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Pulse Tube Cooler with > 100 m Flexible Lines for Operation of Cryogenic Detector Arrays at Large Radiotelescopes
Large radio and mm–wave telescopes use very sensitive detectors requiring cryogenic cooling to reduce detector noise. Pulse Tubes (PT) cryocoolers are widely used to reach temperatures of a few K, defining the...
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Science and Innovation with Stratospheric Balloons: The Olimpo & Lspe/Swipe Projects
The measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization and the spectral distortions produced on this radiation field by clusters of galaxies (Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect, SZE) are the current front...
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Sensitivity Modeling for LiteBIRD
LiteBIRD is a future satellite mission designed to observe the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation in order to probe the inflationary universe. LiteBIRD is set to observe the sky using three...
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Open AccessA Testbed for Modeling Validation and Characterization of Quasi-optical Elements in Microwave Receivers
We describe the setup for the broadband millimeter/submillimeter characterization of the quasi-optical elements and the dielectric materials commonly used in microwave receivers operated in microwave astronomy...
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Open AccessMISTRAL and its KIDs
The MIllimetric Sardinia radio Telescope Receiver based on Array of Lumped elements KIDs, MISTRAL, is a cryogenic W-band (77–103 GH) LEKID camera which will be integrated at the Gregorian focus of the 64 m ape...
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Open AccessMeasuring CMB Spectral Distortions from Antarctica with COSMO: Blackbody Calibrator Design and Performance Forecast
COSMO is a ground-based instrument to measure the spectral distortions (SD) of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In this paper, we present preliminary results of electromagnetic simulations of its referen...
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QUBIC Experiment Toward the First Light
The Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a cosmology experiment that aims to measure the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Measurements of the primordial B-mode pa...
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Open AccessA New Readout Electronic for Kinetic Inductance Detectors
With this contribution we show the readout electronics for kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) that we are develo** based on commercial IQ transceivers from National Instruments and using a Virtex 5 class FP...
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Optical Characterization of OMT-Coupled TES Bolometers for LiteBIRD
Feedhorn- and orthomode transducer- (OMT) coupled transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers have been designed and micro-fabricated to meet the optical specifications of the LiteBIRD high frequency telescope (HF...
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Self-induced soft-tissue injuries following dental anesthesia in children with and without intellectual disability. A prospective study
Self-induced soft-tissue injuries (SSI) are reported as local anesthesia complications, particularly in children. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the frequency of SSI following dental anesthesia in ch...
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Progress Report on the Large-Scale Polarization Explorer
The large-scale polarization explorer (LSPE) is a cosmology program for the measurement of large-scale curl-like features (B-modes) in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Its goal is to constr...
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QUBIC: Using NbSi TESs with a Bolometric Interferometer to Characterize the Polarization of the CMB
Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is an international ground-based experiment dedicated in the measurement of the polarized fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background. It is based on b...
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TES Bolometer Arrays for the QUBIC B-Mode CMB Experiment
QUBIC is a ground-based experiment aiming to measure the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background. The developed instrument is an innovative two-frequency band bolometric interferometer that will...
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In-Flight Performance of the LEKIDs of the OLIMPO Experiment
We describe the in-flight performance of the horn-coupled lumped element kinetic inductance detector arrays of the balloon-borne OLIMPO experiment. These arrays have been designed to match the spectral bands o...
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SWIPE Multi-mode Pixel Assembly Design and Beam Pattern Measurements at Cryogenic Temperature
In this paper, we present beam pattern tests performed on the SWIPE multi-mode bolometric detector pixel assembly. A 20-mm-aperture horn is coupled to a large detector absorber (10 mm diameter) with a TES sens...
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QUBIC: The Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology
The Q & U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology, QUBIC, is an innovative experiment designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background and in particular the signature left therein by the...
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Open AccessChanges in left ventricular repolarization after short-term testosterone replacement therapy in hypogonadal males
Evidences suggest that androgen deficiency is associated with sudden cardiac death (SCD). Our purpose was to analyse some electrocardiographic (ECG) markers of repolarization phase in hypogonadal patients eith...
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Needle breakage during an inferior alveolar nerve block in a child with KBG syndrome: A case report
Needle breakage during the administration of dental analgesia is an extremely rare event.
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QUBIC: A Fizeau Interferometer Targeting Primordial B-Modes
Q and U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a Fizeau interferometer sensitive to linear polarisation, to be deployed at the Antarctic station of Dome C. This experiment in its final configuratio...
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Open AccessKCa3.1 inhibition switches the phenotype of glioma-infiltrating microglia/macrophages
Among the strategies adopted by glioma to successfully invade the brain parenchyma is turning the infiltrating microglia/macrophages (M/MΦ) into allies, by shifting them toward an anti-inflammatory, pro-tumor ...
