pinecone/core-2020-05-10-deduplication huggingface dataset:
Searches for heavy long-lived sleptons and R-Hadrons with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrts TeV

A search for long-lived particles is performed using a data sample of 4.7 fb(-1) from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy. root s = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No excess is observed above the estimated background and lower limits, at 95% confidence level, are set on the mass of the long-lived particles in different scenarios, based on their possible interactions in the inner detector, the calorimeters and the muon spectrometer. Long-lived staus in gauge-mediated SUSY-breaking models are excluded up to a mass of 300 GeV for tan beta = 5-20. Directly produced long-lived sleptons are excluded up to a mass of 278 GeV. R-hadrons, composites of gluino (stop, sbottom) and light quarks, are excluded up to a mass of 985 GeV (683 GeV, 612 GeV) when using a generic interaction model. Additionally two sets of limits on R-hadrons are obtained that are less sensitive to the interaction model for R-hadrons. One set of limits is obtained using only the inner detector and calorimeter observables, and a second set of limits is obtained based on the inner detector alone
Measurement of the $B_s^0 \to \phi \phi$ branching fraction and search for the decay $B^0 \to \phi \phi$

Using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb$^{-1}$ collected in $pp$ collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, the $B_s^0 \to \phi \phi$ branching fraction is measured to be \[ \mathcal{B}(B_s^0 \to \phi \phi) = ( 1.84 \pm 0.05 (\text{stat}) \pm 0.07 (\text{syst}) \pm 0.11 (f_s/f_d) \pm 0.12 (\text{norm}) ) \times 10^{-5}, \] where $f_s/f_d$ represents the ratio of the $B_s^0$ to $B^0$ production cross-sections, and the $B^0 \to \phi K^*(892)^0$ decay mode is used for normalization. This is the most precise measurement of this branching fraction to date, representing a factor five reduction in the statistical uncertainty compared with the previous best measurement. A search for the decay $B^0 \to \phi \phi$ is also made. No signal is observed, and an upper limit on the branching fraction is set as \[\mathcal{B}(B^0 \to \phi \phi) < 2.8 \times 10^{-8} \] at 90% confidence level. This is a factor of seven improvement compared to the previous best limit
Microwave-enhanced densification of sol–gel alumina films

Alumina films prepared by the sol-gel method were sintered at 1160 °C and 1200 °C using a 2.45 GHz microwave / conventional hybrid furnace in order to study the influence of microwave power on the sintering process and resultant samples. Experiments were designed to ensure that each series of samples underwent an identical thermal history in terms of temperature / time profiles. Sintering was carried out using three different heating approaches: pure conventional heating and hybrid heating with 600 W and 1000 W of microwave radiation, respectively. The results obtained showed that, compared with pure conventional heating, the presence of the microwave field led to higher sintered densities and crystallinity in the samples, indicating that the microwave field enhanced the sintering of the sol-gel alumina films and supporting the existence of the microwave effect
Contemporaneous observations of the radio galaxy NGC 1275 from radio to very high energy gamma-rays

The radio galaxy NGC 1275, recently identified as a very high energy (VHE, &gt;100 GeV) gamma-ray emitter by MAGIC, is one of the few non-blazar AGN detected in the VHE regime. In order to better understand the origin of the gamma-ray emission and locate it within the galaxy, we study contemporaneous multi-frequency observations of NGC 1275 and model the overall spectral energy distribution (SED). We analyze unpublished MAGIC observations carried out between Oct. 2009 and Feb. 2010, and the already published ones taken between Aug. 2010 and Feb. 2011. We study the multi-band variability and correlations analyzing data of Fermi-LAT (0.1 - 100 GeV), Chandra (X-ray), KVA (optical) and MOJAVE (radio) taken during the same period. Using custom Monte Carlo simulations corresponding to early MAGIC stereo data, we detect NGC 1275 also in the earlier MAGIC campaign. The flux level and energy spectra are similar to the results of the second campaign. The monthly light curve above 100 GeV shows a hint of variability at the 3.6 sigma level. In the Fermi-LAT band, both flux and spectral shape variabilities are reported. The optical light curve is also variable and shows a clear correlation with the gamma-ray flux above 100 MeV. In radio, three compact components are resolved in the innermost part of the jet. One of them shows a similar trend as the LAT and KVA light curves. The 0.1 - 650 GeV gamma-ray spectra measured simultaneously with MAGIC and LAT are well fit either by a log-parabola or by a power-law with a sub-exponential cutoff for both campaigns. A single-zone synchrotron-self-Compton model, with an electron spectrum following a power-law with an exponential cutoff, can explain the broadband SED and the multi-frequency behavior of the source. However, this model suggests an untypical low bulk Lorentz factor or a velocity alignment closer to the line of sight than the pc-scale radio jet
Search for pair-produced resonances decaying to jet pairs in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

Results are reported of a general search for pair production of heavy resonances decaying to pairs of jets in events with at least four jets. The study is based on up to 19.4 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC. Limits are determined on the production of scalar top quarks (top squarks) in the framework of R-parity violating supersymmetry and on the production of color-octet vector bosons (colorons). First limits at the LHC are placed on top squark production for two scenarios. The first assumes decay to a bottom quark and a light-flavor quark and is excluded for masses between 200 and 385 GeV, and the second assumes decay to a pair of light-flavor quarks and is excluded for masses between 200 and 350 GeV at 95% confidence level. Previous limits on colorons decaying to light-flavor quarks are extended to exclude masses from 200 to 835 GeV
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV in events with a single lepton, large jet multiplicity, and multiple b jets

Results are reported from a search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, based on events with a single isolated lepton (electron or muon) and multiple jets, at least two of which are identified as b jets. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.3 inverse femtobarns recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2012. The search is motivated by supersymmetric models that involve strong-production processes and cascade decays of new particles. The resulting final states contain multiple jets as well as missing transverse momentum from weakly interacting particles. The event yields, observed across several kinematic regions, are consistent with the expectations from standard model processes. The results are interpreted in the context of simplified supersymmetric scenarios with pair production of gluinos, where each gluino decays to a top quark-antiquark pair and the lightest neutralino. For the case of decays via virtual top squarks, gluinos with a mass smaller than 1.26 TeV are excluded for low neutralino masses
Remobilisation features and structural control on ore grade distribution at the Konkola stratiform Cu-Co ore deposit, Zambia

The Konkola deposit is a high grade stratiform Cu–Co ore deposit in the Central African Copperbelt in Zambia. Economic mineralisation is confined to the Ore Shale formation, part of the Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks of the Katanga Supergroup. Petrographic study reveals that the copper–cobalt ore minerals are disseminated within the host rock, sometimes concentrated along bedding planes, often associated with dolomitic bands or clustered in cemented lenses and in layer-parallel and irregular veins. The hypogene sulphide mineralogy consists predominantly of chalcopyrite, bornite and chalcocite. Based upon relationships with metamorphic biotite, vein sulphides and most of the sulphides in cemented lenses were precipitated during or after biotite zone greenschist facies metamorphism. New δ34S values of sulphides from the Konkola deposit are presented. The sulphur isotope values range from −8.7‰ to +1.4‰ V-CDT for chalcopyrite from all mineralising phases and from −4.4‰ to +2.0‰ V-CDT for secondary chalcocite. Similarities in δ34S for sulphides from different vein generations, earlier sulphides and secondary chalcocite can be explained by (re)mobilisation of S from earlier formed sulphide phases, an interpretation strongly supported by the petrographic evidence. Deep supergene enrichment and leaching occurs up to a km in depth, predominantly in the form of secondary chalcocite, goethite and malachite and is often associated with zones of high permeability. Detailed distribution maps of total copper and total cobalt contents of the Ore Shale formation show a close relationship between structural features and higher copper and lower cobalt contents, relative to other areas of the mine. Structural features include the Kirilabombwe anticline and fault zones along the axial plane and two fault zones in the southern limb of the anticline. Cobalt and copper behave differently in relation to these structural features. These structures are interpreted to have played a significant role in (re)mobilisation and concentration of the metals, in agreement with observations made elsewhere in the Zambian Copperbelt.status: publishe
Vacuum stability in U(1) -prime extensions of the Standard Model with TeV scale right handed neutrinos

We investigate a minimal U(1)′ extension of the Standard Model with one extra complex scalar and generic gauge charge assignments. We use a type-I seesaw mechanism with three heavy right handed neutrinos to illustrate the constraints on the charges, on their mass and on the mixing angle of the two scalars, derived by requiring the vacuum stability of the scalar potential. We focus our study on a scenario which could be accessible at the LHC, by selecting a vacuum expectation value of the extra Higgs in the TeV range and determining the constraints that emerge in the parameter space. To illustrate the generality of the approach, specific gauge choices corresponding to U(1)B−L U(1)R and U(1)χ are separately analyzed. Our results are based on a modified expression of one of the β functions of the quartic couplings of the scalar potential compared to the previous literature. This is due to a change in the coefficient of the Yukawa term of the right handed neutrinos. Differently from previous analysis, we show that this coupling may destabilize the vacuum
Derivation of the action and symmetries of the q -deformed AdS 5 × S 5 superstring

We recently proposed an integrable q -deformation of the AdS 5 × S 5 superstring action. Here we give details on the hamiltonian origin and construction of this deformation. The procedure is a generalization of the one previously developed for deforming principal chiral and symmetric space σ -models. We also show that the original p s u 2 , 2 | 4 $$ \mathfrak{p}\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{u}\left(2,2\Big|4\right) $$ symmetry is replaced in the deformed theory by a classical analog of the quantum group U q p s u 2 , 2 | 4 $$ {U}_q\left(\mathfrak{p}\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{u}\left(2,2\Big|4\right)\right) $$ with q real. The relation between q and the deformation parameter η entering the action is given. The framework used to derive the deformation also enables to prove that at the hamiltonian level, the “maximal deformation” limit corresponds to an undeformed semi-symmetric space σ -model with bosonic part dS 5 × H 5 . Finally, we discuss the various freedoms in the construction
Direct determination of ground-state transition widths of low-lying dipole states in 140 Ce with the self-absorption technique

The technique of self absorption has been applied for the first time to study the decay pattern of low-lying dipole states of 140 Ce. In particular, ground-state transition widths Γ0 and branching ratios Γ0Γ to the ground state have been investigated in the energy domain of the pygmy dipole resonance. Relative self-absorption measurements allow for a model-independent determination of Γ0 . Without the need to perform a full spectroscopy of all decay channels, also the branching ratio to the ground state can be determined. The experiment on 140 Ce was conducted at the bremsstrahlung facility of the superconducting Darmstadt electron linear accelerator S-DALINAC. In total, the self-absorption and, thus, Γ0 were determined for 104 excited states of 140 Ce. The obtained results are presented and discussed with respect to simulations of γ cascades using the DICEBOX code
Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays (EECR) Observation Capabilities of an
  ``Airwatch from Space'' Mission

The longitudinal development and other characteristics of the EECR induced
atmospheric showers can be studied from space by detecting the fluorescence
light induced in the atmospheric nitrogen. According to the Airwatch concept a
single fast detector can be used for measuring both intensity and time
development of the streak of fluorescence light produced by the atmospheric
shower induced by an EECR. In the present communication the detection
capabilities for the EECR observation from space are discussed
Hyperfine mixing in electromagnetic decay of doubly heavy bc baryons

We investigate the role of hyperfine mixing in the electromagnetic decay of ground state doubly heavy bc baryons. As in the case of a previous calculation on b -> c semileptonic decays of doubly heavy baryons, we find large corrections to the electromagnetic decay widths due to this mixing. Contrary to the weak case just mentioned, we find here that one cannot use electromagnetic width relations obtained in the infinite heavy quark mass limit to experimentally extract information on the admixtures in a model independent way.This research was supported by DGI and FEDER funds, under contracts FIS2008-01143/FIS, FIS2006-03438,\ud
FPA2007-65748, and the Spanish Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme CPAN (CSD2007-00042), by Junta de Castilla\ud
y León under contracts SA016A07 and GR12, by Generalitat Valenciana under contract PROMETEO/20090090 and\ud
by the EU HadronPhysics2 project, grant agreement n. 227431.Peer reviewe
First measurement of hadronic event shapes in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

20 páginas, 3 figuras.-- El Pdf del artículo es la versión pre-print: arXiv:1102.0068v1.-- CMS Collaboration: et al.Hadronic event shapes have been measured in proton–proton collisions at √s =7 TeV, with a data sample\ud
collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity\ud
of 3.2 pb−1. Event-shape distributions, corrected for detector response, are compared with five models of\ud
QCD multijet production.Acknowledge support from: FMSR (Austria);\ud
FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP\ud
(Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS\ud
(Colombia); MSES (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); Academy of\ud
Sciences and NICPB (Estonia); Academy of Finland, ME, and HIP\ud
(Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF\ud
(Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NKTH (Hungary); DAE and\ud
DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU\ud
(Korea); LAS (Lithuania); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLPFAI\ud
(Mexico); PAEC (Pakistan); SCSR (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR\ud
(Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); MST and MAE\ud
(Russia); MSTD (Serbia); MICINN and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding\ud
Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey);\ud
STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received\ud
support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European\ud
Research Council (European Union); the Leventis Foundation;\ud
the A.P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation;\ud
the Associazione per lo Sviluppo Scientifico e Tecnologico\ud
del Piemonte (Italy); the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the\ud
Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’índustrie et dans\ud
l’Ágriculture (FRIA – Belgium); and the Agentschap voor Innovatie\ud
door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT – Belgium).Peer reviewe
Complement factor H variants I890 and L1007 while commonly associated with atypical haemolytic uremic syndrome are polymorphisms with no functional significance

35 p.-4 fig.-2 tab.Mutations and polymorphisms in the gene-encoding factor H (CFH) are associated with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, dense deposit disease, and age-related macular degeneration. Many of these CFH genetic variations disrupt the regulatory role of factor H, supporting the concept that dysregulation of complement is a unifying pathogenic feature of these disorders. Evidence of a causal relationship with the disease is, however, not available for all CFH genetic variations found in patients, which is a potential cause of misinterpretations with important consequences for the patients and their relatives. CFH I890 and L1007 are two genetic variations repeatedly associated with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome and also found in patients with dense deposit disease and age-related macular degeneration. Here we report an extensive genetic and functional analysis of these CFH variants. Our results indicate that I890 and L1007 segregate together as part of a distinct and relatively infrequent CFH haplotype in Caucasians. Extensive analysis of the S890/V1007 (control) and I890/L1007 (disease-associated) factor H protein variants failed to provide evidence that these amino acid changes have functional implications. Thus, the presence of the I890 and L1007 variants in healthy individuals and their high frequency in sub-Saharan African and African-American populations strongly suggest that I890 and L1007 are rare factor H polymorphisms unrelated to diseaseThis work was funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (SAF2008-00226 to SRdeC, PS09/00268 to PS-C and PS09/00122 to ML-T), the Ciber de Enfermedades Raras, and the Fundación Renal Iñigo Alvarez de ToledoPeer reviewe
ER stress is associated with reduced ABCA-1 protein levels in macrophages treated with advanced glycated albumin - Reversal by a chemical chaperone

ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 mediates the export of excess cholesterol from macrophages, contributing to the prevention of atherosclerosis. Advanced glycated albumin (AGE-alb) is prevalent in diabetes mellitus and is associated with the development of atherosclerosis. Independently of changes in ABCA-1 mRNA levels, AGE-alb induces oxidative stress and reduces ABCA-1 protein levels, which leads to macrophage lipid accumulation. These metabolic conditions are known to elicit endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. We sought to determine if AGE-alb induces ER stress and unfolded protein response (UPR) in macrophages and how disturbances to the ER could affect ABCA-1 content and cholesterol efflux in macrophages. AGE-alb induced a time-dependent increase in ER stress and UPR markers. ABCA-1 content and cellular cholesterol efflux were reduced by 33% and 47%, respectively, in macrophages treated with AGE-alb, and both were restored by treatment with 4-phenyl butyric acid (a chemical chaperone that alleviates ER stress), but not MG132 (a proteasome inhibitor). Tunicamycin, a classical ER stress inductor, also impaired ABCA-1 expression and cholesterol efflux (showing a decrease of 61% and 82%, respectively), confirming the deleterious effect of ER stress in macrophage cholesterol accumulation. Glycoxidation induces macrophage ER stress, which relates to the reduction in ABCA-1 and in reverse cholesterol transport, endorsing the adverse effect of macrophage ER stress in atherosclerosis. Thus, chemical chaperones that alleviate ER stress may represent a useful tool for the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis in diabetes. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [09/53869-9, 10/50108-4, 09/54688-8, 10/50147-0]Fundacao Faculdade de MedicinaLaboratorios de Investigacao Medica (LIM-HC
Bornavirus closely associates and segregates with host chromosomes to ensure persistent intranuclear infection.

Bornaviruses are nonsegmented negative-strand RNA viruses that establish a persistent infection in the nucleus and occasionally integrate a DNA genome copy into the host chromosomal DNA. However, how these viruses achieve intranuclear infection remains unclear. We show that Borna disease virus (BDV), a mammalian bornavirus, closely associates with the cellular chromosome to ensure intranuclear infection. BDV generates viral factories within the nucleus using host chromatin as a scaffold. In addition, the viral ribonucleoprotein (RNP) interacts directly with the host chromosome throughout the cell cycle, using core histones as a docking platform. HMGB1, a host chromatin-remodeling DNA architectural protein, is required to stabilize RNP on chromosomes and for efficient BDV RNA transcription in the nucleus. During metaphase, the association of RNP with mitotic chromosomes allows the viral RNA to segregate into daughter cells and ensure persistent infection. Thus, bornaviruses likely evolved a chromosome-dependent life cycle to achieve stable intranuclear infection
Role of Rev-erbα domains for transactivation of the connexin43 promoter with Sp1.

Rev-erbα, a component of the circadian clock, has also been known as a nuclear receptor that lacks activation function domain 2, functioning as a ligand-dependent transcriptional repressor. However, we recently reported that Rev-erbα activates connexin43 transcription by forming a complex with Sp1. Here we show that heme, a REV-ERB ligand, is dispensable for this novel mechanism and that Rev-erbβ, having homologies with Rev-erbα, does not activate connexin43, but competes with the Rev-erbα/Sp1. The A/B region of Rev-erbα, which is not conserved in Rev-erbβ, is a crucial activating domain, while the ligand binding domain, conserved in Rev-erbβ, functions as a competitor
Kinematics and Source Zone Properties of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and Tsunami: Nonlinear  Joint Inversion of Tide-Gage, Satellite Altimetry and GPS  data

We (re)analyzed the source of the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami through a nonlinear joint inversion of an in-homogeneous dataset made up of tide-gages, satellite altimetry, and far-field GPS recordings. The purpose is two-fold: (1) the retrieval of the main kinematics rupture parameters (slip, rake, rupture velocity); (2) the inference of the rigidity of the source zone. We independently estimate the slip from tsunami data and the seismic moment from geodetic data, so to derive the rigidity. Our results confirm that the source of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake has a complex geometry, constituted by three main slip patches, with slip peaking at ~30 meters in the Southern part of the source. The rake direction rotates counter-clockwise at North, according to the direction of convergence along the trench. The rupture velocity is higher in the deeper than in the shallower part of the source, consistently with the expected increase of rigidity with depth. It is also lower in the Northern part, consistently with known variations of the incoming plate properties and shear velocity. Our model features a rigidity (20-30 GPa), that is lower than PREM average for the seismogenic volume [Dziewonski and Anderson, 1981]. The source rigidity is one of the factors controlling the tsunamigenesis: for a given seismic moment, the lower the rigidity, the higher the induced seafloor displacement. The general consistence between our source model and previous studies supports the effectiveness of our approach to the joint inversion of geodetic and tsunami data for the rigidity estimation