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Cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells of the body divide very fast, and generate excessive tissue that forms a tumor. Cancer cells are capable of spreading to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph systems. When the uncontrolled cell growth occurs in one or both lungs, it is said to be Lung Cancer. Besides, developing into a healthy, normal lung tissue, these abnormal cells c...

The gravitational wave window onto the universe is expected to open in ~ 5 years, when ground-based detectors make the first detections in the high-frequency regime. Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime produced by the motions of massive objects such as black holes and neutron stars. Since the universe is nearly transparent to gravitational waves, these signals carry direct information ...

A measurement of the absolute collision energy with a relative precision approaching 10 is a critical component of the linear collider physics program. Measurements of the top quark and Higgs boson masses to 50 MeV can only be performed if this level of precision is achieved. The ongoing project described here will carry out the conceptual design of a downstream beam energy spectrometer capable...

We study the effects of renormalization due to hidden-sector dynamics on observable soft supersymmetry-breaking parameters in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM), under various hypotheses about their universality at a high input scale. We show that hidden-sector renormalization effects may induce the spurious appearance of unification of the scalar masses at some l...