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ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al); Alvarez Piqueras, D.; Bailey, A.J.; Barranco Navarro, L.; Cabrera Urban, S.; Carrio Argos, F.; Castillo, F.L.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Cerda Alberich, L.; Costa, M.J.; Escobar, C.; Estrada Pastor, O.; Ferrer, A.; Fiorini, L.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Garcia Navarro, J.E.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Jimenez Pena, J.; Lacasta, C.; Lozano Bahilo, J.J.; Madaffari, D.; Mamuzic, J.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Melini, D.; Mitsou, V.A.; Pedraza Lopez, S.; Rodriguez Bosca, S.; Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.; Salt, J.; Soldevila, U.; Sanchez, J.; Valero, A.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Vos, M. |
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Operation and performance of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter in Run 1 |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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78 |
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12 |
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987 - 48pp |
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The Tile Calorimeter is the hadron calorimeter covering the central region of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Approximately 10,000 photomultipliers collect light from scintillating tiles acting as the active material sandwiched between slabs of steel absorber. This paper gives an overview of the calorimeter's performance during the years 2008-2012 using cosmic-ray muon events and proton-proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with a total integrated luminosity of nearly 30 fb(-1). The signal reconstruction methods, calibration systems as well as the detector operation status are presented. The energy and time calibration methods performed excellently, resulting in good stability of the calorimeter response under varying conditions during the LHC Run 1. Finally, the Tile Calorimeter response to isolated muons and hadrons as well as to jets from proton-proton collisions is presented. The results demonstrate excellent performance in accord with specifications mentioned in the Technical Design Report. |
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[Duvnjak, D.; Gkialas, I.; Jackson, P.; Oliver, J. L.; Papageorgiou, K.; Petridis, A.; Qureshi, A.; Sharma, A. S.; White, M. J.] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
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1434-6044 |
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WOS:000459286600002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3924 |
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Chen, Y.H.; Yao, D.L.; Zheng, H.Q. |
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A Study of rho-omega Mixing in Resonance Chiral Theory |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Communications in Theoretical Physics |
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Commun. Theor. Phys. |
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69 |
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1 |
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50-58 |
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Chiral Lagrangians; vector mesons; 1/N-C expansion |
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The strong and electromagnetic corrections to rho-omega mixing are calculated using an SU(2) version of resonance chiral theory up to next-to-leading orders in 1/N-C expansion, respectively. Up to our accuracy, the effect of the momentum dependence of rho-omega mixing is incorporated due to the inclusion of loop contributions. We analyze the impact of rho-omega mixing on the pion vector form factor by performing numerical fit to the data extracted from e(+)e(-) -> pi(+)pi(-) and tau -> nu(tau)2 pi, while the decay width of omega -> pi(+)pi(-) is taken into account as a constraint. It is found that the momentum dependence is significant in a good description of the experimental data. In addition, based on the fitted values of the involved parameters, we analyze the decay width of omega -> pi(+)pi(-), which turns out to be highly dominated by the rho-omega mixing effect. |
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[Chen, Yun-Hua] Univ Sci & Technol Beijing, Sch Math & Phys, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China, Email: yhchen@ustb.edu.cn; |
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Iop Publishing Ltd |
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0253-6102 |
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WOS:000422832600010 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3453 |
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Gimenez-Alventosa, V.; Gimenez, V.; Ballester, F.; Vijande, J.; Andreo, P. |
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Correction factors for ionization chamber measurements with the 'Valencia' and 'large field Valencia' brachytherapy applicators |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Physics in Medicine and Biology |
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Phys. Med. Biol. |
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63 |
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12 |
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125004 - 10pp |
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skin applicator; Valencia applicator; large field Valencia applicator; HDR brachytherap; brachytherapy dosimetry; Monte Carlo |
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Treatment of small skin lesions using HDR brachytherapy applicators is a widely used technique. The shielded applicators currently available in clinical practice are based on a tungsten-alloy cup that collimates the source-emitted radiation into a small region, hence protecting nearby tissues. The goal of this manuscript is to evaluate the correction factors required for dose measurements with a plane-parallel ionization chamber typically used in clinical brachytherapy for the 'Valencia' and 'large field Valencia' shielded applicators. Monte Carlo simulations have been performed using the PENELOPE-2014 system to determine the absorbed dose deposited in a water phantom and in the chamber active volume with a Type A uncertainty of the order of 0.1%. The average energies of the photon spectra arriving at the surface of the water phantom differ by approximately 10%, being 384 keV for the 'Valencia' and 343 keV for the 'large field Valencia'. The ionization chamber correction factors have been obtained for both applicators using three methods, their values depending on the applicator being considered. Using a depth-independent global chamber perturbation correction factor and no shift of the effective point of measurement yields depth-dose differences of up to 1% for the 'Valencia' applicator. Calculations using a depth-dependent global perturbation factor, or a shift of the effective point of measurement combined with a constant partial perturbation factor, result in differences of about 0.1% for both applicators. The results emphasize the relevance of carrying out detailed Monte Carlo studies for each shielded brachytherapy applicator and ionization chamber. |
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[Gimenez-Alventosa, V.] Univ Politecn Valencia, CSIC, Ctr Mixto, Inst Instrumentac Imagen Mol I3M, E-46022 Valencia, Spain, Email: Javier.vijande@uv.es |
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0031-9155 |
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WOS:000434682500004 |
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no |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3609 |
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Muñoz, E.; Barrio, J.; Bernabeu, J.; Etxebeste, A.; Lacasta, C.; Llosa, G.; Ros, A.; Roser, J.; Oliver, J.F. |
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Study and comparison of different sensitivity models for a two-plane Compton camera |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Physics in Medicine and Biology |
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Phys. Med. Biol. |
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63 |
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13 |
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135004 - 19pp |
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Compton camera imaging; MLEM; Monte Carlo simulations; image quality |
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Given the strong variations in the sensitivity of Compton cameras for the detection of events originating from different points in the field of view (FoV), sensitivity correction is often necessary in Compton image reconstruction. Several approaches for the calculation of the sensitivity matrix have been proposed in the literature. While most of these models are easily implemented and can be useful in many cases, they usually assume high angular coverage over the scattered photon, which is not the case for our prototype. In this work, we have derived an analytical model that allows us to calculate a detailed sensitivity matrix, which has been compared to other sensitivity models in the literature. Specifically, the proposed model describes the probability of measuring a useful event in a two-plane Compton camera, including the most relevant physical processes involved. The model has been used to obtain an expression for the system and sensitivity matrices for iterative image reconstruction. These matrices have been validated taking Monte Carlo simulations as a reference. In order to study the impact of the sensitivity, images reconstructed with our sensitivity model and with other models have been compared. Images have been reconstructed from several simulated sources, including point-like sources and extended distributions of activity, and also from experimental data measured with Na-22 sources. Results show that our sensitivity model is the best suited for our prototype. Although other models in the literature perform successfully in many scenarios, they are not applicable in all the geometrical configurations of interest for our system. In general, our model allows to effectively recover the intensity of point-like sources at different positions in the FoV and to reconstruct regions of homogeneous activity with minimal variance. Moreover, it can be employed for all Compton camera configurations, including those with low angular coverage over the scatterer. |
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[Munoz, Enrique; Barrio, John; Bernabeu, Jose; Etxebeste, Ane; Lacasta, Carlos; Llosa, Gabriela; Ros, Ana; Roser, Jorge; Oliver, Josep F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, IFIC, Valencia, Spain, Email: Enrique.Munoz@ific.uv.es |
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Iop Publishing Ltd |
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0031-9155 |
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WOS:000436390800004 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3639 |
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Valcarce, A.; Vijande, J.; Richard, J.M.; Garcilazo, H. |
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Stability of Heavy Tetraquarks |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Few-Body Systems |
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Few-Body Syst. |
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59 |
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2 |
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9 - 7pp |
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We discuss the stability of tetraquark systems with two different masses. After some reminders about the stability of very asymmetric QQ (q) over bar(q) over bar tetraquarks, we demonstrate that in the all-heavy limit q -> Q, the system becomes unstable for standard color-additive models. We also analyze the consequences of symmetry breaking for Qq (Q) over bar(q) over bar configurations: we find a kind of metastability between the lowest threshold Q (Q) over bar + q (q) over bar and the highest one, Q (q) over bar + (Q) over barq, and we calculate the width of the resonance. Our results are consistent with the experimental observation of narrow hadrons lying well above their lowest decay threshold. |
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[Valcarce, A.] Univ Salamanca, Dept Fis Fundamental, E-37008 Salamanca, Spain, Email: valcarce@usal.es; |
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Springer Wien |
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0177-7963 |
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WOS:000427011200005 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3574 |
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