In the American Heart Association–American College of Cardiology and European Society of Cardiology–European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery guidelines, aortic valve replacement (AVR) is considered a class I indication in patients with aortic stenosis (AS) if the stenosis is severe and the patient has symptoms or left ventricular ejection fraction <50%. Hence, accurate assessment of the...

Collisional parton energy loss is revisited within a simple model assuming incoherent elastic scattering of on-shell projectile partons on partonic constituents of the QGP with HTL screening. The thermal motion of plasma particles is carefully taken into account. Results on dE/dx are found to be consistent with other authors. There is a significant discrepancy in the energy loss pattern for the...

Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) is an analytical technique that is based on inelastic scattering of fast electrons in a thin specimen. In a transmission electron microscope (TEM) it can provide structural and chemical information about a specimen, even down to atomic resolution. This review provides an overview of the physical basis and new developments and applications of EELS in scan...

We show that a heavy quark moving sufficiently fast through a quark-gluon plasma may lose energy by Cherenkov-radiating mesons. We demonstrate that this takes place in all strongly coupled, large-N{c} plasmas with a gravity dual. The energy loss is exactly calculable in these models despite being an O(1/N{c}) effect. We discuss implications for heavy-ion collision experiments.

The PEP TPC' is a cylinder two meters long with a radius of one meter filled with argon mixed with 20% methane. The TPC can operate at pressures from one to 10 atmospheres. When a particle traverses the TPC, the electrons liberated by ionization drift parallel to the cylinder axis (z-axis) at about 5 cm per microsecond. lhe detector plane at each end is divided into six sectors, each of which h...

Recently, Barger et al. computed energy losses into Kaluza Klein modes from astrophysical plasmas in the approximation of zero density for the plasmas. We extend their work by considering the effects of finite density for two plasmon processes. Our results show that, for fixed temperature, the energy loss rate per cm3 is constant up to some critical density and then falls exponentially. This is...

The process of combustion in a closed system, such as a cylinder in a piston engine, is executed in three steps: (1) ignition, devoid of any pressure change; (2) the dynamic stage, manifested by distinct pressure rise; and (3) decay, associated with pressure drop. This paper is concerned solely with the second step, exhibiting the dynamic behavior of the system. The effectiveness of the exother...

Aberration correction of the probe forming optics of the scanning transmission electron microscope has allowed the probe-forming aperture to be increased in size, resulting in probes of the order of 1 A in diameter. The next generation of correctors promise even smaller probes. Improved spectrometer optics also offers the possibility of larger electron energy loss spectrometry detectors. The lo...

By means of the nuclear parton distributions which can be used to provide a good explanation for the EMC effect in the whole x range, we investigate the energy loss effect in nuclear Drell-Yan process. When the cross section of lepton pair production is considered varying with the center-of-mass energy of the nucleon-nucleon collision, we find that the nuclear Drell-Yan(DY) ratio is suppressed ...