Using XDAQ in Application Scenarios of the CMS Experiment

XDAQ is a generic data acquisition software environment that emerged from a rich set of of use-cases encountered in the CMS experiment. They cover not the deployment for multiple sub-detectors and the operation of different processing and networking equipment as well as a distributed collaboration of users with different needs. The use of the software in various application scenarios demonstrated the viability of the approach. We discuss two applications, the tracker local DAQ system for front-end commissioning and the muon chamber validation system. The description is completed by a brief overview of XDAQ.Comment: Conference CHEP 2003 (Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, La Jolla, CA

The CMS Event Builder

The data acquisition system of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider will employ an event builder which will combine data from about 500 data sources into full events at an aggregate throughput of 100 GByte/s. Several architectures and switch technologies have been evaluated for the DAQ Technical Design Report by measurements with test benches and by simulation. This paper describes studies of an EVB test-bench based on 64 PCs acting as data sources and data consumers and employing both Gigabit Ethernet and Myrinet technologies as the interconnect. In the case of Ethernet, protocols based on Layer-2 frames and on TCP/IP are evaluated. Results from ongoing studies, including measurements on throughput and scaling are presented. The architecture of the baseline CMS event builder will be outlined. The event builder is organised into two stages with intelligent buffers in between. The first stage contains 64 switches performing a first level of data concentration by building super-fragments from fragments of 8 data sources. The second stage combines the 64 super-fragments into full events. This architecture allows installation of the second stage of the event builder in steps, with the overall throughput scaling linearly with the number of switches in the second stage. Possible implementations of the components of the event builder are discussed and the expected performance of the full event builder is outlined.Comment: Conference CHEP0

Расчет гашения обратного напряжения в импульсной схеме

Grid and e-science infrastructure interoperability is an increasing demand for Grid applications but interoperability based on common open standards adopted by Grid middle-wares are only starting to emerge on Grid infrastructures and are not broadly provided today. In earlier work we have shown how open standards can be improved by lessons learned from cross-Grid applications that require access to both, High Throughput Computing (HTC) resources as well as High Performance Computing (HPC) resources. This paper provides more insights in several concepts with a particular focus on effectively describing Grid job descriptions in order to satisfy the demands of e-scientists and their cross-Grid applications. Based on lessons learned over years gained with interoperability setups between production Grids such as EGEE, DEISA, and NorduGrid, we illustrate how common open Grid standards (i.e. JSDL and GLUE2) can take cross-Grid application experience into account

A novel free-electron laser single-pulse Wollaston polarimeter for magneto-dynamical studies

Here, we report on the conceptual design, the hardware realization, and the first experimental results of a novel and compact x-ray polarimeter capable of a single-pulse linear polarization angle detection in the extreme ultraviolet photon energy range. The polarimeter is tested by performing time resolved pump-probe experiments on a Ni80Fe20 Permalloy film at the M-2,M-3 Ni edge at an externally seeded free-electron laser source. Comparison with similar experiments reported in the literature shows the advantages of our approach also in view of future experiments

CD56, HLA-DR, and CD45 recognize a subtype of childhood AML harboring CBFA2T3-GLIS2 fusion transcript

The presence of CBFA2T3‐GLIS2 fusion gene has been identified in childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). In view of the genomic studies indicating a distinct gene expression profile, we evaluated the role of immunophenotyping in characterizing a rare subtype of AML‐CBFA2T3‐GLIS2 rearranged. Immunophenotypic data were obtained by studying a cohort of 20 pediatric CBFA2T3‐GLIS2‐AML and 77 AML patients not carrying the fusion transcript. Enrolled cases were included in the Associazione Italiana di Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica (AIEOP) AML trials and immunophenotypes were compared using different statistical approaches. By multiple computational procedures, we identified two main core antigens responsible for the identification of the CBFA2T3‐GLIS2‐AML. CD56 showed the highest performance in single marker evaluation (AUC = 0.89) and granted the most accurate prediction when used in combination with HLA‐DR (AUC = 0.97) displaying a 93% sensitivity and 99% specificity. We also observed a weak‐to‐negative CD45 expression, being exceptional in AML. We here provide evidence that the combination of HLA‐DR negativity and intense bright CD56 expression detects a rare and aggressive pediatric AML genetic lesion improving the diagnosis performance

A new coordination polymer constructed from Pb(NO3)2 and a benzylideneisonicotinohydrazide derivative: Coordination-induced generation of a π-hole towards a tetrel-bonding stabilized structure

We report on a new Pb(II) coordination polymer [Pb(HL)(NO3)2]n (1), obtained from a direct reaction of Pb(NO3)2 with N'-4-(dimethylamino)benzylideneisonicotinohydrazide (HL). The coordination sphere around the Pb(II) cation is built by the 1,4-N,O-chelating neutral HL, by six oxygen atoms from three chelating nitrate anions, and by the pyridyl nitrogen donor from a symmetry related molecule. The ligand HL and one of the nitrate anions, acting as bridging species, yield two 1D zig-zag polymeric chains along the crystallographic axes b and c, respectively. As a result, the overall structural architecture of 1 is a 2D layer, which is reinforced by the N–H···O hydrogen bonds and by π···π interactions, resulting in a 4-connected uninodal sql/Shubnikov tetragonal plane net topology or a 3,5-connected binodal 3,5L1 net, once the N–H···O hydrogen bonds are considered. In addition of these conventional interactions, the coordination of the hydrazide group to the Pb(II) ion provokes the formation of a π-hole at the carbonyl group that establishes a tetrel bond with the oxygen atom of a nearby nitrato-ligand belonging to another polymeric chain. This interaction has been studied energetically at the PBE0-D3/def2-TZVP level of theory and also characterized by using a combination of MEP, QTAIM and NCIplot computational tools. © 2021Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT: UIDB/00100/2020; Instituto Superior Técnico, IST: IST-ID/110/2018; European Regional Development Fund, FEDER; Agencia Estatal de Investigación, AEI: CTQ2017–85821-RThis work has been partially supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia ( FCT ) 2020–2023 multiannual funding to Centro de Quimica Estrutural (project UIDB/00100/2020 ). A.V. Gurbanov acknowledges the FCT and Instituto Superior Técnico ( DL 57/2016 and L 57/2017 Program, Contract no: IST-ID/110/2018 ). We acknowledge Australian Synchrotron for beamtime via the Collaborative Access Program (proposal 13618b ). This research was funded in part by MICIU / AEI , grant number CTQ2017–85821-R , FEDER funds

Lead(ii) Coordination Polymers Driven by Pyridine-Hydrazine Donors: From Anion-Guided Self-Assembly to Structural Features

In this work, we report extensive experimental and theoretical investigations on a new series of PbII coordination polymers exhibiting extended supramolecular architectures, namely [Pb2(LI)(NCS)4]n (1), [Pb(HLII)I2]n (2), [Pb(LIII)I]n (3) and [Pb(HLIV)(NO3)2]n·nMeOH (4), which were self-assembled from different PbII salts and various pyridine-hydrazine based linkers, namely 1,2-bis(pyridin-3-ylmethylene)hydrazine (LI), (pyridin-4-ylmethylene)isonicotinohydrazide (HLII), 1-(pyridin-2-yl)ethylidenenicotinohydrazide (HLIII) and phenyl(pyridin-2-yl)methylenenicotinohydrazide (HLIV), respectively. It is recognized that the origin of self-assembling is fundamentally rooted in a dual donor (6s2/6p0 hybridized lone electron pair) and electrophilic behaviour of PbII. This allows production of extended topologies from a 1D polymeric chain in 4 through a 2D layer in 2 to the 3D frameworks in 1 and 3, predominantly due to the cooperative action of both covalent and non-covalent tetrel interactions of the overall type Pb-X (X = O, N, S, I). Counterintuitively, the latter, seemingly weak interactions, have appeared to be even stronger than the typical covalent bonds due to the presence of a bunch of supportive London dispersion dominated contacts: π⋯π, Lp⋯π, C-H⋯O, C-H⋯I, C-H⋯H-C as well as more typical mainly electrostatically driven N-H⋯O or N/O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. It is revealed that the constituting generally strong tetrel type Pb-X (X = O, N, S, I) bonds, though dominated by a classic Coulomb term, are therefore characterized by a very important London dispersion constituent, extremely strong relativistic effects and the two way dative-covalent Pb ↔ X electron charge delocalization contribution as revealed by the Extended Transition State Natural Orbital for Chemical Valence (ETS-NOCV) charge and energy decomposition scheme. It unravels that the pyridine-hydrazine linkers are also excellent London dispersion donors, and that together with the donor-acceptor properties of the heavy (relativistic) PbII atoms and nucleophilic counterions lead to extended self-assembling of 1-4. © 2020 The Royal Society of Chemistry.We are grateful to the University of Maragheh for the financial support of this research. The publication has been prepared with the support from the “RUDN University Program 5-100” (recipient F. I. Zubkov, synthesis of the ligands). DFT calculations were partially performed using the PL-Grid Infrastructure and resources provided by the ACC Cyfronet AGH (Cracow, Poland). A. M. Kirillov acknowledges the FCT and Portugal 2020 (LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-029697 and UIDB/ 00100/2020). ICMAB acknowledges the Severo Ochoa Program (MINECO, SEV-2015-0496). M. P. Mitoraj acknowledges the financial support from the Polish National Science Center within the Sonata Bis Project 2017/26/E/ST4/00104