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The First Results for a New Layout of the Stay Cables for Great Span Bridges
AbstractThe air-elastic vibrations of structures induce fluctuating stresses that lead to fatigue damage accumulation and may determine structural failure without exceeding ultimate strength This paper proposes a new layout of stay cables to be used in the construction or the retrofitting of long span bridges, capable of mitigating the air-elastic problems due to environmental vibrations such as the rain-wind excitations. The structural scheme adopted was derived from the critical conditions in terms of stability obtained by referring to lateral suspension cables stayed bridge with two planes of fan pattern stay cables. The new layout consists in implementing an additional plane of cable stays placed symmetrically just under the deck bridge. The final layout of the cable stays was identified as “duplex”. The numerical investigation was carried out in the frequency domain. The results obtained show a sensible increasing of stiffness, as well as a reduction of the natural period of vibrations. In the analysis the deck was considered as thin and very light. The Duplex layout had, also, permitted to mitigate the wind effects, because the presence of the inferior stay cables simulate the viscous dampers
Dielectron Measurements in STAR
Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a unique environment to study
the properties of strongly interacting matter. Dileptons, which are not
affected by the strong interactions, are an ideal penetrating probe. We present
the dielectron results for p+p and Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}}
=200 GeV, as measured by the STAR experiment. We discuss the prospects of
dilepton measurements with the near-future detector upgrades, and the recent
lower beam energy Au+Au measurements.Comment: Resonance Workshop at UT Austin (2012), 8 pages,15 figure
Vertex finding in ALICE by the use of silicon pixel layers in the Inner Tracking System
The performance of the Inner Tracking System of the ALICE detector for primary vertex estimation is discussed. A simulation study of the vertex reconstruction in ALICE through the information given by the two pixel layers is reported. Vertex resolution was studied as a function of the nominal vertex location and of the particle multiplicity
Tracking inside the ALICE Inner Tracking System
One of the main purposes of the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS) is to improve the resolution of the track parameters found in the main ALICE tracker detector, the Time Projector Chamber (TPC). Some results about tracking efficiency and resolution of track parameters obtained with a tracking code, based on the Kalman filter algorithm are presented
Phenomenological analysis of K+ meson production in proton-nucleus collisions
Total and differential cross sections from literature, on the production of
K+ mesons in pA interactions at projectile energies between T=0.8 and 2.9 GeV,
covering the transition across the free nucleon-nucleon threshold at 1.58 GeV,
have been investigated. From the target-mass dependence of the production cross
sections no evidence for the expected change of the dominant reaction mechanism
from two-step to direct kaon production was found. At T=1.0 GeV the A
dependences of the total cross sections and of the most recent data from
COSY-Juelich, differential cross sections measured under forward angles, are
strongly different. The invariant K+ production cross sections show an overall
exponential scaling behavior with the squared four-momentum transfer between
the beam proton and the produced K+ meson for t< -0.05 GeV^2 independent of the
beam energy and emission angle. The data from COSY-Juelich reveal a strongly
different t dependence in the region of t>0 GeV^2. Further data at forward
angles and different beam energies should be taken in order to explore this
region of kinematically extreme conditions.Comment: 9 Pages, 11 Figure
Resonances and fluctuations in the statistical model
We describe how the study of resonances and fluctuations can help constrain
the thermal and chemical freezeout properties of the fireball created in heavy
ion collisions. This review is based on [1-5].Comment: Proceedings,"Hadronic resonance production in heavy ion and
elementary collisions" UT Austin, March 5-7 201
Evaluating chiral symmetry restoration through the use of sum rules
We pursue the idea of assessing chiral restoration via in-medium
modifications of hadronic spectral functions of chiral partners. The usefulness
of sum rules in this endeavor is illustrated, focusing on the vector and
axial-vector channels. We first present an update on constructing quantitative
results for pertinent vacuum spectral functions. These spectral functions serve
as a basis upon which the in-medium spectral functions can be constructed. A
striking feature of our analysis of the vacuum spectral functions is the need
to include excited resonances, dictated by satisfying the Weinberg-type sum
rules. This includes excited states in both the vector and axial-vector
channels. Preliminary results for the finite temperature vector spectral
function are presented. Based on a rho spectral function tested in dilepton
data which develops a shoulder at low energies, we find that the rho' peak
flattens off. The flattening may be a sign of chiral restoration, though a
study of the finite temperature axial-vector spectral function remains to be
carried out.Comment: 9 pages, conference proceedings from Resonance Workshop at UT Austin,
March 5-7 201
Strangeness enhancements at central rapidity in 40 A GeV/c Pb-Pb collisions
Results are presented on neutral kaon, hyperon and antihyperon production in
Pb-Pb and p-Be interactions at 40 GeV/c per nucleon. The enhancement pattern
follows the same hierarchy as seen in the higher energy data - the enhancement
increases with the strangeness content of the hyperons and with the centrality
of collision. The centrality dependence of the Pb-Pb yields and enhancements is
steeper at 40 than at 158 A GeV/c. The energy dependence of strangeness
enhancements at mid-rapidity is discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures and 3 tables. Presented at International
Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2009), Buzios, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, 27 Sept - 2 Oct 2009. Submitted to J.Phys.G: Nucl.Part.Phys, one
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