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Charge Stripping Reactions in Mass Spectrometry: A Study of Diatomic and Triatomic Inorganic and Organic Ions
Charge stripping reactions of the type m• + N--+ m2• + N + ehave
been studied for a variety of diatomic and triatomic inorganic
and organic ions. Ionisation energies of the m• ions, IE (m+--+ m2• ),
have been determined, most of them for the first time. The method
is fast and straightforward; it is applicable to both molecular and
fragment .ions. The relative cross-sections for the charge stripping
processes have been also determined; they show llrge variations
from one species to another. Cases of possible interferences, which
are fairly infrequent, are described and discussed
Measurement of the mass of the τ lepton
The mass of the τ lepton has been measured at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider using the Beijing Spectrometer. A search near threshold for e^+e^-→τ^+τ^- was performed. Candidate events were identified by requiring that one τ decay via τ→eνν¯, and the other via τ→μνν¯. The mass value, obtained from a fit to the energy dependence of the τ^+τ^- cross section, is m_τ=1776.9_(-0.5)^(+0.4)±0.2 MeV
Limits on τ lepton-flavor violating decays into three charged leptons
A search for the neutrinoless, lepton-flavor violating decay of the τ lepton into three charged leptons has been performed using an integrated luminosity of 468 fb^(-1) collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II collider. In all six decay modes considered, the numbers of events found in data are compatible with the background expectations. Upper limits on the branching fractions are set in the range (1.8–3.3)×10^(-8) at 90% confidence level
Measurement of the γγ^*→η_c transition form factor
We study the reaction e^+e^-→e^+e^-η_c, η_c→K_SK^±π^∓ and obtain η_c mass and width values 2982.2±0.4±1.6 MeV/c^2 and 31.7±1.2±0.8 MeV, respectively. We find Γ(η_c→γγ)B(ηc→KK π)=0.374±0.009±0.031 keV, and measure the γγ^*→η_c transition form factor in the momentum transfer range from 2 to 50 GeV^2. The analysis is based on 469 fb^(-1) of integrated luminosity collected at PEP-II with the BABAR detector at e^+e^- center-of-mass energies near 10.6 GeV
Ergodicity of the statistic and purity of neutron resonance data
The statistic characterizes the fluctuations of the number of
levels as a function of the length of the spectral interval. It is studied as a
possible tool to indicate the regular or chaotic nature of underlying dynamics,
detect missing levels and the mixing of sequences of levels of different
symmetry, particularly in neutron resonance data. The relation between the
ensemble average and the average over different fragments of a given
realization of spectra is considered. A useful expression for the variance of
which accounts for finite sample size is discussed. An analysis
of neutron resonance data presents the results consistent with a maximum
likelihood method applied to the level spacing distribution.Comment: 24 pages, 19 figures, 1 tabl
Risk of cancer following primary total hip replacement or primary resurfacing arthroplasty of the hip : A retrospective cohort study in Scotland
Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lee Barnsdale, Doug Clark, and Richard Dobbie for advice and assistance with data preparation before analysis, and to the three anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
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