The Dark Argus Butterfly

Population differentiation and conservation of endemic races: the butterfly, Plebejus argus

Five races of the Eurasian silver-studded blue butterfly, Plebejus argus, are restricted to different habitats in north Wales and north-west England. One of these races is extinct, and others are threatened. The four extant forms differ in morphology, habitat, host plant choice, performance on different host plant species and species of associated ant. Some of these differences are maintained i...

The Argus “2002” Architecture

The Argus Vertex Trigger

A fast second level trigger has been developed for the ARGUS experiment which recognizes tracks originating from the interaction region. The processor compares the hits in the ARGUS Micro Vertex Drift Chamber to 245760 masks stored in random access memories. The masks which are fully deened in three dimensions are able to reject tracks originating in the wall of the narrow beampipe of 10.5 mm r...

What Will Argus See?

Investigation of the Flow and Cavitation in a Butterfly Valve

Since knowledge on hydrodynamic torque of a butterfly valve is very important for butterfly valve design, its hydrodynamic torque is investigated in this paper. In reality, the investigation of the loss coefficient and torque from some experiments will take a long time and a lot of money. This paper presents a statistical study of the flow past the butterfly valve in a static analysis using com...