Luis Lopes
University of Coimbra
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Archive | 2015
Carlos Carreira; Luis Lopes
This paper analyses the impact on firm-level total factor productivity of both agglomeration economies and regional knowledge, using an unbalanced panel of Portuguese manufacturing firms covering the period 1996–2004. Controlling for the endogeneity problem using the Arellano and Bond (1991) difference GMM estimator, we found that both localization and urbanization economies have a significant and positive effect on firms’ TFP, with the latter playing the most important role. Sectoral specialization economies are important for small and medium firms, but not for large firms. However, larger firms profit more from regional knowledge than smaller ones.
Proceedings of XI Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors — PoS(RPC2012) | 2012
Alberto Blanco Castro; P. Fonte; Luis Lopes; W. Koenig; J.A. Garzón; Georgy Kornakov
In this work we present results concerning in beam operation of the new Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) Time of Flight (TOF) wall for the High-Acceptance DiEl ectron Spectrometer (HADES) spectrometer at GSI. The new RPC-TOF wall, fully integrated in the spectrometer, has been successfully operated under final conditions corresponding to collision of Au + AU @ 1.25 GeV. Results confirm an uniform average time response below 80 ps σ along with an average longitudinal position resolution better than 12 mm σ . The multihit capability of the system has also been investigated showing a slight degradation of time reso lution when particles hit the detector at neighbouring cells, which demonstrates the multihit capability of the concept (individually electrically shielded RPCs).
Astroparticle Physics | 2018
P. Assis; U. Barres de Almeida; A. Blanco; R. Conceição; B. D’Ettorre Piazzoli; A. De Angelis; M. Doro; P. Fonte; Luis Lopes; G. Matthiae; M. Pimenta; R. Shellard; B. Tomé
Abstract Current detectors for Very-High-Energy γ-ray astrophysics are either pointing instruments with a small field of view (Cherenkov telescopes), or large field-of-view instruments with relatively large energy thresholds (extensive air shower detectors). In this article, we propose a new hybrid extensive air shower detector sensitive in an energy region starting from about 100u202fGeV. The detector combines a small water-Cherenkov detector, able to provide a calorimetric measurement of shower particles at ground, with resistive plate chambers which contribute significantly to the accurate shower geometry reconstruction. A full simulation of this detector concept shows that it is able to reach better sensitivity than any previous gamma-ray wide field-of-view experiment in the sub-TeV energy region. It is expected to detect with a 5σ significance a source fainter than the Crab Nebula in one year at 100xa0GeV and, above 1u2009TeV a source as faint as 10% of it. As such, this instrument is suited to detect transient phenomena making it a very powerful tool to trigger observations of variable sources and to detect transients coupled to gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts.
arXiv: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics | 2017
R. Conceição; A. Blanco; Ac Pereira; B. Tome; Luis Lopes; Luis Mendes; Mario Pimenta; Miguel Godinho Ferreira; N. Carolino; Orlando Cunha; P. Fonte; P. Assis; Ricardo Luz; Raul Sarmento; C. Dobrigkeit; R. Shellard; Vitor Martins; Vitor de Souza
We report on the behaviour of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) developed for muon detection in ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) experiments. The RPCs were developed for the MARTA project and were tested on field conditions. These RPCs cover an area of
6th Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics, RICAP 2016 | 2017
P. Assis; U. Barres de Almeida; A. Blanco; R. Conceição; B. D’Ettoree Piazzoli; A. De Angelis; M. Doro; P. Fonte; Luis Lopes; G. Matthiae; M. Pimenta; R. Shellard; B. Tomé
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nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference | 2012
Paulo Martins; Paulo Crespo; Rui Ferreira Marques; M. Kajetanowicz; G. Korcyl; Luis Lopes; J. Michel; M. Palka; M. Traxler; P. Fonte
and are instrumented with 64 pickup electrodes providing a segmentation better than
Regional Studies | 2018
Carlos Carreira; Luis Lopes
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arXiv: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics | 2017
R. Conceição; P. Assis; Ulisses Barres de Almeida; A. Blanco; Benedetto D’Ettore Piazoli; Alessandro De Angelis; M. Doro; P. Fonte; Luis Lopes; Giorgio Matthiae; M. Pimenta; R. Shellard; B. Tome
cm. By shielding the detector units with enough slant mass to absorb the electromagnetic component in the air showers, a clean measurement of the muon content is allowed, a concept to be implemented in a next generation of UHECR experiments. The operation of a ground array detector poses challenging demands, as the RPC must operate remotely under extreme environmental conditions, with limited budgets for power and minimal maintenance. The RPC, DAQ, High Voltage and monitoring systems are enclosed in an aluminium-sealed case, providing a compact and robust unit suited for outdoor environments, which can be easily deployed and connected. The RPCs developed at LIP-Coimbra are able to operate using a very low gas flux, which allows running them for few years with a small gas reservoir. Several prototypes have already been built and tested both in the laboratory and outdoors. We report on the most recent tests done in the field that show that the developed RPCs have operated in a stable way for more than 2 years in field conditions.
nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference | 2013
Paulo Martins; A. Blanco; Paulo Crespo; M. Fatima Ferreira Marques; Rui Ferreira Marques; P.M. Gordo; M. Kajetanowicz; G. Korcyl; Luis Lopes; J. Michel; M. Palka; M. Traxler; P. Fonte
Currently the detection of Very High Energy gamma-rays for astrophysics rely on the measurement of the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) either using Cherenkov detectors or EAS arrays with larger field of views but also larger energy thresholds. In this talk we present a novel hybrid detector concept for a EAS array with an improved sensitivity in the lower energies (
Proceedings of XI Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors — PoS(RPC2012) | 2012
Alberto Blanco; Diego Gonzalez-Diaz; Peter Zumbruch; Marek Palka; P. Cabanelas; Burkhard Kolb; M. Traxler; Ac Pereira; J.A. Garzón; Daniel Belver; Jose Diaz; Wolfgang Koening; Luis Lopes; Alejandro Gil; P. Fonte; Georgy Kornakov
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