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RPC with low-resistive phosphate glass electrodes as a candidate for the CBM TOF
Usage of electrodes made of glass with low bulk resistivity seems to be a
promising way to adapt the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) to the high-rate
environment of the upcoming CBM experiment. A pilot four-gap RPC sample with
electrodes made of phosphate glass, which has bulk resistivity in the order of
10^10 Ohm cm, has been studied with MIP beam for TOF applications. The tests
have yielded satisfactory results: the efficiency remains above 95% and the
time resolution stays within 120 ps up to the particle rate of 18 kHz/cm2. The
increase in rate from 2.25 to 18 kHz/cm2 leads to an increase of estimated
"tails" fraction in the time spectrum from 1.5% to 4%.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Elsevier Scienc
Revisiting the 'LSND anomaly' II: critique of the data analysis
This paper, together with a preceding paper, questions the so-called 'LSND
anomaly': a 3.8 sigma excess of antielectronneutrino interactions over standard
backgrounds, observed by the LSND Collaboration in a beam dump experiment with
800 MeV protons. That excess has been interpreted as evidence for the
antimuonneutrino to antielectronneutrino oscillation in the \Deltam2 range from
0.2 eV2 to 2 eV2. Such a \Deltam2 range is incompatible with the widely
accepted model of oscillations between three light neutrino species and would
require the existence of at least one light 'sterile' neutrino. In a preceding
paper, it was concluded that the estimates of standard backgrounds must be
significantly increased. In this paper, the LSND Collaboration's estimate of
the number of antielectronneutrino interactions followed by neutron capture,
and of its error, is questioned. The overall conclusion is that the
significance of the 'LSND anomaly' is not larger than 2.3 sigma.Comment: 30 pages, 16 figures, 6 table
Trepanacija i poveÄan parijetalni foramen na lubanjama otkrivenima na otoÄju Loyalty
The goal of this study is a comprehensive examination of openings discovered on two skulls in the collection of skeletal remains from the Loyalty Islands (Melanesia). The skull ā 1524 displayed an evidence of successful trepanation, and the skull ā 7985 revealed openings that were reminiscent of a trepanation, however, we are inclined to believe that in the latter case we are dealing with a rare genetic anomaly - enlarged parietal foramen.Cilj je ovog istraživanja opsežan pregled otvora otkrivenih na dvjema lubanjama u zbirci skeletnih ostataka s otoÄja Loyalty (Melanezija). Lubanja br. 1524 dokaz je uspjeÅ”ne trepanacije, a otvori lubanje br. 7985 podsjeÄaju na trepanaciju, meÄutim skloni smo vjerovati da se u potonjem sluÄaju susreÄemo s rijetkom genetskom anomalijom ā poveÄanim parijetalnim foramenom
Reply to 'Corrections to the HARP-CDP Analysis of the LSND Neutrino Oscillation Backgrounds'
The alleged mistakes in recent papers that reanalyze the backgrounds to the
'LSND anomaly' do not exist. We maintain our conclusion that the significance
of the 'LSND anomaly' is not 3.8 sigma but not larger than 2.3 sigma.Comment: 3 page
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