Injection efficiency is one of the key factors in ensuring successful operation of storage ring light sources. In this paper, injection simulation and measurement studies at the Advanced Photon Source will be presented. The tracking simulations and measurements are compared in terms of the dynamic aperture and injection efficiency. Injection efficiency is also measured on the betatron tunes spa...

The study of resonances in √ s = 7 TeV pp collisions provides a test of QCD in a new energy domain as well as a baseline for heavy-ion collisions. The resonances K∗(892)0, φ(1020), Σ(1385)±, Λ(1520), and Ξ(1530)0 have been reconstructed at midrapidity from their hadronic decay using data collected by the ALICE detector. The comparison of φ(1020) and Σ(1385) pT-spectra to QCD-inspired models suc...

This paper describes a method for using intonation to reduce word error rate in a speech recognition system designed to recognise spontaneous dialogue speech. We use a form of dialogue analysis based on the theory of conversational games. Different move types under this analysis conform to different language models. Different move types are also characterised by different intonational tunes. Ou...