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Implementation of a Low Cost For Internal Dosimetry Radiological Survey of Ionization Radiation Exposed Workers In Nuclear Medicine Services
Because the nature of the routine activities carried on in nuclear medicine services, where several not sealed radioactive sources are used, the occupational personal exposed to ionization radiation (POE) is exposed to both, internal and external radioactive contamination and direct radiation also. The most important radioisotope from the point of view of radiological risk in such Nuclear Medicine Services (NMS) is the 131I. The Mexican official regulatory organization in radiological and nuclear safety: Comisión de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias (CNSNS) specify, as a requirement in the operation license of Nuclear Medicine Services the mandatory of internal and external dosimetry survey of POE. The external dosimetry survey is normally carried out but the internal dosimetry survey is not easy to do, because internal dosimetry systems are too expensive and in Mexico there are only three organizations (CFE-CLV, ININ, CNSNS) where there are these systems but they aren ́t easily available for the Nuclear Medicine Services. Because that before fact, we propose a single, and low cost system (SLCS) to survey the internal dosimetry of POE. This system is based in a scintillation NaI(Tl) 2x2 detector and a common radiation monitor tipically used in the routine radiation and contamination measures, with a minimal infrastructure investment. This system is numerical calibrated with Montecarlo method, and compared with an well established commercial System being a good function corresponding. This system is easy to implementing in any nuclear medicine to complain the requirement of operation license in the internal dosimetry POE survey
Characterisation of Technological Innovation Management Journals
This paper seeks to characterise the publications of the technological innovation management forum. With this aim, it analyses four aspects: orientation, style, originality and readability. The information used for this study was obtained from the Emerald Management Reviews database (Emerald Group Publishing). The time period considered ran from 1996 to 2003. From the analysis, the work concludes an increasingly clear research orientation over the period. Research-Technology Management is the journal most oriented to practice. The work also finds a clear predominance of the academic style, with some room provided for the professional-journalistic style, and a certain loss of originality and readability in the publications over the period. Finally, the journals declare a more varied readership than they actually seem to have.This paper seeks to characterise the publications of the technological innovation management forum. With this aim, it analyses four aspects: orientation, style, originality and readability. The information used for this study was obtained from the Emerald Management Reviews database (Emerald Group Publishing). The time period considered ran from 1996 to 2003. From the analysis, the work concludes an increasingly clear research orientation over the period. Research-Technology Management is the journal most oriented to practice. The work also finds a clear predominance of the academic style, with some room provided for the professional-journalistic style, and a certain loss of originality and readability in the publications over the period. Finally, the journals declare a more varied readership than they actually seem to have.This paper seeks to characterise the publications of the technological innovation management forum. With this aim, it analyses four aspects: orientation, style, originality and readability. The information used for this study was obtained from the Emerald Management Reviews database (Emerald Group Publishing). The time period considered ran from 1996 to 2003. From the analysis, the work concludes an increasingly clear research orientation over the period. Research-Technology Management is the journal most oriented to practice. The work also finds a clear predominance of the academic style, with some room provided for the professional-journalistic style, and a certain loss of originality and readability in the publications over the period. Finally, the journals declare a more varied readership than they actually seem to have
Model Independent Higgs Boson Mass Limits at LEP
We derive model-independent constraints on Higgs mass and couplings from
associated signals for higher masses, accessible at LEP2. This work is
motivated by the fact that, in many extensions of the standard model, the Higgs
boson can have substantial "invisible" decay modes, for example, into light or
massless weakly interacting Goldstone bosons associated to the spontaneous
violation of lepton number below the weak scale.Comment: FTUV/93-19, 13 pag + 2 figures(not included but available upon
request), Late
Light Sterile Neutrino from extra dimensions and Four-Neutrino Solutions to Neutrino Anomalies
We propose a four-neutrino model which can reconcile the existing data coming
from underground experiments in terms of neutrino oscillations, together with
the hint from the LSND experiment and a possible neutrino contribution to the
hot dark matter of the Universe. It applies the idea that extra compact
dimensions, probed only by gravity and possibly gauge-singlet fields, can lower
the fundamental scales such as the Planck, string or unification scales. Our
fourth light neutrino ( for sterile) is identified with the zero
mode of the Kaluza-Klein states. To first approximation \nu_sterile combines
with the nu_mu in order to form a Dirac neutrino with mass in the eV range
leaving the other two neutrinos massless. The smallness of this mass scale
(suitable for LSND and Hot Dark Matter) arises without appealing neither to a
see-saw mechanism nor to a radiative mechanism, but from the volume factor
associated with the canonical normalization of the wave-function of the bulk
field in the compactified dimensions. % On the other hand the splitting between
\nm and \nu_sterile (atmospheric scale) as well as the mass of the two other
neutrinos (solar mass scale) arise from the violation of the fermion number on
distant branes. We also discuss alternative scenarios involving
flavour-changing interactions. In one of them \ne can be in the electron-volt
range and therefore be probed in beta decay studies.Comment: 12 pages, latex, no figures, title changed, final version to be
published in Phys Rev
Supernova Bounds on Majoron-emitting decays of light neutrinos
Neutrino masses arising from the spontaneous violation of ungauged
lepton-number are accompanied by a physical Goldstone boson, generically called
Majoron. In the high-density supernova medium the effects of Majoron-emitting
neutrino decays are important even if they are suppressed in vacuo by small
neutrino masses and/or small off-diagonal couplings. We reconsider the
influence of these decays on the neutrino signal of supernovae in the light of
recent Super-Kamiokande data on solar and atmospheric neutrinos. We find that
majoron-neutrino coupling constants in the range 3\times 10^{-7}\lsim g\lsim
2\times 10^{-5} or g \gsim 3 \times 10^{-4} are excluded by the observation
of SN1987A. Then we discuss the potential of Superkamiokande and the Sudbury
Neutrino Observatory to detect majoron neutrino interactions in the case of a
future galactic supernova. We find that these experiments could probe majoron
neutrino interactions with improved sensitivity.Comment: 28 pages, 5 figure
Some constraints on neutral heavy leptons from flavor-conserving decays of the Z boson
Small neutrino masses can arise in some grand unified models or superstring
theories. We consider a model with an enhanced fermion sector containing Dirac
neutral heavy leptons. The dependence on the mass and mixing parameters of
these new fermions is investigated for several measurable quantities. We study
the flavor-conserving leptonic decays of the Z boson and universality breaking
in these decays. We also consider the W boson mass dependence on neutral heavy
lepton parameters.Comment: 20 pages, Revtex 3.0, 6 uuencoded and compressed postscript figures
included. Compressed postscript file of paper, including figures, also
available by anonymous ftp at
ftp://ftp.physics.carleton.ca/pub/theory/gour/ocipc9411.ps.Z . Accepted for
publication in Phys. Rev. D
Heavy-flavour production in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC, measured with the ALICE detector
We present the first results from the ALICE experiment on the nuclear
modification factors for heavy-flavour hadron production in Pb-Pb collisions at
sqrt{s_NN}=2.76 TeV. Using proton-proton and lead-lead collision samples at
sqrt{s}=7 TeV and sqrt{s_NN}=2.76 TeV, respectively, nuclear modification
factors R_AA(pt) were measured for D mesons at central rapidity (via displaced
decay vertex reconstruction), and for electrons and muons, at central and
forward rapidity, respectively.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, plenary talk at Quark Matter 2011, Annecy, Franc
Tau Lepton Mixing with Charginos and its Effects on Chargino Searches at e+e- Colliders
In bilinear R-Parity violating models where a term \epsilon_3L_3H_2 is
introduced in the superpotential, the tau lepton can mix with charginos. We
show that this mixing is fully compatible with LEP1 precision measurements of
the Z\tau\tau and W\tau\nu_\tau couplings even for large values of \epsilon_3
and of the induced vacuum expectation value v_3 of the tau-sneutrino. The
single production of charginos at e+e- colliders is possible in this case and
we present numerical values of the cross-section at LEP1, LEP2 and an NLC. We
find maximum values of 10 pb at LEP1 and 1 fb at NLC, while the corresponding
values at LEP2 are too small to observe.Comment: 16 pages (including 7 figures), LaTex, uses axodraw.sty (included
Probing neutrino non-standard interactions with atmospheric neutrino data
We have reconsidered the atmospheric neutrino anomaly in light of the laetst
data from Super-Kamiokande contained events and from Super-Kamiokande and MACRO
up-going muons. We have reanalysed the proposed solution to the atmospheric
neutrino anomaly in terms of non-standard neutrino-matter interactions (NSI) as
well as the standard nu_mu -> nu_tau oscillations (OSC). Our statistical
analysis shows that a pure NSI mechanism is now ruled out at 99%, while the
standard nu_mu -> nu_tau OSC mechanism provides a quite remarkably good
description of the anomaly. We therefore study an extended mechanism of
neutrino propagation which combines both oscillation and non-standard
neutrino-matter interactions, in order to derive limits on flavour-changing
(FC) and non-universal (NU) neutrino interactions. We obtain that the
off-diagonal flavour-changing neutrino parameter epsilon and the diagonal
non-universality neutrino parameter epsilon' are confined to -0.03 < epsilon <
0.02 and |epsilon'| < 0.05 at 99.73% CL. These limits are model independent and
they are obtained from pure neutrino-physics processes. The stability of the
neutrino oscillation solution to the atmospheric neutrino anomaly against the
presence of non-standard neutrino interactions establishes the robustness of
the near-maximal atmospheric mixing and massive-neutrino hypothesis. The best
agreement with the data is obtained for Delta_m^2 = 2.3*10^{-3} eV^2,
sin^2(2*theta) = 1, epsilon = 6.7*10^{-3} and epsilon' = 1.1*10^{-3}, although
the chi^2 function is quite flat in the epsilon and epsilon' directions for
epsilon, epsilon' -> 0.Comment: 26 pages, LaTeX file using REVTeX4, 1 table and 12 figures included.
Added a revised analysis which takes into account the new 1489-day
Super-Kamiokande and final MACRO data. The bound on NSI parameters is
considerably improve
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