Boson Fusion and Higgs production at the LHC in six fermion final states with one charged lepton pair

Boson boson scattering and Higgs production in boson boson fusion will be actively investigated at the LHC. We have performed a parton level study of all processes of the type $q_1 q_2 \to q_3 q_4 q_5 q_6 l^+l^-$ using for the first time a full fledged six fermion Monte Carlo event generator which employs exact matrix elements at \O(\alpha_{em}^6). We have examined Higgs production in vector boson fusion followed by the decay chain $H\to ZZ\to l^+l^-jj$, including exactly all electroweak irreducible backgrounds. In the high mass region we have compared the case of a relatively light Higgs with the no-Higgs case. The integrated cross section for the latter case is more than twice that in the former for a minimum invariant mass of the $ZV$ pair of about 800 \GeV. We find, in a preliminary anlysis at parton level that, summing up the muon and the electron channels, about 30 events are expected in the light Higgs case for L=100 $fb^{-1}$.Comment: Final version published in Phys.Rev.

Modeling of the Behavior of Expansive Soils

In the preliminary reconnaissance phase and once the swelling of soil is suspected, it is possible to obtain an estimation of swelling parameters (amplitude and pressure) using numerous rheological models proposed in the literature. These models relate the parameters of swelling to the geotechnical parameters determined from mechanical tests. The analysis of the behavior of clays is conducted by numerical simulation tests of compression and swelling by using the oedometer. This analysis is conducted using the software CASTEM2000 team from CEA-France. This simulation allows-among others-to develop a predictive procedure for estimating the parameters of swelling by the use of constitutive equations of Cam-Clay and Alonso. It should be noted that different simulations are performed; those using oedometer tests by the Cam- Clay model, and Alonso and free swell tests by the Alonso model. The results of this work show that the compressibility has been correctly simulated by both models. The phase of swelling has been simulated by the model of Alonso as the Cam-Clay model can simulate it. It should be noted that the Alonso model underestimates very fluffy swelling soils

Modélisation numérique de la minéralisation polymétallifère du gisement de Tighza (Maroc central) par l’outil SIG et la géostatistique

Le gisement de Tighza est le 1er site producteur de concentré de plomb et le 2nd fournisseur d’argent au Maroc. Sa durée de vie s’étale sur 15 ans .en effet, la Compagnie minière de Touissit (CMT) a réalisé, en 2008, un chiffre d'affaires de 291,4 MMDH contre 247,3 en 2007, soit une progression de plus 17%. Cette augmentation est due, entre autres, à l'évolution positive des tonnages vendus (plomb +14,3%, zinc +48,9%). Pour les opérateurs miniers, la viabilité du site est capitale. Les recherches menées actuellement visent à prolonger la durée d’exploitation du gisement de Tighza. Ces recherches pose, au sein de la Compagnie Minière de Touissit (CMT), un problème d’organisation et de stockage de l’information produite par ses différents services notamment celui de la géologie. Face à cette situation, et compte tenu du volume de données produit, qui ne cesse de s’accroître d’une part, et leur éventuelle perte d’autre part, la CMT a décidé d’instaurer un système d’information, à travers une base de données numérisée, lui permettant le stockage, le traitement et l’exploitation rationnelle de l’information disponible en vue d’aider les responsables miniers à prendre les décisions qui conviennent. Dans ce sens, nous avons utilisé l’environnement ArcGIS pour mettre en place une base de données spatiales par la numérisation, le  géoréférencement et l’élaboration d’un certain nombre de couches d’informations à partir de cartes topographique, géologique, géochimique et les données de sondages carottés. Ainsi un Modèle Numériquede Terrain (MNT) du secteur de Tighza a été élaboré en se basant sur les courbes de niveau et des points côtés digitalisés à partir de la carte topographique. Ce travail est complété par un traitement statistique et géostatistique. Ainsi une analyse multidimensionnelle utilisant l’analyse en composante principale (ACP) a permis de déterminer les principaux axes factoriels. Le traitement géostatistique des données géochimiques a consisté d’abord à une modélisation des variogrammes des différents éléments chimiques, l’élaboration des cartes variographiques et enfin l’établissement des cartes de répartition spatiale par krigeage pour chaqueélément. Les cartes thématiques obtenues pouvant conduire à l’élaboration d’un modèle géochimique renseignant sur la répartition des métaux de ce district.Mots clés : SIG, cartographie, géologie minière, statistique, géostatistique, Tighza, Maroc Central

Nanocrystalline Hydroxyapatite-Bisphosphonate Composites

The direct synthesis of hydroxyapatite─1,8-octan-bisphosphonic acid (HAp─BISPH) nanocrystals has been carried out in presence of increasing amounts of BISPH in solution, by hydrothermal method at 120 °C for 15 h. XRD, IR, NMR-MAS (31P, 1H and 13C), TEM, AFM, TGA and chemical analysis were used to characterize the structure, morphology and composition of the products. X-ray powder diffraction patterns show that the incorporation of bisphosphonate moieties induces a significant loss of the material crystallin-ity and a clear decrease of the crystallite size. TEM and AFM images show that the precipitated apatite particles prepared in the presence of this bisphosphonic acid are nanosized. The IR and NMR-MAS 1H spectroscopy show that the BISPH can replace the OH− groups of the apatitic structure. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/3519

Variantes anatomiques de l’os temporal a preciser au chirurgien

L’os temporal présente plusieurs variantes dont certaines peuvent avoir un impact chirurgical. La chirurgie de l’oreille est non dénuée de risques. Les variantes anatomiques de l’os temporal sont importantes à connaitre et à préciser dans le compte rendu radiologique avant toute intervention sur l’oreille. La TDM est l’examen clé pour le bilan morphologique de toute oreille.Mots Clés : Variantes anatomiques, os temporal, TDM, risques.The temporal bone has several variants, some of which may impact surgical. The ear surgery is not without risks. The anatomic variations of the temporal bone is important to know and specify in the radiological reports before working on the ear. The CT is the key for the morphological assessment of any ear.Keys Words: Anatomic variations, temporal bone, CT, risk

Boundary stabilization of the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation with an infinite memory-type control and applications: a qualitative and numerical analysis

This article is intended to present a qualitative and numerical analysis of well-posedness and boundary stabilization problems of the well-known Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation. Assuming that the boundary control is of memory type, the history approach is adopted in order to deal with the memory term. Under sufficient conditions on the physical parameters of the system and the memory kernel of the control, the system is shown to be well-posed by combining the semigroups approach of linear operators and the fixed point theory. Then, energy decay estimates are provided by applying the multiplier method. An application to the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation will be also given. Moreover, we present a numerical analysis based on a finite differences method and provide numerical examples illustrating our theoretical results

Dominant Scattering Mechanism Identification from Quad-Pol-SAR Data Analysis

Polarimetric decompositions are used to separate scatterers and identify their physical parameters by analyzing backscattering, coherence, or covariance matrices. Each cell within polarimetric SAR data is seen as a coherent or incoherent combination of different scattering mechanisms. However, targets are not perfectly characterized by these matrices due to the presence of noise components. The main objective of this study is to remedy the latest issue through proper noise effect elimination. Hence, we propose the re-estimation of the coherence matrix, by incorporating a processing phase that searches for the number of elementary scattering mechanisms in each cell. This first step is based on the eigenvalues, which exploit the advantage of polarization basis independent of the eigenvectors. In the second step, a reduced space is defined by the eigenvectors selected, according to the cases of the first step, as those contributing to the construction of the target, excluding those judged to contribute to noise. The characteristic vector and/or the coherence matrix of the average target is then reconstructed in this new space in three different ways: summation of the elementary coherence matrices, applying Bernoulli's probability law, and orthogonal projection on the reduced space. Finally, the Freeman Durden polarimetric decomposition and the H-alpha Wishart classification are used to show the effectiveness of the process in terms of dominant scattering mechanism identification. Their application on simulated data and on fully-polarized RadarSat-2 images of the city of Algiers attests to the performance of the proposed methodology to improve the identification of dominant scattering mechanisms