The experimental findings reported in our original paper de Sangro et al. (Eur. Phys. J. C 75:137,
2015
) have been criticized in Shabad (Eur. Phys. J. C 76:508,
2016
). We believe that the arguments ...brought in Shabad (Eur. Phys. J. C 76:508,
2016
) are not correct and we show evidence for this.
Measuring propagation speed of Coulomb fields de Sangro, R.; Finocchiaro, G.; Patteri, P. ...
European physical journal. C, Particles and fields,
03/2015, Volume:
75, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
The problem of gravity propagation has been subject of discussion for quite a long time: Newton, Laplace and, in relatively more modern times, Eddington pointed out that, if gravity propagated with ...finite velocity, planet motion around the sun would become unstable due to a torque originating from time lag of the gravitational interactions. Such an odd behavior can be found also in electromagnetism, when one computes the propagation of the electric fields generated by a set of uniformly moving charges. As a matter of fact the Liénard–Weichert retarded potential leads to the same formula as the one obtained assuming that the electric field propagate with infinite velocity. The Feynman explanation for this apparent paradox was based on the fact that uniform motions last indefinitely. To verify such an explanation, we performed an experiment to measure the time/space evolution of the electric field generated by an uniformly moving electron beam. The results we obtain, on a finite lifetime kinematical state, are compatible with an electric field rigidly carried by the beam itself.
A
bstract
Using a total of 5
.
25 fb
−
1
of
e
+
e
−
collision data with center-of-mass energies from 4.236 to 4.600 GeV, we report the first observation of the process
e
+
e
−
→ ηψ
(2
S
) with a ...statistical significance of 4.9 standard deviations. The data sets were collected by the BESIII detector operating at the BEPCII storage ring. We measure the yield of events integrated over center-of-mass energies and also present the energy dependence of the measured cross section.
A
bstract
Using 10
.
1
×
10
9
J/ψ
events produced by the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII) at a center-of-mass energy
s
= 3
.
097 GeV and collected with the BESIII detector, we present a ...search for the rare semi-leptonic decay
J/ψ → D
−
e
+
ν
e
+ c.c. No excess of signal above background is observed, and an upper limit on the branching fraction ℬ(
J
/
ψ
→
D
−
e
+
ν
e
+
c
.
c
.) < 7.1 × 10
−8
is obtained at 90% confidence level. This is an improvement of more than two orders of magnitude over the previous best limit.
In planetary systems the problem arises whether gravity attracting the planets towards the central star has an instantaneous action or propagates with finite velocity. Laplace noticed that, if ...gravity propagated with finite velocity, planets motion would become unstable due to a torque originating from time lag of the gravitational interactions. Given that actions describing gravitational interaction are formally the same as that describing electrostatic interactions, we have performed an experiment meant to measure the time/space evolution of the electric field generated by an uniformly moving set of electrons. The results we obtain seem compatible with an electric field rigidly carried by the beam itself.
Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) are the new frontier in gas trackers. Among this kind of devices, the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) chambers are widely used. The experimental signals acquired with ...the detector must obviously be reconstructed and analysed. In this contribution, a new offline software to perform reconstruction, alignment and analysis on the data collected with APV-25 and TIGER ASICs will be presented. GRAAL (Gem Reconstruction And Analysis Library) is able to measure the performance of a MPGD detector with a strip segmented anode (presently). The code is divided in three parts: reconstruction, where the hits are digitized and clusterized; tracking, where a procedure fits the points from the tracking system and uses that information to align the chamber with rotations and shifts; analysis, where the performance is evaluated (e.g. efficiency, spatial resolution,etc.). The user must set the geometry of the setup and then the program returns automatically the analysis results, taking care of different conditions of gas mixture, electric field, magnetic field, geometries, strip orientation, dead strip, misalignment and many others.
The experiment BESIII, running at the accelerator BEPCII in Beijing (P.R.C.), is going to be updated with the replacement of the Inner Drift Chamber with a Cylindrical triple-GEM Inner Tracker ...(CGEM-IT). In the R&D stage, two standalone C++ codes were implemented: GTS (Garfield-based Triple-GEM Simulator), for digitization and tuning of simulated data to the experimental ones, and GRAAL (GEM Reconstruction And Analysis Library), for the reconstruction and analysis of the experimental events collected in testbeams. GTS simulates the triple-GEM response to the particle passage, treating each stage separately: ionization, GEM properties, gas mixture, magnetic field and finally the induction of the signal on the anode. The necessary information was extracted by GARFIELD++ simulations, parametrized and used as input in GTS. This speeds up the simulation, since GTS performs only samplings instead of the full digitization chain. The simulated events were reconstructed with the same procedure used for experimental data and tuning factors were evaluated to obtain a satisfactory match. GRAAL is used in the analysis of the testbeam experimental data. It provides several levels of reconstruction: from the cluster formation, gathering contiguous firing strips, to the spatial position and the signal time reconstruciton. Two algorithms are used: the charge centroid and the micro-TPC, which exploit the charge deposition on the strips and the time information. Also a merging of the two algorithms is available to efficiently weight the two outcomes and obtain the best estimate of the spatial coordinate. Moreover, GRAAL performs tracking and alignment. Both codes are going to be made available also for other MPGDs simulation and reconstruction.
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