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101. Rediscovery of $B \to \phi K^{()}$ decays and measurement of the longitudinal polarization fraction $f_L$ in $B \to \phi K^{}$ decays using the Summer 2020 Belle II dataset

Author: Abudinén, F., Adachi, I., Adak, R., Adamczyk, K., Ahlburg, P., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Akopov, N., Aloisio, A., Ameli, F., Andricek, L., Ky, N. Anh, Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Aushev, V., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Bacher, S., Baehr, S., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Bambade, P., Banerjee, Sw., Bansal, S., Barrett, M., Batignani, G., Baudot, J., Beaulieu, A., Becker, J., Behera, P. K., Bender, M., Bennett, J. V., Bernieri, E., Bernlochner, F. U., Bertemes, M., Bessner, M., Bettarini, S., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bianchi, F., Bilka, T., Bilokin, S., Biswas, D., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Branchini, P., Braun, N., Briere, R. A., Browder, T. E., Brown, D. N., Budano, A., Burmistrov, L., Bussino, S., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Caria, G., Casarosa, G., Cecchi, C., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Cheaib, R., Chekelian, V., Chen, Y. Q., Chen, Y. -T., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Chirapatpimol, K., Cho, H. -E., Cho, K., Cho, S. -J., Choi, S. -K., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Corona, L., Cremaldi, L. M., Cuesta, D., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Dash, N., Dattola, F., De La Cruz-Burelo, E., De Nardo, G., De Nuccio, M., De Pietro, G., de Sangro, R., Deschamps, B., Destefanis, M., Dey, S., De Yta-Hernandez, A., Di Canto, A., Di Capua, F., Di Carlo, S., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Jiménez, I. Domínguez, Dong, T. V., Dort, K., Dossett, D., Dubey, S., Duell, S., Dujany, G., Eidelman, S., Eliachevitch, M., Epifanov, D., Fast, J. E., Ferber, T., Ferlewicz, D., Finocchiaro, G., Fiore, S., Fischer, P., Fodor, A., Forti, F., Frey, A., Friedl, M., Fulsom, B. G., Gabriel, M., Gabyshev, N., Ganiev, E., Garcia-Hernandez, M., Garg, R., Garmash, A., Gaur, V., Gaz, A., Gebauer, U., Gelb, M., Gellrich, A., Gemmler, J., Geßler, T., Getzkow, D., Giordano, R., Giri, A., Glazov, A., Gobbo, B., Godang, R., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Gomis, P., Grace, P., Gradl, W., Graziani, E., Greenwald, D., Guan, Y., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hauth, T., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hearty, C., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., de la Cruz, I. Heredia, Villanueva, M. Hernández, Hershenhorn, A., Higuchi, T., Hill, E. C., Hirata, H., Hoek, M., Hohmann, M., Hollitt, S., Hotta, T., Hsu, C. -L., Hu, Y., Huang, K., Iijima, T., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Jabbar, J. Irakkathil, Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jackson, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jaffe, D. E., Jang, E. -J., Jeandron, M., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, C., Joo, K. K., Kadenko, I., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kandra, J., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karl, R., Karyan, G., Kato, Y., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Ketter, C., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. -H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. -H., Kim, K., Kim, S. -H., Kim, Y. -K., Kim, Y., Kimmel, T. D., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kirby, B., Kleinwort, C., Knysh, B., Kodyš, P., Koga, T., Kohani, S., Komarov, I., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kovalchuk, N., Kraetzschmar, T. M. G., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. F., Krokovny, P., Krüger, H., Kuehn, W., Kuhr, T., Kumar, J., Kumar, M., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kumita, T., Kunigo, T., Künzel, M., Kurz, S., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnička, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lacaprara, S., Lai, Y. -T., La Licata, C., Lalwani, K., Lanceri, L., Lange, J. S., Lautenbach, K., Laycock, P. J., Diberder, F. R. Le, Lee, I. -S., Lee, S. C., Leitl, P., Levit, D., Lewis, P. M., Li, C., Li, L. K., Li, S. X., Li, Y. M., Li, Y. B., Libby, J., Lieret, K., Gioi, L. Li, Lin, J., Liptak, Z., Liu, Q. Y., Liu, Z. A., Liventsev, D., Longo, S., Loos, A., Lu, P., Lubej, M., Lueck, T., Luetticke, F., Luo, T., MacQueen, C., Maeda, Y., Maggiora, M., Maity, S., Manfredi, R., Manoni, E., Marcello, S., Marinas, C., Martini, A., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matsuoka, K., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J., Meggendorfer, F., Mei, J. C., Meier, F., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Milesi, M., Miller, C., Miyabayashi, K., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Mizuk, R., Azmi, K., Mohanty, G. B., Moon, H., Moon, T., Grimaldo, J. A. Mora, Morda, A., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Mueller, F., Müller, F. J., Muller, Th., Muroyama, G., Murphy, C., Mussa, R., Nakagiri, K., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Natkaniec, Z., Natochii, A., Nayak, M., Nazaryan, G., Neverov, D., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Ninkovic, J., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nishimura, M., Nouxman, M. H. A., Oberhof, B., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Olsen, S. L., Onishchuk, Y., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Oxford, E. R., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Paladino, A., Pang, T., Panta, A., Paoloni, E., Pardi, S., Park, C., Park, H., Park, S. -H., Paschen, B., Passeri, A., Pathak, A., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Peruzzi, I., Peschke, R., Pestotnik, R., Piccolo, M., Piilonen, L. E., Podesta-Lerma, P. L. M., Polat, G., Popov, V., Praz, C., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Purohit, M. V., Rad, N., Rados, P., Rasheed, R., Reif, M., Reiter, S., Remnev, M., Resmi, P. K., Ripp-Baudot, I., Ritter, M., Ritzert, M., Rizzo, G., Rizzuto, L. B., Robertson, S. H., Pérez, D. Rodríguez, Roney, J. M., Rosenfeld, C., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Rozanska, M., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Sanders, D. A., Sandilya, S., Sangal, A., Santelj, L., Sartori, P., Sasaki, J., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Scavino, B., Schram, M., Schreeck, H., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seddon, R. M., Seino, Y., Selce, A., Senyo, K., Seong, I. S., Serrano, J., Sevior, M. E., Sfienti, C., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibuya, H., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Skambraks, S., Smith, K., Sobie, R. J., Soffer, A., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Spataro, S., Spruck, B., Starič, M., Stefkova, S., Stottler, Z. S., Stroili, R., Strube, J., Stypula, J., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Summers, D. J., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Svidras, H., Tabata, M., Takahashi, M., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Tanigawa, H., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taras, P., Tenchini, F., Tonelli, D., Torassa, E., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Tsuzuki, N., Uchida, M., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Ueno, T., Uglov, T., Unger, K., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., van Tonder, R., Varner, G. S., Varvell, K. E., Vinokurova, A., Vitale, L., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Waheed, E., Wakeling, H. M., Wan, K., Abdullah, W. Wan, Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, X. L., Warburton, A., Watanabe, M., Watanuki, S., Watson, I., Webb, J., Wehle, S., Welsch, M., Wessel, C., Wiechczynski, J., Wieduwilt, P., Windel, H., Won, E., Wu, L. J., Xu, X. P., Yabsley, B., Yamada, S., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yeo, I., Yin, J. H., Yonenaga, M., Yook, Y. M., Yoshinobu, T., Yuan, C. Z., Yuan, G., Yuan, W., Yusa, Y., Zani, L., Zhang, J. Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhilich, V., Zhou, Q. D., Zhou, X. Y., Zhukova, V. I., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We utilize a sample of 34.6 fb$^{-1}$, collected by the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB asymmetric energy $e^+e^-$ collider, to search for the $B^+ \to \phi K^+$, $B^+ \to \phi K^{*+}$, $B^0 \to \phi K^0_S$, and $B^0 \to \phi K^{*0}$ decays. Charmless hadronic $B$ decays represent an important part of the Belle II physics program, and are an ideal benchmark to test the detector capabilities in terms of tracking efficiency, charged particle identification, vertexing, and advanced analysis techniques. Each channel is observed with a significance that exceeds 5 standard deviations, and we obtain measurements of their branching ratios that are in good agreement with the world averages. For the $B \to \phi K^*$ modes, we also perform a measurement of the longitudinal polarization fraction $f_L$., Comment: 19 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2020

102. First flavor tagging calibration using 2019 Belle II data

Author: Belle II Collaboration, Abudinén, F., Adachi, I., Adak, R., Adamczyk, K., Ahlburg, P., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Akopov, N., Aloisio, A., Ameli, F., Andricek, L., Ky, N. Anh, Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Aushev, V., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Bacher, S., Baehr, S., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Bambade, P., Banerjee, Sw., Bansal, S., Barrett, M., Batignani, G., Baudot, J., Beaulieu, A., Becker, J., Behera, P. K., Bender, M., Bennett, J. V., Bernieri, E., Bernlochner, F. U., Bertemes, M., Bessner, M., Bettarini, S., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bianchi, F., Bilka, T., Bilokin, S., Biswas, D., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Branchini, P., Braun, N., Briere, R. A., Browder, T. E., Brown, D. N., Budano, A., Burmistrov, L., Bussino, S., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Caria, G., Casarosa, G., Cecchi, C., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Cheaib, R., Chekelian, V., Chen, C., Chen, Y. Q., Chen, Y. -T., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Chirapatpimol, K., Cho, H. -E., Cho, K., Cho, S. -J., Choi, S. -K., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Corona, L., Cremaldi, L. M., Cuesta, D., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Dash, N., Dattola, F., De La Cruz-Burelo, E., De Nardo, G., De Nuccio, M., De Pietro, G., de Sangro, R., Deschamps, B., Destefanis, M., Dey, S., De Yta-Hernandez, A., Di Canto, A., Di Capua, F., Di Carlo, S., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Jiménez, I. Domínguez, Dong, T. V., Dort, K., Dossett, D., Dubey, S., Duell, S., Dujany, G., Eidelman, S., Eliachevitch, M., Epifanov, D., Fast, J. E., Ferber, T., Ferlewicz, D., Finocchiaro, G., Fiore, S., Fischer, P., Fodor, A., Forti, F., Frey, A., Friedl, M., Fulsom, B. G., Gabriel, M., Gabyshev, N., Ganiev, E., Garcia-Hernandez, M., Garg, R., Garmash, A., Gaur, V., Gaz, A., Gebauer, U., Gelb, M., Gellrich, A., Gemmler, J., Geßler, T., Getzkow, D., Giordano, R., Giri, A., Glazov, A., Gobbo, B., Godang, R., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Gomis, P., Grace, P., Gradl, W., Graziani, E., Greenwald, D., Guan, Y., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hauth, T., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hearty, C., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., de la Cruz, I. Heredia, Villanueva, M. Hernández, Hershenhorn, A., Higuchi, T., Hill, E. C., Hirata, H., Hoek, M., Hohmann, M., Hollitt, S., Hotta, T., Hsu, C. -L., Hu, Y., Huang, K., Iijima, T., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Jabbar, J. Irakkathil, Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jackson, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jaffe, D. E., Jang, E. -J., Jeandron, M., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, C., Joo, K. K., Kadenko, I., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kandra, J., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karl, R., Karyan, G., Kato, Y., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Ketter, C., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. -H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. -H., Kim, K., Kim, S. -H., Kim, Y. -K., Kim, Y., Kimmel, T. D., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kirby, B., Kleinwort, C., Knysh, B., Kodyš, P., Koga, T., Kohani, S., Komarov, I., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kovalchuk, N., Kraetzschmar, T. M. G., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. F., Krokovny, P., Krüger, H., Kuehn, W., Kuhr, T., Kumar, J., Kumar, M., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kumita, T., Kunigo, T., Künzel, M., Kurz, S., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnička, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lacaprara, S., Lai, Y. -T., La Licata, C., Lalwani, K., Lanceri, L., Lange, J. S., Lautenbach, K., Laycock, P. J., Diberder, F. R. Le, Lee, I. -S., Lee, S. C., Leitl, P., Levit, D., Lewis, P. M., Li, C., Li, L. K., Li, S. X., Li, Y. M., Li, Y. B., Libby, J., Lieret, K., Gioi, L. Li, Lin, J., Liptak, Z., Liu, Q. Y., Liu, Z. A., Liventsev, D., Longo, S., Loos, A., Lu, P., Lubej, M., Lueck, T., Luetticke, F., Luo, T., MacQueen, C., Maeda, Y., Maggiora, M., Maity, S., Manfredi, R., Manoni, E., Marcello, S., Marinas, C., Martini, A., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matsuoka, K., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J., Meggendorfer, F., Mei, J. C., Meier, F., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Milesi, M., Miller, C., Miyabayashi, K., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Mizuk, R., Azmi, K., Mohanty, G. B., Moon, H., Moon, T., Grimaldo, J. A. Mora, Morda, A., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Mueller, F., Müller, F. J., Muller, Th., Muroyama, G., Murphy, C., Mussa, R., Nakagiri, K., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Natkaniec, Z., Natochii, A., Nayak, M., Nazaryan, G., Neverov, D., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Ninkovic, J., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nishimura, M., Nouxman, M. H. A., Oberhof, B., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Olsen, S. L., Onishchuk, Y., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Oxford, E. R., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Paladino, A., Pang, T., Panta, A., Paoloni, E., Pardi, S., Park, C., Park, H., Park, S. -H., Paschen, B., Passeri, A., Pathak, A., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Peruzzi, I., Peschke, R., Pestotnik, R., Piccolo, M., Piilonen, L. E., Podesta-Lerma, P. L. M., Polat, G., Popov, V., Praz, C., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Purohit, M. V., Rad, N., Rados, P., Rasheed, R., Reif, M., Reiter, S., Remnev, M., Resmi, P. K., Ripp-Baudot, I., Ritter, M., Ritzert, M., Rizzo, G., Rizzuto, L. B., Robertson, S. H., Pérez, D. Rodríguez, Roney, J. M., Rosenfeld, C., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Rozanska, M., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Sanders, D. A., Sandilya, S., Sangal, A., Santelj, L., Sartori, P., Sasaki, J., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Scavino, B., Schram, M., Schreeck, H., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seddon, R. M., Seino, Y., Selce, A., Senyo, K., Seong, I. S., Serrano, J., Sevior, M. E., Sfienti, C., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibuya, H., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Skambraks, S., Smith, K., Sobie, R. J., Soffer, A., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Spataro, S., Spruck, B., Starič, M., Stefkova, S., Stottler, Z. S., Stroili, R., Strube, J., Stypula, J., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Summers, D. J., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Svidras, H., Tabata, M., Takahashi, M., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Tanigawa, H., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taras, P., Tenchini, F., Tonelli, D., Torassa, E., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Tsuzuki, N., Uchida, M., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Ueno, T., Uglov, T., Unger, K., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., van Tonder, R., Varner, G. S., Varvell, K. E., Vinokurova, A., Vitale, L., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Waheed, E., Wakeling, H. M., Wan, K., Abdullah, W. Wan, Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, X. L., Warburton, A., Watanabe, M., Watanuki, S., Watson, I., Webb, J., Wehle, S., Welsch, M., Wessel, C., Wiechczynski, J., Wieduwilt, P., Windel, H., Won, E., Wu, L. J., Xu, X. P., Yabsley, B., Yamada, S., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yeo, I., Yin, J. H., Yonenaga, M., Yook, Y. M., Yoshinobu, T., Yuan, C. Z., Yuan, G., Yuan, W., Yusa, Y., Zani, L., Zhang, J. Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhilich, V., Zhou, Q. D., Zhou, X. Y., Zhukova, V. I., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report on the first calibration of the standard Belle II $B$-flavor tagger using the full data set collected at the $\Upsilon(4{\rm S})$ resonance in 2019 with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB collider, corresponding to 8.7 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity. The calibration is performed by reconstructing various hadronic charmed $B$-meson decays with flavor-specific final states. We use simulation to optimize our event selection criteria and to train the flavor tagging algorithm. We determine the tagging efficiency and the fraction of wrongly identified tag-side $B$~candidates from a measurement of the time-integrated $B^0-\overline{B}^0$ mixing probability. The total effective efficiency is measured to be $\varepsilon_{\rm eff} = \big(33.8 \pm 3.6(\text{stat}) \pm 1.6(\text{sys})\big)\%$, which is in good agreement with the predictions from simulation and comparable with the best one obtained by the Belle experiment. The results show a good understanding of the detector performance and offer a basis for future calibrations., Comment: 28 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2020

103. Search for Axion-Like Particles produced in $e^+e^-$ collisions at Belle II

Author: Belle II collaboration, Abudinen, F., Adachi, I., Aihara, H., Akopov, N., Aloisio, A., Ameli, F., Ky, N. Anh, Asner, D. M., Aushev, T., Aushev, V., Babu, V., Baehr, S., Bahinipati, S., Bambade, P., Banerjee, Sw., Bansal, S., Baudot, J., Becker, J., Behera, P. K., Bennett, J. V., Bernieri, E., Bernlochner, F. U., Bertemes, M., Bessner, M., Bettarini, S., Bhardwaj, V., Bianchi, F., Bilka, T., Bilokin, S., Biswas, D., Bračko, M., Branchini, P., Braun, N., Browder, T. E., Budano, A., Bussino, S., Campajola, M., Casarosa, G., Cecchi, C., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Cheaib, R., Chekelian, V., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Chirapatpimol, K., Cho, H. -E., Cho, K., Cho, S. -J., Choi, S. -K., Cinabro, D., Corona, L., Cremaldi, L. M., Cunliffe, S., Dash, N., Dattola, F., De La Cruz-Burelo, E., De Nardo, G., De Nuccio, M., De Pietro, G., de Sangro, R., Destefanis, M., De Yta-Hernandez, A., Di Capua, F., Doležal, Z., Dong, T. V., Dort, K., Dossett, D., Dujany, G., Eidelman, S., Ferber, T., Ferlewicz, D., Fiore, S., Fodor, A., Forti, F., Fulsom, B. G., Ganiev, E., Garg, R., Garmash, A., Gaur, V., Gaz, A., Gebauer, U., Gellrich, A., Geßler, T., Giordano, R., Giri, A., Gobbo, B., Godang, R., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Gomis, P., Gradl, W., Graziani, E., Greenwald, D., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hartbrich, O., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hearty, C., Hedges, M. T., de la Cruz, I. Heredia, Villanueva, M. Hernández, Hershenhorn, A., Higuchi, T., Hill, E. C., Hirata, H., Hoek, M., Hohmann, M., Hsu, C. -L., Hu, Y., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Jabbar, J. Irakkathil, Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Jackson, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jaffe, D. E., Jang, E. -J., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, C., Kaliyar, A. B., Kandra, J., Karyan, G., Kato, Y., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, C. -H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, S. -H., Kim, Y. -K., Kimmel, T. D., Kinoshita, K., Kleinwort, C., Kodyš, P., Koga, T., Kohani, S., Komarov, I., Korpar, S., Kraetzschmar, T. M. G., Križan, P., Krokovny, P., Kuhr, T., Kumar, M., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kurz, S., Kwon, Y. -J., Lacaprara, S., La Licata, C., Lanceri, L., Lange, J. S., Lee, I. -S., Lee, S. C., Leitl, P., Levit, D., Lewis, P. M., Li, C., Li, L. K., Li, Y. B., Libby, J., Lieret, K., Gioi, L. Li, Liptak, Z., Liu, Q. Y., Liventsev, D., Longo, S., Luo, T., MacQueen, C., Maeda, Y., Manfredi, R., Manoni, E., Marcello, S., Marinas, C., Martini, A., Masuda, M., Matsuoka, K., Matvienko, D., Meggendorfer, F., Meier, F., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Milesi, M., Miller, C., Miyabayashi, K., Mizuk, R., Azmi, K., Mohanty, G. B., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Müller, F. J., Mussa, R., Nakamura, I., Nakao, M., Nakazawa, H., Natochii, A., Niebuhr, C., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nouxman, M. H. A., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Ono, H., Oskin, P., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Paladino, A., Panta, A., Paoloni, E., Pardi, S., Park, H., Park, S. -H., Paschen, B., Passeri, A., Pathak, A., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Peruzzi, I., Peschke, R., Piccolo, M., Piilonen, L. E., Polat, G., Popov, V., Praz, C., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Purohit, M. V., Rad, N., Rados, P., Rasheed, R., Reif, M., Reiter, S., Remnev, M., Ripp-Baudot, I., Ritter, M., Ritzert, M., Rizzo, G., Robertson, S. H., Pérez, D. Rodríguez, Roney, J. M., Rosenfeld, C., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Sanders, D. A., Sandilya, S., Sangal, A., Santelj, L., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Scavino, B., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Seddon, R. M., Seino, Y., Selce, A., Senyo, K., Serrano, J., Sevior, M. E., Sfienti, C., Shiu, J. -G., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Sobie, R. J., Soffer, A., Solovieva, E., Spataro, S., Spruck, B., Starič, M., Stefkova, S., Stottler, Z. S., Stroili, R., Strube, J., Sumihama, M., Sumiyoshi, T., Summers, D. J., Sutcliffe, W., Svidras, H., Tabata, M., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Tanigawa, H., Taras, P., Tenchini, F., Tonelli, D., Torassa, E., Trabelsi, K., Uchida, M., Uglov, T., Unger, K., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Vahsen, S. E., van Tonder, R., Varner, G. S., Varvell, K. E., Vinokurova, A., Vitale, L., Waheed, E., Wakai, M., Wakeling, H. M., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, X. L., Warburton, A., Watanabe, M., Watanuki, S., Webb, J., Wehle, S., Welsch, M., Wessel, C., Wiechczynski, J., Windel, H., Won, E., Wu, L. J., Xu, X. P., Yabsley, B., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Ye, H., Yonenaga, M., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zani, L., Zhou, Q. D., and Zhukova, V. I.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a search for the direct production of a light pseudoscalar $a$ decaying into two photons with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB collider. We search for the process ${e^+e^-\to\gamma a, a \to\gamma\gamma}$ in the mass range ${0.2} \,< m_a < {9.7}\,{\text{GeV/$c$}^2}$ using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $(445\pm 3)\,\text{pb}^{-1}$. Light pseudoscalars interacting predominantly with standard model gauge bosons (so-called axion-like particles or ALPs) are frequently postulated in extensions of the standard model. We find no evidence for ALPs and set 95% confidence level upper limits on the coupling strength $g_{a\gamma\gamma}$ of ALPs to photons at the level of $10^{-3}\,{\text{GeV}^{-1}}$. The limits are the most restrictive to date for $0.2\,<\,m_a\,<\,1\,{\text{GeV/$c$}^2}$., Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures + supplemental material. Published in Physical Review Letters
Published: 2020
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104. Charmless $B$ decay reconstruction in 2019 Belle II data

Author: Belle II Collaboration, Abudinén, F., Adachi, I., Adak, R., Adamczyk, K., Ahlburg, P., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Akopov, N., Aloisio, A., Ameli, F., Andricek, L., Ky, N. Anh, Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Aushev, V., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Bacher, S., Baehr, S., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Bambade, P., Banerjee, Sw., Bansal, S., Barrett, M., Bartel, W., Batignani, G., Baudot, J., Beaulieu, A., Becker, J., Behera, P. K., Bender, M., Bennett, J. V., Bernieri, E., Bernlochner, F. U., Bertemes, M., Bessner, M., Bettarini, S., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bianchi, F., Bilka, T., Bilokin, S., Biswas, D., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Branchini, P., Braun, N., Briere, R. A., Browder, T. E., Brown, D. N., Budano, A., Burmistrov, L., Bussino, S., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Caria, G., Casarosa, G., Cecchi, C., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Cheaib, R., Chekelian, V., Chen, Y. Q., Chen, Y. -T., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, H. -E., Cho, K., Cho, S. -J., Choi, S. -K., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Corona, L., Cremaldi, L. M., Cuesta, D., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Dash, N., Dattola, F., De La Cruz-Burelo, E., De Nardo, G., De Nuccio, M., De Pietro, G., de Sangro, R., Deschamps, B., Destefanis, M., Dey, S., De Yta-Hernandez, A., Di Capua, F., Di Carlo, S., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Jiménez, I. Domínguez, Dong, T. V., Dort, K., Dossett, D., Dubey, S., Duell, S., Dujany, G., Eidelman, S., Eliachevitch, M., Epifanov, D., Fast, J. E., Ferber, T., Ferlewicz, D., Finocchiaro, G., Fiore, S., Fischer, P., Fodor, A., Forti, F., Frey, A., Friedl, M., Fulsom, B. G., Gabriel, M., Gabyshev, N., Ganiev, E., Garcia-Hernandez, M., Garg, R., Garmash, A., Gaur, V., Gaz, A., Gebauer, U., Gelb, M., Gellrich, A., Gemmler, J., Geßler, T., Getzkow, D., Giordano, R., Giri, A., Glazov, A., Gobbo, B., Godang, R., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Gomis, P., Grace, P., Gradl, W., Graziani, E., Greenwald, D., Guan, Y., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hauth, T., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hearty, C., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., de la Cruz, I. Heredia, Villanueva, M. Hernández, Hershenhorn, A., Higuchi, T., Hill, E. C., Hirata, H., Hirose, S., Hoek, M., Hohmann, M., Hollitt, S., Hotta, T., Hsu, C. -L., Hu, Y., Huang, K., Iijima, T., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Jabbar, J. Irakkathil, Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jackson, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jaffe, D. E., Jang, E. -J., Jeandron, M., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, C., Joo, K. K., Kadenko, I., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kandra, J., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kato, Y., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Ketter, C., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. -H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. -H., Kim, K., Kim, S. -H., Kim, Y. -K., Kim, Y., Kimmel, T. D., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kirby, B., Kleinwort, C., Knysh, B., Kodyš, P., Koga, T., Kohani, S., Koirala, S., Komarov, I., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kovalchuk, N., Kraetzschmar, T. M. G., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. F., Krokovny, P., Krüger, H., Kuehn, W., Kuhr, T., Kumar, J., Kumar, M., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kumita, T., Kunigo, T., Künzel, M., Kurz, S., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnička, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lacaprara, S., Lai, Y. -T., La Licata, C., Lalwani, K., Lanceri, L., Lange, J. S., Lautenbach, K., Laycock, P. J., Diberder, F. R. Le, Lee, I. -S., Lee, S. C., Leitl, P., Levit, D., Lewis, P. M., Li, C., Li, L. K., Li, S. X., Li, Y. M., Li, Y. B., Libby, J., Lieret, K., Gioi, L. Li, Lin, J., Liptak, Z., Liu, Q. Y., Liu, Z. A., Liventsev, D., Longo, S., Loos, A., Lu, P., Lubej, M., Lueck, T., Luetticke, F., Luo, T., MacQueen, C., Maeda, Y., Maggiora, M., Maity, S., Manfredi, R., Manoni, E., Marcello, S., Marinas, C., Martini, A., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matsuoka, K., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J., Meggendorfer, F., Mei, J. C., Meier, F., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Milesi, M., Miller, C., Miyabayashi, K., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Mizuk, R., Azmi, K., Mohanty, G. B., Moon, H., Moon, T., Grimaldo, J. A. Mora, Morda, A., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Mueller, F., Müller, F. J., Muller, Th., Muroyama, G., Mussa, R., Nakagiri, K., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Natkaniec, Z., Nayak, M., Nazaryan, G., Neverov, D., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Ninkovic, J., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nishimura, M., Nouxman, M. H. A., Oberhof, B., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Olsen, S. L., Onishchuk, Y., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Oxford, E. R., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Paladino, A., Pang, T., Panta, A., Paoloni, E., Park, C., Park, H., Park, S. -H., Paschen, B., Passeri, A., Pathak, A., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Peruzzi, I., Peschke, R., Pestotnik, R., Piccolo, M., Piilonen, L. E., Podesta-Lerma, P. L. M., Popov, V., Praz, C., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Purohit, M. V., Rados, P., Raiz, S., Reif, M., Reiter, S., Remnev, M., Resmi, P. K., Ripp-Baudot, I., Ritter, M., Ritzert, M., Rizzo, G., Rizzuto, L. B., Robertson, S. H., Pérez, D. Rodríguez, Roney, J. M., Rosenfeld, C., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Rozanska, M., Rummel, S., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Sanders, D. A., Sandilya, S., Sangal, A., Santelj, L., Sartori, P., Sasaki, J., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Scavino, B., Schram, M., Schreeck, H., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seddon, R. M., Seino, Y., Selce, A., Senyo, K., Seong, I. S., Sevior, M. E., Sfienti, C., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibuya, H., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Skambraks, S., Smith, K., Sobie, R. J., Soffer, A., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Spataro, S., Spruck, B., Starič, M., Stefkova, S., Stottler, Z. S., Stroili, R., Strube, J., Stypula, J., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Summers, D. J., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Tabata, M., Takahashi, M., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Tanigawa, H., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taras, P., Tenchini, F., Tonelli, D., Torassa, E., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Tsuzuki, N., Uchida, M., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Ueno, T., Uglov, T., Unger, K., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., van Tonder, R., Varner, G. S., Varvell, K. E., Vinokurova, A., Vitale, L., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Waheed, E., Wakeling, H. M., Wan, K., Abdullah, W. Wan, Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, X. L., Warburton, A., Watanabe, M., Watanuki, S., Watson, I., Webb, J., Wehle, S., Welsch, M., Wessel, C., Wiechczynski, J., Wieduwilt, P., Windel, H., Won, E., Wu, L. J., Xu, X. P., Yabsley, B., Yamada, S., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yeo, I., Yin, J. H., Yonenaga, M., Yook, Y. M., Yoshinobu, T., Yuan, C. Z., Yuan, G., Yuan, W., Yusa, Y., Zani, L., Zhang, J. Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhilich, V., Zhou, Q. D., Zhou, X. Y., Zhukova, V. I., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report on the reconstruction of various charmless $B$ decays from electron-positron collisions at the energy corresponding to the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance collected with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB collider. We use simulation to devise optimized event selections and apply them to the full data set collected in 2019, corresponding to 8.7\,fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity. We fit the difference between half of the collision energy and the $B$ candidate energy (in the $\Upsilon(4S)$ frame) for events restricted to a signal-rich range in beam-energy-constrained mass to search for charmless signals. Signal yields of approximately 80, 15, 20, 30, 90, and 160 decays are reconstructed for the channels $B^0 \to K^+\pi^-$, $B^0 \to \pi^+\pi^-$, $B^+ \to K^0_S(\to \pi^+\pi^-)\pi^+$, $B^+ \to K^+\pi^0(\to \gamma\gamma)$, $B^+ \to K^+K^-K^+$, and $B^+ \to K^+\pi^-\pi^+$, respectively. Yields and background contaminations are compatible with those expected from simulation and comparable with those obtained by the Belle experiment. The results show a good understanding of the detector performance and offer a reliable basis to assess projections for future reach., Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures, conference note approved for winter/spring 2020 conferences
Published: 2020

105. Measurement of the $B^0$ lifetime using fully reconstructed hadronic decays in the 2019 Belle II dataset

Author: Belle II Collaboration, Abudinén, F., Adachi, I., Adak, R., Adamczyk, K., Ahlburg, P., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Akopov, N., Aloisio, A., Ameli, F., Andricek, L., Ky, N. Anh, Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Aushev, V., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Bacher, S., Baehr, S., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Bambade, P., Banerjee, Sw., Bansal, S., Barrett, M., Bartel, W., Batignani, G., Baudot, J., Beaulieu, A., Becker, J., Behera, P. K., Bender, M., Bennett, J. V., Bernieri, E., Bernlochner, F. U., Bertemes, M., Bessner, M., Bettarini, S., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bianchi, F., Bilka, T., Bilokin, S., Biswas, D., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Branchini, P., Braun, N., Briere, R. A., Browder, T. E., Brown, D. N., Budano, A., Burmistrov, L., Bussino, S., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Caria, G., Casarosa, G., Cecchi, C., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Cheaib, R., Chekelian, V., Chen, Y. Q., Chen, Y. -T., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, H. -E., Cho, K., Cho, S. -J., Choi, S. -K., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Corona, L., Cremaldi, L. M., Cuesta, D., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Dash, N., Dattola, F., De La Cruz-Burelo, E., De Nardo, G., De Nuccio, M., De Pietro, G., de Sangro, R., Deschamps, B., Destefanis, M., Dey, S., De Yta-Hernandez, A., Di Capua, F., Di Carlo, S., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Jiménez, I. Domínguez, Dong, T. V., Dort, K., Dossett, D., Dubey, S., Duell, S., Dujany, G., Eidelman, S., Eliachevitch, M., Epifanov, D., Fast, J. E., Ferber, T., Ferlewicz, D., Finocchiaro, G., Fiore, S., Fischer, P., Fodor, A., Forti, F., Frey, A., Friedl, M., Fulsom, B. G., Gabriel, M., Gabyshev, N., Ganiev, E., Garcia-Hernandez, M., Garg, R., Garmash, A., Gaur, V., Gaz, A., Gebauer, U., Gelb, M., Gellrich, A., Gemmler, J., Geßler, T., Getzkow, D., Giordano, R., Giri, A., Glazov, A., Gobbo, B., Godang, R., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Gomis, P., Grace, P., Gradl, W., Graziani, E., Greenwald, D., Guan, Y., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hauth, T., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hearty, C., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., de la Cruz, I. Heredia, Villanueva, M. Hernández, Hershenhorn, A., Higuchi, T., Hill, E. C., Hirata, H., Hirose, S., Hoek, M., Hohmann, M., Hollitt, S., Hotta, T., Hsu, C. -L., Hu, Y., Huang, K., Iijima, T., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Jabbar, J. Irakkathil, Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jackson, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jaffe, D. E., Jang, E. -J., Jeandron, M., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, C., Joo, K. K., Kadenko, I., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kandra, J., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kato, Y., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Ketter, C., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. -H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. -H., Kim, K., Kim, S. -H., Kim, Y. -K., Kim, Y., Kimmel, T. D., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kirby, B., Kleinwort, C., Knysh, B., Kodyš, P., Koga, T., Kohani, S., Koirala, S., Komarov, I., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kou, E., Kovalchuk, N., Kraetzschmar, T. M. G., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. F., Krokovny, P., Krüger, H., Kuehn, W., Kuhr, T., Kumar, J., Kumar, M., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kumita, T., Kunigo, T., Künzel, M., Kurz, S., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnička, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lacaprara, S., Lai, Y. -T., La Licata, C., Lalwani, K., Lanceri, L., Lange, J. S., Lautenbach, K., Laycock, P. J., Diberder, F. R. Le, Lee, I. -S., Lee, S. C., Leitl, P., Levit, D., Lewis, P. M., Li, C., Li, L. K., Li, S. X., Li, Y. M., Li, Y. B., Libby, J., Lieret, K., Gioi, L. Li, Lin, J., Liptak, Z., Liu, Q. Y., Liu, Z. A., Liventsev, D., Longo, S., Loos, A., Lu, P., Lubej, M., Lueck, T., Luetticke, F., Luo, T., MacQueen, C., Maeda, Y., Maggiora, M., Maity, S., Manfredi, R., Manoni, E., Marcello, S., Marinas, C., Martini, A., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matsuoka, K., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J., Meggendorfer, F., Mei, J. C., Meier, F., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Milesi, M., Miller, C., Miyabayashi, K., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Mizuk, R., Azmi, K., Mohanty, G. B., Moon, H., Moon, T., Grimaldo, J. A. Mora, Morda, A., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Mueller, F., Müller, F. J., Muller, Th., Muroyama, G., Mussa, R., Nakagiri, K., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Natkaniec, Z., Nayak, M., Nazaryan, G., Neverov, D., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Ninkovic, J., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nishimura, M., Nouxman, M. H. A., Oberhof, B., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Olsen, S. L., Onishchuk, Y., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Oxford, E. R., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Paladino, A., Pang, T., Panta, A., Paoloni, E., Park, C., Park, H., Park, S. -H., Paschen, B., Passeri, A., Pathak, A., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Peruzzi, I., Peschke, R., Pestotnik, R., Piccolo, M., Piilonen, L. E., Podesta-Lerma, P. L. M., Popov, V., Praz, C., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Purohit, M. V., Rados, P., Rasheed, R., Reif, M., Reiter, S., Remnev, M., Resmi, P. K., Ripp-Baudot, I., Ritter, M., Ritzert, M., Rizzo, G., Rizzuto, L. B., Robertson, S. H., Pérez, D. Rodríguez, Roney, J. M., Rosenfeld, C., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Rozanska, M., Rummel, S., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Sanders, D. A., Sandilya, S., Sangal, A., Santelj, L., Sartori, P., Sasaki, J., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Scavino, B., Schram, M., Schreeck, H., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seddon, R. M., Seino, Y., Selce, A., Senyo, K., Seong, I. S., Sevior, M. E., Sfienti, C., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibuya, H., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Skambraks, S., Smith, K., Sobie, R. J., Soffer, A., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Spataro, S., Spruck, B., Starič, M., Stefkova, S., Stottler, Z. S., Stroili, R., Strube, J., Stypula, J., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Summers, D. J., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Tabata, M., Takahashi, M., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Tanigawa, H., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taras, P., Tenchini, F., Tonelli, D., Torassa, E., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Tsuzuki, N., Uchida, M., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Ueno, T., Uglov, T., Unger, K., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., van Tonder, R., Varner, G. S., Varvell, K. E., Vinokurova, A., Vitale, L., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Waheed, E., Wakeling, H. M., Wan, K., Abdullah, W. Wan, Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, X. L., Warburton, A., Watanabe, M., Watanuki, S., Watson, I., Webb, J., Wehle, S., Welsch, M., Wessel, C., Wiechczynski, J., Wieduwilt, P., Windel, H., Won, E., Wu, L. J., Xu, X. P., Yabsley, B., Yamada, S., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yeo, I., Yin, J. H., Yonenaga, M., Yook, Y. M., Yoshinobu, T., Yuan, C. Z., Yuan, G., Yuan, W., Yusa, Y., Zani, L., Zhang, J. Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhilich, V., Zhou, Q. D., Zhou, X. Y., Zhukova, V. I., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This document presents the measurement of $B^0$ meson lifetimes using the 2019 Belle II dataset that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of $8.7 \pm 0.2$ fb$^{-1}$. Each candidate is fully reconstructed with hadronic decay final states on the signal side, while the rest-of-event technique allows to infer the decay vertex position on the other (tag) side. $B^0$ lifetime is extracted from an unbinned maximum likelihood fit to the distribution of the difference between the signal side $B^0$ candidate and the tag side decay times. The measured lifetime is $\tau_{B^0} = 1.48 \pm 0.28 \pm 0.06 $ ps, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic., Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2020

106. Precision measurement of the ${\cal B}(\Upsilon(3S)\to\tau^+\tau^-)/{\cal B}(\Upsilon(3S)\to\mu^+\mu^-)$ ratio

Author: Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kozyrev, E. A., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Lankford, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Vazquez, W. Panduro, Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Lin, D. X., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Oyang, J., Porter, F. C., Röhrken, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Shuve, B. J., Lacker, H. M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, Sw., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Robertson, S. H., Seddon, R. M., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Gaz, A., Margoni, M., Posocco, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rama, M., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Zani, L., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Dittrich, S., Grünberg, O., Heß, M., Leddig, T., Voß, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Luitz, S., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Ahmed, H., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De Mori, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Albert, J., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lueck, T., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sibidanov, A., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report on a precision measurement of the ratio ${\cal R}_{\tau\mu}^{\Upsilon(3S)} = {\cal B}(\Upsilon(3S)\to\tau^+\tau^-)/{\cal B}(\Upsilon(3S)\to\mu^+\mu^-)$ using data collected with the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-II $e^+e^-$ collider. The measurement is based on a 28 fb$^{-1}$ data sample collected at a center-of-mass energy of 10.355 GeV corresponding to a sample of 122 million $\Upsilon(3S)$ mesons. The ratio is measured to be ${\cal R}_{\tau\mu}^{\Upsilon(3S)} = 0.966 \pm 0.008_\mathrm{stat} \pm 0.014_\mathrm{syst}$ and is in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 0.9948 within 2 standard deviations. The uncertainty in ${\cal R}_{\tau\mu}^{\Upsilon(3S)}$ is almost an order of magnitude smaller than the only previous measurement., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables
Published: 2020
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107. Search for lepton-flavor violating decays $D^{0}\rightarrow X^{0}e^{\pm}\mu^{\mp}$

Author: BaBar Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kozyrev, E. A., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Lankford, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Panduro, W., Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Lin, D. X., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Oyang, J., Porter, F. C., R, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Shuve, B. J., Lacker, H. M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, Sw., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Robertson, S. H., Seddon, R. M., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Taras, P., De, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Gaz, A., Margoni, M., Posocco, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rama, M., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Zani, L., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., B, C., Dittrich, S., Gr, O., He, M., Leddig, T., Vo, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Luitz, S., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Sullivan, M. K., Va, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle, A., Sekula, S. J., Ahmed, H., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez, F., Oyanguren, A., Albert, J., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lueck, T., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a search for seven lepton-flavor-violating neutral charm decays of the type $D^{0}\rightarrow X^{0} e^{\pm} \mu^{\mp}$, where $X^{0}$ represents a $\pi^{0}$, $K^{0}_{\rm S}$, $\bar{K^{*0}}$, $\rho^{0}$, $\phi$, $\omega$, or $\eta$ meson. The analysis is based on $468$ fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ annihilation data collected at or close to the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the BaBar detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. No significant signals are observed, and we establish 90\% confidence level upper limits on the branching fractions in the range $(5.0 - 22.5)\times 10^{-7}$. The limits are between one and two orders of magnitude more stringent than previous measurements., Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, to be submitted to Physical Review D. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1905.00608
Published: 2020
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108. Measurement of the branching fraction ${\cal B}(\bar B^0\to D^{*+}\ell^-\bar\nu_\ell)$ with early Belle II data

Author: Belle II Collaboration, Abudinén, F., Adachi, I., Adak, R., Adamczyk, K., Ahlburg, P., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Akopov, N., Aloisio, A., Ameli, F., Andricek, L., Ky, N. Anh, Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Aushev, V., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Bacher, S., Baehr, S., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Bambade, P., Banerjee, Sw., Bansal, S., Barrett, M., Bartel, W., Batignani, G., Baudot, J., Beaulieu, A., Becker, J., Behera, P. K., Bender, M., Bennett, J. V., Bernieri, E., Bernlochner, F. U., Bertemes, M., Bessner, M., Bettarini, S., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bianchi, F., Bilka, T., Bilokin, S., Biswas, D., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Branchini, P., Braun, N., Briere, R. A., Browder, T. E., Brown, D. N., Budano, A., Burmistrov, L., Bussino, S., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Caria, G., Casarosa, G., Cecchi, C., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Cheaib, R., Chekelian, V., Chen, Y. Q., Chen, Y. -T., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, H. -E., Cho, K., Cho, S. -J., Choi, S. -K., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Corona, L., Cremaldi, L. M., Cuesta, D., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Dash, N., Dattola, F., De La Cruz-Burelo, E., De Nardo, G., De Nuccio, M., De Pietro, G., de Sangro, R., Deschamps, B., Destefanis, M., Dey, S., De Yta-Hernandez, A., Di Capua, F., Di Carlo, S., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Jiménez, I. Domínguez, Dong, T. V., Dort, K., Dossett, D., Dubey, S., Duell, S., Dujany, G., Eidelman, S., Eliachevitch, M., Epifanov, D., Fast, J. E., Ferber, T., Ferlewicz, D., Finocchiaro, G., Fiore, S., Fischer, P., Fodor, A., Forti, F., Frey, A., Friedl, M., Fulsom, B. G., Gabriel, M., Gabyshev, N., Ganiev, E., Garcia-Hernandez, M., Garg, R., Garmash, A., Gaur, V., Gaz, A., Gebauer, U., Gelb, M., Gellrich, A., Gemmler, J., Geßler, T., Getzkow, D., Giordano, R., Giri, A., Glazov, A., Gobbo, B., Godang, R., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Gomis, P., Grace, P., Gradl, W., Graziani, E., Greenwald, D., Guan, Y., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hauth, T., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hearty, C., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., de la Cruz, I. Heredia, Villanueva, M. Hernández, Hershenhorn, A., Higuchi, T., Hill, E. C., Hirata, H., Hirose, S., Hoek, M., Hohmann, M., Hollitt, S., Hotta, T., Hsu, C. -L., Hu, Y., Huang, K., Iijima, T., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Jabbar, J. Irakkathil, Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jackson, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jaffe, D. E., Jang, E. -J., Jeandron, M., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, C., Joo, K. K., Kadenko, I., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kandra, J., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kato, Y., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Ketter, C., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. -H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. -H., Kim, K., Kim, S. -H., Kim, Y. -K., Kim, Y., Kimmel, T. D., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kirby, B., Kleinwort, C., Knysh, B., Kodyš, P., Koga, T., Kohani, S., Koirala, S., Komarov, I., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kovalchuk, N., Kraetzschmar, T. M. G., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. F., Krokovny, P., Krüger, H., Kuehn, W., Kuhr, T., Kumar, J., Kumar, M., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kumita, T., Kunigo, T., Künzel, M., Kurz, S., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnička, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lacaprara, S., Lai, Y. -T., La Licata, C., Lalwani, K., Lanceri, L., Lange, J. S., Lautenbach, K., Laycock, P. J., Diberder, F. R. Le, Lee, I. -S., Lee, S. C., Leitl, P., Levit, D., Lewis, P. M., Li, C., Li, L. K., Li, S. X., Li, Y. M., Li, Y. B., Libby, J., Lieret, K., Gioi, L. Li, Lin, J., Liptak, Z., Liu, Q. Y., Liu, Z. A., Liventsev, D., Longo, S., Loos, A., Lu, P., Lubej, M., Lueck, T., Luetticke, F., Luo, T., MacQueen, C., Maeda, Y., Maggiora, M., Maity, S., Manfredi, R., Manoni, E., Marcello, S., Marinas, C., Martini, A., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matsuoka, K., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J., Meggendorfer, F., Mei, J. C., Meier, F., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Milesi, M., Miller, C., Miyabayashi, K., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Mizuk, R., Azmi, K., Mohanty, G. B., Moon, H., Moon, T., Grimaldo, J. A. Mora, Morda, A., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Mueller, F., Müller, F. J., Muller, Th., Muroyama, G., Mussa, R., Nakagiri, K., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Natkaniec, Z., Nayak, M., Nazaryan, G., Neverov, D., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Ninkovic, J., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nishimura, M., Nouxman, M. H. A., Oberhof, B., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Olsen, S. L., Onishchuk, Y., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Oxford, E. R., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Paladino, A., Pang, T., Panta, A., Paoloni, E., Park, C., Park, H., Park, S. -H., Paschen, B., Passeri, A., Pathak, A., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Peruzzi, I., Peschke, R., Pestotnik, R., Piccolo, M., Piilonen, L. E., Podesta-Lerma, P. L. M., Popov, V., Praz, C., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Purohit, M. V., Rados, P., Rasheed, R., Reif, M., Reiter, S., Remnev, M., Resmi, P. K., Ripp-Baudot, I., Ritter, M., Ritzert, M., Rizzo, G., Rizzuto, L. B., Robertson, S. H., Pérez, D. Rodríguez, Roney, J. M., Rosenfeld, C., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Rozanska, M., Rummel, S., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Sanders, D. A., Sandilya, S., Sangal, A., Santelj, L., Sartori, P., Sasaki, J., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Scavino, B., Schram, M., Schreeck, H., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seddon, R. M., Seino, Y., Selce, A., Senyo, K., Seong, I. S., Sevior, M. E., Sfienti, C., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibuya, H., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Skambraks, S., Smith, K., Sobie, R. J., Soffer, A., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Spataro, S., Spruck, B., Starič, M., Stefkova, S., Stottler, Z. S., Stroili, R., Strube, J., Stypula, J., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Summers, D. J., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S. Y., Tabata, M., Takahashi, M., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Tanigawa, H., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taras, P., Tenchini, F., Tonelli, D., Torassa, E., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Tsuzuki, N., Uchida, M., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Ueno, T., Uglov, T., Unger, K., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., van Tonder, R., Varner, G. S., Varvell, K. E., Vinokurova, A., Vitale, L., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Waheed, E., Wakeling, H. M., Wan, K., Abdullah, W. Wan, Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, X. L., Warburton, A., Watanabe, M., Watanuki, S., Watson, I., Webb, J., Wehle, S., Welsch, M., Wessel, C., Wiechczynski, J., Wieduwilt, P., Windel, H., Won, E., Wu, L. J., Xu, X. P., Yabsley, B., Yamada, S., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yeo, I., Yin, J. H., Yonenaga, M., Yook, Y. M., Yoshinobu, T., Yuan, C. Z., Yuan, G., Yuan, W., Yusa, Y., Zani, L., Zhang, J. Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhilich, V., Zhou, Q. D., Zhou, X. Y., Zhukova, V. I., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We measure the branching fractions for the decays $\bar{B}^0 \to D^{*+} e^{-} \bar{\nu}_e$ and $\bar{B}^0 \to D^{*+} \mu^{-} \bar{\nu}_\mu$ using $8.70 \pm 0.09~{\rm fb}^{-1}$ of data collected by the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+ e^-$ collider. Candidate signal decays are reconstructed with the subsequent decays $D^{*+}\to D^0 \pi^+$ and $D^0\to K^-\pi^+$. We obtain the results ${\cal B}(\bar{B}^0 \to D^{*+} e^{-} \bar{\nu}_e)$ = $(4.55\pm0.14(\mathrm{stat})\pm0.35 (\mathrm{syst})) \%$ and ${\cal B}(\bar{B}^0 \to D^{*+} \mu^{-} \bar{\nu}_\mu)$ = $(4.84\pm 0.13(\mathrm{stat})\pm0.37(\mathrm{syst})) \%$, in agreement with the world averages. The measurements serve to validate the full chain of detector operation and calibration, data collection and processing, and production of physics results in the case of semileptonic $B$-meson decays., Comment: 17 pages, 2 figures, minor correction added
Published: 2020

109. Quantifying quantum speedups: improved classical simulation from tighter magic monotones

Author: Seddon, James R., Regula, Bartosz, Pashayan, Hakop, Ouyang, Yingkai, and Campbell, Earl T.
Subjects: Quantum Physics
Abstract: Consumption of magic states promotes the stabilizer model of computation to universal quantum computation. Here, we propose three different classical algorithms for simulating such universal quantum circuits, and characterize them by establishing precise connections with a family of magic monotones. Our first simulator introduces a new class of quasiprobability distributions and connects its runtime to a generalized notion of negativity. We prove that this algorithm has significantly improved exponential scaling compared to all prior quasiprobability simulators for qubits. Our second simulator is a new variant of the stabilizer-rank simulation algorithm, extended to work with mixed states and with significantly improved runtime bounds. Our third simulator trades precision for speed by discarding negative quasiprobabilities. We connect each algorithm's performance to a corresponding magic monotone and, by comprehensively characterizing the monotones, we obtain a precise understanding of the simulation runtime and error bounds. Our analysis reveals a deep connection between all three seemingly unrelated simulation techniques and their associated monotones. For tensor products of single-qubit states, we prove that our monotones are all equal to each other, multiplicative and efficiently computable, allowing us to make clear-cut comparisons of the simulators' performance scaling. Furthermore, our monotones establish several asymptotic and non-asymptotic bounds on state interconversion and distillation rates. Beyond the theory of magic states, our classical simulators can be adapted to other resource theories under certain axioms, which we demonstrate through an explicit application to the theory of quantum coherence., Comment: 24+13 pages, 8 figures; final author copy. Since v1: restructured with additional discussion, proof sketches and examples. Since v3: minor revisions to improve clarity, additional acknowledgments
Published: 2020
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110. General practitioner perceptions and experiences of managing perinatal mental health: a scoping review

Author: Frayne, Jacqueline, Seddon, Sarah, Lebedevs, Tamara, Milroy, Talila, Teh, Beverly, and Nguyen, Thinh
Published: 2023
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111. A microfluidic platform for the controlled synthesis of architecturally complex liquid crystalline nanoparticles

Author: Pilkington, Colin P., Contini, Claudia, Barritt, Joseph D., Simpson, Paul A., Seddon, John M., and Elani, Yuval
Published: 2023
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112. Abrupt change in tropical Pacific climate mean state during the Little Ice Age

Author: Prohaska, Ana, Seddon, Alistair W. R., Meese, Bernd, Willis, Katherine J., Chiang, John C. H., and Sachse, Dirk
Published: 2023
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113. SARS-CoV-2 infection and pulmonary tuberculosis in children and adolescents: a case-control study

Author: Swanepoel, Jeremi, van der Zalm, Marieke M., Preiser, Wolfgang, van Zyl, Gert, Whittaker, Elizabeth, Hesseling, Anneke C., Moore, David A. J., and Seddon, James A.
Published: 2023
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114. Detection of high-risk Human Papillomavirus in prostate cancer from a UK based population

Author: Ahmed, M. Yahya, Salman, Nadia Aziz, Sandhu, Sarbjinder, Cakir, M. Okan, Seddon, Alan M., Kuehne, Christian, and Ashrafi, G. Hossein
Published: 2023
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115. A systematic review of risk factors for mortality among tuberculosis patients in South Africa

Author: Nicholson, Tamaryn J, Hoddinott, Graeme, Seddon, James A, Claassens, Mareli M, van der Zalm, Marieke M, Lopez, Elisa, Bock, Peter, Caldwell, Judy, Da Costa, Dawood, de Vaal, Celeste, Dunbar, Rory, Du Preez, Karen, Hesseling, Anneke C, Joseph, Kay, Kriel, Ebrahim, Loveday, Marian, Marx, Florian M, Meehan, Sue-Ann, Purchase, Susan, Naidoo, Kogieleum, Naidoo, Lenny, Solomon-Da Costa, Fadelah, Sloot, Rosa, and Osman, Muhammad
Published: 2023
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116. Mid-infrared water pollutant sensor based on SPR-PCF

Author: Gamal, Yusuf, Younis, B. M., Abd-Elkader, Ahmed El-Sayed, Furniss, David, Farries, Mark, Phang, Sendy, Benson, Trevor M., Seddon, Angela B., Hameed, Mohamed Farhat O., and Obayya, S. S. A.
Published: 2023
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117. SARS-CoV-2 infection and pulmonary tuberculosis in children and adolescents: a case-control study

Author: Jeremi Swanepoel, Marieke M. van der Zalm, Wolfgang Preiser, Gert van Zyl, Elizabeth Whittaker, Anneke C. Hesseling, David A. J. Moore, and James A. Seddon
Subjects: Tuberculosis, SARS-CoV-2, Adolescents, Immunology, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
Abstract: Abstract Background The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has had an impact on the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic but evidence on the possible interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and TB, especially in children and adolescents, remains limited. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between previous infection with SARS-CoV-2 and the risk of TB in children and adolescents. Methods An unmatched case-control study was conducted using SARS-CoV-2 unvaccinated children and adolescents recruited into two observational TB studies (Teen TB and Umoya), between November 2020 and November 2021, in Cape Town, South Africa. Sixty-four individuals with pulmonary TB (aged
Published: 2023
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118. Detection of high-risk Human Papillomavirus in prostate cancer from a UK based population

Author: M. Yahya Ahmed, Nadia Aziz Salman, Sarbjinder Sandhu, M. Okan Cakir, Alan M. Seddon, Christian Kuehne, and G. Hossein Ashrafi
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Abstract Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one of the sexually transmitted diseases which have been implicated in the etiology of multiple cancers. To date, several studies have been conducted to evaluate the incidence of high-risk (HR) HPV in prostate cancer (PCa) which have generated widely conflicting data. Hence, this leaves a lack of awareness on the causal role of persistent HPV infection in the development of PCa. Although this has been investigated in a handful of countries, to the best of our knowledge, no prior studies have been conducted in the UK. In this study, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Sanger sequencing were implemented to analyze a total of 49 fresh prostate specimens (35 benign and 14 malignant specimens) for the presence of viral DNA of 12 HR-HPV types. Data obtained confirmed the presence of HR-HPV in 32.7% of analyzed benign and malignant prostate tissues with HPV 35 being identified as the most frequent type. Moreover, HR-HPV positivity rate was found to be higher in abnormal prostate tissues (adenocarcinoma and benign with prostatitis) compared those with normal prostate condition. Using immunohistochemistry, we have confirmed the expression of HPV E7 protein in prostate tissues positive for HPV DNA. This observation, the first reported from a UK population, suggests that the presence of HPV in prostate tissue is likely to be a related factor in the progression of certain cases of prostate cancer.
Published: 2023
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119. Evaluation of Risk Prediction with Hierarchical Data: Dependency Adjusted Confidence Intervals for the AUC

Author: Camden Bay, Robert J Glynn, Johanna M Seddon, Mei-Ling Ting Lee, and Bernard Rosner
Subjects: AUC, clustered data, confidence interval, correlated data, hierarchical models, Statistics, HA1-4737
Abstract: The area under the true ROC curve (AUC) is routinely used to determine how strongly a given model discriminates between the levels of a binary outcome. Standard inference with the AUC requires that outcomes be independent of each other. To overcome this limitation, a method was developed for the estimation of the variance of the AUC in the setting of two-level hierarchical data using probit-transformed prediction scores generated from generalized estimating equation models, thereby allowing for the application of inferential methods. This manuscript presents an extension of this approach so that inference for the AUC may be performed in a three-level hierarchical data setting (e.g., eyes nested within persons and persons nested within families). A method that accounts for the effect of tied prediction scores on inference is also described. The performance of 95% confidence intervals around the AUC was assessed through the simulation of three-level clustered data in multiple settings, including ones with tied data and variable cluster sizes. Across all settings, the actual 95% confidence interval coverage varied from 0.943 to 0.958, and the ratio of the theoretical variance to the empirical variance of the AUC varied from 0.920 to 1.013. The results are better than those from existing methods. Two examples of applying the proposed methodology are presented.
Published: 2023
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120. Individualised variable-interval risk-based screening in diabetic retinopathy: the ISDR research programme including RCT

Author: Simon Harding, Ayesh Alshukri, Duncan Appelbe, Deborah Broadbent, Philip Burgess, Paula Byrne, Christopher Cheyne, Antonio Eleuteri, Anthony Fisher, Marta García-Fiñana, Mark Gabbay, Marilyn James, James Lathe, Tracy Moitt, Mehrdad Mobayen Rahni, John Roberts, Christopher Sampson, Daniel Seddon, Irene Stratton, Clare Thetford, Pilar Vazquez-Arango, Jiten Vora, Amu Wang, and Paula Williamson
Subjects: Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270
Abstract: Background Systematic annual screening for sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy is established in several countries but is resource intensive. Personalised (individualised) medicine offers the opportunity to extend screening intervals for people at low risk of progression and to target high-risk groups. However, significant concern exists among all stakeholders around the safety of changing programmes. Evidence to guide decisions is limited, with, to the best of our knowledge, no randomised controlled trials to date. Objectives To develop an individualised approach to screening for sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy and test its acceptability, safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness. To estimate the changing incidence of patient-centred outcomes. Design A risk calculation engine; a randomised controlled trial, including a within-trial cost-effectiveness study; a qualitative acceptability study; and an observational epidemiological cohort study were developed. A patient and public group was involved in design and interpretation. Setting A screening programme in an English health district of around 450,000 people. Participants People with diabetes aged ≥ 12 years registered with primary care practices in Liverpool. Interventions The risk calculation engine estimated each participant’s risk at each visit of progression to screen-positive diabetic retinopathy (individualised intervention group) and allocated their next appointment at 6, 12 or 24 months (high, medium or low risk, respectively). Main outcome measures The randomised controlled trial primary outcome was attendance at first follow-up assessing the safety of individualised compared with usual screening. Secondary outcomes were overall attendance, rates of screen-positive and sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy, and measures of visual impairment. Cost-effectiveness outcomes were cost/quality-adjusted life year and incremental cost savings. Cohort study outcomes were rates of screen-positive diabetic retinopathy and sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy. Data sources Local screening programme (retinopathy), primary care (demographic, clinical) and hospital outcomes. Methods A seven-person patient and public involvement group was recruited. Data were linked into a purpose-built dynamic data warehouse. In the risk assessment, the risk calculation engine used patient-embedded covariate data, a continuous Markov model, 5-year historical local population data, and most recent individual demographic, retina and clinical data to predict risk of future progression to screen-positive. The randomised controlled trial was a masked, two-arm, parallel assignment, equivalence randomised controlled trial, with an independent trials unit and 1 : 1 allocation to individualised screening (6, 12 or 24 months, determined by risk calculation engine at each visit) or annual screening (control). Cost-effectiveness was assessed using a within-trial analysis over a 2-year time horizon, including NHS and societal perspectives and costs directly observed within the randomised controlled trial. Acceptability was assessed by purposive sampling of 60 people with diabetes and 21 healthcare professionals with semistructured interviews analysed thematically; this was a constant comparative method until saturation. The cohort was an 11-year retrospective/prospective screening population data set. Results In the randomised controlled trial, 4534 participants were randomised: 2097 out of 2265 in the individualised arm (92.6%) and 2224 out of 2269 in the control arm (98.0%) remained after withdrawals. Attendance rates at first follow-up were equivalent (individualised 83.6%, control 84.7%) (difference –1.0%, 95% confidence interval –3.2% to 1.2%). Sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy detection rates were non-inferior: individualised 1.4%, control 1.7% (difference –0.3%, 95% confidence interval –1.1% to 0.5%). In the cost-effectiveness analysis, the mean differences in complete-case quality-adjusted life years (EuroQol-5 Dimensions, five-level version, and Health Utilities Index Mark 3) did not significantly differ from zero. Incremental cost savings per person not including treatment costs were from the NHS perspective £17.34 (confidence interval £17.02 to £17.67) and the societal perspective £23.11 (confidence interval £22.73 to £23.53). In the individualised arm, 43.2% fewer screening appointments were required. In terms of acceptability, changing to variable intervals was acceptable for the majority of people with diabetes and health-care professionals. Annual screening was perceived as unsustainable and an inefficient use of resources. Many people with diabetes and healthcare professionals expressed concerns that 2-year screening intervals may detect referable eye disease too late and might have a negative effect on perceptions about the importance of attendance and diabetes care. The 6-month interval was perceived positively. Among people with dementia, there was considerable misunderstanding about eye-related appointments and care. In the cohort study, the numbers of participants (total 28,384) rose over the 11 years (2006/7, n = 6637; 2016/17, n = 14,864). Annual incidences ranged as follows: screen-positive 4.4–10.6%, due to diabetic retinopathy 2.3–4.6% and sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy 1.3–2.2%. The proportions of screen-positive fell steadily but sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy rates remained stable. Limitations Our findings apply to a single city-wide established English screening programme of mostly white people with diabetes. The cost-effectiveness analysis was over a short timeline for a long-standing disease; the study, however, was designed to test the safety and effectiveness of the screening regimen, not the cost-effectiveness of screening compared with no screening. Cohort data collection was partly retrospective: data were unavailable on people who had developed sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy or died prior to 2013. Conclusions Our randomised controlled trial can reassure stakeholders involved in diabetes care that extended intervals and personalised screening is feasible, where data linkage is possible, and can be safely introduced in established screening programmes with potential cost savings compared with annual screening. Rates of screen-positive diabetic retinopathy and sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy are low and show consistent falls over time. Involvement of patients in research is crucial to success. Future work Future work could include external validation with other programmes followed by scale-up of individualised screening outside a research setting and economic modelling beyond the 2-year time horizon. Trial registration This trial is registered as ISRCTN87561257. Funding This project was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Programme Grants for Applied Research programme and will be published in full in Programme Grants for Applied Research; Vol. 11, No. 6. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information. Plain language summary Diabetic retinopathy remains a leading cause of vision loss for people with diabetes. Annual photographic screening allows early detection and prompt treatment in many countries. A new approach is to vary how often this is undertaken at each visit, after calculating each person’s risk of progression; we have called this ‘individualised’ screening. We tested this variable-interval risk-based approach against annual screening in a randomised controlled trial of 4534 people in Liverpool. Six-, 12- or 24-month intervals represented high, medium and low risks, respectively, of becoming screen-positive by the next appointment. With our patient and public involvement group, we designed a computer-based risk-calculation system using personal information from screening, general practitioners and hospitals. Attendance rates at the next screening appointment were similar in the individualised (84%) and annual (control) (85%) groups. Similar amounts of sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy were detected in the two arms (1.4% individualised, 1.7% control), with 43% fewer visits. In this study in a single geographical region, savings estimated to accrue to the NHS per person over 2 years were £17.34 and £23.11 for wider society, but estimates did not include treatment costs. During interviews, 60 people with diabetes and 21 healthcare professionals said that individualised screening would be acceptable because of increasing rates of diabetes and the chance to target high-risk people. Patients had anxieties about the reliability of the risk-calculation and restricting access, requesting opportunities for earlier screening if risks changed. Varying screening intervals based on a person’s own risk of progression appears feasible and safe. Low-risk people would be spared unnecessary appointments. Introducing an individualised approach could now move to wider testing and validation in other UK and international settings. The trial only ran for 2 years and was in a long-established programme with low rates of disease, so monitoring of attendance and retinopathy rates should be included as part of wider testing. Scientific summary Background Diabetic retinopathy remains the most common cause of visual impairment in working populations worldwide. Systematic annual screening to detect and treat sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) is established in several countries including the United Kingdom (UK) and has greatly improved the detection of treatable disease. With the rapid increase in the prevalence of diabetes, new approaches to screening are required. Risk stratification, personalised (individualised) medicine, and clinical bioinformatics offer opportunities to extend the screening interval for people at low risk of progression and to target those at high risk. However there is significant concern among people with diabetes, healthcare professionals and health commissioners in the UK around the safety and acceptability of changing an established and successful programme. To ensure that health care is available for all it is imperative that it is not only efficacious but cost-efficient, that is, it delivers care at an affordable cost for commissioners. Evidence to guide these decisions is very limited and there are no randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Much of the data on prevalence and incidence of diabetic retinopathy and progression to more severe stages of disease come from the 1980s to 1990s and before the introduction of systematic screening and improvements in diabetes and blood pressure control. Data on the current progression rates in screening populations are limited and are reported variably. We conducted a programme of quantitative and qualitative research to develop and test the acceptability, safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness of an individualised approach to screening for STDR. To provide data for future planning of early detection programmes and the design of future research studies we designed a longitudinal observational cohort study of the population of people with diabetes in Liverpool. We aimed to investigate the prevalence and incidence of the stages in the natural history of diabetic retinopathy, namely screen-positive, sight-threatening and treatable disease, and visual impairment, all key patient-centred outcomes in the disease. Changes to the programme and their implications A number of changes to the programme occurred in the early years. A systematic review was published at around the time of the programme start. We used these data to design aspects of the study and conducted a literature review instead. Data for the cohort study proved not to be available on people who had died prior to programme start. We adopted a mixed retrospective and prospective analysis but this added some difficulty in interpreting the findings. In 2016 resources were repurposed from the cohort study to support recruitment of the RCT, which was behind schedule. The scope of the cohort study was narrowed to focus only on the data available from the screening programme, meaning that we were unable to complete data collection on the patient-centred outcomes after sight-threatening retinopathy had been confirmed, namely treatment and visual impairment. Recruitment of non-attenders proved beyond the resources available and was abandoned. Further research is needed to address these unanswered questions. Methods The programme included the development of a bespoke data warehouse, the development of a risk-calculation engine, a RCT, a within-trial cost-effectiveness study, a qualitative study of acceptability, and an observational cohort study. We recruited and fully embedded a seven-person patient and public involvement group which was maintained throughout the programme. The setting was the screening programme of a single English health district (clinical commissioning group). All people with diabetes aged 12 years and over registered with general practices in the Liverpool city area were invited by letter to participate in the research programme. Consent was through an opt-out process. A purpose-built dynamic data warehouse was developed to support all aspects of the programme including bespoke processes addressing inconsistency in routinely collected data, multiple data platforms and lack of technical manuals. Data on eligible participants were sourced from primary care (demographic, clinical), Liverpool Diabetes Eye Screening Programme (retinopathy) and hospital outcomes (true screen-positive, STDR). Data were cross referenced against opt-out records before further use within the programme. A risk-calculation engine was developed for the assessment of individual risk of progressing to screen-positive using patient-focused covariate selection, a continuous-time Markov model, 5-year historical local population data, and the most recent individual demographic, retina and clinical data. The risk-calculation engine was linked to the data warehouse. The Patient and Public Involvement group determined the risk criterion of
Published: 2023
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121. Fine‐Tuning Supramolecular Assemblies by Controlling Micellar Aggregates

Author: Dipankar Ghosh, Libby J. Marshall, Giuseppe Ciccone, Wanli Liu, Adam Squires, Annela Seddon, Massimo Vassalli, and Dave J. Adams
Subjects: dipeptides, gel noodles, micelles, nanoindentation, SAXS, Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials, TA401-492, Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), TA1-2040
Abstract: Abstract Supramolecular assembly can be used to fabricate complex functional materials by organizing simple building blocks. However, it is difficult to control the hierarchical assembly across multiple length scales. The correlation of a supramolecular gel network and a pre‐gelling aggregate will help to understand how a molecular‐level assembly is translated into a higher order. Here, a functional dipeptide 2NapFF is used that can assemble in different micellar structures at high pH by varying the counterion. Replacing the counterions with a divalent calcium salt results in a cross‐linked gel network, or an interesting analog “gel noodles.” The physical properties of the gel noodles can be varied by choosing specific micellar assemblies as the pre‐gel. The mechanical rigidity of the gel networks is compared by nanoindentation and tensile testing, and the pattern to the structures of the micelles observed by small‐angle X‐ray scattering is correlated. The supramolecular assembly can be fine‐tuned by using different micelles as the pre‐gel without affecting the inherent gel‐state properties.
Published: 2023
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122. Search for an invisibly decaying $Z^{\prime}$ boson at Belle II in $e^+ e^- \to \mu^+ \mu^- (e^{\pm} \mu^{\mp})$ plus missing energy final states

Author: Belle II Collaboration, Adachi, I., Ahlburg, P., Aihara, H., Akopov, N., Aloisio, A., Ky, N. Anh, Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aushev, T., Aushev, V., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Baehr, S., Bambade, P., Banerjee, Sw., Bansal, V., Barrett, M., Baudot, J., Becker, J., Behera, P. K., Bennett, J. V., Bernieri, E., Bernlochner, F. U., Bertemes, M., Bessner, M., Bettarini, S., Bianchi, F., Biswas, D., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Branchini, P., Briere, R. A., Browder, T. E., Budano, A., Burmistrov, L., Bussino, S., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Casarosa, G., Cecchi, C., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Cheaib, R., Chekelian, V., Chen, Y. Q., Chen, Y. -T., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, K., Cho, S., Choi, S. -K., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Corona, L., Cremaldi, L. M., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Dattola, F., De La Cruz-Burelo, E., De Nardo, G., De Nuccio, M., De Pietro, G., de Sangro, R., Destefanis, M., Dey, S., De Yta-Hernandez, A., Di Capua, F., Doležal, Z., Jiménez, I. Domínguez, Dong, T. V., Dort, K., Dossett, D., Dubey, S., Duell, S., Dujany, G., Eidelman, S., Eliachevitch, M., Fast, J. E., Ferber, T., Ferlewicz, D., Finocchiaro, G., Fiore, S., Fodor, A., Forti, F., Fulsom, B. G., Ganiev, E., Garcia-Hernandez, M., Garg, R., Gaur, V., Gaz, A., Gellrich, A., Gemmler, J., Geßler, T., Giordano, R., Giri, A., Gobbo, B., Godang, R., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Gomis, P., Gradl, W., Graziani, E., Greenwald, D., Guan, Y., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hearty, C., Hedges, M. T., de la Cruz, I. Heredia, Villanueva, M. Hernández, Hershenhorn, A., Higuchi, T., Hill, E. C., Hoek, M., Hsu, C. -L., Hu, Y., Iijima, T., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Jabbar, J. Irakkathil, Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, Y., Jacobs, W. W., Jaffe, D. E., Jang, E. -J., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, C., Joo, K. K., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kandra, J., Karyan, G., Kato, Y., Kawasaki, T., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. -H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, K. -H., Kim, S. -H., Kim, Y. K., Kim, Y., Kimmel, T. D., Kindo, H., Kleinwort, C., Kodyš, P., Koga, T., Kohani, S., Komarov, I., Korpar, S., Kovalchuk, N., Kraetzschmar, T. M. G., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krokovny, P., Kuhr, T., Kumar, J., Kumar, M., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kurz, S., Kuzmin, A., Kwon, Y. -J., Lacaprara, S., La Licata, C., Lanceri, L., Lange, J. S., Lautenbach, K., Lee, I. -S., Lee, S. C., Leitl, P., Levit, D., Li, L. K., Li, Y. B., Libby, J., Lieret, K., Gioi, L. Li, Liptak, Z., Liu, Q. Y., Liventsev, D., Longo, S., Luo, T., Maeda, Y., Maggiora, M., Manoni, E., Marcello, S., Marinas, C., Martini, A., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matsuoka, K., Matvienko, D., Meggendorfer, F., Mei, J. C., Meier, F., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Milesi, M., Miller, C., Miyabayashi, K., Miyake, H., Mizuk, R., Azmi, K., Mohanty, G. B., Moon, T., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mueller, F., Müller, F. J., Muller, Th., Muroyama, G., Mussa, R., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Nayak, M., Nazaryan, G., Neverov, D., Niebuhr, C., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nishimura, M., Oberhof, B., Ogawa, K., Onishchuk, Y., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Paladino, A., Panta, A., Paoloni, E., Park, H., Paschen, B., Passeri, A., Pathak, A., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Peruzzi, I., Peschke, R., Pestotnik, R., Piccolo, M., Piilonen, L. E., Popov, V., Praz, C., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Purohit, M. V., Rados, P., Rasheed, R., Reiter, S., Remnev, M., Resmi, P. K., Ripp-Baudot, I., Ritter, M., Rizzo, G., Rizzuto, L. B., Robertson, S. H., Pérez, D. Rodríguez, Roney, J. M., Rosenfeld, C., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Sandilya, S., Sangal, A., Santelj, L., Sartori, P., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Scavino, B., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Seddon, R. M., Seino, Y., Selce, A., Senyo, K., Sfienti, C., Shen, C. P., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Sobie, R. J., Soffer, A., Sokolov, A., Solovieva, E., Spataro, S., Spruck, B., Starič, M., Stefkova, S., Stottler, Z. S., Stroili, R., Strube, J., Sumihama, M., Sumiyoshi, T., Summers, D. J., Suzuki, S. Y., Tabata, M., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Taras, P., Tenchini, F., Torassa, E., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Unger, K., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Ushiroda, Y., Vahsen, S. E., van Tonder, R., Varner, G. S., Varvell, K. E., Vinokurova, A., Vitale, L., Vossen, A., Wakai, M., Wakeling, H. M., Abdullah, W. Wan, Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Warburton, A., Watanabe, M., Webb, J., Wehle, S., Wessel, C., Wiechczynski, J., Windel, H., Won, E., Yabsley, B., Yamada, S., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Ye, H., Yin, J. H., Yonenaga, M., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zani, L., Zhang, Z., Zhilich, V., Zhou, Q. D., Zhou, X. Y., and Zhukova, V. I.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Theories beyond the standard model often predict the existence of an additional neutral boson, the $Z^{\prime}$. Using data collected by the Belle II experiment during 2018 at the SuperKEKB collider, we perform the first searches for the invisible decay of a $Z^{\prime}$ in the process $e^+ e^- \to \mu^+ \mu^- Z^{\prime}$ and of a lepton-flavor-violating $Z^{\prime}$ in $e^+ e^- \to e^{\pm} \mu^{\mp} Z^{\prime}$. We do not find any excess of events and set 90\% credibility level upper limits on the cross sections of these processes. We translate the former, in the framework of an $L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}$ theory, into upper limits on the $Z^{\prime}$ coupling constant at the level of $5 \times 10^{-2}$ -- $1$ $M_{Z^\prime}\leq 6$ GeV/$c^2$., Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures + supplemental materials. Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Published: 2019
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123. Long-length Legal Document Classification

Author: Wan, Lulu, Papageorgiou, George, Seddon, Michael, and Bernardoni, Mirko
Subjects: Computer Science - Computation and Language
Abstract: One of the principal tasks of machine learning with major applications is text classification. This paper focuses on the legal domain and, in particular, on the classification of lengthy legal documents. The main challenge that this study addresses is the limitation that current models impose on the length of the input text. In addition, the present paper shows that dividing the text into segments and later combining the resulting embeddings with a BiLSTM architecture to form a single document embedding can improve results. These advancements are achieved by utilising a simpler structure, rather than an increasingly complex one, which is often the case in NLP research. The dataset used in this paper is obtained from an online public database containing lengthy legal documents with highly domain-specific vocabulary and thus, the comparison of our results to the ones produced by models implemented on the commonly used datasets would be unjustified. This work provides the foundation for future work in document classification in the legal field., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, 4 equations, 5 tables
Published: 2019

124. Measurements of the Absolute Branching Fractions of $B^\pm \to K^\pm X_{c\bar c}$

Author: Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kozyrev, E. A., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Lankfordm, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Vazquez, W. Panduro, Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rohrken, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Lacker, H. M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, Sw., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Robertson, S. H., Seddon, R. M., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Gaz, A., Margoni, M., Posocco, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rama, M., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Zani, L., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Bunger, C., Dittrich, S., Grunberg, O., Hess, M., Leddig, T., Voß, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Luitz, S., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Ahmed, H., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De Mori, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Albert, J., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A study of the two body decays $B^\pm\rightarrow X_{c\bar c}K^\pm$, where X$_{c\bar c}$ refers to one charmonium state, is reported by BaBar collaboration using a data sample of 424 fb$^{-1}$. The absolute determination of branching fractions for these decays are significantly improved compared to previous BaBaR measurements. Evidence is found for the decay $B^+\rightarrow X(3872)K^+$ at the $3\sigma$ level. The absolute branching fraction ${\cal B}(B^+\rightarrow X(3872)K^+) = (2.1\pm0.6({\rm stat})\pm0.3({\rm syst}))\times 10^{-4}$ is measured for the first time. It follows that ${\cal B}(X(3872)\rightarrow J/\psi\pi^+\pi^-)=(4.1\pm1.3)\%$, supporting the hypothesis of a molecular component for this resonance., Comment: 8 pages 6 figures
Published: 2019
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125. Decorated Protein Networks: Functional Nanomaterials with Tunable Domain Size

Author: de Anda, Ioatzin Rıos, Coutable-Pennarun, Angelique, Brasnett, Chris, Whitelam, Stephen, Seddon, Annela, Russo, John, Anderson, J. L. Ross, and Royall1, C. Patrick
Subjects: Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter, Physics - Biological Physics, Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules
Abstract: The implementation of natural and artificial proteins with designer properties and functionalities offers unparalleled opportunity for functional nanoarchitectures formed through self-assembly. However, to exploit the opportunities offered we require the ability to control protein assembly into the desired architecture while avoiding denaturation and therefore retaining protein functionality. Here we address this challenge with a model system of fluorescent proteins. Using techniques of self-assembly manipulation inspired by soft matter where interactions between components are controlled to yield the desired structure, we show that it is possible to assemble networks of proteins of one species which we can decorate with another, whose coverage we can tune. Consequently, the interfaces between domains of each component can also be tuned, with applications for example in energy transfer. Our model system of fluorescent proteins eGFP and mCherry retain their fluorescence throughout the assembly process, thus demonstrating that functionality is preserved.
Published: 2019

126. Measurement of the integrated luminosity of the Phase 2 data of the Belle II experiment

Author: Belle II Collaboration, Abudinén, F., Adachi, I., Ahlburg, P., Aihara, H., Akopov, N., Aloisio, A., Ameli, F., Andricek, L., Ky, N. Anh, Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aushev, T., Aushev, V., Aziz, T., Azmi, K., Babu, V., Baehr, S., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Bambade, P., Banerjee, Sw., Bansal, S., Bansal, V., Barrett, M., Baudot, J., Beaulieu, A., Becker, J., Behera, P. K., Bennett, J. V., Bernieri, E., Bernlochner, F. U., Bertemes, M., Bessner, M., Bettarini, S., Bhardwaj, V., Bianchi, F., Bilka, T., Bilokin, S., Biswas, D., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Branchini, P., Braun, N., Browder, T. E., Budano, A., Bussino, S., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Casarosa, G., Cecchi, C., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Cheaib, R., Chekelian, V., Chen, Y. Q., Chen, Y. -T., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, H. -E., Cho, K., Cho, S., Choi, S. -K., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Corona, L., Cremaldi, L. M., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Dattola, F., De La Cruz-Burelo, E., De Nardo, G., De Nuccio, M., De Pietro, G., de Sangro, R., Destefanis, M., Dey, S., De Yta-Hernandez, A., Di Capua, F., Di Carlo, S., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Jiménez, I. Domínguez, Dong, T. V., Dort, K., Dubey, S., Duell, S., Eidelman, S., Eliachevitch, M., Ferber, T., Ferlewicz, D., Finocchiaro, G., Fiore, S., Fodor, A., Forti, F., Frey, A., Fulsom, B. G., Gabriel, M., Ganiev, E., Garcia-Hernandez, M., Garg, R., Garmash, A., Gaur, V., Gaz, A., Gebauer, U., Gellrich, A., Gemmler, J., Geßler, T., Giordano, R., Giri, A., Gobbo, B., Godang, R., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Gomis, P., Grace, P., Gradl, W., Graziani, E., Greenwald, D., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hearty, C., Hedges, M. T., de la Cruz, I. Heredia, Villanueva, M. Hernández, Hershenhorn, A., Higuchi, T., Hill, E. C., Hirata, H., Hoek, M., Hollitt, S., Hotta, T., Hsu, C. -L., Hu, Y., Huang, K., Iijima, T., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Jabbar, J. Irakkathil, Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jackson, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jaffe, D. E., Jang, E. -J., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joo, C., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Karyan, G., Kato, Y., Kawasaki, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. -H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, S. -H., Kim, Y. K., Kim, Y., Kimmel, T. D., Kinoshita, K., Kleinwort, C., Knysh, B., Kodyš, P., Koga, T., Komarov, I., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kotchetkov, D., Kovalchuk, N., Kraetzschmar, T. M. G., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. F., Krokovny, P., Kuehn, W., Kuhr, T., Kumar, M., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kurz, S., Kuzmin, A., Kwon, Y. -J., Lacaprara, S., Lai, Y. -T., La Licata, C., Lalwani, K., Lanceri, L., Lange, J. S., Lautenbach, K., Lee, I. -S., Lee, S. C., Leitl, P., Levit, D., Lewis, P. M., Li, C., Li, L. K., Li, S. X., Li, Y. M., Li, Y. B., Libby, J., Lieret, K., Gioi, L. Li, Lin, J., Liptak, Z., Liu, Q. Y., Liventsev, D., Longo, S., Loos, A., Luetticke, F., Luo, T., MacQueen, C., Maeda, Y., Maggiora, M., Maity, S., Manoni, E., Marcello, S., Marinas, C., Martini, A., Masuda, M., Matsuoka, K., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J., Mei, J. C., Meier, F., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Milesi, M., Miller, C., Miyabayashi, K., Miyata, H., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Moon, H., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mueller, F., Müller, F. J., Muller, Th., Mussa, R., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nayak, M., Nazaryan, G., Neverov, D., Niiyama, M., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nishimura, M., Nouxman, M. H. A., Oberhof, B., Ogawa, S., Onishchuk, Y., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Paladino, A., Pang, T., Paoloni, E., Park, H., Park, S. -H., Paschen, B., Passeri, A., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Peruzzi, I., Peschke, R., Pestotnik, R., Piccolo, M., Piilonen, L. E., Podesta-Lerma, P. L. M., Popov, V., Praz, C., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Purohit, M. V., Rados, P., Remnev, M., Resmi, P. K., Ripp-Baudot, I., Ritter, M., Ritzert, M., Rizzo, G., Rizzuto, L. B., Robertson, S. H., Pérez, D. Rodríguez, Roney, J. M., Rosenfeld, C., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Sanders, D. A., Sandilya, S., Sangal, A., Santelj, L., Sartori, P., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Scavino, B., Schram, M., Schreeck, H., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seddon, R. M., Seino, Y., Selce, A., Senyo, K., Sevior, M. E., Sfienti, C., Shen, C. P., Shibuya, H., Shiu, J. -G., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Skambraks, S., Sobie, R. J., Soffer, A., Sokolov, A., Solovieva, E., Spataro, S., Spruck, B., Starič, M., Stefkova, S., Stottler, Z. S., Stroili, R., Strube, J., Sumihama, M., Sumiyoshi, T., Summers, D. J., Sutcliffe, W., Tabata, M., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Tanigawa, H., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taras, P., Tenchini, F., Torassa, E., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Tsuzuki, N., Uchida, M., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unger, K., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Vahsen, S. E., van Tonder, R., Varner, G. S., Varvell, K. E., Vinokurova, A., Vitale, L., Vossen, A., Waheed, E., Wakeling, H. M., Wan, K., Abdullah, W. Wan, Wang, B., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, X. L., Warburton, A., Watanabe, M., Watanuki, S., Webb, J., Wehle, S., Wermes, N., Wessel, C., Wiechczynski, J., Wieduwilt, P., Windel, H., Won, E., Yamada, S., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yin, J. H., Yonenaga, M., Yook, Y. M., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zani, L., Zhang, J. Z., Zhang, Z., Zhilich, V., Zhou, Q. D., Zhou, X. Y., Zhukova, V. I., Zhulanov, V., and Zupanc, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: From April to July 2018, a data sample at the peak energy of the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance was collected with the Belle~II detector at the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider. This is the first data sample of the Belle~II experiment. Using Bhabha and digamma events, we measure the integrated luminosity of the data sample to be ($496.3 \pm 0.3 \pm 3.0$)~pb$^{-1}$, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. This work provides a basis for future luminosity measurements at Belle~II., Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, the first Belle II Collaboration paper, to be published in Chinese Physics C
Published: 2019
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127. High performance waveguide uni-travelling carrier photodiode grown by solid source molecular beam epitaxy

Author: Lin, Xiaoli, Natrella, Michele, Seddon, James, Graham, Chris, Renaud, Cyril C., Tang, Mingchu, Wu, Jiang, Liu, Huiyun, and Seeds, Alwyn J.
Subjects: Physics - Applied Physics, Physics - Optics
Abstract: The first waveguide coupled phosphide-based UTC photodiodes grown by Solid Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy (SSMBE) are reported in this paper. Metal Organic Vapour Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE) and Gas Source MBE (GSMBE) have long been the predominant growth techniques for the production of high quality InGaAsP materials. The use of SSMBE overcomes the major issue associated with the unintentional diffusion of zinc in MOVPE and gives the benefit of the superior control provided by MBE growth techniques without the costs and the risks of handling toxic gases of GSMBE. The UTC epitaxial structure contains a 300 nm n-InP collection layer and a 300 nm n++-InGaAsP waveguide layer. UTC-PDs integrated with Coplanar Waveguides (CPW) exhibit 3 dB bandwidth greater than 65 GHz and output RF power of 1.1 dBm at 100 GHz. We also demonstrate accurate prediction of the absolute level of power radiated by our antenna integrated UTCs, between 200 GHz and 260 GHz, using 3d full-wave modelling and taking the UTC-to-antenna impedance match into account. Further, we present the first optical 3d full-wave modelling of waveguide UTCs, which provides a detailed insight into the coupling between a lensed optical fibre and the UTC chip., Comment: 19 pages, 24 figures
Published: 2019
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128. Optical communications-based platform uses Uni-Travelling-Carrier Photodiode for ultra-high resolution software-defined THz spectroscopy and reveals LiYF4:Ho intrinsic spectral line shape

Author: Hermans, Rodolfo I., Shams, Haymen, Seddon, James P., Seeds, Alwyn J., and Aeppli, Gabriel
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics - Optics
Abstract: High resolution (900 Hz full-width at half maximum) frequency domain spectroscopy near 0.2Terahertz is achieved using an exact frequency spacing comb-source in the optical communications band, filtering and photo-mixing in a custom Uni-Travelling-Carrier Photodiode (UTC-PD) for THz signal generation and coherent down-conversion for detection. Via time domain modulation of one of the comb lines, a fully controllable spectrometer can be defined in software, and this principle is demonstrated for magnetic field-free readout of the electronuclear spectrum for the Ho ions in \lihof, a material often used for demonstration experiments in quantum science. In particular, homogeneous and inhomogeneous contributions to the spectrum are readily separated.
Published: 2019

129. Search for $B^- \to \Lambda \bar p \nu \bar\nu$ with the BABAR experiment

Author: The BABAR Collaboration, Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kozyrev, E. A., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Lankford, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Vazquez, W. Panduro, Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Röhrken, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Lacker, H. M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, Sw., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Robertson, S. H., Seddon, R. M., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Gaz, A., Margoni, M., Posocco, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rama, M., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Zani, L., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Dittrich, S., Grünberg, O., Heß, M., Leddig, T., Voß, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Luitz, S., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Ahmed, H., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De Mori, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Albert, J., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lueck, T., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We search for the rare flavor-changing neutral current process $B^- \to \Lambda {\overline p} \nu{\overline{\nu}}$ using data from the BABAR experiment. A total of 424 fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ collision data collected at the center-of-mass energy of the $\Upsilon$(4S) resonance is used in this study, corresponding to a sample of ${(471 \pm 3) \times 10^{6}}$ $B\overline{B}$ pairs. Signal $B^- \to \Lambda {\overline p} \nu{\overline{\nu}}$ candidates are identified by first fully reconstructing a $B^+$ decay in one of many possible exclusive decays to hadronic final states, then examining detector activity that is not associated with this reconstructed $B^+$ decay for evidence of a signal $B^- \to \Lambda {\overline p} \nu{\overline{\nu}}$ decay. The data yield is found to be consistent with the expected background contribution under a null signal hypothesis, resulting in an upper limit of ${{\cal B} (B^- \to \Lambda {\overline p} \nu{\overline{\nu}}) < 3.0\times 10^{-5}}$ at the $90\%$ confidence level., Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2019
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130. Search for rare or forbidden decays of the $D^{0}$ meson

Author: Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., McKenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kozyrev, E. A., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Yu. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Yu., Lankford, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Vazquez, W. Panduro, Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Röhrken, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., de Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Lacker, H. M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Diberder, F. Le, Lutz, A. M., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, Sw., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Robertson, S. H., Seddon, R. M., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., LoSecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Gaz, A., Margoni, M., Posocco, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rama, M., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Zani, L., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Bünger, C., Dittrich, S., Grünberg, O., Heß, M., Leddig, T., Voß, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Luitz, S., MacFarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Sullivan, M. K., Va'vra, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Ahmed, H., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De Mori, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Albert, J., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lueck, T., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present a search for nine lepton-number-violating and three lepton-flavor-violating neutral charm decays of the type $D^0\rightarrow h^{\prime -} h^{-}\ell^{\prime +} \ell^{+}$ and $D^0\rightarrow h^{\prime -} h^{+}\ell^{\prime\pm} \ell^{\mp}$, where $h$ and $h^{\prime}$ represent a $K$ or $\pi$ meson and $\ell$ and $\ell^{\prime}$ an electron or muon. The analysis is based on $468$ fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ annihilation data collected at or close to the $Y(4S)$ resonance with the BaBar detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. No significant signal is observed for any of the twelve modes and we establish 90% confidence level upper limits on the branching fractions in the range $(1.0 - 30.6)\times 10^{-7}$. The limits are between one and three orders of magnitude times more stringent than previous measurements., Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2019
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131. Spin- and angle-resolved photoemission studies of the electronic structure of Si(110)'16x2' surfaces

Author: Lewis, N. K., Lassailly, Y., Martinelli, L., Vobornik, I., Fujii, J., Bigi, C., Brunkow, E., Clayburn, N. B., Gay, T. J., Flavell, W. R., and Seddon, E. A.
Subjects: Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract: The electronic structure of Si(110)"16 x 2" double-domain, single-domain and 1 x 1 surfaces have been investigated using spin- and angle-resolved photoemission at sample temperatures of 77 K and 300 K. Angle-resolved photoemission was conducted using horizontally- and vertically-polarised 60 eV and 80 eV photons. Band-dispersion maps revealed four surface states ($S_1$ to $S_4$) which were assigned to silicon dangling bonds on the basis of measured binding energies and photoemission intensity changes between horizontal and vertical light polarisations. Three surface states ($S_1$, $S_2$ and $S_4$), observed in the Si(110)"16 x 2" reconstruction, were assigned to Si adatoms and Si atoms present at the edges of the corrugated terrace structure. Only one of the four surface states, $S_3$, was observed in both the Si(110)"16 x 2" and 1 x 1 band maps and consequently attributed to the pervasive Si zigzag chains that are components of both the Si(110)"16 x 2" and 1 x 1 surfaces. A state in the bulk-band region was attributed to an in-plane bond. All data were consistent with the adatom-buckling model of the Si(110)"16 x 2" surface. Whilst room temperature measurements of $P_y$ and $P_z$ were statistically compatible with zero, $P_x$ measurements of the enantiomorphic A-type and B-type Si(110)"16 x 2" surfaces gave small average polarisations of around 1.5\% that were opposite in sign. Further measurements at 77 K on A-type Si(110)"16 x 2" surface gave a smaller value of +0.3\%. An upper limit of $\sim1\%$ may thus be taken for the longitudinal polarisation., Comment: Main paper: 12 pages and 11 figures. Supplemental information: 5 pages and 2 figures
Published: 2019
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132. Quantifying magic for multi-qubit operations

Author: Seddon, James R. and Campbell, Earl T.
Subjects: Quantum Physics
Abstract: The development of a framework for quantifying "non-stabiliserness" of quantum operations is motivated by the magic state model of fault-tolerant quantum computation, and by the need to estimate classical simulation cost for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. The robustness of magic was recently proposed as a well-behaved magic monotone for multi-qubit states and quantifies the simulation overhead of circuits composed of Clifford+T gates, or circuits using other gates from the Clifford hierarchy. Here we present a general theory of the "non-stabiliserness" of quantum operations rather than states, which are useful for classical simulation of more general circuits. We introduce two magic monotones, called channel robustness and magic capacity, which are well-defined for general n-qubit channels and treat all stabiliser-preserving CPTP maps as free operations. We present two complementary Monte Carlo-type classical simulation algorithms with sample complexity given by these quantities and provide examples of channels where the complexity of our algorithms is exponentially better than previous known simulators. We present additional techniques that ease the difficulty of calculating our monotones for special classes of channels., Comment: 25+15 pages, 6 figures, 2 algorithms, 4 tables; Author final preprint copy. Revisions since v1: Sections 3 and 6 discuss consistency condition for third-level gates; Section 7A restructured and expanded; Appendix E2 now includes additional details on existence of decompositions for diagonal channels; typos corrected
Published: 2019
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133. Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for the Diagnosis of Tuberculous Meningitis: A Small Step Forward

Author: Donovan, Joseph, Cresswell, Fiona V, Thuong, Nguyen Thuy Thuong, Boulware, David R, Thwaites, Guy E, Bahr, Nathan C, Aarnoutse, Rob E, Anderson, Suzanne TB, Bang, Nguyen D, Boyles, Tom, te Brake, Lindsey HM, Chandra, Satish, Chow, Felicia C, van Crevel, Reinout, Davis, Angharad G, Dian, Sofiati, Dooley, Kelly E, Figaji, Anthony, Ganiem, A Rizal, Garg, Ravindra Kumar, Gibb, Diana M, Hamers, Raph L, Hiep, Nguyen TT, Imran, Darma, Imron, Akhmad, Jain, Sanjay K, Jain, Sunil K, Kalita, Jayantee, Kumar, Rashmi, Kumar, Vinod, van Laarhoven, Arjan, Lai, Rachel P-J, Manesh, Abi, Marais, Suzaan, Mave, Vidya, Meintjes, Graeme, Meya, David B, Misra, Usha K, Modi, Manish, Ordonez, Alvaro A, Phu, Nguyen H, Pradhan, Sunil, Prasad, Kameshwar, Proust, Alize M, Ramakrishnan, Lalita, Rohlwink, Ursula, Ruslami, Rovina, Schoeman, Johannes F, Seddon, James A, Sharma, Kusum, Siddiqi, Omar, Solomons, Regan S, Thuong, Nguyen TT, van Toorn, Ronald, Tucker, Elizabeth W, Wasserman, Sean A, and Wilkinson, Robert J
Subjects: Rare Diseases, Tuberculosis, Infectious Diseases, 4.2 Evaluation of markers and technologies, Detection, screening and diagnosis, Good Health and Well Being, Diagnostic Tests, Routine, Humans, Molecular Diagnostic Techniques, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Sensitivity and Specificity, Tuberculosis, Meningeal, Tuberculous Meningitis International Research Consortium, Ultra, Xpert, cerebrospinal fluid, diagnosis, tuberculous meningitis, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Microbiology
Abstract: The delayed diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) leads to poor outcomes, yet the current diagnostic methods for identifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are inadequate. The first comparative study of the new GeneXpert MTB/RIF Ultra (Xpert Ultra) for TBM diagnosis suggested increased sensitivity of Xpert Ultra. Two subsequent studies have shown Xpert Ultra has improved sensitivity, but has insufficient negative predictive value to exclude TBM. Collecting and processing large volumes of CSF for mycobacterial testing are important for optimal diagnostic test performance. But clinical, radiological, and laboratory parameters remain essential for TBM diagnosis and empiric therapy is often needed. We therefore caution against the use of Xpert Ultra as a single diagnostic test for TBM; it cannot be used to "rule out" TBM.
Published: 2020

134. Projected Future Changes in Tropical Cyclones Using the CMIP6 HighResMIP Multimodel Ensemble

Author: Roberts, Malcolm John, Camp, Joanne, Seddon, Jon, Vidale, Pier Luigi, Hodges, Kevin, Vannière, Benoît, Mecking, Jenny, Haarsma, Rein, Bellucci, Alessio, Scoccimarro, Enrico, Caron, Louis‐Philippe, Chauvin, Fabrice, Terray, Laurent, Valcke, Sophie, Moine, Marie‐Pierre, Putrasahan, Dian, Roberts, Christopher D, Senan, Retish, Zarzycki, Colin, Ullrich, Paul, Yamada, Yohei, Mizuta, Ryo, Kodama, Chihiro, Fu, Dan, Zhang, Qiuying, Danabasoglu, Gokhan, Rosenbloom, Nan, Wang, Hong, and Wu, Lixin
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Oceanography, Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Action, high resolution, tropical cyclones, future change, tracking algorithms, model bias, CMIP6, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Abstract: Future changes in tropical cyclone properties are an important component of climate change impacts and risk for many tropical and midlatitude countries. In this study we assess the performance of a multimodel ensemble of climate models, at resolutions ranging from 250 to 25 km. We use a common experimental design including both atmosphere-only and coupled simulations run over the period 1950-2050, with two tracking algorithms applied uniformly across the models. There are overall improvements in tropical cyclone frequency, spatial distribution, and intensity in models at 25 km resolution, with several of them able to represent very intense storms. Projected tropical cyclone activity by 2050 generally declines in the South Indian Ocean, while changes in other ocean basins are more uncertain and sensitive to both tracking algorithm and imposed forcings. Coupled models with smaller biases suggest a slight increase in average TC 10 m wind speeds by 2050.
Published: 2020

135. Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions

Author: Malhi, Yadvinder, Franklin, Janet, Seddon, Nathalie, Solan, Martin, Turner, Monica G, Field, Christopher B, and Knowlton, Nancy
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Climate Action, Climate Change, Conservation of Natural Resources, Ecosystem, adaptation, mitigation, biosphere, nature-based solutions, resilience, climate change impacts, Medical and Health Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Abstract: The rapid anthropogenic climate change that is being experienced in the early twenty-first century is intimately entwined with the health and functioning of the biosphere. Climate change is impacting ecosystems through changes in mean conditions and in climate variability, coupled with other associated changes such as increased ocean acidification and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. It also interacts with other pressures on ecosystems, including degradation, defaunation and fragmentation. There is a need to understand the ecological dynamics of these climate impacts, to identify hotspots of vulnerability and resilience and to identify management interventions that may assist biosphere resilience to climate change. At the same time, ecosystems can also assist in the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change. The mechanisms, potential and limits of such nature-based solutions to climate change need to be explored and quantified. This paper introduces a thematic issue dedicated to the interaction between climate change and the biosphere. It explores novel perspectives on how ecosystems respond to climate change, how ecosystem resilience can be enhanced and how ecosystems can assist in addressing the challenge of a changing climate. It draws on a Royal Society-National Academy of Sciences Forum held in Washington DC in November 2018, where these themes and issues were discussed. We conclude by identifying some priorities for academic research and practical implementation, in order to maximize the potential for maintaining a diverse, resilient and well-functioning biosphere under the challenging conditions of the twenty-first century. This article is part of the theme issue 'Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions'.
Published: 2020

136. The risk of tuberculosis in children after close exposure: a systematic review and individual-participant meta-analysis

Author: Martinez, Leonardo, Cords, Olivia, Horsburgh, C Robert, Andrews, Jason R, Consortium, Pediatric TB Contact Studies, Acuna-Villaorduna, Carlos, Ahuja, Shama Desai, Altet, Neus, Augusto, Orvalho, Baliashvili, Davit, Basu, Sanjay, Becerra, Mercedes, Bonnet, Maryline, Boom, W Henry, Borgdorff, Martien, Boulahbal, Fadila, Carvalho, Anna Cristina C, Cayla, Joan A, Chakhaia, Tsira, Chan, Pei-Chun, Cohen, Ted, Croda, Julio, Datta, Sumona, del Corral, Helena, Denholm, Justin T, Dietze, Reynaldo, Dobler, Claudia C, Donkor, Simon, Egere, Uzochukwu, Ellner, Jerrold J, Espinal, Marcos, Evans, Carlton A, Fang, Chi-Tai, Fielding, Katherine, Fox, Greg J, García, Luis F, García-Basteiro, Alberto L, Geis, Steffen, Graham, Stephen M, Grandjean, Louis, Hannoun, Djohar, Hatherill, Mark, Hauri, Anja M, Hesseling, Anneke C, Hill, Philip C, Huang, Li-Min, Huerga, Helena, Hussain, Rabia, Jarlsberg, Leah, Jones-López, Edward C, Kato, Seiya, Kato-Maeda, Midori, Kampmann, Beate, Kirchner, H Lester, Kritski, Afrânio, Lange, Christoph, Lee, Chih-Hsin, Lee, Li-Na, Lee, Meng-Rui, Lemos, Antonio Carlos, Lienhardt, Christian, Ling, Du-Lin, Liu, Qiao, Lo, Nathan C, Long, Richard, Lopez-Varela, Elisa, Lu, Peng, Magee, Matthew, Malone, LaShaunda L, Mandalakas, Anna M, Martinson, Neil A, Mazahir, Rufaida, Murray, Megan B, Netto, Eduardo Martins, Otero, Larissa, Parsonnet, Julie, Reingold, Arthur, Schaaf, H Simon, Seddon, James A, Sharma, Surendra, Singh, Jitendra, Singh, Sarman, Sloot, Rosa, Sotgiu, Giovanni, Stein, Catherine M, Iqbal, Najeeha Talat, Triasih, Rina, Trieu, Lisa, van der Loeff, Maarten F Schim, Van der Stuyft, Patrick, van Schalkwyk, Cari, Vashishtha, Richa, Verhagen, Lilly M, Villalba, Julian A, Wang, Jann-Yuan, Whalen, Christopher C, Yoshiyama, Takashi, Zar, Heather J, Zellweger, Jean-Pierre, and Zhu, Limei
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Health Sciences, Tuberculosis, Prevention, Rare Diseases, Pediatric, Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Infection, Good Health and Well Being, Adolescent, Age Factors, Child, Child, Preschool, Contact Tracing, Disease Transmission, Infectious, Family Characteristics, Female, Global Health, Humans, Incidence, Male, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Risk Assessment, Sex Factors, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary, Pediatric TB Contact Studies Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, General & Internal Medicine, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: BackgroundTens of millions of children are exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis globally every year; however, there are no contemporary estimates of the risk of developing tuberculosis in exposed children. The effectiveness of contact investigations and preventive therapy remains poorly understood.MethodsIn this systematic review and meta-analysis, we investigated the development of tuberculosis in children closely exposed to a tuberculosis case and followed for incident disease. We restricted our search to cohort studies published between Jan 1, 1998, and April 6, 2018, in MEDLINE, Web of Science, BIOSIS, and Embase electronic databases. Individual-participant data and a pre-specified list of variables were requested from authors of all eligible studies. These included characteristics of the exposed child, the index case, and environmental characteristics. To be eligible for inclusion in the final analysis, a dataset needed to include: (1) individuals below 19 years of age; (2) follow-up for tuberculosis for a minimum of 6 months; (3) individuals with household or close exposure to an individual with tuberculosis; (4) information on the age and sex of the child; and (5) start and end follow-up dates. Studies assessing incident tuberculosis but without dates or time of follow-up were excluded. Our analysis had two primary aims: (1) estimating the risk of developing tuberculosis by time-period of follow-up, demographics (age, region), and clinical attributes (HIV, tuberculosis infection status, previous tuberculosis); and (2) estimating the effectiveness of preventive therapy and BCG vaccination on the risk of developing tuberculosis. We estimated the odds of prevalent tuberculosis with mixed-effects logistic models and estimated adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for incident tuberculosis with mixed-effects Poisson regression models. The effectiveness of preventive therapy against incident tuberculosis was estimated through propensity score matching. The study protocol is registered with PROSPERO (CRD42018087022).FindingsIn total, study groups from 46 cohort studies in 34 countries-29 (63%) prospective studies and 17 (37%) retrospective-agreed to share their data and were included in the final analysis. 137 647 tuberculosis-exposed children were evaluated at baseline and 130 512 children were followed for 429 538 person-years, during which 1299 prevalent and 999 incident tuberculosis cases were diagnosed. Children not receiving preventive therapy with a positive result for tuberculosis infection had significantly higher 2-year cumulative tuberculosis incidence than children with a negative result for tuberculosis infection, and this incidence was greatest among children below 5 years of age (19·0% [95% CI 8·4-37·4]). The effectiveness of preventive therapy was 63% (adjusted HR 0·37 [95% CI 0·30-0·47]) among all exposed children, and 91% (adjusted HR 0·09 [0·05-0·15]) among those with a positive result for tuberculosis infection. Among all children
Published: 2020

137. Blue Light Exposure: Ocular Hazards and Prevention—A Narrative Review

Author: Audrey Cougnard-Gregoire, Bénédicte M. J. Merle, Tariq Aslam, Johanna M. Seddon, Isabelle Aknin, Caroline C. W. Klaver, Gerhard Garhöfer, Alfredo Garcia Layana, Angelo Maria Minnella, Rufino Silva, and Cécile Delcourt
Subjects: Blue light, Light emitting diodes, Digital devices, Ocular hazard, Prevention, Ocular health, myopia, retina, macular pigment, Ophthalmology, RE1-994
Abstract: Abstract Introduction Exposure to blue light has seriously increased in our environment since the arrival of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and, in recent years, the proliferation of digital devices rich in blue light. This raises some questions about its potential deleterious effects on eye health. The aim of this narrative review is to provide an update on the ocular effects of blue light and to discuss the efficiency of methods of protection and prevention against potential blue light-induced ocular injury. Methods The search of relevant English articles was conducted in PubMed, Medline, and Google Scholar databases until December 2022. Results Blue light exposure provokes photochemical reactions in most eye tissues, in particular the cornea, the lens, and the retina. In vitro and in vivo studies have shown that certain exposures to blue light (depending on the wavelength or intensity) can cause temporary or permanent damage to some structures of the eye, especially the retina. However, currently, there is no evidence that screen use and LEDs in normal use are deleterious to the human retina. Regarding protection, there is currently no evidence of a beneficial effect of blue blocking lenses for the prevention of eye diseases, in particular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). In humans, macular pigments (composed of lutein and zeaxanthin) represent a natural protection by filtering blue light, and can be increased through increased intake from foods or food supplements. These nutrients are associated with lower risk for AMD and cataract. Antioxidants such as vitamins C, E, or zinc might also contribute to the prevention of photochemical ocular damage by preventing oxidative stress. Conclusion Currently, there is no evidence that LEDs in normal use at domestic intensity levels or in screen devices are retinotoxic to the human eye. However, the potential toxicity of long-term cumulative exposure and the dose-response effect are currently unknown.
Published: 2023
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138. A systematic review of risk factors for mortality among tuberculosis patients in South Africa

Author: Tamaryn J Nicholson, Graeme Hoddinott, James A Seddon, Mareli M Claassens, Marieke M van der Zalm, Elisa Lopez, Peter Bock, Judy Caldwell, Dawood Da Costa, Celeste de Vaal, Rory Dunbar, Karen Du Preez, Anneke C Hesseling, Kay Joseph, Ebrahim Kriel, Marian Loveday, Florian M Marx, Sue-Ann Meehan, Susan Purchase, Kogieleum Naidoo, Lenny Naidoo, Fadelah Solomon-Da Costa, Rosa Sloot, and Muhammad Osman
Subjects: TB mortality, Case fatality, Risk factors, Systematic review, South Africa, Medicine
Abstract: Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB)-associated mortality in South Africa remains high. This review aimed to systematically assess risk factors associated with death during TB treatment in South African patients. Methods We conducted a systematic review of TB research articles published between 2010 and 2018. We searched BioMed Central (BMC), PubMed®, EBSCOhost, Cochrane, and SCOPUS for publications between January 2010 and December 2018. Searches were conducted between August 2019 and October 2019. We included randomised control trials (RCTs), case control, cross sectional, retrospective, and prospective cohort studies where TB mortality was a primary endpoint and effect measure estimates were provided for risk factors for TB mortality during TB treatment. Due to heterogeneity in effect measures and risk factors evaluated, a formal meta-analysis of risk factors for TB mortality was not appropriate. A random effects meta-analysis was used to estimate case fatality ratios (CFRs) for all studies and for specific subgroups so that these could be compared. Quality assessments were performed using the Newcastle-Ottawa scale or the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool. Results We identified 1995 titles for screening, 24 publications met our inclusion criteria (one cross-sectional study, 2 RCTs, and 21 cohort studies). Twenty-two studies reported on adults (n = 12561) and two were restricted to children
Published: 2023
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139. Detection of ice core particles via deep neural networks

Author: N. Maffezzoli, E. Cook, W. G. M. van der Bilt, E. N. Støren, D. Festi, F. Muthreich, A. W. R. Seddon, F. Burgay, G. Baccolo, A. R. F. Mygind, T. Petersen, A. Spolaor, S. Vascon, M. Pelillo, P. Ferretti, R. S. dos Reis, J. C. Simões, Y. Ronen, B. Delmonte, M. Viccaro, J. P. Steffensen, D. Dahl-Jensen, K. H. Nisancioglu, and C. Barbante
Subjects: Environmental sciences, GE1-350, Geology, QE1-996.5
Abstract: Insoluble particles in ice cores record signatures of past climate parameters like vegetation dynamics, volcanic activity, and aridity. For some of them, the analytical detection relies on intensive bench microscopy investigation and requires dedicated sample preparation steps. Both are laborious, require in-depth knowledge, and often restrict sampling strategies. To help overcome these limitations, we present a framework based on flow imaging microscopy coupled to a deep neural network for autonomous image classification of ice core particles. We train the network to classify seven commonly found classes, namely mineral dust, felsic and mafic (basaltic) volcanic ash grains (tephra), three species of pollen (Corylus avellana, Quercus robur, Quercus suber), and contamination particles that may be introduced onto the ice core surface during core handling operations. The trained network achieves 96.8 % classification accuracy at test time. We present the system's potential and its limitations with respect to the detection of mineral dust, pollen grains, and tephra shards, using both controlled materials and real ice core samples. The methodology requires little sample material, is non-destructive, fully reproducible, and does not require any sample preparation procedures. The presented framework can bolster research in the field by cutting down processing time, supporting human-operated microscopy, and further unlocking the paleoclimate potential of ice core records by providing the opportunity to identify an array of ice core particles. Suggestions for an improved system to be deployed within a continuous flow analysis workflow are also presented.
Published: 2023
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140. Nature Chose Abduction: Support from Brain Research for Lipton’s Theory of Inference to the Best Explanation

Author: Seddon, Peter B.
Published: 2022
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141. High-elevation landforms limit the movement of invasive small mammal species

Author: Foster, Nicholas J., Maloney, Richard F., Seddon, Philip J., Rodríguez-Recio, Mariano, and van Heezik, Yolanda
Published: 2022
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142. Non-invasive sensor methods used in monitoring newborn babies after birth, a clinical perspective

Author: Oana Anton, Henry Dore, Elizabeth Rendon-Morales, Rodrigo Aviles-Espinosa, Paul Seddon, David Wertheim, Ramon Fernandez, and Heike Rabe
Subjects: Heart rate monitoring, Newborn, Novel sensors, Medicine
Abstract: Abstract Background Reducing the global new-born mortality is a paramount challenge for humanity. There are approximately 786,323 live births in the UK each year according to the office for National Statistics; around 10% of these newborn infants require assistance during this transition after birth. Each year around, globally around 2.5 million newborns die within their first month. The main causes are complications due to prematurity and during delivery. To act in a timely manner and prevent further damage, health professionals should rely on accurate monitoring of the main vital signs heart rate and respiratory rate. Aims To present a clinical perspective on innovative, non-invasive methods to monitor heart rate and respiratory rate in babies highlighting their advantages and limitations in comparison with well-established methods. Methods Using the data collected in our recently published systematic review we highlight the barriers and facilitators for the novel sensor devices in obtaining reliable heart rate measurements. Details about difficulties related to the application of sensors and interfaces, time to display, and user feedback are explored. We also provide a unique overview of using a non-invasive respiratory rate monitoring method by extracting RR from the pulse oximetry trace of newborn babies. Results Novel sensors to monitor heart rate offer the advantages of minimally obtrusive technologies but have limitations due to movement artefact, bad sensor coupling, intermittent measurement, and poor-quality recordings compared to gold standard well established methods. Respiratory rate can be derived accurately from pleth recordings in infants. Conclusion Some limitations have been identified in current methods to monitor heart rate and respiratory rate in newborn babies. Novel minimally invasive sensors have advantages that may help clinical practice. Further research studies are needed to assess whether they are sufficiently accurate, practical, and reliable to be suitable for clinical use.
Published: 2022
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143. Safety of maintaining elective and emergency surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic with the introduction of a Protected Elective Surgical Unit (PESU): A cross-specialty evaluation of 30-day outcomes in 9,925 patients undergoing surgery in a University Health Board

Author: T Minto, MBChB, T Abdelrahman, MD, L Jones, MBA, J Wheat, FRCS, T Key, MBChB, N Shivakumar, MBChB, J Ansell, MD, O Seddon, MBBCh, A Cronin, FRCS, A Tomkinson, FRCS, A Theron, FRCA, RW Trickett, MD, N Sagua, S Sultana, A Clark, E McKay, A Johnson, Karishma Behera, J Towler, H Kynaston, MD, A Mohamed, G Blackshaw, R Thomas, S Jones, M Shinkwin, H Perry, D Edgbeare, S Chopra, L DaSilva, I Williams, U Contractor, S Bell, S Zaher, M Stechman, S Berry, H Clark, E Bois, C Von Oppell, L Ackerman, E Ablorsu, J Horwood, D Mehta, J Featherstone, E Folaranmi, M Bray, K Siddall, E King, M Phillips, J Morgan, I Chopra, D Evans, K Whitehouse, P Leach, C Thomas, E Davies, M Dyer, A Fox, E Ireland, E Meehan, A Mukit, K Newell, D Parry, B Popham, C Chapman, and H Botros
Subjects: Surgery, RD1-811
Abstract: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented health care challenges mandating surgical service reconfiguration. Within our hospital, emergency and elective streams were separated and self-contained Protected Elective Surgical Units were developed to mitigate against infection-related morbidity. Aims of this study were to determine the risk of COVID-19 transmission and mortality and whether the development of Protected Elective Surgical Units can result in significant reduction in risk. Methods: A retrospective observational study of consecutive patients from 18 specialties undergoing elective or emergency surgery under general, spinal, or epidural anaesthetic over a 12-month study period was undertaken. Primary outcome measures were 30-day postoperative COVID-19 transmission rate and mortality. Secondary adjusted analyses were performed to ascertain hospital and Protected Elective Surgical Unit transmission rates. Results: Between 15 March 2020 and 14 March 2021, 9,925 patients underwent surgery: 6,464 (65.1%) elective, 5,116 (51.5%) female, and median age 57 (39–70). A total of 69.5% of all procedures were performed in Protected Elective Surgical Units. Overall, 30-day postoperative COVID-19 transmission was 2.8% (3.4% emergency vs 1.2% elective P 70, male sex, American Society of Anesthesiologists grade >2, and emergency surgery were all independently associated with mortality. Conclusion: This study has demonstrated that Protected Elective Surgical Units can facilitate high-volume elective surgical services throughout peaks of the COVID-19 pandemic while minimising viral transmission and mortality. However, mortality risk associated with perioperative COVID-19 infection remains high.
Published: 2022
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144. Parental perspectives on the grief and support needs of children and young people bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: qualitative findings from a national survey

Author: Emily Harrop, Silvia Goss, Mirella Longo, Kathy Seddon, Anna Torrens-Burton, Eileen Sutton, Damian JJ Farnell, Alison Penny, Annmarie Nelson, Anthony Byrne, and Lucy E. Selman
Subjects: Bereavement, Grief, Pandemics, Coronavirus infections, Bereavement Services, Children, Special situations and conditions, RC952-1245
Abstract: Abstract Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, many children and young people have experienced the death of close family members, whilst also facing unprecedented disruption to their lives. This study aimed to investigate the experiences and support needs of bereaved children and young people from the perspective of their parents and guardians. Methods We analysed cross-sectional qualitative free-text data from a survey of adults bereaved in the UK during the pandemic. Participants were recruited via media, social media, national associations and community/charitable organisations. Thematic analysis was conducted on free text data collected from parent/guardian participants in response to a survey question on the bereavement experiences and support needs of their children. Results Free-text data from 104 parent/guardian participants was included. Three main themes were identified: the pandemic-related challenges and struggles experienced by children and young people; family support and coping; and support from schools and services. Pandemic-challenges include the impacts of being separated from the relative prior to their death, isolation from peers and other family members, and disruption to daily routines and wider support networks. Examples were given of effective family coping and communication, but also of difficulties relating to parental grief and children’s existing mental health problems. Schools and bereavement organisations’ provision of specialist support was valued, but there was evidence of unmet need, with some participants reporting a lack of access to specialist grief or mental health support. Conclusion Children and young people have faced additional strains and challenges associated with pandemic bereavement. We recommend resources and initiatives that facilitate supportive communication within family and school settings, adequate resourcing of school and community-based specialist bereavement/mental health services, and increased information and signposting to the support that is available.
Published: 2022
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145. Prolonged grief during and beyond the pandemic: factors associated with levels of grief in a four time-point longitudinal survey of people bereaved in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

Author: Emily Harrop, Renata Medeiros Mirra, Silvia Goss, Mirella Longo, Anthony Byrne, Damian J. J. Farnell, Kathy Seddon, Alison Penny, Linda Machin, Stephanie Sivell, and Lucy E. Selman
Subjects: bereavement, longitudinal, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, grief, UK, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270
Abstract: BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has been a devastating and enduring mass-bereavement event, with uniquely difficult sets of circumstances experienced by people bereaved at this time. However, little is known about the long-term consequences of these experiences, including the prevalence of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) and other conditions in pandemic-bereaved populations.MethodsA longitudinal survey of people bereaved in the UK between 16 March 2020 and 2 January 2021, with data collected at baseline (n = 711), c. 8 (n = 383), 13 (n = 295), and 25 (n = 185) months post-bereavement. Using measures of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) (Traumatic Grief Inventory), grief vulnerability (Adult Attitude to Grief Scale), and social support (Inventory of Social Support), this analysis examines how participant characteristics, characteristics of the deceased and pandemic-related circumstances (e.g., restricted visiting, social isolation, social support) are associated with grief outcomes, with a focus on symptoms of PGD.ResultsAt baseline, 628 (88.6%) of participants were female, with a mean age of 49.5 (SD 12.9). 311 (43.8%) deaths were from confirmed/suspected COVID-19. Sample demographics were relatively stable across time points. 34.6% of participants met the cut-off for indicated PGD at c. 13 months bereaved and 28.6% at final follow-up. Social isolation and loneliness in early bereavement and lack of social support over time strongly contributed to higher levels of prolonged grief symptoms, while feeling well supported by healthcare professionals following the death was associated with reduced levels of prolonged grief symptoms. Characteristics of the deceased most strongly associated with lower levels of prolonged grief symptoms, were a more distant relationship (e.g., death of a grandparent), an expected death and death occurring in a care-home. Participant characteristics associated with higher levels of prolonged grief symptoms included low level of formal education and existence of medical conditions.ConclusionResults suggest higher than expected levels of PGD compared with pre-pandemic times, with important implications for bereavement policy, provision and practice now (e.g., strengthening of social and specialist support) and in preparedness for future pandemics and mass-bereavement events (e.g., guidance on infection control measures and rapid support responses).
Published: 2023
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146. HIDDEN2: Study protocol for the hospital deep vein thrombosis detection study in patients with cancer receiving palliative care

Author: Joanna Smith, Simon Noble, Sarah Walker, Nikki Pease, Raza Alikhan, Catherine Bryant, Kathy Seddon, Deb Smith, Laura Upton, Ian Thomas, Terri Kitson, Emma Osborne, Tristan Groves, Rebecca Wallace, Lawrence Raisanen, and Angela Casbard
Subjects: Medicine
Abstract: Introduction Medical patients, admitted acutely to hospital, are at risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Clinical guidelines advise thromboprophylaxis prophylaxis for those at high risk of VTE. VTE is a common sequela of cancer, but guidelines take little consideration of cancer as an independent risk factor and their utility in palliative care patients is unclear. The hospice inpatient deep vein thrombosis (DVT) detection study (HIDDen) reported a 28% prevalence of asymptomatic iliofemoral DVT in hospice patients of poor performance status (PS) and prognosis, calling into question the utility of thromboprophylaxis in the palliative care setting. However, the majority of cancer inpatients receiving palliative care are admitted to hospital through the acute medical setting, yet their risk factors for VTE may differ from those admitted to hospices.Objective To better understand the prevalence and behaviours of VTE in patients with cancer receiving palliative care who are admitted as an acute medical emergency.Design Multicentre, observational cohort study.Setting Secondary care acute hospitals in South Wales, UK.Patients We plan to recruit 232 patients≥18 years old with a diagnosis of incurable cancer, and/or receiving palliative or best supportive care who are admitted acutely to hospital. Patients will be followed up for a maximum of 6 months following registration.Primary outcome Presence of lower extremity DVT.Secondary outcomes Symptom burden attributed to DVT or pulmonary embolism, patient PS, patient demographics and development of new VTE within 90 days of registration.Analysis The study statistical analysis plan will document analysis, methodology and procedures.Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval was obtained from the Wales Research Ethics Committee, reference 22/WA/0037 (IRAS 306352)—the main trial results will be analysed as soon as practically possible and the publication shared with investigators and on sponsor website; applications to access trial data will be subject to sponsor review process.
Published: 2023
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147. Animal board invited review: The need to consider emissions, economics and pig welfare in the transition from farrowing crates to pens with loose lactating sows

Author: V.A. Moustsen, Y.M. Seddon, and M.J. Hansen
Subjects: Animal protein, Future housing, Global, Pig production, Sustainable, Animal culture, SF1-1100
Abstract: In the development and implementation of housing systems for pigs, there has been a significant focus on pig welfare including loose housing of lactating sows either indoors or outdoors. However, it is equally important to consider the environmental and economic aspects of housing systems to ensure sustainability in livestock production. The aim of this work was to review the sustainability (societal and animal welfare, environmental and economic impact) of different approaches for housing farrowing and lactating sows in indoor environments. The review illustrates that like outdoor systems, indoor housing systems are challenged in meeting the three pillars of sustainability when changing the housing of lactating sows from conventional crates with permanent confinement to systems with temporary or zero-confinement. Increased space allowance increases sow welfare, but in addition, pen designs with increased space increase ammonia emission, investment and running costs. Furthermore, indoor loose lactation systems come with an increased risk for piglet mortality, which unless effectively managed, reduces animal welfare and the economic sustainability of the system. If farms retrofit existing buildings, the larger space per loose farrowing pen leads to a reduction in pen numbers and therefore herd size, reducing the farm profitability. If farmers choose to reduce herd size to meet requirements, welfare will be reduced while emissions will be increased as more sows are brought into production again in other countries, often in conventional systems with fully slatted flooring, to meet the demand for animal protein to feed the growing global population. The review indicates there are ways to house lactating sows loose indoors with increased opportunity to perform highly motivated species-specific behaviours compared to the conventional crates with continuous confinement. These systems can offer a lower risk for environmental impact and economic risk through reducing piglet mortality. Nevertheless, a trade-off for continual freedom of sow movement may be required as zero-confinement increases the risk of piglet mortality and increased emissions. It is important to raise awareness among citizens and policy makers that loose farrowing and lactating systems if applied today, come with a higher production cost and the risk of increased environmental impact. More research and development is needed in relation to the environmental and economic impact of these systems in order to give farmers the best information to invest in new and more sustainable production systems.
Published: 2023
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148. Quantifying cellular dynamics in mice using a novel fluorescent division reporter system

Author: Eva Lukas, Thea Hogan, Cayman Williams, Benedict Seddon, and Andrew J. Yates
Subjects: naive T cells, mathematical model, immunology, mouse model, dynamics, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
Abstract: The dynamics of cell populations are frequently studied in vivo using pulse-chase DNA labeling techniques. When combined with mathematical models, the kinetic of label uptake and loss within a population of interest then allows one to estimate rates of cell production and turnover through death or onward differentiation. Here we explore an alternative method of quantifying cellular dynamics, using a cell fate-mapping mouse model in which dividing cells can be induced to constitutively express a fluorescent protein, using a Ki67 reporter construct. We use a pulse-chase approach with this reporter mouse system to measure the lifespans and division rates of naive CD4 and CD8 T cells using a variety of modeling approaches, and show that they are all consistent with estimates derived from other published methods. However we propose that to obtain unbiased parameter estimates and full measures of their uncertainty one should simultaneously model the timecourses of the frequencies of labeled cells within both the population of interest and its precursor. We conclude that Ki67 reporter mice provide a promising system for modeling cellular dynamics.
Published: 2023
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149. Correction: Optical coherence tomography angiography measurements in Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author: Salehi, Mohammad Amin, Rezagholi, Fateme, Mohammadi, Soheil, Zakavi, Seyed Sina, Jahanshahi, Ali, Gouravani, Mahdi, Yazdanpanah, Ghasem, Seddon, Ian, Jabbehdari, Sayena, and Singh, Rishi P.
Published: 2023
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150. Coupled climate response to Atlantic Multidecadal Variability in a multi-model multi-resolution ensemble

Author: Hodson, Daniel L. R., Bretonnière, Pierre-Antoine, Cassou, Christophe, Davini, Paolo, Klingaman, Nicholas P., Lohmann, Katja, Lopez-Parages, Jorge, Martín-Rey, Marta, Moine, Marie-Pierre, Monerie, Paul-Arthur, Putrasahan, Dian A., Roberts, Christopher D., Robson, Jon, Ruprich-Robert, Yohan, Sanchez-Gomez, Emilia, Seddon, Jon, and Senan, Retish
Published: 2022
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