An analog hadron calorimeter (AHCAL) prototype of 5.3 nuclear interaction lengths thickness has been constructed by members of the CALICE Collaboration. The AHCAL prototype consists of a 38-layer sandwich structure of steel plates and highly-segmented scintillator tiles that are read out by wavelength-shifting fibers coupled to SiPMs. The signal is amplified and shaped with a custom-designed ASIC. A calibration/monitoring system based on LED light was developed to monitor the SiPM gain and to measure the full SiPM response curve in order to correct for non-linearity. Ultimately, the physics goals are the study of hadron shower shapes and testing the concept of particle flow. The technical goal consists of measuring the performance and reliability of 7608 SiPMs. The AHCAL was commissioned in test beams at DESY and CERN. The entire prototype was completed in 2007 and recorded hadron showers, electron showers and muons at different energies and incident angles in test beams at CERN and Fermilab.

We propose † to measure the photo-production cross section of J/ψ near threshold, in search of the recently observed LHCb hidden-charm resonances P c (4380) and P c (4450) consistent with 'pentaquarks'. The observation of these resonances in photo-production will provide strong evidence of the true resonance nature of the LHCb states, distinguishing them from kinematic enhancements. A bremsstrahlung photon beam produced with an 11 GeV electron beam at CEBAF covers the energy range of J/ψ production from the threshold photo-production energy of 8.2 GeV, to an energy beyond the presumed P c (4450) resonance. The experiment will be carried out in Hall C at Jefferson Lab, using a 50 µA electron beam incident on a 9% copper radiator. The resulting photon beam passes through a 15 cm liquid hydrogen target, producing J/ψ mesons through a diffractive process in the t-channel, or through a resonant process in the s-and u-channel. The decay e + e − pair of the J/ψ will be detected in coincidence using the two highmomentum spectrometers of Hall C. The spectrometer settings have been optimized to distinguish the resonant s-and u-channel production from the diffractive t-channel J/ψ production. The s-and u-channel production of the charmed 5-quark resonance dominates the t-distribution at large t. The momentum and angular resolution of the spectrometers is sufficient to observe a clear resonance enhancement in the total cross section and t-distribution. We request a total of 11 days of beam time with 9 days to carry the main experiment and 2 days to acquire the needed t-channel elastic J/ψ production data for a calibration measurement. This calibration measurement in itself will greatly enhance our knowledge of t-channel elastic J/ψ production near threshold. † This document is an updated version of the original proposal PR12-16-007, which was approved with an 'A' rating and a 'high-impact' label by the Jefferson Lab PAC 44 in July 2016. The experiment was awarded 11 days of beam time.

This work reports on the effect of plasma area on the frequency characteristics of the monostatic radar cross section (RCS) of a square metallic plate. A dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma actuator consisting of 10 rings is proposed. The actuator is fabricated in three different configurations such that only three inner rings, seven inner rings, and all rings can be biased. By applying an 18-kV bias at 1 kHz, the three types of DBD actuators generate plasma with a total area of 16.96, 36.74, and 53.69 cm 2 , respectively, in a ring or circular form. The experimental results reveal that when the DBD actuator is placed in front of a 20 mm× 20 cm conducting plate, the monostatic RCS is reduced by as much as 18.5 dB in the range of 9.41-11.65 GHz. Furthermore, by generating the plasma and changing the area, the frequency of maximum reduction in the monostatic RCS of the plate can be controlled. The frequency is reduced by nearly 20% in the X band when all rings are biased. Finally, an electromagnetic model of the plasma is obtained by comparing the experimental and full-wave simulated results.Key Words: Dielectric-Barrier-Discharge Plasma, Frequency Tunable, Radar Cross Section Reduction, Surface Area of Plasma. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ⓒ

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