Search results for "alignment"

Absolute momentum calibration of the HARP TPC

2008

In the HARP experiment the large-angle spectrometer is using a cylindrical TPC as main tracking and particle identification detector. The momentum scale of reconstructed tracks in the TPC is the most important systematic error for the majority of kinematic bins used for the HARP measurements of the double-differential production cross-section of charged pions in proton interactions on nuclear targets at large angle. The HARP TPC operated with a number of hardware shortfalls and operational mistakes. Thus it was important to control and characterize its momentum calibration. While it was not possible to enter a direct particle beam into the sensitive volume of the TPC to calibrate the detect…

Alignment of the ALICE Inner Tracking System with cosmic-ray tracks

2010

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) experiment devoted to investigating the strongly interacting matter created in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC energies. The ALICE ITS, Inner Tracking System, consists of six cylindrical layers of silicon detectors with three different technologies; in the outward direction: two layers of pixel detectors, two layers each of drift, and strip detectors. The number of parameters to be determined in the spatial alignment of the 2198 sensor modules of the ITS is about 13,000. The target alignment precision is well below 10 micron in some cases (pixels). The sources of alignment information include survey measurement…

Strategies for efficient field-free molecular alignment and its control

2008

Strategies using shaped laser fields to produce and control efficient field-free alignment are analyzed and compared. It is in particular shown that the strategy recently proposed using a shaped laser field combining an adiabatic ramp with a kick is superior to the bipulse strategy.

Target states and control of molecular alignment in a dissipative medium

2006

Received 17 August 2006; published 14 November 2006We investigate how and to what extent molecular alignment can be controlled in a dissipative medium by asuitable train of laser pulses. We focus primarily on the extension of a scheme of control originally constructedfor unitary evolution. The procedure is applied to control the alignment of CO molecules in an Ar gas. Theparameters of the train of kicks—i.e., the intensity of each kick and the delay between them—are eitherobtained by a systematic procedure maximum strategy or by optimization by evolutionary algorithms.DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.053411 PACS number s : 32.80.Lg, 33.80. b, 42.50.Hz

Postpulse molecular alignment measured by a weak field polarization technique

2003

We report a direct nonintrusive observation of alignment and planar delocalization of ${\mathrm{C}\mathrm{O}}_{2}$ after an intense linearly polarized femtosecond laser pulse excitation. The effects are measured by a polarization technique involving a perturbative probe that itself does not induce appreciable alignment. We show that this technique allows one to measure a signal proportional to $⟨{cos}^{2}\ensuremath{\theta}⟩\ensuremath{-}1/3$, with $\ensuremath{\theta}$ the angle between the molecular axis and the laser polarization. Simulations that support this analysis allow one to characterize the experimentally observed alignment and planar delocalization quantitatively.

Zero axial irradiance by annular screens with angular variation

1992

For optical alignment, it may be convenient to use a three-dimensional diffraction pattern with zero irradiance along the optical axis. This pattern is created here by using annular screens in the form of a phase daisy, a daisy flower, or a pie, with an even number of slices of an equal central angle and with every other slice with a phase retardation of 180 degrees . We recognize this form of angular variation as a particular solution of a wider set of functions that are able to produce zero axial irradiance.

Electron and nuclear dynamics of a molecular ion in an intense laser field

2004

The dynamics of a two-dimensional $\mathrm{H}_{2}^{+}$ molecule interacting with a strong laser pulse beyond the usual approximation of fixed nuclei is presented. The motion of the nuclei is studied by using the classical Newton laws while the electron is described with a full quantal treatment. The axis of the molecule, initially not aligned to the laser field, performs a long-period pendular motion around the laser polarization axis. Vibrational degrees of freedom are seen to be excited. The radiation emitted by the oscillating charges presents variations that are synchronous to the pendular motion. The possibility of monitoring the motion of the molecule through the emitted radiation is …

Excitation of rotons in parahydrogen crystals: The laser-induced-molecular-alignment mechanism

2013

Solid parahydrogen (p-H₂) is known to support long-lived coherences, of the order of 100 ps, which enables high-resolution spectroscopy in the time domain. Rotational Raman-type excitations to sublevels of J=2 are delocalized due to electric-quadrupole–quadrupole coupling in p-H₂ crystals, and the resulting states can be characterized as rotons. Wave packets of rotons exhibit molecular alignment with respect to laboratory coordinates. Here the concept of field-free molecular alignment, induced by strong ultrashort laser pulses, is extended into a molecular solid case. We derive a solid-state analog for the gas-phase alignment measure and illustrate the time-dependent alignment degree in p-H…

2016

The wealth of sensory data coming from different modalities has opened numerous opportunities for data analysis. The data are of increasing volume, complexity and dimensionality, thus calling for new methodological innovations towards multimodal data processing. However, multimodal architectures must rely on models able to adapt to changes in the data distribution. Differences in the density functions can be due to changes in acquisition conditions (pose, illumination), sensors characteristics (number of channels, resolution) or different views (e.g. street level vs. aerial views of a same building). We call these different acquisition modes domains, and refer to the adaptation problem as d…

A $B_4C$-silicon target for the detection of neutrino interactions

1998

This note describes the construction of a target for neutrino interactions composed of passive boron carbide plates interleaved with silicon microstrip detectors. The target contains four layers of passive material with a total mass of 45 kg and 600 single--sided silicon microstrip detectors with a total surface of 1.14 m$^2$ distributed over five layers. It is installed in the NOMAD spectrometer at the CERN SPS neutrino beam. During the 1997 run about 8000 \nm\ charged current interactions were estimated to have occurred in the target. For these events it will be possible to perform a precise measurement of both vertex and kinematical variables. This will provide invaluable experience towa…