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Search for ultra high energy neutrinos using the surface detector of the Pierre Auger observatory
Get PDFEl Detector de Superficie del Observatorio Pierre Auger es sensible a neutrinos de todos los sabores con energía por encima de 0,1 eV. Estos interactúan en la atmósfera mediante corrientes cargadas y neutras, iniciando cascadas atmosféricas extendidas. Al interactuar profundo en la atmófera a incidencia casi horizontal, los neutrinos pueden ser distinguidos del fondo producido por rayos cósmicos de origen hadrónico gracias a la estructura temporalmente extendida de las señales que producen en los detectores Che- renkov de agua. En este trabajo se presenta por primera vez un análisis basado en neutrinos descendentes. Se describe el procedimiento de búqueda, las posibles fuentes de fondo, el método desarrollado para calcular la exposición y las incertezas sistemáticas asociadas. Ningún candidato a neutrino fue encontrado en los datos adquiridos entre 1-Ene-2004 hasta 31-May-2010. Asumiendo un flujo diferencial típico Φ(Eν ) = k · EνE-2 , se fijo un límite sobre el flujo de neutrinos de cada sabor de k <1.65 × 10E−7 GeV cmE−2 sE−1 srE−1 con un nivel de confianza del 90 %.The Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory is sensitive to neutrinos of all flavours above 0.1 EeV. These interact through charged and neutral currents in the atmosphere giving rise to extended air showers. When interacting deeply in the atmosphere at nearly horizontal incidence, neutrinos can be distinguished from regular hadronic cosmic rays by the broad time structure of the signals in the water-Cherenkov detectors. In this paper we present for the first time an analysis based on down-going neutri- nos. We describe the search procedure, the possible sources of background, the method to compute the exposure and the associated systematic uncer- tainties. No candidate neutrinos have been found in the data collected from 1 January 2004 to 31 May 2010. Assuming a differential flux Φ(Eν ) = k · EνE-2 in the energy range from 0.1 to 10 EeV, we place a 90 % CL upper limit on the single flavour neutrino flux of k < 1.65 × 10E−7 GeV cmE−2 sE−1 srE−1Fil: Tiffenberg, Javier Sebastián. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina
Low energy depositions using smart electronic readout on Skipper-CCD for lightweight Dark Matter experiment
No full textCharge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) sensors have been at the forefront of high precision and resolution imaging ever since their development. Scientific CCDs and the Skipper-CCD pushed the boundaries for sensing very weak ionizing particles, as they allow to detect without error the charge signal (even a single electron-hole pair) collected on every pixel of the detector. To obtain such precision these sensors have a slow readout time, and this has the effect of producing images with multiple particles crossing the active detection region, hindering the posterior analysis. Recently, a new electronic controller was created, the Low Threshold Acquisition or LTA. The LTA allows to perform Skipper-precision readout on selected regions of the detector. This work presents the first physics experiment utilizing the LTA ever conducted, where the spatial distribution of single electron events is studied and compared against a computational model of photon production by Cherenkov radiation, finding a close agreement between both distributions.Fil: Giardino, Lucas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física; ArgentinaFil: Fernández Moroni, Guillermo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Chierchie, Fernando. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Eléctrica "Alfredo Desages". Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y de Computadoras. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Eléctrica "Alfredo Desages"; ArgentinaFil: Tiffenberg, Javier Sebastian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina2022 Argentine Conference on ElectronicsArgentinaUniversidad Nacional de San Jua
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Towards 10kg Skipper detectors
No full textThe Skipper Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) is a ground breaking technology that is opening new paths for detecting low energy interactions. The first gram-scale instrument using the Skipper-CCD technology was produced in 2016 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in collaboration with the Lawrence Berkeley MicroSystems Lab. I will discuss the potential of the Skipper-CCD technology to scale up to particle detectors with thousands of sensors and tens of kilograms of active mass.
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Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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