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    Obtaininglow alloy steels with different Nicontents and similar microstructures and mechanical properties

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    Los aceros de baja aleación son ampliamente utilizados en la industria del gas y petróleo. La incorporación de Ni en estos aceros mejora la tenacidad a la fractura a bajas temperaturas y la templabilidad, con bajo impacto negativo en la soldabilidad. Sin embargo, la norma ISO 15156-2 restringe su uso hasta un máximo de 1 % en peso, exigiendo ensayos adicionales y costosos si se desean adoptar contenidos mayores de Ni. Este límite se basa en la hipótesis de que un exceso de Ni puede afectar negativamente la resistencia a la corrosión bajo tensión en medios con sulfhídrico (en inglés, Sulfide Stress Cracking (SSC)). Por otro lado, algunos investigadores han concluido que el fenómeno no depende del contenido de Ni, sino de la microestructura y dureza de la aleación, lo cual hace que el límite en composición del Ni planteado por la norma ISO 15156-2 sea controversial. El objetivo de este trabajo es desarrollar aleaciones y tratamientos térmicos que permitan obtener microestructura y dureza similares en aceros con distinto contenido de Ni (0-5% en peso), dejando así como variable principal el contenido de Ni. Estas muestras serán, en una etapa posterior del trabajo, utilizadas para estudiar la cinética de propagación de fisuras por SSC. Se realizaron mediciones de temperaturas de transformación de fases por calorimetría diferencial de barrido (DSC). La caracterización del material templado confirmó que las microestructuras finales obtenidas constituyenestructuras esencialmente martensíticas. Mediante tratamientos térmicos de revenido fue posible alcanzar valores de dureza menores que 22 HRC, tal como exige la norma ISO 15156-2 para maximizar la resistencia a SSC. La microestructura se evaluó mediante caracterización por microscopía óptica, electrónica de barrido (SEM) y dureza. A su vez, se caracterizaron las propiedades mecánicas de las aleaciones mediante ensayos de tracción.Low alloy steels are used in many applications in the oil and gas industry. The addition of Ni in these steels improves their low temperature fracture toughness and hardenability, with a low penalty on weldability. However, ISO 15156-2 standard restricts Ni content up to a 1 wt% limit, requiring additional and expensive tests if higher Ni steels are to be used. This limit is based on the hypothesis that higher contents of Ni may negatively affect Sulfide Stress Cracking (SSC) resistance in sour service applications. On the other hand, several investigators have concluded that SSC resistance depends on microstructure and hardness rather than Ni content. The 1 wt% Ni limit imposed by ISO 15156-2 is controversial, as recently pointed out by other authors. This work aims to develop alloys and heat treatments tailored to obtain the same microstructure and hardness in steels with different Ni contents (from 0 to 5 wt %), therefore leaving Ni content as the main variable. This will allow, in a future stage of the project, to study the effect of Ni on the SSC crack propagation kinetics. Transformation temperaturesof the alloys were measured with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Characterization of the as-quenched samples confirmed a fully martensite microstructure. Tempering of the samples allowed obtaining hardness values near 22 HRC. Microstructure was evaluated with optical and scanning electron microscope and hardness measurements. Tensile tests were performed to evaluate mechanical properties as a function of Ni content.Fil: Parodi, Santiago Ariel. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto Sabato; ArgentinaFil: Kappes, Mariano Alberto. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto Sabato; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; ArgentinaFil: Otegui. José Luis. YPF - Tecnología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Carranza, Ricardo Mario. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto Sabato; ArgentinaFil: Aguirre, Alberto. YPF - Tecnología; Argentin

    Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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    A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements

    Measurements of top-quark pair differential cross-sections in the eμe\mu channel in pppp collisions at s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector

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    Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying into Wb in pp collisions at s=8\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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    Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collision data at s=8TeV\sqrt{s}=8\,\mathrm TeV{} with the ATLAS detector

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    Measurement of the bbb\overline{b} dijet cross section in pp collisions at s=7\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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    Charged-particle distributions at low transverse momentum in s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV pppp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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    Search for dark matter in association with a Higgs boson decaying to bb-quarks in pppp collisions at s=13\sqrt s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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    ATLAS Run 1 searches for direct pair production of third-generation squarks at the Large Hadron Collider

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    Measurement of the W boson polarisation in ttˉt\bar{t} events from pp collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV in the lepton + jets channel with ATLAS

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