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The Detector Concept Report (DCR) consists of two parts, one for the physics and the other for ILC detectors. It has been prepared as the accompany document of the ILC Accelerator Reference Design Report. The detector DCR describes ILC…
Motivated by the need to detect an underground cavity within the procedure of an On-Site-Inspection (OSI), of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, the aim of this paper is to present results on the comparison of our…
This document describes the current understanding of the IVOA controlled vocabulary for describing astronomical data quantities, called Unified Content Descriptors (UCDs). The present document defines a new standard (named UCD1+) improving…
The Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) onboard INTEGRAL provides photometry in the Johnson V-band. With an aperture of 50 mm and a field of view of 5deg x 5deg, OMC is able to detect optical sources brighter than V~18, from a previously…
Some recent QCD results from the OPAL Collaboration are summarized. In particular: a test of color reconnection models and a search for glueballs using gluon jets with a rapidity gap; a study of unbiased gluon jet properties using a new…
We show that an arbitrary spatial distribution of complex refractive index inside an object can be exactly represented as a sum of two "monomorphous" complex distributions, i.e. the distributions with the ratios of the real part to the…
Many sophisticated computer models have been developed to understand the behaviour of particle accelerators. Even these complex models often do not describe the measured data. Interactions of the beam with external fields, other particles…
The estimation of molecular abundances in interstellar clouds from spectroscopic observations requires radiative transfer calculations, which depend on basic molecular input data. This paper reviews recent developments in the fields of…
The inner surface of superconducting cavities plays a crucial role to achieve highest accelerating fields and low losses. For an investigation of this inner surface of more than 100 cavities within the cavity fabrication for the European…
The THERMOS toolkit has been developed to calculate radiative properties of plasmas. This article contains a brief survey of some of its key features used by calculation of opacities and emissivities and by analysis of specific experiments.…
For the manufacturing of thin films of solution-processable organic semiconductors, e.g. for organic photovoltaics (OPV), meniscus guided-coating techniques are the method of choice for large-scale industrial applications. However, the…
A closed virial equation-of-state for the low density fluid phase of hard disks is obtained from the known virial coefficients. The equation exhibits 6-figure accuracy for the thermodynamic (MD) pressure up to the reduced number density ~…
In computational imaging, hardware for signal sampling and software for object reconstruction are designed in tandem for improved capability. Examples of such systems include computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and…
Clinical measurement of a patient's axial eye length is emerging as a crucial approach to track progression and monitor management of myopia. However, the preferred method for such measurements is swept-source OCT, whose cost prohibits…
Based on high-throughput dark-field full-field optical coherence tomography, we designed and built an OCT system that can measure a variety of samples with different scattered light intensities, such as materials with multi-layer…
Optical vortex fields have applications in information processing and storage and in the manipulation of microscopic particles. We present analytic results for quantities describing the extent of spatial coherence and entropy of…
Timing recovery is critical for synchronizing the clocks at the transmitting and receiving ends of a digital coherent communication system. The core of timing recovery is to determine reliably the current sampling error of the local…
Here we report measured and calculated values of decay rates of the 3d$^4$($^5$D)4s4p($^3$P$^{\rm{o}}$)\ y$^7$P$^{\rm{o}}_{2,3,4}$ states of Cr I. The decay rates are measured using time-correlated single photon counting with roughly 1%…
A computational method to obtain optical conductivities from first principles is presented. It exploits a relation between the conductivity and the complex dielectric function, which is constructed from the full electronic band structure…