Mature cystic teratomas (MCTs) of the ovary represent 44% of ovarian neoplasmas. The surgical approach is important in young women especially for the cosmetic results. Nowadays most of the ovarian ...surgeries can be performed laparoscopically. An alternative between laparoscopy and laparotomy is the minilaparotomy (ML) which can be an interesting option, thanks to the small incision. We report a 39-year-old woman who was referred to our hospital with acute abdominal pain. In her past history the patient had an uncomplicated delivery. During pregnancy a 6 cm bilateral MCT was diagnosed and expectant management was followed. A left-sided ovarial torsion was postulated, and laparoscopic detorsion was performed. To avoid a rupture of the left MCT, the operation was interrupted. To remove the cyst, a ML was done two weeks later. A left-sided salpingo-oophorectomy was performed due to a large cyst including the entire ovary. On the other side, the right dermoid cyst was entirely removed. The advantage of a ML is not only shorter operating time with less learning curve compared to laparoscopy but also the possibility to extract the adnexal mass from the abdominal cavity with lower risk of rupture and in addition the possibility to preserve more ovarian tissue.
Feasibility studies for a wireless 60GHz tracking detector readout Dittmeier, S.; Schöning, A.; Soltveit, H.K. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
09/2016, Letnik:
830
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The amount of data produced by highly granular silicon tracking detectors in high energy physics experiments poses a major challenge to readout systems. At high collision rates, e.g. at LHC ...experiments, only a small fraction of data can be read out with currently used technologies. To cope with the requirements of future or upgraded experiments new data transfer techniques are required which offer high data rates at low power and low material budget.
Wireless technologies operating in the 60GHz band or at higher frequencies offer high data rates and are thus a promising upcoming alternative to conventional data transmission via electrical cables or optical fibers. Using wireless technology, the amount of cables and connectors in detectors can be significantly reduced. Tracking detectors profit most from a reduced material budget as fewer secondary particle interactions (multiple Coulomb scattering, energy loss, etc.) improve the tracking performance in general.
We present feasibility studies regarding the integration of the wireless technology at 60GHz into a silicon tracking detector. We use spare silicon strip modules of the ATLAS experiment as test samples which are measured to be opaque in the 60GHz range. The reduction of cross talk between links and the attenuation of reflections is studied. An estimate of the maximum achievable link density is given. It is shown that wireless links can be placed as close as 2cm next to each other for a layer distance of 10cm by exploiting one or several of the following measures: highly directive antennas, absorbers like graphite foam, linear polarization and frequency channeling. Combining these measures, a data rate area density of up to 11Tb/(s·m2) seems feasible. In addition, two types of silicon sensors are tested under mm-wave irradiation in order to determine the influence of 60GHz data transmission on the detector performance: an ATLAS silicon strip sensor module and an HV-MAPS prototype for the Mu3e experiment. No deterioration of the performance of both prototypes is observed.
Cross sections for elastic and proton-dissociative photoproduction of
J
/
ψ
mesons are measured with the H1 detector in positron-proton collisions at HERA. The data were collected at
ep
...centre-of-mass energies
and
, corresponding to integrated luminosities of
and
, respectively. The cross sections are measured as a function of the photon-proton centre-of-mass energy in the range 25<
W
γp
<110 GeV. Differential cross sections d
σ
/d
t
, where
t
is the squared four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex, are measured in the range |
t
|<1.2 GeV
2
for the elastic process and |
t
|<8 GeV
2
for proton dissociation. The results are compared to other measurements. The
W
γp
and
t
-dependences are parametrised using phenomenological fits.
Charged particle multiplicity distributions in positron-proton deep inelastic scattering at a centre-of-mass energy
s
=
319
GeV are measured. The data are collected with the H1 detector at HERA ...corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 136 pb
-
1
. Charged particle multiplicities are measured as a function of photon virtuality
Q
2
, inelasticity
y
and pseudorapidity
η
in the laboratory and the hadronic centre-of-mass frames. Predictions from different Monte Carlo models are compared to the data. The first and second moments of the multiplicity distributions are determined and the KNO scaling behaviour is investigated. The multiplicity distributions as a function of
Q
2
and the Bjorken variable
x
bj
are converted to the hadron entropy
S
hadron
, and predictions from a quantum entanglement model are tested.
Upgrading the beam telescopes at the DESY II Test Beam Facility Augustin, H.; Diener, R.; Dittmeier, S. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
10/2022, Letnik:
1040
Journal Article
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Odprti dostop
The DESY II Test Beam Facility is a key infrastructure for modern high energy physics detector development, providing particles with a small momentum spread in a range from 1 to 6GeV to user groups ...e.g. from the LHC experiments and Belle II as well as generic detector R&D. Beam telescopes are provided in all three test beam areas as precise tracking reference without time stamping, with triggered readout and a readout time of > 115 μs . If the highest available rates are used, multiple particles are traversing the telescopes within one readout frame, thus creating ambiguities that cannot be resolved without additional timing layers. Several upgrades are currently investigated and tested: Firstly, a fast monolithic pixel sensor, the TelePix, to provide precise track timing and triggering on a region of interest is proposed to overcome this limitation. The TelePix is a 180nm HV-CMOS sensor that has been developed jointly by DESY, KIT and the University of Heidelberg and designed at KIT. In this publication, the performance evaluation is presented: The difference between two amplifier designs is evaluated. A high hit detection efficiency of above 99.9% combined with a time resolution of below 4ns at negligible pixel noise rates is determined. Finally, the digital hit output to provide region of interest triggering is evaluated and shows a short absolute delay with respect to a traditional trigger scintillator as well as an excellent time resolution. Secondly, a fast LGAD plane has been proposed to provide a time resolution of a few 10 ps, which is foreseen to drastically improve the timing performance of the telescope. Time resolutions of below 70 ps have been determined in collaboration with the University of California, Santa Barbara.
A precision measurement of jet cross sections in neutral current deep-inelastic scattering for photon virtualities
5.5
<
Q
2
<
80
GeV
2
and inelasticities
0.2
<
y
<
0.6
is presented, using data taken ...with the H1 detector at HERA, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of
290
pb
-
1
. Double-differential inclusive jet, dijet and trijet cross sections are measured simultaneously and are presented as a function of jet transverse momentum observables and as a function of
Q
2
. Jet cross sections normalised to the inclusive neutral current DIS cross section in the respective
Q
2
-interval are also determined. Previous results of inclusive jet cross sections in the range
150
<
Q
2
<
15
,
000
GeV
2
are extended to low transverse jet momenta
5
<
P
T
jet
<
7
GeV
. The data are compared to predictions from perturbative QCD in next-to-leading order in the strong coupling, in approximate next-to-next-to-leading order and in full next-to-next-to-leading order. Using also the recently published H1 jet data at high values of
Q
2
, the strong coupling constant
α
s
(
M
Z
)
is determined in next-to-leading order.
The strong coupling constant
α
s
is determined from inclusive jet and dijet cross sections in neutral-current deep-inelastic
ep
scattering (DIS) measured at HERA by the H1 collaboration using ...next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD predictions. The dependence of the NNLO predictions and of the resulting value of
α
s
(
m
Z
)
at the
Z
-boson mass
m
Z
are studied as a function of the choice of the renormalisation and factorisation scales. Using inclusive jet and dijet data together, the strong coupling constant is determined to be
α
s
(
m
Z
)
=
0.1157
(
20
)
exp
(
29
)
th
. Complementary,
α
s
(
m
Z
)
is determined together with parton distribution functions of the proton (PDFs) from jet and inclusive DIS data measured by the H1 experiment. The value
α
s
(
m
Z
)
=
0.1142
(
28
)
tot
obtained is consistent with the determination from jet data alone. The impact of the jet data on the PDFs is studied. The running of the strong coupling is tested at different values of the renormalisation scale and the results are found to be in agreement with expectations.
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