Kavli Affiliate: Masayuki Nakahata | Summary:A high performance distillation system to remove krypton from xenon was constructed, and a purity level of Kr/Xe = $sim 3 times 10^-12$ was achieved. This development is crucial in facilitating high sensitivity low background experiments such as the search for dark matter in the universe. | Search Query: arXiv […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Hartz | Summary:Recent measurements of B hadron properties carried out in sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV p/p-bar collisions at the Tevatron are reviewed. Included are measurements of the Bc+ meson lifetime, using J/psi+l+X final states, and the mass, using J/psi+pi final states, a flavor specific measurement of the Bs0 lifetime in Ds+pi+X decays, simultaneous measurements […]
Kavli Affiliate: Patricia Burchat | Summary:(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a single wide-deep-fast sky survey, and LSST will have unique survey capability in the faint time domain. The LSST design is driven […]
Kavli Affiliate: John Belcher | Summary:Animated textures can be used to visualize the spatial structure and temporal evolution of vector fields at high spatial resolution. The animation requires two time-dependent vector fields. The first of these vector fields determines the spatial structure to be displayed. The second is a velocity field that determines the time […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Rosner | Summary:We develop and test spectral Galerkin schemes to solve the coupled Orr-Sommerfeld (OS) and induction equations for parallel, incompressible MHD in free-surface and fixed-boundary geometries. The schemes’ discrete bases consist of Legendre internal shape functions, supplemented with nodal shape functions for the weak imposition of the stress and insulating boundary […]