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Vaidyanathan A, Gates A, Brown C, Prezzato E, Bernstein A. Heat-Related Emergency Department Visits - United States, May-September 2023. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2024; 73:324-329. [PMID: 38635484 PMCID: PMC11037437 DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7315a1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/20/2024]
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Unprecedented heat waves can affect all persons, but some are more sensitive to the effects of heat, including children and adults with underlying health conditions, pregnant women, and outdoor workers. Many regions of the United States experienced record-breaking high temperatures in 2023, with populations exposed to extremely high temperatures for prolonged periods. CDC examined emergency department (ED) visits associated with heat-related illness (HRI) from the National Syndromic Surveillance Program and compared daily HRI ED visit rates during the warm-season months (May-September) of 2023 with those during 2018-2022. In the 2023 warm-season months, daily HRI ED visit rates peaked in several regions and remained elevated for a prolonged duration. More males than females sought care in EDs for HRI, especially males aged 18-64 years. CDC issued multiple public health alerts using the Epidemic Information Exchange system to bring attention to increases in ED utilization for HRI. Deaths and illnesses associated with heat exposure are a continuing public health concern as climate change results in longer, hotter, and more frequent episodes of extreme heat. Near real-time monitoring of weather conditions and adverse health outcomes can guide public health practitioners' timing of risk communication and implementation of prevention measures associated with extreme heat.
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Finkelstein JB, Hauptman M, Acosta K, Flanagan S, Cahill D, Smith B, Bernstein A, Shah SH, Kaur R, Meyers H, Shah AS, Meara JG, Estrada CR. Environmental Impact of a Pediatric and Young Adult Virtual Medicine Program: A Lesson from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Acad Pediatr 2024; 24:408-416. [PMID: 37499794 PMCID: PMC10809144 DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2023.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Revised: 07/16/2023] [Accepted: 07/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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OBJECTIVES The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to the expansion of virtual medicine as a method to provide patient care. We aimed to determine the impact of pediatric and young adult virtual medicine use on fossil fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, and nongreenhouse traffic-related air pollutant emissions. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of all virtual medicine patients at a single quaternary-care children's hospital with a geocoded address in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts prior to (March 16, 2019-March 15, 2020) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (March 16, 2020-March 15, 2021). Primary outcomes included patient travel distance, gasoline consumption, carbon dioxide and fine particulate matter emissions as well as savings in main hospital energy use. RESULTS There were 3,846 and 307,273 virtual visits performed with valid Massachusetts geocoded addresses prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, respectively. During 1 year of the pandemic, virtual medicine services resulted in a total reduction of 620,231 gallons of fossil fuel use and $1,620,002 avoided expenditure as well as 5,492.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide and 186.3 kg of fine particulate matter emitted. There were 3.1 million fewer kilowatt hours used by the hospital intrapandemic compared to the year prior. Accounting for equipment emissions, the combined intrapandemic emission reductions are equivalent to the electricity required by 1,234 homes for 1 year. CONCLUSIONS Widespread pediatric institutional use of virtual medicine provided environmental benefits. The true potential of virtual medicine for decreasing the environmental footprint of health care lies in scaling this mode of care to patient groups across the state and nation when medically feasible.
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- Julia B Finkelstein
- Department of Urology (JB Finkelstein and CR Estrada), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Surgery (JB Finkelstein, CR Estrada, and JG Meara), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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- Division of General Pediatrics (M Hauptman, K Acosta, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, and SH Shah), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Pediatrics (M Hauptman, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, and SH Shah), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (M Hauptman, K Acosta, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, SH Shah), Boston, Mass.
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- Division of General Pediatrics (M Hauptman, K Acosta, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, and SH Shah), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (M Hauptman, K Acosta, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, SH Shah), Boston, Mass
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- Division of General Pediatrics (M Hauptman, K Acosta, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, and SH Shah), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Pediatrics (M Hauptman, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, and SH Shah), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (M Hauptman, K Acosta, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, SH Shah), Boston, Mass
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- Department of Engineering (B Smith), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass
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- Division of General Pediatrics (M Hauptman, K Acosta, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, and SH Shah), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Pediatrics (M Hauptman, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, and SH Shah), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (M Hauptman, K Acosta, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, SH Shah), Boston, Mass; Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) (A Bernstein), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass
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- Division of General Pediatrics (M Hauptman, K Acosta, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, and SH Shah), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Pediatrics (M Hauptman, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, and SH Shah), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (M Hauptman, K Acosta, S Flanagan, A Bernstein, SH Shah), Boston, Mass
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- Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (R Kaur and H Meyers), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass
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- Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (R Kaur and H Meyers), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Ophthalmology (AS Shah), Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Surgery (JB Finkelstein, CR Estrada, and JG Meara), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Department of Plastic & Oral Surgery (JG Meara), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Urology (JB Finkelstein and CR Estrada), Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass; Department of Surgery (JB Finkelstein, CR Estrada, and JG Meara), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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Ahdoot S, Baum CR, Cataletto MB, Hogan P, Wu CB, Bernstein A. Climate Change and Children's Health: Building a Healthy Future for Every Child. Pediatrics 2024; 153:e2023065504. [PMID: 38374809 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2023-065504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 02/21/2024] Open
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The warming of our planet matters to every child. Driven by fossil fuel-generated greenhouse gas emissions, climate conditions stable since the founding of modern pediatrics in the mid-nineteenth century have shifted, and old certainties are falling away. Children's physical and mental health are threatened by climate change through its effects on temperature, precipitation, and extreme weather; ecological disruption; and community disruption. These impacts expose and amplify existing inequities and create unprecedented intergenerational injustice. Fossil fuel extraction and combustion cause harm today and reach centuries into the future, jeopardizing the health, safety, and prosperity of today's children and future generations. Appreciating the unique vulnerability of their patients, pediatricians have become leading health advocates for climate actions necessary to protect all living and future children. Policies that reduce reliance on fossil fuels and promote cleaner air, facilitate walking and bicycling, encourage more sustainable diets, increase access to nature, and develop more connected communities lead to immediate gains in child health and equity, and build a foundation for generations of children to thrive.
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- Samantha Ahdoot
- University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, New York University Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, New York
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- Pediatric Residency Program, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- O'Neill Center for Global and National Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, and Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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Ahdoot S, Baum CR, Cataletto MB, Hogan P, Wu CB, Bernstein A. Climate Change and Children's Health: Building a Healthy Future for Every Child. Pediatrics 2024; 153:e2023065505. [PMID: 38374808 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2023-065505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 02/21/2024] Open
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Observed changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, sea level, and extreme weather are destabilizing major determinants of human health. Children are at higher risk of climate-related health burdens than adults because of their unique behavior patterns; developing organ systems and physiology; greater exposure to air, food, and water contaminants per unit of body weight; and dependence on caregivers. Climate change harms children through numerous pathways, including air pollution, heat exposure, floods and hurricanes, food insecurity and nutrition, changing epidemiology of infections, and mental health harms. As the planet continues to warm, climate change's impacts will worsen, threatening to define the health and welfare of children at every stage of their lives. Children who already bear higher burden of disease because of living in low-wealth households and communities, lack of access to high quality education, and experiencing racism and other forms of unjust discrimination bear greater risk of suffering from climate change hazards. Climate change solutions, advanced through collaborative work of pediatricians, health systems, communities, corporations, and governments lead to immediate gains in child health and equity and build a foundation for generations of children to thrive. This technical report reviews the nature of climate change and its associated child health effects and supports the recommendations in the accompanying policy statement on climate change and children's health.
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- Samantha Ahdoot
- University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, New York University Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, New York
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- Pediatric Residency Program, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- O'Neill Center for Global and National Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, and Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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Vora NM, Hassan L, Plowright RK, Horton R, Cook S, Sizer N, Bernstein A. The Lancet-PPATS Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover: reducing the risk of pandemics through primary prevention. Lancet 2024; 403:597-599. [PMID: 37837991 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)01064-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 10/16/2023]
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- Neil M Vora
- Conservation International, Arlington, VA 22202, USA; Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Preventing Pandemics at the Source, Washington, DC, USA
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- Preventing Pandemics at the Source, Washington, DC, USA
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Stowell JD, Sun Y, Gause EL, Spangler KR, Schwartz J, Bernstein A, Wellenius GA, Nori-Sarma A. Warm season ambient ozone and children's health in the USA. Int J Epidemiol 2024; 53:dyae035. [PMID: 38553030 PMCID: PMC10980558 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyae035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Over 120 million people in the USA live in areas with unsafe ozone (O3) levels. Studies among adults have linked exposure to worse lung function and higher risk of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, few studies have examined the effects of O3 in children, and existing studies are limited in terms of their geographic scope or outcomes considered. METHODS We leveraged a dataset of encounters at 42 US children's hospitals from 2004-2015. We used a one-stage case-crossover design to quantify the association between daily maximum 8-hour O3 in the county in which the hospital is located and risk of emergency department (ED) visits for any cause and for respiratory disorders, asthma, respiratory infections, allergies and ear disorders. RESULTS Approximately 28 million visits were available during this period. Per 10 ppb increase, warm-season (May through September) O3 levels over the past three days were associated with higher risk of ED visits for all causes (risk ratio [RR]: 0.3% [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.2%, 0.4%]), allergies (4.1% [2.5%, 5.7%]), ear disorders (0.8% [0.3%, 1.3%]) and asthma (1.3% [0.8%, 1.9%]). When restricting to levels below the current regulatory standard (70 ppb), O3 was still associated with risk of ED visits for all-cause, allergies, ear disorders and asthma. Stratified analyses suggest that the risk of O3-related all-cause ED visits may be higher in older children. CONCLUSIONS Results from this national study extend prior research on the impacts of daily O3 on children's health and reinforce the presence of important adverse health impacts even at levels below the current regulatory standard in the USA.
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- Jennifer D Stowell
- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Chang YY, Gulley JR, Li Z, Welch J, Zgadzaj R, Bernstein A, Downer MC. Single-shot observation of nonlinear pulse splitting in a Kerr medium. Opt Lett 2024; 49:73-76. [PMID: 38134157 DOI: 10.1364/ol.503170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
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We report single-shot, time-resolved observation of self-steepening and temporal splitting of near-infrared, 50 fs, micro-joule pulses propagating nonlinearly in flint (SF11) glass. A coherent, smooth-profiled, 60-nm-bandwidth probe pulse that propagated obliquely to the main pulse through the Kerr medium recorded a time sequence of longitudinal projections of the main pulse's induced refractive index profile in the form of a phase-shift "streak," in which frequency-domain interferometry recovered with ∼10 fs temporal resolution. A three-dimensional simulation based on a unidirectional pulse propagation equation reproduced observed pulse profiles.
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Bole A, Bernstein A, White MJ. The Built Environment and Pediatric Health. Pediatrics 2024; 153:e2023064773. [PMID: 38105697 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2023-064773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023] Open
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Buildings, parks, and roads are all elements of the "built environment," which can be described as the human-made structures that comprise the neighborhoods and communities where people live, work, learn, and recreate (https://www.epa.gov/smm/basic-information-about-built-environment). The design of communities where children and adolescents live, learn, and play has a profound impact on their health. Moreover, the policies and practices that determine community design and the built environment are a root cause of disparities in the social determinants of health that contribute to health inequity. An understanding of the links between the built environment and pediatric health will help to inform pediatricians' and other pediatric health professionals' care for patients and advocacy on their behalf. This technical report describes the range of pediatric physical and mental health conditions influenced by the built environment, as well as historical and persistent effects of the built environment on health disparities. The accompanying policy statement outlines community design solutions that can improve pediatric health and health equity, including opportunities for pediatricians and the health care sector to incorporate this knowledge in patient care, as well as to play a role in advancing a health-promoting built environment for all children and families.
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- Aparna Bole
- Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, and Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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Buildings, parks, and roads are all elements of the "built environment," which can be described as the human-made structures that comprise the neighborhoods and communities where people live, work, learn, and recreate (https://www.epa.gov/smm/basic-information-about-built-environment). The design of communities where children and adolescents live, learn, and play has a profound impact on their health. Moreover, the policies and practices that determine community design and the built environment are a root cause of disparities in the social determinants of health that contribute to health inequity. An understanding of the links between the built environment and pediatric health will help to inform pediatricians' and other pediatric health care professionals' care for patients and advocacy on their behalf. This policy statement outlines community design solutions that can improve pediatric physical and mental health, and improve health equity. It describes opportunities for pediatricians and the health care sector to incorporate this knowledge in patient care, as well as to play a role in advancing a health-promoting built environment for all children and families. The accompanying technical report reviews the range of pediatric physical and mental health conditions influenced by the built environment, as well as historical and persistent effects of the built environment on health disparities.
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- Aparna Bole
- Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, and Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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Parker EB, Bluman A, Pruneski J, Soens W, Bernstein A, Smith JT, Bluman EM. American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Annual Meeting All-in-person Attendance Results in Immense Carbon Expenditure. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2023; 481:2469-2480. [PMID: 37493467 PMCID: PMC10642890 DOI: 10.1097/corr.0000000000002764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND Professional society conferences are integral to the medical profession. However, airline travel is a major contributor to greenhouse gas production, and the environmental impact of in-person attendance at an orthopaedic conference has yet to be described. With growing concern about the climate crisis, we sought to quantify the carbon footprint of in-person attendance to help potential attendees more consciously consider in-person attendance, inform strategies to minimize greenhouse gas emissions during travel to annual meetings, and increase awareness about and momentum for efforts in orthopaedic surgery to reduce the carbon footprint of society conferences. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES (1) What was the magnitude of greenhouse gas production resulting from all-in-person 2019 American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) annual meeting attendance in Chicago, IL, USA? (2) What was the magnitude of greenhouse gas production resulting from the all-virtual 2020 AOFAS annual meeting, and how does it compare with the 2019 AOFAS annual meeting carbon footprint? (3) To what extent could an alternative in-person meeting model with four or seven hubs decrease greenhouse gas production resulting from round-trip air travel compared with the 2019 AOFAS annual meeting? METHODS A list of the postal codes and countries of all 1271 registered participants attending the four-day 2019 AOFAS annual meeting in Chicago, IL, USA, was obtained from AOFAS headquarters. The 2019 conference was chosen because it was the last pre-COVID meeting and thus attendance was more likely to resemble that at prepandemic in-person conferences than more recent meetings because of pandemic travel restrictions. We estimated carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO 2 e) production from round-trip air travel using a publicly available internet-based calculator (Myclimate: https://co2.myclimate.org/en/flight_calculators/new ). Emissions produced by the conference venue, car travel, and hotel stays were estimated using published Environmental Protection Agency emission factors. To estimate emissions produced by the all-virtual 2020 AOFAS annual meeting (assuming an equal number of attendees as in 2019), we used the framework published by Faber and summed estimated network data transfer emissions, personal computer and monitor emissions, and server-related emissions. Using the 2019 registrant list, we modeled four-hub and seven-hub in-person meeting alternatives to determine potential decreased round-trip air travel greenhouse gas production. Meeting hub locations were selected by visualizing the geographic distribution of the 2019 registrants and selecting reasonable meeting locations that would minimize air travel for the greatest number of attendees. Registrants were assigned to the nearest hub location. Myclimate was again used to estimate CO 2 e production for round-trip air travel for the hub meeting models. RESULTS The total estimated emissions of the all-in-person 2019 AOFAS annual meeting (when accounting for travel, conference space, and hotel stays) was 1565 tons CO 2 e (median 0.61 tons per attendee, range 0.02 to 7.7 tons). The total estimated emissions of the all-virtual 2020 meeting (when accounting for network data transfer emissions, personal computer and monitor emissions, and server-related emissions) was 34 tons CO 2 e (median 0.03 tons per attendee). This corresponds to a 97.8% decrease in CO 2 e emissions compared with the in-person conference. The model of a four-hub in-person meeting alternative with meetings in Chicago, Santiago, London, and Tokyo predicted an estimated 54% decrease in CO 2 e emissions from round-trip air travel. The seven-hub meeting model with meetings in Chicago; Washington, DC; Dallas; Los Angeles; Santiago; London; and Tokyo was predicted to diminish the CO 2 e emissions of round-trip air travel by an estimated 71%. CONCLUSION The 2019 AOFAS annual meeting had an enormous carbon footprint and resulted in many individuals exceeding their annual allotted carbon budget (2.5 tons) according to the Paris Agreement. Hosting the meeting virtually greatly reduced the annual meeting carbon footprint, and our hub-based meeting models identified potential in-person alternatives for reducing the carbon footprint of conference attendance. CLINICAL RELEVANCE Professional societies must consider our responsibility to decarbonizing the healthcare sector by considering innovative approaches-perhaps such as our multihub proposals-to decarbonize carbon-intensive annual meetings without stalling academic progress.
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- Emily B. Parker
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Katznelson E, Cascio WE, Bernstein A, Chaudhary R, Al-Roub N, Liu CL, Young D, McNichol M, Mickley L, Kramer DB, Rice M, Kazi D. CLIMATE CHANGE AND CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. J Am Coll Cardiol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(23)02776-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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Stowell JD, Sun Y, Spangler KR, Milando CW, Bernstein A, Weinberger KR, Sun S, Wellenius GA. Warm-season temperatures and emergency department visits among children with health insurance. Environ Res Health 2023; 1:015002. [PMID: 36337257 PMCID: PMC9623446 DOI: 10.1088/2752-5309/ac78fa] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2022] [Revised: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/15/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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High ambient temperatures have become more likely due to climate change and are linked to higher rates of heat-related illness, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, mental health disorders, and other diseases. To date, far fewer studies have examined the effects of high temperatures on children versus adults, and studies including children have seldom been conducted on a national scale. Compared to adults, children have behavioral and physiological differences that may give them differential heat vulnerability. We acquired medical claims data from a large database of commercially insured US children aged 0-17 from May to September (warm-season) 2016-2019. Daily maximum ambient temperature and daily mean relative humidity estimates were aggregated to the county level using the Parameter-elevation Relationships on Independent Slopes dataset, and extreme heat was defined as the 95th percentile of the county-specific daily maximum temperature distribution. Using a case-crossover design and temperature lags 0-5 days, we estimated the associations between extreme heat and cause-specific emergency department visits (ED) in children aged <18 years, using the median county-specific daily maximum temperature distribution as the reference. Approximately 1.2 million ED visits in children from 2489 US counties were available during the study period. The 95th percentile of warm-season temperatures ranged from 71 °F to 112 °F (21.7 °C to 44.4 °C). Comparing 95th to the 50th percentile, extreme heat was associated with higher rates of ED visits for heat-related illness; endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases; and otitis media and externa, but not for all-cause admissions. Subgroup analyses suggested differences by age, with extreme heat positively associated with heat-related illness for both the 6-12 year (odds ratio [OR]: 1.34, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.16, 1.56) and 13-17 year age groups (OR: 1.55, 95% CI: 1.37, 1.76). Among children with health insurance across the US, days of extreme heat were associated with higher rates of healthcare utilization. These results highlight the importance of individual and population-level actions to protect children and adolescents from extreme heat, particularly in the context of continued climate change.
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- Jennifer D Stowell
- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Optum Labs Visiting Scholar, Eden Prairie, MN, United States of America
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Optum Labs Visiting Scholar, Eden Prairie, MN, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Optum Labs Visiting Scholar, Eden Prairie, MN, United States of America
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Huerta-Montañez G, Bernstein A. Children, Climate Justice, and Lessons From Puerto Rico. JAMA Pediatr 2023; 177:13-15. [PMID: 36383470 DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.5143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.,Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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Degasperi A, Zou X, Amarante TD, Martinez-Martinez A, Koh GCC, Dias JML, Heskin L, Chmelova L, Rinaldi G, Wang VYW, Nanda AS, Bernstein A, Momen SE, Young J, Perez-Gil D, Memari Y, Badja C, Shooter S, Czarnecki J, Brown MA, Davies HR, Nik-Zainal S. Substitution mutational signatures in whole-genome-sequenced cancers in the UK population. Science 2022; 376:science.abl9283. [PMID: 35949260 PMCID: PMC7613262 DOI: 10.1126/science.abl9283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) permits comprehensive cancer genome analyses, revealing mutational signatures, imprints of DNA damage and repair processes that have arisen in each patient's cancer. We performed mutational signature analyses on 12,222 WGS tumor-normal matched pairs, from patients recruited via the UK National Health Service. We contrasted our results to two independent cancer WGS datasets, the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) and Hartwig Foundation, involving 18,640 WGS cancers in total. Our analyses add 40 single and 18 double substitution signatures to the current mutational signature tally. Critically, we show for each organ, that cancers have a limited number of 'common' signatures and a long tail of 'rare' signatures. We provide a practical solution for utilizing this concept of common versus rare signatures in future analyses.
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- Andrea Degasperi
- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Genomics England, Queen Mary University of London, Dawson Hall, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
- Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London SE19RT, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 9NB, UK
- MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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Sullivan JK, Lowe KE, Gordon IO, Colbert CY, Salas RN, Bernstein A, Utech J, Natowicz MR, Mehta N, Isaacson JH. Climate Change and Medical Education: An Integrative Model. Acad Med 2022; 97:188-192. [PMID: 34432714 DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000004376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Medical schools face a challenge when trying to include new topics, such as climate change and health (CCH), in their curricula because of competing demands from more traditional biomedical content. At the same time, an understanding of CCH topics is crucial for physicians as they have clear implications for clinical practice and health care delivery. Although some medical schools have begun to incorporate CCH into curricula, the inclusion usually lacks a comprehensive framework for content and implementation. The authors propose a model for integrating CCH into medical school curricula using a practical, multistakeholder approach designed to mitigate competition for time with existing content by weaving meaningful CCH examples into current curricular activities. After the authors identified stakeholders to include in their curricular development working group, this working group determined the goals and desired outcomes of the curriculum; aligned those outcomes with the school's framework of educational objectives, competencies, and milestones; and strove to integrate CCH goals into as many existing curricular settings as possible. This article includes an illustration of the proposed model for one of the curricular goals (understanding the impacts of climate change on communities), with examples from the CCH curriculum integration that began in the fall of 2020 at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. The authors have found that this approach does minimize competition for time with existing content and allows mapping of content to existing curricular competencies and milestones, while encouraging a broad understanding of CCH in the context of individual patients, populations, and communities. This model for curricular integration can be applied to other topics such as social determinants of health, health equity, disability studies, and structural racism.
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- James K Sullivan
- J.K. Sullivan is a third-year medical student, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5853-1590
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- K.E. Lowe is a third-year medical student, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4111-1789
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- I.O. Gordon is medical director, Cleveland Clinic Sustainability, and associate professor of pathology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1893-7200
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- C.Y. Colbert is director, Office of Educator and Scholar Development, Cleveland Clinic, and associate professor of medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2608-7218
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- R.N. Salas is a Yerby Fellow, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, affiliated faculty, Harvard Global Health Institute, and assistant professor of emergency medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- A. Bernstein is director, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and assistant professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- J. Utech is senior director, Cleveland Clinic Sustainability, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- M.R. Natowicz is professor of pathology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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- N. Mehta is professor of medicine and associate dean, Curricular Affairs, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8342-4252
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- J.H. Isaacson is professor of medicine and executive dean, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6791-7898
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Senay E, Bernstein A, Shephard P, Salas R, Rizzo A, Sherman J, Richardson L, Butts G, Marwah H, Solomon C, Galvez M, Thanik E, Pezeshki G, Zajac L, Lee A, Sheffield P, Wright R. Improving Patient Outcomes in the Dual Crises of Climate Change and COVID-19: Proceedings of the Third Annual Clinical Climate Change Meeting, January 8, 2021. J Occup Environ Med 2021; 63:e813-e818. [PMID: 34354022 PMCID: PMC8842883 DOI: 10.1097/jom.0000000000002345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The tremendous global toll of the COVID-19 pandemic does not fall equally on all populations. Indeed, this crisis has exerted more severe impacts on the most vulnerable communities, spotlighting the continued consequences of longstanding structural, social, and healthcare inequities. This disparity in COVID-19 parallels the unequal health consequences of climate change, whereby underlying inequities perpetuate adverse health outcomes disproportionately among vulnerable populations. As these two crises continue to unfold, there is an urgent need for healthcare practitioners to identify and implement solutions to mitigate adverse health outcomes, especially in the face of global crises. To support this need, the 2021 Clinical Climate Change Conference held a virtual meeting to discuss the implications of the convergence of the climate crisis and COVID-19, particularly for vulnerable patient populations and the clinicians who care for them. Presenters and panelists provided evidence-based solutions to help health professionals improve and adapt their practice to these evolving scenarios. Together, participants explored the community health system and national solutions to reduce the impacts of COVID-19 and the climate crisis, to promote community advocacy, and foster new partnerships between community and healthcare leaders to combat systemic racism and achieve a more just and equitable society.
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- Emily Senay
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
- Department of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
- Population Health Science & Policy, Institute for Health Equity Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Diversity Programs, Policy, and Community Affairs, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, NY
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Departments of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, and Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
- Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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Kruse ML, Patel M, McManus J, Chung YM, Li X, Wei W, Bazeley PS, Nakamura F, Hardaway A, Downs E, Chandarlapaty S, Thomas M, Moore HC, Budd GT, Tang WHW, Hazen SL, Bernstein A, Nik-Zainal S, Abraham J, Sharifi N. Adrenal-permissive HSD3B1 genetic inheritance and risk of estrogen-driven postmenopausal breast cancer. JCI Insight 2021; 6:e150403. [PMID: 34520399 PMCID: PMC8564898 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.150403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Genetics of estrogen synthesis and breast cancer risk has been elusive. The 1245A→C missense-encoding polymorphism in HSD3B1, which is common in White populations, is functionally adrenal permissive and increases synthesis of the aromatase substrate androstenedione. We hypothesized that homozygous inheritance of the adrenal-permissive HSD3B1(1245C) is associated with postmenopausal estrogen receptor–positive (ER-positive) breast cancer. METHODS A prospective study of postmenopausal ER-driven breast cancer was done for determination of HSD3B1 and circulating steroids. Validation was performed in 2 other cohorts. Adrenal-permissive genotype frequency was compared between postmenopausal ER-positive breast cancer, the general population, and postmenopausal ER-negative breast cancer. RESULTS Prospective and validation studies had 157 and 538 patients, respectively, for the primary analysis of genotype frequency by ER status in White female breast cancer patients who were postmenopausal at diagnosis. The adrenal-permissive genotype frequency in postmenopausal White women with estrogen-driven breast cancer in the prospective cohort was 17.5% (21/120) compared with 5.4% (2/37) for ER-negative breast cancer (P = 0.108) and 9.6% (429/4451) in the general population (P = 0.0077). Adrenal-permissive genotype frequency for estrogen-driven postmenopausal breast cancer was validated using Cambridge and The Cancer Genome Atlas data sets: 14.4% (56/389) compared with 6.0% (9/149) for ER-negative breast cancer (P = 0.007) and the general population (P = 0.005). Circulating androstenedione concentration was higher with the adrenal-permissive genotype (P = 0.03). CONCLUSION Adrenal-permissive genotype is associated with estrogen-driven postmenopausal breast cancer. These findings link genetic inheritance of endogenous estrogen exposure to estrogen-driven breast cancer. FUNDING National Cancer Institute, NIH (R01CA236780, R01CA172382, and P30-CA008748); and Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Award.
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- Megan L Kruse
- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute
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- GU Malignancies Research Center, Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute
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- GU Malignancies Research Center, Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute
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- GU Malignancies Research Center, Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute
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- GU Malignancies Research Center, Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute
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- Cancer Biostatistics Section, Taussig Cancer Institute
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute; and
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- GU Malignancies Research Center, Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute
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- GU Malignancies Research Center, Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute
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- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute
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- Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, and Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, and Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Academic Department of Medical Genetics, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute.,GU Malignancies Research Center, Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute
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Vora NM, Sizer N, Bernstein A. Preventing spillover as a key strategy against pandemics. Nature 2021; 597:332. [PMID: 34522012 DOI: 10.1038/d41586-021-02427-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Caniglia EC, Abrams J, Diseko M, Mayondi G, Mabuta J, Makhema J, Mmalane M, Lockman S, Bernstein A, Zash R, Shapiro R. Seasonality of adverse birth outcomes in women with and without HIV in a representative birth outcomes surveillance study in Botswana. BMJ Open 2021; 11:e045882. [PMID: 34479931 PMCID: PMC8420660 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of people with HIV, one of the most severe burdens of adverse birth outcomes globally and particular vulnerability to climate change. We examined associations between seasonality and adverse birth outcomes among women with and without HIV in a large geographically representative birth outcomes surveillance study in Botswana from 2015 to 2018. METHODS We evaluated stillbirth, preterm delivery, very preterm delivery, small for gestational age (SGA), very SGA, and combined endpoints of any adverse or severe birth outcome. We estimated the risk of each outcome by month and year of delivery, and adjusted risks ratios (ARRs) of outcomes during the early wet (1 November-15 January), late wet (16 January-31 March) and early dry (1 April-15 July) seasons, compared with the late dry (16 July-31 October) season. Analyses were conducted overall and separately by HIV status. RESULTS Among 73 178 women (24% with HIV), the risk of all adverse birth outcomes peaked in November-January and reached low points in September. Compared with the late dry season, the ARRs for any adverse birth outcome were 1.03 (95% CI 1.00 to 1.06) for the early dry season, 1.08 (95% CI 1.04 to 1.11) for the early wet season and 1.07 (95% CI 1.03 to 1.10) for the late wet season. Comparing the early wet season to the late dry season, we found that ARRs for stillbirth and very preterm delivery were higher in women with HIV (1.23, 95% CI 0.96 to 1.59, and 1.33, 95% CI 1.10 to 1.62, respectively) than in women without HIV (1.07, 95% CI 0.91 to 1.26, and 1.19, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.36, respectively). CONCLUSIONS We identified a modest association between seasonality and adverse birth outcomes in Botswana, which was greatest among women with HIV. Understanding seasonal patterns of adverse birth outcomes and the role of HIV status may allow for mitigation of their impact in the face of seasonal extremes related to climate change.
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- Ellen C Caniglia
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York, USA
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- Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana
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- Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana
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- Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana
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- Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana
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- Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana
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- Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana
- Department of Infectious Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, BIDMC, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana
- Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Landrigan PJ, Bernstein A. Commentary: Epidemiology, economics and the path to clean energy. Int J Epidemiol 2021; 49:1896-1898. [PMID: 33349840 PMCID: PMC7825938 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyaa224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Philip J Landrigan
- Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Despite the urgency of the climate crisis and mounting evidence linking climate change to child health harms, pediatricians do not routinely engage with climate change in the office. Each primary care visit offers opportunities to screen for and support children burdened with risks to health that are increasingly intense due to climate change. Routine promotion of healthy behaviors also aligns with some needed-and powerful-solutions to the climate crisis. For some patients, including those engaged in athletics, those with asthma and allergies, or those with complex healthcare needs, preparedness for environmental risks and disasters worsened by climate change is a critical component of disease prevention and management. For all patients, anticipatory guidance topics that are already mainstays of pediatric best practices are related closely to needed guidance to keep children safe and promote health in the setting of compounding risks due to climate change. By considering climate change in routine care, pediatricians will be updating practice to align with evidence-based literature and better serving patients. This article provides a framework for pediatricians to provide climate-informed primary care during the structure of pediatric well child and other visits.
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- Rebecca Pass Philipsborn
- Division of General Pediatrics and Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory University, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Pediatrics, Boston University, 401 Park Drive, 4th Floor West, Boston, MA 02215, United States
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- Division of General Academic Pediatrics, UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States
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- Division of Academic General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States
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- Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA and Harvard Global Health Institute, Cambridge, MA, United States.
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Sharifi N, Kruse ML, McManus J, Chung YM, Wei W, Bazeley P, Nakamura F, Hardaway A, Downs Kelley E, Chandarlapaty S, Thomas M, Moore HCF, Budd GT, Tang WHW, Hazen SL, Bernstein A, Nik-Zainal S, Abraham J. Adrenal-permissive HSD3B1 genetic inheritance and risk of estrogen-driven postmenopausal breast cancer. J Clin Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2021.39.15_suppl.10503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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10503 Background: Genetic factors that contribute to endogenous estrogen synthesis and postmenopausal breast cancer risk are unknown. We set out to test the hypothesis that homozygous inheritance of the common 1245A→C missense-encoding polymorphism in HSD3B1, which is common (8-10%) in White populations, functionally adrenal permissive and increases synthesis of the aromatase substrate, androstenedione, is associated with postmenopausal estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Methods: A prospective single institution study of postmenopausal estrogen receptor-driven breast cancer for determination of HSD3B1 genotype, circulating steroid concentrations, and adrenal-permissive genotype frequency compared with the genotype frequency in the general population and in estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer. Validation was performed in 2 breast cancer genomic studies with estrogen receptor documentation. The primary outcome is the adrenal-permissive genotype frequency in postmenopausal estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer and the general population. Genotype comparisons were also done with postmenopausal estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer and the association with circulating adrenal androgen concentrations determined. Results: The prospective and validation studies had 199 and 1628 women, respectively. The adrenal-permissive genotype frequency in postmenopausal White women with estrogen-driven breast cancer in the prospective cohort was 17.5% (21/120) compared with 9.6% (429/4451) in the general population [p = 0.0077]. The adrenal-permissive genotype frequency for estrogen-driven postmenopausal breast cancer was validated using the Cambridge and TCGA genomic datasets together: 14.4% (56/389) compared with 6.0% (9/149) for estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer (p = 0.007) and the general population (p = 0.005). Circulating androstenedione concentration was significantly higher for women with the adrenal-permissive genotype compared with the other genotypes (p = 0.03). Conclusions: The adrenal-permissive genotype is associated with estrogen-driven postmenopausal breast cancer. These findings link genetic inheritance of endogenous estrogen exposure to estrogen-driven breast cancer and have broad implications for risk stratification, prevention, potential biomarkers for hormonal therapy response and possibly other clinical outcomes related to estrogen physiology in postmenopausal women.
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- Department of Hematology/Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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Philipsborn RP, Sheffield P, White A, Osta A, Anderson MS, Bernstein A. Climate Change and the Practice of Medicine: Essentials for Resident Education. Acad Med 2021; 96:355-367. [PMID: 32910006 DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000003719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Despite calls for including content on climate change and its effect on health in curricula across the spectrum of medical education, no widely used resource exists to guide residency training programs in this effort. This lack of resources poses challenges for training program leaders seeking to incorporate evidence-based climate and health content into their curricula. Climate change increases risks of heat-related illness, infections, asthma, mental health disorders, poor perinatal outcomes, adverse experiences from trauma and displacement, and other harms. More numerous and increasingly dangerous natural disasters caused by climate change impair delivery of care by disrupting supply chains and compromising power supplies. Graduating trainees face a knowledge gap in understanding, managing, and mitigating these many-faceted consequences of climate change, which-expected to intensify in coming decades-will influence both the health of their patients and the health care they deliver. In this article, the authors propose a framework of climate change and health educational content for residents, including how climate change (1) harms health, (2) necessitates adaptation in clinical practice, and (3) undermines health care delivery. The authors propose not only learning objectives linked to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies for resident education but also learning formats and assessment strategies in each content area. They also present opportunities for implementation of climate and health education in residency training programs. Including this content in residency education will better prepare doctors to deliver anticipatory guidance to at-risk patients, manage those experiencing climate-related health effects, and reduce care disruptions during climate-driven extreme weather events.
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- Rebecca Pass Philipsborn
- R.P. Philipsborn is assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics and Emory Global Health Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2843-7509
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- P. Sheffield is assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, New York; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9156-1193
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- A. White is James P. Keating Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9394-7823
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- A. Osta is associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics and division chief for education, Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois, and was, at the time of this research, director, Pediatric Residency Program, UI Health, Chicago, Illinois
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- M.S. Anderson is professor, Department of Pediatrics, associate director, Pediatric Residency Program, and assistant dean, Longitudinal Curriculum, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado
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- A. Bernstein is assistant professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1703-1041
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Akerib D, Alsum S, Araújo H, Bai X, Balajthy J, Baxter A, Bernard E, Bernstein A, Biesiadzinski T, Boulton E, Boxer B, Brás P, Burdin S, Byram D, Carmona-Benitez M, Chan C, Cutter J, de Viveiros L, Druszkiewicz E, Fan A, Fiorucci S, Gaitskell R, Ghag C, Gilchriese M, Gwilliam C, Hall C, Haselschwardt S, Hertel S, Hogan D, Horn M, Huang D, Ignarra C, Jacobsen R, Jahangir O, Ji W, Kamdin K, Kazkaz K, Khaitan D, Korolkova E, Kravitz S, Kudryavtsev V, Leason E, Lenardo B, Lesko K, Liao J, Lin J, Lindote A, Lopes M, Manalaysay A, Mannino R, Marangou N, McKinsey D, Mei DM, Moongweluwan M, Morad J, Murphy A, Naylor A, Nehrkorn C, Nelson H, Neves F, Nilima A, Oliver-Mallory K, Palladino K, Pease E, Riffard Q, Rischbieter G, Rhyne C, Rossiter P, Shaw S, Shutt T, Silva C, Solmaz M, Solovov V, Sorensen P, Sumner T, Szydagis M, Taylor D, Taylor R, Taylor W, Tennyson B, Terman P, Tiedt D, To W, Tvrznikova L, Utku U, Uvarov S, Vacheret A, Velan V, Webb R, White J, Whitis T, Witherell M, Wolfs F, Woodward D, Xu J, Zhang C. Discrimination of electronic recoils from nuclear recoils in two-phase xenon time projection chambers. Int J Clin Exp Med 2020. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.102.112002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Climate change increasingly threatens the ability of the US health care system to deliver safe, effective, and efficient care to the American people. The existing health care system has key vulnerabilities that will grow more problematic as the effects of climate change on Americans' lives become stronger. Thus, health care policy makers must integrate a climate lens as they develop health system interventions. Applying a climate lens means assessing climate change-driven health risks and integrating them into policies and other actions to improve the nation's health. This lens can be applied to rethinking how to take a more population-based approach to health care delivery, prioritize health care system decarbonization and resilience, adapt data infrastructure, develop a climate-ready workforce, and pay for care. Our recommendations outline how to include climate-informed assessments into health care decision making and health policy, ultimately leading to a more resilient and equitable health care system that is better able to meet the needs of patients today and in the future.
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- Renee N Salas
- Renee N. Salas is affiliated faculty at the Harvard Global Health Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Yerby Fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, in Boston, Massachusetts; and an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston
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- Tynan H. Friend is a research assistant in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
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- Aaron Bernstein is the assistant faculty lead in the Climate Change and Health Initiative at the Harvard Global Health Institute, interim director of C-CHANGE at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
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- Ashish K. Jha is the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and a general internist at the Providence Veteran Affairs Medical Center, in Providence, Rhode Island
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Roa L, Velin L, Tudravu J, McClain CD, Bernstein A, Meara JG. Climate change: challenges and opportunities to scale up surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia care globally. Lancet Planet Health 2020; 4:e538-e543. [PMID: 33159881 DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(20)30247-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2020] [Revised: 08/16/2020] [Accepted: 09/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Climate change affects human health in a myriad of ways, requiring reassessment of the nature of scaling up care delivery and the effect that care delivery has on the environment. 5 billion people do not have access to safe and timely surgical care, and the quantity and severity of conditions that require surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia care will increase substantially as a result of climate change. However, surgery is resource intensive and contributes substantially to greenhouse-gas emissions. In response to climate change, the surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia community has a key role to play to ensure that a scale-up of service delivery incorporates mitigation and adaptation strategies. As countries scale up surgical care, understanding the implications of surgery on climate change and the implications of climate change on surgical care will be crucial in the development of health policies.
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- Lina Roa
- Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
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- Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Surgery and Public Health, Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Climate and Health Initiative, Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Li Z, Wystrach L, Bernstein A, Grad S, Alini M, Richards RG, Kubosch D, Südkamp N, Izadpanah K, Kubosch EJ, Lang G. The tissue-renin-angiotensin-system of the human intervertebral disc. Eur Cell Mater 2020; 40:115-132. [PMID: 33006373 DOI: 10.22203/ecm.v040a07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Symptomatic intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration accounts for significant socioeconomic burden. Recently, the expression of the tissue renin-angiotensin system (tRAS) in rat and bovine IVD was demonstrated. The major effector of tRAS is angiotensin II (AngII), which participates in proinflammatory pathways. The present study investigated the expression of tRAS in human IVDs, and the correlation between tRAS, inflammation and IVD degeneration. Human IVD tissue was collected during spine surgery and distributed according to principal diagnosis. Gene expression of tRAS components, proinflammatory and catabolic markers in the IVD tissue was assessed. Hydroxyproline (OHP) and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) content in the IVD tissue were determined. Tissue distribution of tRAS components was investigated by immunohistochemistry. Gene expression of tRAS components such as angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), Ang II receptor type 2 (AGTR2), angiotensinogen (AGT) and cathepsin D (CTSD) was confirmed in human IVDs. IVD samples that expressed tRAS components (n = 21) revealed significantly higher expression levels of interleukin 6 (IL-6), tumour necrosis factor α (TNF-α), a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs (ADAMTS) 4 and 5 compared to tRAS-negative samples (n = 37). Within tRAS-positive samples, AGT, matrix-metalloproteinases 13 and 3, IL-1, IL-6 and IL-8 were more highly expressed in traumatic compared to degenerated IVDs. Total GAG/DNA content of non-tRAS expressing IVD tissue was significantly higher compared to tRAS positive tissue. Immunohistochemistry confirmed the presence of AngII in the human IVD. The present study identified the existence of tRAS in the human IVD and suggested a correlation between tRAS expression, inflammation and ultimately IVD degeneration.
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- Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106, Freiburg,
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Landrigan PJ, Bernstein A, Binagwaho A. COVID-19 and clean air: an opportunity for radical change. Lancet Planet Health 2020; 4:e447-e449. [PMID: 33038318 PMCID: PMC7541046 DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(20)30201-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Revised: 08/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/17/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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- Philip J Landrigan
- Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College, Newton, MA 02467, USA.
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Pediatric Hospitalist, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Dobson AP, Pimm SL, Hannah L, Kaufman L, Ahumada JA, Ando AW, Bernstein A, Busch J, Daszak P, Engelmann J, Kinnaird MF, Li BV, Loch-Temzelides T, Lovejoy T, Nowak K, Roehrdanz PR, Vale MM. Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention. Science 2020; 369:379-381. [PMID: 32703868 DOI: 10.1126/science.abc3189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 211] [Impact Index Per Article: 52.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- See supplementary materials for authors' affiliations.
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- See supplementary materials for authors' affiliations
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- See supplementary materials for authors' affiliations
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- See supplementary materials for authors' affiliations
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- See supplementary materials for authors' affiliations
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- See supplementary materials for authors' affiliations
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- See supplementary materials for authors' affiliations
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Rebmann D, Mayr HO, Schmal H, Hernandez Latorre S, Bernstein A. Immunohistochemical analysis of sensory corpuscles in human transplants of the anterior cruciate ligament. J Orthop Surg Res 2020; 15:270. [PMID: 32680550 PMCID: PMC7368668 DOI: 10.1186/s13018-020-01785-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background Sensory nerve endings in ligaments play an important role for the proprioceptive function. Clinical trials show that the sense of body position does not fully recover in the knee joint after reconstructive surgery of the ruptured anterior cruciate ligament. The aim of this study is to identify sensory corpuscles in autogenous and allogenous transplants of the ligament and to compare their quantity between the used allografts and autografts. Methods Thirty-three patients were included in this study. Three patellar tendon allografts, 14 patellar tendon autografts and 12 semitendinosus autografts were harvested during revision surgery after traumatic rerupture of the graft. The control consisted of 4 healthy anterior cruciate ligaments after fresh rupture. After haematoxylin staining, immunohistochemical analysis was performed using antibodies against S100, p75 and PGP9.5. Microscopical examination was carried out, and the number of mechanoreceptors was counted. Statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney U test. Results Two types of mechanoreceptors were identified in each graft: Ruffini corpuscles and free nerve endings. The number of Ruffini corpuscles per square centimeter was the highest in the control. Comparing the grafts, the highest number of receptors could be detected in the semitendinosus autograft. The amount of free nerve endings was higher in the semitendinosus and patellar tendon autografts than in the control; the allografts showed the lowest number of receptors. With increasing time after reconstruction, the number of both types of receptors showed a decrease in the semitendinosus graft, whereas it increased in the patellar tendon graft and allograft. The number of mechanoreceptors in the semitendinosus and patellar tendon graft decreased over time after graft-failure, whereas it increased slightly in the allograft. Conclusion This study was the first to identify mechanoreceptors in human transplants of the anterior cruciate ligament. The partial increase in the number of receptors over time after reconstruction could indicate a reinnervation of the grafts.
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- D Rebmann
- Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center - Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany.
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- Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center - Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany.,Department of Knee, Hip and Shoulder Surgery, Schoen Clinic Munich Harlaching, Harlachinger Strasse 51, 81547, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center - Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center - Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center - Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106, Freiburg, Germany
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- Leticia M Nogueira
- Surveillance and Health Services Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Surveillance and Health Services Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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Vargas Amado M, Grütter R, Fischer C, Suter S, Bernstein A. Free-ranging wild boar (Sus scrofa) in Switzerland: casual observations and model-based projections during open and closed season for hunting. SCHWEIZ ARCH TIERH 2020; 162:365-376. [PMID: 32489181 DOI: 10.17236/sat00262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Wild boar (i.e., Sus scrofa) are susceptible to a range of diseases that can be transmitted to domestic pigs. Assessing the potential risk of transmission-related events involves identifying where wild boar occur in Switzerland and where they still can colonize. It also involves identifying zones where piggeries are dense. In the work presented here, the distribution of wild boar in Switzerland was projected from grid data as probabilities of presence using an approach based on statistical modeling, separately for closed and open season for hunting. The predicted probabilities of wild boar presence were related to the density of piggeries in the six agricultural zones. The resulting maps show how the potential risk of transmission-related events, as a proxy for disease transmission, is distributed in Switzerland. Wild boar presence data consisted of hunting data and casual observations recorded from September 2011 to February 2018 at the coordinate level. They were obtained from all 16 Swiss cantons maintaining a license hunting system plus Solothurn (for 2017) and Zurich, as well as from info fauna. The probability of wild boar occurrence was high (> 0.7) in Jura, the valleys of the Southern Alps, the Rhone Valley down the river from Martigny, and the Rhine Valley down the river from Bündner Herrschaft; it was fair (0.5-0.7) in the Swiss Plateau. These regions broadly overlap agricultural zones with a high density of piggeries. Patches of perennially suitable, but currently not colonized habitat were found in the cantons of Berne, Obwalden, Uri, Schwyz, Glarus, and Grisons. The probability of wild boar occurrence across the entire study area, including the Alps, increased by 12% during closed season for hunting. The results were discussed with reference to similar studies.
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- M Vargas Amado
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.,Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture HEPIA, Geneva, Switzerland
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- ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Wädenswil, Switzerland
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- Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Mooring M, Fowl BH, Lum SZ, Liu Y, Yao K, Softic S, Kirchner R, Bernstein A, Singhi AD, Jay DG, Kahn CR, Camargo FD, Yimlamai D. Hepatocyte Stress Increases Expression of Yes-Associated Protein and Transcriptional Coactivator With PDZ-Binding Motif in Hepatocytes to Promote Parenchymal Inflammation and Fibrosis. Hepatology 2020; 71:1813-1830. [PMID: 31505040 PMCID: PMC7062580 DOI: 10.1002/hep.30928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2019] [Accepted: 08/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Activated hepatocytes are hypothesized to be a major source of signals that drive cirrhosis, but the biochemical pathways that convert hepatocytes into such a state are unclear. We examined the role of the Hippo pathway transcriptional coactivators Yes-associated protein (YAP) and transcriptional coactivator with PDZ-binding motif (TAZ) in hepatocytes to facilitate cell-cell interactions that stimulate liver inflammation and fibrosis. APPROACH AND RESULTS Using a variety of genetic, metabolic, and liver injury models in mice, we manipulated Hippo signaling in hepatocytes and examined its effects in nonparenchymal cells to promote liver inflammation and fibrosis. YAP-expressing hepatocytes rapidly and potently activate the expression of proteins that promote fibrosis (collagen type I alpha 1 chain, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 1, platelet-derived growth factor c, transforming growth factor β2) and inflammation (tumor necrosis factor, interleukin 1β). They stimulate expansion of myofibroblasts and immune cells, followed by aggressive liver fibrosis. In contrast, hepatocyte-specific YAP and YAP/TAZ knockouts exhibit limited myofibroblast expansion, less inflammation, and decreased fibrosis after CCl4 injury despite a similar degree of necrosis as controls. We identified cellular communication network factor 1 (CYR61) as a chemokine that is up-regulated by hepatocytes during liver injury but is expressed at significantly lower levels in mice with hepatocyte-specific deletion of YAP or TAZ. Gain-of-function and loss-of-function experiments with CYR61 in vivo point to it being a key chemokine controlling liver fibrosis and inflammation in the context of YAP/TAZ. There is a direct correlation between levels of YAP/TAZ and CYR61 in liver tissues of patients with high-grade nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. CONCLUSIONS Liver injury in mice and humans increases levels of YAP/TAZ/CYR61 in hepatocytes, thus attracting macrophages to the liver to promote inflammation and fibrosis.
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- Meghan Mooring
- Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115;,Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism, Joslin Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Developmental, Molecular, and Chemical Biology, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111
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- Pittsburgh Liver Research Center, University of Pittsburgh/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
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- Department of Developmental, Molecular, and Chemical Biology, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111
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- Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism, Joslin Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- The Stem Cell Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115;,Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA 15224;,Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115;,Pittsburgh Liver Research Center, University of Pittsburgh/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
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MacNaughton P, Cao X, Buonocore J, Cedeno-Laurent JG, Spengler JD, Bernstein A, Allen JG. Correction to: Response to "A critical look at 'Energy savings, emissions reductions, and health co-benefits of the green building movement'". J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2020; 30:394. [PMID: 31959900 DOI: 10.1038/s41370-020-0199-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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- Piers MacNaughton
- Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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Lenardo BG, Xu J, Pereverzev S, Akindele OA, Naim D, Kingston J, Bernstein A, Kazkaz K, Tripathi M, Awe C, Li L, Runge J, Hedges S, An P, Barbeau PS. Low-Energy Physics Reach of Xenon Detectors for Nuclear-Recoil-Based Dark Matter and Neutrino Experiments. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 123:231106. [PMID: 31868502 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.231106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Revised: 09/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Dual-phase xenon detectors lead the search for keV-scale nuclear recoil signals expected from the scattering of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter, and can potentially be used to study the coherent nuclear scattering of MeV-scale neutrinos. New capabilities of such experiments can be enabled by extending their nuclear recoil searches down to the lowest measurable energy. The response of the liquid xenon target medium to nuclear recoils, however, is not well characterized below a few keV, leading to large uncertainties in projected sensitivities. In this work, we report a new measurement of ionization signals from nuclear recoils in liquid xenon down to the lowest energy reported to date. At 0.3 keV, we find that the average recoil produces approximately one ionization electron; this is the first measurement of nuclear recoil signals at the single-ionization-electron level, approaching the physical limit of liquid xenon ionization detectors. We discuss the implications of these measurements on the physics reach of xenon detectors for nuclear-recoil-based WIMP dark matter searches and the detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering.
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- B G Lenardo
- Physics Department, Stanford University, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, California 94305, USA
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratories, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratories, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratories, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratories, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratories, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratories, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Ren X, Wang Y, Chang Z, Welch J, Bernstein A, Downer M, Brown J, Gaarde M, Couairon A, Kolesik M, Polynkin P. In-line Spectral Interferometry in Shortwave-Infrared Laser Filaments in Air. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 123:223203. [PMID: 31868407 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.223203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2019] [Revised: 08/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We investigate the nonlinear propagation of intense, two-cycle, carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stable laser pulses at 1.7 μm center wavelength in air. We observe CEP-dependent spectral interference in the visible part of the forward-propagating white light generated on propagation. The effect is robust against large fluctuations of the input pulse energy. This robustness is enabled by rigid clamping of both the peak optical field and the phase of the propagating waveform, which has been revealed by numerical simulations. The CEP locking can enhance the yield of the CEP-dependent strong-field processes in gaseous media with long-wavelength drivers, while the observed spectral interference enables single-shot, stand-off CEP metrology in the atmosphere.
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- Xiaoming Ren
- Department of Physics and CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 21816, USA
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- Department of Physics and CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 21816, USA
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- Department of Physics and CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 21816, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
- CPHT, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- CPHT, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
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- College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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Bernstein A, Mrowczynski OD, Greene A, Ryan S, Chung C, Zacharia BE, Glantz M. Dual BRAF/MEK therapy in BRAF V600E-mutated primary brain tumors: a case series showing dramatic clinical and radiographic responses and a reduction in cutaneous toxicity. J Neurosurg 2019:1-6. [PMID: 31675726 DOI: 10.3171/2019.8.jns19643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2019] [Accepted: 08/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVE BRAF V600E is a common oncogenic driver in a variety of primary brain tumors. Dual inhibitor therapy using dabrafenib (a selective oral inhibitor of several mutated forms of BRAF kinase) and trametinib (a reversible inhibitor of MEK1 and MEK2) has been used successfully for treatment of metastatic melanoma, anaplastic thyroid cancer, and other tumor types, but has been reported in only a few patients with primary brain tumors and none with pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma. Here, the authors report on the substantial clinical response and reduction in cutaneous toxicity in a case series of BRAF V600E primary brain cancers treated with dual BRAF/MEK inhibitor therapy. METHODS The authors treated 4 BRAF V600E patients, each with a different type of primary brain tumor (pilocytic astrocytoma, papillary craniopharyngioma, ganglioglioma, and pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma) with the combination of dabrafenib and trametinib. RESULTS The patients with pilocytic astrocytoma, pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma, and papillary craniopharyngioma experienced near-complete radiographic and complete clinical responses after 8 weeks of therapy. A substantial partial response (by RANO [Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology] criteria) was observed in the patient with ganglioglioma. The patient with craniopharyngioma developed dramatic, diffuse verrucal keratosis within 2 weeks of starting dabrafenib. This completely resolved within 2 weeks of adding trametinib. CONCLUSIONS Dual BRAF/MEK inhibitor therapy represents an exciting treatment option for patients with BRAF V600E primary brain tumors. In addition to greater efficacy than single-agent dabrafenib, this combination has the potential to mitigate cutaneous toxicity, one of the most common and concerning BRAF inhibitor-related adverse events.
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- Aaron Bernstein
- 1Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.,2Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.,Departments of3Neurosurgery
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- 5Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Division of Dermatology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
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- Departments of3Neurosurgery.,6Oncology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania; and
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- Gina McCarthy
- From the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (Harvard C-CHANGE), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (G.M., A.B.), and Boston Children's Hospital (A.B.) - both in Boston. Ms. McCarthy was the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2017
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- From the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (Harvard C-CHANGE), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (G.M., A.B.), and Boston Children's Hospital (A.B.) - both in Boston. Ms. McCarthy was the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2017
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- Aaron Bernstein
- Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, USA
- Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA
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MacNaughton P, Cao X, Buonocore J, Cedeno-Laurent JG, Spengler JD, Bernstein A, Allen JG. Response to "A critical look at 'Energy savings, emissions reductions, and health co-benefits of the green building movement'". J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2019; 29:594-596. [PMID: 30718732 DOI: 10.1038/s41370-019-0118-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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- Piers MacNaughton
- Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Environmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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Akerib DS, Alsum S, Araújo HM, Bai X, Balajthy J, Beltrame P, Bernard EP, Bernstein A, Biesiadzinski TP, Boulton EM, Boxer B, Brás P, Burdin S, Byram D, Carmona-Benitez MC, Chan C, Cutter JE, Davison TJR, Druszkiewicz E, Fallon SR, Fan A, Fiorucci S, Gaitskell RJ, Genovesi J, Ghag C, Gilchriese MGD, Gwilliam C, Hall CR, Haselschwardt SJ, Hertel SA, Hogan DP, Horn M, Huang DQ, Ignarra CM, Jacobsen RG, Jahangir O, Ji W, Kamdin K, Kazkaz K, Khaitan D, Knoche R, Korolkova EV, Kravitz S, Kudryavtsev VA, Lenardo BG, Lesko KT, Liao J, Lin J, Lindote A, Lopes MI, Manalaysay A, Mannino RL, Marangou N, Marzioni MF, McKinsey DN, Mei DM, Moongweluwan M, Morad JA, Murphy ASJ, Naylor A, Nehrkorn C, Nelson HN, Neves F, Oliver-Mallory KC, Palladino KJ, Pease EK, Riffard Q, Rischbieter GRC, Rhyne C, Rossiter P, Shaw S, Shutt TA, Silva C, Solmaz M, Solovov VN, Sorensen P, Sumner TJ, Szydagis M, Taylor DJ, Taylor WC, Tennyson BP, Terman PA, Tiedt DR, To WH, Tripathi M, Tvrznikova L, Utku U, Uvarov S, Velan V, Webb RC, White JT, Whitis TJ, Witherell MS, Wolfs FLH, Woodward D, Xu J, Yazdani K, Zhang C. Results of a Search for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using 2013 LUX Data. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 122:131301. [PMID: 31012624 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.131301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2018] [Revised: 02/12/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The scattering of dark matter (DM) particles with sub-GeV masses off nuclei is difficult to detect using liquid xenon-based DM search instruments because the energy transfer during nuclear recoils is smaller than the typical detector threshold. However, the tree-level DM-nucleus scattering diagram can be accompanied by simultaneous emission of a bremsstrahlung photon or a so-called "Migdal" electron. These provide an electron recoil component to the experimental signature at higher energies than the corresponding nuclear recoil. The presence of this signature allows liquid xenon detectors to use both the scintillation and the ionization signals in the analysis where the nuclear recoil signal would not be otherwise visible. We report constraints on spin-independent DM-nucleon scattering for DM particles with masses of 0.4-5 GeV/c^{2} using 1.4×10^{4} kg day of search exposure from the 2013 data from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment for four different classes of mediators. This analysis extends the reach of liquid xenon-based DM search instruments to lower DM masses than has been achieved previously.
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- D S Akerib
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- University of Liverpool, Department of Physics, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- University of Liverpool, Department of Physics, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- Pennsylvania State University, Department of Physics, 104 Davey Lab, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6300, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of Liverpool, Department of Physics, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions and Department of Physics, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9337, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- University of Sheffield, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield, S3 7RH, United Kingdom
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of Sheffield, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield, S3 7RH, United Kingdom
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
- Texas A & M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- University of Sheffield, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield, S3 7RH, United Kingdom
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- University of Sheffield, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield, S3 7RH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Texas A & M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- California State University Stanislaus, Department of Physics, 1 University Circle, Turlock, California 95382, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Texas A & M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Texas A & M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Pennsylvania State University, Department of Physics, 104 Davey Lab, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6300, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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Krieg P, Killinger A, Gadow R, Burtscher S, Bernstein A. High velocity suspension flame spraying (HVSFS) of metal doped bioceramic coatings. Bioact Mater 2018; 2:162-169. [PMID: 29744426 PMCID: PMC5935181 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2017.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Revised: 04/19/2017] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Bioceramic coatings doped with metals for antibacterial effect. Combination of suspension and precursor flame spraying. Successful deposition of submicron metallic particles in bioceramic matrix.
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- P Krieg
- Institute for Manufacturing Technologies of Ceramic Components and Composites (IMTCCC), University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 7b, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute for Manufacturing Technologies of Ceramic Components and Composites (IMTCCC), University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 7b, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute for Manufacturing Technologies of Ceramic Components and Composites (IMTCCC), University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 7b, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Musculoskeletal Research Lab, Department of Surgery, Clinics of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, University of Freiburg - Medical Centre, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Musculoskeletal Research Lab, Department of Surgery, Clinics of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, University of Freiburg - Medical Centre, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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Faigle G, Bernstein A, Suedkamp NP, Mayr HO, Peters F, Huebner WD, Seidenstuecker M. Release behavior of VAN from four types of CaP-ceramic granules using various loading methods at two different degrees of acidity. J Mater Sci Mater Med 2017; 29:12. [PMID: 29285633 DOI: 10.1007/s10856-017-6006-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 11/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The release behavior of vancomycin (VAN) from beta-tricalciumphosphate (βTCP), hydroxyapatite (HA), glass ceramic (GC) and sponge-like collagen βTCP granule composite (sponge) was studied. Vacuum and drip loading methods were compared. The influence of VAN concentration and pH on release behavior was analyzed with respect to a stable release level of VAN above the minimum inhibitory concentration over 14 days. Initially the morphology of the granule carrier systems was examined with ESEM, stereomicroscopy, µCT-imaging and Camsizer® regarding porosity, interconnecting pores and granule size. Drug release patterns following a vacuum and a drip loading method with VAN at concentrations of 5 and 50 mg/ml were compared. The influence of pH 7.4 compared to pH 5.0 on release behavior was studied. The drug was released in bidistilled water at 37 °C, the concentration determined by photometry at 220 nm. For statistical purposes, the mean and standard deviation were calculated and analyzed by Origin 9.1 Professional SR1 (OriginLab). Due to low interconnectivity and low porosity, the vacuum loading method was unable to attain complete drug loading of the ceramic granules. The sponge showed an inhomogeneous distribution of βTCP granules. Drug release was high at pH 7.4, at pH 5.0 it practically did not occur. All samples except for the collagen-complex show an initial VAN burst release with a following steady release. Loading with 5 mg/ml concentrated VAN resulted in a higher percentage of available drug being released. However, when loaded with 50 mg/ml, the absolute amount of drug released was higher.
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- G Faigle
- Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center - Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Hugstetterstr. 55, Freiburg, D-79106, Germany.
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- Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center - Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Hugstetterstr. 55, Freiburg, D-79106, Germany
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- Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center - Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Hugstetterstr. 55, Freiburg, D-79106, Germany
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- Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center - Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Hugstetterstr. 55, Freiburg, D-79106, Germany
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- Curasan AG, Lindigstr. 4, Kleinostheim, D-63801, Germany
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- Curasan AG, Lindigstr. 4, Kleinostheim, D-63801, Germany
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- Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center - Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Hugstetterstr. 55, Freiburg, D-79106, Germany
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Bernstein A, Mrowczynski O, Khalsa A, Ryan S, Chung C, Glantz M. RARE-31. DUAL BRAF/MEK THERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH BRAF V600E-MUTATED TUMORS: DRAMATIC CLINICAL AND RADIOGRAPHIC RESPONSES AND A REDUCTION IN CUTANEOUS TOXICITY. Neuro Oncol 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nox168.875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Akerib DS, Alsum S, Aquino C, Araújo HM, Bai X, Bailey AJ, Balajthy J, Beltrame P, Bernard EP, Bernstein A, Biesiadzinski TP, Boulton EM, Brás P, Byram D, Cahn SB, Carmona-Benitez MC, Chan C, Chiller AA, Chiller C, Currie A, Cutter JE, Davison TJR, Dobi A, Dobson JEY, Druszkiewicz E, Edwards BN, Faham CH, Fallon SR, Fiorucci S, Gaitskell RJ, Gehman VM, Ghag C, Gibson KR, Gilchriese MGD, Hall CR, Hanhardt M, Haselschwardt SJ, Hertel SA, Hogan DP, Horn M, Huang DQ, Ignarra CM, Jacobsen RG, Ji W, Kamdin K, Kazkaz K, Khaitan D, Knoche R, Larsen NA, Lee C, Lenardo BG, Lesko KT, Lindote A, Lopes MI, Manalaysay A, Mannino RL, Marzioni MF, McKinsey DN, Mei DM, Mock J, Moongweluwan M, Morad JA, Murphy ASJ, Nehrkorn C, Nelson HN, Neves F, O'Sullivan K, Oliver-Mallory KC, Palladino KJ, Pease EK, Reichhart L, Rhyne C, Shaw S, Shutt TA, Silva C, Solmaz M, Solovov VN, Sorensen P, Stephenson S, Sumner TJ, Szydagis M, Taylor DJ, Taylor WC, Tennyson BP, Terman PA, Tiedt DR, To WH, Tripathi M, Tvrznikova L, Uvarov S, Velan V, Verbus JR, Webb RC, White JT, Whitis TJ, Witherell MS, Wolfs FLH, Xu J, Yazdani K, Young SK, Zhang C. First Searches for Axions and Axionlike Particles with the LUX Experiment. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 118:261301. [PMID: 28707937 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.261301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
The first searches for axions and axionlike particles with the Large Underground Xenon experiment are presented. Under the assumption of an axioelectric interaction in xenon, the coupling constant between axions and electrons g_{Ae} is tested using data collected in 2013 with an exposure totaling 95 live days ×118 kg. A double-sided, profile likelihood ratio statistic test excludes g_{Ae} larger than 3.5×10^{-12} (90% C.L.) for solar axions. Assuming the Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitsky theoretical description, the upper limit in coupling corresponds to an upper limit on axion mass of 0.12 eV/c^{2}, while for the Kim-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zhakharov description masses above 36.6 eV/c^{2} are excluded. For galactic axionlike particles, values of g_{Ae} larger than 4.2×10^{-13} are excluded for particle masses in the range 1-16 keV/c^{2}. These are the most stringent constraints to date for these interactions.
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- D S Akerib
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Pennsylvania State University, Department of Physics, 104 Davey Lab, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6300, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- University of Massachusetts, Department of Physics, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9337 USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Texas A & M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Texas A & M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Texas A & M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Texas A & M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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Akerib DS, Alsum S, Araújo HM, Bai X, Bailey AJ, Balajthy J, Beltrame P, Bernard EP, Bernstein A, Biesiadzinski TP, Boulton EM, Brás P, Byram D, Cahn SB, Carmona-Benitez MC, Chan C, Chiller AA, Chiller C, Currie A, Cutter JE, Davison TJR, Dobi A, Dobson JEY, Druszkiewicz E, Edwards BN, Faham CH, Fallon SR, Fiorucci S, Gaitskell RJ, Gehman VM, Ghag C, Gilchriese MGD, Hall CR, Hanhardt M, Haselschwardt SJ, Hertel SA, Hogan DP, Horn M, Huang DQ, Ignarra CM, Jacobsen RG, Ji W, Kamdin K, Kazkaz K, Khaitan D, Knoche R, Larsen NA, Lee C, Lenardo BG, Lesko KT, Lindote A, Lopes MI, Manalaysay A, Mannino RL, Marzioni MF, McKinsey DN, Mei DM, Mock J, Moongweluwan M, Morad JA, Murphy ASJ, Nehrkorn C, Nelson HN, Neves F, O'Sullivan K, Oliver-Mallory KC, Palladino KJ, Pease EK, Reichhart L, Rhyne C, Shaw S, Shutt TA, Silva C, Solmaz M, Solovov VN, Sorensen P, Stephenson S, Sumner TJ, Szydagis M, Taylor DJ, Taylor WC, Tennyson BP, Terman PA, Tiedt DR, To WH, Tripathi M, Tvrznikova L, Uvarov S, Velan V, Verbus JR, Webb RC, White JT, Whitis TJ, Witherell MS, Wolfs FLH, Xu J, Yazdani K, Young SK, Zhang C. Limits on Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Section Obtained from the Complete LUX Exposure. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 118:251302. [PMID: 28696768 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.251302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
We present experimental constraints on the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon elastic cross sections from the total 129.5 kg yr exposure acquired by the Large Underground Xenon experiment (LUX), operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota (USA). A profile likelihood ratio analysis allows 90% C.L. upper limits to be set on the WIMP-neutron (WIMP-proton) cross section of σ_{n}=1.6×10^{-41} cm^{2} (σ_{p}=5×10^{-40} cm^{2}) at 35 GeV c^{-2}, almost a sixfold improvement over the previous LUX spin-dependent results. The spin-dependent WIMP-neutron limit is the most sensitive constraint to date.
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- D S Akerib
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Pennsylvania State University, Department of Physics, 104 Davey Lab, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6300, USA
- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of Massachusetts, Department of Physics, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9337, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - B G Lenardo
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - K C Oliver-Mallory
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - K J Palladino
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
| | - C Rhyne
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - S Shaw
- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
| | - T A Shutt
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - C Silva
- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - S Stephenson
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - T J Sumner
- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
| | - M Szydagis
- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
| | - D J Taylor
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
| | - W C Taylor
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - B P Tennyson
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
| | - P A Terman
- Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - D R Tiedt
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - W H To
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
- California State University Stanislaus, Department of Physics, 1 University Circle, Turlock, California 95382, USA
| | - M Tripathi
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - L Tvrznikova
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - S Uvarov
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - V Velan
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - J R Verbus
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - R C Webb
- Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - J T White
- Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - T J Whitis
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - M S Witherell
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - F L H Wolfs
- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
| | - J Xu
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
| | - K Yazdani
- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
| | - S K Young
- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
| | - C Zhang
- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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Akerib DS, Alsum S, Araújo HM, Bai X, Bailey AJ, Balajthy J, Beltrame P, Bernard EP, Bernstein A, Biesiadzinski TP, Boulton EM, Bramante R, Brás P, Byram D, Cahn SB, Carmona-Benitez MC, Chan C, Chiller AA, Chiller C, Currie A, Cutter JE, Davison TJR, Dobi A, Dobson JEY, Druszkiewicz E, Edwards BN, Faham CH, Fiorucci S, Gaitskell RJ, Gehman VM, Ghag C, Gibson KR, Gilchriese MGD, Hall CR, Hanhardt M, Haselschwardt SJ, Hertel SA, Hogan DP, Horn M, Huang DQ, Ignarra CM, Ihm M, Jacobsen RG, Ji W, Kamdin K, Kazkaz K, Khaitan D, Knoche R, Larsen NA, Lee C, Lenardo BG, Lesko KT, Lindote A, Lopes MI, Manalaysay A, Mannino RL, Marzioni MF, McKinsey DN, Mei DM, Mock J, Moongweluwan M, Morad JA, Murphy ASJ, Nehrkorn C, Nelson HN, Neves F, O'Sullivan K, Oliver-Mallory KC, Palladino KJ, Pease EK, Phelps P, Reichhart L, Rhyne C, Shaw S, Shutt TA, Silva C, Solmaz M, Solovov VN, Sorensen P, Stephenson S, Sumner TJ, Szydagis M, Taylor DJ, Taylor WC, Tennyson BP, Terman PA, Tiedt DR, To WH, Tripathi M, Tvrznikova L, Uvarov S, Verbus JR, Webb RC, White JT, Whitis TJ, Witherell MS, Wolfs FLH, Xu J, Yazdani K, Young SK, Zhang C. Results from a Search for Dark Matter in the Complete LUX Exposure. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 118:021303. [PMID: 28128598 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.021303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
We report constraints on spin-independent weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-nucleon scattering using a 3.35×10^{4} kg day exposure of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment. A dual-phase xenon time projection chamber with 250 kg of active mass is operated at the Sanford Underground Research Facility under Lead, South Dakota (USA). With roughly fourfold improvement in sensitivity for high WIMP masses relative to our previous results, this search yields no evidence of WIMP nuclear recoils. At a WIMP mass of 50 GeV c^{-2}, WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross sections above 2.2×10^{-46} cm^{2} are excluded at the 90% confidence level. When combined with the previously reported LUX exposure, this exclusion strengthens to 1.1×10^{-46} cm^{2} at 50 GeV c^{-2}.
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Affiliation(s)
- D S Akerib
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - S Alsum
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
| | - H M Araújo
- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
| | - X Bai
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - A J Bailey
- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
| | - J Balajthy
- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
| | - P Beltrame
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
| | - E P Bernard
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
| | - A Bernstein
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
| | - T P Biesiadzinski
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - E M Boulton
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
| | - R Bramante
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - P Brás
- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
| | - D Byram
- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
| | - S B Cahn
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
| | - M C Carmona-Benitez
- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
| | - C Chan
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - A A Chiller
- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
| | - C Chiller
- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
| | - A Currie
- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
| | - J E Cutter
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - T J R Davison
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
| | - A Dobi
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - J E Y Dobson
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
| | - E Druszkiewicz
- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
| | - B N Edwards
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
| | - C H Faham
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - S Fiorucci
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - R J Gaitskell
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - V M Gehman
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - C Ghag
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
| | - K R Gibson
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
| | - M G D Gilchriese
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - C R Hall
- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
| | - M Hanhardt
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
| | - S J Haselschwardt
- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
| | - S A Hertel
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
| | - D P Hogan
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - M Horn
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
| | - D Q Huang
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - C M Ignarra
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - M Ihm
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - R G Jacobsen
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - W Ji
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - K Kamdin
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - K Kazkaz
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
| | - D Khaitan
- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
| | - R Knoche
- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
| | - N A Larsen
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
| | - C Lee
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - B G Lenardo
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - K T Lesko
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
| | - M I Lopes
- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
| | - A Manalaysay
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - R L Mannino
- Texas A and M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - M F Marzioni
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
| | - D N McKinsey
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - D-M Mei
- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
| | - J Mock
- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
| | - M Moongweluwan
- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
| | - J A Morad
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - A St J Murphy
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
| | - C Nehrkorn
- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
| | - H N Nelson
- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
| | - F Neves
- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
| | - K O'Sullivan
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - K C Oliver-Mallory
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - K J Palladino
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
| | - E K Pease
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - P Phelps
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
| | - L Reichhart
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
| | - C Rhyne
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - S Shaw
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
| | - T A Shutt
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - C Silva
- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
| | - M Solmaz
- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
| | - P Sorensen
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - S Stephenson
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - T J Sumner
- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
| | - M Szydagis
- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
| | - D J Taylor
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
| | - P A Terman
- Texas A and M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - D R Tiedt
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - W H To
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - M Tripathi
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - L Tvrznikova
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
| | - S Uvarov
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - J R Verbus
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - R C Webb
- Texas A and M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - J T White
- Texas A and M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - T J Whitis
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - M S Witherell
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - F L H Wolfs
- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
| | - J Xu
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA
| | - K Yazdani
- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
| | - S K Young
- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
| | - C Zhang
- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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Jablonski H, Wedemeyer C, Bachmann HS, Schlagkamp M, Bernstein A, Jäger M, Kauther MD. A Single Dose of the Anti-Resorptive Peptide Human Calcitonin Paradoxically Augments Particle- and Endotoxin-Mediated Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Production In Vitro. Horm Metab Res 2016; 48:607-12. [PMID: 27258971 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-108338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Abstract
The peptide hormone calcitonin (CT) is known to inhibit bone resorption and has previously been shown also to prevent particle-induced osteolysis, the leading cause of revision arthroplasty. In the present study, the influence of human CT on the initial inflammatory response to particulate wear debris or bacterial endotoxins, ultimately leading to osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, was analysed in human THP-1 macrophage-like cells. The cells were activated with either ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) particles or bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in order to simulate an osteolysis-associated inflammatory response. The cells were simultaneously treated with human CT (10(-9) M). Cytokine production of tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α was quantified on both RNA and protein levels while interleukins (IL)-1β and IL-6 were measured as secreted protein only. Stimulation of the cells with either particles or LPS led to a dose- and time-dependent increase of TNF-α mRNA production and protein secretion of TNF-α, IL-1β, and IL-6. Application of CT mostly enhanced cytokine production as elicited by UHMWPE particles while a pronounced transient inhibitory effect on LPS-induced inflammation became evident at 24 h of incubation. Human CT displayed ambivalent effects on the wear- and LPS-induced production of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Thereby, the peptide primarily upregulated particle-induced inflammation while LPS-induced cytokine secretion was temporarily attenuated in a distinct manner. It needs to be evaluated whether the pro- or anti-inflammatory action of CT contributes to its known anti-resorptive effects. Thus, the therapeutic potential of the peptide in the treatment of either particle- or endotoxin-mediated bone resorption could be determined.
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- H Jablonski
- Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- St. Barbara-Hospital Gladbeck, Clinic for Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Gladbeck, Germany
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- University Hospital Essen, Institute of Pharmacogenetics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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Akerib DS, Araújo HM, Bai X, Bailey AJ, Balajthy J, Beltrame P, Bernard EP, Bernstein A, Biesiadzinski TP, Boulton EM, Bradley A, Bramante R, Cahn SB, Carmona-Benitez MC, Chan C, Chapman JJ, Chiller AA, Chiller C, Currie A, Cutter JE, Davison TJR, de Viveiros L, Dobi A, Dobson JEY, Druszkiewicz E, Edwards BN, Faham CH, Fiorucci S, Gaitskell RJ, Gehman VM, Ghag C, Gibson KR, Gilchriese MGD, Hall CR, Hanhardt M, Haselschwardt SJ, Hertel SA, Hogan DP, Horn M, Huang DQ, Ignarra CM, Ihm M, Jacobsen RG, Ji W, Kazkaz K, Khaitan D, Knoche R, Larsen NA, Lee C, Lenardo BG, Lesko KT, Lindote A, Lopes MI, Malling DC, Manalaysay A, Mannino RL, Marzioni MF, McKinsey DN, Mei DM, Mock J, Moongweluwan M, Morad JA, Murphy ASJ, Nehrkorn C, Nelson HN, Neves F, O'Sullivan K, Oliver-Mallory KC, Ott RA, Palladino KJ, Pangilinan M, Pease EK, Phelps P, Reichhart L, Rhyne C, Shaw S, Shutt TA, Silva C, Solovov VN, Sorensen P, Stephenson S, Sumner TJ, Szydagis M, Taylor DJ, Taylor W, Tennyson BP, Terman PA, Tiedt DR, To WH, Tripathi M, Tvrznikova L, Uvarov S, Verbus JR, Webb RC, White JT, Whitis TJ, Witherell MS, Wolfs FLH, Yazdani K, Young SK, Zhang C. Results on the Spin-Dependent Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles on Nucleons from the Run 3 Data of the LUX Experiment. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 116:161302. [PMID: 27152786 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.161302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
We present experimental constraints on the spin-dependent WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle)-nucleon elastic cross sections from LUX data acquired in 2013. LUX is a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (Lead, South Dakota), which is designed to observe the recoil signature of galactic WIMPs scattering from xenon nuclei. A profile likelihood ratio analysis of 1.4×10^{4} kg day of fiducial exposure allows 90% C.L. upper limits to be set on the WIMP-neutron (WIMP-proton) cross section of σ_{n}=9.4×10^{-41} cm^{2} (σ_{p}=2.9×10^{-39} cm^{2}) at 33 GeV/c^{2}. The spin-dependent WIMP-neutron limit is the most sensitive constraint to date.
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Affiliation(s)
- D S Akerib
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St Joseph St., Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark St., Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark St., Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St Joseph St., Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, California 94551, USA
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark St., Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St Joseph St., Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark St., Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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Akerib DS, Araújo HM, Bai X, Bailey AJ, Balajthy J, Beltrame P, Bernard EP, Bernstein A, Biesiadzinski TP, Boulton EM, Bradley A, Bramante R, Cahn SB, Carmona-Benitez MC, Chan C, Chapman JJ, Chiller AA, Chiller C, Currie A, Cutter JE, Davison TJR, de Viveiros L, Dobi A, Dobson JEY, Druszkiewicz E, Edwards BN, Faham CH, Fiorucci S, Gaitskell RJ, Gehman VM, Ghag C, Gibson KR, Gilchriese MGD, Hall CR, Hanhardt M, Haselschwardt SJ, Hertel SA, Hogan DP, Horn M, Huang DQ, Ignarra CM, Ihm M, Jacobsen RG, Ji W, Kazkaz K, Khaitan D, Knoche R, Larsen NA, Lee C, Lenardo BG, Lesko KT, Lindote A, Lopes MI, Malling DC, Manalaysay A, Mannino RL, Marzioni MF, McKinsey DN, Mei DM, Mock J, Moongweluwan M, Morad JA, Murphy ASJ, Nehrkorn C, Nelson HN, Neves F, O'Sullivan K, Oliver-Mallory KC, Ott RA, Palladino KJ, Pangilinan M, Pease EK, Phelps P, Reichhart L, Rhyne C, Shaw S, Shutt TA, Silva C, Solovov VN, Sorensen P, Stephenson S, Sumner TJ, Szydagis M, Taylor DJ, Taylor W, Tennyson BP, Terman PA, Tiedt DR, To WH, Tripathi M, Tvrznikova L, Uvarov S, Verbus JR, Webb RC, White JT, Whitis TJ, Witherell MS, Wolfs FLH, Yazdani K, Young SK, Zhang C. Improved Limits on Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from Reanalysis of 2013 LUX Data. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 116:161301. [PMID: 27152785 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.161301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
We present constraints on weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP)-nucleus scattering from the 2013 data of the Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment, including 1.4×10^{4} kg day of search exposure. This new analysis incorporates several advances: single-photon calibration at the scintillation wavelength, improved event-reconstruction algorithms, a revised background model including events originating on the detector walls in an enlarged fiducial volume, and new calibrations from decays of an injected tritium β source and from kinematically constrained nuclear recoils down to 1.1 keV. Sensitivity, especially to low-mass WIMPs, is enhanced compared to our previous results which modeled the signal only above a 3 keV minimum energy. Under standard dark matter halo assumptions and in the mass range above 4 GeV c^{-2}, these new results give the most stringent direct limits on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section. The 90% C.L. upper limit has a minimum of 0.6 zb at 33 GeV c^{-2} WIMP mass.
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- D S Akerib
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St Joseph St., Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark St., Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark St., Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
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- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St Joseph St., Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - D P Hogan
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - D Q Huang
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - C M Ignarra
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - M Ihm
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - K Kazkaz
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, California 94551, USA
| | - D Khaitan
- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
| | - N A Larsen
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
| | - C Lee
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, California 94551, USA
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - A Manalaysay
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - M F Marzioni
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
| | - D N McKinsey
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - D-M Mei
- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark St., Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
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- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
| | - J A Morad
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - A St J Murphy
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
| | - C Nehrkorn
- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
| | - H N Nelson
- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
| | - F Neves
- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
| | - K O'Sullivan
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - K C Oliver-Mallory
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - R A Ott
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - K J Palladino
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
| | - M Pangilinan
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - E K Pease
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - P Phelps
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
| | - L Reichhart
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
| | - C Rhyne
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - S Shaw
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
| | - T A Shutt
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - C Silva
- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
| | - V N Solovov
- LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal
| | - P Sorensen
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - S Stephenson
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - T J Sumner
- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
| | - M Szydagis
- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
| | - D J Taylor
- South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA
| | - W Taylor
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - B P Tennyson
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
| | - P A Terman
- Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - D R Tiedt
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St Joseph St., Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - W H To
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - M Tripathi
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - L Tvrznikova
- Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - S Uvarov
- University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616, USA
| | - J R Verbus
- Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope St., Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
| | - R C Webb
- Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - J T White
- Texas A&M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - T J Whitis
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA
| | - M S Witherell
- University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
| | - F L H Wolfs
- University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
| | - K Yazdani
- Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
| | - S K Young
- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA
| | - C Zhang
- University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark St., Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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