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Article Citation - WoS: 32Citation - Scopus: 34The Cms Barrel Calorimeter Response To Particle Beams From 2 To 350 Gev/C(Springer Verlag, 2009) CMS HCAL/ECAL Collaborations; Sönmez, NasufThe response of the CMS barrel calorimeter (electromagnetic plus hadronic) to hadrons, electrons and muons over a wide momentum range from 2 to 350 GeV/c has been measured. To our knowledge, this is the widest range of momenta in which any calorimeter system has been studied. These tests, carried out at the H2 beam-line at CERN, provide a wealth of information, especially at low energies. The analysis of the differences in calorimeter response to charged pions, kaons, protons and antiprotons and a detailed discussion of the underlying phenomena are presented. We also show techniques that apply corrections to the signals from the considerably different electromagnetic (EB) and hadronic (HB) barrel calorimeters in reconstructing the energies of hadrons. Above 5 GeV/c, these corrections improve the energy resolution of the combined system where the stochastic term equals 84.7 ± 1.6% and the constant term is 7.4 ± 0.8%. The corrected mean response remains constant within 1.3% rms. © Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica 2009.Conference Object Probing the Density of States of High Temperature Superconductors With Point Contact Tunneling Spectroscopy(Springer Verlag, 2005) Özyüzer, Lütfi; Zasadzinski, John F.; Miyakawa, Nobuaki; Gray, Kenneth E.Tunneling spectroscopy measurements are performed on single crystals of single CuO2 layer Tl2Ba2CuO6+delta, double CuO2 layer Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta (Bi2212) and polycrystal quadruple CuO2 layer CuBa2Ca3Cu4O12+delta using the point contact tunneling technique. I-V and dI/dV-V characteristics are obtained at 4.2 K. In spite of different number of layers and T-c values, all three high-T-c superconductors exhibit similar spectral features including dip and hump features reminiscent of strong-coupling effects in conventional superconductors. The doping dependence of Bi2212 is studied and several effects of the hole concentration on spectral features are found. A novel effect is that the energy gap increases in the underdoped region even as T-c decreases. Combining the doping dependence of the energy gap and the dip energy provides additional information in order to understand the mechanism of high-T-c superconductivity. Point contact tunneling studies of the doping dependence of the energy gap in Bi2212 also helped to understand local variations of the gap magnitude observed by scanning tunneling microscopy, indicating that this type of spectroscopy is an integral part of the tunneling technique.Article Citation - WoS: 21Citation - Scopus: 22Vacuum Energy as the Origin of the Gravitational Constant(Springer Verlag, 2009) Demir, Durmuş AliWe develop a geometro-dynamical approach to the cosmological constant problem (CCP) by invoking a geometry induced by the energy-momentum tensor of vacuum, matter and radiation. The construction, which utilizes the dual role of the metric tensor that it structures both the spacetime manifold and energy-momentum tensor of the vacuum, gives rise to a framework in which the vacuum energy induced by matter and radiation, instead of gravitating, facilitates the generation of the gravitational constant. The non-vacuum sources comprising matter and radiation gravitate normally. At the level of classical gravitation, the mechanism deadens the CCP yet quantum gravitational effects, if strong, can keep it existent.Conference Object Introduction To Higgs Sector: Theory and Phenomenology(Springer Verlag, 2008) Demir, Durmuş AliThis review is based on lectures delivered at International Summer School on High Energy Physics, in Akyaka, Mugla, Turkey, September 2006. The goal of the review is to introduce junior graduate students, having a some knowledge of field theory, to the problem of mass generation and its physical consequences. The review starts with the statements and a toy model of mass generation in Sect. 2. In Sect. 3 a model of weak interactions is constructed and its predictions are compared with experimental results obtained so far. Given in Sect. 4 is search strategies for Higgs boson, the only remnant of the mechanism that gives mass to matter, by referring to model predictions and experimental facilities. Finally, in Sect. 5, given are a summary of results plus reasons for and expectations from models which rehabilitate the minimal model constructed in Sect. 3.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 3Correlating Μ Parameter and Right-Handed Neutrino Masses in N = 1 Supergravity(Springer Verlag, 2006) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Farzan, YasamanThe minimal supersymmetric standard model, when extended to embed the seesaw mechanism, obtains two dimensionful parameters in its superpotential: the μ parameter and the right-handed neutrino mass MN. These mass parameters, belonging to the supersymmetric sector of the theory, pose serious naturalness problems as their scales are left completely undetermined. In fact, for correct phenomenology, μ must be stabilized at the electroweak scale while MN lies at an intermediate scale. In this work we construct an explicit model of the hidden sector of N ≤ 1 supergravity for inducing both μ and MN at their right scales. The model we build utilizes lepton number conservation and continuous R invariance as two fundamental global symmetries to forbid bare μ and MN appearing in the superpotential, and induces them at phenomenologically desired scales via spontaneous breakdown of the global symmetries and the supergravity. We discuss briefly various phenomenological implications of the model.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 3Reconsidering extra time-like dimensions(Springer Verlag, 2006) Erdem, Recai; Ün, Cem SalihIn this study we reconsider the phenomenological problems related to tachyonic modes in the context of extra time-like dimensions. First we reconsider a lower bound on the size of extra time-like dimensions and improve on the conclusion in the literature. Next we discuss the issues of spontaneous decay of stable fermions through tachyonic decays and disappearance of fermions due to tachyonic contributions to their self-energies. We find that the tachyonic modes due to extra time-like dimensions are less problematic than the tachyonic modes in the usual 4-dimensional setting because the most troublesome Feynman diagrams are forbidden once the conservation of momentum in the extra time-like dimensions is imposed.Article Citation - WoS: 89Citation - Scopus: 94Effects of Li Substitution in Bi-2223 Superconductors(Springer Verlag, 2008) Bilgili, Özlem; Selamet, Yusuf; Kocabaş, KemalThe effects of Li substitution on the properties of high temperature superconductor Bi 17Pb 0.3Sr 2C 2Cu 3-x Li x O y were investigated. The samples were prepared by substituting Li (x=0.00-0.20) with changing ratios by a solid state reaction method. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, DC electrical resistivity, AC magnetic susceptibility, and scanning electronic microscopy (SEM). The X-ray diffraction studies were done at room temperature and the lattice constants of the material were determined by indexing all the peaks observed. This study shows that there are two coexisting phases; high-T c (2223) phase and low-T c (2212) phase. The lattice structure of the material belongs to the orthorhombic unit cell. The volume fraction was estimated from the intensities of Bi-(2223) and Bi-(2212) phases. The sample with 20 wt% of added Li showed the higher volume fraction of Bi-(2223) phase formed (81%) compared to the other samples. The DC electrical resistivity of all the samples decreased as the wt% of Li increased. Both the onset critical temperatures T c (onset) and zero electrical resistivity critical temperatures T c (R=0) of the samples were determined from the DC electrical resistivity measurements. The observed value of the onset critical T c (onset) temperature was 110 K agreeing well with the magnetic susceptibility measurements. We obtained T c onset at 112 K from AC magnetic susceptibility measurements. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 39Citation - Scopus: 48Temperature Dependence of Electrical Conductivity in Double-Wall and Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotube/Polyester Nanocomposites(Springer Verlag, 2007) Şimşek, Yılmaz; Özyüzer, Lütfi; Seyhan, Abdullah Tuğrul; Tanoğlu, Metin; Schulte, KarlThe aim of this study is to investigate temperature dependence of electrical conductivity of carbon nanotube (CNT)/polyester nanocomposites from room temperature to 77 K using four-point probe test method. To produce nanocomposites, various types and amounts of CNTs (0.1, 0.3 and 0.5 wt.%) were dispersed via 3-roll mill technique within a specially formulized resin blend of thermoset polyesters. CNTs used in the study include multi walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) and double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNT) with and without amine functional groups (-NH2). It was observed that the incorporation of carbon nanotubes into resin blend yields electrically percolating networks and electrical conductivity of the resulting nanocomposites increases with increasing amount of nanotubes. However, nanocomposites containing amino functionalized carbon nanotubes exhibit relatively lower electrical conductivity compared to those with non-functionalized carbon nanotubes. To get better interpretation of the mechanism leading to conductive network via CNTs with and without amine functional groups, the experimental results were fitted to fluctuation-induced tunneling through the barriers between the metallic regions model. It was found that the results are in good agreement with prediction of proposed model.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 9Can Measurements of Electric Dipole Moments Determine the Seesaw Parameters?(Springer Verlag, 2005) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Farzan, YasamanIn the context of the supersymmetrized seesaw mechanism embedded in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), complex neutrino Yukawa couplings can induce Electric Dipole Moments (EDMs) for the charged leptons, providing an additional route to seesaw parameters. However, the complex neutrino Yukawa matrix is not the only possible source of CP violation. Even in the framework of Constrained MSSM (CMSSM), there are additional sources, usually attributed to the phases of the trilinear soft supersymmetry breaking couplings and the mu-term, which contribute not only to the electron EDM but also to the EDMs of neutron and heavy nuclei. In this work, by combining bounds on various EDMs, we analyze how the sources of CP violation can be discriminated by the present and planned EDM experiments.Article Citation - WoS: 13Citation - Scopus: 14Electronic Transport Properties of Microcrystalline Silicon Thin Films Prepared by Vhf-Pecvd(Springer Verlag, 2004) Okur, Salih; Güneş, Mehmet; Göktaş, Oktay; Finger, Friedhelm; Carius, ReinhardSteady-state photocarrier grating (SSPG) and steady-state photoconductivity, σph, experiments have been carried out to investigate the electronic transport properties of undoped hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si: H) films prepared with very high frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (VHF-PECVD). Material with different crystalline volume fractions was obtained by variation of the silane concentration (SC) in the process gas mixture. Pure amorphous silicon material was investigated for comparison. The ambipolar diffusion length, L amb, which is dominated by the minority carrier properties, is obtained both from the best fit to the experimental photocurrents ratio, β, versus grating period (Λ), and from the "Balberg plot" for the generation rates between 1019 and 1021 cm -3 s-1. Lamb increases from 86 nm with increasing SC and peaks around 200 nm for the SC = 5.6% and decreases again for higher SCs. Lamb values obtained from the intercept of the Balberg plot result in a small difference of around 5% for most of the samples. Minority carrier mobility-lifetime (μτ)-products are much lower than those of majority carriers, however, both majority and minority carrier μτ-products in microcrystalline silicon are higher than those of undoped hydrogenated amorphous silicon. The grating quality factor (γ 0) changes from 0.70 to 1.0 indicating almost negligible surface roughness present in the samples.