This work shows how it is possible to reconstruct SuperKEKB’s beam parameters using a Neural Network with beamstrahlung signal from the Large Angle Beamstrahlung Monitor (LABM) as input. We describe ...the device, the model, and discuss the results.
Respirable crystalline silica (RCS), in the form of quartz and cristobalite from occupational sources, was classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as carcinogenic to ...humans (category 1). In addition, RCS has recently been included in the Directive (EU) 2017/2398 about carcinogens and mutagens at work. Numerous studies suggest that the toxicity of quartz is conditioned by density and distribution of surface silanol groups, and it has been widely demonstrated at lab scale that masking these silanol groups significantly reduces silica toxicity. Based on these findings, a detoxifying, wet-coating method, using organosilanes as coating agent for reactive surface silanols, was previously developed and tested at industrial scale. In the present work, a new dry-coating process (patent pending) also using organosilanes was developed and applied to detoxify quartzes from different industrial branches. Dry-coating efficiency and stability were assessed and confirmed by both in-vitro tests (lactate dehydrogenase release and alkaline comet assay) and an intratracheal instillation study in rats. Finally, industrial trials were performed by different quartz end users (elastomers, foundry, adhesives, pigments and glazes) to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of implementing this dry-coating process at industrial scale. From the obtained results, it can be drawn that the proposed methodology seems to represent a promising strategy to significantly reduce the risk associated with the handling of RCS-bearing materials. This RCS coating approach shows enough flexibility to be adapted to different industrial processes without significantly interfering with product quality.
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•A new dry coating technology of quartzes allows RCS toxicity to be reduced.•The coating process was tested by 5 different quartz end-users.•The physico-chemical results were technically and economically assessed at industrial scale.•Reduction of toxicity was confirmed by in-vitro and in-vivo tests.
Using 805 pb−1 of e+e− annihilation data taken with the CLEO-c detector at ψ(3770), s=3770 MeV, we report the first measurements of the electromagnetic form factors of the Λ0, Σ0, Σ+, Ξ0, Ξ−, and Ω− ...hyperons for the large timelike momentum transfer of |Q2|=14.2 GeV2. The form factors for the different hyperons are found to vary by nearly a factor two. It is found that |GM(Λ0)|=1.66(24)×|GM(Σ0)|. The Λ0 and Σ0 hyperons have the same uds quark content, but differ in their isospin, and therefore the spin of the ud quark pair. It is suggested that the spatial correlation implied by the singlet spin–isospin configuration in the Λ0 is an example of strong diquark correlations in the Λ0, as anticipated by Jaffe and Wilczek. Improved measurements of the branching fractions of ψ(2S)→pp¯ and hyperon–antihyperon pairs are also reported.
Quantum-correlated ψ(3770)→DD¯ decays collected by the CLEO-c experiment are used to perform first measurements of F+, the fractional CP-even content of the self-conjugate decays D→π+π−π0 and ...D→K+K−π0. Values of 0.968±0.017±0.006 and 0.731±0.058±0.021 are obtained for π+π−π0 and K+K−π0, respectively. It is demonstrated how modes of this sort can be cleanly included in measurements of the unitarity triangle angle γ using B∓→DK∓ decays. The high CP-even content of D→π+π−π0, in particular, makes this a promising mode for improving the precision on γ.
Statistical analysis using all moments of the likelihood
L
(
y
|
α
)
(
y being the data and
α
being the fit parameters) is presented. The relevant plots for various data fitting situations are ...presented. The goodness of fit (GOF) parameter (currently the
χ
2
) is redefined as the isoprobability level in a multidimensional space. Many useful properties of statistical analysis are summarized in a new statistical principle which states that the most common likelihood, and not the tallest, is the best possible likelihood, when comparing experiments or hypotheses.
Negative ion drift and diffusion in a TPC near 1 bar Martoff, C.J.; Ayad, R.; Katz-Hyman, M. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
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555, Številka:
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Drift velocity and longitudinal diffusion measurements are reported for a Negative Ion TPC (NITPC) operating with
Helium
+
CS
2
gas mixtures at total pressures from 160 to 700
torr. Longitudinal ...diffusion at the thermal-limit was observed for drift fields up to at least 700
V/cm in all gas mixtures tested. The results are of particular interest in connection with mechanical simplification of the DRIFT direction-sensitive Dark Matter search, and for high energy physics experiments in which a low-
Z
, low density, gaseous tracking detector with no appreciable Lorentz drift is needed for operation in very high magnetic fields.
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