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A Programmable Time Alignment Scheme for Detector Signals from the Upgraded muon Spectrometer at the ATLAS Experiment
We present a programmable time alignment scheme used in an ASIC for the ATLAS
forward muon trigger development. The scheme utilizes regenerated clocks with
programmable phases to compensate for the timing offsets introduced by
different detector trace lengths. Each ASIC used in the design has 104 input
channels with delay compensation circuitry providing steps of ~ 3 ns and a full
range of 25 ns for each channel. Detailed implementation of the scheme
including majority logic to suppress single-event effects is presented. The
scheme is flexible and fully synthesizable. The approach is adaptable to other
applications with similar phase shifting requirements. In addition, the design
is resource efficient and is suitable for cost-effective digital implementation
with a large number of channels.Comment: 5 pages, 8 figure
Determinants of ageism against older adults: a systematic review
Ageism is a widespread phenomenon and constitutes a significant threat to older people’s
well-being. Identifying the factors contributing to ageism is critical to inform policies that minimise its
societal impact. In this systematic review, we gathered and summarised empirical studies exploring
the key determinants of ageism against older people for a period of over forty years (1970–2017).
A comprehensive search using fourteen databases identified all published records related to the
umbrella concept of “ageism”. Reviewers independently screened the final pool to identify all papers
focusing on determinants, according to a predefined list of inclusion and exclusion criteria. All
relevant information was extracted and summarised following a narrative synthesis approach. A
total of 199 papers were included in this review. We identified a total of 14 determinants as robustly
associated with ageism. Of these, 13 have an effect on other-directed ageism, and one on self-directed
ageism. The quality of contact with older people and the positive or negative presentation of older
people to others emerged as the most robust determinants of other-directed ageism; self-directed
ageism is mostly determined by older adults’ health status. Given the correlational nature of most
studies included in this review, inferences on causality should be made cautiously.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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Search for new phenomena with the MT2 variable in the all-hadronic final state produced in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV.
A search for new phenomena is performed using events with jets and significant transverse momentum imbalance, as inferred through the MT2 variable. The results are based on a sample of proton-proton collisions collected in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the CMS detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1 . No excess event yield is observed above the predicted standard model background, and the results are interpreted as exclusion limits at 95% confidence level on the masses of predicted particles in a variety of simplified models of R-parity conserving supersymmetry. Depending on the details of the model, 95% confidence level lower limits on the gluino (light-flavor squark) masses are placed up to 2025 (1550) GeV . Mass limits as high as 1070 (1175) GeV are set on the masses of top (bottom) squarks. Information is provided to enable re-interpretation of these results, including model-independent limits on the number of non-standard model events for a set of simplified, inclusive search regions
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