Kametani, F., Polyanskii, A. A., Yamamoto, A., Jiang, J., Hellstrom, E. E., Gurevich, A., ...
In order to understand why the inter- and intra-granular current densities of polycrystalline superconducting oxypnictides differ by three orders of magnitude, we have conducted combined...
Beam loading in the nonlinear regime of plasma-based acceleration (2008)
Tzoufras, M., Lu, W., Tsung, F. S., Huang, C., Mori, W. B., Katsouleas, T., ...
A theory that describes how to load negative charge into a nonlinear, three-dimensional plasma wakefield is presented. In this regime, a laser or an electron beam blows out the plasma electrons and...
One-to-one full scale simulations of laser wakefield acceleration using QuickPIC (2008)
Vieira, J., Fiuza, F., Fonseca, R. A., Silva, L. O., Huang, C., Lu, W., ...
We use the quasi-static particle-in-cell code QuickPIC to perform full-scale, one-to-one LWFA numerical experiments, with parameters that closely follow current experimental conditions. The...
Jaroszynski, J., Riggs, S. C., Hunte, F., Gurevich, A., Larbalestier, D. C., Beobinger, G. S., ...
The recent discovery of a new class of superconducting oxypnictides with high transition temperatures may have profound implications for understanding unconventional high-temperature...
Yamamoto, A., Polyanskii, A. A., Jiang, J., Kametani, F., Tarantini, C., Hunte, F., ...
Early studies have found quasi-reversible magnetization curves in polycrystalline bulk rare-earth iron oxypnictides that suggest either wide-spread obstacles to intergranular current or very weak...
Evidence for Supercurrent Connectivity in Conglomerate Particles in NdFeAsO1-d (2008)
Moore, J D, Morrison, K, Yates, K A, Caplin, A D, Yeshurun, Y, Cohen, L F, ...
Here we use global and local magnetometry and Hall probe imaging to investigate the electromagnetic connectivity of the superconducting current path in the oxygen-deficient fluorine-free Nd-based...
Tarantini, C., Gurevich, A., Larbalestier, D. C., Ren, Z. A., Dong, X. L., Lu, W., ...
We present measurements of the temperature and field dependencies of the magnetization M(T,H) of Nd(O0.89F0.11)FeAs at fields up to 33T, which show that superconductivity with the critical...
Lu, W., Yang, J., Dong, X. L., Ren, Z. A., Che, G. C., Zhao, Z. X.
Diamagnetic susceptibility measurements under high hydrostatic pressure (up to 1.03 GPa) were carried out on the newly discovered Fe-based superconductor LaO_{1-x}F_{x}FeAs(x=0.11). The transition...
Three-dimensional structure of the laser wakefield accelerator in the blowout regime (2008)
Vieira, J. F., Martins, S. F., Fiuza, F., Fonseca, R. A., Silva, L. O., Huang, C., ...
Three-dimensional Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations with the code QuickPIC are used to illustrate the typical accelerating structures associated with the interaction of an intense laser beam with an...
A Maximum Likelihood Watermark Decoding Scheme (2007)
Lu, W., Li, W., Safavi-Naini, R., Ogunbona, P.
Based on the observation that an attack applied on a watermarked image, from a decoding point of view, modifies the distribution of the detection values away from the ideal distribution (without...
Lu, W., Eerde, A.M. Van, Fan, X., Quintero-Rivera, F., Kulkarni, S., Ferguson, H., ...
Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) include vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). VUR is a complex, genetically heterogeneous developmental disorder characterized by the retrograde...
A Maximum Likelihood Watermark Decoding Scheme (2007)
Lu, W., Li, W., Safavi-Naini, R., Ogunbona, P.
Based on the observation that an attack applied on a watermarked image, from a decoding point of view, modifies the distribution of the detection values away from the ideal distribution (without...
Xu, W. D., Chen, X. S., Quan, Z. J., Xia, C. S., Lu, W., Ye, P. D.
Undoped GaN-based metal-oxide-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors !MOS-HEMTs" with atomic-layer-deposited Al2O3 gate dielectrics are fabricated with gate lengths from 1 up to 40 !m....
A Pixel-Based Robust Imagewatermarking System (2006)
Lu, W., Li, W., Safavi-Naini, R., Ogunbona, P.
Robust image watermarking systems are required to be resistant to geometric attacks in addition to common image processing tasks, such as JPEG compression. However, robustness against geometric...
Crafting the Mind of PROSOCS Agents (2006)
Bracciali, A., Demetriou, N., Endriss, U., Kakas, A., Lu, W., Stathis, K.
A Pixel-Based Robust Imagewatermarking System (2006)
Lu, W., Li, W., Safavi-Naini, R., Ogunbona, P.
Robust image watermarking systems are required to be resistant to geometric attacks in addition to common image processing tasks, such as JPEG compression. However, robustness against geometric...
Wong, KY, Che, CM, Lu, W, He, Z
A luminescent sensory material for the detection of the presence of organo-halogen compounds is described. This material is based on a platinum chromophore functionalized with pyridylacetylide...
Organometallic light-emitting material (2006)
Disclosed herein are novel light-emitting materials of Formula I and II below. These new complexes are synthesized and found to be sufficiently stable to allow sublimation and vacuum deposition....
Precision Electroweak Measurements on the Z Resonance (2005)
Schael, S, Barate, R, Brunelière, R, Buskulic, Damir, De Bonis, I, Décamp, D, ...
We report on the final electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the Z resonance by the experiments operating at the electron-positron colliders SLC and LEP. The data consist of 17...
Measurement of Radiative Bhabha and Quasi-Real Compton Scattering (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We report on a study of radiative Bhabha and quasi-real Compton scattering at centre-of-mass energies between 50~{\GeV} and 170~{\GeV} and 20~{\GeV} and 140~{\GeV}, respectively, using the L3...
Measurement of Radiative Bhabha and Quasi-Real Compton Scattering (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We report on a study of radiative Bhabha and quasi-real Compton scattering at centre-of-mass energies between 50~{\GeV} and 170~{\GeV} and 20~{\GeV} and 140~{\GeV}, respectively, using the L3...
Measurement of Radiative Bhabha and Quasi-Real Compton Scattering (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We report on a study of radiative Bhabha and quasi-real Compton scattering at centre-of-mass energies between 50~{\GeV} and 170~{\GeV} and 20~{\GeV} and 140~{\GeV}, respectively, using the L3...
Measurement of muon-pair production at 50 GeV $\sqrt{s}$ 86 GeV at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adam, A., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alpat, B., ...
B$^\star$ production in Z decays at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adam, A., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., ...
B$^\star$ production in Z decays at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adam, A., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., ...
Measurement of muon-pair production at 50 GeV $\sqrt{s}$ 86 GeV at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adam, A., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alpat, B., ...
B$^\star$ production in Z decays at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adam, A., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., ...
Measurement of muon-pair production at 50 GeV $\sqrt{s}$ 86 GeV at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adam, A., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alpat, B., ...
Measurement of the anomalous magnetic and electric dipole moments of the $\tau$ lepton (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
Measurement of the Weak Dipole Moments of the $\tau$ Lepton (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
Using the data collected by the L3 experiment at LEP from 1991 to 1995 at energies around the $\Zo$ mass, a measurement of the weak anomalous magnetic dipole moment, $a^w_{\tau}$,~ and of the weak...
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The coupling of the Z boson to quarks is studied in a sample of about 3.5 million hadronic Z decays collected by the L3 experiment at LEP from 1991 to 1995. The forward-backward quark charge asymmet...
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A measurement of the inclusive charmless semileptonic branching fraction of beauty hadrons, $\mathrm{b}\rightarrow\mathrm{X}_\mathrm{u }\ell\nu$, has been performed using almost two million hadronic...
Search for New Physics Phenomena in Fermion-Pair Production at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The measurements of hadron and lepton--pair production cross sections and lepton--pair forward--backward asymmetries performed with the L3 detector at centre--of--mass energies between 130 GeV and...
Determination of the Number of Light Neutrino Species from Single Photon Production at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A determination of the number of light neutrino families performed by measuring the cross section of single photon production in \ee\ collision near the \Zo\ resonance is reported. From an integrated...
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
Four of the Michel parameters and the average tau-neutrino helicity have been measured by analysing tau decay spectra in 147 \pb ~of data collected by the L3 detector. The decays \tte, ~\ttm, ~\ttp,...
Measurement of the Average Lifetime of b-Hadrons in Z Decays (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We present a measurement of the average b-hadron lifetime ${\rm \tau_b}$ at the $\mathrm{e^+e^-} \, $ collider LEP. Using hadronic Z decays collected in the period from 1991 to 1994, two independent...
Study of hadronic events and measurements of $\alpha_{s}$ between 30 and 91 GeV (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We have studied the structure of hadronic events with a hard, %radiated isolated photon in the final state ($\mathrm{e^{+}e^{-}} \rightarrow$ Z $\rightarrow$ hadrons $+$ $\gamma$) in the 3.6 million...
Inclusive J, $\psi$' and $\chi_c$ Production in Hadronic Z Decays (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We report on measurements of the inclusive production of J, $\psi'$ and $\mathrm{\chi_c}$ mesons in hadronic Z decays, based on 3.2 million hadronic events collected using the L3 detector at LEP. The...
Study of the Weak Charged Hadronic Current in b Decays (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alpat, B., Alcaraz, J., ...
Charged and neutral particle multiplicities of jets associated with identified semileptonic and hadronic b decays are studied. The observed differences between these jets are used to determine the...
Measurement of Inclusive $\omega$ and $\eta$' Production in Hadronic Z Decays (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alpat, B., Alcaraz, J., ...
We present a study of the inclusive $\omega$ and $\eta^{\prime}$ production based on 3.1 million hadronic Z decays recorded with the L3 detector at LEP during 1991--1994. The production rates per...
Search for Exclusive B Decays to J and $\eta$ or $\pi^{0}$ with the L3 Detector (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alpat, B., Alcaraz, J., ...
A search for exclusive decays of $\ensuremath{\mathrm{B_d^0}}$ and $\ensuremath{\mathrm{B_s^0}}$ mesons has been performed in the channels $\ensuremath{\mathrm{B_d^0}\rightarrow\mathrm{J}\eta}$,\,\,...
Search for Neutral B Meson Decays to Two Charged Leptons (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alpat, B., Alcaraz, J., ...
The decays $\mathrm{B_d^0,\,B_s^0 \rightarrow e^+e^-,\,\mu^+\mu^-,\, e^\pm\mu^\mp}$ are searched for in 3.5 million hadronic ${\mathrm{Z}}$ events, which constitute the full LEP I data sample...
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alpat, B., Alcaraz, J., ...
Using a data sample of 1,475,000 $\ZQQG$ events collected during 1994 with the L3 detector at LEP, we have studied the purely leptonic decays of heavy flavour mesons, $\Dtau$ and $\Btau$. A signal is...
Search for R-Parity Breaking Sneutrino Exchange at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We report on a search for R--parity breaking effects due to supersymmetric tau--sneutrino exchange in the reactions e+e- to e+e- and e+e- to mu+mu- at centre--of--mass energies from 91~{\GeV} to...
Production of Single W Bosons at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alpat, B., Alcaraz, J., ...
We report on the observation of single W boson production in a data sample collected by the L3 detector at LEP2. The signal consists of large missing energy final states with a single energetic...
Search for Excited Leptons in $e^+ e^-$ Annihilation at $\sqrt{s}$ = 161 GeV (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alpat, B., Alcaraz, J., ...
A search for excited leptons $\rm e^*,~\mu^*, ~\tau^*$ and $\nu_{\rm e}^*$ in $\rm e^+e^-$ collisions at $\rm \sqrt{s}$ = 161 GeV is performed using the $\rm 10.8 ~pb^{-1}$ of data collected by the...
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We present a study of the structure of hadronic events recorded by the L3 detector at LEP at the center of mass energies of 161 and 172 GeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of...
$K^{0}_{S}$ and $\Lambda$ production in quark and gluon jets at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A measurement of the $\mathrm{K^0_s}$ and $\Lambda$ inclusive production rates and momentum spectra in two- and three-jet events is presented. On the basis of about 3.1~million Z decays collected...
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A search for unstable neutral and charged heavy leptons as well as for stable charged heavy leptons has been made at center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s}$ = 161 GeV and $\sqrt{s}$ = 172 GeV with the L3...
Search for anomalous four-jet events in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at $\sqrt{s}$ = 130-172 GeV (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A study of hadronic events with high jet-multiplicity is performed using the data sample collected by the L3 experiment at LEP at $\sqrt{s}=130-172$ GeV. The observed event rates agree with the...
Pair-Production of W Bosons in $e^+ e^-$ Interactions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 161 GeV (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alpat, B., Alcaraz, J., ...
We report on the measurement of W-boson pair-production with the L3 detector at LEP at a centre-of-mass energy of 161.34~\GeV. In a data sample corresponding to a total luminosity of 11~pb$^{-1}$, we...
Resonance formation in the $\pi^+\pi^-\pi^0$ final state in two-photon collisions (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A study of resonance formation is presented in the $\pi^+\pi^-\pi^0$ final state in two-photon collisions at LEP. The $a_2(1320)$ radiative width is measured to be...
Measurements of Mass, Width and Gauge Couplings of the W Boson at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We report on measurements of mass and total decay width of the W boson and of triple-gauge-boson couplings, $\gamma$WW and ZWW, with the L3 detector at LEP. W-pair events produced in $\EE$...
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We report on the measurement of W-boson pair-production with the L3 detector at LEP at an average centre-of-mass energy of 172.13~GeV. In a data sample corresponding to a total luminosity of...
Production of e, $\mu$ and $\tau$ Pairs in Untagged Two-Photon Collisions at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The two-photon collision reaction e+e- --> e+e-l+l- has been studied at root(s) ~ 91 GeV using the L3 detector at LEP for l = e, muon , tau. We have analysed untagged configurations where the two...
Measurement of hadron and lepton pair production at 161 GeV $\sqrt{s}$ 172 GeV at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We report on measurements of $\mathrm{e^+e^-}$ annihilation into hadrons and lepton pairs. The data have been taken with the L3 detector at LEP at centre--of--mass energies between...
Cross Section of Hadron Production in $\gamma \gamma$ collisions at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The reaction $\mathrm{e}^{+} \mathrm{e}^{-} \rightarrow \mathrm{e}^{+} \mathrm{e}^{-} \gamma ^{*} \gamma ^{*} \rightarrow \mathrm{e}^{+} \mathrm{e}^{-} $ {\sl hadrons} is analysed using data...
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson has been performed with the L3 detector at LEP. The data sample was collected at three centre-of-mass energies, 161.3, 170.3 and 172.3 GeV with integrated...
Acciarri, M., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Ahlen, S., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A search for single and multi-photon events with missing energy is performed using data collected at centre-of-mass energies between 161 GeV and 172 GeV for a total of 20.9 pb$^{-1}$ of integrated...