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Data Quality Monitoring and Performance Studies of the Resistive Plate Chamber Detector at the CMS Experiment at LHC.
No full textThe CMS detector is a sophisticated and massive system: 7 different detector technologies, a high number of front-end electronic channels (10^7) , an input rate of 10^9 interactions per second, a trigger able to reduce the frequency by a factor 10^5, and online computer farms with a storage capability rates of about 10^2 MB/s. CMS is foreseen to take data, with high efficiency, for
over 15 years. Clearly, assuring pristine and stable behavior of each of its components is critical and delicate task.
The CMS collaboration designed and built, in tandem with detector commissioning, a high-level Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) system for the reliable certification of recorded data for physics analyses. DQM debugs hardware, monitors detector and trigger performance behavior, and highlight problems or malfunctioning by processing calibration and physics data.
Definition of the requirements, design, and development of the RPC DQM system, as well as its use to study detector and trigger performance, have been the focus of this doctoral thesis work
The effect of pulse rate on vacuum phototriodes response and the use of an LED pulser to improve stability
No full textThe official published version of this paper can be found at the link below.The Endcap Electromagnetic Calorimeter of the Compact Muon Solenoid detector (CMS) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) uses vacuum phototriodes (VPTs), which operate in the full 3.8T magnetic field of the experiment, to detect the scintillation light from the lead tungstate crystals. Initial measurements of the variation in response of VPTs, induced by sudden changes in the illuminating light pulse rate, prompted the inclusion of a dedicated stability pulser based on light emitting diodes (LEOs). The response of production VPTs, under simulated LHC operating conditions, has been investigated in three independent studies: in-situ tests with the installed endcaps at CERN, and separate VPT studies by groups at the University of Virginia, USA and Brunel University, UK. In this work, results are presented which illustrate the magnitude of the effect to demonstrate the expected stability of the VPTs during normal LHC operation, with a proposed regime for operating the stability pulser to minimise variations in response. It is demonstrated that a continuous signal at a rate of 100Hz is sufficient to reduce the change in the VPT response to <0.2%
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Stand-alone cosmic muon reconstruction before installation of the CMS silicon strip tracker
Full text linkThis is the Pre-print version of the Article. The official published version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2009 IOPThe subsystems of the CMS silicon strip tracker were integrated and commissioned at the Tracker Integration Facility (TIF) in the period from November 2006 to July 2007. As part of the commissioning, large samples of cosmic ray data were recorded under various running conditions in the absence of a magnetic field. Cosmic rays detected by scintillation counters were used to trigger the readout of up to 15 % of the final silicon strip detector, and over 4.7 million events were recorded. This document describes the cosmic track reconstruction and presents results on the performance of track and hit reconstruction as from dedicated analyses.This work was supported by: the Austrian
Federal Ministry of Science and Research; the Belgium Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique and Fonds voorWetenschappelijk
Onderzoek; the Academy of Finland and Helsinki Institute of Physics; the Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules / CNRS, France; the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, Germany; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; the Swiss Funding Agencies; the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; the US Department of Energy, and National Science Foundation. Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie IEF program (European Union) and the A.P. Sloan Foundation
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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