PRISMA: A Unique Phonon Spectrometer

Heavy-ion transfer reactions at large internuclear distances using the PRISMA magnetic spectrometer

D. Montanari,1 L. Corradi,2 S. Szilner,3 G. Pollarolo,4 E. Fioretto,2 A.M. Stefanini,2 E. Farnea,5 C. Michelagnoli,1 G. Montagnoli,1 F. Scarlassara,1 C.A. Ur,5 S. Courtin,6 A. Goasduff,6 F. Haas,6 T. Mijatović,3 and N. Soić3 1Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I-35131, Padova, Italy 2Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laborat...

Influenza: A Unique Disease

Dear Editor-in-Chief, Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by an influenza virus (1). Symptoms can be mild to severe (2). The most common symptoms include: high fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pains, headache, coughing, sneezing, and feeling tired (1). Three of the four types of influenza viruses affect people, Type A, Type B, and Type C (3, 4). Type D ha...

NARVAL PROTOTYPE FOR PRISMA The NARVAL prototype for PRISMA

Nuclear Physics Instrumentation AGATA detector; presently the NARVAL prototype at LNL is capable of reading data from the AGATA front end electronics, execute the pulse shape analysis, the event building, the gamma tracking and eventually save the results to the AGATA storage system. In the next months there will be the need to test the system coupled with an ancillary detector like PRISMA or D...

Management Assistance (PRISMA)

The PRISMA Experiment

The design of a large database management system on top of an object-oriented platform which is implemented on a tightly coupled multiprocessor system requires a large number of design decisions. There exist no methodology to evaluate the consequences and compare the differences between them. Looking into experimental methodology in physics we find a lot of similarities and techniques we think ...