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Search for Lepton-Flavour Violation in High-Mass Dilepton Final States Using 139 Fb−1 of Pp Collisions at √s = 13 Tev With the Atlas Detector
No full textA search is performed for a heavy particle decaying into different-flavour, dilepton final states, using 139 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data at s = 13 TeV collected in 2015–2018 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Final states with electrons, muons and hadronically decaying tau leptons are considered (eμ, eτ or μτ). No significant excess over the Standard Model predictions is observed. Upper limits on the production cross-section are set as a function of the mass of a Z′ boson, a supersymmetric τ-sneutrino, and a quantum black-hole. The observed 95% CL lower mass limits obtained on a typical benchmark model Z′ boson are 5.0 TeV (eμ), 4.0 TeV (eτ), and 3.9 TeV (μτ), respectively. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]. © 2023, The Author(s).IN2P3-CNRS; 2014-2021; SCI/013; U.S. Department of Energy, USDOE; Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, AvH; CRC Health Group, CRC: 21/SCI/017; Canarie; H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, MSCA; Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation, MSSRF; CERN; Compute Canada; Göran Gustafssons Stiftelser; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, NSERC; National Research Council Canada, NRC; Canada Foundation for Innovation, CFI; Science and Technology Facilities Council, STFC; Leverhulme Trust; European Research Council, ERC; European Cooperation in Science and Technology, COST; Australian Research Council, ARC; National Stroke Foundation, NSF; Neurosurgical Research Foundation, NRF; Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, HGF; Minerva Foundation; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG; Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, KAKEN; Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, MEXT; Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, SNF; Danmarks Grundforskningsfond, DNRF; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, FAPESP; National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC; Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy, MŠMT; Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF; Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS; Austrian Science Fund, FWF; Generalitat de Catalunya; Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, MOST; Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, ANPCyT; Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, NWO; Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft, BMWFW; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, CNPq; Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science; Israel Science Foundation, ISF; Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, INFN; Narodowe Centrum Nauki, NCN; Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS, ARRS; Ministarstvo Prosvete, Nauke i Tehnološkog Razvoja, MPNTR; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, MICINN; Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique, CNRST; Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation, SBFI; Horizon 2020; British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund, BCKDF; European Regional Development Fund, ERDF; Defence Science Institute, DSI; Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej, NAWA; Institutul de Fizică Atomică, IFA; Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, ANID; Royal Society of South Australia, RSSA; Irish Rugby Football Union, IRF
Spinning in Circles? a Systematic Review on the Role of Theory in Social Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation Research
No full textAn increasing number of publications focus on social vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation (SVRA) towards natural hazards and climate change. Despite this proliferation of research, a systematic understanding of how these studies are theoretically grounded is lacking. Here, we systematically reviewed 4432 articles that address SVRA in various disciplinary fields (e.g. psychology, sociology, geography, mathematics) for various hazards, including floods, droughts, landslides, storm surges, wildfires, tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcano eruptions. We focus on the extent to which these studies explicate the frameworks, theoretical constructs or theories they rely on. Surprisingly, we found that about 90% of the reviewed studies do not explicitly refer to a theoretical un-derpinning. Overall, theories focusing on individuals' SVRA were more frequently used than those focusing on systems, society, groups, and networks. Moreover, the uptake of theories varied according to the hazard investigated and field of knowledge, being more frequent in wildfire and flood studies and articles published in social science journals. Based on our analysis, we propose a reflexive handling of theories to foster more transparent, comparable, and robust empirical research on SVRA
The Mostar and Wiener Index of Alternate Lucas Cubes
No full textThe Wiener index and the Mostar index quantify two distance related properties of connected graphs: the Wiener index is the sum of the distances over all pairs of vertices and the Mostar index is a measure of how far the graph is from being distance-balanced. These two measures have been considered for a number of interesting families of graphs. In this paper, we determine the Wiener index and the Mostar index of alternate Lucas cubes. Alternate Lucas cubes form a family of interconnection networks whose recursive construction mimics the construction of the well-known Fibonacci cubes. © 2022 University of IsfahanThe authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewer for his/her useful comments and suggestions. This work is partially supported by TÜBİTAK under Grant No. 120F125.The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewer for his/her useful comments and suggestions. This work is partially supported by TUB_ITAK under Grant No. 120F125.Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, TÜBİTAK: 120F12
Exploring the Role of Relationship Characteristics, Maladaptive Interpersonal Dependency, and Social Environment on Grief and Depression Symptoms in University Students Following Romantic Relationship Dissolution
No full textBu çalışmanın amacı romantik ilişki özelliklerinin, uyumsuz kişiler arası bağımlılık özelliklerinin ve sosyal bileşenlerin (sosyal kısıtlanmışlık ve algılanan sosyal destek), romantik ilişki ayrılığı deneyimlemiş üniversite öğrencilerinin yas ve depresyon tepkileri üzerindeki rolünü incelemektir. Bu çalışmada, niceliksel, deneysel olmayan ve ilişkisel araştırma yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Ayrıca, bu çalışma kesitsel bir araştırma tasarımına sahiptir. Araştırmanın örneklemini, en az iki hafta önce ve en çok iki yıl önce bir romantik ilişki ayrılığı yaşayan, 269 üniversite öğrencisi oluşturmaktadır. Katılımcılardan veri toplamak için Kişiler Arası Bağımlılık Ölçeği, Çok Boyutlu Algılanan Sosyal Destek Ölçeği, Sosyal Kısıtlanmışlık Ölçeği'nin ve Teksas Düzeltilmiş Yas Ölçeği'nin revize edilmiş hali ve Beck Depresyon Envanteri kullanılmıştır. Analizlerin sonuçları, ilişki özelliklerinden ilişkinin süresi dışındaki değişkenlerin yas şiddetini beklenen yönde yordadığı bulunmuştur fakat ilişki özelliklerinin hiçbirinin depresyon şiddetini anlamlı bir şekilde yordayamadığı bulunmuştur. Ayrıca, uyumsuz kişiler arası bağımlılık özellikleri ve sosyal kısıtlanmışlık arttıkça, yas ve depresyon şiddetinin arttığı bulunmuştur. Son olarak, algılanan sosyal desteğin, depresyon şiddetini negatif yönde yordadığı bulunurken; yas şiddetini anlamlı bir şekilde yordamadığı bulunmuştur. Çalışmanın bulguları, literatür çerçevesinde ve belirli teoriler kapsamında tartışılmış ve ruh sağlığı hizmetleri için öneriler sunulmuştur.The purpose of the current study was to examine the role of dissolved romantic relationship characteristics, maladaptive interpersonal dependency, and social components (social constraints and perceived social support) on the grief and depression reactions of university students who experienced a romantic relationship dissolution. In the present study, a quantitative, non-experimental, and correlational research method was used, and the current study has a cross-sectional research design. The sample of the current study consisted of 269 university students, who had experienced a romantic relationship dissolution for at least 2 weeks and at most 2 years. Interpersonal Dependency Scale, Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale, the revised version of the Social Constraint Scale and the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief, and Beck Depression Inventory were used to obtain data from the participants. The findings showed that the relationship characteristics (except the length of the relationship) predicted grief severity in the expected direction, but none of the relationship characteristics variables significantly predicted depression. Moreover, as maladaptive interpersonal dependency characteristics and social constraints increased, the severity of grief and depression increased. Finally, perceived social support was found to negatively predict depression, but not significantly predict grief severity. The findings of the study were discussed within the framework of the literature and specific theories and recommendations for mental health services were presented
Differential Tt¯ Cross-Section Measurements Using Boosted Top Quarks in the All-Hadronic Final State With 139 Fb?1 of Atlas Data
No full textMeasurements of single-, double-, and triple-differential cross-sections are presented for boosted top-quark pair-production in 13 TeV proton–proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The top quarks are observed through their hadronic decay and reconstructed as large-radius jets with the leading jet having transverse momentum (pT) greater than 500 GeV. The observed data are unfolded to remove detector effects. The particle-level cross-section, multiplied by the tt¯ ? WWbb¯ branching fraction and measured in a fiducial phase space defined by requiring the leading and second-leading jets to have pT> 500 GeV and pT> 350 GeV, respectively, is 331 ± 3(stat.) ± 39(syst.) fb. This is approximately 20% lower than the prediction of 398?49+48 fb by Powheg+Pythia 8 with next-to-leading-order (NLO) accuracy but consistent within the theoretical uncertainties. Results are also presented at the parton level, where the effects of top-quark decay, parton showering, and hadronization are removed such that they can be compared with fixed-order next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) calculations. The parton-level cross-section, measured in a fiducial phase space similar to that at particle level, is 1.94 ± 0.02(stat.) ± 0.25(syst.) pb. This agrees with the NNLO prediction of 1.96?0.17+0.02 pb. Reasonable agreement with the differential cross-sections is found for most NLO models, while the NNLO calculations are generally in better agreement with the data. The differential cross-sections are interpreted using a Standard Model effective field-theory formalism and limits are set on Wilson coefficients of several four-fermion operators. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]. © 2023, The Author(s)
A Digital Twin Framework for Aircraft Hydraulic Systems Failure Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques
No full textSince the last decade, aircraft systems, such as flight control and landing gear, have been requiring increasing power, and consequently, the complexity of hydraulic aircraft systems has escalated. Inevitably, this complexity has resulted in the need for the troubleshooting of hydraulic aircraft systems that are dispersed around an aircraft and supply power to critical flight systems. This study proposes a novel digital twin-based health monitoring system for aircraft hydraulic systems to enable diagnostics of system failures early in the design cycle using machine learning (ML) methods. The scope of the systems is limited to hydraulic systems at the aircraft level using 20 failure scenarios. The support vector machine and several ensemble learning algorithms of ML methods were used to identify these failures. A comparison of the ML methods revealed that the random forest algorithm performed superior to the other ML algorithms. The developed digital twin framework for hydraulic system of aerial vehicle platforms, can help researchers and engineers to evaluate diagnostics systems early in the design phase
Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in Top-Quark Pair Production in Association With a Photon With the Atlas Experiment
No full textA measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair (tt¯) production in association with a photon is presented. The measurement is performed in the single-lepton tt¯ decay channel using proton–proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN at a centre-of-mass-energy of 13 TeV during the years 2015–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. The charge asymmetry is obtained from the distribution of the difference of the absolute rapidities of the top quark and antiquark using a profile likelihood unfolding approach. It is measured to be AC=−0.003±0.029 in agreement with the Standard Model expectation. © 2023 The Author(s)We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; ANID, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; Minciencias, Colombia; MEYS CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS and CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF and MPG, Germany; GSRI, Greece; RGC and Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MEiN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DSI/NRF, South Africa; MICINN, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TENMAK, Türkiye; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, Compute Canada and CRC, Canada; PRIMUS 21/SCI/017 and UNCE SCI/013, Czech Republic; COST,ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex, Investissements d'Avenir Idex and ANR, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF, Greece; BSF-NSF and MINERVA, Israel; Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014–2021, Norway; NCN and NAWA, Poland; La Caixa Banking Foundation, CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya and PROMETEO and GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse, Sweden; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref. [92].IN2P3-CNRS; CC-IN2P3; SCI/013; National Science Foundation, NSF; U.S. Department of Energy, USDOE; Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, AvH; Alabama Space Grant Consortium, ASGC; Brookhaven National Laboratory, BNL; CRC Health Group, CRC: 21/SCI/017; Canarie; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT; H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, MSCA; Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation, MSSRF; CERN; Compute Canada; Göran Gustafssons Stiftelser; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, NSERC; National Research Council Canada, NRC; Canada Foundation for Innovation, CFI; Science and Technology Facilities Council, STFC; Leverhulme Trust; European Research Council, ERC; European Cooperation in Science and Technology, COST; Australian Research Council, ARC; National Stroke Foundation, NSF; Neurosurgical Research Foundation, NRF; Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, HGF; Minerva Foundation; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG; Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, KAKEN; Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, MEXT; Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, SNF; Danmarks Grundforskningsfond, DNRF; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, FAPESP; National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC; Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy, MŠMT; Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF; Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS; Austrian Science Fund, FWF; Generalitat de Catalunya; Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, MOST; Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, ANPCyT; Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, NWO; Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft, BMWFW; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, CNPq; Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science; Israel Science Foundation, ISF; Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, INFN; Narodowe Centrum Nauki, NCN; Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS, ARRS; Ministarstvo Prosvete, Nauke i Tehnološkog Razvoja, MPNTR; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, MICINN; Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique, CNRST; Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation, SBFI; Horizon 2020; British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund, BCKDF; European Regional Development Fund, ERDF; Defence Science Institute, DSI; Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej, NAWA; Institutul de Fizică Atomică, IFA; Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, ANID; Royal Society of South Australia, RSSA; Irish Rugby Football Union, IRFUWe acknowledge the support of ANPCyT , Argentina; YerPhI , Armenia; ARC , Australia; BMWFW and FWF , Austria; ANAS , Azerbaijan; CNPq and FAPESP , Brazil; NSERC , NRC and CFI , Canada; CERN ; ANID , Chile; CAS , MOST and NSFC , China; Minciencias , Colombia; MEYS CR , Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC , Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS and CEA-DRF/IRFU , France; SRNSFG , Georgia; BMBF , HGF and MPG , Germany; GSRI , Greece; RGC and Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center , Israel; INFN , Italy; MEXT and JSPS , Japan; CNRST , Morocco; NWO , Netherlands; RCN , Norway; MEiN , Poland; FCT , Portugal; MNE/IFA , Romania; MESTD , Serbia; MSSR , Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ , Slovenia; DSI/NRF , South Africa; MICINN , Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation , Sweden; SERI , SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva , Switzerland; MOST , Taiwan; TENMAK , Türkiye; STFC , United Kingdom; DOE and NSF , United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF , CANARIE , Compute Canada and CRC , Canada; PRIMUS 21/SCI/017 and UNCE SCI/013 , Czech Republic; COST , ERC , ERDF , Horizon 2020 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions , European Union; Investissements d'Avenir Labex , Investissements d'Avenir Idex and ANR , France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos , Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF , Greece; BSF-NSF and MINERVA , Israel; Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014–2021, Norway; NCN and NAWA , Poland; La Caixa Banking Foundation , CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya and PROMETEO and GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana , Spain; Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse , Sweden; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust , United Kingdom
An Optimization Approach for Historical Building Restoration Planning
No full textIn this study, an optimization model has been developed to plan the restoration works envisaged to be done in historical buildings. There are very few studies in the literature on modeling the restoration works of historical monuments and cultural heritages, and most of these studies are based on multi-criteria decision-making models that aim to prioritize the works to be done. Restoration of historical monuments is an expensive and long process. Considering the cultural, social and economic importance of the buildings under the assumption that the works under restoration will be closed to visitors, the importance of optimizing the restoration works is understood. However, no study has been found in the operations research literature that deals with this problem in the scope mentioned. Where the minimum set of actions required to correct defects in a building is termed a 'work', it can be assumed that there may be more than one 'work' due to different defects in a building. Restoration works need to be assigned to work packages and scheduled according to the limited budget allocated for the restoration of the works. Since the budget is limited, the entire budget allocated for a certain period is reserved for only one work package. That is, work packages cannot be executed in parallel, a new work package cannot be started before a work package is completed. It is conceivable that similar types of work could be done by the same teams. There are economic advantages for similar works to be done by the same teams for different historical buildings located at close distances to each other. Under the assumption that the building will remain closed to use/visit before all the restoration works on a work are completed, it can be aimed to complete the restoration works of the buildings as early as possible. In this context, with the developed mathematical model, it is aimed to assign the works to the work packages by taking into account their similarity and geographical proximity, thus making optimal assignment and scheduling under limited budget conditions
Toxoplasma Gondii
No full textOnly felids shed fecal stages (oocysts) contaminating pastures, food, and water. Other warm-blooded vertebrates serve as paratenic hosts and are infected ingesting oocysts or other hosts containing tissue stages (bradyzoites). Pigs, sheep, goats, and chickens reared with access to oocyst contaminated soil produce the meats most likely to transmit the infection. Most human infections are asymptomatic, but a primary infection during pregnancy may lead to fetal disease. Also immunocompromized individuals may develop acute disease. Infections can be reduced by restricting the access of cats to food animals, and keeping oocysts in soil from contaminating water or food items, e.g. vegetables. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Robust Backstepping Control of a Quadrotor Uav Under Pink Noise and Sinusoidal Disturbance
No full textThe new innovations in software , sensor technologies have facilitated the production of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and expanded their area of use. Quadrotor UAVs are employed in a wide range of fields such as disaster relief, search and rescue, surveillance, mining, firefighting, crop dusting, product delivery, counterterrorism and photography. In order for the quadrotor to carry out these missions successfully, it must have a robust control structure. In this paper, a robust backstepping controller design that is resistant to pink noise and sinusoidal disturbance is proposed. Background noise in electronic devices is known as pink noise. The design of the background noise-tolerant controller is important as it improves the quadrotor's reference tracking performance. In the framework of this analysis, sinusoidal disturbance and pink noise were applied to the control structure of the selected quadrotor and its reference tracking performance was analysed. With the purpose of highlighting the superior features of the proposed backstepping control technique, the simulations that were carried out also involved the use of a PID controller and of a Lyapunov-based controller , the results obtained for these controllers were compared with those obtained for the backstepping controller. As such, the time responses (rise time, settling time and overshoot) for the backstepping, PID and Lyapunov-based controllers were analysed. The obtained outcomes proved the superiority of the backstepping control design