Hajime Yoshida

Radiation damage of BGO crystals due to low energy γ rays, high energy protons and fast neutrons

Abstract Results are presented on the effects of radiation on BGO crystals. It is shown that BGO has more than two orders of magnitude higher resistance against low energy γ rays than SF5 lead glass. Darkening of the crystal is hardly visible even after an irradiation of 3.6 × 10 6 R. The darkening faded by more than one half after several days and it has almost completely disappeared after much longer periods. The tolerable rate of synchrotron radiation on BGO calorimeters is 100 R/h in a conservative estimate if the degradation in transmittance is required to be less than 1 % over a depth of 20 radiation lengths. In BGO calorimeters, the degradation of scintillation efficiency is less important than that of the transmittance, 99.999% pure crystals have a two orders of magnitude better resistance than 99.99% pure ones. Sample darkening caused by 12 GeV protons or fast neutrons is an order of magnitude more severe than that by low energy γ rays. Moreover, the recovery is not complete even after a period of more than 100 days. Some data on sample activation are also presented.

Measurement of R and search for new heavy quarks in e+e- annihilation at 50 and 52 GeV centre-of-mass energies

Abstract The total cross section for the process of the e+e- annihilation into hadrons has been measured at the centre-of-mass energies of 50 GeV and 52 GeV and a search has been made for new heavy quarks. The ratios R = σ(e+e- → hadrons)/σpoint(e+e- → μ+μ-) obtained are 4.4±0.5 at 50 GeV and 4.7±0.3 at 52 GeV, respectively. An additional systematic uncertainty is 10%. From the event shape analysis we found no evidence for a new quark with charge 2 3 e .

Search for narrow peaks in inclusive π0 spectra from pp annihilation at rest

Abstract By using modularized NaI(Tl) detectors, we carried out a high statistics measurement of inclusive π0 spectra from p p annihilation at rest. We did not observe any narrow π0 peaks arising from baryonium production, p p →π 0 B . The σ upper limit of the yield varied between 10−2 and 10−4 depending on the mass and oncharge multiplicity. Three narrow peaks at 2 σ levels were seen at approximately the same masses as in the previous measurement of p p → γ B .We also derived the yield of p p annihilation into π0M forM = o, η′, ω, ϱ0, η and π0.

Performance of the VENUS lead-glass calorimeter at TRISTAN

Abstract The initial performance of the VENUS barrel electromagnetic calorimeter at TRISTAN is described. The calorimeter is composed of 5160 lead-glass counters in a semi-tower arrangement. An energy resolution of 3.8% was obtained for 26 GeV Bhabha events. The neutral pions in the hadronic events were reconstructed with a mass resolution of σ = 16 MeV. The gain of the lead-glass counters was stable within 2% during a four months operation at TRISTAN.

Determination of the QCD scale parameter ΛMS with QCD cascade on the basis of the next-to-leading logarithmic approximation

Abstract The relative production ratio of 3-jet events to the total number of hadronic events was studied in e+e− annihilations at centre-of-mass energies between 54 and 61.4 GeV. The QCD scale parameter has been determined to be Λ MS =254 −47 +55 ±56 MeV on the basis of a QCD cascade with the next-to-leading logarithmic approximation.

Magnetic Properties of CrSb

It is experimentally known that an antiferromagnetic compound CrSb ( T N ≧700 K) with a NiAs type crystal structure exhibits unusual magnetic properties, that is, sharp decrease of magnetic moment, steep increase of magnetic specific heat and of magnetic susceptibility just below T N with increasing temperature. These unusual behaviours are discussed on the basis of a molecular field theory by taking into account anisotropic strain dependence of exchange interactions. And it is pointed out that an effect of anisotropic normal thermal expansion of the crystal lattice can not be neglected.

Measurement of R and search for new quark flavors decaying into multi-jet final states in e+e− collisions between 54.0 and 61.4 GeV CM energies

Abstract We accumulated e+e− annihilations into multi-hadrons at CM energies between 54.0 and 61.4 GeV with the VENUS detector at TRISTAN. Measured R-ratios are consistent with the standard model using the Z-boson mass; 91.1 GeV/c2. Using two new observables, we searched for a planar four-jet and other multi-jet events resulting from the decay of a charge — 1 3 e b quark. Having observed no positive signals, we excluded b masses between 19.4 and 28.2 GeV/c2 with a 95% confidence level, regardless of branching into charged current and loop-induced flavor-changing neutral current decay, including a possible Higgs decay process. The charge + 2 3 e top quark was excluded below f30.2 GeV/c2.

Pressure Dependence of Magnetic Transition Temperatures and Lattice Parameter in an Antiferromagnetic Ordered Alloy Mn3Pt

The ordered alloy Mn 3 Pt is an antiferromagnet (AF) which shows an AF(D)-AF(F) transition at T C =365 K below the Neel temperature of the F phase T N (F) of 475 K. The pressure dependence of magnetic transition temperatures was studied up to 9.8 kbar. By application of pressure, T N (F) decreases with d T N (F)/d P =-7 K/kbar and T C increases with d T C /d P =14 K/kbar. Above 3.2 kbar, the antiferromagnetic F phase disappears, only the D phase appears and its Neel temperature T N (D) increases with d T N (D)/d P =5 K/kbar with further increase in pressure. The pressure dependence of lattice parameter was measured up to 52 kbar. The volume compressibility was obtained to be 0.9×10 -3 kbar -1 . The magnetic transition temperature vs pressure and lattic parameter phase diagrams were determined.

Measurement of the differential cross sections ofe+e−→γγ ande+e−→γγγ at\(\sqrt s = 55,56,56.5\) and 57 GeV and search for unstable photino pair production

AbstractDifferential cross sections fore+e−→γγ have been measured at center-of-mass energies of 55, 56, 56.5 and 57 GeV. The results are in good agreement with those predicted by QED. Possible deviations from QED are studied in terms of contact interactions, and the limits on compositeness scales are obtained. Using events with a gramma pair in the final state, a search is made for the pair production of unstable photons,n