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Soft photon yield in nuclear interactions

First results of study of a soft photon yield at Nuclotron (LHEP, JINR) in nucleus-nucleus collisions at 3.5 GeV per nucleon are presented. These photons are registered by an BGO electromagnetic calorimeter built by SVD-2 Collaboration. The…

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Confirmation of a soft photon signal in excess of Q.E.D. expectations in pi p interactions at 280 GeV/c

Photons produced in pi p interactions at 280 GeV/c were detected by reconstructing the e+e- pairs produced via the materialisation of the photons in a 1 mm thick lead sheet placed in front of the MWPCs of the OMEGA spectrometer at CERN. A…

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Direct Photons in Heavy-Ion Collisions

A brief overview of direct-photon measurements in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions is given. The results for Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt{s_NN} = 17.3 GeV and for Au+Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN} = 200 GeV are compared to estimates…

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Photon yields from nitrogen gas and dry air excited by electrons

In order to detect ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECR), atmospheric fluorescence light from the trajectory of the extensive air shower may be measured by mirror-photosensor systems. In this type of experiment the photon yield from…

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Measurement of neutron yield by 62 MeV proton beam on a thick Beryllium target

The design of a low-power prototype of neutron amplifier recently proposed within the INFN-E project indicated the need for more accurate called for detailed data on the neutron yield produced by a proton beam with energy of about 70 MeV…

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The yields of light meson resonances in neutrinonuclear interactions at <E_nu> = 10 GeV

The total yields of the all well-established light mesonic resonances (up to the $\phi$(1020) meson) are estimated in neutrinonuclear interactions at < E_nu > = 10 GeV, using the data obtained with SKAT bubble chamber. For some resonances,…

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Measurement of zero degree single photon energy spectra for sqrt(s) = 7TeV proton-proton collisions at LHC

In early 2010, the Large Hadron Collider forward (LHCf) experiment measured very forward neutral particle spectra in LHC proton-proton collisions. From a limited data set taken under the best beam conditions (low beam-gas background and low…

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Soft Photons in Hadron-Hadron Collisions: Synchrotron Radiation from the QCD Vacuum?

We discuss the production of soft photons in high energy hadron-hadron collisions. We present a model where quarks and antiquarks in the hadrons emit ``synchrotron light'' when being deflected by the chromomagnetic fields of the QCD vacuum,…

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Measurement of Pressure Dependent Fluorescence Yield of Air: Calibration Factor for UHECR Detectors

In a test experiment at the Final Focus Test Beam of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the fluorescence yield of 28.5 GeV electrons in air and nitrogen was measured. The measured photon yields between 300 and 400 nm at 1 atm and 29…

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Low-Energy Nuclear Recoil Calibration of XENONnT with a $^{88}$YBe Photoneutron Source

Characterizing low-energy, keV-range nuclear recoils near the detector threshold is one of the major challenges for large direct dark matter detectors. To that end, we have successfully used a Yttrium-Beryllium photoneutron source that…

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Direct photon production in d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

Direct photons have been measured in sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV d+Au collisions at midrapidity. A wide p_T range is covered by measurements of nearly-real virtual photons (1<p_T<6 GeV/c) and real photons (5<p_T<16 GeV/c). The invariant yield of the…

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Lim , L. A. Linden Levy , T. Liška , A. Litvinenko , H. Liu , M. X. Liu , B. Love , D. Lynch , C. F. Maguire , Y. I. Makdisi , A. Malakhov , M. D. Malik , V. I. Manko , E. Mannel , Y. Mao , G. Martinez , L. Mašek , H. Masui , F. Matathias , T. Matsumoto , M. C. McCain , M. McCumber , P. L. McGaughey , N. Means , B. Meredith , Y. Miake , T. Mibe , A. C. Mignerey , P. Mikeš , K. Miki , T. E. Miller , A. Milov , S. Mioduszewski , G. C. Mishra , M. Mishra , J. T. Mitchell , A. K. Mohanty , H. J. Moon , Y. Morino , A. Morreale , D. P. Morrison , J. M. Moss , T. V. Moukhanova , D. Mukhopadhyay , M. Muniruzzaman , T. Murakami , J. Murata , S. Nagamiya , J. L. Nagle , M. Naglis , M. I. Nagy , I. Nakagawa , Y. Nakamiya , K. R. Nakamura , T. Nakamura , K. Nakano , S. Nam , J. Newby , M. Nguyen , M. Nihashi , T. Niita , R. Nouicer , A. S. Nyanin , J. Nystrand , C. Oakley , E. O'Brien , S. X. Oda , C. A. Ogilvie , H. Ohnishi , I. D. Ojha , M. Oka , K. Okada , Y. Onuki , A. Oskarsson , I. 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Photon-Photon and Photon-Hadron Physics at Relativistic Heavy Ion Colliders

Due to the coherence of all the protons in a nucleus, there are very strong electromagnetic fields of short duration in relativistic heavy ion collisions. They give rise to quasireal photon-photon and photon-nucleus collisions with a large…

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Comprehensive Measurement of Neutron Yield Produced by 62 MeV Protons on Beryllium Target

A low-power prototype of neutron amplifier, based on a 70 MeV, high current proton cyclotron being installed at LNL for the SPES RIB facility, was recently proposed within INFN-E project. This prototype uses a thick Beryllium converter to…

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Reactor neutrino physics potentials of cryogenic pure-CsI crystal

This paper presents a world-leading scintillation light yield among inorganic crystals measured from a 0.5~kg pure-CsI detector operated at 77 Kelvin. Scintillation photons were detected by two 2-inch Hamamatsu SiPM arrays equipped with…

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Experimental Neutron-Induced Fission Fragment Mass Yields of 232Th and 238U at Energies from 10 to 33 MeV

Development of nuclear energy applications requires data for neutron-induced reactions for actinides in a wide neutron energy range. Here we describe measurements of pre-neutron emission fission fragment mass yields of 232Th and 238U at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-04-09 V. D. Simutkin , S. Pomp , J. Blomgren , M. Österlund , R. Bevilacqua , I. V. Ryzhov , G. A. Tutin , S. G. Yavshits , L. A. Vaishnene , M. S. Onegin , J. P. Meulders , R. Prieels

Where the excess photons and dileptons in SPS nuclear collisions come from?

Recently the first single photon spectra from CERN energy heavy-ion collisions were reported by WA80, while NA34/3 and NA38 have obtained the spectra for dileptons with the mass up to 4-5 GeV. The production rates for photons and dileptons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 E. V. Shuryak , L. Xiong

Probing small Bjorken-$x$ nuclear gluonic structure via coherent J/$\psi$ photoproduction in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV

Quasireal photons exchanged in relativistic heavy ion interactions are powerful probes of the gluonic structure of nuclei. The coherent J/$\psi$ photoproduction cross section in ultraperipheral lead-lead collisions is measured as a function…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-12-29 CMS Collaboration

Direct Photons at RHIC

A brief overview of direct-photon measurements in p+p and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV with the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is given. Direct-photon yields for pT > 4 GeV/c and photon-hadron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Klaus Reygers

Production of charmed particles in proton-proton and light nucleus-nucleus interactions in Geant4 FTF model

The total yield of neutral D-mesons (4$\pi$) in central Xe+La interactions at 150 GeV per nucleon has been calculated within the Geant4 FTF model. Our calculation is close to predictions of Monte Carlo models that do not account for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-25 A. Galoyan , A. Ribon , V. Uzhinsky

Proton Light Yield in Organic Scintillators using a Double Time-of-Flight Technique

Recent progress in the development of novel organic scintillators necessitates modern characterization capabilities. As the primary means of energy deposition by neutrons in these materials is n-p elastic scattering, knowledge of the proton…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-06 J. A. Brown , B. L. Goldblum , T. A. Laplace , K. P. Harrig , L. A. Bernstein , D. L. Bleuel , W. Younes , D. Reyna , E. Brubaker , P. Marleau