Publications associées à CORTEX experiments, Part III: Experimental determination of the zero power transfer function of AKR-2 with reliable uncertainties

Publications associées (20)

Global currency hedging with ambiguity

Utilizing a robust mean–variance model that incorporates smooth ambiguity preferences, we derive a closed-form solution for the optimal currency exposure. Within this theoretical framework, the demand for optimal currency hedging is formulated as the solut ...

2025

Search for ηc (2S) → p(p)over-bar and branching fraction measurements of χcJ → p(p)over-bar via ψ(2S) radiative decays

Yunxuan Song

Using (27.12 +/- 0.14) x 10(8) psi(2S) events collected by the BESIII detector operating at BEPCII, we search for the decay eta(c) (2S) -> p (p) over bar via the process psi(2S) -> gamma eta(c)(2S) and only find a signal with a significance of 1.7 sigma. T ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2025

Euclid preparation: LXV. Determining the weak lensing mass accuracy and precision for galaxy clusters

Frédéric Courbin, Georges Meylan

The ability to measure unbiased weak-lensing (WL) masses is a key ingredient to exploit galaxy clusters as a competitive cosmological probe with the ESA Euclid survey or future missions. We investigate the level of accuracy and precision of cluster masses ...

2025

Analytical and EZmock covariance validation for the DESI 2024 results

Jiaxi Yu, Daniel Felipe Forero Sanchez

The estimation of uncertainties in cosmological parameters is an important challenge in Large-Scale-Structure (LSS) analyses. For standard analyses such as Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and Full-Shape two approaches are usually considered. First: anal ...

2025

Overcoming Distribution Shifts and Imbalance Challenges in Representation Learning for Deep Regression Models

Ismail Nejjar

Deep learning has shown remarkable potential for industrial applications, particularly in predictive maintenance and condition monitoring. A key challenge in this domain is prognostics, specifically predicting the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of assets - a ...

EPFL2025

CORTEX experiments – Part I: Modulation campaigns in AKR-2 & CROCUS for the validation of neutron noise codes

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Fanny Vitullo, Adolfo Rais, Thomas Jean-François Ligonnet, Nicolas Weiss, Daniel Godat, Klemen Ambrozic

We present the experimental campaigns – namely, three per facility – carried out between 2018 and 2021 in the AKR–2 and CROCUS zero power reactors within the framework of the Horizon 2020 European project CORTEX. Their purpose was to produce high-quality a ...

2025

Human self and Neurosurgery: Advances and insights from Geneva

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin

Introduction: The preservation of the human self—a fundamental yet underexplored aspect of neurosurgical practice—has gained increasing attention in recent years. Research question: How can neural correlates of self-consciousness be identified, monitored, ...

2025

Multi-Annual Year-on-Year: Minimising the Uncertainty in Photovoltaic System Performance Loss Rates

Christophe Ballif, Hugo James André Quest

The performance loss rate (PLR) is a key parameter in the assessment of photovoltaic (PV) systems' long-term performance and reliability. Despite the lack of industry-wide consensus and standardised methods for extracting PLR values from field data, the ye ...

2024

Rational strain design with minimal phenotype perturbation

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Daniel Robert Weilandt, Bharath Narayanan

Devising genetic interventions for desired cellular phenotypes remains challenging regarding time and resources. Kinetic models can accelerate this task by simulating metabolic responses to genetic perturbations. However, exhaustive design evaluations with ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Luminosity determination using Z boson production at the CMS experiment

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Sun Hee Kim, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Anna Mascellani, Federica Legger, Matteo Galli, Gabriele Grosso

The measurement of Z boson production is presented as a method to determine the integrated luminosity of CMS data sets. The analysis uses proton-proton collision data, recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2017 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 ...

Springer2024

Reducing Aerosol Forcing Uncertainty by Combining Models With Satellite and Within-The-Atmosphere Observations: A Three-Way Street

Athanasios Nenes

Aerosol forcing uncertainty represents the largest climate forcing uncertainty overall. Its magnitude has remained virtually undiminished over the past 20 years despite considerable advances in understanding most of the key contributing elements. Recent wo ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2023

The Pixel Luminosity Telescope: a detector for luminosity measurement at CMS using silicon pixel sensors

Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, André Donadon Servelle

The Pixel Luminosity Telescope is a silicon pixel detector dedicated to luminosity measurement at the CMS experiment at the LHC. It is located approximately 1.75 m from the interaction point and arranged into 16 "telescopes", with eight telescopes installe ...

2023

Resistances to change in urban travel behaviors

Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

The social discourse surrounding the climate emergency progressively infuses the society, transforming into both micro- and macro-social injunctions to change. Yet, society - grounded in a territorial, social, and cultural contingency - appears to resist t ...

EPFL2023

TDCOSMO I. An exploration of systematic uncertainties in the inference ofH(0)from time-delay cosmography

Frédéric Courbin

Strong-lensing time delays enable the measurement of the Hubble constant (H0) independently of other traditional methods. The main limitation to the precision of time-delay cosmography is mass-sheet degeneracy (MSD). Some of the previous TDCOSMO analyses b ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2023

Reaching an understanding of cortico-medullary control of forelimb behaviors

Mackenzie Mathis, Thomas Trevelyan James Sainsbury

How the neocortex modulates hindbrain and spinal circuits is of fundamental interest for understanding mo-tor control and adaptive behaviors. New work from Yang, Kanodia, and Arber demonstrates that there is an exquisite anatomical organization and functio ...

CELL PRESS2023

BigNeuron: a resource to benchmark and predict performance of algorithms for automated tracing of neurons in light microscopy datasets

Pascal Fua, Sean Lewis Hill, Jiancheng Yang, Amos Sironi, Jian Yang

BigNeuron is an open community bench-testing platform with the goal of setting open standards for accurate and fast automatic neuron tracing. We gathered a diverse set of image volumes across several species that is representative of the data obtained in m ...

Nature Publishing Group2023

Measurement of the B0s→μ+μ− decay properties and search for the B0→μ+μ− and B0s→μ+μ−γ decays

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Elena Graverini, Michel De Cian, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Sebastian Schulte, Donal Patrick Hill, Tara Nanut, Minh Tâm Tran, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Maria Vieites Diaz, Marie Theres Christin Bachmayer, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Serhii Cholak, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Ettore Zaffaroni, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Surapat Ek-In, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Sara Celani, Carina Trippl, Sonia Amina Bouchiba, Thi Dung Nguyen, Alison Maria Tully, Mâu Chung Nguyên, Maarten Willibrord Uriël Van Dijk

An improved measurement of the decay B0s→μ+μ− and searches for the decays B0→μ+μ− and B0s→μ+μ−γ are performed at the LHCb experiment using data collected in proton-proton collisions at √s=7, 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1, 2 an ...

American Physical Society2022

Observation of the decay Lambda b0 -> chi(c1)p pi(-)

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Michel De Cian, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Sebastian Schulte, Tara Nanut, Minh Tâm Tran, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Maxime Schubiger, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Thi Dung Nguyen, Olivier Göran Girard, Mâu Chung Nguyên, Axel Kuonen, Vincenzo Battista, Conor Thomas Fitzpatrick, Brice Emile Maurin, Achille Mauri, Remy Jean Henry Albrecht

The Cabibbo-suppressed decay Lambda b0-> chi (c1)p(-) is observed for the first time using data from proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6 fb(-1), collected with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy o ...

Springer Nature2021

Influence of Uncertainty of Body Permittivity on Achievable Radiation Efficiency of Implantable Antennas-Stochastic Analysis

Anja Skrivervik

Design of medical sensor implants is very challenging due to numerous restrictions in terms of size and biological acceptability. In addition, large absorption and reflection of electromagnetic waves in body tissues significantly degrades the communication ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Accelerating the convergence to a limit cycle in 3D cardiac electromechanical simulations through a data-driven 0D emulator

Alfio Quarteroni

The results of numerical simulations of cardiac electromechanics are typically characterized by a long transient before reaching a periodic solution known as limit cycle. This yields a serious computational overhead, as the only clinically relevant output ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021