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2. Investigation of $K^+K^-$ pairs in the effective mass region near $2m_K$
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Adeva, B., Afanasyev, L., Anania, A., Aogaki, S., Benelli, A., Brekhovskikh, V., Cechak, T., Chiba, M., Chliapnikov, P., Drijard, D., Dudarev, A., Dumitriu, D., Federicova, P., Gorin, A., Gritsay, K., Guaraldo, C., Gugiu, M., Hansroul, M., Hons, Z., Horikawa, S., Iwashita, Y., Karpukhin, V., Kluson, J., Kobayashi, M., Kruglova, L., Kulikov, A., Kulish, E., Lamberto, A., Lanaro, A., Lednicky, R., Mariñas, C., Martincik, J., Nemenov, L., Nikitin, M., Okada, K., Olchevskii, V., Pentia, M., Penzo, A., Plo, M., Prusa, P., Rappazzo, G., Vidal, A. Romero, Ryazantsev, A., Rykalin, V., Saborido, J., Schacher, J., Sidorov, A., Smolik, J., Takeutchi, F., Trojek, T., Trusov, S., Urban, T., Vrba, T., Yazkov, V., Yoshimura, Y., and Zrelov, P.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology - Abstract
The DIRAC experiment at CERN investigated in the reaction $\rm{p}(24~\rm{GeV}/c) + Ni$ the particle pairs $K^+K^-, \pi^+ \pi^-$ and $p \bar{p}$ with relative momentum $Q$ in the pair system less than 100 MeV/c. Because of background influence studies, DIRAC explored three subsamples of $K^+K^-$ pairs, obtained by subtracting -- using time-of-flight (TOF) technique -- background from initial $Q$ distributions with $K^+K^-$ sample fractions more than 70\%, 50\% and 30\%. The corresponding pair distributions in $Q$ and in its longitudinal projection $Q_L$ were analyzed first in a Coulomb model, which takes into account only Coulomb final state interaction (FSI) and assuming point-like pair production. This Coulomb model analysis leads to a $K^+K^-$ yield increase of about four at $Q_L=0.5$ MeV/c compared to 100 MeV/c. In order to study contributions from strong interaction, a second more sophisticated model was applied, considering besides Coulomb FSI also strong FSI via the resonances $f_0(980)$ and $a_0(980)$ and a variable distance $r^*$ between the produced $K$ mesons. This analysis was based on three different parameter sets for the pair production. For the 70\% subsample and with best parameters, $3680\pm 370$ $K^+K^-$ pairs was found to be compared to $3900\pm 410$ $K^+K^-$ extracted by means of the Coulomb model. Knowing the efficiency of the TOF cut for background suppression, the total number of detected $K^+K^-$ pairs was evaluated to be around $40000\pm 10\%$, which agrees with the result from the 30\% subsample. The $K^+K^-$ pair number in the 50\% subsample differs from the two other values by about three standard deviations, confirming -- as discussed in the paper -- that experimental data in this subsample is less reliable.
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- 2022
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3. Random family method: Confirming inter-generational relations by restricted re-sampling
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Usuzaki, T., Chiba, M. Shimoyama S., and Hotta, S.
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Statistics - Methodology - Abstract
Randomness is one of the important key concepts of statistics. In epidemiology or medical science, we investigate our hypotheses and interpret results through this statistical randomness. We hypothesized by imposing some conditions to this randomness, interpretation of our result may be changed. In this article, we introduced the restricted re-sampling method to confirm inter-generational relations and presented an example., Comment: 2 pages, 2 figures
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- 2020
4. Optimal swimming locomotion of snake-like robot in viscous fluids
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Yamano, A., Kimoto, T., Inoue, Y., and Chiba, M.
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- 2023
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5. Theoretical and experimental study on the effect of plane diaphragm tension on dynamic stability of liquid in a hemispherical tank under vertical excitation
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Chiba, M., Motoyama, N., and Shigematsu, S.
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- 2023
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6. Thermal Conductivity and Magnetic Phase Diagram of CuB2O4
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Kawamata, T., Sugawara, N., Haidar, S. M., Adachi, T., Noji, T., Kudo, K., Kobayashi, N., Fujii, Y., Kikuchi, H., Chiba, M., Petrakovskii, G. A., Popov, M. A., Bezmaternykh, L. N., and Koike, Y.
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Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons - Abstract
We have measured temperature and magnetic field dependences of the thermal conductivity along the c-axis, kc, and that along the [110] direction, k110, of CuB2O4 single crystals in zero field and magnetic fields along the c-axis and along the [110] direction. It has been found that the thermal conductivity is nearly isotropic and very large in zero field and that the thermal conductivity due to phonons is dominant in CuB2O4. The temperature and field dependences of kc and k110 have markedly changed at phase boundaries in the magnetic phase diagram, which has been understood to be due to the change of the mean free path of phonons caused by the change of the phonon-spin scattering rate at the phase boundaries. It has been concluded that thermal conductivity measurements are very effective for detecting magnetic phase boundaries., Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures
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- 2019
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7. First measurement of a long-lived $\pi^+ \pi^-$ atom lifetime
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Adeva, B., Afanasyev, L., Anania, A., Aogaki, S., Benelli, A., Brekhovskikh, V., Cechak, T., Chiba, M., Chliapnikov, P. V., Doskarova, P., Drijard, D., Dudarev, A., Dumitriu, D., Fluerasu, D., Gorin, A., Gorchakov, O., Gritsay, K., Guaraldo, C., Gugiu, M., Hansroul, M., Hons, Z., Horikawa, S., Iwashita, Y., Karpukhin, V., Kluson, J., Kobayashi, M., Kruglov, V., Kruglova, L., Kulikov, A., Kulish, E., Lamberto, A., Lanaro, A., Lednicky, R., Mariñas, C., Martincik, J., Nemenov, L., Nikitin, M., Okada, K., Olchevskii, V., Ovsiannikov, V., Pentia, M., Penzo, A., Plo, M., Prusa, P., Rappazzo, G. F., Vidal, A. Romero, Ryazantsev, A., Rykalin, V., Saborido, J., Schacher, J., Sidorov, A., Smolik, J., Takeutchi, F., Trojek, T., Trusov, S., Vrba, T., Yazkov, V., Yoshimura, Y., and Zrelov, P.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The adapted DIRAC experiment at the CERN PS accelerator observed for the first time long-lived hydrogen-like $\pi^+\pi^-$ atoms, produced by protons hitting a beryllium target. A part of these atoms crossed the gap of 96~mm and got broken up in the 2.1~\textmu{}m thick platinum foil. Analysing the observed number of atomic pairs, $n_A^L= \left.436^{+157}_{-61}\right|_\mathrm{tot}$, the lifetime of the 2$p$ state is found to be ${\tau_{2p}=(\left.0.45^{+1.08}_{-0.30}\right|_\mathrm{tot}) \cdot10^{-11}}$s, not contradicting the corresponding QED $2p$ state lifetime ${\tau_{2p}^\mathrm{QED}=1.17 \cdot 10^{-11}}$s. This lifetime value is three orders of magnitude larger than our previously measured value of the $\pi^+\pi^-$ atom ground state lifetime $\tau=(\left.3.15^{+0.28}_{-0.26}\right|_\mathrm{tot})\cdot 10^{-15}$s. Further studies of long-lived $\pi^+\pi^-$ atoms will allow to measure energy differences between $p$ and $s$ atomic states and so to determine $\pi\pi$ scattering lengths with the aim to check QCD predictions., Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures
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- 2018
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8. Theoretical and experimental study on the effect of plane diaphragm tension on hydroelastic coupled vibrations in a hemispherical tank
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Chiba, M., Shigematsu, S., and Motoyama, N.
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- 2022
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9. Measurement of the $\pi K$ atom lifetime and the $\pi K$ scattering length
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DIRAC Collaboration, Adeva, B., Afanasyev, L., Allkofer, Y., Amsler, C., Anania, A., Aogaki, S., Benelli, A., Brekhovskikh, V., Cechak, T., Chiba, M., Chliapnikov, P., Drijard, D., Dudarev, A., Dumitriu, D., Federicova, P., Fluerasu, D., Gorin, A., Gorchakov, O., Gritsay, K., Guaraldo, C., Gugiu, M., Hansroul, M., Hons, Z., Horikawa, S., Iwashita, Y., Karpukhin, V., Kluson, J., Kobayashi, M., Kruglov, V., Kruglova, L., Kulikov, A., Kulish, E., Kuptsov, A., Lamberto, A., Lanaro, A., Lednicky, R., Marinas, C., Martincik, J., Nemenov, L., Nikitin, M., Okada, K., Olchevskii, V., Pentia, M., Penzo, A., Plo, M., Prusa, P., Rappazzo, G., Vidal, A. Romero, Ryazantsev, A., Rykalin, V., Saborido, J., Schacher, J., Sidorov, A., Smolik, J., Takeutchi, F., Tauscher, L., Trojek, T., Trusov, S., Urban, T., Vrba, T., Yazkov, V., Yoshimura, Y., Zhabitsky, M., and Zrelov, P.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
After having announced the statistically significant observation (5.6~$\sigma$) of the new exotic $\pi K$ atom, the DIRAC experiment at the CERN proton synchrotron presents the measurement of the corresponding atom lifetime, based on the full $\pi K$ data sample: $\tau = (5.5^{+5.0}_{-2.8}) \cdot 10^{-15}s$. By means of a precise relation ($<1\%$) between atom lifetime and scattering length, the following value for the S-wave isospin-odd $\pi K$ scattering length $a_0^{-}~=~\frac{1}{3}(a_{1/2}-a_{3/2})$ has been derived: $\left|a_0^-\right| = (0.072^{+0.031}_{-0.020}) M_{\pi}^{-1}$., Comment: 18 pages, 17 figures
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- 2017
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10. The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey: Overview and Survey Design
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Aihara, H., Arimoto, N., Armstrong, R., Arnouts, S., Bahcall, N. A., Bickerton, S., Bosch, J., Bundy, K., Capak, P. L., Chan, J. H. H., Chiba, M., Coupon, J., Egami, E., Enoki, M., Finet, F., Fujimori, H., Fujimoto, S., Furusawa, H., Furusawa, J., Goto, T., Goulding, A., Greco, J. P., Greene, J. E., Gunn, J. E., Hamana, T., Harikane, Y., Hashimoto, Y., Hattori, T., Hayashi, M., Hayashi, Y., Hełminiak, K. G., Higuchi, R., Hikage, C., Ho, P. T. P., Hsieh, B. -C., Huang, K., Huang, S., Ikeda, H., Imanishi, M., Inoue, A. K., Iwasawa, K., Iwata, I., Jaelani, A. T., Jian, H. -Y., Kamata, Y., Karoji, H., Kashikawa, N., Katayama, N., Kawanomoto, S., Kayo, I., Koda, J., Koike, M., Kojima, T., Komiyama, Y., Konno, A., Koshida, S., Koyama, Y., Kusakabe, H., Leauthaud, A., Lee, C. -H., Lin, L., Lin, Y. -T., Lupton, R. H., Mandelbaum, R., Matsuoka, Y., Medezinski, E., Mineo, S., Miyama, S., Miyatake, H., Miyazaki, S., Momose, R., More, A., More, S., Moritani, Y., Moriya, T. J., Morokuma, T., Mukae, S., Murata, R., Murayama, H., Nagao, T., Nakata, F., Niida, M., Niikura, H., Nishizawa, A. J., Obuchi, Y., Oguri, M., Oishi, Y., Okabe, N., Okura, Y., Ono, Y., Onodera, M., Onoue, M., Osato, K., Ouchi, M., Price, P. A., Pyo, T. -S., Sako, M., Okamoto, S., Sawicki, M., Shibuya, T., Shimasaku, K., Shimono, A., Shirasaki, M., Silverman, J. D., Simet, M., Speagle, J., Spergel, D. N., Strauss, M. A., Sugahara, Y., Sugiyama, N., Suto, Y., Suyu, S. H., Suzuki, N., Tait, P. J., Takata, T., Takada, M., Tamura, N., Tanaka, M. M., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, Y., Terai, T., Terashima, Y., Toba, Y., Toshikawa, J., Turner, E. L., Uchida, T., Uchiyama, H., Umetsu, K., Uraguchi, F., Urata, Y., Usuda, T., Utsumi, Y., Wang, S. -Y., Wang, W. -H., Wong, K. C., Yabe, K., Yamada, Y., Yamanoi, H., Yasuda, N., Yeh, S., Yonehara, A., and Yuma, S.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope on the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii. A team of scientists from Japan, Taiwan and Princeton University is using HSC to carry out a 300-night multi-band imaging survey of the high-latitude sky. The survey includes three layers: the Wide layer will cover 1400 deg$^2$ in five broad bands ($grizy$), with a $5\,\sigma$ point-source depth of $r \approx 26$. The Deep layer covers a total of 26~deg$^2$ in four fields, going roughly a magnitude fainter, while the UltraDeep layer goes almost a magnitude fainter still in two pointings of HSC (a total of 3.5 deg$^2$). Here we describe the instrument, the science goals of the survey, and the survey strategy and data processing. This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, which includes a large number of technical and scientific papers describing results from the early phases of this survey., Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. Corrected for a typo in the coordinates of HSC-Wide spring equatorial field in Table 5
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- 2017
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11. Fluid force identification acting on snake-like robots swimming in viscous fluids
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Yamano, A., Shimizu, K., Chiba, M., and Ijima, H.
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- 2021
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12. Coupled pitching dynamics of flexible space structures with on-board liquid sloshing
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Chiba, M. and Magata, H.
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- 2021
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13. Chemical abundances of giant stars in NGC 5053 and NGC 5634, two globular clusters associated with the Sagittarius dwarf Spheroidal galaxy?
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Sbordone, L., Monaco, L., Bidin, C. Moni, Bonifacio, P., Villanova, S., Bellazzini, M., Ibata, R., Chiba, M., Geisler, D., Caffau, E., and Duffau, S.
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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
The tidal disruption of the Sagittarius dwarf Spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph) is producing the most prominent substructure in the Milky Way (MW) halo, the Sagittarius Stream. Aside from field stars, the Sgr dSph is suspected to have lost a number of globular clusters (GC). Many Galactic GC are suspected to have originated in the Sgr dSph. While for some candidates an origin in the Sgr dSph has been confirmed due to chemical similarities, others exist whose chemical composition has never been investigated. NGC 5053 and NGC 5634 are two among these scarcely studied Sgr dSph candidate-member clusters. To characterize their composition we analyzed one giant star in NGC 5053, and two in NGC 5634. We analize high-resolution and signal-to-noise spectra by means of the MyGIsFOS code, determining atmospheric parameters and abundances for up to 21 species between O and Eu. The abundances are compared with those of MW halo field stars, of "unassociated" MW halo globulars, and of the metal poor Sgr dSph main body population. We derive a metallicity of [FeII/H]=-2.26+-0.10 for NGC 5053, and of [FeI/H]=-1.99+-0.075 and -1.97+-0.076 for the two stars in NGC 5634. This makes NGC 5053 one of the most metal poor globular clusters in the MW. Both clusters display an alpha enhancement similar to the one of the halo at comparable metallicity. The two stars in NGC 5634 clearly display the Na-O anticorrelation widespread among MW globulars. Most other abundances are in good agreement with standard MW halo trends. The chemistry of the Sgr dSph main body populations is similar to the one of the halo at low metallicity. It is thus difficult to discriminate between an origin of NGC 5053 and NGC 5634 in the Sgr dSph, and one in the MW. However, the abundances of these clusters do appear closer to that of Sgr dSph than of the halo, favoring an origin in the Sgr dSph system., Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in A&A - Replaced with final version after language editing and slight reformatting of figures on editor request
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- 2015
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14. P1.08-05 On-Target Acquired Resistance to Mobocertinib and Strategy to Overcome It - In Vitro Study Using EGFR Ex20 Insertion Models
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Hamada, A., primary, Suda, K., additional, Fukuda, S., additional, Nishino, M., additional, Ohara, S., additional, Chiba, M., additional, Shimoji, M., additional, Takemoto, T., additional, Soh, J., additional, Tsutani, Y., additional, and Mitsudomi, T., additional
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- 2023
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15. First $\pi K$ atom lifetime and $\pi K$ scattering length measurements
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Adeva, B., Afanasyev, L., Allkofer, Y., Amsler, C., Anania, A., Aogaki, S., Benelli, A., Brekhovskikh, V., Cechak, T., Chiba, M., Chliapnikov, P., Ciocarlan, C., Constantinescu, S., Doskarova, P., Drijard, D., Dudarev, A., Duma, M., Dumitriu, D., Fluerasu, D., Gorin, A., Gorchakov, O., Gritsay, K., Guaraldo, C., Gugiu, M., Hansroul, M., Hons, Z., Horikawa, S., Iwashita, Y., Karpukhin, V., Kluson, J., Kobayashi, M., Kruglov, V., Kruglova, L., Kulikov, A., Kulish, E., Kuptsov, A., Lamberto, A., Lanaro, A., Lednicky, R., Mariñas, C., Martincik, J., Nemenov, L., Nikitin, M., Okada, K., Olchevskii, V., Pentia, M., Penzo, A., Plo, M., Ponta, T., Prusa, P., Rappazzo, G., Vidal, A. Romero, Ryazantsev, A., Rykalin, V., Schacher, J., Sidorov, A., Smolik, J., Sugimoto, S., Takeutchi, F., Tauscher, L., Trojek, T., Trusov, S., Urban, T., Vrba, T., Yazkov, V., Yoshimura, Y., Zhabitsky, M., and Zrelov, P.
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Nuclear Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
The results of a search for hydrogen-like atoms consisting of $\pi^{\mp}K^{\pm}$ mesons are presented. Evidence for $\pi K$ atom production by 24 GeV/c protons from CERN PS interacting with a nickel target has been seen in terms of characteristic $\pi K$ pairs from their breakup in the same target ($178 \pm 49$) and from Coulomb final state interaction ($653 \pm 42$). Using these results the analysis yields a first value for the $\pi K$ atom lifetime of $\tau=(2.5_{-1.8}^{+3.0})$ fs and a first model-independent measurement of the S-wave isospin-odd $\pi K$ scattering length $\left|a_0^-\right|=\frac{1}{3}\left|a_{1/2}-a_{3/2}\right|= \left(0.11_{-0.04}^{+0.09} \right)M_{\pi}^{-1}$ ($a_I$ for isospin $I$)., Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures
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- 2014
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16. Chemical Abundances of the Milky Way Thick Disk and Stellar Halo I.: Implications of [alpha/Fe] for Star Formation Histories in Their Progenitors
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Ishigaki, M. N., Chiba, M., and Aoki, W.
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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies - Abstract
We present the abundance analysis of 97 nearby metal-poor (-3.3<[Fe/H]<-0.5) stars having kinematics characteristics of the Milky Way (MW) thick disk, inner, and outer stellar halos. The high-resolution, high-signal-to-noise optical spectra for the sample stars have been obtained with the High Dispersion Spectrograph mounted on the Subaru Telescope. Abundances of Fe, Mg, Si, Ca and Ti have been derived using a one-dimensional LTE abundance analysis code with Kurucz NEWODF model atmospheres. By assigning membership of the sample stars to the thick disk, inner or outer halo components based on their orbital parameters, we examine abundance ratios as a function of [Fe/H] and kinematics for the three subsamples in wide metallicity and orbital parameter ranges. We show that, in the metallicity range of -1.5<[Fe/H]<= -0.5, the thick disk stars show constantly high mean [Mg/Fe] and [Si/Fe] ratios with small scatter. In contrast, the inner, and the outer halo stars show lower mean values of these abundance ratios with larger scatter. The [Mg/Fe], [Si/Fe] and [Ca/Fe] for the inner and the outer halo stars also show weak decreasing trends with [Fe/H] in the range [Fe/H]$>-2$. These results favor the scenarios that the MW thick disk formed through rapid chemical enrichment primarily through Type II supernovae of massive stars, while the stellar halo has formed at least in part via accretion of progenitor stellar systems having been chemically enriched with different timescales., Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ
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- 2012
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17. Determination of $\pi\pi$ scattering lengths from measurement of $\pi^+\pi^-$ atom lifetime
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Adeva, B., Afanasyev, L., Benayoun, M., Benelli, A., Berka, Z., Brekhovskikh, V., Caragheorgheopol, G., Cechak, T., Chiba, M., Chliapnikov, P. V., Ciocarlan, C., Constantinescu, S., Costantini, S., Curceanu, C., Doskarova, P., Dreossi, D., Drijard, D., Dudarev, A., Ferro-Luzzi, M., Pazos, J. L. Fungueiriño, Torreira, M. Gallas, Gerndt, J., Gianotti, P., Goldin, D., Gomez, F., Gorin, A., Gorchakov, O., Guaraldo, C., Gugiu, M., Hansroul, M., Hons, Z., Hosek, R., Iliescu, M., Karpukhin, V., Kluson, J., Kobayashi, M., Kokkas, P., Komarov, V., Kruglov, V., Kruglova, L., Kulikov, A., Kuptsov, A., Kuroda, K. I., Lamberto, A., Lanaro, A., Lapshin, V., Lednicky, R., Leruste, P., Sandri, P. Levi, Aguera, A. Lopez, Lucherini, V., Maki, T., Manuilov, I., Marin, J., Narjoux, J. L., Nemenov, L., Nikitin, M., Pardo, T. Nunez, Okada, K., Olchevskii, V., Pazos, A., Pentia, M., Penzo, A., Perreau, J. M., Plo, M., Ponta, T., Rappazzo, G. F., Riazantsev, A., Rodriguez, J. M., Fernandez, A. Rodriguez, Vidal, A. Romero, Ronjin, V. M., Rykalin, V., Saborido, J., Santamarina, C., Schacher, J., Schuetz, C., Sidorov, A., Smolik, J., Takeutchi, F., Tarasov, A., Tauscher, L., Tobar, M. J., Trojek, T., Trusov, S., Utkin, V., Doce, O. Vázquez, Vlachos, S., Voskresenskaya, O., Vrba, T., Willmott, C., Yazkov, V., Yoshimura, Y., Zhabitsky, M., and Zrelov, P.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology - Abstract
The DIRAC experiment at CERN has achieved a sizeable production of $\pi^+\pi^-$ atoms and has significantly improved the precision on its lifetime determination. From a sample of 21227 atomic pairs, a 4% measurement of the S-wave $\pi\pi$ scattering length difference $|a_0-a_2| = (.0.2533^{+0.0080}_{-0.0078}|_\mathrm{stat}.{}^{+0.0078}_{-0.0073}|_\mathrm{syst})M_{\pi^+}^{-1}$ has been attained, providing an important test of Chiral Perturbation Theory., Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures
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- 2011
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18. Chemical Abundances of the Outer Halo Stars in the Milky Way
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Ishigaki, M., Chiba, M., and Aoki, W.
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Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies - Abstract
We present chemical abundances of 57 metal-poor stars that are likely constituents of the outer stellar halo in the Milky Way. Almost all of the sample stars have an orbit reaching a maximum vertical distance (Z_max) of >5 kpc above and below the Galactic plane. High-resolution, high signal-to-noise spectra for the sample stars obtained with Subaru/HDS are used to derive chemical abundances of Na, Mg, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Zn, Y and Ba with an LTE abundance analysis code. The resulting abundance data are combined with those presented in literature that mostly targeted at smaller Z_max stars, and both data are used to investigate any systematic trends in detailed abundance patterns depending on their kinematics. It is shown that, in the metallicity range of -2<[Fe/H]<-1, the [Mg/Fe] ratios for the stars with Z_max>5 kpc are systematically lower (~0.1 dex) than those with smaller Z_max. This result of the lower [alpha/Fe] for the assumed outer halo stars is consistent with previous studies that found a signature of lower [alpha/Fe] ratios for stars with extreme kinematics. A distribution of the [Mg/Fe] ratios for the outer halo stars partly overlaps with that for stars belonging to the Milky Way dwarf satellites in the metallicity interval of -2<[Fe/H]<-1 and spans a range intermediate between the distributions for the inner halo stars and the stars belonging to the satellites. Our results confirm inhomogeneous nature of chemical abundances within the Milky Way stellar halo depending on kinematic properties of constituent stars as suggested by earlier studies. Possible implications for the formation of the Milky Way halo and its relevance to the suggested dual nature of the halo are discussed., Comment: 68 pages with 23 figures, Accepted for publication in PASJ
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- 2009
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19. 6Li/7Li estimates for metal-poor stars
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Perez, A. E. Garcia, Aoki, W., Inoue, S., Ryan, S. G., Suzuki, T. K., and Chiba, M.
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Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
The presence of the lithium-6 isotope in some metal-poor stars is a matter of surprise because of the high values observed. Non-standard models of Big Bang nucleosynthesis and pre-Galactic cosmic ray fusion and spallation have been proposed to explain these values. However, the observations of this light isotope are challenging which may make some detections disputable. The goal was to determine 6Li/7Li for a sample of metal-poor stars; three of them have been previously studied and the remaining two are new for this type of study. The purpose was to increase, if possible, the number of lithium-6 detections and to confirm previously published results. Spectra of the resonance doublet line of neutral lithium Li I 670.78nm were taken with the High Dispersion Spectrograph at the Subaru 8.2m-telescope for a sample of five metal-poor stars (-3.12 < [Fe/H] < -2.19). The contribution of lithium-6 to the total observed line profile was estimated from the 1D-LTE analysis of the line asymmetry. Observed asymmetries could be reproduced assuming isotopic abundance ratios 6Li/7Li of the order of: 0.004 for BD+26 3578, ~ 0.010 for BD+02 3375 and G 64-37, 0.025 for BD+20 3603 and 0.047 for BD-04 3208. We found that these results were very sensitive to several of the assumptions made in the analysis, in particular, the treatment of the residual structure in the analysed spectra. Our final estimates for the errors are respectively delta_6Li/7Li=+- 0.028, 0.029, 0.039, 0.025 and 0.039. The 6Li/7Li ratios for the sample are comparable to or even lower than these error values, so that detections of lithium-6 can not safely be claimed despite of the high resolving power (R ~ 95 000) and S/N (400-600)., Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures
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- 2009
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20. Structure and Population of the Andromeda Stellar Halo from a Subaru/Suprime-Cam Survey
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Tanaka, M., Chiba, M., Komiyama, Y., Guhathakurta, P., Kalirai, J. S., and Iye, M.
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Astrophysics - Galaxy Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
We present a photometric survey of the stellar halo of the Andromeda galaxy, using Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. A detailed analysis of VI color-magnitude diagrams of the resolved stellar population is used to measure properties such as line-of-sight distance, surface brightness, metallicity, and age, and these are used to isolate and characterize different components of the M31 halo: (1) several substructures, and (2) the smooth halo. First, we study M31's halo substructure along the north-west/south-east minor axis out to R ~ 100 kpc and the south-west major axis region at R ~ 60 kpc. We confirm two substructures in the south-east halo reported by Ibata et al. (2007) and discover two overdense substructures in the north-west halo. We investigate the properties of these four substructures as well as other structures including the western shelf and find that differences in stellar populations among these systems, thereby suggesting each has a different origin. Our statistical analysis implies that the M31 halo as a whole may contain at least 16 substructures, each with a different origin. Second, we investigate the properties of an underlying, smooth and extended halo component out to R > 100 kpc. We find that the surface density of this smooth halo can be fitted to a Hernquist model of scale radius ~ 17 kpc or a power-law profile with ~ R^{-2.17 +/- 0.15}. In contrast to the relative smoothness of the halo density profile, its metallicity distribution appears to be spatially non-uniform with non-monotonic variations with radius, suggesting that the halo population has not had sufficient time to dynamically homogenize the accreted populations. Further implications for the formation of the M31 halo are discussed., Comment: 40 pages, 44 figures, accepted for publication in the ApJ. High resolution version available at http://www.astr.tohoku.ac.jp/~mikito/AndromedaHalo.pdf
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21. Evidence for $\pi K$-atoms with DIRAC
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Adeva, B., Afanasyev, L., Allkofer, Y., Amsler, C., Anania, A., Benelli, A., Brekhovskikh, V., Caragheorgheopol, G., Cechak, T., Chiba, M., Chliapnikov, P., Ciocarlan, C., Constantinescu, S., Curceanu, C., Detraz, C., Dreossi, D., Drijard, D., Dudarev, A., Duma, M., Dumitriu, D., Fungueiriño, J. L., Gerndt, J., Gorin, A., Gorchakov, O., Gritsay, K., Guaraldo, C., Gugiu, M., Hansroul, M., Hons, Z., Horikawa, S., Iliescu, M., Karpukhin, V., Kluson, J., Kobayashi, M., Komarov, V., Kruglov, V., Kruglova, L., Kulikov, A., Kuptsov, A., Kurochkin, I., Lamberto, A., Lanaro, A., Lapshin, V., Lednicky, R., Sandri, P. Levi, Aguera, A. Lopez, Lucherini, V., Manuilov, I., Mariñas, C., Nemenov, L., Nikitin, M., Okada, K., Olchevskii, V., Pentia, M., Penzo, A., Pló, M., Rappazzo, G. F., Regenfus, C., Rochet, J., Romero, A., Ronjin, V., Ryazantsev, A., Rykalin, V., Saborido, J., Schacher, J., Sidorov, A., Smolik, J., Sugimoto, S., Takeutchi, F., Tarasov, A., Tauscher, L., Trojek, T., Trusov, S., Utkin, V., Doce, O. Vázquez, Vrba, T., Yazkov, V., Yoshimura, Y., Zhabitsky, M., and Zrelov, P.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
We present evidence for the first observation of electromagnetically bound $\pi^\pm K^\mp$-pairs ($\pi K$-atoms) with the DIRAC experiment at the CERN-PS. The $\pi K$-atoms are produced by the 24 GeV/c proton beam in a thin Pt-target and the $\pi^\pm$ and $K^\mp$-mesons from the atom dissociation are analyzed in a two-arm magnetic spectrometer. The observed enhancement at low relative momentum corresponds to the production of 173 $\pm$ 54 $\pi K$-atoms. The mean life of $\pi K$-atoms is related to the s-wave $\pi K$-scattering lengths, the measurement of which is the goal of the experiment. From these first data we derive a lower limit for the mean life of 0.8 fs at 90% confidence level., Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures
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22. Role of galactic gaseous halos in recycling enriched winds from bulges to disks: A new bulge-disk chemical connection
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Bekki, K., Tsujimoto, T., and Chiba, M.
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Astrophysics - Galaxy Astrophysics - Abstract
We demonstrate for the first time that gaseous halos of disk galaxies can play a vital role in recycling metal-rich gas ejected from the bulges and thus in promoting chemical evolution of disks. Our numerical simulations show that metal-rich stellar winds from bulges in disk galaxies can be accreted onto the thin disks owing to hydrodynamical interaction between the gaseous ejecta and the gaseous halos, if the mean densities of the halos (rho_ hg) are as high as 10^{-5} cm^{-3}. The total amount of gas that is ejected from a bulge through a stellar wind and then accreted onto the disk depends mainly on rho_ hg and the initial velocity of the stellar wind. About ~ 1% of gaseous ejecta from bulges in disk galaxies of scale length a_d can be accreted onto disks around R ~ 2.5 a_ d for a reasonable set of model parameters. We discuss these results in the context of the origin of the surprisingly high metallicities of the solar neighborhood disk stars in the Galaxy. We also discuss some implications of the present results in terms of chemical evolution of disk galaxies with possibly different rho_ hg in different galaxy environments., Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures (1 color), accepted by ApJL
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23. Two Stellar Components in the Halo of the Milky Way
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Carollo, D., Beers, T. C., Lee, Y. S., Chiba, M., Norris, J. E., Wilhelm, R., Sivarani, T., Marsteller, B., Munn, J. A., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Fiorentin, P. Re, and York, D. G.
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Astrophysics - Abstract
The halo of the Milky Way provides unique elemental abundance and kinematic information on the first objects to form in the Universe, which can be used to tightly constrain models of galaxy formation and evolution. Although the halo was once considered a single component, evidence for its dichotomy has slowly emerged in recent years from inspection of small samples of halo objects. Here we show that the halo is indeed clearly divisible into two broadly overlapping structural components -- an inner and an outer halo -- that exhibit different spatial density profiles, stellar orbits and stellar metallicities (abundances of elements heavier than helium). The inner halo has a modest net prograde rotation, whereas the outer halo exhibits a net retrograde rotation and a peak metallicity one-third that of the inner halo. These properties indicate that the individual halo components probably formed in fundamentally different ways, through successive dissipational (inner) and dissipationless (outer) mergers and tidal disruption of proto-Galactic clumps., Comment: Two stand-alone files in manuscript, concatenated together. The first is for the main paper, the second for supplementary information. The version is consistent with the version published in Nature
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24. Integral Field Spectroscopy of the Quadruply Lensed Quasar 1RXS J1131-1231: New Light on Lens Substructures
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Sugai, H., Kawai, A., Shimono, A., Hattori, T., Kosugi, G., Kashikawa, N., Inoue, K. T., and Chiba, M.
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Astrophysics - Abstract
We have observed the quadruply lensed quasar 1RXS J1131-1231 with the integral field spectrograph mode of the Kyoto Tridimensional Spectrograph II mounted on the Subaru telescope. Its field of view has covered simultaneously the three brighter lensed images A, B, and C, which are known to exhibit anomalous flux ratios in their continuum emission. We have found that the [OIII] line flux ratios among these lensed images are consistent with those predicted by smooth-lens models. The absence of both microlensing and millilensing effects on this [OIII] narrow line region sets important limits on the mass of any substructures along the line of sight, which is expressed as M_E < 10^5 M_solar for the mass inside an Einstein radius. In contrast, the H_beta line emission, which originates from the broad line region, shows an anomaly in the flux ratio between images B and C, i.e., a factor two smaller C/B ratio than predicted by smooth-lens models. The ratio of A/B in the H_beta line is well reproduced. We show that the anomalous C/B ratio for the H_beta line is caused most likely by micro/milli-lensing of image C. This is because other effects, such as the differential dust extinction and/or arrival time difference between images B and C, or the simultaneous lensing of another pair of images A and B, are all unlikely. In addition, we have found that the broad H_beta line of image A shows a slight asymmetry in its profile compared with those in the other images, which suggests the presence of a small microlensing effect on this line emitting region of image A., Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, ApJ accepted
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25. Effect of suppression of local distortion on magnetic, electrical and thermal transport properties of Cr substituted bi-layer manganite LaSr$_{2}$Mn$_{2}$O$_{7}$
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Matsukawa, M., Chiba, M., Kikuchi, E., and Suryanarayanan, R.
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Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons ,Condensed Matter - Materials Science - Abstract
We have investigated magnetic, electrical and thermal transport properties (Seebeck effect and thermal conductivity) of LaSr$_{2}$Mn$_{2-y}$Cr$_{y}$O$_{7}$ polycrystalline samples ($y$=0.1, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6). The Cr$^{3+}$ substitution for Mn$^{3+}$ sites causes a removal of $d_{x^2-y^2}$ orbital of $e_g$-electron resulting in a volume shrinkage of lattice. Magnetic measurements reveal the appearance of a glassy behavior for Cr-doped samples, accompanied by both a collapse of the A-type antiferromagnetic structure and the growth of ferromagnetic clusters. Cr-doping effect on electrical transport strongly enhances an insulating behavior over a wide range of temperature, while it suppresses a local minimum of thermoelectric power at lower temperatures. The phonon thermal conduction gradually rises with increasing Cr content, which is contradictory to a typical impurity effect on thermal conductivity. We attribute this to a suppression of local lattice distortion through the introduction of Jahn-Teller inactive ions of Cr$^{3+}$., Comment: 8 pages, 9figures
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26. Formation and evolution of the Magellanic Clouds. I.Origin of structural, kinematical, and chemical properties of the Large Magellanic Cloud
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Bekki, K. and Chiba, M.
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Astrophysics - Abstract
We investigate the dynamical and chemical evolution of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) interacting with the Galaxy and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) based on a series of self-consistent chemodynamical simulations. Our numerical models are aimed at explaining the entire properties of the LMC, i.e., the observed structure and kinematics of its stellar halo and disk components as well as the populations of the field stars and star clusters. The main results of the present simulations are summarized as follows. (1) Tidal interaction between the Clouds and the Galaxy during the last 9 Gyr transforms the initially thin, non-barred LMC disk into the three different components: the central bar, thick disk, and kinematically hot stellar halo. The central bar is composed both of old field stars and newly formed ones with each fraction being equal in its innermost part. The final thick disk has the central velocity dispersion of $\sim$ 30 km s$^{-1}$ and shows rotationally supported kinematics with $V_{\rm m}/{\sigma}_{0}$ $\sim$ 2.3. (2) The stellar halo is formed during the interaction, consisting mainly of old stars originating from the outer part of the initially thin LMC disk. The outer halo shows velocity dispersion of $\sim$ 40 km s$^{-1}$ at the distance of 7.5 kpc from the LMC center and has somewhat inhomogeneous distribution of stars. The stellar halo contains relatively young, metal-rich stars with the mass fraction of 2 %., Comment: 26 pages, 26 figures, MNRAS in press (For clearer figures: See jpeg figures for fig5, 6, 7, 11, and 22)
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27. Explaining the mysterious age gap of globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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Bekki, K., Couch, W. J., Beasley, M. A., Forbes, D. A., Chiba, M., and Da Costa, G. S.
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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has a unique cluster formation history in that nearly all of its globular clusters were formed either $\sim$ 13 Gyr ago or less than $\sim$ 3 Gyr ago. It is not clear what physical mechanism is responsible for the most recent cluster formation episode and thus the mysterious age gap between the LMC clusters. We first present results of gas dynamical N-body simulations of the evolution of the LMC in the context of its Galactic orbit and interactions with the SMC, paying special attention to the effect of tidal forces. We find that the first close encounter between the LMC and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) about 4 Gyr ago was the beginning of a period of strong tidal interaction which likely induced dramatic gas cloud collisions, leading to an enhancement of the formation of globular clusters which has been sustained by strong tidal interactions to the present day. The tidal interaction results in the formation of a barred, elliptical, thick disk in the LMC. The model also predicts the presence of a large, diffuse stellar stream circling the Galaxy, which originated from the LMC., Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures (f2.copy.jpg for high-res color figure), accepted by ApJL
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28. Stretched exponential behavior in remanent lattice striction of a (La,Pr)$_{1.2}$Sr$_{1.8}$Mn$_{2}$O$_{7}$ bilayer manganite single crystal
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Matsukawa, M., Chiba, M., Suryanarayanan, R., Apostu, M., Revcolevschi, A., Nimori, S., and Kobayashi, N.
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Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons - Abstract
We have investigated the time dependence of remanent magnetostriction in a (La,Pr)$_{1.2}$Sr$_{1.8}$Mn$_{2}$O$_{7}$ single crystal, in order to examine the slow dynamics of lattice distortion in bilayered manganites. A competition between double exchange and Jahn-Teller type orbital-lattice interactions results in the observed lattice profile following a stretched exponential function. This finding suggests that spatial growth of the local lattice distortions coupled with e$_{g}$-electron orbital strongly correlates with the appearance of the field-induced CMR effect., Comment: 3 figures
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29. Kinematics of Metal-Poor Stars in the Galaxy. II. Proper Motions for a Large Non-Kinematically Selected Sample
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Beers, T. C., Chiba, M., Yoshii, Y., Platais, I., Hanson, R. B., Fuchs, B., and Rossi, S.
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Astrophysics - Abstract
We present a revised catalog of 2106 Galactic stars, selected without kinematic bias, and with available radial velocities, distance estimates, and metal abundances in the range 0.0 <= [Fe/H] <= -4.0. This update of the Beers and Sommer-Larsen (1995) catalog includes newly-derived homogeneous photometric distance estimates, revised radial velocities for a number of stars with recently obtained high-resolution spectra, and refined metallicities for stars originally identified in the HK objective-prism survey (which account for nearly half of the catalog) based on a recent re-calibration. A subset of 1258 stars in this catalog have available proper motions, based on measurements obtained with the Hipparcos astrometry satellite, or taken from the updated Astrographic Catalogue (AC 2000; second epoch positions from either the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog or the Tycho Catalogue), the Yale/San Juan Southern Proper Motion (SPM) Catalog 2.0, and the Lick Northern Proper Motion (NPM1) Catalog. Our present catalog includes 388 RR Lyrae variables (182 of which are newly added), 38 variables of other types, and 1680 non-variables, with distances in the range 0.1 to 40 kpc., Comment: 31 pages, including 8 figures, to appear in AJ (June 2000), full paper with all figures embedded available at http://pluto.mtk.nao.ac.jp/people/chiba/preprint/halo4/
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30. Kinematics of Metal-Poor Stars in the Galaxy. III. Formation of the Stellar Halo and Thick Disk as Revealed from a Large Sample of Non-Kinematically Selected Stars
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Chiba, M. and Beers, T. C.
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Astrophysics - Abstract
(Abbreviated) We present a detailed analysis of the space motions of 1203 solar-neighborhood stars with metal abundances [Fe/H] <= -0.6, on the basis of a recently revised and supplemented catalog of metal-poor stars selected without kinematic bias (Beers et al. 2000). This sample, having available proper motions, radial velocities, and distance estimates for stars with a wide range of metal abundances, is by far the largest such catalog to be assembled to date. Unlike essentially all previous kinematically selected catalogs, the metal-poor stars in our sample exhibit a diverse distribution of orbital eccentricities, e, with no apparent correlation between [Fe/H] and e. This demonstrates, clearly and convincingly, that the evidence offered by Eggen, Lynden-Bell, and Sandage (1962) for a rapid collapse of the Galaxy, an apparent correlation between the orbital eccentricity of halo stars with metallicity, is basically the result of their proper-motion selection bias. However, even in our non-kinematically selected sample, we have identified a small concentration of high-e stars at [Fe/H] = -1.7, which may originate, in part, from infalling gas during the early formation of the Galaxy. The implications of our results for the formation of the Galaxy are also discussed, in particular in the context of the currently favored CDM theory of hierarchical galaxy formation., Comment: 51 pages, including 17 figures, to appear in AJ (June 2000), full paper with all figures embedded available at http://pluto.mtk.nao.ac.jp/people/chiba/preprint/halo5/
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31. Influence of liquid sloshing on dynamics of flexible space structures
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Chiba, M. and Magata, H.
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32. Numerical simulation of large-scale magnetic-field evolution in spiral galaxies
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Otmianowska-Mazur, K. and Chiba, M.
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Astrophysics - Abstract
The evolution of large-scale magnetic fields in disk galaxies is investigated numerically. The gasdynamical simulations in a disk perturbed by spiral or bar potential are incorporated into the kinematic calculations of induction equations to elucidate the effects of non-axisymmetric disk structure on magnetic fields. The effects of interstellar turbulence are given as the turbulent diffusion of magnetic fields. The usually adopted dynamo mechanism of alpha-effect is not considered in our computations, because it is not obvious about the actual existence of the effect in a galaxy. Our principal concern is to clear how observationally and theoretically well-established gas flow affects the magnetic-field structure and evolution, without putting a lot of artificial parameters in the model. We have found that the density-wave streaming motion of gas has a significant influence on the distribution of magnetic fields: the lines of force are well aligned with spiral arms due to the compressional and additional shearing flow of gas in these regions., Comment: 14 pages, latex documentstyle {l-aa}
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33. Upgraded DIRAC spectrometer at CERN PS for the investigation of ππ and πK atoms
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Adeva, B., Afanasyev, L., Allkofer, Y., Amsler, C., Anania, A., Aogaki, S., Benelli, A., Brekhovskikh, V., Caragheorgheopol, Gh., Cechak, T., Chiba, M., Chliapnikov, P., Ciocarlan, C., Constantinescu, S., Detraz, C., Doskarova, P., Drijard, D., Dudarev, A., Duma, M., Dumitriu, D., Fluerasu, D., Gorin, A., Gorchakov, O., Gritsay, K., Guaraldo, C., Gugiu, M., Hansroul, M., Hons, Z., Horikawa, S., Iwashita, Y., Karpukhin, V., Kluson, J., Kobayashi, M., Kruglov, V., Kruglova, L., Kulikov, A., Kulish, E., Kuptsov, A., Lamberto, A., Lanaro, A., Lednicky, R., Mariñas, C., Martincik, J., Nemenov, L., Nikitin, M., Okada, K., Olchevskii, V., Pentia, M., Penzo, A., Plo, M., Prusa, P., Rappazzo, G.F., Vidal, A. Romero, Ryazantsev, A., Rykalin, V., Saborido, J., Schacher, J., Sidorov, A., Smolik, J., Takeutchi, F., Tauscher, L., Trojek, T., Trusov, S., Ullaland, O., Urban, T., Vrba, T., Yazkov, V., Yoshimura, Y., Zhabitsky, M., and Zrelov, P.
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34. Experimental studies on the dynamic stability of liquid in a spherical tank covered with diaphragm under vertical excitation
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Chiba, M., Murase, R., Kimura, R., Yamamoto, Y., and Komatsu, K.
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35. Altered TMPRSS2 usage by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron impacts infectivity and fusogenicity
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Meng, B., Abdullahi, A., Ferreira, I. A. T. M., Goonawardane, N., Saito, A., Kimura, I., Yamasoba, D., Gerber, P. P., Fatihi, S., Rathore, S., Zepeda, S. K., Papa, G., Kemp, S. A., Ikeda, T., Toyoda, M., Tan, T. S., Kuramochi, J., Mitsunaga, S., Ueno, T., Shirakawa, K., Takaori-Kondo, A., Brevini, T., Mallery, D. L., Charles, O. J., Baker, S., Dougan, G., Hess, C., Kingston, N., Lehner, P. J., Lyons, P. A., Matheson, N. J., Ouwehand, W. H., Saunders, C., Summers, C., Thaventhiran, J. E. D., Toshner, M., Weekes, M. P., Maxwell, P., Shaw, A., Bucke, A., Calder, J., Canna, L., Domingo, J., Elmer, A., Fuller, S., Harris, J., Hewitt, S., Kennet, J., Jose, S., Kourampa, J., Meadows, A., O'Brien, C., Price, J., Publico, C., Rastall, R., Ribeiro, C., Rowlands, J., Ruffolo, V., Tordesillas, H., Bullman, B., Dunmore, B. J., Graf, S., Hodgson, J., Huang, C., Hunter, K., Jones, E., Legchenko, E., Matara, C., Martin, J., Mescia, F., O'Donnell, C., Pointon, L., Shih, J., Sutcliffe, R., Tilly, T., Treacy, C., Tong, Z., Wood, J., Wylot, M., Betancourt, A., Bower, G., Cossetti, C., De Sa, A., Epping, M., Fawke, S., Gleadall, N., Grenfell, R., Hinch, A., Jackson, S., Jarvis, I., Krishna, B., Nice, F., Omarjee, O., Perera, M., Potts, M., Richoz, N., Romashova, V., Stefanucci, L., Strezlecki, M., Turner, L., De Bie, E. M. D. D., Bunclark, K., Josipovic, M., Mackay, M., Butcher, H., Caputo, D., Chandler, M., Chinnery, P., Clapham-Riley, D., Dewhurst, E., Fernandez, C., Furlong, A., Graves, B., Gray, J., Hein, S., Ivers, T., Le Gresley, E., Linger, R., Kasanicki, M., King, R., Meloy, S., Moulton, A., Muldoon, F., Ovington, N., Papadia, S., Penkett, C. J., Phelan, I., Ranganath, V., Paraschiv, R., Sage, A., Sambrook, J., Scholtes, I., Schon, K., Stark, H., Stirrups, K. E., Townsend, P., Walker, N., Webster, J., Butlertanaka, E. P., Tanaka, Y. L., Ito, J., Uriu, K., Kosugi, Y., Suganami, M., Oide, A., Yokoyama, M., Chiba, M., Motozono, C., Nasser, H., Shimizu, R., Kitazato, K., Hasebe, H., Irie, T., Nakagawa, S., Wu, J., Takahashi, M., Fukuhara, T., Shimizu, K., Tsushima, K., Kubo, H., Kazuma, Y., Nomura, R., Horisawa, Y., Nagata, K., Kawai, Y., Yanagida, Y., Tashiro, Y., Tokunaga, K., Ozono, S., Kawabata, R., Morizako, N., Sadamasu, K., Asakura, H., Nagashima, M., Yoshimura, K., Cardenas, P., Munoz, E., Barragan, V., Marquez, S., Prado-Vivar, B., Becerra-Wong, M., Caravajal, M., Trueba, G., Rojas-Silva, P., Grunauer, M., Gutierrez, B., Guadalupe, J. J., Fernandez-Cadena, J. C., Andrade-Molina, D., Baldeon, M., Pinos, A., Bowen, J. E., Joshi, A., Walls, A. C., Jackson, L., Martin, D., Smith, K. G. C., Bradley, J., Briggs, J. A. G., Choi, J., Madissoon, E., Meyer, K. B., Mlcochova, P., Ceron-Gutierrez, L., Doffinger, R., Teichmann, S. A., Fisher, A. J., Pizzuto, M. S., de Marco, A., Corti, D., Hosmillo, M., Lee, J. H., James, L. C., Thukral, L., Veesler, D., Sigal, A., Sampaziotis, F., Goodfellow, I. G., Sato, K., and Gupta, R. K.
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Adult ,Male ,COVID-19 Vaccines ,Virus Replication ,Membrane Fusion ,Antibodies ,Cell Line ,Tissue Culture Techniques ,Chlorocebus aethiops ,80 and over ,Animals ,Humans ,Viral ,Neutralizing ,Lung ,Aged ,Multidisciplinary ,Virulence ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Immune Sera ,Cell Membrane ,Serine Endopeptidases ,COVID-19 ,Convalescence ,Middle Aged ,Virus Internalization ,Spike Glycoprotein ,Intestines ,Coronavirus ,Nasal Mucosa ,Mutation ,Female ,Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 ,Aged, 80 and over ,Antibodies, Neutralizing ,Antibodies, Viral ,Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus - Abstract
The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 variant emerged in 20211 and has multiple mutations in its spike protein2. Here we show that the spike protein of Omicron has a higher affinity for ACE2 compared with Delta, and a marked change in its antigenicity increases Omicron’s evasion of therapeutic monoclonal and vaccine-elicited polyclonal neutralizing antibodies after two doses. mRNA vaccination as a third vaccine dose rescues and broadens neutralization. Importantly, the antiviral drugs remdesivir and molnupiravir retain efficacy against Omicron BA.1. Replication was similar for Omicron and Delta virus isolates in human nasal epithelial cultures. However, in lung cells and gut cells, Omicron demonstrated lower replication. Omicron spike protein was less efficiently cleaved compared with Delta. The differences in replication were mapped to the entry efficiency of the virus on the basis of spike-pseudotyped virus assays. The defect in entry of Omicron pseudotyped virus to specific cell types effectively correlated with higher cellular RNA expression of TMPRSS2, and deletion of TMPRSS2 affected Delta entry to a greater extent than Omicron. Furthermore, drug inhibitors targeting specific entry pathways3 demonstrated that the Omicron spike inefficiently uses the cellular protease TMPRSS2, which promotes cell entry through plasma membrane fusion, with greater dependency on cell entry through the endocytic pathway. Consistent with suboptimal S1/S2 cleavage and inability to use TMPRSS2, syncytium formation by the Omicron spike was substantially impaired compared with the Delta spike. The less efficient spike cleavage of Omicron at S1/S2 is associated with a shift in cellular tropism away from TMPRSS2-expressing cells, with implications for altered pathogenesis.
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36. Investigation of <math><msup><mi>K</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>K</mi><mo>−</mo></msup></math> pairs in the effective mass region near <math><mn>2</mn><msub><mi>m</mi><mi>K</mi></msub></math>
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Adeva, B., Afanasyev, L., Anania, A., Aogaki, S., Benelli, A., Brekhovskikh, V., Cechak, T., Chiba, M., Chliapnikov, P., Drijard, D., Dudarev, A., Dumitriu, D., Federicova, P., Gorin, A., Gritsay, K., Guaraldo, C., Gugiu, M., Hansroul, M., Hons, Z., Horikawa, S., Iwashita, Y., Karpukhin, V., Kluson, J., Kobayashi, M., Kruglova, L., Kulikov, A., Kulish, E., Lamberto, A., Lanaro, A., Lednicky, R., Mari??as, C., Martincik, J., Nemenov, L., Nikitin, M., Okada, K., Olchevskii, V., Pentia, M., Penzo, A., Plo, M., Prusa, P., Rappazzo, G., Romero Vidal, A., Ryazantsev, A., Rykalin, V., Saborido, J., Schacher, J., Sidorov, A., Smolik, J., Takeutchi, F., Trojek, T., Trusov, S., Urban, T., Vrba, T., Yazkov, V., Yoshimura, Y., and Zrelov, P.
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The DIRAC experiment at CERN investigated in the reaction p(24 GeV/c)+Ni the particle pairs K+K−,π+π−, and pp¯ with relative momentum Q in the pair system less than 100 MeV/c. Because of background influence studies, DIRAC explored three subsamples of K+K− pairs, obtained by subtracting-using the time-of-flight (TOF) technique-the background from initial Q distributions with K+K− sample fractions more than 70%, 50%, and 30%. The corresponding pair distributions in Q and in its longitudinal projection QL were analyzed first in a Coulomb model, which takes into account only the Coulomb final-state interaction (FSI) and assuming pointlike pair production. This Coulomb model analysis leads to a K+K− yield increase of about four at QL=0.5 MeV/c compared to 100 MeV/c. In order to study contributions from strong interaction, a second more sophisticated model was applied, considering also strong FSI via the resonances f0(980) and a0(980) and a variable distance r* between the produced K mesons besides Coulomb FSI. This analysis was based on three different parameter sets for the pair production. For the 70% subsample and with the best parameters, 3680±370 K+K− pairs were found to be compared to 3900±410 K+K− extracted by means of the Coulomb model. Knowing the efficiency of the TOF cut for background suppression, the total number of detected K+K− pairs was evaluated to be around 40000±10%, which agrees with the result from the 30% subsample. The K+K− pair number in the 50% subsample differs from the two other values by about three standard deviations, confirming—as discussed in the paper—that experimental data in this subsample is less reliable. In summary, the upgraded DIRAC experiment observed increased K+K− production at small relative momentum Q. The pair distribution in Q is well described by Coulomb FSI, whereas a potential influence from strong interaction in this Q region is insignificant within experimental errors.
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37. EP08.02-146 Proposal of Foretinib as Second-Line TKI after Capmatinib/Tepotinib Treatment Failure in NSCLC with MET Exon 14 Mutation
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Fujino, T., primary, Suda, K., additional, Koga, T., additional, Hamada, A., additional, Ohara, S., additional, Chiba, M., additional, Shimoji, M., additional, Takemoto, T., additional, Soh, J., additional, and Mitsudomi, T., additional
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- 2022
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38. Dynamic stability of a slender beam under horizontal–vertical excitations
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Chiba, M., Shimazaki, N., and Ichinohe, K.
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- 2014
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39. Piled-up configuration design of decelerators in drop test for aircraft seats
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Chiba, M., Okino, T., Nambu, Y., Yutani, H., and Katayama, K.
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- 2014
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40. NMR STUDYOFTHE SUCCESSIVE PHASE TRANSITIONS IN CuB2O4
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Chiba, M., Nakamura, H., Fujii, Y., Kikuchi, H., Yamamoto, Y., Hori, H., Petrakovskii, G., Popov, M., Bezmaternikh, L., Franse, Jaap, editor, Eremenko, Victor, editor, and Sirenko, Valentyna, editor
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- 2006
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41. Observation of a two-proton halo in 17Ne
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Kanungo, R., Chiba, M., Abu-Ibrahim, B., Adhikari, S., Fang, D. Q., Iwasa, N., Kimura, K., Maeda, K., Nishimura, S., Ohnishi, T., Ozawa, A., Samanta, C., Suda, T., Suzuki, T., Wang, Q., Wu, C., Yamaguchi, Y., Yamada, K., Yoshida, A., Zheng, T., Tanihata, I., Gross, Carl J., editor, Nazarewicz, Witold, editor, and Rykaczewski, Krzysztof P., editor
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- 2005
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42. Role of ctDNA in the Management of Patients with Resected Lung Cancer
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Ohara, S., primary, Suda, K., additional, Fujino, T., additional, Hamada, A., additional, Chiba, M., additional, Shimoji, M., additional, Takemoto, T., additional, Soh, J., additional, and Mitsudomi, T., additional
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- 2022
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43. Experimental study on vibrations of a nonwoven fabric cylindrical filter
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Chiba, M., Kawahara, T., Michiue, S., and Shintani, Y.
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- 2011
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44. P04.01 Presence of Ground Glass Opacity Component is True Determinant of Prognosis in Clinical Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
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Hamada, A., primary, Suda, K., additional, Ohara, S., additional, Chiba, M., additional, Shimoji, M., additional, Endo, M., additional, Takemoto, T., additional, Soh, J., additional, Shiono, S., additional, and Mitsudomi, T., additional
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- 2021
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45. Metabolism: Scaling-up from In Vitro to Organ and Whole Body
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Pang, K. S., Chiba, M., Welling, Peter G., editor, and Balant, Luc P., editor
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- 1994
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46. Pharmacokinetic Modeling of Drug Conjugates
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Pang, K. S., Chiba, M., and Kauffman, Frederick C., editor
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- 1994
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47. Basic Properties of Swing-Excitation Mechanism
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Chiba, M., Hanasz, M., Krause, F., editor, Rädler, K.-H., editor, and Rüdiger, G., editor
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- 1993
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48. Stimulated Interband Landau Emission due to Electromagnetic-Force Excitation of InSb at the Quantum Limit
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Morimoto, T., Chiba, M., Cardona, Manuel, editor, Fulde, Peter, editor, von Klitzing, Klaus, editor, Queisser, Hans-Joachim, editor, Lotsch, Helmut K. V., editor, and Landwehr, Gottfried, editor
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- 1992
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49. The GCM-Reality Intercomparison Project for SPARC (GRIPS) : Scientific Issues and Initial Results
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Pawson, S., Kodera, K., Hamilton, K., Shepherd, T. G., Beagley, S. R., Boville, B. A., Farrara, J. D., Fairlie, T. D. A., Kitoh, A., Lahoz, W. A., Langematz, U., Manzini, E., Rind, D. H., Scaife, A. A., Shibata, K., Simon, P., Swinbank, R., Takacs, L., Wilson, R. J., Al-Saadi, J. A., Amodei, M., Chiba, M., Coy, L., de Grandpré, J., Eckman, R. S., Fiorino, M., Grose, W. L., Koide, H., Koshyk, J. N., Li, D., Lerner, J., Mahlman, J. D., McFarlane, N. A., Mechoso, C. R., Molod, A., O’Neill, A., Pierce, R. B., Randel, W. J., Rood, R. B., and Wu, F.
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- 2000
50. Matsuda–DeFronzo insulin sensitivity index is a better predictor than HOMA-IR of hypertension in Japanese: the Tanno–Sobetsu study
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Furugen, M, Saitoh, S, Ohnishi, H, Akasaka, H, Mitsumata, K, Chiba, M, Furukawa, T, Miyazaki, Y, Shimamoto, K, and Miura, T
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- 2012
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