CrossCult D2.4 Refined digital cultural resource data & data structure

This report presents the CrossCult digital datasets of the four project pilots.It contains a description of the methods and data structures used to semantically model and ingest the digital resources of the pilots into the CrossCult Knowledge Base following the semantics of the CrossCult Upper-level ontology, a set of examples of semantic enrichment, information retrieval and association discovery among the pilots’ resources and other related information in the CrossCult Knowledge Base,and a brief description of how the pilots’ digital resources can be viewed and access through three different front-end application

CrossCult D2.5 Upper-level Cultural Heritage Ontology

This paper presents the Upper-level Ontology and the other ontological schemas and vocabularies that we used to model the semantics of the “world” of CrossCult and its four pilots. It consists of two documents: a report describing the rationale and structure of the ontology and a PDF file containing the definitions of the classes and properties of the CrossCult ontologies in the syntax of Description Logics

D2.1 Crosscult Pilot Specifications

The report presents a collaborative effort of the four pilots, which took place in the first six months (M1-M6) of the project and focused on: 1) refining the original scenarios, 2) capturing the requirements, 3) defining the evaluation framework, 4) identifying the contributing technologies, 5) specifying the core gameplay for the four pilots and 6) outlining the ethical guidelines for experts

A new version of the LUPIN detector: improvements and latest experimental verification

LUPIN-II is an upgraded version of LUPIN, a novel rem counter first developed in 2010 specifically conceived to work in pulsed neutron fields (PNFs). The new version introduces some modifications that improve the performance of the detector, in particular extending its upper detection limit in PNFs. This paper discusses the characteristics and the performance of the instrument. Measurements have been carried out in radiation fields characterized by very different conditions: the detector has first been exposed in PNFs with intensity up to 5 μSv per burst, where it could keep the H*(10) underestimation below 20% up to 500 nSv per burst. It has then been tested in operational conditions around particle accelerators, where it has shown performances similar to that of ionization chambers. Its proper functioning has also been verified in high energy mixed fields, where the experimental results matched the Monte Carlo predictions. Its neutron/photon discrimination capability has been tested in a steady-state photon field where, via an innovative technique based on a threshold set on the derivative of the current signal, it was capable of rejecting a photon H*(10) rate of about 25 mSv/h, and in a mixed neutron/photon field, where a time-based discrimination method was employed

Fermionic computation is non-local tomographic and violates monogamy of entanglement

We show that the computational model based on local fermionic modes in place of qubits does not satisfy local tomography and monogamy of entanglement, and has mixed states with maximal entanglement of formation. These features directly follow from the parity superselection rule. We generalize quantum superselection rules to general probabilistic theories as sets of linear constraints on the convex set of states. We then provide a link between the cardinality of the superselection rule and the degree of holism of the resulting theory

Improving Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing with neutron spectrometry

Investigating soil moisture on an intermediate scale (i.e., an area of some hectares and depth of tens of centimeters) can be achieved by measuring the flux of cosmic neutrons. This technique is called cosmic-ray neutron sensing and uses neutron counters to assess the water content in a field. Over the last year, the authors proposed an innovative neutron spectrometer to perform these measurements, which is called WEDDING-PIE (Wide Energy Detector for Direct Investigation of Neutron spectrum at Ground level for Precise moIsture Evaluation), abbreviated as W-PIE. Counters which are conventionally used can only give information on the intensity of the cosmic neutron flux, whereas a neutron spectrometer can calculate both the intensity and the neutron energy distribution. In this paper, the potential of the W-PIE for soil moisture measurements is described and the main advantages of using a neutron spectrometer over conventional neutron counters are illustrated. In conclusion, preliminary results of the measuring campaign in Parco Nord, Milan, are provided

A Bonner Sphere Spectrometer for pulsed fields

The use of conventional Bonner Sphere Spectrometers (BSS) in pulsed neutron fields (PNF) is limited by the fact that proportional counters, usually employed as the thermal neutron detectors, suffer from dead time losses and show severe underestimation of the neutron interaction rate, which leads to strong distortion of the calculated spectrum. In order to avoid these limitations, an innovative BSS, called BSS-LUPIN, has been developed for measuring in PNF. This paper describes the physical characteristics of the device and its working principle, together with the results of Monte Carlo simulations of its response matrix. The BSS-LUPIN has been tested in the stray neutron field at the CERN Proton Synchrotron, by comparing the spectra obtained with the new device, the conventional CERN BSS and via Monte Carlo simulations