63 research outputs found
Availability Modeling and Analysis Based on Repair Policy for Selector Distribution Unit (SDU) Platform
This paper presents the impact of repair policies on the availability of a selector distribution unit (SDU) in a telecommunication system. Three repair policies are analyzed, One-Shot Repair Policy, Sequential Repair Policy, and Simultaneous Repair Policy. The availability of the SDU unit is measured using each of the investigated repair policies. Failure rates and average availability are used as primary performance indexes. The results show that the impact of repair policy is minimal when the number of faults is relatively low. When the number of faults to be repaired is relatively large, the on-site simultaneous repair policy outperforms the other policies. The results were obtained using fault MEADEP reliability and availability analysis tool. The data used for measuring the performance of the repair policies are obtained from environment and practical numbers. The investigated SDU has availability budget of 0.99999933, which is required to achieve a 5 NINES availability for the entire telecom network
Misconceptions about Atomic Models Amongst the Chemistry Students
Bohrâs model is a semi-classical model which involves both classical and quantum principles. Although more sophisticated Schrödinger model has been presented to students, the residual picture in their minds persists to consider Bohrâs model to be the closest to the physical reality. We included few questions about Bohrâs model in tests to assess the studentsâ understandings of realistic atomic models in general-chemistry courses offered for freshmen in two universities in the Middle-East (namely, Yarmouk University at Irbid, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates University at Al-Ain, UAE, from both a statistical sample of 687 students was collected). The results reveal the existence of huge misconceptions amongst a large portion of the studentsâ sample (i.e., â„ 85%). Alternative solutions are discussed and suggested to draw a strategy to better dissimilate the knowledge in order to overcome the existing learning difficulties
Effect of water softening on the colour intensity of routine haematoxylin and eosin stain
ABSTRACT Haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) is the most popular routine stain used in pathology laboratories for highlighting cellular structures. To study the effect of tap water 'softening' (i.e. calcium extraction) on H&E stains, 5 sets of slides from 30 different paraffin-embedded human pathologic tissue blocks were prepared in the same way except for washing with 5 different types of water. Slides washed in untreated tap water showed the best results concerning differentiation and colour intensity, while slides washed with softened or other treated water showed poorer degrees of differentiation and colour intensity. The worst results were obtained from slides washed with water containing sodium bicarbonate. Low calcium and magnesium ions and high sodium ions in soft water adversely affect the results of routine H&E stain
Probing anomalous top quark interactions at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider
We study the effects of dimension-six operators contributing to the vertex in top quark pair production at the Tevatron collider. We derive both
the limits from Run 1 data and the potential bounds from future runs (Run 2 and
3). Although the current constraints are not very strong, the future runs are
quite effective in probing these operators. We investigate the possibility of
disentangling different operators with the invariant mass
distribution and the top quark polarization asymmetry. We also study the
effects of a different set of operators contributing to single top production
via the coupling. We derive the current and potential future bounds
on these anomalous operators and find that the upgraded Tevatron can improve
the existing constraints from for one of the operators.Comment: 20 pages, 2 figures, REVTEX, some clarifying remarks adde
Flavor changing scalar couplings and production at hadron colliders
We calculate the contributions of the flavor changing scalar ()
couplings arised from topcolor-assisted technicolor () models at
tree-level to the and production at the Tevatron and
experiments. We find that the production cross sections are very small at the
Tevatron with , which is smaller than 5 fb in most of the
parameter space of models. However, the virtual effects of the
couplings on the production can be easily detected at the
with via the final state
().Comment: 10 pages,5 figure
Flavor changing t -> c l_1^- l_2^+ decay in the general two Higgs doublet model
We study the flavor changing t-> c l_1^- l_2^+ decay in the framework of the
general two Higgs doublet model, the so called model III. We predict the
branching ratio for l_1=\tau, l_2=\mu at the order of magnitude of BR \sim
10^{-8}.Comment: 12 Pages, 5 Figure
Single Top Quark Production via FCNC Couplings at Hadron Colliders
We calculate single top-quark production at hadron colliders via the
chromo-magnetic flavor-changing neutral current couplings and . We find that the strength for the anomalous ()
coupling may be probed to () at the Tevatron with of data and
() at the LHC with of data. The two couplings may be
distinguished by a comparision of the single top signal with the direct top and
top decay signals for these couplings.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, 3 table
Anomalous Single Top Production at the LHeC Based gamma p Collider
The top quark could provide very important information for the Standard Model
extentions due to its large mass close to the electroweak symmetry breaking
scale. In this work, anomalous single top production is studied by using gamma
p-->W^{+}b process at the LHeC based gamma p collider. The sensitivity to
anomalous coupling kappa/Lambda could be reached down to 0.01 TeV^{-1}.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, 3 table
Single top quark production as a probe of R-parity-violating SUSY at pp and p\bar p colliders
We investigate the ability of single top quark production via qq'->
squark->tb and q \bar q'->slepton->t\bar b at the LHC and Tevatron to probe the
strength of R-parity violating couplings in the minimal supersymmetric model.
We found that given the existing bounds on R-parity violating couplings, single
top quark production may be greatly enhanced over that predicted by the
standard model, and that both colliders can either discover R-parity violating
SUSY or set strong constraints on the relevant R-parity violating couplings. We
further found that the LHC is much more powerful than the Tevatron in probing
the squark couplings, but the two colliders have comparable sensitivity for the
slepton couplings.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
Top-Charm Associated Production in High Energy Collisions
The possibility of exploring the flavor changing neutral current
couplings in the production vertex for the reaction \epem\to
t\bar c + \bar tc is examined. Using a model independent parameterization for
the effective Lagrangian to describe the most general three-point interactions,
production cross sections are found to be relatively small at LEP II, but
potentially sizeable at higher energy \epem colliders. The kinematic
characteristics of the signal are studied and a set of cuts are devised for
clean separation of the signal from background. The resulting sensitivity to
anomalous flavor changing couplings at LEP II with an integrated luminosity of
pb is found to be comparable to their present indirect
constraints from loop processes, while at higher energy colliders with
TeV center-of-mass energy and 50-200 fb luminosity, one expects to reach
a sensitivity at or below the percentage level.Comment: Latex, 22 page
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