Enzymatic removal of cellulose from cotton/polyester fabric blends

The production of light-weight polyester fabrics from a polyester/cotton blended fabric, by means of the enzymatic removal of the cellulosic part of the material, was investigated. The removal of cotton from the blended fabric yielded more than 80% of insoluble microfibrillar material by the combined action of high beating effects and cellulase hydrolysis.Other major features of this enzymatic process for converting cotton fibers into microfibrillar material are bath ratio, enzyme dosage and treatment time

Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with three electrons or muons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is based on 4.7 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded with the ATLAS detector. Observations are consistent with Standard Model expectations in three signal regions that are either depleted or enriched in Z-boson decays. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set in R-parity conserving phenomenological minimal supersymmetric models and in simplified models, significantly extending previous results

Jet size dependence of single jet suppression in lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s(NN)) = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Measurements of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions at the LHC provide direct sensitivity to the physics of jet quenching. In a sample of lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 7 inverse microbarns, ATLAS has measured jets with a calorimeter over the pseudorapidity interval |eta| < 2.1 and over the transverse momentum range 38 < pT < 210 GeV. Jets were reconstructed using the anti-kt algorithm with values for the distance parameter that determines the nominal jet radius of R = 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5. The centrality dependence of the jet yield is characterized by the jet "central-to-peripheral ratio," Rcp. Jet production is found to be suppressed by approximately a factor of two in the 10% most central collisions relative to peripheral collisions. Rcp varies smoothly with centrality as characterized by the number of participating nucleons. The observed suppression is only weakly dependent on jet radius and transverse momentum. These results provide the first direct measurement of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions and complement previous measurements of dijet transverse energy imbalance at the LHC.Comment: 15 pages plus author list (30 pages total), 8 figures, 2 tables, submitted to Physics Letters B. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2011-02

Adubação nitrogenada e potássica de cafeeiro fertirrigado na fase de formação, em plantio adensado

O objetivo deste trabalho foi determinar o parcelamento e a dose de nitrogênio e potássio mais adequados para o primeiro e segundo anos de formação do cafeeiro (Coffea arabica) fertirrigado por gotejamento, no sul de Minas Gerais. Dois experimentos foram instalados simultaneamente com plantio adensado (6.666 plantas ha-1): em um, a adubação foi realizada em quatro aplicações ao ano e, no outro, em 12 aplicações. Utilizou-se o delineamento em blocos ao acaso com cinco tratamentos e quatro repetições em ambos os experimentos. Os tratamentos foram constituídos por doses, aplicadas via fertirrigação, equivalentes a 70, 100, 130, 160 e 190% da recomendada para N e K2O, para o cultivo em sequeiro. Foi realizado tratamento controle com cultivo em sequeiro e adubação com a dose padrão: 100% da recomendada. No primeiro e segundo anos, em ambos os tipos de parcelamento, não houve diferença significativa entre as doses, quanto ao crescimento do cafeeiro. O parcelamento em 12 aplicações é mais adequado para adubação de primeiro e segundo anos pós-plantio. Cafeeiros em formação fertirrigados por gotejamento apresentam maior crescimento e menor demanda por adubação com N e K do que os cultivados em sequeiro

Produtividade e bienalidade da produção de cafezais adensados, sob diferentes doses de N e K

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o efeito da adubação com N e K sobre a produtividade e a bienalidade de produção de cafeeiros em plantio adensado, em estudo de longa duração. Foram avaliados dois experimentos, na região da Zona da Mata de Minas Gerais, conduzidos em blocos ao acaso, com parcelas subdivididas no tempo. No primeiro experimento, realizado no espaçamento de 1,5x0,7 m (9.523 plantas por hectare), foram avaliados os efeitos de sete doses de N + K2O na proporção 1:1 (0, 200, 400, 600, 800, 1.000 e 1.200 kg ha‑1 por ano), durante oito safras (2001/2002 a 2008/2009). Como o fertilizante utilizado tinha proporção 1:1, para obter a dose utilizada de cada elemento (N ou K2O), deve-se dividir a dose total por dois. O segundo experimento foi conduzido no espaçamento de 2,5x0,6 m (6.666 plantas por hectare), em arranjo fatorial, com cinco doses de N (0, 150, 300, 450 e 600 kg ha‑1 por ano) e cinco doses de K2O (0, 150, 300, 450 e 600 kg ha‑1 por ano), durante seis safras (2005/2006 a 2010/2011). As doses associadas à máxima produtividade de café beneficiado variaram de 424 a 560 kg ha‑1, para N, e de 21 a 338 kg ha‑1, para K2O. A adubação com N reduz os efeitos da bienalidade da produção do cafeeiro, e a adubação com K, em anos de baixa produtividade, favorece a recuperação da produtividade do cafeeiro no ano seguinte

Search for H→γγ produced in association with top quarks and constraints on the Yukawa coupling between the top quark and the Higgs boson using data taken at 7 TeV and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A search is performed for Higgs bosons produced in association with top quarks using the diphoton decay mode of the Higgs boson. Selection requirements are optimized separately for leptonic and fully hadronic final states from the top quark decays. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.5 fb−14.5 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and 20.3 fb−1 at 8 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. No significant excess over the background prediction is observed and upper limits are set on the tt¯H production cross section. The observed exclusion upper limit at 95% confidence level is 6.7 times the predicted Standard Model cross section value. In addition, limits are set on the strength of the Yukawa coupling between the top quark and the Higgs boson, taking into account the dependence of the tt¯H and tH cross sections as well as the H→γγ branching fraction on the Yukawa coupling. Lower and upper limits at 95% confidence level are set at −1.3 and +8.0 times the Yukawa coupling strength in the Standard Model

Fiducial and differential cross sections of Higgs boson production measured in the four-lepton decay channel in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Measurements of fiducial and differential cross sections of Higgs boson production in the H→ZZ∗ → 4ℓ decay channel are presented. The cross sections are determined within a fiducial phase space and corrected for detection efficiency and resolution effects. They are based on 20.3 fb−¹ of pp collision data, produced at √s = 8 TeV centre-of-mass energy at the LHC and recorded by the ATLAS detector. The differential measurements are performed in bins of transverse momentum and rapidity of the four-lepton system, the invariant mass of the subleading lepton pair and the decay angle of the leading lepton pair with respect to the beam line in the four-lepton rest frame, as well as the number of jets and the transverse momentum of the leading jet. The measured cross sections are compared to selected theoretical calculations of the Standard Model expectations. No significant deviation from any of the tested predictions is found