primary hepatic lymphoma (phl) is rare and possibly associated with viral hepatitis and autoimmune diseases. scleroderma could exceptionally be complicated by lymphoma. we describe phl occurring in a 52-year-old female suffering scleroderma for eight years, with no history of cytotoxic or high-dose glucocorticoid therapy. ct scan, performed to work-up abdominal discomfort, constipation, and ele...

where W is a standard Brownian motion, t ∈ [0, T), T ∈ (0,∞), and the constant α > 1/2. Let P α denote the probability distribution of the solution {X t , t ∈ [0, T)} of (1). The α-Brownian bridge is first used to study the arbitrage profit associatedwith a given future contract in the absence of transaction costs by Brennan and Schwartz [1]. α-Brownian bridge is a time inhomogeneous diffusion ...

The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is scheduled to commence operation in 2008 and inclusive searches for supersymmetry (SUSY) will be one of our primary tasks in the first days of LHC operation. It is certain that the final state of “multijets + missing transverse energy” will provide a superior performance in SUSY searches. Strategies to understand the instrumental background and to understa...

The LHCb detector is a forward spectrometer at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The experiment is designed for precision measurements of CP violation and rare decays of beauty and charm hadrons. In this paper the performance of the various LHCb sub-detectors and the trigger system are described, using data taken from 2010 to 2012. It is shown that the design criteria of the experiment h...

We review the search for new physics to be performed at the Large Hadron Collider(LHC). Namely, we review the expectations for the Higgs boson, supersym-metry and exotica detection at LHC. We also describe the main parameters of the CMS and ATLAS detectors.

One of the main goals of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) under construction at CERN is the search for, discovery and measurement of the Higgs boson, the particle associated with the field that can provide a mechanism for electroweak symmetry breaking in the Standard Model. The mass of the Higgs boson is unknown but precise measurements of electroweak processes hint towards a value below 196 GeV...

This paper presents a case study on the challenges of teaching state-of-the-art design to undergraduate students with projects that emulate those encountered in any given company developing commercial semiconductor technology and products. The issues encountered are exposed specifically through the discussion of the development and teaching of a comprehensive first course in Very Large Scale In...