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Author Perez-Ramos, R.
Title The Internal Structure Of Jets At Colliders: Light And Heavy Quark Inclusive Hadronic Distributions Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication International Journal of Modern Physics E Abbreviated Journal Int. J. Mod. Phys. E
Volume 20 Issue 7 Pages 1616-1622
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Abstract In this paper, we report our results on charged hadron multiplicities of heavy quark initiated jets produced in high energy collisions. After implementing the so-called dead cone effect in QCD evolution equations, we find that the average multiplicity decreases significantly as compared to the massless case. Finally, we discuss the transverse momentum distribution of light quark initiated jets and emphasize the comparison between our predictions and CDF data.
Address [Perez-Ramos, R] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: redamy.perez@uv.es
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Publisher World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0218-3013 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000292938600017 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration (down) no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 702
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Author Rodriguez-Alvarez, M.J.; Sanchez, F.; Soriano, A.; Iborra, A.; Mora, C.
Title Exploiting symmetries for weight matrix design in CT imaging Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Mathematical and Computer Modelling Abbreviated Journal Math. Comput. Model.
Volume 54 Issue 7-8 Pages 1655-1664
Keywords Computerized tomography imaging; Polar grid; System matrix; Rotation symmetries; ART
Abstract In this paper we propose several methods of constructing the system matrix (SM) of a Computed Tomography (CT) scanner with two objectives: (1) to construct SMs in the shortest possible time and store them in an ordinary PC without losing quality, (2) to analyze the possible applications of the proposed method to 3D, taking into account SMs' sizes, computing time and reconstructed image quality. In order to build the SM, we propose two new field of view (FOV) pixellation schemes, based on a polar coordinate system (polar grid) by taking advantage of the polar rotation symmetries of CT devices. Comparisons between the SMs proposed are performed using two phantom and a real CT-simulator images. Global error, contrast, noise and homogeneity of the reconstructed images are discussed.
Address [Rodriguez-Alvarez, MJ; Iborra, A; Mora, C] Univ Politecn Valencia, Inst Matemat Multidisciplinar, Valencia 46022, Spain, Email: mjrodri@imm.upv.es
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Publisher Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0895-7177 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000293269200007 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration (down) no
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 708
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Author Mendez, V.; Amoros, G.; Kaci, M.
Title A Decentralized Deployment Strategy and Performance Evaluation of LCG File Catalog Service Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Journal of Grid Computing Abbreviated Journal J. Grid Comput.
Volume 9 Issue 3 Pages 345-354
Keywords Distributed computing; Grid computing; Performance; Catalog
Abstract The LHC Computing Grid (LCG) leads by CERN, has solved with the LCG File Catalog (LFC) the major problem of scaling the data management catalog. However, additional performance issues should be faced to deploy a painless catalog service. With this aim, we present a decentralized LFC server configuration, and its performance evaluation compared with the traditional LFC deployment. A performance analysis is shown, including not only the catalog server, but also analysing the client side overhead. We find that the LFC service has in the clients a relevant workload of the overall service. The experimental results show that the proposed LFC deployment for servers and clients, improves the performance of the service.
Address [Munoz, VM; Vicente, GA; Kaci, M] CSIC, Mixed Inst, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, Grid & E Sci Grp, Valencia 46071, Spain, Email: vmendez@ific.uv.es
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1570-7873 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000293973700004 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration (down) no
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 721
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Author Pino, F.; Roe, N.; Orero, A.; Falcon, C.; Rojas, S.; Benlloch, J.M.; Ros, D.; Pavia, J.
Title Development of a variable-radius pinhole SPECT system with a portable gamma camera Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Revista Española de Medicina Nuclear Abbreviated Journal Rev. Esp. Med. Nucl.
Volume 30 Issue 5 Pages 286-291
Keywords SPECT; Small animal; Pinhole; Portable gamma camera; Continuous scintillator
Abstract Objective: To develop a small-animal SPECT system using a low cost commercial portable gamma camera equipped with a pinhole collimator, a continuous scintillation crystal and a position-sensitive photomultiplier tube. Material and methods: The gamma camera was attached to a variable radius system, which enabled us to optimize sensitivity and resolution by adjusting the radius of rotation to the size of the object. To investigate the capability of the SPECT system for small animal imaging, the dependence of resolution and calibration parameters on radius was assessed and acquisitions of small phantoms and mice were carried out. Results: Resolution values, ranging from 1.0 mm for a radius of 21.4 mm and 1.4 mm for a radius of 37.2 mm were obtained, thereby justifying the interest of a variable radius SPECT system. Conclusions: The image quality of phantoms and animals were satisfactory, thus confirming the usefulness of the system for small animal SPECT imaging.
Address [Pino, F; Roe, N; Ros, D] Univ Barcelona, Fac Med, Unitat Biofis, Barcelona 7, Spain, Email: fpino@iconcologia.net
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Publisher Elsevier Science Inc Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0212-6982 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000294659400004 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration (down) no
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 753
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Author Galli, P.; Ortin, T.; Perz, J.; Shahbazi, C.S.
Title Non-extremal black holes of N=2, d=4 supergravity Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 07 Issue 7 Pages 041
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Abstract We propose a generic recipe for deforming extremal black holes into nonextremal black holes and we use it to find and study the static non-extremal black-hole solutions of several N = 2, d = 4 supergravity models (SL(2, R)/U(1), (CP) over bar (n) and STU with four charges). In all the cases considered, the non-extremal family of solutions smoothly interpolates between all the different extremal limits, supersymmetric and not supersymmetric. This fact can be used to explicitly find extremal non-supersymmetric solutions also in the cases in which the attractor mechanism does not completely fix the values of the scalars on the event horizon and they still depend on the boundary conditions at spatial infinity. We compare (supersymmetry) Bogomol'nyi bounds with extremality bounds, we find the first-order flow equations for the non-extremal solutions and the corresponding superpotential, which gives in the different extremal limits different superpotentials for extremal black holes. We also compute the entropies (areas) of the inner (Cauchy) and outer (event) horizons, finding in all cases that their product gives the square of the moduli-independent entropy of the extremal solution with the same electric and magnetic charges.
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1126-6708 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000293741400041 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration (down) no
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 761
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Author Panotopoulos, G.; Tuzon, P.
Title The physics of a new gauge boson in a Stueckelberg extension of the two-Higgs-doublet model Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 07 Issue 7 Pages 039
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Abstract String theory constructions using D-brane physics offer a framework where ingredients like extra abelian factors in the gauge group, more than one Higgs doublet and a generalized Green-Schwarz mechanism appear at the same time. Motivated by works towards the direction of obtaining the Standard Model in orientifold constructions, we study in the present work a Stueckelberg extension of the two-Higgs-doublet model. The distinctive features of our model are i) a sharp decay width for the heavy gauge boson, and ii) a charged Higgs boson having two main decay channels at tree level with equal branching ratios.
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1126-6708 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000293741400039 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration (down) no
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 763
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Author Bernabeu, J.; Espriu, D.; Puigdomenech, D.
Title Gravitational waves in the presence of a cosmological constant Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D
Volume 84 Issue 6 Pages 063523 - 13pp
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Abstract We derive the effects of a nonzero cosmological constant Lambda on gravitational wave propagation in the linearized approximation of general relativity. In this approximation, we consider the situation where the metric can be written as g(mu nu) = eta(mu nu) + h(mu nu)(Lambda) + h(mu nu)(W), h(mu nu)(Lambda,W) << 1, where h(mu nu)(Lambda) is the background perturbation and h(mu nu)(W) is a modification interpretable as a gravitational wave. For Lambda not equal 0, this linearization of Einstein equations is self-consistent only in certain coordinate systems. The cosmological Friedmann-Robertson-Walker coordinates do not belong to this class and the derived linearized solutions have to be reinterpreted in a coordinate system that is homogeneous and isotropic to make contact with observations. Plane waves in the linear theory acquire modifications of order root Lambda, both in the amplitude and the phase, when considered in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker coordinates. In the linearization process for h(mu nu), we have also included terms of order O(Lambda h(mu nu)). For the background perturbation h(mu nu)(Lambda), the difference is very small, but when the term h(mu nu)(W)Lambda is retained the equations of motion can be interpreted as describing massive spin-2 particles. However, the extra degrees of freedom can be approximately gauged away, coupling to matter sources with a strength proportional to the cosmological constant itself. Finally, we discuss the viability of detecting the modifications caused by the cosmological constant on the amplitude and phase of gravitational waves. In some cases, the distortion with respect to gravitational waves propagating in Minkowski space-time is considerable. The effect of Lambda could have a detectable impact on pulsar timing arrays.
Address [Bernabeu, J] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor IFIC, CSIC, E-46100 Valencia, Spain
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Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1550-7998 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000295223100005 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration (down) no
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 766
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Author Moles-Valls, R.
Title Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector with proton-proton collision data Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A Abbreviated Journal Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A
Volume 650 Issue 1 Pages 235-239
Keywords ATLAS; Inner detector; Tracking system; Alignment
Abstract ATLAS is a multipurpose experiment that records the products of the LHC collisions. In order to reconstruct the trajectories of the charged particles produced in these collisions. ATLAS has an internal tracking system made of silicon planar sensors (pixels and micro-strips) and drift-tube based detectors; both together, they constitute the ATLAS Inner Detector. The alignment of the ATLAS tracking system requires the determination of their almost 36,000 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) with high accuracy. Thus, the demanded precision for the alignment of the pixel and micro-strip sensors is below 10 μm. As alignment algorithms are based on the minimization of the track-hit residuals, a linear system with a large number of DOF has to be solved. The alignment results of the ATLAS tracker using data recorded during cosmic commissioning phases in 2008 and 2009 and the LHC start up run in 2009 will be presented. Moreover recent 7 TeV data collected during 2010 run have been used to study the detector performance. These studies reveal that the detector is aligned with a precision high enough to cope with the requirements.
Address [Moles-Valls, R] IFIC CSIC UV Valencia, Valencia, Spain, Email: Regina.Moles@ific.uv.es
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Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0168-9002 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000295106500050 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration (down) no
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 767
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Author Marinas, C.; Vos, M.
Title The Belle-II DEPFET pixel detector: A step forward in vertexing in the superKEKB flavour factory Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A Abbreviated Journal Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A
Volume 650 Issue 1 Pages 59-63
Keywords SuperKEKB; Belle-II; DEPFET; Pixel detector; ASIC; Mechanics; Cooling; Resolution
Abstract An upgrade of the successful asymmetric e(+)e(-) collider in KEK (Tsukuba, Japan) is foreseen by the fall of 2013. This new Super Flavor Factory will deliver an increased instantaneous luminosity of up to L = 8 x 10(35) cm(-2) s(-1), 40 times larger than the current KEKB machine. To exploit these new conditions and provide high precision measurements of the decay vertex of the B meson systems, a new silicon vertex detector will be operated in Belle. This new detector will consist of two layers of DEPFET Active Pixel Sensors as close as possible to the interaction point. DEPFET is a field effect transistor, with an additional deep implant underneath the channel's gate, integrated on a completely depleted bulk. This technology offers detection and an in-pixel amplification stage, while keeping low the power consumption. Under these conditions, thin sensors with small pixel size and low intrinsic noise are possible. In this article, an overview of the full system will be described, including the sensor, the front-end electronics and both the mechanical and thermal proposed solutions as well as the expected performance.
Address [Marinas, C; Vos, M] CSIC UVEG, IFIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Valencia, Spain, Email: Carlos.Marinas.Pardo@cern.ch
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0168-9002 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000295106500015 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration (down) no
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 768
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Author Barenboim, G.; Panotopoulos, G.
Title Direct neutralino searches in the NMSSM with gravitino LSP in the degenerate scenario Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.
Volume 08 Issue 8 Pages 027 - 16pp
Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Supersymmetric Standard Model
Abstract In the present work a two-component dark matter model is studied adopting the degenerate scenario in the R-parity conserving NMSSM. The gravitino LSP and the neutralino NLSP are extremely degenerate in mass, avoiding the BBN bounds and obtaining a high reheating temperature for thermal leptogenesis. In this model both gravitino (absolutely stable) and neutralino (quasi-stable) contribute to dark matter, and direct detection searches for neutralino are discussed. Points that survive all the constraints correspond to a singlino-like neutralino.
Address [Barenboim, G] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: gabriela.barenboim@uv.es
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1126-6708 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000294901400055 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration (down) no
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 771
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