wines, R., Wojtsekhowski, B., Cates, G., Crabb, D., Day, D., Gnanvo, K., Keller, D., Liyanage, N., Nelyubin, V. V., Nguyen, H., Norum, B., Paschke, K., Sulkosky, V., Zhang, J., Zheng, X., Birchall, J., Blunden, P., Gericke, M. T. W., Falk, W. R., Lee, L., Mammei, J., Page, S. A., van Oers, W. T. H., Dehmelt, K., Deshpande, A., Feege, N., Hemmick, T. K., Kumar, K. S., Kutz, T., Miskimen, R., Ramsey-Musolf, M. J., Riordan, S., Saylor, N. Hirlinger, Bessuille, J., Ihloff, E., Kelsey, J., Kowalski, S., Silwal, R., De Cataldo, G., De Leo, R., Di Bari, D., Lagamba, L., Bellini, E. NappiV., Mammoliti, F., Noto, F., Sperduto, M. L., Sutera, C. M., Cole, P., Forest, T. A., Khandekar, M., McNulty, D., Aulenbacher, K., Baunack, S., Maas, F., Tioukine, V., Gilman, R., Myers, K., Ransome, R., Tadepalli, A., Beniniwattha, R., Holmes, R., Souder, P., Armstrong, D. S., Averett, T. D., Deconinck, W., Duvall, W., Lee, A., Pitt, M. L., Dunne, J. A., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, De Persio, F., Meddi, F., Urciuoli, G. M., Cisbani, E., Fanelli, C., Garibaldi, F., Johnston, K., Simicevic, N., Wells, S., King, P. M., Roche, J., Arrington, J., Reimer, P. E., Franklin, G., Quinn, B., Ahmidouch, A., Danagoulian, S., Glamazdin, O., Pomatsalyuk, R., Mammei, R., Martin, J. W., Holmstrom, T., Erler, J., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Napolitano, J., Aniol, K. A., Ramsay, W. D., Korkmaz, E., Spayde, D. T., Benmokhtar, F., Del Dotto, A., Perrino, R., Barkanova, S., Aleksejevs, A., and Singh, J.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

The physics case and an experimental overview of the MOLLER (Measurement Of a Lepton Lepton Electroweak Reaction) experiment at the 12 GeV upgraded Jefferson Lab are presented. A highlight of the Fundamental Symmetries subfield of the 2007 NSAC Long Range Plan was the SLAC E158 measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry $A_{PV}$ in polarized electron-electron (M{\o}ller) scattering. The proposed MOLLER experiment will improve on this result by a factor of five, yielding the most precise measurement of the weak mixing angle at low or high energy anticipated over the next decade. This new result would be sensitive to the interference of the electromagnetic amplitude with new neutral current amplitudes as weak as $\sim 10^{-3}\cdot G_F$ from as yet undiscovered dynamics beyond the Standard Model. The resulting discovery reach is unmatched by any proposed experiment measuring a flavor- and CP-conserving process over the next decade, and yields a unique window to new physics at MeV and multi-TeV scales, complementary to direct searches at high energy colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The experiment takes advantage of the unique opportunity provided by the upgraded electron beam energy, luminosity, and stability at Jefferson Laboratory and the extensive experience accumulated in the community after a round of recent successfully completed parity-violating electron scattering experiments

Published
2014

152. Measurement of Parity-Violating Asymmetry in Electron-Deuteron Inelastic Scattering

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Wang, D., Pan, K., Subedi, R., Ahmed, Z., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Armstrong, D. S., Arrington, J., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, J. -P., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Dalton, M. M., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deconinck, W., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Fassi, L. El, Erler, J., Flay, D., Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gilad, S., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, A., Golge, S., Grimm, K., Hafidi, K., Hansen, J. -O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmes, R., Holmstrom, T., Holt, R. J., Huang, J., Hyde, C. E., Jen, C. M., Jones, D., Kang, Hoyoung, King, P. M., Kowalski, S., Kumar, K. S., Lee, J. H., LeRose, J. J., Liyanage, N., Long, E., McNulty, D., Margaziotis, D. J., Meddi, F., Meekins, D. G., Mercado, L., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Mesick, K. E., Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Nuruzzaman, A., Oh, Y., Parno, D., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Quinn, B., Rakhman, A., Reimer, P. E., Rider, K., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Rubin, J., Russo, G., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shahinyan, A., Silwal, R., Širca, S., Souder, P. A., Suleiman, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C. M., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Waidyawansa, B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Ye, L., Zhao, B., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

The parity-violating asymmetries between a longitudinally-polarized electron beam and an unpolarized deuterium target have been measured recently. The measurement covered two kinematic points in the deep inelastic scattering region and five in the nucleon resonance region. We provide here details of the experimental setup, data analysis, and results on all asymmetry measurements including parity-violating electron asymmetries and those of inclusive pion production and beam-normal asymmetries. The parity-violating deep-inelastic asymmetries were used to extract the electron-quark weak effective couplings, and the resonance asymmetries provided the first evidence for quark-hadron duality in electroweak observables. These electron asymmetries and their interpretation were published earlier, but are presented here in more detail., Comment: 50 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. C

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2014
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153. Spectroscopy of Ba and Ba$^+$ deposits in solid xenon for barium tagging in nEXO

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Mong, B., Cook, S., Walton, T., Chambers, C., Craycraft, A., Benitez-Medina, C., Hall, K., Fairbank Jr., W., Albert, J. B., Auty, D. J., Barbeau, P. S., Basque, V., Beck, D., Breidenbach, M., Brunner, T., Cao, G. F., Cleveland, B., Coon, M., Daniels, T., Daugherty, S. J., DeVoe, R., Didberidze, T., Dilling, J., Dolinski, M. J., Dunford, M., Fabris, L., Farine, J., Feldmeier, W., Fierlinger, P., Fudenberg, D., Giroux, G., Gornea, R., Graham, K., Gratta, G., Heffner, M., Hughes, M., Jiang, X. S., Johnson, T. N., Johnston, S., Karelin, A., Kaufman, L. J., Killick, R., Koffas, T., Kravitz, S., Krucken, R., Kuchenkov, A., Kumar, K. S., Leonard, D. S., Licciardi, C., Lin, Y. H., Ling, J., MacLellan, R., Marino, M. G., Moore, D., Odian, A., Ostrovskiy, I., Piepke, A., Pocar, A., Retiere, F., Rowson, P. C., Rozo, M. P., Schubert, A., Sinclair, D., Smith, E., Stekhanov, V., Tarka, M., Tolba, T., Twelker, K., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Walton, J., Weber, M., Wen, L. J., Wichoski, U., Yang, L., Yen, Y. -R., and Zhao, Y. B.

Subjects
Physics - Atomic Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Progress on a method of barium tagging for the nEXO double beta decay experiment is reported. Absorption and emission spectra for deposits of barium atoms and ions in solid xenon matrices are presented. Excitation spectra for prominent emission lines, temperature dependence and bleaching of the fluorescence reveal the existence of different matrix sites. A regular series of sharp lines observed in Ba$^+$ deposits is identified with some type of barium hydride molecule. Lower limits for the fluorescence quantum efficiency of the principal Ba emission transition are reported. Under current conditions, an image of $\le10^4$ Ba atoms can be obtained. Prospects for imaging single Ba atoms in solid xenon are discussed.

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2014
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154. Search for Majoron-emitting modes of double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe with EXO-200

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Collaboration, EXO-200, Albert, J. B., Auty, D. J., Barbeau, P. S., Beauchamp, E., Beck, D., Belov, V., Benitez-Medina, C., Breidenbach, M., Brunner, T., Burenkov, A., Cao, G. F., Chambers, C., Chaves, J., Cleveland, B., Coon, M., Craycraft, A., Daniels, T., Danilov, M., Daugherty, S. J., Davis, C. G., Davis, J., DeVoe, R., Delaquis, S., Didberidze, T., Dolgolenko, A., Dolinski, M. J., Dunford, M., Fairbank Jr., W., Farine, J., Feldmeier, W., Fierlinger, P., Fudenberg, D., Giroux, G., Gornea, R., Graham, K., Gratta, G., Hall, C., Herrin, S., Hughes, M., Jewell, M. J., Jiang, X. S., Johnson, A., Johnson, T. N., Johnston, S., Karelin, A., Kaufman, L. J., Killick, R., Koffas, T., Kravitz, S., Kuchenkov, A., Kumar, K. S., Leonard, D. S., Leonard, F., Licciardi, C., Lin, Y. H., Ling, J., MacLellan, R., Marino, M. G., Mong, B., Moore, D., Nelson, R., Odian, A., Ostrovskiy, I., Ouellet, C., Piepke, A., Pocar, A., Prescott, C. Y., Rivas, A., Rowson, P. C., Rozo, M. P., Russell, J. J., Schubert, A., Sinclair, D., Smith, E., Stekhanov, V., Tarka, M., Tolba, T., Tosi, D., Tsang, R., Twelker, K., Vogel, P., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Waite, A., Walton, J., Walton, T., Weber, M., Wen, L. J., Wichoski, U., Yang, L., Yen, Y. -R., and Zeldovich, O. Ya.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

EXO-200 is a single phase liquid xenon detector designed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe. Here we report on a search for various Majoron-emitting modes based on 100 kg$\cdot$yr exposure of $^{136}$Xe. A lower limit of $T^{^{136}Xe}_{1/2} >1.2 \cdot 10^{24}$ yr at 90% C.L. on the half-life of the spectral index = 1 Majoron decay was obtained, corresponding to a constraint on the Majoron-neutrino coupling constant of $|< g^{M}_{ee} >|<$ (0.8-1.7)$\cdot$10$^{-5}$., Comment: Published in PRD. Version 2: Referee comments addressed, journal reference added

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2014
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155. An apparatus to manipulate and identify individual Ba ions from bulk liquid Xe

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Twelker, K., Kravitz, S., Díez, M. Montero, Gratta, G., Fairbank Jr., W., Albert, J. B., Auty, D. J., Barbeau, P. S., Beck, D., Benitez-Medina, C., Breidenbach, M., Brunner, T., Cao, G. F., Chambers, C., Cleveland, B., Coon, M., Craycraft, A., Daniels, T., Daugherty, S. J., Davis, C. G., DeVoe, R., Delaquis, S., Didberidze, T., Dilling, J., Dolinski, M. J., Dunford, M., Fabris, L., Farine, J., Feldmeier, W., Fierlinger, P., Fudenberg, D., Giroux, G., Gornea, R., Graham, K., Hall, C., Heffner, M., Herrin, S., Hughes, M., Jiang, X. S., Johnson, T. N., Johnston, S., Karelin, A., Kaufman, L. J., Killick, R., Koffas, T., Krücken, R., Kuchenkov, A., Kumar, K. S., Leonard, D. S., Leonard, F., Licciardi, C., Lin, Y. H., MacLellan, R., Marino, M. G., Mong, B., Moore, D., Odian, A., Ostrovskiy, I., Ouellet, C., Piepke, A., Pocar, A., Retiere, F., Rowson, P. C., Rozo, M. P., Schubert, A., Sinclair, D., Smith, E., Stekhanov, V., Tarka, M., Tolba, T., Tosi, D., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Walton, J., Walton, T., Weber, M., Wen, L. J., Wichoski, U., Yang, L., Yen, Y. -R., and Zhao, Y. B.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

We describe a system to transport and identify barium ions produced in liquid xenon, as part of R&D towards the second phase of a double beta decay experiment, nEXO. The goal is to identify the Ba ion resulting from an extremely rare nuclear decay of the isotope $^{136}$Xe, hence providing a confirmation of the occurrence of the decay. This is achieved through Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (RIS). In the test setup described here, Ba ions can be produced in liquid xenon or vacuum and collected on a clean substrate. This substrate is then removed to an analysis chamber under vacuum, where laser-induced thermal desorption and RIS are used with time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectroscopy for positive identification of the barium decay product., Comment: 12 pages, 13 figures

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2014
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156. Search for Majorana neutrinos with the first two years of EXO-200 data

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Collaboration, EXO-200, Albert, J. B., Auty, D. J., Barbeau, P. S., Beauchamp, E., Beck, D., Belov, V., Benitez-Medina, C., Bonatt, J., Breidenbach, M., Brunner, T., Burenkov, A., Cao, G. F., Chambers, C., Chaves, J., Cleveland, B., Coon, M., Craycraft, A., Daniels, T., Danilov, M., Daugherty, S. J., Davis, C. G., Davis, J., DeVoe, R., Delaquis, S., Didberidze, T., Dolgolenko, A., Dolinski, M. J., Dunford, M., Fairbank Jr., W., Farine, J., Feldmeier, W., Fierlinger, P., Fudenberg, D., Giroux, G., Gornea, R., Graham, K., Gratta, G., Hall, C., Herrin, S., Hughes, M., Jewell, M. J., Jiang, X. S., Johnson, A., Johnson, T. N., Johnston, S., Karelin, A., Kaufman, L. J., Killick, R., Koffas, T., Kravitz, S., Kuchenkov, A., Kumar, K. S., Leonard, D. S., Leonard, F., Licciardi, C., Lin, Y. H., MacLellan, R., Marino, M. G., Mong, B., Moore, D., Nelson, R., Odian, A., Ostrovskiy, I., Ouellet, C., Piepke, A., Pocar, A., Prescott, C. Y., Rivas, A., Rowson, P. C., Rozo, M. P., Russell, J. J., Schubert, A., Sinclair, D., Slutsky, S., Smith, E., Stekhanov, V., Tarka, M., Tolba, T., Tosi, D., Twelker, K., Vogel, P., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Waite, A., Walton, J., Walton, T., Weber, M., Wen, L. J., Wichoski, U., Wright, J. D., Yang, L., Yen, Y. -R., Zeldovich, O. Ya., and Zhao, Y. B.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics suggest that neutrinos should be Majorana-type fermions, but this assumption is difficult to confirm. Observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu \beta \beta$), a spontaneous transition that may occur in several candidate nuclei, would verify the Majorana nature of the neutrino and constrain the absolute scale of the neutrino mass spectrum. Recent searches carried out with $^{76}$Ge (GERDA experiment) and $^{136}$Xe (KamLAND-Zen and EXO-200 experiments) have established the lifetime of this decay to be longer than $10^{25}$ yr, corresponding to a limit on the neutrino mass of 0.2-0.4 eV. Here we report new results from EXO-200 based on 100 kg$\cdot$yr of $^{136}$Xe exposure, representing an almost fourfold increase from our earlier published datasets. We have improved the detector resolution at the $^{136}$Xe double-beta-decay Q-value to $\sigma$/E = 1.53% and revised the data analysis. The obtained half-life sensitivity is $1.9\cdot10^{25}$ yr, an improvement by a factor of 2.7 compared to previous EXO-200 results. We find no statistically significant evidence for $0\nu \beta \beta$ decay and set a half-life limit of $1.1\cdot10^{25}$ yr at 90% CL. The high sensitivity holds promise for further running of the EXO-200 detector and future $0\nu \beta \beta$ decay searches with nEXO., Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures

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2014
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157. Simulation of motional averaging using a superconducting circuit

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Li, J., Silveri, M. P., Kumar, K. S., Pirkkalainen, J. -M., Vepsäläinen, A., Chien, W. C., Tuorila, J., Sillanpää, M. A., Hakonen, P. J., Thuneberg, E. V., and Paraoanu, G. S.

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Quantum Physics
Abstract

The possibility of using a quantum system to simulate another one has been recognized for a long time as an important research direction in quantum information and quantum computing. In Ref. [J. Li et. al, Nat. Commun. 4, 1420 (2013)], a superconducting circuit (a transmon) was employed to simulate a NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) effect known as motional averaging. In this paper we analyze the results of numerical integration of the time evolution of the density matrix of a qubit with random frequency fluctuations, and compare the results with those obtained by using the method of quantum trajectories. We show that both methods produce equivalent results, although some differences may appear in the range of intermediate modulation frequencies., Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure

Published
2014

164. Maximizing submodular functions using probabilistic graphical models

Author

Kumar, K. S. Sesh and Bach, Francis

Subjects
Computer Science - Learning, Mathematics - Optimization and Control
Abstract

We consider the problem of maximizing submodular functions; while this problem is known to be NP-hard, several numerically efficient local search techniques with approximation guarantees are available. In this paper, we propose a novel convex relaxation which is based on the relationship between submodular functions, entropies and probabilistic graphical models. In a graphical model, the entropy of the joint distribution decomposes as a sum of marginal entropies of subsets of variables; moreover, for any distribution, the entropy of the closest distribution factorizing in the graphical model provides an bound on the entropy. For directed graphical models, this last property turns out to be a direct consequence of the submodularity of the entropy function, and allows the generalization of graphical-model-based upper bounds to any submodular functions. These upper bounds may then be jointly maximized with respect to a set, while minimized with respect to the graph, leading to a convex variational inference scheme for maximizing submodular functions, based on outer approximations of the marginal polytope and maximum likelihood bounded treewidth structures. By considering graphs of increasing treewidths, we may then explore the trade-off between computational complexity and tightness of the relaxation. We also present extensions to constrained problems and maximizing the difference of submodular functions, which include all possible set functions.

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2013

165. Electroweak Measurements of Neutron Densities in CREX and PREX at JLab, USA

Author

Horowitz, C. J., Kumar, K. S., and Michaels, R.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Measurement of the parity-violating electron scattering asymmetry is an established technique at Jefferson Lab and provides a new opportunity to measure the weak charge distribution and hence pin down the neutron radius in nuclei in a relatively clean and model-independent way. This is because the Z boson of the weak interaction couples primarily to neutrons. We will describe the PREX and CREX experiments on ${}^{208}$Pb and ${}^{48}$Ca respectively; these are both doubly-magic nuclei whose first excited state can be discriminated by the high resolution spectrometers at JLab. The heavier lead nucleus, with a neutron excess, provides an interpretation of the neutron skin thickness in terms of properties of bulk neutron matter. For the lighter ${}^{48}$Ca nucleus, which is also rich in neutrons, microscopic nuclear theory calculations are feasible and are sensitive to poorly constrained 3-neutron forces., Comment: A contribution to the upcoming EPJA Special Volume on Nuclear Symmetry Energy

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2013
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166. An improved measurement of the 2\nu \beta \beta\ half-life of Xe-136 with EXO-200

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Albert, J. B., Auger, M., Auty, D. J., Barbeau, P. S., Beauchamp, E., Beck, D., Belov, V., Benitez-Medina, C., Bonatt, J., Breidenbach, M., Brunner, T., Burenkov, A., Cao, G. F., Chambers, C., Chaves, J., Cleveland, B., Cook, S., Daniels, T., Danilov, M., Daugherty, S. J., Davis, C. G., Davis, J., Delaquis, S., DeVoe, R., Dobi, A., Dolinski, M. J., Dolgolenko, A., Dunford, M., Fairbank Jr., W., Farine, J., Feldmeier, W., Fierlinger, P., Franco, D., Fudenberg, D., Giroux, G., Gornea, R., Graham, K., Gratta, G., Hall, C., Hall, K., Hargrove, C., Herrin, S., Hughes, M., Jiang, X. S., Johnson, A., Johnson, T. N., Johnston, S., Karelin, A., Kaufman, L. J., Killick, R., Kravitz, S., Kuchenkov, A., Kumar, K. S., Leonard, D. S., Leonard, F., Licciardi, C., MacLellan, R., Marino, M. G., Mong, B., Díez, M. Montero, Moore, D., Nelson, R., Odian, A., Ostrovskiy, I., O'Sullivan, K., Ouellet, C., Piepke, A., Pocar, A., Prescott, C. Y., Rivas, A., Rowson, P. C., Rozo, M. P., Russell, J. J., Sabourov, A., Sinclair, D., Skarpaas, K., Slutsky, S., Stekhanov, V., Strickland, V., Tarka, M., Tolba, T., Tosi, D., Twelker, K., Vogel, P., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Waite, A., Walton, J., Walton, T., Weber, M., Wen, L. J., Wichoski, U., Wodin, J., Wright, J. D., Yang, L., Yen, Y. -R., Zeldovich, O. Ya., and Zhao, Y. B.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

We report on an improved measurement of the 2\nu \beta \beta\ half-life of Xe-136 performed by EXO-200. The use of a large and homogeneous time projection chamber allows for the precise estimate of the fiducial mass used for the measurement, resulting in a small systematic uncertainty. We also discuss in detail the data analysis methods used for double-beta decay searches with EXO-200, while emphasizing those directly related to the present measurement. The Xe-136 2\nu \beta \beta\ half-life is found to be 2.165 +- 0.016 (stat) +- 0.059 (sys) x 10^21 years. This is the most precisely measured half-life of any 2\nu \beta \beta\ decay to date., Comment: 34 pages, 32 figures, Updated to published version

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2013
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167. Measurement of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry in Electron-Deuteron Scattering in the Nucleon Resonance Region

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Wang, D., Pan, K., Subedi, R., Deng, X., Ahmed, Z., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Armstrong, D. S., Arrington, J., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, J. -P., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Dalton, M. M., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deconinck, W., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Fassi, L. El, Flay, D., Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, A., Golge, S., Grimm, K., Hafidi, K., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmes, R., Holmstrom, T., Holt, R. J., Huang, J., Hyde, C. E., Jen, C. M., Jones, D., Kang, H., King, P., Kowalski, S., Kumar, K. S., Lee, J. H., LeRose, J. J., Liyanage, N., Long, E., McNulty, D., Margaziotis, D. J., Meddi, F., Meekins, D. G., Mercado, L., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Myers, K. E., Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Nuruzzaman, Oh, Y., Parno, D., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Quinn, B., Rakhman, A., Reimer, P. E., Rider, K., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Rubin, J., Russo, G., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shahinyan, A., Silwal, R., Sirca, S., Souder, P. A., Suleiman, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C. M., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Waidyawansa, B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Ye, L., Zhao, B., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report on parity-violating asymmetries in the nucleon resonance region measured using $5 - 6$ GeV longitudinally polarized electrons scattering off an unpolarized deuterium target. These results are the first parity-violating asymmetry data in the resonance region beyond the $\Delta(1232)$, and provide a verification of quark-hadron duality in the nucleon electroweak $\gamma Z$ interference structure functions at the (10-15)% level. The results are of particular interest to models relevant for calculating the $\gamma Z$ box-diagram corrections to elastic parity-violating electron scattering measurements., Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

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2013
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168. Low Energy Measurements of the Weak Mixing Angle

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Kumar, K. S., Mantry, Sonny, Marciano, W. J., and Souder, P. A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We review the status of precision measurements of weak neutral current interactions, mediated by the $Z^0$ boson, at $Q^2\ll M_Z^2$. They can be used to extract values for the weak mixing angle $\sin^2\theta_W$, a fundamental parameter of the $SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y$ electroweak sector of the Standard Model. Apart from providing a comprehensive test of the electroweak theory at the quantum loop level, such measurements allow indirect access to new physics effects at and beyond the TeV scale. After a theoretical introduction and a brief overview of the three most precise low $Q^2$ weak mixing angle determinations, we describe the ongoing experimental program and prospects for future more sensitive studies. We also compare sensitivities of planned and proposed measurements to physics beyond the Standard Model., Comment: Review article, accepted for publication in Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Volume 63

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2013
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169. Impact of Distance on the Harmonic Active Power and Energy Metering at the Load

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Phani Kumar, K. S. V., Venkateshwarlu, S., Angrisani, Leopoldo, Series editor, Arteaga, Marco, Series editor, Chakraborty, Samarjit, Series editor, Chen, Jiming, Series editor, Chen, Tan Kay, Series editor, Dillmann, Ruediger, Series editor, Duan, Haibin, Series editor, Ferrari, Gianluigi, Series editor, Ferre, Manuel, Series editor, Hirche, Sandra, Series editor, Jabbari, Faryar, Series editor, Kacprzyk, Janusz, Series editor, Khamis, Alaa, Series editor, Kroeger, Torsten, Series editor, Ming, Tan Cher, Series editor, Minker, Wolfgang, Series editor, Misra, Pradeep, Series editor, Möller, Sebastian, Series editor, Mukhopadhyay, Subhas Chandra, Series editor, Ning, Cun-Zheng, Series editor, Nishida, Toyoaki, Series editor, Panigrahi, Bijaya Ketan, Series editor, Pascucci, Federica, Series editor, Samad, Tariq, Series editor, Seng, Gan Woon, Series editor, Veiga, Germano, Series editor, Wu, Haitao, Series editor, Zhang, Junjie James, Series editor, Garg, Amik, editor, Bhoi, Akash Kumar, editor, Sanjeevikumar, Padmanaban, editor, and Kamani, K. K., editor

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2018
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175. Convex Relaxations for Learning Bounded Treewidth Decomposable Graphs

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Kumar, K. S. Sesh and Bach, Francis

Subjects
Computer Science - Learning, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, Statistics - Machine Learning
Abstract

We consider the problem of learning the structure of undirected graphical models with bounded treewidth, within the maximum likelihood framework. This is an NP-hard problem and most approaches consider local search techniques. In this paper, we pose it as a combinatorial optimization problem, which is then relaxed to a convex optimization problem that involves searching over the forest and hyperforest polytopes with special structures, independently. A supergradient method is used to solve the dual problem, with a run-time complexity of $O(k^3 n^{k+2} \log n)$ for each iteration, where $n$ is the number of variables and $k$ is a bound on the treewidth. We compare our approach to state-of-the-art methods on synthetic datasets and classical benchmarks, showing the gains of the novel convex approach.

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2012

176. Mu2e Conceptual Design Report

Author

Project, The Mu2e, Collaboration, Abrams, R. J., Alezander, D., Ambrosio, G., Andreev, N., Ankenbrandt, C. M., Asner, D. M., Arnold, D., Artikov, A., Barnes, E., Bartoszek, L., Bernstein, R. H., Biery, K., Biliyar, V., Bonicalzi, R., Bossert, R., Bowden, M., Brandt, J., Brown, D. N., Budagov, J., Buehler, M., Burov, A., Carcagno, R., Carey, R. M., Carosi, R., Cascella, M., Cauz, D., Cervelli, F., Chandra, A., Chang, J. K., Cheng, C., Ciambrone, P., Coleman, R. N., Cooper, M., Corcoran, M. C., Cordelli, M., Davydov, Y., de Gouvea, A. L., De Lorenzis, L., Debevec, P. T., DeJongh, F., Densham, C., Deuerling, G., Dey, J., Di Falco, S., Dixon, S., Djilkibaev, R., Drendel, B., Dukes, E. C., Dychkant, A., Echenard, B., Ehrlich, R., Evans, N., Evbota, D., Fang, I., Fast, J. E., Feher, S., Fischler, M., Frank, M., Frlez, E., Fung, S. S., Gallo, G., Galucci, G., Gaponenko, A., Genser, K., Giovannella, S., Glagolev, V., Glenzinski, D., Gnani, D., Goadhouse, S., Gollin, G. D., Grace, C., Grancagnolo, F., Group, C., Hanson, J., Hanson, S., Happacher, F., Heckmaier, E., Hedin, D., Hertzog, D. W., Hirosky, R., Hitlin, D. G., Ho, E., Huang, X., Huedem, E., Hung, P. Q., Hungerford, E. V., Ito, T., Jaskierny, W., Jedziniak, R., Johnson, R. P., Johnstone, C., Johnstone, J. A., Kahn, S. A., Kammel, P., Kang, T. I., Kashikhin, V. S., Kashikhin, V. V., Kasper, P., Kawall, D. M., Khalatian, V., Kim, M., Klebaner, A., Kocen, D., Kolomensky, Y., Kourbanis, I., Kowalkowski, J., Kozminski, J., Krempetz, K., Kumar, K. S., Kutschke, R. K., Kwarciany, R., Lackowski, T., Lamm, M., Larwill, M., Lau, K., Lee, M. J., L'Erario, A., Leveling, T., Lim, G., Lindenmeyer, C., Logashenko, V., Lontadze, T., Lopes, M., Luca, A., Lynch, K. R., Ma, T., Maffezzoli, A., Marciano, W. J., Martini, M., Masayoshi, W., Matushko, V., McAteer, M., McCrady, R., Moccoli, A., Michelotti, L., Miller, J. P., Miscetti, S., Molzon, W., Morgan, J., Mukherjee, A., Nagaitsev, S., Nagaslaev, V., Niehoff, J., Neuffer, D. V., Nicol, T., Norman, A. J., Norris, B., Odell, J., Oh, S., Oksuzian, Y., Onorato, G., Orduna, J., Orris, D., Ostojic, R., Page, T., Paschke, K. D., Pauletta, G., Peterson, T., Piacentino, G. M., Pileggi, G., Pla-Dalmau, A., Pocanic, D., Polly, C. C., Polychronakos, V., Ponzio, B., Popovic, M., Popp, J. L., Porter, F., Presbys, E., Prieto, P., Pronskikh, V., Puccinelli, F., Rabehl, R., Ramsey, J., Ray, R. E., Rechenmacher, R., Rella, S., Ristori, L., Rivera, R., Roberts, B. L., Roberts, T. J., Rubinov, P., Rusu, V. L., Saputi, A., Sarra, I., Smertzidis, Y., Shanahan, P., Simonenko, A., Steward, J., Suslov, I., Sylvester, C., Tang, Z., Tartaglia, M., Tassielli, G., Tereshchenko, V., Theilacker, J., Tompkins, J., Tschirhart, R., Van Zandbergen, G., Vannini, C., Venanzoni, G., von der Lippe, H., Wagner, R., Walder, J. P., Walton, R., Wands, S., Wang, S., Warren, G., Werkema, S., White Jr, H. B., Wielgos, R., Wood, L. S., Woodward, M., Wu, J., Xiao, M., Yamada, R., Yamin, P., Yarritu, K., Yonehara, K., Yoshikawa, C., You, Z., Yu, G., Yurkewicz, A., Zavarise, G., and Zhu, R. Y.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract

Mu2e at Fermilab will search for charged lepton flavor violation via the coherent conversion process mu- N --> e- N with a sensitivity approximately four orders of magnitude better than the current world's best limits for this process. The experiment's sensitivity offers discovery potential over a wide array of new physics models and probes mass scales well beyond the reach of the LHC. We describe herein the conceptual design of the proposed Mu2e experiment. This document was created in partial fulfillment of the requirements necessary to obtain DOE CD-1 approval, which was granted July 11, 2012., Comment: 562 pages, 339 figures

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2012

177. New Measurements of the Transverse Beam Asymmetry for Elastic Electron Scattering from Selected Nuclei

Author

HAPPEX, The, Collaborations, PREX, Abrahamyan, S., Acha, A., Afanasev, A., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Aniol, K., Armstrong, D. S., Armstrong, W., Arrington, J., Averett, T., Babineau, B., Bailey, S. L., Barber, J., Barbieri, A., Beck, A., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Benaoum, H., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Bertin, P., Bielarski, T., Boeglin, W., Bosted, P., Butaru, F., Burtin, E., Cahoon, J., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Carter, P., Chang, C. C., Cates, G. D., Chao, Y. C., Chen, C., Chen, J. P., Choi, Seonho, Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Craver, B., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., De Leo, R., de Jager, K., Deconinck, W., Decowski, P., Deepa, D., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, D., Etile, A., Ferdi, C., Feuerbach, R. J., Finn, J. M., Flay, D., Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Fuchey, E., Fuchs, S. A., Fuoti, K., Garibaldi, F., Gasser, E., Gilman, R., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, A., Glesener, L. E., Gomez, J., Gorchtein, M., Grames, J., Grimm, K., Gu, C., Hansen, O., Hansknecht, J., Hen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmes, R. S., Holmstrom, T., Horowitz, C. J., Hoskins, J., Huang, J., Humensky, T. B., Hyde, C. E., Ibrahim, H., Itard, F., Jen, C. M., Jensen, E., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Johnston, S., Katich, J., Kaufman, L. J., Kelleher, A., Kliakhandler, K., King, P. M., Kolarkar, A., Kowalski, S., Kuchina, E., Kumar, K. S., Lagamba, L., Lambert, D., LaViolette, P., Leacock, J., Leckey IV, J., Lee, J. H., LeRose, J. J., Lhuillier, D., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Lubinsky, N., Mammei, J., Mammoliti, F., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Mazouz, M., McCormick, K., McCreary, A., McNulty, D., Meekins, D. G., Mercado, L., Meziani, Z. E., Michaels, R. W., Mihovilovic, M., Moffit, B., Monaghan, P., Muangma, N., Munoz-Camacho, C., Nanda, S., Nelyubin, V., Neyret, D., Nuruzzaman, Oh, Y., Otis, K., Palmer, A., Parno, D., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Poelker, M., Pomatsalyuk, R., Posik, M., Potokar, M., Prok, K., Puckett, A. J. R., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Quinn, B., Rakhman, A., Reimer, P. E., Reitz, B., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Rogan, P., Ron, G., Russo, G., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shahinyan, A., Silwal, R., Singh, J., Sirca, S., Slifer, K., Snyder, R., Solvignon, P., Souder, P. A., Sperduto, M. L., Subedi, R., Stutzman, M. L., Suleiman, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C. M., Tobias, W. A., Troth, W., Urciuoli, G. M., Ulmer, P., Vacheret, A., Voutier, E., Waidyawansa, B., Wang, D., Wang, K., Wexler, J., Whitbeck, A., Wilson, R., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yim, V., Zana, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., Ziskin, V., and Zhu, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We have measured the beam-normal single-spin asymmetry $A_n$ in the elastic scattering of 1-3 GeV transversely polarized electrons from $^1$H and for the first time from $^4$He, $^{12}$C, and $^{208}$Pb. For $^1$H, $^4$He and $^{12}$C, the measurements are in agreement with calculations that relate $A_n$ to the imaginary part of the two-photon exchange amplitude including inelastic intermediate states. Surprisingly, the $^{208}$Pb result is significantly smaller than the corresponding prediction using the same formalism. These results suggest that a systematic set of new $A_n$ measurements might emerge as a new and sensitive probe of the structure of heavy nuclei., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted by PRL. v3: fixed one author name and affiliation, otherwise no change

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2012
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178. Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in $^{136}$Xe with EXO-200

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Auger, M., Auty, D. J., Barbeau, P. S., Beauchamp, E., Belov, V., Benitez-Medina, C., Breidenbach, M., Brunner, T., Burenkov, A., Cleveland, B., Cook, S., Daniels, T., Danilov, M., Davis, C. G., Delaquis, S., deVoe, R., Dobi, A., Dolinski, M. J., Dolgolenko, A., Dunford, M., Fairbank Jr., W., Farine, J., Feldmeier, W., Fierlinger, P., Franco, D., Giroux, G., Gornea, R., Graham, K., Gratta, G., Hall, C., Hall, K., Hargrove, C., Herrin, S., Hughes, M., Johnson, A., Johnson, T. N., Karelin, A., Kaufman, L. J., Kuchenkov, A., Kumar, K. S., Leonard, D. S., Leonard, F., Mackay, D., MacLellan, R., Marino, M., Mong, B., Diez, M. Montero, Muller, A. R., Neilson, R., Nelson, R., Odian, A., Ostrovskiy, I., O'Sullivan, K., Ouellet, C., Piepke, A., Pocar, A., Prescott, C. Y., Pushkin, K., Rowson, P. C., Russell, J. J., Sabourov, A., Sinclair, D., Slutsky, S., Stekhanov, V., Tolba, T., Tosi, D., Twelker, K., Vogel, P., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Waite, A., Walton, T., Weber, M., Wichoski, U., Wodin, J., Wright, J. D., Yang, L., Yen, Y. -R., and Zeldovich, O. Ya.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report on a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe with EXO-200. No signal is observed for an exposure of 32.5 kg-yr, with a background of ~1.5 x 10^{-3} /(kg yr keV) in the $\pm 1\sigma$ region of interest. This sets a lower limit on the half-life of the neutrinoless double-beta decay $T_{1/2}^{0\nu\beta\beta}$($^{136}$Xe) > 1.6 x 10$^{25}$ yr (90% CL), corresponding to effective Majorana masses of less than 140-380 meV, depending on the matrix element calculation.

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2012
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179. Virtual Compton Scattering and the Generalized Polarizabilities of the Proton at Q^2=0.92 and 1.76 GeV^2

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Fonvieille, H., Laveissiere, G., Degrande, N., Jaminion, S., Jutier, C., Todor, L., Di Salvo, R., Van Hoorebeke, L., Alexa, L. C., Anderson, B. D., Aniol, K. A., Arundell, K., Audit, G., Auerbach, L., Baker, F. T., Baylac, M., Berthot, J., Bertin, P. Y., Bertozzi, W., Bimbot, L., Boeglin, W. U., Brash, E. J., Breton, V., Breuer, H., Burtin, E., Calarco, J. R., Cardman, L. S., Cavata, C., Chang, C. -C., Chen, J. -P., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Dale, D. S., deJager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deur, A., d'Hose, N., Dodge, G. E., Domingo, J. J., Elouadrhiri, L., Epstein, M. B., Ewell, L. A., Finn, J. M., Fissum, K. G., Fournier, G., Frois, B., Frullani, S., Furget, C., Gao, H., Gao, J., Garibaldi, F., Gasparian, A., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, A., Glashausser, C., Gomez, J., Gorbenko, V., Grenier, P., Guichon, P. A. M., Hansen, J. O., Holmes, R., Holtrop, M., Howell, C., Huber, G. M., Hyde, C. E., Incerti, S., Iodice, M., Jardillier, J., Jones, M. K., Kahl, W., Kato, S., Katramatou, A. T., Kelly, J. J., Kerhoas, S., Ketikyan, A., Khayat, M., Kino, K., Kox, S., Kramer, L. H., Kumar, K. S., Kumbartzki, G., Kuss, M., Leone, A., LeRose, J. J., Liang, M., Lindgren, R. A., Liyanage, N., Lolos, G. J., Lourie, R. W., Madey, R., Maeda, K., Malov, S., Manley, D. M., Marchand, C., Marchand, D., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Marroncle, J., Martino, J., McCormick, K., McIntyre, J., Mehrabyan, S., Merchez, F., Meziani, Z. E., Michaels, R., Miller, G. W., Mougey, J. Y., Nanda, S. K., Neyret, D., Offermann, E. A. J. M., Papandreou, Z., Pasquini, B., Perdrisat, C. F., Perrino, R., Petratos, G. G., Platchkov, S., Pomatsalyuk, R., Prout, D. L., Punjabi, V. A., Pussieux, T., Quemener, G., Ransome, R. D., Ravel, O., Real, J. S., Renard, F., Roblin, Y., Rowntree, D., Rutledge, G., Rutt, P. M., Saha, A., Saito, T., Sarty, A. J., Serdarevic, A., Smith, T., Smirnov, G., Soldi, K., Sorokin, P., Souder, P. A., Suleiman, R., Templon, J. A., Terasawa, T., Tieulent, R., Tomasi-Gustaffson, E., Tsubota, H., Ueno, H., Ulmer, P. E., Urciuoli, G. M., Vanderhaeghen, M., Van der Meer, R. L. J., Van De Vyver, R., Vernin, P., Vlahovic, B., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Watson, J. W., Weinstein, L. B., Wijesooriya, K., Wilson, R., Wojtsekhowski, B. B., Zainea, D. G., Zhang, W. -M., Zhao, J., and Zhou, Z. -L.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Virtual Compton Scattering (VCS) on the proton has been studied at Jefferson Lab using the exclusive photon electroproduction reaction (e p --> e p gamma). This paper gives a detailed account of the analysis which has led to the determination of the structure functions P_LL-P_TT/epsilon and P_LT, and the electric and magnetic generalized polarizabilities (GPs) alpha_E(Q^2) and beta_M(Q^2) at values of the four-momentum transfer squared Q^2= 0.92 and 1.76 GeV^2. These data, together with the results of VCS experiments at lower momenta, help building a coherent picture of the electric and magnetic GPs of the proton over the full measured Q^2-range, and point to their non-trivial behavior., Comment: version 2: modified according to PRC Editor's and Referee's recommendations. Archival paper for the E93-050 experiment at JLab Hall A. 28 pages, 23 figures, 5 cross-section tables. To be submitted to Phys.Rev.C

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2012
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180. Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier

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Hewett, J. L., Weerts, H., Brock, R., Butler, J. N., Casey, B. C. K., Collar, J., de Gouvea, A., Essig, R., Grossman, Y., Haxton, W., Jaros, J. A., Jung, C. K., Lu, Z. T., Pitts, K., Ligeti, Z., Patterson, J. R., Ramsey-Musolf, M., Ritchie, J. L., Roodman, A., Scholberg, K., Wagner, C. E. M., Zeller, G. P., Aefsky, S., Afanasev, A., Agashe, K., Albright, C., Alonso, J., Ankenbrandt, C., Aoki, M., Arguelles, C. A., Arkani-Hamed, N., Armendariz, J. R., Armendariz-Picon, C., Diaz, E. Arrieta, Asaadi, J., Asner, D. M., Babu, K. S., Bailey, K., Baker, O., Balantekin, B., Baller, B., Bass, M., Batell, B., Beacham, J., Behr, J., Berger, N., Bergevin, M., Berman, E., Bernstein, R., Bevan, A. J., Bishai, M., Blanke, M., Blessing, S., Blondel, A., Blum, T., Bock, G., Bodek, A., Bonvicini, G., Bossi, F., Boyce, J., Breedon, R., Breidenbach, M., Brice, S. J., Briere, R. A., Brodsky, S., Bromberg, C., Bross, A., Browder, T. E., Bryman, D. A., Buckley, M., Burnstein, R., Caden, E., Campana, P., Carlini, R., Carosi, G., Castromonte, C., Cenci, R., Chakaberia, I., Chen, M. C., Cheng, C. H., Choudhary, B., Christ, N. H., Christensen, E., Christy, M. E., Chupp, T. E., Church, E., Cline, D. B., Coan, T. E., Coloma, P., Comfort, J., Coney, L., Cooper, J., Cooper, R. J., Cowan, R., Cowen, D. F., Cronin-Hennessy, D., Datta, A., Davies, G. S., Demarteau, M., DeMille, D. P., Denig, A., Dermisek, R., Deshpande, A., Dewey, M. S., Dharmapalan, R., Dhooghe, J., Dietrich, M. R., Diwan, M., Djurcic, Z., Dobbs, S., Duraisamy, M., Dutta, B., Duyang, H., Dwyer, D. A., Eads, M., Echenard, B., Elliott, S. R., Escobar, C., Fajans, J., Farooq, S., Faroughy, C., Fast, J. E., Feinberg, B., Felde, J., Feldman, G., Fierlinger, P., Perez, P. Fileviez, Filippone, B., Fisher, P., Flemming, B. T., Flood, K. T., Forty, R., Frank, M. J., Freyberger, A., Friedland, A., Gandhi, R., Ganezer, K. S., Garcia, A., Garcia, F. G., Gardner, S., Garrison, L., Gasparian, A., Geer, S., Gehman, V. M., Gershon, T., Gilchriese, M., Ginsberg, C., Gogoladze, I., Gonderinger, M., Goodman, M., Gould, H., Graham, M., Graham, P. W., Gran, R., Grange, J., Gratta, G., Green, J. P., Greenlee, H., Group, R. C., Guardincerri, E., Gudkov, V., Guenette, R., Haas, A., Hahn, A., Han, T., Handler, T., Hardy, J. C., Harnik, R., Harris, D. A., Harris, F. A., Harris, P. G., Hartnett, J., He, B., Heckel, B. R., Heeger, K. M., Henderson, S., Hertzog, D., Hill, R., Hinds, E. A, Hitlin, D. G., Holt, R. J., Holtkamp, N., Horton-Smith, G., Huber, P., Huelsnitz, W., Imber, J., Irastorza, I., Jaeckel, J., Jaegle, I., James, C., Jawahery, A., Jensen, D., Jessop, C. P., Jones, B., Jostlein, H., Junk, T., Kagan, A. L., Kalita, M., Kamyshkov, Y., Kaplan, D. M., Karagiorgi, G., Karle, A., Katori, T., Kayser, B., Kephart, R., Kettell, S., Kim, Y. K., Kirby, M., Kirch, K., Klein, J., Kneller, J., Kobach, A., Kohl, M., Kopp, J., Kordosky, M., Korsch, W., Kourbanis, I., Krisch, A. D., Krizan, P., Kronfeld, A. S., Kulkarni, S., Kumar, K. S., Kuno, Y., Kutter, T., Lachenmaier, T., Lamm, M., Lancaster, J., Lancaster, M., Lane, C., Lang, K., Langacker, P., Lazarevic, S., Le, T., Lee, K., Lesko, K. T., Li, Y., Lindgren, M., Lindner, A., Link, J., Lissauer, D., Littenberg, L. S., Littlejohn, B., Liu, C. Y., Loinaz, W., Lorenzon, W., Louis, W. C., Lozier, J., Ludovici, L., Lueking, L., Lunardini, C., MacFarlane, D. B., Machado, P. A. N., Mackenzie, P. B., Maloney, J., Marciano, W. J., Marsh, W., Marshak, M., Martin, J. W., Mauger, C., McFarland, K. S., McGrew, C., McLaughlin, G., McKeen, D., McKeown, R., Meadows, B. T., Mehdiyev, R., Melconian, D., Merkel, H., Messier, M., Miller, J. P., Mills, G., Minamisono, U. K., Mishra, S. R., Mocioiu, I., Sher, S. Moed, Mohapatra, R. N., Monreal, B., Moore, C. D., Morfin, J. G., Mousseau, J., Moustakas, L. A., Mueller, G., Mueller, P., Muether, M., Mumm, H. P., Munger, C., Murayama, H., Nath, P., Naviliat-Cuncin, O., Nelson, J. K., Neuffer, D., Nico, J. S., Norman, A., Nygren, D., Obayashi, Y., O'Connor, T. P., Okada, Y., Olsen, J., Orozco, L., Orrell, J. L., Osta, J., Pahlka, B., Paley, J., Papadimitriou, V., Papucci, M., Parke, S., Parker, R. H., Parsa, Z., Partyka, K., Patch, A., Pati, J. C., Patterson, R. B., Pavlovic, Z., Paz, G., Perdue, G. N., Perevalov, D., Perez, G., Petti, R., Pettus, W., Piepke, A., Pivovaroff, M., Plunkett, R., Polly, C. C., Pospelov, M., Povey, R., Prakesh, A., Purohit, M. V., Raby, S., Raaf, J. L., Rajendran, R., Rajendran, S., Rameika, G., Ramsey, R., Rashed, A., Ratcliff, B. N., Rebel, B., Redondo, J., Reimer, P., Reitzner, D., Ringer, F., Ringwald, A., Riordan, S., Roberts, B. L., Roberts, D. A., Robertson, R., Robicheaux, F., Rominsky, M., Roser, R., Rosner, J. L., Rott, C., Rubin, P., Saito, N., Sanchez, M., Sarkar, S., Schellman, H., Schmidt, B., Schmitt, M., Schmitz, D. W., Schneps, J., Schopper, A., Schuster, P., Schwartz, A. J., Schwarz, M., Seeman, J., Semertzidis, Y. K., Seth, K. K., Shafi, Q., Shanahan, P., Sharma, R., Sharpe, S. R., Shiozawa, M., Shiltsev, V., Sigurdson, K., Sikivie, P., Singh, J., Sivers, D., Skwarnicki, T., Smith, N., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H., Soderberg, M., Song, Y. H., Soni, A., Souder, P., Sousa, A., Spitz, J., Stancari, M., Stavenga, G. C., Steffen, J. H., Stepanyan, S., Stoeckinger, D., Stone, S., Strait, J., Strassler, M., Sulai, I. A., Sundrum, R., Svoboda, R., Szczerbinska, B., Szelc, A., Takeuchi, T., Tanedo, P., Taneja, S., Tang, J., Tanner, D. B., Tayloe, R., Taylor, I., Thomas, J., Thorn, C., Tian, X., Tice, B. G., Tobar, M., Tolich, N., Toro, N., Towner, I. S., Tsai, Y., Tschirhart, R., Tunnell, C. D., Tzanov, M., Upadhye, A., Urheim, J., Vahsen, S., Vainshtein, A., Valencia, E., Van de Water, R. G., Van de Water, R. S., Velasco, M., Vogel, J., Vogel, P., Vogelsang, W., Wah, Y. W., Walker, D., Weiner, N., Weltman, A., Wendell, R., Wester, W., Wetstein, M., White, C., Whitehead, L., Whitmore, J., Widmann, E., Wiedemann, G., Wilkerson, J., Wilkinson, G., Wilson, P., Wilson, R. J., Winter, W., Wise, M. B., Wodin, J., Wojcicki, S., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wongjirad, T., Worcester, E., Wurtele, J., Xin, T., Xu, J., Yamanaka, T., Yamazaki, Y., Yavin, I., Yeck, J., Yeh, M., Yokoyama, M., Yoo, J., Young, A., Zimmerman, E., Zioutas, K., Zisman, M., Zupan, J., and Zwaska, R.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

The Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier. Science opportunities at the intensity frontier are identified and described in the areas of heavy quarks, charged leptons, neutrinos, proton decay, new light weakly-coupled particles, and nucleons, nuclei, and atoms., Comment: 229 pages

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2012

181. Motional Averaging in a Superconducting Qubit

Author

Li, Jian, Silveri, M. P., Kumar, K. S., Pirkkalainen, J. -M., Vepsäläinen, A., Chien, W. C., Tuorila, J., Sillanpää, M. A., Hakonen, P. J., Thuneberg, E. V., and Paraoanu, G. S.

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Quantum Physics
Abstract

Superconducting circuits with Josephson junctions are promising candidates for developing future quantum technologies. Of particular interest is to use these circuits to study effects that typically occur in complex condensed-matter systems. Here, we employ a superconducting quantum bit (qubit),a transmon, to carry out an analog simulation of motional averaging, a phenomenon initially observed in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. To realize this effect, the flux bias of the transmon is modulated by a controllable pseudo-random telegraph noise, resulting in stochastic jumping of the energy separation between two discrete values. When the jumping is faster than a dynamical threshold set by the frequency displacement of the levels, the two separated spectral lines merge into a single narrow-width, motional-averaged line. With sinusoidal modulation a complex pattern of additional sidebands is observed. We demonstrate experimentally that the modulated system remains quantum coherent, with modified transition frequencies, Rabi couplings, and dephasing rates. These results represent the first steps towards more advanced quantum simulations using artificial atoms., Comment: Main text (5 pages and 4 figures) and Supplementary Information (11 pages and 5 figures)

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2012
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182. The EXO-200 detector, part I: Detector design and construction

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Auger, M., Auty, D. J., Barbeau, P. S., Bartoszek, L., Baussan, E., Beauchamp, E., Benitez-Medina, C., Breidenbach, M., Chauhan, D., Cleveland, B., Conley, R., Cook, J., Cook, S., Coppens, A., Craddock, W., Daniels, T., Davis, C. G., Davis, J., deVoe, R., Dobi, A., Dolinski, M. J., Dunford, M., Fairbank Jr, W., Farine, J., Fierlinger, P., Franco, D., Giroux, G., Gornea, R., Graham, K., Gratta, G., Hagemann, C., Hall, C., Hall, K., Hargrove, C., Herrin, S., Hodgson, J., Hughes, M., Karelin, A., Kaufman, L. J., Kirk, J., Kuchenkov, A., Kumar, K. S., Leonard, D. S., Leonard, F., LePort, F., Mackay, D., MacLellan, R., Marino, M., Merkle, K., Mong, B., Díez, M. Montero, Müller, A. R., Neilson, R., Odian, A., O'Sullivan, K., Ouellet, C., Piepke, A., Pocar, A., Prescott, C. Y., Pushkin, K., Rivas, A., Rollin, E., Rowson, P. C., Sabourov, A., Sinclair, D., Skarpaas, K., Slutsky, S., Stekhanov, V., Strickland, V., Swift, M., Tosi, D., Twelker, K., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Vuilleumier, J. -M., Walton, T., Weber, M., Wichoski, U., Wodin, J., Wright, J. D., Yang, L., and Yen, Y. -R.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

EXO-200 is an experiment designed to search for double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe with a single-phase, liquid xenon detector. It uses an active mass of 110 kg of xenon enriched to 80.6% in the isotope 136 in an ultra-low background time projection chamber capable of simultaneous detection of ionization and scintillation. This paper describes the EXO-200 detector with particular attention to the most innovative aspects of the design that revolve around the reduction of backgrounds, the efficient use of the expensive isotopically enriched xenon, and the optimization of the energy resolution in a relatively large volume.

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2012
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183. Weak charge form factor and radius of 208Pb through parity violation in electron scattering

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Horowitz, C. J., Ahmed, Z., Jen, C. -M., Rakhman, A., Souder, P. A., Dalton, M. M., Liyanage, N., Paschke, K. D., Saenboonruang, K., Silwal, R., Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Quinn, B., Kumar, K. S., Mammei, J. M., McNulty, D., Mercado, L., Riordan, S., Wexler, J., Michaels, R. W., and Urciuoli, G. M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

We use distorted wave electron scattering calculations to extract the weak charge form factor F_W(q), the weak charge radius R_W, and the point neutron radius R_n, of 208Pb from the PREX parity violating asymmetry measurement. The form factor is the Fourier transform of the weak charge density at the average momentum transfer q=0.475 fm$^{-1}$. We find F_W(q) =0.204 \pm 0.028 (exp) \pm 0.001 (model). We use the Helm model to infer the weak radius from F_W(q). We find R_W= 5.826 \pm 0.181 (exp) \pm 0.027 (model) fm. Here the exp error includes PREX statistical and systematic errors, while the model error describes the uncertainty in R_W from uncertainties in the surface thickness \sigma of the weak charge density. The weak radius is larger than the charge radius, implying a "weak charge skin" where the surface region is relatively enriched in weak charges compared to (electromagnetic) charges. We extract the point neutron radius R_n=5.751 \pm 0.175 (exp) \pm 0.026 (model) \pm 0.005 (strange) fm$, from R_W. Here there is only a very small error (strange) from possible strange quark contributions. We find R_n to be slightly smaller than R_W because of the nucleon's size. Finally, we find a neutron skin thickness of R_n-R_p=0.302\pm 0.175 (exp) \pm 0.026 (model) \pm 0.005 (strange) fm, where R_p is the point proton radius., Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, published in Phys Rev. C. Only one change in this version: we have added one author, also to metadata

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2012
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184. Measurement of the Neutron Radius of 208Pb Through Parity-Violation in Electron Scattering

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Abrahamyan, S., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Aniol, K., Armstrong, D. S., Armstrong, W., Averett, T., Babineau, B., Barbieri, A., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Bielarski, T., Boeglin, W., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Carter, P., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Hen, O., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., De Leo, R., de Jager, K., Deconinck, W., Decowski, P., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, D., Etile, A., Flay, D., Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Fuchey, E., Garibaldi, F., Gasser, E., Gilman, R., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, A., Gomez, J., Grames, J., Gu, C., Hansen, O., Hansknecht, J., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmes, R. S., Holmstrom, T., Horowitz, C. J., Hoskins, J., Huang, J., Hyde, C. E., Itard, F., Jen, C. -M., Jensen, E., Jin, G., Johnston, S., Kelleher, A., Kliakhandler, K., King, P. M., Kowalski, S., Kumar, K. S., Leacock, J., Leckey IV, J., Lee, J. H., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Lubinsky, N., Mammei, J., Mammoliti, F., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., McCreary, A., McNulty, D., Mercado, L., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R. W., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Muñoz-Camacho, C., Nanda, S., Nelyubin, V., Nuruzzaman, N., Oh, Y., Palmer, A., Parno, D., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Poelker, B., Pomatsalyuk, R., Posik, M., Puckett, A. J. R., Quinn, B., Rakhman, A., Reimer, P. E., Riordan, S., Rogan, P., Ron, G., Russo, G., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shahinyan, A., Silwal, R., Sirca, S., Slifer, K., Solvignon, P., Souder, P. A., Sperduto, M. L., Subedi, R., Suleiman, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C. M., Tobias, W. A., Troth, W., Urciuoli, G. M., Waidyawansa, B., Wang, D., Wexler, J., Wilson, R., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yim, V., Zana, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., and Zhu, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry A_PV in the elastic scattering of polarized electrons from 208Pb. A_PV is sensitive to the radius of the neutron distribution (Rn). The result A_PV = 0.656 \pm 0.060 (stat) \pm 0.014 (syst) ppm corresponds to a difference between the radii of the neutron and proton distributions Rn - Rp = 0.33 +0.16 -0.18 fm and provides the first electroweak observation of the neutron skin which is expected in a heavy, neutron-rich nucleus., Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure

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2012
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185. Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in Xe-136 with EXO-200

Author

Ackerman, N., Aharmim, B., Auger, M., Auty, D. J., Barbeau, P. S., Barry, K., Bartoszek, L., Beauchamp, E., Belov, V., Benitez-Medina, C., Breidenbach, M., Burenkov, A., Cleveland, B., Conley, R., Conti, E., Cook, J., Cook, S., Coppens, A., Counts, I., Craddock, W., Daniels, T., Danilov, M. V., Davis, C. G., Davis, J., deVoe, R., Djurcic, Z., Dobi, A., Dolgolenko, A. G., Dolinski, M. J., Donato, K., Fairbank Jr., W., Farine, J., Fierlinger, P., Franco, D., Freytag, D., Giroux, G., Gornea, R., Graham, K., Gratta, G., Green, M. P., Hagemann, C., Hall, C., Hall, K., Haller, G., Hargrove, C., Herbst, R., Herrin, S., Hodgson, J., Hughes, M., Johnson, A., Karelin, A., Kaufman, L. J., Koffas, T., Kuchenkov, A., Kumar, A., Kumar, K. S., Leonard, D. S., Leonard, F., LePort, F., Mackay, D., MacLellan, R., Marino, M., Martin, Y., Mong, B., Diez, M. Montero, Morgan, P., Muller, A. R., Neilson, R., Nelson, R., Odian, A., O'Sullivan, K., Ouellet, C., Piepke, A., Pocar, A., Prescott, C. Y., Pushkin, K., Rivas, A., Rollin, E., Rowson, P. C., Russell, J. J., Sabourov, A., Sinclair, D., Skarpaas, K., Slutsky, S., Stekhanov, V., Strickland, V., Swift, M., Tosi, D., Twelker, K., Vogel, P., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Vuilleumier, J. -M., Waite, A., Waldman, S., Walton, T., Wamba, K., Weber, M., Wichoski, U., Wodin, J., Wright, J. D., Yang, L., Yen, Y. -R., and Zeldovich, O. Ya.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

We report the observation of two-neutrino double-beta decay in Xe-136 with T_1/2 = 2.11 +- 0.04 (stat.) +- 0.21 (sys.) x 10^21 yr. This second order process, predicted by the Standard Model, has been observed for several nuclei but not for Xe-136. The observed decay rate provides new input to matrix element calculations and to the search for the more interesting neutrino-less double-beta decay, the most sensitive probe for the existence of Majorana particles and the measurement of the neutrino mass scale.

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2011
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186. New Precision Limit on the Strange Vector Form Factors of the Proton

Author

HAPPEX collaboration, Ahmed, Z., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Armstrong, D. S., Arrington, J., Baturin, P., Bellini, V., Benesch, J., Beminiwattha, R., Benmokhtar, F., Canan, M., Camsonne, A., Cates, G. D., Chen, J. -P., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Dalton, M. M., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deconinck, W., Decowski, P., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, A., Golge, S., Grimm, K., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmes, R., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Huang, M., Hyde, C. E., Jen, C. M., Jin, G., Jones, D., Kang, H., King, P., Kowalski, S., Kumar, K. S., Lee, J. H., LeRose, J. J., Liyanage, N., Long, E., McNulty, D., Margaziotis, D., Meddi, F., Meekins, D. G., Mercado, L., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Munoz-Camacho, C., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Myers, K. E., Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Nuruzzaman, Oh, Y., Pan, K., Parno, D., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Quinn, B., Rakhman, A., Reimer, P. E., Rider, K., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Rubin, J., Russo, G., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Silwal, R., Sirca, S., Souder, P. A., Sperduto, M., Subedi, R., Suleiman, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C. M., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Waidyawansa, B., Wang, D., Wexler, J., Wilson, R., Wojtsekhowski, B., Zhan, X., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, L., Zhao, B., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The parity-violating cross-section asymmetry in the elastic scattering of polarized electrons from unpolarized protons has been measured at a four-momentum transfer squared Q2 = 0.624 GeV and beam energy E =3.48 GeV to be A_PV = -23.80 +/- 0.78 (stat) +/- 0.36 (syst) parts per million. This result is consistent with zero contribution of strange quarks to the combination of electric and magnetic form factors G_E^s + 0.517 G_M^s = 0.003 +/- 0.010 (stat) +/- 0.004 (syst) +/- 0.009 (ff), where the third error is due to the limits of precision on the electromagnetic form factors and radiative corrections. With this measurement, the world data on strange contributions to nucleon form factors are seen to be consistent with zero and not more than a few percent of the proton form factors., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures

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2011
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187. Molecular characterization and antifungal activity of lipopeptides produced from Bacillus subtilis against plant fungal pathogen Alternaria alternata

Author

Harish, B. N., primary, Nagesha, S. N., additional, Ramesh, B. N., additional, Shyamalamma, S., additional, Nagaraj, M. S., additional, Girish, H. C., additional, Pradeep, C., additional, Shiva Kumar, K. S., additional, Tharun Kumar, K. S., additional, Pavan, S. N., additional, and Kavan Kumar, V., additional

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2023
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188. Transverse Spin Structure of the Nucleon through Target Single Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic $(e,e^\prime \pi^\pm)$ Reaction at Jefferson Lab

Author

Gao, H., Gamberg, L., Chen, J. -P., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Huang, M., Afanasev, A., Anselmino, M., Avakian, H., Cates, G., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., de Jager, C., Garibaldi, F., Hu, B. T., Jiang, X., Kumar, K. S., Li, X. M., Lu, H. J., Meziani, Z. -E., Ma, B. -Q., Mao, Y. J., Peng, J. -C., Prokudin, A., Schlegel, M., Souder, P., Xiao, Z. G., Ye, Y., and Zhu, L.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Jefferson Lab (JLab) 12 GeV energy upgrade provides a golden opportunity to perform precision studies of the transverse spin and transverse-momentum-dependent structure in the valence quark region for both the proton and the neutron. In this paper, we focus our discussion on a recently approved experiment on the neutron as an example of the precision studies planned at JLab. The new experiment will perform precision measurements of target Single Spin Asymmetries (SSA) from semi-inclusive electro-production of charged pions from a 40-cm long transversely polarized $^3$He target in Deep-Inelastic-Scattering kinematics using 11 and 8.8 GeV electron beams. This new coincidence experiment in Hall A will employ a newly proposed solenoid spectrometer (SoLID). The large acceptance spectrometer and the high polarized luminosity will provide precise 4-D ($x$, $z$, $P_T$ and $Q^2$) data on the Collins, Sivers, and pretzelocity asymmetries for the neutron through the azimuthal angular dependence. The full 2$\pi$ azimuthal angular coverage in the lab is essential in controlling the systematic uncertainties. The results from this experiment, when combined with the proton Collins asymmetry measurement and the Collins fragmentation function determined from the e$^+$e$^-$ collision data, will allow for a quark flavor separation in order to achieve a determination of the tensor charge of the d quark to a 10% accuracy. The extracted Sivers and pretzelocity asymmetries will provide important information to understand the correlations between the quark orbital angular momentum and the nucleon spin and between the quark spin and nucleon spin., Comment: 23 pages, 13 figures, minor corrections, matches published version

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2010
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195. Land Evaluation and Land Use Planning

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Ramamurthy, V., primary, Challa, O., additional, Naidu, L. G. K., additional, Anil Kumar, K. S., additional, Singh, S. K., additional, Mamatha, D., additional, Ranjitha, K., additional, and Mishra, Bipin B., additional

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2020
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196. Geology and Geomorphology

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Kumar, K. S. Anil, primary, Thayalan, S., additional, Reddy, R. S., additional, Lalitha, M., additional, Kalaiselvi, B., additional, Parvathy, S., additional, Sujatha, K., additional, Hegde, Rajendra, additional, Singh, S. K., additional, and Mishra, Bipin B., additional

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2020
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198. To study the effects of degradation of phonon distribution on the high frequency response in nano structures

Author

Sarkar, S. -K., Sarkar, Souvik, Sahu, P. K., Kumar, K. -S., and Rani, S.

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Abstract

Under hot electron condition, the hot carriers phonon excited by ultra-short pulses in polar semiconductors initially loose energy rapidly by emitting longitudinal optic phonons via dominant Frolic coupling. Thus, energy supplied to the carriers by high electric fields goes into phonon generation. As the phonon life time is long enough, phonon distribution is disturbed and a non equilibrium population of LO phonons or hot phonons are produced, leading to their re-absorption by the carriers. In the present work the high frequency performance of GaN nanostructures is studied in the framework of heated drifted Fermi-Dirac distribution function incorporating the relevant scattering mechanisms and the influence of non-equilibrium LO phonons. It is observed that degradation of phonon distribution enhances significantly 3-dB cut off frequency thereby makes the high frequency response flatter reflecting that high frequency response is better if effects of non-equilibrium phonon distributions are included in the calculations., Comment: Submitted on behalf of TIMA Editions (http://irevues.inist.fr/tima-editions)

Published
2007

199. Transversity and Transverse Spin in Nucleon Structure through SIDIS at Jefferson Lab

Author

Afanasev, A., Anselmino, M., Avakian, H., Cates, G., Chen, J. -P., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., de Jager, C., Gamberg, L., Gao, H., Garibaldi, F., Jiang, X., Kumar, K. S., Meziani, Z. -E., Mulders, P. J., Peng, J. -C., Qian, X., Schlegel, M., Souder, P., Yuan, F., and Zhu, L.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

The JLab 12 GeV upgrade with a proposed solenoid detector and the CLAS12 detector can provide the granularity and three-dimensional kinematic coverage in longitudinal and transverse momentum, $0.1\le x \le 0.5$, $0.3 \le z \le 0.7$ with $P_T \le 1.5 {\rm GeV}$ to precisely measure the leading twist chiral-odd and $T$-odd quark distribution and fragmentation functions in SIDIS. The large $x$ experimental reach of these detectors with a 12 GeV CEBAF at JLab makes it {\em ideal} to obtain precise data on the {\em valence-dominated} transversity distribution function and to access the tensor charge., Comment: 7 Pages, 2 figures. Summary of the working group on Transversity and Transverse Spin Physics, from the workshop, "Inclusive and Semi-Inclusive Spin Physics with High Luminosity and LargeAcceptance at 11 GeV", Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLAB), December 13-14, 2006, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA USA. Serves as input for the Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan on QCD and Hadron Physics

Published
2007

200. An in vitro study of probiotic activity exhibited by Lactobacillus acidophilus and Lactobacillus rhamnosus on oral isolates of Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans

Author

Ameena M. Naushad, Jenny M. Sunil, Harish Kumar K. S., Sajimi Sathar, Roopa Mathews, and Anila Gopal

Subjects
General Engineering
Abstract

Background: Oral infections caused by microorganisms have led to increased risk of oral health problems like dental caries (DC). Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans are the organisms responsible for DC. The goal of the presented study was to investigate the potential of probiotics to prevent and treat DC. An in vitro assay was developed to investigate several probiotic strains for their ability to inhibit the aforementioned oral pathogens. Methods: 40 oral isolates of Streptococcus mutans and 51 oral isolates of Candida albicans were tested for probiotic activity against Lactobacillus acidophilus and Lactobacillus rhamnosus using agar overlay interference technique as prescribed by Fleming et al. Results: The zone of inhibition shown by L. acidophilus was higher than L. rhamnosus against Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans. Conclusions: In conclusion the two probiotic strains L. acidophilus and L. rhamnosus exhibited inhibitory activity on S. mutans and C. albicans respectively in vitro.

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2023

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