710 research outputs found
Validation of a molecular diagnostic algorithm for leishmania detection in a non-endemic setting
What information can we obtain from the yield ratio in heavy-ion collisions ?
The recently reported data on the yield ratio in central
rapidity region of heavy-ion collisions are analyzed by theoretical formula
which accounts for Coulomb interaction between central charged fragment (CCF)
consisting of nearly stopped nucleons with effective charge
Z_{\mbox{\scriptsize eff}} and charged pions produced in the same region of
the phase space. The Coulomb wave function method is used instead of the usual
Gamow factor in order to account for the finite production range of pions,
. For Gaussian shape of the pion production sources it results in a
quasi-scaling in and Z_{\mbox{\scriptsize eff}} which makes
determination of parameters and Z_{\mbox{\scriptsize eff}} from the
existing experimental data difficult. Only sufficiently accurate data taken in
the extreme small - region, where this
quasi-scaling is broken, could be used for this purpose.Comment: 7 pages, Latex type, 8 figure
Recoil Studies in the Reaction of 12-C Ions with the Enriched Isotope 118-Sn
The recoil properties of the product nuclei from the interaction of 2.2
GeV/nucleon 12-C ions from Nuclotron of the Laboratory of High Energies (LHE),
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) at Dubna with a 118-Sn target have
been studied using catcher foils. The experimental data were analyzed using the
mathematical formalism of the standard two-step vector model. The results for
12-C ions are compared with those for deuterons and protons. Three different
Los Alamos versions of the Quark-Gluon String Model (LAQGSM) were used for
comparison with our experimental data.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Nucl. Phys.
Observing Quark-Gluon Plasma with Strange Hadrons
We review the methods and results obtained in an analysis of the experimental
heavy ion collision research program at nuclear beam energy of 160-200A GeV. We
study strange, and more generally, hadronic particle production experimental
data. We discuss present expectations concerning how these observables will
perform at other collision energies. We also present the dynamical theory of
strangeness production and apply it to show that it agrees with available
experimental results. We describe strange hadron production from the
baryon-poor quark-gluon phase formed at much higher reaction energies, where
the abundance of strange baryons and antibaryons exceeds that of nonstrange
baryons and antibaryons.Comment: 39 journal pages (155kb text), 8 postscript figures, 8 table
Two-kaon correlations in central Pb + Pb collisions at 158 A GeV/c
Two-particle interferometry of positive kaons is studied in Pb + Pb
collisions at mean transverse momenta and 0.91 GeV/c. A
three-dimensional analysis was applied to the lower data, while a
two-dimensional analysis was used for the higher data. We find that the
source size parameters are consistent with the scaling curve observed in
pion correlation measurements in the same collisions, and that the duration
time of kaon emission is consistent with zero within the experimental
sensitivity.Comment: 4 pages incl. 1 table and 3 fig's; RevTeX; accepted for publication
in PR
Microcantilever equipped with nanowire template electrodes for multiprobe measurement on fragile nanostructures
Quasiscaling in the analysis of the yield ratio : Mathematical structure and estimation of source size
Recently we have found that integral of the squared Coulomb wave function
describing systemcomposed of charged pion and central charged fragment
protons, , times pion source function (of
the size ), \intdr |\psi_r(r)|^2 \rho(r), shows a quasiscaling
behavior. This is approximately invariant under the following transformation:
; . We called
such behavior quasiscaling. We examine this quasiscaling
behavior in detail. In particular we provide a semi-analytical examination of
this behavior and confirm it for the exponential pionic source functions in
addition to the Gaussian ones and for the production of K mesons as well. When
combined with the results of the HBT, a result of the yield ratio allows us to
estimate the size of the central charged fragment (CCF) to be for Pb+Pb collisions at energy 158 GeV/nucleon. From our
estimation, the baryon number density [1/fm^3] is
obtained.Comment: 7 pages, RevTex, 6figure
Relativistic Heavy--Ion Collisions in the Dynamical String--Parton Model
We develop and extend the dynamical string parton model. This model, which is
based on the salient features of QCD, uses classical Nambu-Got\=o strings with
the endpoints identified as partons, an invariant string breaking model of the
hadronization process, and interactions described as quark-quark interactions.
In this work, the original model is extended to include a phenomenological
quantization of the mass of the strings, an analytical technique for treating
the incident nucleons as a distribution of string configurations determined by
the experimentally measured structure function, the inclusion of the gluonic
content of the nucleon through the introduction of purely gluonic strings, and
the use of a hard parton-parton interaction taken from perturbative QCD
combined with a phenomenological soft interaction. The limited number of
parameters in the model are adjusted to and -- data. Utilizing
these parameters, the first calculations of the model for -- and
-- collisions are presented and found to be in reasonable agreement with
a broad set of data.Comment: 26 pages of text with 23 Postscript figures placed in tex
A comparison of the hypoglycemic effect of insulin with systemic venous and portal venous administration
The hyperglycemic effect of insulin by prolonged intraportal and systemic infusion was measured in unanesthetized dogs with a modified portacaval transposition. There was no significant difference in response with the two routes of administration. The relation of these results to research directed to surgical therapy of diabetes is discussed. © 1963 W. B. Saunders Company
Centrality dependence of charged-particle pseudorapidity distributions from d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_{NN})=200 GeV
Charged-particle pseudorapidity densities are presented for the d+Au reaction
at sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV with -4.2 <= eta <= 4.2$. The results, from the BRAHMS
experiment at RHIC, are shown for minimum-bias events and 0-30%, 30-60%, and
60-80% centrality classes. Models incorporating both soft physics and hard,
perturbative QCD-based scattering physics agree well with the experimental
results. The data do not support predictions based on strong-coupling,
semi-classical QCD. In the deuteron-fragmentation region the central 200 GeV
data show behavior similar to full-overlap d+Au results at sqrt{s_{NN}}=19.4
GeV.Comment: 4 pages, 3figures; expanded discussion of uncertainties; added 60-80%
centrality range; added additional discussion on centrality selection bia
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