The Higgs-boson production cross section at pp and pp colliders is calculated in QCD at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). We find that the perturbative expansion of the production cross section is well behaved and that scale dependence is reduced relative to the NLO result. These findings give us confidence in the reliability of the prediction. We also report an error in the NNLO correction...

Intestinal bacteria play a key role to change the properties of drugs or herbal components, including therapeutic role, toxicity and pharmacokinetic behaviour. The present study aims to investigate the role of intestinal bacteria in changing the inhibitory potential of herbal components towards drug-metabolizing enzymes (DMEs) through comparing the inhibition of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT...

It has been predicted that dilepton production may be used as a quark-gluon plasma probe. We calculate the rapidity distributions of thermal dileptons produced by an evolving quark-gluon plasma assuming a longitudinal scaling expansion with initial conditions locally determined from the hadronic rapidity density. These distributions are compared with Drell-Yan production and semileptonic charm ...

Recent studies have demonstrated that many galaxy clusters have luminosity functions (LFs) which are steep at the faint end. However, it is equally clear that not all clusters have identical LFs. In this paper we explore whether the variation in LF shape correlates with other cluster or environmental properties.

Some characterizations on the chain recurrence, chain transitivity, chain mixing property,shadowing and $h$-shadowing for Zadeh's extension are obtained. Besides, it is provedthat a dynamical system is spatiotemporally chaotic provided that the Zadeh's extensionis Li-Yorke sensitive.

This numerical study demonstrates that Doppler redshift exists in the reflected spectrum of a few-cycle pulse, propagating through a dense medium. It manifests itself in two different forms, a sharp low-frequency spike (LFS) located at the red edge of the reflected spectrum and a relatively broader redshift near the carrier frequency. With the variation of the laser and medium parameters, the d...

Introduction: Water quality is essential for industries because they play an important role in countries’ economic development. Groundwater is one of the most widely used resources, and when the ionic constituents were increasing higher than the allowable limit, it increases the cost of maintenance and production in the industries. Materials and Methods: In order to evaluate groundwater corros...