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HYPERFINE STRUCTURE CONSTANTS OF ENERGETICALLY HIGH-LYING LEVELS OF ODD PARITY OF ATOMIC VANADIUM
2014
High-resolution Fourier transform spectra of a vanadium-argon plasma have been recorded in the wavelength range of 365-670 nm (15,000-27,400 cm–1). Optical bandpass filters were used in the experimental setup to enhance the sensitivity of the Fourier transform spectrometer. In total, 138 atomic vanadium spectral lines showing resolved or partially resolved hyperfine structure have been analyzed to determine the magnetic dipole hyperfine structure constants A of the involved energy levels. One of the investigated lines has not been previously classified. As a result, the magnetic dipole hyperfine structure constants A for 90 energy levels are presented: 35 of them belong to the configuration…
Zeno-like phenomena in STIRAP processes
2011
The presence of a continuous measurement quantum Zeno effect in a stimulated Raman adiabatic passage is studied, exploring in detail a sort of self-competition of the damping, which drives the system toward a loss of population and, at the same time, realizes the conditions for optimizing the adiabatic passage.
Arbitrary qudit gates by adiabatic passage
2013
We derive an adiabatic technique that implements the most general SU($d$) transformation in a quantum system of $d$ degenerate states, featuring a qudit. This technique is based on the factorization of the SU($d$) transformation into $d$ generalized quantum Householder reflections, each of which is implemented by a two-shot stimulated Raman adiabatic passage with appropriate static phases. The energy of the lasers needed to synthesize a single Householder reflection is shown to be remarkably constant as a function of $d$. This technique is directly applicable to a linear trapped ion system with $d+1$ ions. We implement the quantum Fourier transform numerically in a qudit with $d=4$ (defined…
Triangle Singularity as the Origin of the a1(1420)
2021
The COMPASS Collaboration experiment recently discovered a new isovector resonancelike signal with axial-vector quantum numbers, the a 1 ( 1420 ) , decaying to f 0 ( 980 ) π . With a mass too close to and a width smaller than the axial-vector ground state a 1 ( 1260 ) , it was immediately interpreted as a new light exotic meson, similar to the X , Y , Z states in the hidden-charm sector. We show that a resonancelike signal fully matching the experimental data is produced by the decay of the a 1 ( 1260 ) resonance into K * ( → K π ) K ¯ and subsequent rescattering through a triangle singularity into the coupled f 0 ( 980 ) π channel. The amplitude for this process is calculated using a new a…
Highlights from the COMPASS experiment at CERN. Hadron spectroscopy and excitations
2016
The COMPASS experiment at the CERN-SPS studies the spectrum and the structure of hadrons by scattering high energy hadrons and polarised muons off various fixed targets. Recent results for the hadron programme comprise highlights from different topics. A selective overview is given and, among others, the following results are discussed. The precise determination of the pion polarisability, a long standing puzzle that has been solved now, is presented as well as measurements of radiative widths. The observation of a new narrow axial-vector state, the $a_1(1420)$, as well as deeper insights into the exotic $1^{-+}$-wave, which is under study since decades by several experiments, are discussed…
Aging measurements with the gas electron multiplier (GEM)
2001
Abstract Continuing previous aging measurements with detectors based on the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM), we investigated a 31×31 cm 2 triple-GEM detector, as used in the small area tracking of the COMPASS experiment at CERN. With a detector identical to those installed in the experiment, long-term high-rate exposures to 8.9 keV X-ray radiation were performed to study its aging properties. In standard operation conditions, with Ar/CO2 (70:30) gas filling and operated at an effective gain of 8.5×103, no change in gain and energy resolution is observed after collecting a total charge of 7 mC / mm 2 , corresponding to seven years of normal operation. This observation confirms previous results…
Construction, test and commissioning of the triple-gem tracking detector for compass
2002
The Small Area Tracking system of the COMPASS experiment at CERN includes a set of 20 large area, fast position-sensitive Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors, designed to reliably operate in the harsh radiation environment of the experiment. We describe in detail the design, choice of materials, assembly procedures and quality controls used to manufacture the devices. The test procedure in the laboratory, the performance in test beams and in the initial commissioning phase in the experiment are presented and discussed.
Polarimetry on dense samples of spin-polarized 3He by magnetostatic detection
1997
Abstract A very sensitive low-field fluxgate magnetometer is used to detect the static magnetic field produced by dense samples of spin-polarized 3He gas contained in spherical glass cells at pressures around several bars. The 3He nuclear polarization can be extracted with high precision ΔP P by utilizing magnetostatic detection in combination with adiabatic fast-passage spin reversal. The polarization losses can be kept well below 0.1% thus making this type of polarimetry almost non-destructive. More simply even, P can be measured with reduced accuracy by the change of field when the cell is removed from the fluxgate. In this case the accuracy is limited to about 10% due to the uncertainti…
The COMPASS experiment at CERN
1998
Abstract The recently approved COMPASS experiment attempts a measurement of the gluon polarization around η ⋍ 0.1 with a precision of δ(Δ g / g ) ⋍ 0.1. The experiment uses open charm muo-production and large PT hadron pairs to tag the photon-gluon fusion process. COMPASS will also cover a rich spin-physics program in polarized DIS.
New measurements of at COMPASS
2007
One of the main goals of the COMPASS experiment at CERN is the determination of the gluon polarisation in the nucleon, Δ G / G . It is determined from spin asymmetries in the scattering of polarised muons at 160 GeV/c on a polarised LiD target. The gluon polarisation is accessed by the selection of photon-gluon fusion events. Such events are tagged either with a charmed meson or a hadron pair with high transverse momenta in the final state. The selection of charmed mesons is based on the reconstruction of decayed D ⋆ and D 0 mesons in the COMPASS spectrometer. For the high- p T hadron pairs two independent analyses are performed in the kinematic regimes of DIS ( Q 2 > 1 ( GeV / c ) 2 ) and …