MINIMIZING SHOE-SURFACE FRICTION AT INITIAL CONTACT: A NOVEL APPROACH TO PREVENT LATERAL ANKLE SPRAINS

The lateral ligament complex is the most frequently injured single structure in the body. The purpose of this study was to investigate how minimizing lateral shoe-surface friction could aid in the prevention of lateral ankle sprains. Two initial studies were carried out to examine the effect of reduced lateral friction during two typical but different indoor sports movements. Ankle joint moments were analyzed using an inverse dynamics model and revealed that minimizing lateral shoe-surface friction does not affect performance and ground contact mechanics during typical indoor sports movements. These movements are in general performed with a medial initial contact. Based on these results, a future test protocol is outlined testing the preventative effect of Spraino® Slide when initial contact is carried out with an initially supinated foot position during landing and cutting situations

LHCb upgrade software and computing : technical design report

This document reports the Research and Development activities that are carried out in the software and computing domains in view of the upgrade of the LHCb experiment. The implementation of a full software trigger implies major changes in the core software framework, in the event data model, and in the reconstruction algorithms. The increase of the data volumes for both real and simulated datasets requires a corresponding scaling of the distributed computing infrastructure. An implementation plan in both domains is presented, together with a risk assessment analysis

Physics case for an LHCb Upgrade II - Opportunities in flavour physics, and beyond, in the HL-LHC era

The LHCb Upgrade II will fully exploit the flavour-physics opportunities of the HL-LHC, and study additional physics topics that take advantage of the forward acceptance of the LHCb spectrometer. The LHCb Upgrade I will begin operation in 2020. Consolidation will occur, and modest enhancements of the Upgrade I detector will be installed, in Long Shutdown 3 of the LHC (2025) and these are discussed here. The main Upgrade II detector will be installed in long shutdown 4 of the LHC (2030) and will build on the strengths of the current LHCb experiment and the Upgrade I. It will operate at a luminosity up to 2×1034 cm−2s−1, ten times that of the Upgrade I detector. New detector components will improve the intrinsic performance of the experiment in certain key areas. An Expression Of Interest proposing Upgrade II was submitted in February 2017. The physics case for the Upgrade II is presented here in more depth. CP-violating phases will be measured with precisions unattainable at any other envisaged facility. The experiment will probe b → sl+l−and b → dl+l− transitions in both muon and electron decays in modes not accessible at Upgrade I. Minimal flavour violation will be tested with a precision measurement of the ratio of B(B0 → μ+μ−)/B(Bs → μ+μ−). Probing charm CP violation at the 10−5 level may result in its long sought discovery. Major advances in hadron spectroscopy will be possible, which will be powerful probes of low energy QCD. Upgrade II potentially will have the highest sensitivity of all the LHC experiments on the Higgs to charm-quark couplings. Generically, the new physics mass scale probed, for fixed couplings, will almost double compared with the pre-HL-LHC era; this extended reach for flavour physics is similar to that which would be achieved by the HE-LHC proposal for the energy frontier

The study of radiation damage of EPROM 2764 memory

A simple statistical theory of radiation damage of semiconductor memory has been constructed. The radiation damage of EPROM memory has been investigated. The measured number of damaged bytes is significantly lower than the expected number resulting from the purely random distribution of the damaged bits. In this way it has been proven that there is a correlation between the failures of individual memory bits which are located in the same byte