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The first measurement of the dielectron continuum at RHIC energies was performed by the PHENIX experiment for Au+Au collisions at  =200 GeV. Mass spectra for different centralities are presented and compared with the expectations from hadron decays.

The physics goal of the strong interaction program of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is to study the phase diagram of hadronic matter by a scan of particle production in collisions of nuclei with various sizes at a set of energies covering the SPS energy range. This paper presents differential inclusive spectra of transverse momentum, transverse mass and rapidity of π- mesons produced in central40Ar+45Sc collisions at beam momenta of 13A, 19A, 30A, 40A, 75A and 150AGeV/c. Energy and system size dependence of parameters of these distributions – mean transverse mass, the inverse slope parameter of transverse mass spectra, width of the rapidity distribution and mean multiplicity – are presented and discussed. Furthermore, the dependence of the ratio of the mean number of produced pions to the mean number of wounded nucleons on the collision energy was derived. The results are compared to predictions of several models.

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The production of Ξ(1321)- and Ξ¯(1321)+ hyperons in inelastic p+p interactions is studied in a fixed target experiment at a beam momentum of 158 Ge/c. Double differential distributions in rapidity y and transverse momentum pT are obtained from a sample of 33M inelastic events. They allow to extrapolate the spectra to full phase space and to determine the mean multiplicity of both Ξ- and Ξ¯+. The rapidity and transverse momentum spectra are compared to transport model predictions. The Ξ- mean multiplicity in inelastic p+p interactions at 158 Ge/c is used to quantify the strangeness enhancement in A+A collisions at the same centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair.

•Peru is a country with a millenary culture that included the use of medicinal plants for the management of several diseases.•The use of medicinal plants to alleviate urogenital problems is not infrequent in Peru. Up to 86 species of medicinal plants used for kidney problems have been identified and the ‘Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru’, published by the Ministry of Health of Peru.•In our study, half of the patients used medicinal plants and about one-third used them for chronic kidney disease. About two thirds the patients reported that medicinal plants were not harmful, while near one in every four patients stopped using allopathic medicine to use medicinal plants only.•The use of medicinal plants was lower in Ucayali and higher in both the patients who knew they had CKD and those with more advanced stages of the disease. To describe the use of medicinal plants in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in public healthcare centers in Peru. A cross-sectional study was conducted in patients with CKD in healthcare centers of three Peruvian regions: Lima, Arequipa, and Ucayali. A structured questionnaire which included socio-demographic data, medical antecedents and characteristics of the use of medicinal plants was used. Prevalence ratios (PR) and 95 % confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated using crude Poisson regressions with robust variances. A total of 599 patients with CKD were evaluated, of which 300 (50.1%) reported the use of medicinal plants (160 [30.3%] used these plants for CKD), 379 reported that medicinal plants were not harmful, while 166 (27.8%) stopped using allopathic medicine to use medicinal plants only. In the adjusted analysis, the frequency of the use of medicinal plants for CKD was similar between Lima and Arequipa but was lower in Ucayali than in Lima (PR: 0.32, 95% CI: 0.14 – 0.76). In addition, a higher frequency of the use of medicinal plants for CKD was observed in patients with more advanced stages of CKD (PR: 1.55, 95% CI: 1.06–2.26) and in patients who were aware they had CKD (PR: 2.79 95% CI: 1.39–5.63). Half of the patients used medicinal plants and about one-third used it for CKD. This use was lower in Ucayali and higher in both the patients who knew they had CKD and those with more advanced stages of the disease. Given these results, physicians should ask and inform regarding medicinal plants consumption to their CKD patients.

Measurements of inclusive spectra and mean multiplicities of π±, K±, p and p¯ produced in inelastic p + p interactions at incident projectile momenta of 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c (s= 6.3, 7.7, 8.8, 12.3 and 17.3 GeV, respectively) were performed at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron using the large acceptance NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer. Spectra are presented as function of rapidity and transverse momentum and are compared to predictions of current models. The measurements serve as the baseline in the NA61/SHINE study of the properties of the onset of deconfinement and search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter.

Optical inspection of 1191 silicon micro-strip sensors was performed using a custom made optical inspection setup, employing a machine-learning based approach for the defect analysis and subsequent quality assurance. Furthermore, metrological control of the sensor's surface was performed. In this manuscript, we present the analysis of various sensor surface defects. Among these are implant breaks, p-stop breaks, aluminium strip opens, aluminium strip shorts, surface scratches, double metallization layer defects, passivation layer defects, bias resistor defects as well as dust particle identification. The defect detection was done using the application of Convolutional Deep Neural Networks (CDNNs). From this, defective strips and defect clusters were identified, as well as a 2D map of the defects using their geometrical positions on the sensor was performed. Based on the total number of defects found on the sensor's surface, a method for the estimation of sensor's overall quality grade and quality score was proposed.

Silicon strip sensors have long been a reliable technology for particle detection. Here, we push the limits of silicon tracking detectors by targeting an unprecedentedly low material budget of 2%-7% \\(X_0\\) in an 8-layer 4 m\\(^2\\) detector designed for high-occupancy environments (\\(\\) 10 MHz/cm\\(^2\\)). To achieve this, we employ Double-Sided Double Metal (DSDM) silicon microstrip sensors, coupled with readout electronics capable of precise timing and energy measurements. These 320 \\(\\)m thick sensors, featuring \\(2 1024\\) channels with a 58 \\(\\)m pitch, are connected via ultra-lightweight aluminium-polyimide microcables for signal transmission and integrated with a custom SMX readout ASIC, operating in free-streaming mode. This system enables the simultaneous measurement of time (\\( t 5\\)~ns) and charge deposition (0.1-100 fC), significantly enhancing the detector's capacity for high-precision track reconstruction in high-occupancy and harsh radiation field environments. The primary application of this technology is the Silicon Tracking System (STS) for the CBM experiment, with additional potential in projects like the J-PARC E16 experiment and future uses in medical physics, such as advanced imaging telescopes. In this contribution, we present the current status of CBM STS construction, with almost one-third of the modules produced and tested. We also discuss immediate applications and explore promising prospects in both scientific and medical fields.