Search results for "FÍSICA"

Bloque detector PET basado en cristales monolíticos y fotomultiplicadores de silicio

2017

La tomografía por emisión de positrones (PET) es una técnica de imagen médica, encuadrada en la medicina nuclear, consistente en la generación de imágenes a partir de la detección de radiación gamma resultante de la aniquilación de positrones, emitidos por un radiotrazador, con los electrones de tejidos circundantes. Las imágenes PET son de tipo funcional, lo que permite la observación y estudio de procesos fisiológicos, sin embargo, se ha probado que la integración de estos escáneres con otros sistemas de imagen médica que proporcionen imágenes de carácter anatómico mejora notablemente las prestaciones clínicas de ambos equipos. Este tipo de equipos multimodales se conocen como sistemas hí…

Clustering of galaxies: evolution, segregation, and baryon acoustic oscillations

2011

In this thesis, we tackle several open problems in the study of large-scale structure through the clustering of galaxies. To this end, we analyse data from some of the latest surveys, and we also develop new statistical techniques needed for this analysis in specific cases. In the first part, we focus on small and intermediate scales, where the relation between galaxy properties and their clustering (known as segregation) is important. The work in this part is driven by the exploitation of data from the ongoing Advanced Large Homogeneous Area Medium-Band Redshift Astronomical (ALHAMBRA) survey, which is perfectly suited to study the evolution of segregation trough cosmic time. We developed …

Studies of the performance of the ATLAS detector using cosmic-ray muons

2011

Muons from cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere provide a high-statistics source of particles that can be used to study the performance and calibration of the ATLAS detector. Cosmic-ray muons can penetrate to the cavern and deposit energy in all detector subsystems. Such events have played an important role in the commissioning of the detector since the start of the installation phase in 2005 and were particularly important for understanding the detector performance in the time prior to the arrival of the first LHC beams. Global cosmic-ray runs were undertaken in both 2008 and 2009 and these data have been used through to the early phases of collision data-taking as a tool for calibrat…

Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy with the ATLAS detector

2011

Jet cross sections have been measured for the first time in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector. The measurement uses an integrated luminosity of 17 nb−1 recorded at the Large Hadron Collider. The anti-k t algorithm is used to identify jets, with two jet resolution parameters, R=0.4 and 0.6. The dominant uncertainty comes from the jet energy scale, which is determined to within 7% for central jets above 60 GeV transverse momentum. Inclusive single-jet differential cross sections are presented as functions of jet transverse momentum and rapidity. Dijet cross sections are presented as functions of dijet mass and the angular variable χ. The res…

Measurements of underlying-event properties using neutral and charged particles in pp collisions at root s=900 GeV and root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS de…

2011

We present first measurements of charged and neutral particle-flow correlations in pp collisions using the ATLAS calorimeters. Data were collected in 2009 and 2010 at centre-of-mass energies of 900 GeV and 7 TeV. Events were selected using a minimum-bias trigger which required a charged particle in scintillation counters on either side of the interaction point. Particle flows, sensitive to the underlying event, are measured using clusters of energy in the ATLAS calorimeters, taking advantage of their fine granularity. No Monte Carlo generator used in this analysis can accurately describe the measurements. The results are independent of those based on charged particles measured by the ATLAS …

Luminosity determination in pp collisions at s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

2011

Measurements of luminosity obtained using the ATLAS detector during early running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at s√=7 TeV are presented. The luminosity is independently determined using several detectors and multiple algorithms, each having different acceptances, systematic uncertainties and sensitivity to background. The ratios of the luminosities obtained from these methods are monitored as a function of time and of μ, the average number of inelastic interactions per bunch crossing. Residual time- and μ-dependence between the methods is less than 2% for 0<μ<2.5. Absolute luminosity calibrations, performed using beam separation scans, have a common systematic uncertainty of ±11%, do…

Limits on the production of the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

2011

A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) running at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is reported, based on a total integrated luminosity of up to 40 pb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector in 2010. Several Higgs boson decay channels: H→γγ, H→ZZ(∗)→ℓℓℓℓ, H→ZZ→ℓℓνν, H→ZZ→ℓℓqq, H→WW(∗)→ℓνℓν and H→WW→ℓνqq (ℓ is e, μ) are combined in a mass range from 110 GeV to 600 GeV. The highest sensitivity is achieved in the mass range between 160 GeV and 170 GeV, where the expected 95% CL exclusion sensitivity is at Higgs boson production cross sections 2.3 times the Standard Model prediction. Upper limits on the cross section for its production are determined. Models wit…

La enseñanza de la física en el siglo XVIII: La física moderna, racional y experimental (1745) de Andrés Piquer Arrufat (primer libro de física escri…

2007

¿Por qué resulta tan difícil la comprensión de la astronomía a los estudiantes?

2011

En este trabajo se muestra como las dificultades de comprensión de la Astronomía están relacionadas con una serie de factores: el hecho de que la historia de la astronomía es uno de los procesos más complejos de toda la historia de la ciencia, la ausencia de observaciones del cielo nocturno y diurno, el problema de las escalas, etc. Se muestra como una presentación de estos temas que siga el desarrollo histórico puede contribuir a mejorar la enseñanza de los mismos y a superar algunas dificultades de los estudiantes.

El Aula de Física Experimenta de la Universitat de València: más de una década de iniciativas para Secundaria

2013

se encuentra mayor información sobre el tema en http://www.uv.es/experimenta Desde la Facultad de Física de la Universitat de València hace ya tiempo que se vienen promoviendo iniciativas que pretenden mejorar la docencia y el aprendizaje de la Física, incidiendo de forma especial en los aspectos fenomenológicos y experimentales en conexión con los modelos teóricos, así como en las relaciones con otras ciencias y las aplicaciones tecnológicas. Estas iniciativas, surgidas a propuesta del Grupo de Trabajo de Física Arquímedes, se aglutinan alrededor del Aula Experimenta, y se centran en la formación del profesorado no universitario y en la colaboración entre la universidad y los centros de Ed…