Calibration of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter using calibration hits

In the present note a method to determine the electron energy from the energies measured in an electron cluster is discussed. The method is based on a detailed Monte-Carlo simulation (labeled \textit{Calibration Hits}) of electrons in the ATLAS detector in which also the energies deposited in the passive and dead materials are recorded. It allows also to compute the different contributions (energy deposited in front, in and behind the Accordion) to the total electron energy. To better understand the various contributions to the energy reconstruction three rounds of simulations have been performed: electrons hitting the middle cell centre, electrons spread uniformly over a cell in absence of magnetic field and electrons spread uniformly over a cell in presence of magnetic field. The method is applied to the Barrel calorimeter and to electrons. Its extension to the End Caps and to photons does not pose problems. In the operative ATLAS conditions an energy resolution sampling term varying from 9.9$\%$ at $\eta$=0.3 and 16.8$\%$ at $\eta$=1.2 is obtained. The linearity varies between 0.1$\%$ and 0.4$\%$ in the energy interval 10-100GeV over the same $\eta$ range

A cultivar de videira sémillon: características e comportamento no Rio Grande do Sul.

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O cultivo da videira: informações básicas.

bitstream/item/87140/1/o-cultivo.pdfEsta publicação tem dois exemplares editados em anos diferentes:m 1984 e 1996

Fenologia e requerimento térmico de videira sob cobertura plástica.

O objetivo desse trabalho foi caracterizar a fenologia e o requerimento térmico da videira Vitis vinifera L., cv. Moscato Giallo sob cobertura plástica, nas condições da Serra Gaúcha.bitstream/CNPUV-2009-09/10531/1/cot093.pd

Produtividade de videiras Moscato Giallo sob cultivo protegido.

Este trabalho teve por objetivos avaliar a influência da cobertura plástica impermeável sobre o potencial e a estabilidade de produção, considerando a análise dos componentes de rendimento da cultivar Moscato Giallo (Vitis vinifera).bitstream/item/31569/1/cot101.pd

Energy Linearity and Resolution of the ATLAS Electromagnetic Barrel Calorimeter in an Electron Test-Beam

A module of the ATLAS electromagnetic barrel liquid argon calorimeter was exposed to the CERN electron test-beam at the H8 beam line upgraded for precision momentum measurement. The available energies of the electron beam ranged from 10 to 245 GeV. The electron beam impinged at one point corresponding to a pseudo-rapidity of eta=0.687 and an azimuthal angle of phi=0.28 in the ATLAS coordinate system. A detailed study of several effects biasing the electron energy measurement allowed an energy reconstruction procedure to be developed that ensures a good linearity and a good resolution. Use is made of detailed Monte Carlo simulations based on Geant which describe the longitudinal and transverse shower profiles as well as the energy distributions. For electron energies between 15 GeV and 180 GeV the deviation of the measured incident electron energy over the beam energy is within 0.1%. The systematic uncertainty of the measurement is about 0.1% at low energies and negligible at high energies. The energy resolution is found to be about 10% sqrt(E) for the sampling term and about 0.2% for the local constant term

Caracterização micrometeorológica de vinhedos cultivados sob cobertura plástica na Serra Gaúcha.

Alterações microclimáticas em vinhedos, provocadas pelo uso de cobertura plástica, interferem na fisiologia das plantas e na incidência de doenças fúngicas em videiras. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a influência da cobertura plástica no microclima de vinhedos, em particular na qualidade da radiação solar. O experimento foi conduzido nos ciclos 2005/06 e 2006/07, em Flores da Cunha, Rio Grande do Sul (RS), em um vinhedo de ?Moscato Giallo? conduzido em Y, com cobertura plástica impermeável (160 mm) sobre 12 fileiras com 35 m, deixando-se cinco fileiras sem cobertura (controle). Em ambas as áreas, avaliou-se o microclima quanto à temperatura do ar, umidade relativa do ar, radiação fotossinteticamente ativa e velocidade do vento, próximo ao dossel vegetativo e aos cachos. Medições contínuas foram efetuadas utilizando sensores e sistemas automáticos de aquisição de dados. Alterações na qualidade da radiação solar incidente sobre o dossel vegetativo, no espectro de 300 a 750 nm, foram avaliadas por meio de medições durante cinco dias, com espectroradiômetro. A cobertura plástica impermeável à água sobre as fileiras das plantas aumentou a temperatura do ar e diminuiu a radiação fotossinteticamente ativa e a velocidade do vento. A cobertura interferiu na qualidade da radiação solar incidente, principalmente reduzindo a irradiância na faixa do ultravioleta e a razão entre a radiação nas faixas do vermelho e vermelho-distante.bitstream/CNPUV-2009-09/11571/1/bop014.pdfISSN 1981-1004

Imatinib mesylate therapy in chronic myeloid leukemia patients in stable complete cytogenetic response after interferon-alpha results in any high complete molecular response.

To determine the impact on minimal residual disease by switching to imatinib chronic phase chronic myeloid leukaemia (CP-CML) patients responsive to interferon-alpha (IFNα), in stable complete cytogenetic response (CCR) but with persistent PCR positivity. Twenty-six Philadelphia positive (Ph+) CML patients in stable CCR after IFNα but persistently positive at PCR analysis during this treatment, were given imatinib mesylate at standard dose. At enrolment into the study, median IFN treatment and CCR duration were 88 months (range 15–202) and 73 months (range 10–148), respectively. Imatinib treatment resulted in a progressive and consistent decline of the residual disease as measured by quantitative PCR (RQ-PCR) in all but one of the 26 patients; at the end of follow-up, after a median of 32 months (range 21–49) of treatment, a major molecular response (BCR/ABL levels <0.1) was reached in 20 patients (77%), and BCR/ABL transcripts were undetectable in 13 (50%). The achievement of molecular response was significantly correlated with post-IFN baseline transcript level (mean 1.194 for patients achieving complete molecular response versus 18.97 for those who did not; p < 0.001), but not with other clinical/biological disease characteristics. These results indicate that patients induced into CCR by IFN treatment represent a subset with very favourable prognosis, which can significantly improve molecular response with imatinib and further support investigative treatment schedules combining these two drugs