Pi-Beta Documents
Proposals, Publications, Theses
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The original experiment proposal of May '91, slightly ammended and revised
in November '92, available as a PostScript file in the
worldwide
A4 and
US
letter formats.
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PSI
Newsletter '93, also in TEX
and
postscript
format.
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Int'l.
Conf. on Physics with GeV Beams, Juelich, August 1994, (PostScript,
12 pages), published in the Proceedings, H. Machner and K. Sistemich,
eds., (World Scientific, 1995) 297--308.
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PSI
Newsletter '94, also in TEX
and
postscript
format,
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Thesis
of Ketevi Assamagan (A Precise Determination of the PIBETA Rate: Design
and Calibration), also in LATEX
and
postscript
format. The Appendix A,
B,
C
and D
are in postscript format. The source files (Appendix A,
B,
C
and D)
are in TEX format.
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Thesis
of Christian Brönnimann (Pion Beta Decay - Calibrations and Developments)
also available in postscript
format.
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Thesis
of Dave Lawrence (Initial Tests Of The Pion Beta Decay Detector).
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Thesis
of Penny Slocum (The Panofsky Ratio, and the Response of the PIBETA
Calorimeter to Photons and Positrons), also available
in PostScript and
PDF formats.
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Thesis
of Thomas Flügel (The Pion Beta Decay Experiment And A Remeasurement
Of The Panofsky Ratio)
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Thesis of Weidong Li (A Precise Measurement of Pion Beta Decay Branching Ratio.) Also available in Postscript format.
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Thesis of Maxim Bychkov (A Study of the Structure of the Pi Meson via the Radiative Pion
Decay) (22M). Also available in Postscrit format (16M).
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Thesis of Ying Wang (Implementation of the Domino Sampling Waveform Digitizer in the PIBETA Experiment.) Also available in Postscrit format.
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Thesis of Brent A VanDevender (An Experimental Study of Radiative Muon Decay). Also available in postscript format.
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Thesis of Emmanuel Munyangabe (Measurement of the Radiative Muon Decay as a Test of the V-A Structure of the Weak Interactions).
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PSI
Newsletter '97, also in TEX
and
postscript
format.
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PSI
Newsletter '98, in PostScript format only.
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PSI Newsletter 1999 in
PostScript format,
Fig1a file,
Fig1b file,
Fig2a file,
Fig2b file, and
the source
TeX file.
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PSI Newsletter 2000 in
PostScript format,
Fig1a file,
Fig1b file,
Fig2a file,
Fig2b file, and
the source
TeX file.
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PSI Newsletter 2001 in
PostScript format,
Fig1 file,
Fig2a file,
Fig2b file, and
the source
TeX file.
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Draft Letter of Intent
for a new search for the C-noninvariant decay Pi^0 -> 3 gamma at PSI.
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Workshop on Quark Mixing and CKM Unitarity, Heidelberg, 19-21
September 2002 invited talk
(pdf), to appear soon in the online Workshop proceedings on arXiv.org.
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Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, IPPP Durham, 5-9 April 2003
(eConf C0304052) invited talk
(pdf); also accessible at arXiv.org as
hep-ph/0307258.
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Proposal for an experiment: "Study of the Pi+ -> e+ nu gamma decay
anomaly", PSI R-04-01.1 (Jan. 2004) in
pdf or
PostScript format.
(This document supersedes the 2003 Progress Report.); transparencies
presented at the BV meeting 12 Feb 2004,
pdf file
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8th International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and
Interaction, MESON 2004, Krakow, Poland, 4-8 June 2004,
invited talk.
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Letter of intent for an experiment:
"Precise Measurement of the Pi+ -> e+ nu Branching Ratio", PSI R-05-01.0,
(Dec 2004), in
pdf format.
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PANIC-05, Santa Fe, NM, 24-28 October 2005, talk given by Willi Bertl:
paper to appear in the Proceedings.
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Proposal for an experiment:
"Precise Measurement of the Pi+ -> e+ nu Branching Ratio", PSI R-05-01.1,
(Jan 2006), in
pdf format.
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e+e- Collisions from phi to psi Workshop Proceedings:
"Probing the Standard Model via rare pion and muon decay",
to be published in Nucl. Phys. B (Proceedings Supplement), in
pdf format.
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"Study of Pion Structure through Precise Measurements of the
Pi+ -> e+ Nu Gamma Decay," to appear the
proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics,
Theory and Experiment, (held 18-22 September at Durham/Chapel Hill,
NC, USA), in pdf format.
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"A survey of the rare pion and muon decays" to appear in the
proceedings of the Crimea 2006 conference, New Ttrends in High Energy Physics
(experiment, phenomenology, theory), (held 16-23 September at Yalta,
Crimea/Ukraine), in pdf format.
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"A High Precision Measurement of the Pion Form Factors via Radiative Pion Decay" to appear in the
proceedings of the MENU 2007 conference, (held 10-14 September in Forschungzentrum Juelich, Germany), in pdf format.
For a list of preprints and published papers go to the
PiBeta Publications Page,
Transparencies of talks
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PSI
users meeting, Dec 94, D. Počanić
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Uni
Zürich, Feb 95, Ch. Brönnimann
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Uni
Tübingen, Nov 96, S. Ritt
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PSI, April 2000,
S. Ritt
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University of Virginia, Oct 2000, H.P. Wirtz
also available in postscript
format.
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PSI Theory Seminar, November 2nd, 2000, Emil Frlez.
PS-Files of text and
figures.
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PSI Open Users Meeting BV32, 6 March 2001, Dinko Počanić, available in
PostScript format,
in
pdf(US let) format,
or
pdf(A4) format.
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Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the APS and JPS, Maui,
Hawaii, 16-21 October 2001, Dinko Počanić, in
PostScript format.
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Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, CERN, Geneva, 13-16 February
2002, Dinko Počanić, in
PostScript, and
PDF format.
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PSI Open Users Meeting BV34, 4 February 2003, Dinko Počanić, available
in pdf format. (Note: only a
subset of these transparencies were shown in the meeting.)
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4th International Workshop on CHIRAL DYNAMICS 2003: Theory and Experiment,
10 September 2003, Emil Frlez, available
in pdf format.
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Physik-Institut Universitaet Zuerich Seminar,
9 June 2004, Emil Frlez, available
in pdf format.
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Physik-Institut Universitaet Zuerich Seminar,
9 June 2004, Michail Chizhov, available
in pdf format.
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"New Results From the PIBETA Experiment (radiative muon decay)",
Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics (CENPA), University of Washington (8 Dec 2005) and
Jefferson National Laboratory (12 Dec 2005).
Brent A VanDevender. Available
in pdf or psformat.
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"A Study of Rare Decays of Pions and Muons with PIBETA Detector",
Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of Russian Academy of Scince (22
Dec 2005). Maxim A Bychkov. Available in pdf or psformat.
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"Study of the Pi+ -> e+ nu gamma decay anomaly", report on results of
Exp. R-04-01, PSI, 15 Feb 2006, pdf.
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"A Survey of the Rare Decays of Pions and Muons",
Talk given at Crimea 2006 conference, Yalta (19
Sept 2006). Maxim A Bychkov. Available in pdf or ps format.
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"New Results in Rare Pion and Muon Decays"
Invited talk given at the DNP 2006 Fall Meeting, Nashville, TN,
26-28 Oct 2006, by Dinko Počanić: pdf transparencies.
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"Combined analysis of the pienug decay in PIBETA data stream",
Talk given at SESAPS 2006, Williamsburg (11
Nov 2006). Maxim A Bychkov. Available in pdf format.
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"An independent test of the CVC hypothesis in the charged pion via the radiative pion decay pi -> e nu gamma ",
Poster presentation given at April APS meeting 2007, Jacksonville (15
Apr 2007). Maxim A Bychkov. Available in pdf format.
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MENU 2007 talk Maxim A Bychkov. Available in pdf format.
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DNP 2008 talk Maxim A Bychkov. Available in pdf format.
- Fall 2012 Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, Newport
Beach, CA: "New results on muon radiative
decay", 26 October 2012 (D. Počanić/E. Munyangabe)>
Technical Notes
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pi-p SCX
Kinematics for Calorimeter Calibration
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Hadronic
Backgrounds
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Timing Differences
between pi->e nu and pi+->pi^0 e nu Events
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Understanding the time
distribution of the Michel positrons.
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Energy Lineshape
Differences between pi->e nu and pi->pi^0 e nu events
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CsI Detectors
Photoelectron Statistics
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Shower shapes
of 50MeV gammas in the CsI calorimeter
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Note on machining
and handling plastic scintillator surfaces. See also the information
provided at the
Bicron
Corp. site.
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Measurement of Radiative Pion Decays
- ADC Noise Correction, in TEX,
postscript, and
pdf format.
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Extracting V_ud from BR(pi beta)
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Modification of the PIBETA signal
splitters for the PEN experiment
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The difference between prompt events in pe2 and pe2g DST.
S. Ritt, 24 May 2000
