275 research outputs found

    Combination of 3‑<i>O</i>‑Levulinoyl and 6‑<i>O</i>‑Trifluorobenzoyl Groups Ensures α‑Selectivity in Glucosylations: Synthesis of the Oligosaccharides Related to <i>Aspergillus fumigatus</i> α‑(1 → 3)‑d‑Glucan

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    Stereospecific α-glucosylation of primary and secondary OH-group at carbohydrate acceptors is achieved using glucosyl N-phenyl-trifluoroacetimidate (PTFAI) donor protected with an electron-withdrawing 2,4,5-trifluorobenzoyl (TFB) group at O-6 and the participating levulinoyl (Lev) group at O-3. New factors have been revealed that might explain α-stereoselectivity in the case of TFB and pentafluorobenzoyl (PFB) groups at O-6. They are of conformational nature and confirmed by DFT calculations. The potential of this donor, as well as the orthogonality of TFB and Lev protecting groups, is showcased by the synthesis of α-(1 → 3)-linked pentaglucoside corresponding to Aspergillus fumigatus α-(1 → 3)-d-glucan and of its hexasaccharide derivative, bearing β-glucosamine residue at the non-reducing end

    Pseudorapidity densities of charged particles with transverse momentum thresholds in pp collisions at √ s = 5.02 and 13 TeV

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    The pseudorapidity density of charged particles with minimum transverse momentum (pT) thresholds of 0.15, 0.5, 1, and 2 GeV/c is measured in pp collisions at the center of mass energies of √s=5.02 and 13 TeV with the ALICE detector. The study is carried out for inelastic collisions with at least one primary charged particle having a pseudorapidity (η) within 0.8pT larger than the corresponding threshold. In addition, measurements without pT-thresholds are performed for inelastic and nonsingle-diffractive events as well as for inelastic events with at least one charged particle having |η|2GeV/c), highlighting the importance of such measurements for tuning event generators. The new measurements agree within uncertainties with results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments obtained at √s=13TeV.

    Measurement of beauty production via non-prompt D0{\rm D}^{0} mesons in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02 TeV

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    The production of non-prompt D0{\rm D}^{0} mesons from beauty-hadron decays was measured at midrapidity (y5 GeV/c\left| y \right| 5~\mathrm{GeV}/c in the 0100-10% central Pb-Pb collisions. The data are described by models that include both collisional and radiative processes in the calculation of beauty-quark energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma, and quark recombination in addition to fragmentation as a hadronization mechanism. The ratio of the non-prompt to prompt D0{\rm D}^{0}-meson RAAR_{\rm AA} is larger than unity for pT>4 GeV/cp_{\rm T} > 4~\mathrm{GeV}/c in the 0100-10% central Pb-Pb collisions, as predicted by models in which beauty quarks lose less energy than charm quarks in the quark-gluon plasma because of their larger mass

    Study of the p-p-K+^+ and p-p-K^- dynamics using the femtoscopy technique

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    International audienceThe interactions of kaons (K) and antikaons (K\mathrm{\overline{K}}) with few nucleons (N) were studied so far using kaonic atom data and measurements of kaon production and interaction yields in nuclei. Some details of the three-body KNN and K\mathrm{\overline{K}}NN dynamics are still not well understood, mainly due to the overlap with multi-nucleon interactions in nuclei. An alternative method to probe the dynamics of three-body systems with kaons is to study the final state interaction within triplet of particles emitted in pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, which are free from effects due to the presence of bound nucleons. This Letter reports the first femtoscopic study of p-p-K+^+ and p-p-K^- correlations measured in high-multiplicity pp collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV by the ALICE Collaboration. The analysis shows that the measured p-p-K+^+ and p-p-K^- correlation functions can be interpreted in terms of pairwise interactions in the triplets, indicating that the dynamics of such systems is dominated by the two-body interactions without significant contributions from three-body effects or bound states

    Studying strangeness and baryon production mechanisms through angular correlations between charged Ξ\Xi baryons and identified hadrons in pp collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV

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    International audienceThe angular correlations between charged Ξ\Xi baryons and associated identified hadrons (pions, kaons, protons, Λ\Lambda baryons, and Ξ\Xi baryons) are measured in pp collisions at s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV with the ALICE detector to give insight into the particle production mechanisms and balancing of quantum numbers on the microscopic level. In particular, the distribution of strangeness is investigated in the correlations between the doubly-strange Ξ\Xi baryon and mesons and baryons that contain a single strange quark, K and Λ\Lambda. As a reference, the results are compared to Ξπ\Xi\pi and Ξp\Xi\mathrm{p} correlations, where the associated mesons and baryons do not contain a strange valence quark. These measurements are expected to be sensitive to whether strangeness is produced through string breaking or in a thermal production scenario. Furthermore, the multiplicity dependence of the correlation functions is measured to look for the turn-on of additional particle production mechanisms with event activity. The results are compared to predictions from the string-breaking model PYTHIA 8, including tunes with baryon junctions and rope hadronisation enabled, the cluster hadronisation model HERWIG 7, and the core-corona model EPOS-LHC. While some aspects of the experimental data are described quantitatively or qualitatively by the Monte Carlo models, no one model can match all features of the data. These results provide stringent constraints on the strangeness and baryon number production mechanisms in pp collisions

    Observation of medium-induced yield enhancement and acoplanarity broadening of low-pTp_\mathrm{T} jets from measurements in pp and central Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02 TeV

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    International audienceThe ALICE Collaboration reports the measurement of semi-inclusive distributions of charged-particle jets recoiling from a high transverse momentum (high pTp_{\rm T}) hadron trigger in proton-proton and central Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02 TeV. A data-driven statistical method is used to mitigate the large uncorrelated background in central Pb-Pb collisions. Recoil jet distributions are reported for jet resolution parameter R=0.2R=0.2, 0.4, and 0.5 in the range 7<pT,jet<1407 < p_{\rm T,jet} < 140 GeV/c/c and trigger-recoil jet azimuthal separation π/2<Δφ<π\pi/2 < \Delta\varphi < \pi. The measurements exhibit a marked medium-induced jet yield enhancement at low pTp_{\rm T} and at large azimuthal deviation from Δφπ\Delta\varphi\sim\pi. The enhancement is characterized by its dependence on Δφ\Delta\varphi, which has a slope that differs from zero by 4.7σ\sigma. Comparisons to model calculations incorporating different formulations of jet quenching are reported. These comparisons indicate that the observed yield enhancement arises from the response of the QGP medium to jet propagation
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