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Experimental Signature of Medium Modifications for rho and omega Mesons in the 12 GeV p + A Reactions
The invariant mass spectra of e+e- pairs produced in 12-GeV proton-induced
nuclear reactions are measured at the KEK Proton-Synchrotron. On the low-mass
side of the omega meson peak, a significant enhancement over the known hadronic
sources has been observed. The mass spectra, including the excess, are well
reproduced by a model that takes into account the density dependence of the
vector meson mass modification, as theoretically predicted.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, Version accepted for Physical Review Lette
Nuclear mass number dependence of inclusive production of omega and phi mesons in 12 GeV p + A collisions
The inclusive production of omega and phi mesons is studied in the backward
region of the interaction of 12 GeV protons with polyethylene, carbon, and
copper targets. The mesons are measured in e^+ e^- decay channels. The
production cross sections of the mesons are presented as functions of rapidity
y and transverse momentum p_T. The nuclear mass number dependences (A
dependences) are found to be A^{0.710 +/- 0.021(stat) +/- 0.037(syst)} for
omega mesons and A^{0.937 +/- 0.049(stat) +/- 0.018(syst)} for phi mesons in
the region of 0.9 < y < 1.7 and p_T < 0.75 GeV/c.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures; typos adde
Nuclear-matter modification of decay widths in the and channels
The invariant mass spectra of are measured in 12 GeV
reactions in order to search for the in-medium modification of
mesons. The observed spectra are well reproduced by the
relativistic Breit-Wigner function with a combinatorial background shape in
three regions between 1.0 and 3.5. The nuclear mass-number
dependence of the yields of the decay channel is compared to the
simultaneously measured decay channel for carbon and copper
targets. We parameterize the production yields as and obtain to be
0.14 0.12. Limits are obtained for the partial decay widths of
mesons in nuclear matter.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Interleukin-6, MCP-1, IP-10, and MIG are sequentially expressed in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid hemorrhage
Genome-wide association of multiple complex traits in outbred mice by ultra low-coverage sequencing
The authors wish to acknowledge excellent technical assistance from A. Kurioka, L. Swadling, C. de Lara, J. Ussher, R. Townsend, S. Lionikaite, A.S. Lionikiene, R. Wolswinkel and I. van der Made. We would like to thank T.M. Keane and A.G. Doran for their help in annotating variants and adding the FVB/NJ strain to the MGP. We thank the High-Throughput Genomics Group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute for the generation of the sequencing data. This work was funded by Wellcome Trust grant 090532/Z/09/Z (J.F.). Primary phenotyping of the mice was supported by the Mary Lyon Centre and Mammalian Genetics Unit (Medical Research Council, UK Hub grant G0900747 91070 and Medical Research Council, UK grant MC U142684172). D.A.B. acknowledges support from NIH R01AR056280. The sleep work was supported by the state of Vaud (Switzerland) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF 14694 and 136201 to P.F.). The ECG work was supported by the Netherlands CardioVascular Research Initiative (Dutch Heart Foundation, Dutch Federation of University Medical Centres, Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences) PREDICT project, InterUniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN; 061.02; C.A.R. and C.R.B.). N.C. is supported by the Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Graduate Academy. R.W.D. is supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust (097308/Z/11/Z).Peer reviewedPostprin
Risk factor–gene interaction in carotid atherosclerosis: effect of gene polymorphisms of renin-angiotensin system
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