The B-Factory is a high-energy physics project at SLAC that studies the phenomenon of CP violation from collisions between two stored beams; high energy electrons (HER, maximum 12-GeV) and low energy positrons (LER, maximum 4-GeV). Both the HER and LER are located in an underground tunnel of 2200-m-long circumference with a maximum stored current of 3 A. '-The injector consists of the existing ...

Aims. Accurate distances to evolved stars with high mass loss rates are needed for studies of many of their fundamental properties. However, as these stars are heavily obscured and variable, optical and infrared astrometry is unable to provide enough accuracy. Methods. Astrometry using masers in the circumstellar envelopes can be used to overcome this problem. We have observed the OH masers of ...

The literature of English spas has hitherto been meagre in the extreme; but Bath has recently done its best to make up for the deficiency. Book after book has emanated from that city, each in its turn giving an account of the history of the city and its baths, its climate, and the advantages to the invalid from a residence within it. This, the latest of the series, differs from its predecessors...

Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) is an enterovirus in the family Picornaviridae that is significant to human health, being associated with myocarditis, aseptic meningitis, and pancreatitis, among other conditions. In addition to humans, Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys can be infected and killed by CVB3. Here, we report the first complete genome sequence of a novel coxsackievirus B3 strain, SSM-CVB3, which w...