First generation interferometers

The status and plans for the first generation long baseline suspended mass interferometers TAMA, GEO, LIGO and Virgo are presented, as well as the expected performances

The International Linear Collider

In this article, we describe the key features of the recently completed technical design for the International Linear Collider (ILC), a 200-500 GeV linear electron-positron collider (expandable to 1 TeV) that is based on 1.3 GHz superconducting radio-frequency (SCRF) technology. The machine parameters and detector characteristics have been chosen to complement the Large Hadron Collider physics, including the discovery of the Higgs boson, and to further exploit this new particle physics energy frontier with a precision instrument. The linear collider design is the result of nearly twenty years of R&D, resulting in a mature conceptual design for the ILC project that reflects an international consensus. We summarize the physics goals and capability of the ILC, the enabling R&D and resulting accelerator design, as well as the concepts for two complementary detectors. The ILC is technically ready to be proposed and built as a next generation lepton collider, perhaps to be built in stages beginning as a Higgs factory.Comment: 41 page

Neutrino cross-section measurement with neutrinos from muon decay

In this paper we stress the idea that new, more precise neutrino cross-sections measurements at low energies will be necessary to improve the results of future big neutrino detectors, which will be dominated by the contribution of the systematic errors. The use of a muon beam instead of the traditional pion beams is proposed. This choice allows the simultaneous measurement of both, numu and nue interactions and the two helicities, in a clean environment and with a precise knowledge of the beam flux. We show that with approx 10^{15} mu's/year and a moderate mass detector (approx 100 tons) placed close to the muon storage ring, precisions of the order of 10% in sigma(nu) (E_nu bin size of 100 MeV) can be reached for neutrino energies below 2 GeV.Comment: 4 pages, proceeding to NUFACT0

Analytic representation of nucleon and pion-emission spectra from nucleon-nucleus collisions in the energy range 750-2000 MeV

Analytical representation of nucleon and pion emission spectra from nucleon-nucleus collisions in energy range 750-2000 Me

Amaldi Meeting Introduction

Welcome to Caltech and the 3rd Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves. Obviously, something must be very interesting to bring more than 250 scientists from around the world to Pasadena in July for this particular meeting. In fact, July in Southern California does have many attractions, in addition to the good weather and cool nights. For this conference, we have arranged a visit to the new Getty Museum on our excursion day. This is meant to make your stay more pleasant, but is not the real reason we have gathered here. This meeting addresses the detection of gravitational waves, a much-anticipated event

NC Data - Nuclear Collision Data for nucleon-nucleus collisions in the energy range 25 to 400 MeV

FORTRAN computer program for cross sections, and particle emission analysis in nucleon-nucleus collision

Numerical solutions of the one-dimensional nucleon-meson cascade equations

Numerical integration of meson-nucleon cascade equations for accelerator shielding calculation

Pulsed energy power system Patent

Pulsed energy power system for application of combustible gases to turbine controlling ac voltage generato

Comparison of predictions for nuclear effects in the Marteau model with the NUX+FLUKA scheme

Nuclear effects in neutrino-nucleus reactions simulated by means of the NUX+FLUKA Monte Carlo generator are compared with the theoretical predictions of the Marteau model. Pion absorption in NUX+FLUKA and non-pionic Delta decays in the Marteau model differ by about 30%. The fraction of pions produced due to the re-interactions after primary quasi-elastic vertex is in the NUX+FLUKA scheme much higher then provided by the Marteau model.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures, Presented by J.A. Nowak at the 3rd International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region, 17-21 March, Gran Sasso(Italy),to appear in the Proceeding