Dynamics of Isolated 1,8-Naphthalimide and N-Methyl-1,8-naphthalimide: An Experimental and Computational Study.

In this work we investigate the excited-state structure and dynamics of the two molecules 1,8-naphthalimide (NI) and N-methyl-1,8-naphthalimide (Me-NI) in the gas phase by picosecond time- and frequency-resolved multiphoton ionization spectroscopy. The energies of several electronically excited singlet and triplet states and the S1 vibrational wavenumbers were calculated. Nonadiabatic dynamics simulations support the analysis of the radiationless deactivation processes.

Search for single top-quark production via flavour-changing neutral currents at 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.

A search for single top-quark production via flavour-changing neutral current processes from gluon plus up- or charm-quark initial states in proton-proton collisions at the LHC is presented. Data collected with the ATLAS detector in 2012 at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb[Formula: see text] are used.

Search for flavour-changing neutral current top-quark decays to [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at [Formula: see text] TeV.

A search for the flavour-changing neutral-current decay [Formula: see text] is presented. Data collected by the ATLAS detector during 2012 from proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of [Formula: see text] TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb[Formula: see text], are analysed.

Anatomical location of the vocal cords in relation to cervical vertebrae: A new predictor of difficult laryngoscopy?

Background: Several anatomical factors, such as prognathism, sex, short thyromental distance and others are known to make direct laryngoscopy difficult.

Objective: We investigated the hypothesis that the anatomical position of the vocal cords in relation to the cervical vertebrae correlates with difficult laryngoscopy. Existing MRI was used to identify the position of the vocal cords relative to the cervical spine in patients with and without difficult laryngoscopy.

Measurements of fiducial cross-sections for [Formula: see text] production with one or two additional -jets in collisions at [Formula: see text]=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector.

Fiducial cross-sections for [Formula: see text] production with one or two additional -jets are reported, using an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb[Formula: see text] of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider, collected with the ATLAS detector. The cross-section times branching ratio for [Formula: see text] events with at least one additional -jet is measured to be 950 [Formula: see text] 70 (stat.

Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and coupling strengths using collision data at [Formula: see text] and 8 TeV in the ATLAS experiment.

Combined analyses of the Higgs boson production and decay rates as well as its coupling strengths to vector bosons and fermions are presented. The combinations include the results of the analyses of the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] decay modes, and the constraints on the associated production with a pair of top quarks and on the off-shell coupling strengths of the Higgs boson. The results are based on the LHC proton-proton collision datasets, with integrated luminosities of up to 4.

Searches for scalar leptoquarks in collisions at [Formula: see text] = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.

Searches for pair-produced scalar leptoquarks are performed using 20 fb[Formula: see text] of proton-proton collision data provided by the LHC and recorded by the ATLAS detector at [Formula: see text] TeV. Events with two electrons (muons) and two or more jets in the final state are used to search for first (second)-generation leptoquarks. The results from two previously published ATLAS analyses are interpreted in terms of third-generation leptoquarks decaying to [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] final states.

Study of the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] decays with the ATLAS detector.

The decays [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are studied with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using a dataset corresponding to integrated luminosities of 4.9 and 20.6 fb[Formula: see text] of collisions collected at centre-of-mass energies [Formula: see text] TeV and 8 TeV, respectively.

Determination of the Ratio of b-Quark Fragmentation Fractions f(s)/f(d) in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.

With an integrated luminosity of 2.47  fb(-1) recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, the exclusive decays B(s)(0)→J/ψϕ and B(d)(0)→J/ψK(*0) of B mesons produced in pp collisions at √s=7  TeV are used to determine the ratio of fragmentation fractions f(s)/f(d). From the observed B(s)(0)→J/ψϕ and B(d)(0)→J/ψK(*0) yields, the quantity (f(s)/f(d))[B(B(s)(0)→J/ψϕ)/B(B(d)(0)→J/ψK(*0))] is measured to be 0.

Role of HDACs in optic nerve damage-induced nuclear atrophy of retinal ganglion cells.

Optic neuropathies are characterized by retinal ganglion cell (RGC) death, resulting in the loss of vision. In glaucoma, the most common optic neuropathy, RGC death is initiated by axonal damage, and can be modeled by inducing acute axonal trauma through procedures such as optic nerve crush (ONC) or optic nerve axotomy. One of the early events of RGC death is nuclear atrophy, and is comprised of RGC-specific gene silencing, histone deacetylation, heterochromatin formation, and nuclear shrinkage.

Improved Postoperative Facial Nerve and Hearing Function in Retrosigmoid Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery Significantly Associated with Semisitting Position.

Objective: The pros and cons of semisitting positioning (SSP) versus lateral, horizontal positioning (LP) during retrosigmoid vestibular schwannoma (VS) surgery, especially concerning postoperative cranial nerve and brain stem preservation, are under continuous discussion.

Methods: In a single-center retrospective cohort study, 30 VSs operated on in SSP compared with 30 operated on in LP with comparable demography were analyzed. During SSP surgery, transesophageal echocardiographic monitoring for venous air embolism was used continuously.

Study of the rare decays of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] into muon pairs from data collected during the LHC Run 1 with the ATLAS detector.

A study of the decays [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] has been performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 25 fb[Formula: see text] of 7 and 8 TeV proton-proton collisions collected with the ATLAS detector during the LHC Run 1. For the [Formula: see text] dimuon decay, an upper limit on the branching fraction is set at [Formula: see text] at 95 % confidence level. For [Formula: see text], the branching fraction [Formula: see text] is measured.

Search for squarks and gluinos in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum at [Formula: see text] =13 [Formula: see text]with the ATLAS detector.

A search for squarks and gluinos in final states containing hadronic jets, missing transverse momentum but no electrons or muons is presented. The data were recorded in 2015 by the ATLAS experiment in [Formula: see text] proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. No excess above the Standard Model background expectation was observed in 3.

Search for squarks and gluinos in events with hadronically decaying tau leptons, jets and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector.

A search for supersymmetry in events with large missing transverse momentum, jets, and at least one hadronically decaying tau lepton has been performed using 3.2 fb[Formula: see text] of proton-proton collision data at [Formula: see text] recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015. Two exclusive final states are considered, with either exactly one or at least two tau leptons.

Measurements of top-quark pair differential cross-sections in the lepton+jets channel in collisions at [Formula: see text] using the ATLAS detector.

Measurements of normalized differential cross-sections of top-quark pair production are presented as a function of the top-quark, [Formula: see text] system and event-level kinematic observables in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of [Formula: see text]. The observables have been chosen to emphasize the [Formula: see text] production process and to be sensitive to effects of initial- and final-state radiation, to the different parton distribution functions, and to non-resonant processes and higher-order corrections. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.

Charged-particle distributions at low transverse momentum in [Formula: see text] TeV interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.

Measurements of distributions of charged particles produced in proton-proton collisions with a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV are presented. The data were recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 151 [Formula: see text]. The particles are required to have a transverse momentum greater than 100 MeV and an absolute pseudorapidity less than 2.

Measurement of the [Formula: see text] dijet cross section in collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.

The dijet production cross section for jets containing a -hadron (-jets) has been measured in proton-proton collisions with a centre-of-mass energy of [Formula: see text] TeV, using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of [Formula: see text]. The cross section is measured for events with two identified -jets with a transverse momentum [Formula: see text] GeV and a minimum separation in the [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] plane of [Formula: see text].

Measurement of the photon identification efficiencies with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run-1 data.

The algorithms used by the ATLAS Collaboration to reconstruct and identify prompt photons are described. Measurements of the photon identification efficiencies are reported, using 4.9 fb[Formula: see text] of collision data collected at the LHC at [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] and 20.

Test of CP invariance in vector-boson fusion production of the Higgs boson using the method in the ditau decay channel with the ATLAS detector.

A test of CP invariance in Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion using the method of the is presented. The analysis exploits the decay mode of the Higgs boson into a pair of [Formula: see text] leptons and is based on 20.3 [Formula: see text] of proton-proton collision data at [Formula: see text] = 8 [Formula: see text] collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC.

Luminosity determination in collisions at [Formula: see text] = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC.

The luminosity determination for the ATLAS detector at the LHC during collisions at [Formula: see text] 8 TeV in 2012 is presented. The evaluation of the luminosity scale is performed using several luminometers, and comparisons between these luminosity detectors are made to assess the accuracy, consistency and long-term stability of the results. A luminosity uncertainty of [Formula: see text] is obtained for the [Formula: see text] of collision data delivered to ATLAS at [Formula: see text] 8 TeV in 2012.

Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a boson and decaying to four -quarks via two spin-zero particles in collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.

This paper presents a dedicated search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson to a pair of new spin-zero particles, [Formula: see text], where the particle decays to -quarks and has a mass in the range of 20-60 GeV. The search is performed in events where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a [Formula: see text] boson, giving rise to a signature of a lepton (electron or muon), missing transverse momentum, and multiple jets from -quark decays. The analysis is based on the full dataset of collisions at [Formula: see text] recorded in 2015 by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.

Search for minimal supersymmetric standard model Higgs Bosons / and for a [Formula: see text] boson in the [Formula: see text] final state produced in collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.

A search for neutral Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) and for a heavneutral [Formula: see text] boson is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb[Formula: see text] from proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text]  [Formula: see text] recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The heavy resonance is assumed to decay to a [Formula: see text] pair with at least one [Formula: see text] lepton decaying to final states with hadrons and a neutrino.

Performance of pile-up mitigation techniques for jets in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV using the ATLAS detector.

The large rate of multiple simultaneous proton-proton interactions, or pile-up, generated by the Large Hadron Collider in Run 1 required the development of many new techniques to mitigate the adverse effects of these conditions. This paper describes the methods employed in the ATLAS experiment to correct for the impact of pile-up on jet energy and jet shapes, and for the presence of spurious additional jets, with a primary focus on the large 20.3 [Formula: see text] data sample collected at a centre-of-mass energy of [Formula: see text].

Search for gluinos in events with an isolated lepton, jets and missing transverse momentum at [Formula: see text] = 13 Te V with the ATLAS detector.

The results of a search for gluinos in final states with an isolated electron or muon, multiple jets and large missing transverse momentum using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of [Formula: see text] are presented. The dataset used was recorded in 2015 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb[Formula: see text].