A wide research program provided by heavy ion collisions is ongoing at the Large Hadron Col-lider with the aim of studying the properties of QCD matter at extreme temperatures and densities. The large acceptance and high granularity of the ATLAS Detector is well suited to perform detailed analyses on bulk phenomena, jets and leptonic probes. Measurements of these observables provided by the 9 µ...

Wei Li,1 Li Huang,1,* Raj Ganesh S. Pala,2,3 Guang-Hong Lu,4,5 Feng Liu,6 James W. Evans,7,8 and Yong Han7,8,† 1Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, People’s Republic of China 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP, 208016, India 3Material Science Programme, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur...

Traditionally, vernacular Nordic clinker boats are built without plans or templates. The local boat tradi­tions all have a system of design that was handed over from master to apprentice. In some traditions, simple plumb level used guide the boatbuilder. placed on planks hull during build give them right angles inclination in certain parts hull. Knowledge how use this is still considered part l...

The preserved record of decay of now-extinct 129I into 129Xe forms the basis of the I-Xe chronometer. Comparison of the high precision I-Xe and Pb-Pb ages of chondrules and pure mineral phases separated from eight meteorites suggests the 17.5 ÷ 14.6 Ma range for the 129I half-life, assuming that the 235U and 238U half-lives are correct. The mean value of 16 Ma indicates that the 15.7 Ma half-li...

Since the advent of topological insulators hosting Dirac surface states, efforts have been made to gap these states in a controllable way. A new route to accomplish this was opened up by the discovery of topological crystalline insulators where the topological states are protected by crystal symmetries and thus prone to gap formation by structural changes of the lattice. Here we show a temperat...

This study investigated the impacts of two best management practices (BMPs) recommended by US Environmental Protection Agency on Pb weathering and leachability in shooting range soils. The two BMPs included replacing soil berm with sand berm and periodically removing bullets or shot from a berm. A column experiment corresponding to the first BMP was conducted by mixing the bullets with sand/soi...

We compare chemical and thermal analysis of the SPS Pb–Pb results at 158A GeV, and present a first chemical analysis of RHIC results. We show how a combined analysis of several strange hadron resonances can be used in a study of freeze-out dynamics.