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One of the fundamental challenges for future leptonic colliders and neutrino factories as well as for high-sensitivity studies of lepton universality is to design and construct new high-intensity sources of muons and positrons. The…
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Treating cancer is one of the most challenging task in medical sciences. Only limited types of cancer treatments are available as their study is still ongoing. The earlier therapies like radiotherapy with x-rays, chemotherapy are associated…
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Point-proton density distributions are deduced for 130 stable nuclei from $^{7}\mathrm{Li}$ to $^{232}\mathrm{Th}$ from nuclear charge densities determined in elastic electron scattering. There are 171 cases are presented in model-dependent…