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Otal, A.; Celada, F.; Chimeno, J.; Vijande, J.; Pellejero, S.; Perez-Calatayud, M.J.; Villafranca, E.; Fuentemilla, N.; Blazquez, F.; Rodriguez, S.; Perez-Calatayud, J. |
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Review on Treatment Planning Systems for Cervix Brachytherapy (Interventional Radiotherapy): Some Desirable and Convenient Practical Aspects to Be Implemented from Radiation Oncologist and Medical Physics Perspectives |
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2022 |
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Cancers |
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Cancers |
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cervix; treatment planning systems; interstitial applicators; magnetic resonance |
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Simple Summary There are no brachytherapy treatment planning systems (TPS) exclusively for the treatment of cervical tumours, so general-purpose TPSs are used. However, these treatments have some particular features concerning the treatment of other pathologies, especially in the case of exclusive use of MRI as an imaging modality and the presence of gynaecological applicators in combination with an interstitial part. That is why it is essential to review the latest versions of commercial TPSs to find the potential features to improve with the help of a group of experimented medical physicists and radiation oncologists. Furthermore, after reviewing the recent literature for advances applicable to cervical brachytherapy and through his own clinical experience, possible improvements are proposed to software providers for the development of new tools. Intracavitary brachytherapy (BT, Interventional Radiotherapy, IRT), plays an essential role in the curative intent of locally advanced cervical cancer, for which the conventional approach involves external beam radiotherapy with concurrent chemotherapy followed by BT. This work aims to review the different methodologies used by commercially available treatment planning systems (TPSs) in exclusive magnetic resonance imaging-based (MRI) cervix BT with interstitial component treatments. Practical aspects and improvements to be implemented into the TPSs are discussed. This review is based on the clinical expertise of a group of radiation oncologists and medical physicists and on interactive demos provided by the software manufacturers. The TPS versions considered include all the new tools currently in development for future commercial releases. The specialists from the supplier companies were asked to propose solutions to some of the challenges often encountered in a clinical environment through a questionnaire. The results include not only such answers but also comments by the authors that, in their opinion, could help solve the challenges covered in these questions. This study summarizes the possibilities offered nowadays by commercial TPSs, highlighting the absence of some useful tools that would notably improve the planning of MR-based interstitial component cervix brachytherapy. |
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[Otal, Antonio] Hosp Arnau Vilanova, Med Phys Dept, Lleida 25198, Spain, Email: aotalpalacin@gmail.com; |
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De Romeri, V.; Puerta, M.; Vicente, A. |
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Dark matter in a charged variant of the Scotogenic model |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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Scotogenic models are among the most popular possibilities to link dark matter and neutrino masses. In this work we discuss a variant of the Scotogenic model that includes charged fermions and a doublet with hypercharge 3/2. Neutrino masses are induced at the one-loop level thanks to the states belonging to the dark sector. However, in contrast to the standard Scotogenic model, only the scalar dark matter candidate is viable in this version. After presenting the model and explaining some particularities about neutrino mass generation, we concentrate on its dark matter phenomenology. We show that the observed dark matter relic density can be correctly reproduced in the usual parameter space regions found for the standard Scotogenic model or the Inert Doublet model. In addition, the presence of the charged fermions opens up new viable regions, not present in the original scenarios, provided some tuning of the parameters is allowed. |
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[De Romeri, Valentina; Puerta, Miguel; Vicente, Avelino] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, Paterna 46980, Spain, Email: deromeri@ific.uv.es; |
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Hueso-Gonzalez, F.; Casaña Copado, J.V.; Fernandez Prieto, A.; Gallas Torreira, A.; Lemos Cid, E.; Ros Garcia, A.; Vazquez Regueiro, P.; Llosa, G. |
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A dead-time-free data acquisition system for prompt gamma-ray measurements during proton therapy treatments |
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2022 |
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Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A |
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Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A |
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Data acquisition; Dead time; Pile-up; Digital signal processing |
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In cancer patients undergoing proton therapy, a very intense secondary radiation is produced during the treatment, which lasts around one minute. About one billion prompt gamma-rays are emitted per second, and their detection with fast scintillation detectors is useful for monitoring a correct beam delivery. To cope with the expected count rate and pile-up, as well as the scarce statistics due to the short treatment duration, we developed an eidetic data acquisition system capable of continuously digitizing the detector signal with a high sampling rate and without any dead time. By streaming the fully unprocessed waveforms to the computer, complex pile-up decomposition algorithms can be applied and optimized offline. We describe the data acquisition architecture and the multiple experimental tests designed to verify the sustained data throughput speed and the absence of dead time. While the system is tailored for the proton therapy environment, the methodology can be deployed in any other field requiring the recording of raw waveforms at high sampling rates with zero dead time. |
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Coloma, P.; Hernandez, P.; Urrea, S. |
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New bounds on axion-like particles from MicroBooNE |
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2022 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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Axions and ALPs; Kaons |
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Neutrino experiments lie at the edge of the intensity frontier and therefore can be exploited to search for new light particles weakly coupled to the visible sector. In this work we derive new constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs) using data from the MicroBooNE experiment, from a search for e(+)e(-) pairs pointing in the direction of the NuMI absorber. In particular, we consider the addition of higher-dimensional effective operators coupling the ALP to the electroweak gauge bosons. These would induce K -> pi a from kaon decay at rest in the NuMI absorber, as well as ALP decays into pairs of leptons or photons. We discuss in detail and compare various results obtained for the decay width K -> pi a in previous literature. For the operator involving the Higgs, MicroBooNE already sets competitive bounds (comparable to those of NA62) for ALP masses between 100 and 200 MeV. We also compute the expected sensitivities from the full NuMI dataset recorded at MicroBooNE. Our results show that a search for a -> gamma gamma signal may be able to improve over current constraints from beam-dump experiments on the operator involving the ALP coupling to the W. |
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[Coloma, Pilar] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Inst Fis Teor UAM CSIC, Calle Nicolas Cabrera 1315, E-28049 Madrid, Spain, Email: pilar.coloma@ift.csic.es; |
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Albaladejo, M.; Nieves, J. |
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Compositeness of S-wave weakly-bound states from next-to-leading order Weinberg's relations |
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2022 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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We discuss a model-independent estimator of the likelihood of the compositeness of a shallow S-wave bound or virtual state. The approach is based on an extension of Weinberg's relations in Weinberg (Phys Rev 137:B672, 1965) and it relies only on the proximity of the energy of the state to the two-hadron threshold to which it significantly couples. The scheme only makes use of the experimental scattering length and the effective range low energy parameters, and it is shown to be fully consistent for predominantly molecular hadrons. As explicit applications, we analyse the case of the deuteron, the S-1(0) nucleon virtual state and the exotic D-so(*)(2317)(+/-) , and find strong support to the molecular interpretation in all cases. Results are less conclusive for the D* (s0)(2317)+/-, since the binding energy of this state would be significantly higher than that of the deuteron, and the approach employed here is at the limit of its applicability. We also qualitatively address the case of the recently discovered T + cc state, within the isospin limit to avoid the complexity of the very close thresholds (DD)-D-0*+ and D + D*(0), which could mask the ingredients of the approach proposed in this work. |
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[Albaladejo, M.; Nieves, J.] Inst Invest Paterna, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Ctr Mixto CSIC UV, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, Valencia 46980, Spain, Email: Miguel.Albaladejo@ific.uv.es; |
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Sanchis-Lozano, M.A. |
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Stringy Signals from Large-Angle Correlations in the Cosmic Microwave Background? |
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2022 |
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Universe |
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Universe |
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cosmic microwave background; angular correlations; inflation; string theory |
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We interpret the lack of large-angle temperature correlations and the even-odd parity imbalance observed in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by COBE, WMAP and Planck satellite missions as a possible stringy signal ultimately stemming from a composite inflaton field (e.g., a fermionic condensate). Based on causality arguments and a Fourier analysis of the angular two-point correlation function, two infrared cutoffs k(min)(even,odd) (satisfying k(min)(even) similar or equal to 2k(min)(odd)) are introduced to the CMB power spectrum associated, respectively, with periodic and antiperiodic boundary conditions of the fermionic constituents (echoing the Neveu-Schwarz-Ramond model in superstring theory), without resorting to any particular model. |
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[Sanchis-Lozano, Miguel-Angel] Univ Valencia, Dept Theoret Phys, Doctor Moliner 50, Burjassot 46011, Spain, Email: miguel.angel.sanchis@ific.uv.es |
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Martinez de Lejarza, J.J.; Cieri, L.; Rodrigo, G. |
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Quantum clustering and jet reconstruction at the LHC |
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2022 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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Clustering is one of the most frequent problems in many domains, in particular, in particle physics where jet reconstruction is central in experimental analyses. Jet clustering at the CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is computationally expensive and the difficulty of this task will increase with the upcoming High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). In this paper, we study the case in which quantum computing algorithms might improve jet clustering by considering two novel quantum algorithms which may speed up the classical jet clustering algorithms. The first one is a quantum subroutine to compute a Minkowski-based distance between two data points, whereas the second one consists of a quantum circuit to track the maximum into a list of unsorted data. The latter algorithm could be of value beyond particle physics, for instance in statistics. When one or both of these algorithms are implemented into the classical versions of well-known clustering algorithms (K-means, affinity propagation, and k(T) -jet) we obtain efficiencies comparable to those of their classical counterparts. Even more, exponential speed-up could be achieved, in the first two algorithms, in data dimensionality and data length when the distance algorithm or the maximum searching algorithm are applied. |
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[Martinez de Lejarza, Jorge J.; Cieri, Leandro; Rodrigo, German] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Parc Cient, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: Jorge.M.Lejarza@ific.uv.es; |
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Pompa, F.; Capozzi, F.; Mena, O.; Sorel, M. |
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Absolute nu Mass Measurement with the DUNE Experiment |
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2022 |
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Physical Review Letters |
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Phys. Rev. Lett. |
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Time of flight delay in the supernova neutrino signal offers a unique tool to set model-independent constraints on the absolute neutrino mass. The presence of a sharp time structure during a first emission phase, the so-called neutronization burst in the electron neutrino flavor time distribution, makes this channel a very powerful one. Large liquid argon underground detectors will provide precision measurements of the time dependence of the electron neutrino fluxes. We derive here a new v mass sensitivity attainable at the future DUNE far detector from a future supernova collapse in our galactic neighborhood, finding a sub-eV reach under favorable scenarios. These values are competitive with those expected for laboratory direct neutrino mass searches. |
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[Pompa, Federica; Capozzi, Francesco; Mena, Olga; Sorel, Michel] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, CSIC, Parc Cientif UV, c Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, Paterna 46980, Spain, Email: federica.pompa@ific.uv.es; |
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Oset, E.; Roca, L. |
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Exotic molecular meson states of B(*) K(*) nature |
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2022 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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We evaluate theoretically the interaction of the open bottom and strange systems (B) over bar (K) over bar, (B) over bar * (K) over bar, (B) over bar (K) over bar * and (B) over bar* (K) over bar* to look for possible bound states which could correspond to exotic non-quark-antiquark mesons since they would contain at least one b and one s quarks. The s-wave scattering matrix is evaluated implementing unitarity by means of the Bethe-Salpeter equation, with the potential kernels obtained from contact and vector meson exchange mechanisms. The vertices needed are supplied from Lagrangians derived from suitable extensions of the hidden gauge symmetry approach to the bottom sector. We find poles below the respective thresholds for isospin 0 interaction and evaluate the widths of the different obtained states by including the main sources of imaginary part, which are the B *-> B gamma decay in the (B) over bar * (K) over bar channels, the K *-> K pi in the channels involving a K *, plus the box diagrams with (B) over bar (K) over bar and (B) over bar * (K) over bar intermediate states for the (B) over bar * (K) over bar * channels. |
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[Oset, E.] Univ Valencia, Ctr Mixto, CSIC, Inst Invest Paterna,Dept Fis Teor, Aptdo 22085, Valencia 46071, Spain, Email: oset@ific.uv.es; |
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Bas i Beneito, A.; Herrero-Garcia, J.; Vatsyayan, D. |
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Multi-component dark sectors: symmetries, asymmetries and conversions |
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2022 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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Models for Dark Matter; Particle Nature of Dark Matter |
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We study the relic abundance of several stable particles from a generic dark sector, including the possible presence of dark asymmetries. After discussing the different possibilities for stabilising multi-component dark matter, we analyse the final relic abundance of the symmetric and asymmetric dark matter components, paying special attention to the role of the unavoidable conversions between dark matter states. We find an exponential dependence of the asymmetries of the heavier components on annihilations and conversions. We conclude that having similar symmetric and asymmetric components is a natural outcome in many scenarios of multi-component dark matter. This has novel phenomenological implications, which we briefly discuss. |
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[Bas I Beneito, Arnau] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Spain, Email: arnau.bas@ific.uv.es; |
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