The homestake surface-underground scintillations: Description

Two new detectors are currently under construction at the Homestake Gold Mine a 140-ton Large Area Scintillation Detector (LASD) with an upper surface area of 130 square meters, a geometry factor (for an isotropic flux) of 1200 square meters, sr, and a depth of 4200 m.w.e.; and a surface air shower array consisting of 100 scintillator elements, each 3 square meters, spanning an area of approximately square kilometers. Underground, half of the LASD is currently running and collecting muon data; on the surface, the first section of the air shower array will begin operation in the spring of 1985. The detectors and their capabilities are described

Coherent Radio Pulses From GEANT Generated Electromagnetic Showers In Ice

Radio Cherenkov radiation is arguably the most efficient mechanism for detecting showers from ultra-high energy particles of 1 PeV and above. Showers occuring in Antarctic ice should be detectable at distances up to 1 km. We report on electromagnetic shower development in ice using a GEANT Monte Carlo simulation. We have studied energy deposition by shower particles and determined shower parameters for several different media, finding agreement with published results where available. We also report on radio pulse emission from the charged particles in the shower, focusing on coherent emission at the Cherenkov angle. Previous work has focused on frequencies in the 100 MHz to 1 GHz range. Surprisingly, we find that the coherence regime extends up to tens of Ghz. This may have substantial impact on future radio-based neutrino detection experiments as well as any test beam experiment which seeks to measure coherent Cherenkov radiation from an electromagnetic shower. Our study is particularly important for the RICE experiment at the South Pole.Comment: 44 pages, 29 figures. Minor changes made, reference added, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.

A Debreceni Egyetem Gazdaságtudományi Karának Controlling és teljesítménymenedzsment szakirány kurzusainak értékelése

It is of major importance for the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Debrecen to become familiar with the opinion of students about the education carried out at the University, therefore particular attention is given to the feedback of students related to education. Measurement and evaluation/reviews serve multiple purposes. Students may – if explicit written consent of the lecturer is provided – get to know the opinion of their fellow students about each course, lecturers may receive feedback about the reputation of their courses, the University and Faculties may acquire information about the overall opinion of their students about the training. Feedback is basically suitable for supporting the work aimed at the improvement of training quality. In the scope of present study the reviews submitted by the students of the Controlling and performance specialisation within the Management and Organisation course are introduced.A Debreceni Egyetem Gazdaságtudományi Kara számára kiemelten fontos, hogy megismerje a hallgatók egyetemen folyó képzéssel kapcsolatban megfogalmazott véleményét, ezért nagy figyelmet fordít az oktatás hallgatói véleményezésére. A mérés és az értékelés több célt is szolgál. A hallgatók – amennyiben az oktató ehhez írásban, kifejezetten hozzájárul – megismerhetik hallgatótársaiknak az egyes kurzusokról kialakult véleményét, az oktatók visszajelzést kapnak kurzusuk megítélésről, az Egyetem és a Karok pedig információhoz jutnak arról, hogy hallgatóik milyen véleményt alkottak a képzésről. A visszajelzések összességében alkalmasak a képzés minőségének fejlesztésére irányuló munka támogatására. Jelen tanulmány keretében a Vezetés és Szervezés Szak Controlling és teljesítménymenedzsment szakirány hallgatói által leadott értékeléseket mutatjuk b

First measurement of muon-neutrino disappearance in NOvA

This paper reports the first measurement using the NOvA detectors of ν μ disappearance in a ν μ beam. The analysis uses a 14 kton-equivalent exposure of 2.74 × 10 20 protons-on-target from the Fermilab NuMI beam. Assuming the normal neutrino mass hierarchy, we measure Δ m 2 32 = ( 2.52 + 0.20 − 0.18 ) × 10 − 3     eV 2 and sin 2 θ 23 in the range 0.38–0.65, both at the 68% confidence level, with two statistically degenerate best-fit points at sin 2 θ 23 = 0.43 and 0.60. Results for the inverted mass hierarchy are also presented