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University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Gregory Snow Publications

2003

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Labview Interface For School-Network Daq Card, Hans Berns, T. H. Burnett, Richard Gran, Graham Wheel, R. Jeffrey Wilkes, Daniel R. Claes, Jared Kite, Gregory R. Snow Nov 2003

Labview Interface For School-Network Daq Card, Hans Berns, T. H. Burnett, Richard Gran, Graham Wheel, R. Jeffrey Wilkes, Daniel R. Claes, Jared Kite, Gregory R. Snow

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A low-cost DAQ card has been developed for school-network cosmic ray detector projects, providing digitized data from photomultiplier tubes via a standard serial interface. To facilitate analysis of these data and to provide students with a starting point for custom readout systems, a model interface has been developed using the National Instruments LabVIEW(R) system. This user-friendly interface allows one to initialize the trigger coincidence conditions for data-taking runs and to monitor incoming or pre-recorded data sets with updating singles- and coincidence-rate plots and other user-selectable histograms.


Low-Cost Data Acquisition Card For School-Network Cosmic Ray Detectors, Sten Hansen, Thomas Jordan, Daniel R. Claes, Gregory R. Snow, Hans Berns, T. H. Burnett, Richard Gran, R. Jeffrey Wilkes Nov 2003

Low-Cost Data Acquisition Card For School-Network Cosmic Ray Detectors, Sten Hansen, Thomas Jordan, Daniel R. Claes, Gregory R. Snow, Hans Berns, T. H. Burnett, Richard Gran, R. Jeffrey Wilkes

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The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP) at University of Nebraska/Lincoln and the Washington Area Large-scale Time coincidence Array (WALTA) at University of Washington/Seattle are among several outreach projects siting cosmic-ray detectors at local high schools in cities around North America, to study the origins and interactions of highenergy cosmic rays. In a collaboration between QuarkNet, the outreach program based at Fermilab, CROP, and WALTA, a low-cost data acquisition electronics card has been developed to collect and synchronize the data from each detector site. The cost for each card is under US$500 for parts, functionally replacing much more expensive electronics crates …


Search For Large Extra Dimensions In The Monojet +ET Channel With The Dø Detector, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration Jun 2003

Search For Large Extra Dimensions In The Monojet +ET Channel With The Dø Detector, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration

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We present a search for large extra dimensions (ED) in pp̅ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.8 TeV using data collected by the DØ detector at the Fermilab Tevatron in 1994–1996. Data corresponding to 78.8 ± 3.9 pb-1 are examined for events with large missing transverse energy, one high-pT jet, and no isolated muons. There is no excess observed beyond expectation from the standard model, and we place lower limits on the fundamental Planck scale of 1.0 and 0.6 TeV for 2 and 7 ED, respectively.


Multiple Jet Production At Low Transverse Energies In Pp̅ Collisions At √S = 1.8 Tev, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration Mar 2003

Multiple Jet Production At Low Transverse Energies In Pp̅ Collisions At √S = 1.8 Tev, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration

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We present data on multiple production of jets with transverse energies near 20 GeV in pp̅ collisions at √s =1.8 TeV. QCD calculations in the parton-shower approximation of PYTHIA and HERWIG and the next-to-leading order approximation of JETRAD are compared to the data for one, two, three, and four jet inclusive production. Transverse energy spectra and multiple jet angular and summed transverse-energy distributions are adequately described by the shower approximation while next-to-leading order calculations describe the data poorly.


Tt̅ Production Cross Section In Pp̅ Collisions At √S = 1.8 Tev, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration Jan 2003

Tt̅ Production Cross Section In Pp̅ Collisions At √S = 1.8 Tev, V. M. Abazov, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration

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Results are presented on a measurement of the tt̅ pair production cross section in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV from nine independent decay channels. The data were collected by the DØ experiment during the 1992–1996 run of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. A total of 80 candidate events is observed with an expected background of 38.8±3.3 events. For a top quark mass of 172.1 GeV/c2, the measured cross section is 5.69 ±1.21(stat) ±1.04(syst) pb.