Beam position reconstruction for the g2p experiment in Hall A at Jefferson lab

Beam-line equipment was upgraded for experiment E08-027 (g2p) in Hall A at Jefferson Lab. Two beam position monitors (BPMs) were necessary to measure the beam position and angle at the target. A new BPM receiver was designed and built to handle the low beam currents (50-100 nA) used for this experiment. Two new super-harps were installed for calibrating the BPMs. In addition to the existing fast raster system, a slow raster system was installed. Before and during the experiment, these new devices were tested and debugged, and their performance was also evaluated. In order to achieve the required accuracy (1-2 mm in position and 1-2 mrad in angle at the target location), the data of the BPMs and harps were carefully analyzed, as well as reconstructing the beam position and angle event by event at the target location. The calculated beam position will be used in the data analysis to accurately determine the kinematics for each event. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Genetic diversity analysis of DRB3.2 in domestic yak (Bos grunniens) in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

DRB3 gene has been extensively evaluated as a candidate marker for association with many bovine disease and immunological traits. A hemi-nested polymerase chain reaction-sequencing method was used to investigate the polymorphisms of DRB3.2 gene from 209 individuals in three different domestic yak (Bos grunniens) populations (62 Tianzhu white yaks, 78 Gannan yaks and 69 Datong yaks) from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Sixty-three polymorphic sites and 143 haplotypes were detected. The percentage of polymorphic sites in Gannan Yak (GNY), Tianzhu white Yak (TWY) and Datong Yak (DTY) were 21.80, 29.95 and 12.95%, while the haplotype diversity were 0.9987, 0.9984 and 0.9855, respectively. At the amino acid level, Glu had the highest content; the percentage was 12.326%, followed by Arg (10.315%), Phe (10.804%), Val (8.346%), Gly (8.315%), Leu (6.606%) and Ala (5.851%), whereas Met and Ile were below than 1%. Only 19 amino acids were found in DTY, Met was lost. Among the synonymous codons, whose third base was G and/or C had a higher usage frequency. Most variability were found in amino acid residues 11, 13, 26, 28, 30, 32, 37, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73 and 74. In GNY, the residues at positions 71, 11 and 72 were highly polymorphic with 8, 7 and 7, at 50, 58, 70, 74 and 78, the residues were selectively polymorphic than other yak populations; the other polymorphic sites were common in the populations. The results of this study indicated that the Chinese domestic yak populations in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau have abundant polymorphism in DRB3.2, and the GNY was the highest, followed by TWY and DTY.Key words: Domestic Yak, Hemi-nested PCR, BoLA-DRB3.2, polymorphism