Low exposure long-baseline neutrino oscillation sensitivity of the DUNE experiment

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will produce world-leading neutrino oscillation measurements over the lifetime of the experiment. In this work, we explore DUNE's sensitivity to observe charge-parity violation (CPV) in the neutrino sector, and to resolve the mass ordering, for exposures of up to 100 kiloton-megawatt-years (kt-MW-yr). The analysis includes detailed uncertainties on the flux prediction, the neutrino interaction model, and detector effects. We demonstrate that DUNE will be able to unambiguously resolve the neutrino mass ordering at a 3σ (5σ) level, with a 66 (100) kt-MW-yr far detector exposure, and has the ability to make strong statements at significantly shorter exposures depending on the true value of other oscillation parameters. We also show that DUNE has the potential to make a robust measurement of CPV at a 3σ level with a 100 kt-MW-yr exposure for the maximally CP-violating values \delta_{\rm CP}} = \pm\pi/2. Additionally, the dependence of DUNE's sensitivity on the exposure taken in neutrino-enhanced and antineutrino-enhanced running is discussed. An equal fraction of exposure taken in each beam mode is found to be close to optimal when considered over the entire space of interest

A expansão rápida da maxila com haas e a fala na fissura labiopalatina transforame Rapid maxillary expansion with Haas and the speech in people with cleft lip and palate

OBJETIVO: verificar os efeitos da Expansão Rápida da Maxila (ERM), com aparelho Haas, na fala do paciente com fissura labiopalatina (FLP) Transforame. MÉTODOS: 12 indivíduos entre sete e 14 anos, sendo seis meninos e seis meninas, divididos em dois grupos. O Grupo 1 (G1), submetido à ERM com protocolo de ativação convencional e, o Grupo 2 (G2), submetido à ERM com protocolo de ativação preconizado por Liou e Tsai (2005) com expansões e constrições alternadas. Realizou-se avaliação da fala, análise acústica com programa Praat e avaliação perceptivo-auditiva por julgadores fonoaudiólogos e leigos. RESULTADOS: a medição dos tempos de emissão das vogais por análise acústica mostrou diferença estatisticamente significante na avaliação pós-ERM da vogal /i/ no G1 e da vogal /a/ no G2. Na avaliação perceptivo-auditiva, não houve diferenças estatisticamente significantes entre os grupos nas avaliações de Nasalidade e Clareza na Articulação, porém, na medida em que os julgadores atribuíram melhora à Nasalidade, também atribuíram melhora à Articulação e, assim também em relação as variáveis "Melhor", "Igual" e "Pior". CONCLUSÃO: a diminuição dos tempos de emissão pós-ERM, indica que o aumento no escape aéreo nasal ocasiona menores tempos de emissão. A análise perceptivo-auditiva mostrou-se um instrumento eficaz de avaliação, havendo concordância entre julgadores leigos e fonoaudiólogos. Essa avaliação indicou também, que na medida em que a nasalidade diminui ocorre maior clareza na articulação.<br>PURPOSE: to check the effects of rapid maxillary expansion (RME) with Haas, made by orthodontistic, in speech of the patient with cleft lip and palate. METHODS: 12 subjects, 6 boys and 6 girls, with age between 7 and 14-year old, divided in two groups. Group 1 (G1), was submitted to conventional activation RME protocol and Group 2 (G2), was submitted to activation ERM protocol in accordance with Liou and Tsai (2005) as for alternate expansions and constrictions. The subjects were submitted to speech evaluation, perceptual analysis by speech therapists and laymen judgment and spectrographic evaluation of speech with Praat program. RESULTS: the measure of vocal' emission times was statistically relevant after RME to vocal [i] in G1 and to vocal [a] in G2. In perceptual analysis, no statistical relevance was found among the groups as for Nasality and Articulation evaluation, but as judges deemed that Nasality became better, they deemed that Articulations was better too, as well as the variables "Better", "Equal" and "Worse". CONCLUSION: the decrease of vocal emission times after RME, show us that the increase in nasal air escape cause a smaller emission time. The perceptual analysis seems to be an efficient kind of evaluation, demonstrating agreement amongst the judges, both layman as well as speech pathologists. The perceptual analysis also showed that as Nasality decreases, the Articulation improves

Crianças bilíngües Alemão-Português: erros na escrita e características do ambiente familiar Bilingual German-Portuguese children: handwriting mistakes and characteristics of the familiar environment

OBJETIVO: Relacionar erros na escrita em português, características do ambiente familiar, idade e sexo de crianças bilíngües Alemão-Português. MÉTODOS: Vinte crianças bilíngües alemão/português realizaram ditado balanceado, e seus pais responderam a um questionário. Os tipos de erros na escrita em Português foram classificados e quantificados, e posteriormente relacionados às respostas dos pais no questionário aplicado. RESULTADOS: Houve menos erros relacionados à troca, substituição aleatória, inversão, transposição, omissão e adição de grafemas, e mais erros relacionados às irregularidades da língua portuguesa. A maioria dos pais possuía material escrito em casa; quando mais de uma pessoa lia em casa e quanto maior a escolaridade paterna, maior o número de crianças com menos erros na escrita; quanto menor a escolaridade materna, maior o número de estudantes com mais erros na escrita. Quanto mais novas as crianças, mais erros de todos os tipos. Os meninos apresentaram mais erros na escrita do que as meninas. CONCLUSÕES: Mesmo sendo os participantes deste estudo todos bilíngües, a maioria dos achados foi compatível com os encontrados em outras pesquisas com crianças monolíngües do Português Brasileiro.<br>PURPOSE: To relate mistakes in Portuguese writing, characteristics of the familiar environment, age and gender of bilingual German-Portuguese children. METHODS: Twenty bilingual children were submitted to balanced dictation, and their parents answered a questionnaire. The analysis classified and quantified the types of errors in Portuguese writing, which was later related to their parents' answers on the questionnaire. RESULTS: There were fewer errors related to change, random substitution, inversion, transposition, omission and adding of graphemes, and more errors associated with Portuguese irregularities. Most parents had written material at home; when more than one person used to read at home and the highest the fathers' level of schooling, the greater the number of children with fewer errors in writing; the lower the maternal level of schooling, the greater the number of students with more writing errors. Younger children had more errors of all kinds. Boys had more writing errors than girls. CONCLUSIONS: Even though all the participants of this study were bilingual, the majority of the findings corroborated researches with monolingual Brazilian Portuguese speaking children

Low exposure long-baseline neutrino oscillation sensitivity of the DUNE experiment

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will produce world-leading neutrino oscillation measurements over the lifetime of the experiment. In this work, we explore DUNE’s sensitivity to observe charge-parity violation (CPV) in the neutrino sector, and to resolve the mass ordering, for exposures of up to 100 kiloton-megawatt-calendar years (kt-MW-CY), where calendar years include an assumption of 57% accelerator uptime based on past accelerator performance at Fermilab. The analysis includes detailed uncertainties on the flux prediction, the neutrino interaction model, and detector effects. We demonstrate that DUNE will be able to unambiguously resolve the neutrino mass ordering at a 4 σ ( 5 σ ) level with a 66 (100) kt-MW-CY far detector exposure, and has the ability to make strong statements at significantly shorter exposures depending on the true value of other oscillation parameters, with a median sensitivity of 3 σ for almost all true δ CP values after only 24 kt-MW-CY. We also show that DUNE has the potential to make a robust measurement of CPV at a 3 σ level with a 100 kt-MW-CY exposure for the maximally CP-violating values δ CP = ± π / 2 . Additionally, the dependence of DUNE’s sensitivity on the exposure taken in neutrino-enhanced and antineutrino-enhanced running is discussed. An equal fraction of exposure taken in each beam mode is found to be close to optimal when considered over the entire space of interest