Sea surface wind speed estimation from space-based lidar measurements (2008)
Hu, Y., Stamnes, K., Vaughan, M., Pelon, J., Weimer, C., Wu, D., ...
Global satellite observations of lidar backscatter measurements acquired by the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) mission and collocated sea surface wind...
Sea surface wind speed estimation from space-based lidar measurements (2008)
Hu, Y., Stamnes, K., Vaughan, M., Pelon, J., Weimer, C., Wu, D., ...
Global satellite observations of lidar backscatter measurements acquired by the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) mission and collocated sea surface wind...
The effect of lightning NOx production on surface ozone in the continental United States (2008)
Kaynak, B., Hu, Y., Martin, R. V., Russell, A. G., Choi, Y., Wang, Y.
Lightning NOx emissions calculated using the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network data were found to account for 30% of the total NOx emissions for July?August 2004, a period chosen both for...
Observed poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation since 1979 (2008)
Using three meteorological reanalyses and three outgoing long-wave radiation (OLR) datasets, we show that the Hadley circulation has a significant poleward expansion of about 2 to 4.5 degrees of...
Hu, Y., Vaughan, M., Mcclain, C., Behrenfeld, M., Maring, H., Anderson, D., ...
This study presents an empirical relation that links layer integrated depolarization ratios, the extinction coefficients, and effective radii of water clouds, based on Monte Carlo simulations of...
Constancy of Nb/U in the mantle revisited (2008)
Sun, W, Hu, Y, Kamenetsky, VS, Eggins, SM, Chen, M, Arculus, RJ
It has long been proposed that MORB and OIB have constant supra-primitive mantle (PM) Nb/U values identical to each other. This fact together with complementary sub-PM values for the continental...
Dahoumane, M., Dzahini, D., Bouvier, J., Lagorio, E., Gallin-Martel, L., Hostachy, J.Y., ...
A 4 bit very low power and low incoming signal analog to digital converter (ADC) using a double sampling switched capacitor technique, designed for use in CMOS monolithic active pixels sensor...
Dahoumane, M., Dzahini, D., Bouvier, J., Lagorio, E., Gallin-Martel, L., Hostachy, J.Y., ...
A 4 bit very low power and low incoming signal analog to digital converter (ADC) using a double sampling switched capacitor technique, designed for use in CMOS monolithic active pixels sensor...
Dahoumane, M., Dzahini, D., Rossetto, O., Bouvier, J., Lagorio, E., Y. Hostachy, J., ...
Un convertisseur analogique numérique (CAN) de type pipeline 5bits, de faible consommation a été développé pour lélectronique de lecture des détecteurs monolithiques à pixels actifs en...
Study on Generalized Analysis Model for Fringe Pattern Profilometry (2008)
Hu, Y., Xi, J., Yang, Z., Li, E., Chicharo, J.
This paper presents a generalized analysis model for fringe pattern profilometry. We mathematically derived a new analysis model that gives a more general expression of the relationship between...
Constancy of Nb/U in the mantle revisited (2008)
Sun, W, Hu, Y, Kamenetsky, VS, Eggins, SM, Chen, M, Arculus, RJ
It has long been proposed that MORB and OIB have constant supra-primitive mantle (PM) Nb/U values identical to each other. This fact together with complementary sub-PM values for the continental...
Abazov, V.M., Abbott, B., Abolins, M., Acharya, B.S., Adams, M., Adams, T., ...
A measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in proton anti-proton collisions at an interaction energy of sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV is presented. This analysis uses 405 pb-1 of data collected...
Abazov, V.M., Abbott, B., Abolins, M., Acharya, B.S., Adams, M., Aguilo, E., ...
We present a measurement of the shape of the boson rapidity distribution for p\bar{p}-> Z/gamma*-> e+e- +X events at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The measurement is made for events with...
Evidence for production of single top quarks and first direct measurement of $|V_{tb}|$ (2007)
Abazov, V.M., Abbott, B., Abolins, M., Acharya, B.S., Adams, M., Adams, T., ...
The D0 Collaboration presents first evidence for the production of single top quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron ppbar collider. Using a 0.9 fb^-1 dataset, we apply a multivariate analysis to separate...
Abazov, V.M., Abbott, B., Abolins, M., Acharya, B.S., Adams, M., Adams, T., ...
We report on a search for second generation leptoquarks LQ_2 which decay into a muon plus quark in p\bar{p} collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV in the D0 detector using an...
Heini, S., Hu-Guo, C., Winter, M., Hu, Y.
Monolithic active pixel sensors using standard low-cost CMOS technology available from industrial manufacturers have demonstrated excellent tracking performances for minimum ionising particles in...
Farah, CS, Hu, Y, Riminton, S, Ashman, RB
This recent publication is the first in a sequence that uses cytokine specific gene knockout mice to elaborate the role of cytokines in resistance to oropharyngeal candidiasis. These mice have been...
Hu, Y., Farah, C. S., Ashman, R. B.
Three distinct isolates of Candida albicans were used to establish systemic and oral infections in inbred mice that are genetically resistant or susceptible to tissue damage. Patterns of infection...
Farah, C. S., Hu, Y., Riminton, S., Ashman, R. B.
Cell-mediated immunity is important for anti-Candida host defence in mucosal tissues. In this study we used cytokine-specific gene knockout mice to investigate the requirement for T helper type 1...
Hu, Y., Farah, C. S., Ashman, R. B.
Neutrophils and macrophages were generated in vitro from mice that display either high or low tissue susceptibilities to Candida albicans infection and their ability to phagocytose and kill three...
Qiu, W, Chang, CQ, Liu, WQ, Poon, PWF, Hu, Y, Lam, FK, ...
Tracking variations in both the latency and amplitude of evoked potential (EP) is important in quantifying properties of the nervous system. Adaptive filtering is a powerful tool for tracking such...
Diffusion Tensor-Based Fiber Tracking in Cervical Spinal Cord with a 3T MRI (2006)
Ng, MC, Hu, Y, Wu, EX, Yang, ES, Luk, KDK
The protocolJor spinal DTI and tractographv with high SNR and spatial resolution has been developed and tested on 6 hea1th.v suhjects and I CSMpatient in a 3T system. Fiber bundles were traced and...
Hu, Y., Sun, Z., Eaton, J.T., Bouloux, P.M., Perkins, S.J.
Kallmann's syndrome corresponds to a loss of sense of smell and hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism. Defects in anosmin-1 result in the X-linked inherited form of Kallmann's syndrome. Anosmin-1 is an...
Measurement of Branching Fractions of $\tau$ Hadronic Decays (2005)
Achard, P, Adriani, O, Aguilar-Benítez, M, Alcaraz, J, Alemanni, G, Allaby, James V, ...
Using data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at the Z peak, the branching fractions of the $\tau$ lepton into the hadronic final states, $h^- n\pi^0 \nu(n=0,1,2, >= 3)$ and $h^-h^+h^- n\pi^0 \nu$...
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., ...
The process e+ e- -> n gamma with n =2 is studied at centre-of-mass energies ranging from \root(s)=192 to 208 GeV. The data sample corresponds to a total integrated luminosity of 427 1/pb. The total...
Inclusive $D^{\star\pm}$ Production in Two-Photon Collisions at LEP (2005)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., ...
Inclusive D^{*+-} production in two-photon collisions is studied with the L3 detector at LEP, using 683 pb^{-1} of data collected at centre-of-mass energies from 183 to 208 GeV. Differential cross...
Search for colour singlet and colour reconnection effects in hadronic Z decays at LEP (2005)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., ...
Measurement of the atmospheric muon spectrum from 20 to 300 GeV (2005)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Vanden Akker, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The absolute muon flux between 20 GeV and 300 GeV is measured with the L3 magnetic muon spectrometer for zenith angles ranging from 0 degree to 58 degrees. Due to the large exposure of about 150 m2...
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A search for a Higgs boson decaying into invisible particles is performed using the datacollected at LEP by the L3 experiment at centre-of-mass energies of$183\gev{}$ and $189\gev{}$. The integrated...
Measurement of the Photon Structure Function at High $Q^2$ at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The structure functions of real and virtual photons are derivedfrom cross section measurements of the reaction$\rm e^+e^-\rightarrow e^+e^- + \hbox{hadrons}$ at LEP.The reaction is studied at...
Inclusive $\Sigma^+$ and $\Sigma^0$ Production in Hadronic Z Decays (2005)
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We report on measurements of the inclusive production rate of $\Sigma^+$ and $\Sigma^0$ baryons in hadronic Z decays collected with the L3 detector at LEP. The $\Sigma^+$ baryons are detected through...
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The measurements of $R_{b} = \sigma(e^+e^-} \to b\overline{b})/\sigma(e^+e^-} \to{m q\overline{q})$ and of the b quarkforward--backward charge asymmetry,$A_fb}^{b}$, at centre--of--mass energies...
Measurement of the Lifetime of the $\tau$ Lepton (2005)
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The tau lepton lifetime is measured with the L3 detector at LEP using the complete data taken at centre-of-mass energies around the Z pole resulting in...
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
Single W boson production in electron-positron collisions is studied with the L3 detector at LEP. The data sample collected at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 188.7 \mathrm{\ Ge\kern -0.1em...
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A search is performed for a Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson and decaying into two photons, using the L3 data collected at LEP at a centre-of-mass energy of 189 GeV. All decay modes...
Search for anomalous couplings in the Higgs sector at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We search for a Higgs particle with anomalous couplings in the e+e- -> H gamma, e+e- -> HZ and e+e- -> He+e- processes with the L3 detector at LEP. We explore the mass range 70GeV m_H 170GeV using...
Determination of $\gamma/Z$ interference in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
An S--Matrix ansatz is used to determine the mass and width of the Z boson, aswell as the contributions of $\gamma$/Z interference and Z boson exchange tofermion--pair production. For this purpose we...
Search for manifestations of new physics in fermion-pair production at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The measurements of hadron and lepton-pair production cross sections and leptonic forward-backward asymmetries performed with the L3 detector at centre-of-mass energies between 130 GeV and 189 GeV...
QCD studies in $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilation from 30 GeV to 189 GeV (2005)
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
We present results obtained from a study of the structure of hadronic events recorded by the L3 detector at various centre-of-mass energies.The distributions of event shape variables and the energy...
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The process $e+e- ->$ W+W-gamma is analysed using the data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at a centre-of-mass energy of 188.6GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 176.8pb$^{-1}$....
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A search for pair-produced charged Higgs bosons is performed with the L3 detector at LEP using data collected at centre-of-mass energies between 192 and 202 GeV, corresponding to an integrated...
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The data collected by the L3 experiment at LEP at a centre-of-mass energy of 188.6 GeV are used to measure the W-pair production cross section and the W-boson decay branching fractions. These data...
Study of Z Boson Pair Production in $e^{+}e^{-}$ -Interactions at $\sqrt{s}=192-202$ GeV (2005)
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The cross section for the production of Z boson pairs is measured using the data collected by the L3 detector at LEP in 1999 in e^+e^- collisions at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 192 GeV up to...
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A search for the lightest neutral CP-even and the neutral CP-odd Higgs bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is performed using 233.2 pb-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the L3...
Search for Excited Leptons in $e^+ e^-$ Interactions at $\sqrt{s}$=192 - 202 GeV (2005)
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
Excited leptons are searched for using the L3 detector at LEP. The data collected at centre-of-mass energies in the range from 192 up to 202 GeV correspond to a total luminosity of 233 $\rm pb^{-1}$....
Study of the $e^+ e^- \to Z\gamma\gamma \to q\overline{q}\gamma\gamma$ Process at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The process e^+e^- -> Z gamma gamma -> q q~ gamma gamma$ is studied in 0.5\,fb-1$ of data collected with the L3 detector at centre-of-mass energies between 130.1 GeV and 201.7 GeV. Cross sections are...
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
A search for chargino, neutralino and scalar lepton pair-production in e+e- collisions at the centre-of-mass energy of 189 GeV is performed under the assumptions that R-parity is not conserved in...
Measurement of the Charm Production Cross Section in $\gamma \gamma$ Collisions at LEP (2005)
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
Open charm production in gamma-gamma collisions is studied with data collected at e+e- centre-of-mass energies from 189 GeV to 202 GeV corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 410 pb-1. The...
Acciarri, M., Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
The production of c and b quarks in gamma-gamma collisions is studied with the L3 detector at LEP with 410 pb^-1 of data, collected at centre-of-mass energies from 189 GeV to 202 GeV. Hadronic final...
Search for Heavy Isosinglet Neutrino in $e^+ e^-$ Annihilation at LEP (2005)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., ...
We report on a search for the first generation heavy neutrino that is an isosinglet under the standard $SU(2)_L$ gauge group. The data collected with the L3 detector at center-of-mass energies...
Search for Heavy Neutral and Charged Leptons in $e^+ e^-$ Annihilation at LEP (2005)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., ...
A search for exotic unstable neutral and charged heavy leptons as well as for stable charged heavy leptons is performed with the L3 detector at LEP. Sequential, vector and mirror natures of heavy...
Standard Model Higgs Boson with the L3 Experiment at LEP (2005)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., ...
Final results of the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson are presented for the data collected by the L3 detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies up to about 209 GeV. These data are compared...
Measurement of the Topological Branching Fractions of the $\tau$ lepton at LEP (2005)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., ...
Using data collected with the L3 detector at LEP from 1992 to 1995 on the Z peak, we determine the branching fractions of the $\tau$ lepton into one, three and five charged particles to be:...
Inclusive $\pi^0$ and $K^0_S$ Production in Two-Photon Collisions at LEP (2005)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., ...
The reactions $e^+e^- \to e^+e^-\pi^0$ X and $e^+e^- \to e^+e^-K^0_S$ X are studied using data collected at LEP with the L3 detector at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 202 GeV. Inclusive...
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., ...
A search, in $e^+ e^-$ collisions, for chargino, neutralino, scalar lepton and scalar quark pair-production is performed, without assuming R-parity conservation in decays, in the case that only one...
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., ...
The process e+e- -> W+ W- gamma is studied using the data collected by the L3 detector at LEP. New results, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 427.4 pb-1 at centre-of-mass energies from 192...