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Architectural Acoustics: General Topics in Architectural Acoustics

The Audio Arts and Acoustics department at Columbia College in Chicago acquired a new building in 2003. The facility, a former bank, contained an old steel and concrete vault that was converted to a reverberation chamber. The acoustic properties of the space, including reverberation time, modal density, and early reflection maps were analyzed and compared to a computer model. Reflectograms were...

Nonlinear Underwater Acoustics

Chapter 2. Methods of calculation of Nonlinear interactions in sound beams Small parameters used in the calculation of wave interactions Solution of the equations of hydrodynamics by the method of successive approximations Calculation of the secondary field by the Green's function method: The Westervelt formula Estimates of the basic characteristics of parametric radiators by means of nomograms...

Inverse Problems in Underwater Acoustics

The paper presents an overview of the inverse problems associated with applications of underwater acoustics. The problems are classified into four main categories, according to the recoverable quantities : Acoustic source localization, bottom identification, ocean acoustic tomography and target recognition. The paper gives emphasis to the three first categories, and includes methods to solve th...

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A search for a two-body transition Υ (3S) → γA0, where A0 is a light scalar particle, followed by its decay into 2 muons has been performed using a data sample of (121 ± 1.2) × 106 Υ (3S) decays. As ΓΥ (4S)/ΓΥ (3S) ≈ 10 3, one has greater sensitivity to rare decays using Υ (3S) decays than Υ (4S) samples. The Standard Model (SM) predicts the existence of the Higgs boson to account for the diffe...

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