University of Mons

About: University of Mons is a education organization based out in Mons, Belgium. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Large Hadron Collider & Standard Model. The organization has 3073 authors who have published 9465 publications receiving 294776 citations.

Inclusive Search for a Highly Boosted Higgs Boson Decaying to a Bottom Quark-Antiquark Pair

Abstract: An inclusive search for the standard model Higgs boson (H) produced with large transverse momentum (p_T) and decaying to a bottom quark-antiquark pair (bb) is performed using a data set of pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb^(−1). A highly Lorentz-boosted Higgs boson decaying to bb is reconstructed as a single, large radius jet, and it is identified using jet substructure and dedicated b tagging techniques. The method is validated with Z → bb decays. The Z → bb process is observed for the first time in the single-jet topology with a local significance of 5.1 standard deviations (5.8 expected). For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, an excess of events above the expected background is observed (expected) with a local significance of 1.5 (0.7) standard deviations. The measured cross section times branching fraction for production via gluon fusion of H → bb with reconstructed p_T > 450 GeV and in the pseudorapidity range −2.5 < η < 2.5 is 74 ± 48 (stat)^(+17)_(−10)(syst) fb, which is consistent within uncertainties with the standard model prediction.

Conjugated Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces: Electronic and Chemical Structure of Interfaces for Polymer Light Emitting Devices

Abstract: In this book, we attempt to bring together in one place the results of a relatively large number of basic studies of conjugated polymer surfaces, as well as the 'early stages of metal-polymer inter ...

Polyester-Grafted Cellulose Nanowhiskers: A New Approach for Tuning the Microstructure of Immiscible Polyester Blends

Abstract: Cellulose nanowhiskers (CNW), extracted from ramie fibers by sulfuric acid hydrolysis, were used as substrates to compatibilize binary polyester blends containing 50/50 (w/w) polycaprolactone (PCL) and polylactide (PLA). To tailor their interfacial energy and fine-tune their adhesion with the components of the blend, CNW were subjected to different surface polyester grafting by the means of ring-opening polymerization. PCL and PLA homopolyesters as well as P(CL-b-LA) diblock copolymers were successfully grafted on the surface of CNW and the resulting substrates were loaded into the PCL/PLA blend by melt-blending. Morphological and rheological analyses were conducted in order to evaluate the ability of these nanoparticles to enhance the compatibility of PCL/PLA blends. Our results showed that unmodified CNW as well as (co)polyester-grafted CNW improved, at different levels, the compatibility of PCL/PLA blends by preventing from coalescence the dispersed domains. (co)polyester-grafted CNW also enhance the m...

Acute urticaria with pyrexia as the first manifestations of a COVID-19 infection.

Abstract: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) affects principally the respiratory tract but recent studies described that COVID‐19 could present a broader clinical spectrum from the absence of any symptoms to heart 1, digestive 2 or Ear‐Nose‐Throat (including anosmia and ageusia) 3 manifestations. Here we report two cases of peculiar skin manifestation.