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1ST MEASUREMENT OF GAMMA(D(S)(+)-]MU+NU)/GAMMA(D(S)(+)-]PHI-PI+)
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ACOSTA D, ATHANAS M, MASEK G, PAAR H, BEAN A, GRONBERG J, KUTSCHKE R, MENARY S, MORRISON RJ, NAKANISHI S, NELSON HN, NELSON TK, RICHMAN JD, RYD A, TAJIMA H, SCHMIDT D, SPERKA D, WITHERELL MS, PROCARIO M, YANG S, BALEST R, CHO K, DAOUDI M, FORD WT, JOHNSON DR, LINGEL K, LOHNER M, RANKIN P, SMITH JG, ALEXANDER JP, BEBEK C, BERKELMAN K, BESSON D, BROWDER TE, CASSEL DG, CHO HA, COFFMAN DM, DRELL PS, EHRLICH R, GALIK RS, GARCIASCIVERES M, GEISER B, GITTELMAN B, GRAY SW, HARTILL DL, HELTSLEY BK, JONES CD, JONES SL, KANDASWAMY J, KATAYAMA N, KIM PC, KREINICK DL, LUDWIG GS, MASUI J, MEVISSEN J, MISTRY NB, NG CR, NORDBERG E, OGG M, PATTERSON JR, PETERSON D, RILEY D, SALMAN S, SAPPER M, WORDEN H, WURTHWEIN F, AVERY P, FREYBERGER A, RODRIGUEZ J, STEPHENS R, YELTON J, CINABRO D, HENDERSON S, KINOSHITA K, LIU T, SAULNIER M, SHEN F, WILSON R, YAMAMOTO H, ONG B, SELEN M, SADOFF AJ, AMMAR R, BALL S, BARINGER P, COPPAGE D, COPTY N, DAVIS R, HANCOCK N, KELLY M, KWAK N, LAM H, KUBOTA Y, LATTERY M, NELSON JK, PATTON S, PERTICONE D, POLING R, SAVINOV V, SCHRENK S, WANG R, ALAM MS, KIM IJ, NEMATI B, ONEILL JJ, SEVERINI H, SUN CR, ZOELLER MM, CRAWFORD G, DAUBENMIER CM, FULTON R, FUJINO D, GAN KK, HONSCHEID K, KAGAN H, KASS R, LEE J, MALCHOW R, MORROW F, SKOVPEN Y, SUNG M, WHITE C, WHITMORE J, WILSON P, BUTLER F, FU X, KALBFLEISCH G, LAMBRECHT M, ROSS WR, SKUBIC P, SNOW J, WANG PL, WOOD M, BORTOLETTO D, BROWN DN, FAST J, MCILWAIN RL, MIAO T, MILLER DH, MODESITT M, SCHAFFNER SF, SHIBATA EI, SHIPSEY IPJ, WANG PN, BATTLE M, ERNST J, KROHA H, ROBERTS S, SPARKS K, THORNDIKE EH, WANG CH, DOMINICK J, SANGHERA S, SHELKOV V, SKWARNICKI T, STROYNOWSKI R, VOLOBOUEV I, ZADOROZHNY P, ARTUSO M, HE D, GOLDBERG M, HORWITZ N, KENNETT R, MONETI GC, MUHEIM F, MUKHIN Y, PLAYFER S, ROZEN Y, STONE S, THULASIDAS M, VASSEUR G, ZHU G, BARTELT J, CSORNA SE, EGYED Z, JAIN V, SHELDON P, AKERIB DS, BARISH B, CHADHA M, CHAN S, COWEN DF, EIGEN G, MILLER JS, OGRADY C, URHEIM J, WEINSTEIN A
General Electric PETtrace cyclotron as a neutron source for boron neutron capture therapy
No full textThis research investigates the use of a PETtrace cyclotron produced by General Electric (GE) as a neutron source for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). The GE PETtrace was chosen for this investigation because this type of cyclotron is popular among nuclear pharmacies and clinics in many countries; it is compact and reliable; it produces protons with energies high enough to produce neutrons with appropriate energy and fluence rate for BNCT and it does not require significant changes in design to provide neutrons. In particular, the standard PETtrace 18O target is considered. The cyclotron efficiency may be significantly increased if unused neutrons produced during radioisotopes production could be utilized for other medical modalities such as BNCT at the same time. The resulting dose from the radiation emitted from the target is evaluated using the Monte Carlo radiation transport code MCNP at several depths in a brain phantom for different scattering geometries. Four different moderating materials of various thicknesses were considered: light water, carbon, heavy water, and FluentalTM. The fluence rate tally was used to calculate photon and neutron dose, by applying fluence rate-to-dose conversion factors. Fifteen different geometries were considered and a 30-cm thick heavy water moderator was chosen as the most suitable for BNCT with the GE PETtrace cyclotron. According to the Brookhaven Medical Research Reactor (BMRR) protocol, the maximum dose to the normal brain is set to 12.5 RBEGy, which for the conditions of using a heavy water moderator, assuming a 60 ??A beam current, would be reached with a treatment time of 258 min. Results showed that using a PETtrace cyclotron in this configuration provides a therapeutic ratio of about 2.4 for depths up to 4 cm inside a brain phantom. Further increase of beam current proposed by GE should significantly improve the beam quality or the treatment time and allow treating tumors at greater depths
A 2 h periodic variation in the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1
No full textSpectroscopy of the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1 using the Gran Telescopio Canarias have revealed a ?2 h periodic variability that is present in the three strongest emission lines. We tentatively interpret this variability as due to orbital motion, making it the first indication of the orbital period of Ser X-1. Together with the fact that the emission lines are remarkably narrow, but still resolved, we show that a main-sequence K dwarf together with a canonical 1.4 M? neutron star gives a good description of the system. In this scenario, the most likely place for the emission lines to arise is the accretion disc, instead of a localized region in the binary (such as the irradiated surface or the stream-impact point), and their narrowness is due instead to the low inclination (?10°) of Ser X-1
Exclusive and inclusive semileptonic decays of B mesons to D mesons
No full textcomplete author list: Fulton R.; Jensen T.; Johnson D.; Kagan H.; Kass R.; Morrow F.; Whitmore J.; Wilson P.; Bortoletto D.; Chen W.; Dominick J.; McIlwain R.; Miller D.; Ng C.; Schaffner S.; Shibata E.; Shipsey I.; Yao W.; Battle M.; Sparks K.; Thorndike E.; Wang C.; Alam M.; Kim I.; Li W.; Romero V.; Sun C.; Wang P.; Zoeller M.; Goldberg M.; Haupt T.; Horwitz N.; Jain V.; Mestayer M.; Moneti G.; Rozen Y.; Rubin P.; Sharma V.; Skwarnicki T.; Thulasidas M.; Zhu G.; Csorna S.; Letson T.; Alexander J.; Artuso M.; Bebek C.; Berkelman K.; Browder T.; Cassel D.; Cheu E.; Coffman D.; Crawford G.; Dewire J.; Drell P.; Ehrlich R.; Galik R.; Garcia-Sciveres M.; Geiser B.; Gittelman B.; Gray S.; Halling A.; Hartill D.; Heltsley B.; Honscheid K.; Kandaswamy J.; Katayama N.; Kreinick D.; Lewis J.; Ludwig G.; Masui J.; Mevissen J.; Mistry N.; Nandi S.; Nordberg E.; O'Grady C.; Peterson D.; Pisharody M.; Riley D.; Sapper M.; Selen M.; Silverman A.; Stone S.; Worden H.; Worris M.; Sadoff A.; Avery P.; Besson D.; Garren L.; Yelton J.; Kinoshita K.; Pipkin F.; Procario M.; Wilson R.; Wolinski J.; Xiao D.; Zhu Y.; Ammar R.; Baringer P.; Coppage D.; Davis R.; Haas P.; Kwak N.; Lam H.; Ro S.; Kubota Y.; Nelson J.; Perticone D.; Poling R.; Fulton R.; Poling R.; Perticone D.; Nelson J.; Fulton R.</p
Erosie door open taludbekledingen. Samenvattend verslag + Bijlage A t/m D
No full textOpen taludbekledingen die bestaan uit in verband geplaatste betonblokken met gaten, bieden de mogelijkheid vegetatie te doen groeien, waardoor mogelijk een milieuvriendelijke oever kan worden verkregen. In het pioniersstadium van de vegetatie is het evenwel ongewenst dat de gatvulling uitspoelt. Teneinde de relatie tussen waterbeweging en erosie van de gatvulling vast te stellen, is door de Dienst Weg- en Waterbouwkunde van Rijkswaterstaat per brief d.d. 16 maart 1987 (kenmerk WB 570), opdracht verleend aan het Waterloopkundig Laboratorium tot het uitvoeren van onderzoek naar de erosie door open taludbekledingen. Het doel van het onderzoek is het ontwikkelen van ontwerprichtlijnen voor taludbekledingen met gaten die groter zijn dan de zand- of filterkorrels eronder. Hiertoe dient de kritieke waterbeweging bij een oever- of dijkbekleding te worden vastgesteld, waarbij nog toelaatbare erosie is te verwachten. De toelaatbare erosie mag daarbij maximaal gelijk zijn aan de hoeveelheid sediment in de gaten. Filter- of basismateriaal gelegen onder de elementen mag dus niet uitspoelen. Bij oeverbekledingen waar vegetatie een rol moet gaan spelen, is de toelaatbare erosie kleiner, dat wil zeggen in de gaten dient sediment achter te blijven.Steenzettingen - TAW/EN
Measurement of the B̄→D*lν̄ branching fractions and -Vcb-
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Barish B.; Chadha M.; Chan S.; Cowen D.; Eigen G.; Miller J.; O'Grady C.; Urheim J.; Weinstein A.; Acosta D.; Athanas M.; Masek G.; Paar H.; Gronberg J.; Kutschke R.; Menary S.; Morrison R.; Nakanishi S.; Nelson H.; Nelson T.; Qiao C.; Richman J.; Ryd A.; Tajima H.; Sperka D.; Witherell M.; Procario M.; Balest R.; Cho K.; Daoudi M.; Ford W.; Johnson D.; Lingel K.; Lohner M.; Rankin P.; Smith J.; Alexander J.; Bebek C.; Berkelman K.; Bloom K.; Browder T.; Cassel D.; Cho H.; Coffman D.; Crowcroft D.; Drell P.; Ehrlich R.; Gaidarev P.; Galik R.; Garcia-Sciveres M.; Geiser B.; Gittelman B.; Gray S.; Hartill D.; Heltsley B.; Jones C.; Jones S.; Kandaswamy J.; Katayama N.; Kim P.; Kreinick D.; Ludwig G.; Masui J.; Mevissen J.; Mistry N.; Ng C.; Nordberg E.; Patterson J.; Peterson D.; Riley D.; Salman S.; Sapper M.; Würthwein F.; Avery P.; Freyberger A.; Rodriguez J.; Yang S.; Yelton J.; Cinabro D.; Henderson S.; Liu T.; Saulnier M.; Wilson R.; Yamamoto H.; Bergfeld T.; Eisenstein B.; Gollin G.; Ong B.; Palmer M.; Selen M.; Thaler J.; Edwards K.; Ogg M.; Bellerive A.; Britton D.; Hyatt E.; MacFarlane D.; Patel P.; Spaan B.; Sadoff A.; Ammar R.; Ball S.; Baringer P.; Bean A.; Besson D.; Coppage D.; Copty N.; Davis R.; Hancock N.; Kelly M.; Kotov S.; Kravchenko I.; Kwak N.; Lam H.; Kubota Y.; Lattery M.; Momayezi M.; Nelson J.; Patton S.; Perticone D.; Poling R.; Savinov V.; Schrenk S.; Wang R.; Alam M.; Kim I.; Nemati B.; Ling Z.; O'Neill J.; Severini H.; Sun C.; Wappler F.; Crawford G.; Daubenmier C.; Fulton R.; Fujino D.; Gan K.; Honscheid K.; Kagan H.; Kass R.; Lee J.; Malchow R.; Skovpen Y.; Sung M.; White C.; Zoeller M.; Butler F.; Fu X.; Kalbfleisch G.; Ross W.; Skubic P.; Wood M.; Fast J.; Mcilwain R.; Miao T.; Miller D.; Modesitt M.; Payne D.; Shibata E.; Shipsey I.; Wang P.; Battle M.; Ernst J.; Gibbons L.; Kwon Y.; Roberts S.; Thorndike E.; Wang C.; Dominick J.; Lambrecht M.; Sanghera S.; Shelkov V.; Skwarnicki T.; Stroynowski R.; Volobouev I.; Wei G.; Zadorozhny P.; Artuso M.; Goldberg M.; He D.; Horwitz N.; Kennett R.; Mountain R.; Moneti G.; Muheim F.; Mukhin Y.; Playfer S.; Rozen Y.; Stone S.; Thulasidas M.; Vasseur G.; Xing X.; Zhu G.; Bartelt J.; Csorna S.; Egyed Z.; Jain V.; Gibaut D.; Kinoshita K.; Kinoshita K.; Barish B
Measurement of the D+/- production asymmetry in 7 TeV pp collisions
No full textThe asymmetry in the production cross-section \sigma of D+/- mesons, A_P = (\sigma(D+) - \sigma(D-))/(\sigma(D+) + \sigma(D-)), is measured in bins of pseudorapidity \eta and transverse momentum p_T within the acceptance of the LHCb detector. The result is obtained with a sample of D+ -> K_S pi+ decays corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb^-1, collected in pp collisions at a centre of mass energy of 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. When integrated over the kinematic range 2.0 K_S pi+ decay is negligible. No significant dependence on \eta or p_T is observed
Evidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
No full textFirst evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
Assessing late-time singular behaviour in symmetry-plane models of 3D Euler flow
No full textMotivated by work on stagnation-point type exact solutions of the 3D Euler fluid equations by Gibbon [Gibbon et. al. Phys. D, 132, 497, (1999)] and the subsequent demonstration of finite-time blowup by Constantin [Constantin, Math. Res. Notices, 9, 455, (2000)] we introduce a one-parameter family of models of the 3D Euler equations on a 2D symmetry plane. These models provide a collection of blow-up scenarios which admit analytical solutions and are computationally inexpensive in comparison to the full 3D Euler equations. We take advantage of these features to examine the efficacy of novel methods which aid the assessment of finite-time blow-up in numerical simulations. The principal of these is the mapping to regular systems [Bustamante, Phys. D, 240, 1092, (2011)]; a bijective nonlinear mapping of time and the prognostic variables based on a Beale-Kato-Majda (BKM) type supremum norm regularity condition [Beale et. al. Commun. Math. Phys. 94, 61, (1984)]. We show a 3 order of magnitude increase of accuracy of the singularity time when employing the mapping with negligible additional computational expense. An investigation of the spectra of the primary field (vortex stretching rate) allows us to confirm a power law decrement of the analyticity-strip width with time in agreement with rigorous bounds bridging between the global spatial behaviour and BKM theorems [Bustamante & Brachet, Phys. Rev. E. 86, (2012)]
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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