Creation of a Sport Backstop Using Axiomatic Design

The objective of this project was to design and physically develop an affordable, meaning under $500 retail price, device that can accurately provide feedback on speed and position of a pitch. Current products like this are usually either expensive, inaccurate or both. Additionally, they often lack feedback on position of the pitch over homeplate. Due to these limitations, customers are often dissatisfied with the smart backstop product they have purchased. Axiomatic Design theory and concept-knowledge theory were used in the design of a new smart backstop product. Our team has come to a solution that can provide more accurate results for speed and position of a pitch and provide feedback in a clear and user-friendly manner

The LITE Correlative Measurements Campaign in Southern Italy: Preliminary Results

Abstract. In conjunction with the LITE mission an intensive LIDAR measurement campaign was carried out in Napoli (40 50 0 N -14 10 0 E, at sea level) and Potenza (40 36 0 N - 15 44 0 E,820 m a.s.l.). The LITE experiment, flying on board the Space Shuttle in the period September 10–19, 1994, represents the first attempt to perform global coverage LI- DAR measurements from space. The LITE experiment was planned to provide measurements of clouds, tropospheric and stratospheric aerosols, stratospheric temperature and density, characteristics of the planetary boundary level as well as surface albedo. Because of the relative distance between LITE ground tracks and the two southern Italy validation stations for all passes, measurements carried out in Napoli and Potenza were primarily aimed at validation of LITE stratospheric measurements. In the present preliminary analysis Potenza LI- DAR measurements in coincidence with the orbit 128 LITE overpass, are reported and discussed. Potenza LIDAR data show a good agreement with LITE data in terms of aerosol scattering ratio both at 355 nm and 532 nm (R A,355 and R A,532 ); the two data sets appearing to be highly correlated. LITE vs. Potenza LIDAR measurements of R A,355 and R A,532 display a correlation coefficient of 0.72 and 0.86, respectively. Stratospheric aerosol dimensional characteristics are determined starting from the measured values of the Ångstrom coefficient

The SuperB muon detector, status and perspectives

The superB project foresees the construction of a high intensity super-flavor factory at the Cabibbo Lab, in Tor Vergata (near Rome). The experiment, based on a high intensity asymmetric electron-positron collider, and on the related detector, is expected to reach a very high luminosity: 2 × 1036cm-2s-1, that will allow the high statistic study of rare decays and, possibly, will show evidences of new physics. © 2012 IEEE

The SuperB muon detector, status and perspectives2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record (NSS/MIC)

The superB project foresees the construction of a high intensity super-flavor factory at the Cabibbo Lab, in Tor Vergata (near Rome). The experiment, based on a high intensity asymmetric electron-positron collider, and on the related detector, is expected to reach a very high luminosity: 2 7 10^36cm-2s-1, that will allow the high statistic study of rare decays and, possibly, will show evidences of new physics

Splash and Re-entrant albedo fluxes measured in the PAMELA experiment

AbstractThis work devoted to the description of the method for splash albedo protons identification in the satellite-born experiment PAMELA. In contrast to the reentrant albedo particles, which enter into the main aperture of the instrument, the direct albedo particles enter from the opposite direction, so they pass a few detectors, including calorimeter, before being register by the magnetic spectrometer. The developed method take into account the influence of these detectors on the selection of events and measurements of their characteristics. To test this method the energy spectrum of reentrant albedo protons in various regions of the near-Earth space reconstructed; it is in a good agreement with the classical measurements in the main aperture. Therefore, this method can be useful to obtain a new physical data about fluxes of splash albedo protons in the PAMELA experiment, which, unlike the reentrant albedo, can be study even at high geomagnetic latitudes

Solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays during 2006-2015 based on PAMELA and ARINA data

AbstractSolar modulation of galactic protons with energies from 50 MeV up to dozens of GeV during July 06 – February15 studied based on a data of the magnetic spectrometer PAMELA and scintillation spectrometer ARINA. This period is interesting because it covers the end of 23rdand current 24thcycles of solar activity, including the abnormally long transient period and change of the polarity of solar magnetic field

The JEM-EUSO mission

Symposium E, session 18, paper number E18-0030-10 (Oral)International audienceThe JEM-EUSO mission explores the origin of the extreme energy comic-rays (EECRs) above 1020 eV and challenges to the limit of the basic physics, through the observations, of their arrival directions and energies. It is designed to observe more than 1,000 events of EECRs above 7×1019 eV in its five-year operation with an exposure larger than 1 million km2 * sr * year. The super-wide-field (60 degrees) telescope with a diameter of about 2.5m looks down the atmosphere of the night-side of the earth to detect near UV photons (330-400nm, both fluorescent and Cherenkov photons) emitted from the giant air-shower produced by an EECR. The arrival direction map with 1,000 events naturally tells us the origin of the EECRs and allows us to identify the EECR sources to known astronomical objects. The comparison among the energy spectra of the spatially resolved individual sources will clarify the acceleration/emission mechanism, and also finally confirm the Greisen-Zatse'pin-Kuzmin process for the validation of Lorentz invariance up to ˜ 1011 . Neutral components (neutrinos and gamma rays) can also be detected as well, if their fluxes are high enough. The JEM-EUSO mission is planned to be launched by a H2B rocket about 2015 and transferred to ISS by H2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV). It will be attached to the external experiment platform of "KIBO" which completed July 2009 by STS-127 mission of the space shuttle. The first flight of HTV by H2B rocket was successfully done in September and October 2009