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Search for Higgs Boson Production in Association with the W boson in 1.96-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Description: A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson was carried out in WH {yields} {ell}{nu}b{bar b} process in p{bar p} collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV, where W, H, {ell}, {nu}, b and p denote either a W{sup +} or W{sup -} boson, Higgs boson, lepton (electron or muon), neutrino, bottom quark and proton, respectively. The data were collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab from February 2002 to August 2004. The corresponding integrated luminosity is 319 pb{sup -1}. We select ev… more
Date: September 1, 2005
Creator: Ishizawa, Yoshio
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A Parallel Ocean Model With Adaptive Mesh Refinement Capability For Global Ocean Prediction

Description: An ocean model with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) capability is presented for simulating ocean circulation on decade time scales. The model closely resembles the LLNL ocean general circulation model with some components incorporated from other well known ocean models when appropriate. Spatial components are discretized using finite differences on a staggered grid where tracer and pressure variables are defined at cell centers and velocities at cell vertices (B-grid). Horizontal motion is model… more
Date: September 8, 2005
Creator: Herrnstein, A
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Beam Diagnosis and Lattice Modeling of the Fermilab Booster

Description: A realistic lattice model is a fundamental basis for the operation of a synchrotron. In this study various beam-based measurements, including orbit response matrix (ORM) and BPM turn-by-turn data are used to verify and calibrate the lattice model of the Fermilab Booster. In the ORM study, despite the strong correlation between the gradient parameters of adjacent magnets which prevents a full determination of the model parameters, an equivalent lattice model is obtained by imposing appropriate c… more
Date: September 1, 2005
Creator: Huang, Xiaobiao
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Search for neutrino oscillations in the MINOS experiment by using quasi-elastic interactions

Description: The enthusiasm of the scientific community for studying oscillations of neutrinos is equaled only by the mass of their detectors. The MINOS experiment determines and compares the near spectrum of muonic neutrinos from the NUMI beam to the far one, in order to measure two oscillation parameters: {Delta}m{sub 23}{sup 2} and sin{sup 2} (2{theta}{sub 23}). The spectra are obtained by analyzing the charged current interactions which difficulty lies in identifying the interactions products (e.g. muon… more
Date: September 1, 2005
Creator: Piteira, Rodolphe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of Various Blowout Panel Configurations on the Structural Response of LANL Building 16-340 to Internal Explosions1

Description: The risk of accidental detonation is present whenever any type of high explosives processing activity is performed. These activities are typically carried out indoors to protect processing equipment from the weather and to hide possibly secret processes from view. Often, highly strengthened reinforced concrete buildings are employed to house these activities. These buildings may incorporate several design features, including the use of lightweight frangible blowout panels, to help mitigate blas… more
Date: September 30, 2005
Creator: Wilke, Jason P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Controlled Electron Injection into Plasma Accelerators and SpaceCharge Estimates

Description: Plasma based accelerators are capable of producing electron sources which are ultra-compact (a few microns) and high energies (up to hundreds of MeVs) in much shorter distances than conventional accelerators. This is due to the large longitudinal electric field that can be excited without the limitation of breakdown as in RF structures.The characteristic scale length of the accelerating field is the plasma wavelength and for typical densities ranging from 1018 - 1019 cm-3, the accelerating fiel… more
Date: September 1, 2005
Creator: Fubiani, Gwenael J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of Various Blowout Panel Configurations on the Structural Response of Los Alamos National Laboratory Building 16-340 to Internal Explosions

Description: Abstract: The risk of accidental detonation is present whenever any type of high explosives processing activity is performed. These activities are typically carried out indoors to protect processing equipment from the weather and to hide possibly secret processes from view. Often, highly strengthened reinforced concrete buildings are employed to house these activities. These buildings may incorporate several design features, including the use of lightweight frangible blowout panels, to help mit… more
Date: September 2005
Creator: Wilke, Jason P.; Pohs, Keith G. & Plumlee, Deidré A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement of the inclusive bb jet cross section at the Collidor Detector at Fermilab

Description: Data collected by the Fermilab CDF detector are used to measure the inclusive b{bar b} jet production cross section in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. Vertices displaced from the primary interaction point (secondary vertices) are a signature for long-lived decay and are used to identify jets originating from b quarks. An event sample containing two jets, each having an identified secondary vertex, is used. The jets are required to be within the pseudo-rapidi… more
Date: September 1, 2005
Creator: Gajjar, Anant
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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B Flavor Tagging Calibration and Search for B(s) Oscillations in Semileptonic Decays with the CDF Detector at Fermilab

Description: In this thesis we present a search for oscillations of B{sub s}{sup 0} mesons using semileptonic B{sub s}{sup 0} {yields} D{sub s}{sup -}{ell}{sup +}{nu} decays. Data were collected with the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDFII) from events produced in collisions of 980 GeV protons and antiprotons accelerated in the Tevatron ring. The total proton-antiproton center-of-mass energy is 1.96 TeV. The Tevatron is the unique source in the world for B{sub s}{sup 0} mesons, to be joined by the… more
Date: September 1, 2005
Creator: Giurgiu, Gavril A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radiation environment simulations at the Tevatron, studies of the beam profile and measurement of the Bc meson mass

Description: The description of a computer simulation of the CDF detector at Fermilab and the adjacent accelerator parts is detailed, with MARS calculations of the radiation background in various elements of the model due to the collision of beams and machine-related losses. Three components of beam halo formation are simulated for the determination of the principal source of radiation background in CDF due to beam losses. The effect of a collimator as a protection for the detector is studied. The simulatio… more
Date: September 1, 2005
Creator: Nicolas, Ludovic Y. & U., /Glasgow
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