The heavy-ion microbeam is used for targeted irradiation of living cells (in culture) with ions from the UNILAC linear accelerator of GSI [1]. A custom-made epifluorescence microscope is available for beam targeting as well as for observation of proteins (tagged by fluorescent dyes) in sub-compartments of interest. In order to gain better insight into DNA damage repair processes, we intend to e...

This paper considers the Greenspan/Summers/IMF (GSI) argument that the Asian way of doing business was the deep cause of the Asian crisis. The IMF reform programme for the crisis-affected Asian countries suggested they should abandon the Asian business model and adopt the US corporate model. The main findings are: a) contrary to GSI doctrine, poor corporate governance and lack of competition ar...

GSI, Darmstadt, Germany Abstract: Hamamatsu Multi Anode Photomultipliers H8500-03 are currently foreseen as photodetector for the CBM-RICH. To operate the H8500-03 with the nXYter chip, which is a prototype of a future CBM data acquisition readout, the photomultiplier signals have to be strongly attenuated. An attenuator in form of a charge divider has been developed and tested. After laborator...

Microbial ecology has been enhanced greatly by the ongoing 'omics revolution, bringing half the world's biomass and most of its biodiversity into analytical view for the first time; indeed, it feels almost like the invention of the microscope and the discovery of the new world at the same time. With major microbial ecology research efforts accumulating prodigious quantities of sequence, protein...

Database replication protocols have been usually designed in order to support a single isolation level. This paper proposes a middleware protocol able to manage three different isolation levels over multi-version DBMSs: GSI, SI, and serializable. This ensures a better support for applications that demand different isolation levels for their transactions. Additionally, this protocol is also able...

The NuSTAR HISPEC slowed down beams project at GSI/FAIR aims to produce rare isotopes with energies of 10 MeV/u and less. The setup requires tracking and Time of Flight(ToF) information [1]. An energy loss measurement is desirable in order to determine Z of the slowed down fragments. The detector should have a time resolution of ∆T 100 ps, position resolution of the order of a mm and energy res...

We discuss the double-spin asymmetries in transversely polarized Drell-Yan process, calculating all-order gluon resummation corrections up to the next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. This resummation is relevant when the transverse-momentum QT of the produced lepton pair is small, and reproduces the (fixed-order) next-to-leading QCD corrections upon integrating over QT . The resummation correc...

In this paper we report on first results obtained using polycrystalline CVD diamond detectors irradiated with heavily ionizing particles at GSI. At the UNILAC accelerator, ions with energies near the Bragg-Peak have been stopped inside the material whereas at the heavy-ion therapy facility of GSI these detectors are operated in transmission mode and have been studied in a carbon beam from SIS w...

The DoPET project (Dosimetry with a Positron Emission Tomograph) funded by INFN aims to realize an inbeam PET system dedicated [1]. The system has been validated through measurements on PMMA phantoms, in the perspective of clinical application in proton therapy monitoring at CATANA. Differences in proton-induced activity distribution down to 1 mm along the proton range have been appreciated [2]...

Introduction Scanned ion beam techniques proved to be an accurate method in radiation therapy with a high degree of conformity [1]. Since 1997 the carbon ion treatment unit at GSI has treated more than 330 patients with stationary tumours using a raster scanning system. In case of moving organs, however, it is necessary to mitigate interplay between organ motion and scanned beam. In order to ac...