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- Abgrall, N., et al.
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The large enriched germanium experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay (LEGEND)
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Ingår i: AIP Conference Proceedings. - : Author(s). - 1551-7616 .- 0094-243X. ; 1894
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- The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) would show that lepton number is violated, reveal that neu-trinos are Majorana particles, and provide information on neutrino mass. A discovery-capable experiment covering the inverted ordering region, with effective Majorana neutrino masses of 15 - 50 meV, will require a tonne-scale experiment with excellent energy resolution and extremely low backgrounds, at the level of ∼0.1 count /(FWHM·t·yr) in the region of the signal. The current generation 76Ge experiments GERDA and the Majorana Demonstrator, utilizing high purity Germanium detectors with an intrinsic energy resolution of 0.12%, have achieved the lowest backgrounds by over an order of magnitude in the 0νββ signal region of all 0νββ experiments. Building on this success, the LEGEND collaboration has been formed to pursue a tonne-scale 76Ge experiment. The collaboration aims to develop a phased 0νββ experimental program with discovery potential at a half-life approaching or at 1028 years, using existing resources as appropriate to expedite physics results.
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- Vacassy, R., et al.
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Tin dioxide nano-powders for gas sensor applications
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Ingår i: Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings. ; , s. 41-46
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- SnO2 nanoparticles are of interest for gas sensor applications because the surface area is much larger compared to conventional powders. Thus, interactions between the material and the gases, which occur on the surface sites of the particles, are increased considerably. The preparation of SnO2 powders has been investigated following two forced precipitation systems: the hydrolysis reaction of SnCl4 in an emulsion media and the hydrolysis reaction of Sn2+ in the presence of a complexing ligand (CH3COO-). Spherical nanoparticles in the 10 to 100 nm range and with a narrow size distribution were synthesized by both precipitating routes. In both cases, it has been demonstrated that the most important parameter which controlled the particle size was the nature of the associated union. When this associated union or ligand is able to form a strong complex with the colloidal subunits, a barrier against Van der Waals attraction is created which results in little growth. This greatly influences the agglomeration/growth kinetics during the precipitation. The effect of acetate chelating ligands which resulted in the SnO2 nano-powders formed of 5-10 nm crystallites will be presented and discussed. Preliminary results on the gas (N2, NO) adsorption studies on pellets formed from these powders are also presented.
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- Goldsby, H. J., et al.
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Serendipitous scaffolding to improve a genetic algorithm's speed and quality
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Ingår i: GECCO 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. - 9781450356183 ; , s. 959-966
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- A central challenge to evolutionary computation is enabling techniques to evolve increasingly complex target end products. Frequently, direct approaches that reward only the target end product itself are not successful because the path between the starting conditions and the target end product traverses through a complex fitness landscape, where the directly accessible intermediary states may be require deleterious or even simply neutral mutations. As such, a host of techniques have sprung up to support evolutionary computation techniques taking these paths. One technique is scaffolding where intermediary targets are used to provide a path from the starting state to the end state. While scaffolding can be successful within well-understood domains it also poses the challenge of identifying useful intermediaries. Within this paper we first identify some shortcomings of scaffolding approaches ' namely, that poorly selected intermediaries may in fact hurt the evolutionary computation's chance of producing the desired target end product. We then describe a light-weight approach to selecting intermediate scaffolding states that improve the efficacy of the evolutionary computation. © 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
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- Hofmann, H., et al.
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Potential of nanosized ceramic powder for functional applications
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Ingår i: Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings. ; , s. 687-694
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nanophase ceramic particles are building-blocks for the formation of nanostructured ceramics and are important in a composite for functional applications. Different synthesis methods for nanosized ceramics were developed. Depending on the method and chemical composition, powders which are agglomerates of nanosized primary particles exist. These primary particles show very small grain size distribution.
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