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The impact of the LHC nuclear program on nPDFs
2015
Volume: 612 The proton-lead and lead-lead runs at the LHC are providing an enormous amount of data sensitive to the nuclear modifications of the initial state. The measurements explore a region of phase space not probed by previous experiments opening a possibility to test and hopefully, also improve the current knowledge of nuclear parton densities. In this talk, we discuss to what extent the present quantitative results for the charge asymmetry in electroweak boson production show sensitivity to the nuclear parton distributions. Peer reviewed
Recent results from Borexino
2016
Journal of Physics Conference Series. - 798, International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics : 10-14 October 2016, Moscow, Russian Federation / proceedings editors: 1. issue: cosmic rays: Arkady Galper (MEPhI, Moscow, Russia) [und 7 andere] 2nd International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ICPPA 2016, Moscow, Russia, 11 Oct 2016 - 14 Oct 2016; Bristol : IOP Publ., Journal of Physics Conference Series, 798, 012114 pp. (2017). doi:10.1088/1742-6596/798/1/012114
Muon multiplicities measured using an underground cosmic-ray array
2016
EMMA (Experiment with Multi-Muon Array) is an underground detector array designed for cosmic-ray composition studies around the knee energy (or similar to 1 - 10 PeV). It operates at the shallow depth in the Pyhasalmi mine, Finland. The array consists of eleven independent detector stations similar to 15 m(2) each. Currently seven stations are connected to the DAQ and the rest will be connected within the next few months. EMMA will determine the multiplicity, the lateral density distribution and the arrival direction of high-energy muons event by event. The preliminary estimates concerning its performance together with an example of measured muon multiplicities are presented.
The $^{144}$Ce source for SOX
2015
International audience; The SOX (Short distance neutrino Oscillations with BoreXino) project aims at testing the light sterile neutrino hypothesis. To do so, two artificials sources of antineutrinos and neutrinos respectively will be consecutively deployed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in close vicinity to Borexino, a large liquid scintillator detector. This document reports on the source production and transportation. The source should exhibit a long lifetime and a high decay energy, a requirement fullfilled by the (144)Ce-(144)Pr pair at secular equilibrium. It will be produced at FSUE “Mayak” PA using spent nuclear fuel. It will then be shielded and packed according t…
Solar neutrino detectors as sterile neutrino hunters
2016
International audience; The large size and the very low radioactive background of solar neutrino detectors such as Borexino at the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy offer a unique opportunity to probe the existence of neutrino oscillations into new sterile components by means of carefully designed and well calibrated anti-neutrino and neutrino artificial sources. In this paper we briefly summarise the key elements of the SOX experiment, a program for the search of sterile neutrinos (and other short distance effects) by means of a (144)Ce-(144)Pr anti-neutrino source and, possibly in the medium term future, with a (51)Cr neutrino source.
Fuzzy Non-fragile H∞ Tracking Control for Flexible Air-breathing Hypersonic Vehicles
2012
Abstract This paper proposed a fuzzy non-fragile tracking control design method for flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicles (FAHVs). The T-S fuzzy set approach is applied to the modeling of the complex nonlinear dynamics of FAHVs, and a T-S fuzzy model is constructed, which can represent the nonlinear hypersonic vehicle system. Then, by considering the actuator controller coefficients uncertainties and disturbances, the fuzzy non-fragile H ∞ tracking problem for FAHVs is proposed. A state-feedback controller design method is proposed to guarantee the tracking performance in the presence of actuator controller coefficients uncertainties. By a Lyapunov approach, the existence conditions fo…
Reference tracking control of hypersonic vehicles using switched linear parameter-varying approach
2013
This paper is concerned with the control problem of the air-breathing hypersonic vehicle using switched linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems approach. By linearizing the nonlinear model of the hypersonic vehicle at trim points and dividing the velocity scope into several partitions, a switched LPV model for the underlying systems is derived. With aid of multiple Lyapunov-like functions technique, the controllers ensuring the tracking of given commands of the closed-loop system are designed under the mode-independent and mode-dependent switching logics, respectively. Simulation results for the hypersonic vehicle show the effectiveness of the proposed method and the advantages of the mode-d…
Rapidity correlations in Lambda baryon and proton production in hadronic Z0 decays
1998
In an analysis of multihadronic events recorded at LEP by DELPHI in the years 1992 through 1994, charged hadrons are identified using the measurement of their energy loss and their Cherenkov angle. Rapidity correlations of \La-\La, proton-proton, and \La-proton pairs are compared. The agreement with the string and cluster fragmentation models is tested. For those pairs that frame a meson in terms of rapidity the compensation of strangeness is studied. For \La{}$\overline{\mathrm{p}}$ pairs the additional correlation with respect to charged kaons is analysed.
f2(1810) as a triangle singularity
2017
We perform calculations showing that a source producing ${K}^{*}{\overline{K}}^{*}$ in $J=2$ and $L=0$ gives rise to a triangle singularity at 1810 MeV with a width of about 200 MeV from the mechanism ${K}^{*}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\pi}K$ and then $K{\overline{K}}^{*}$ merging into the ${a}_{1}(1260)$ resonance. We suggest that this is the origin of the present ${f}_{2}(1810)$ resonance and propose to look at the $\ensuremath{\pi}{a}_{1}(1260)$ mode in several reactions to clarify the issue.
Application independent greedy particle tracking method for 3D fluorescence microscopy image series
2012
Single-particle tracking is computationally a challenging problem, and usually solved with local methods. Local methods suffer from defects in the image data or in the detection of particles, such as temporal disappearing of particles. A particle tracking method has to provide a solution also to real disappearing and appearing of particles as a result of merging and splitting. Here, we present an efficient, greedy algorithm as a solution to the particle tracking problem. This improved local method is application independent, as it has high configurability of the function used to solve particle correspondence. To demonstrate the accuracy of the method, we apply it to real microscopy image da…