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Position resolution and efficiency measurements with large scale Thin Gap Chambers for the super LHC
New developments in Thin Gap Chambers (TGC) detectors to provide fast trigger
and high precision muon tracking under sLHC conditions are presented. The
modified detectors are shown to stand a high total irradiation dose equivalent
to 6 Coulomb/cm of wire, without showing any deterioration in their
performance. Two large (1.2 x 0.8 m^2) prototypes containing four gaps, each
gap providing pad, strips and wires readout, with a total thickness of 50 mm,
have been constructed. Their local spatial resolution has been measured in a
100 GeV/c muon test beam at CERN. At perpendicular incidence angle, single gap
position resolution better than 60 microns has been obtained. For incidence
angle of 20 degrees resolution of less than 100 micron was achieved. TGC
prototypes were also tested under a flux of 10^5 Hz/cm^2 of 5.5-6.5 MeV
neutrons, showing a high efficiency for cosmic muons detection.Comment: Presented at the 12 Vienna conference on Instrumentation, February
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Constructing Achievement in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY): A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis
The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the UN Security Council in 1993 to prosecute persons responsible for war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia during the Balkan wars. As the first international war crimes tribunal since the Nuremburg and Tokyo tribunals set up after WWII, the ICTY has attracted immense interest among legal scholars since its inception, but has failed to garner the same level of attention from researchers in other disciplines, notably linguistics. This represents a significant research gap, as the Tribunal’s public discourse (notably its case law and Annual Reports) can open up interesting avenues of analysis to researchers of law, language, and legal discourse alike. On its official website, the Tribunal claims that it has “irreversibly changed the landscape of international humanitarian law” and lists six specific achievements: “Holding leaders accountable; bringing justice to victims; giving victims a voice; establishing the facts; developing international law and strengthening the rule of the law”. While a number of legal scholars have studied and critiqued the level of ‘achievement’ actually attained by the Tribunal against these metrics and others, of interest to linguists is the ways in which this work might be conveyed discursively. In this paper, we demonstrate how methods from the linguistic field of corpus-based critical discourse analysis can be utilised to explore the discursive construction of such achievements in the language of the ICTY