@thesis{2023, author = {., Mohd Zubair Akhtar}, title = {AI-based crack prediction of solder joints using FEA simulation and SAM data}, publisher = {Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt}, address = {Ingolstadt}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-32514}, pages = {iv, 70}, school = {Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This study presents a novel framework for accurately predicting the occurrence of cracks in solder joints in electronic devices. By combining Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulations and machine learning techniques, the proposed framework predicts the percentage of solder pad cracks with accuracy and cost-effectiveness. FEA simulations provide a large dataset for training machine learning models. At the same time, the integration of artificial neural network (ANN) and convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures improve the accuracy of predictions. This framework has the potential to significantly improve the reliability and efficiency of predicting solder joint failures in the electronics industry, thus improving the performance and safety of electronic systems in safety-critical applications.}, language = {en} } @thesis{2024, author = {., Tilak Kamkar}, title = {Be here now}, subtitle = {Development and evaluation of scalable eHMIs to enhance the attention, perception, and safety of inattentive pedestrians through targeted communication in complex traffic scenarios}, publisher = {Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt}, address = {Ingolstadt}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-49698}, pages = {102, LXV}, school = {Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt}, year = {2024}, abstract = {In the near future, automated vehicles are expected to become commonplace in traffic, necessitating effective communication with various traffic participants. External Human-Machine Interfaces (eHMIs) are employed to facilitate these interactions, but there is a need for scalable solutions to address a range of challenges. In complex urban environments, pedestrians often fail to perceive the intentions of automated vehicles, especially if they are distracted by multitasking or using gadgets while moving in groups. This thesis aims to enhance the attention, perception, and safety of inattentive pedestrians through the development of eHMIs that utilize multi-modal targeted communication. The effectiveness of these targeted eHMIs is evaluated against the more common multimodal broadcast communication. The study focuses on situational awareness, intent perception, and perceived safety among pedestrians using mobile phones while crossing streets, comparing targeted communication with broadcast methods. The approach involves comparing two targeted eHMIs—one using personalized projection and audio, and another using personalized mobile notifications—with a broadcast eHMI using audio and visual cues. A literature review identified research gaps and informed the design process, which included creating personas and storyboards. These were translated into three simulation conditions in a virtual reality application developed in Unity. The preliminary study was followed by a final usability study with qualitative and quantitative feedback from 28 participants. The results indicate that targeted nudging from an eHMI improves situational awareness and perceived safety among distracted pedestrians compared to broadcast eHMIs. Additionally, multi-modal targeted communication enhances the perception of intent more effectively than multi-modal broadcast communication. Thus, targeted eHMI systems could make roads safer for pedestrians and reduce automated vehicle time in traffic.}, language = {en} } @article{AartsenAbrahamAckermannetal.2017, author = {Aartsen, M. G. and Abraham, K. and Ackermann, M. and Adams, J. and Aguilar, J. A. and Ahlers, M. and Ahrens, M. and Altmann, D. and Andeen, K. and Anderson, T. and Ansseau, I. and Anton, G. and Archinger, M. and Arg{\"u}elles, C. and Auffenberg, J. and Axani, S. and Bai, X. and Barwick, S. W. and Baum, V. and Bay, R. and Beatty, J. J. and Tjus, J. Becker and Becker, K.-H. and BenZvi, S. and Berley, D. and Bernardini, E. and Bernhard, Anna and Besson, D. Z. and Binder, G. and Bindig, D. and Bissok, M. and Blaufuss, E. and Blot, S. and Bohm, C. and B{\"o}rner, M. and Bos, F. and Bose, D. and B{\"o}ser, S. and Botner, O. and Braun, J. and Brayeur, L. and Bretz, H.-P. and Bron, S. and Burgman, A. and Carver, T. and Casier, M. and Cheung, E. and Chirkin, D. and Christov, A. and Clark, K. and Classen, L. and Coenders, S. and Collin, G. H. and Conrad, J. M. and Cowen, D. F. and Cross, R. and Day, M. and Andr{\´e}, J. P. A. M. de and Clercq, C. De and Rosendo, E. del Pino and Dembinski, H. and Ridder, S. De and Desiati, P. and de Vries, K. D. and de Wasseige, G. and de With, M. and DeYoung, T. and D{\´i}az-V{\´e}lez, J. C. and Lorenzo, V. di and Dujmovic, H. and Dumm, J. P. and Dunkman, M. and Eberhardt, B. and Ehrhardt, T. and Eichmann, B. and Eller, P. and Euler, S. and Evenson, P. A. and Fahey, S. and Fazely, A. R. and Feintzeig, J. and Felde, J. and Filimonov, K. and Finley, C. and Flis, S. and F{\"o}sig, C.-C. and Franckowiak, A. and Friedman, E. and Fuchs, T. and Gaisser, T. K. and Gallagher, J. and Gerhardt, L. and Ghorbani, K. and Giang, W. and Gladstone, L. and Glauch, T. and Gl{\"u}senkamp, T. and Goldschmidt, A. and Golup, G. and Gonzalez, J. G. and Grant, D. and Griffith, Z. and Haack, C. and Ismail, A. Haj and Hallgren, A. and Halzen, F. and Hansen, E. and Hansmann, T. and Hanson, K. and Hebecker, D. and Heereman, D. and Helbing, K. and Hellauer, R. and Hickford, S. and Hignight, J. and Hill, G. C. and Hoffman, K. D. and Hoffmann, R. and Holzapfel, K. and Hoshina, K. and Huang, F. and Huber, Mark and Hultqvist, K. and In, S. and Ishihara, A. and Jacobi, E. and Japaridze, G. S. and Jeong, M. and Jero, K. and Jones, B. J. P. and Jurkovic, M. and Kappes, A. and Karg, T. and Karle, A. and Katz, U. and Kauer, M. and Keivani, A. and Kelley, J. L. and Kheirandish, A. and Kim, M. and Kintscher, T. and Kiryluk, J. and Kittler, T. and Klein, S. R. and Kohnen, G. and Koirala, R. and Kolanoski, H. and Konietz, R. and K{\"o}pke, L. and Kopper, C. and Kopper, S. and Koskinen, D. J. and Kowalski, M. and Krings, K. and Kroll, M. and Kr{\"u}ckl, G. and Kr{\"u}ger, C. and Kunnen, J. and Kunwar, S. and Kurahashi, N. and Kuwabara, T. and Labare, M. and Lanfranchi, J. L. and Larson, M. J. and Lauber, F. and Lennarz, D. and Lesiak-Bzdak, M. and Leuermann, M. and Lu, L. and L{\"u}nemann, J. and Madsen, J. and Maggi, G. and Mahn, K. B. M. and Mancina, S. and Mandelartz, M. and Maruyama, R. and Mase, K. and Maunu, R. and McNally, F. and Meagher, K. and Medici, M. and Meier, M. and Meli, A. and Menne, T. and Merino, G. and Meures, T. and Miarecki, S. and Mohrmann, L. and Montaruli, T. and Moulai, M. and Nahnhauer, R. and Naumann, U. and Neer, G. and Niederhausen, H. and Nowicki, S. C. and Nygren, D. R. and Pollmann, A. Obertacke and Olivas, A. and O'Murchadha, A. and Palczewski, T. and Pandya, H. and Pankova, D. V. and Peiffer, P. and Penek, {\"O}. and Pepper, J. A. and Heros, C. P{\´e}rez de los and Pieloth, D. and Pinat, E. and Price, P. B. and Przybylski, G. T. and Quinnan, M. and Raab, C. and R{\"a}del, L. and Rameez, M. and Rawlins, K. and Reimann, R. and Relethford, B. and Relich, M. and Resconi, E. and Rhode, W. and Richman, M. and Riedel, B. and Robertson, S. and Rongen, M. and Rott, C. and Ruhe, T. and Ryckbosch, D. and Rysewyk, D. and Sabbatini, L. and Herrera, S. E. Sanchez and Sandrock, A. and Sandroos, J. and Sarkar, S. and Satalecka, K. and Schlunder, P. and Schmidt, T. and Schoenen, S. and Sch{\"o}neberg, S. and Schumacher, L. and Seckel, D. and Seunarine, S. and Soldin, D. and Song, M. and Spiczak, G. M. and Spiering, C. and Stanev, T. and Stasik, A. and Stettner, J. and Steuer, A. and Stezelberger, T. and Stokstad, R. G. and St{\"o}ssl, A. and Str{\"o}m, R. and Strotjohann, N. L. and Sullivan, G. W. and Sutherland, M. and Taavola, H. and Taboada, I. and Tatar, J. and Tenholt, F. and Ter-Antonyan, S. and Terliuk, A. and Tešić, G. and Tilav, S. and Toale, P. A. and Tobin, M. N. and Toscano, S. and Tosi, D. and Tselengidou, M. and Turcati, A. and Unger, E. and Usner, M. and Vandenbroucke, J. and Eijndhoven, N. van and Vanheule, S. and Rossem, M. van and Santen, J. van and Veenkamp, J. and Vehring, M. and Voge, M. and Vogel, E. and Vraeghe, M. and Walck, C. and Wallace, A. and Wallraff, M. and Wandkowsky, N. and Weaver, Ch. and Weiss, M. J. and Wendt, C. and Westerhoff, S. and Whelan, B. J. and Wickmann, S. and Wiebe, K. and Wiebusch, C. H. and Wille, L. and Williams, D. R. and Wills, L. and Wolf, M. and Wood, T. R. and Woolsey, E. and Woschnagg, K. and Xu, D. L. and Xu, X. W. and Xu, Y. and Yanez, J. P. and Yodh, G. and Yoshida, S. and Zoll, M. and IceCube Collaboration,}, title = {All-sky Search for Time-integrated Neutrino Emission from Astrophysical Sources with 7 yr of IceCube Data}, volume = {835}, pages = {151}, journal = {The Astrophysical Journal}, number = {2}, publisher = {AAS}, address = {Washington}, issn = {1538-4357}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/151}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{AartsenAbrahamAckermannetal.2017, author = {Aartsen, M. G. and Abraham, K. and Ackermann, M. and Adams, J. and Aguilar, J. A. and Ahlers, Markus and Ahrens, M. and Altmann, D. and Andeen, K. and Anderson, T. and Ansseau, I. and Anton, G. and Archinger, M. and Arguelles, C. and Arlen, T. C. and Auffenberg, J. and Axani, S. and Bai, X. and Barwick, S. W. and Baum, V. and Bay, R. and Beatty, J. J. and Tjus, J. Becker and Becker, K.-H. and BenZvi, S. and Berghaus, P. and Berley, D. and Bernardini, E. and Bernhard, Anna and Besson, D. Z. and Binder, G. and Bindig, D. and Bissok, M. and Blaufuss, E. and Blot, S. and Boersma, D. and Bohm, C. and B{\"o}rner, M. and Bos, F. and Bose, D. and B{\"o}ser, S. and Botner, O. and Braun, J. and Brayeur, L. and Bretz, H.-P. and Burgman, A. and Casey, J. and Casier, M. and Cheung, E. and Chirkin, D. and Christov, A. and Clark, K. and Classen, L. and Coenders, S. and Collin, G. H. and Conrad, J. M. and Cowen, D. F. and Silva, A. H. Cruz and Daughhetee, J. and Davis, J. C. and Day, M. and Andr{\´e}, J. P. A. M. de and Clercq, C. De and Rosendo, E. del Pino and Dembinski, H. and Ridder, S. De and Desiati, P. and Vries, K. D. de and Wasseige, G. de and With, M. de and DeYoung, T. and D{\´i}az-V{\´e}lez, J. C. and Lorenzo, V. di and Dujmovic, H. and Dumm, J. P. and Dunkman, M. and Eberhardt, B. and Ehrhardt, T. and Eichmann, B. and Euler, S. and Evenson, P. A. and Fahey, S. and Fazely, A. R. and Feintzeig, J. and Felde, J. and Filimonov, K. and Finley, C. and Flis, S. and F{\"o}sig, C.-C. and Franckowiak, A. and Fuchs, T. and Gaisser, T. K. and Gaior, R. and Gallagher, J. and Gerhardt, L. and Ghorbani, K. and Giang, W. and Gladstone, L. and Glagla, M. and Gl{\"u}senkamp, T. and Goldschmidt, A. and Golup, G. and Gonzalez, J. G. and G{\´o}ra, D. and Grant, D. and Griffith, Z. and Haack, C. and Ismail, A. Haj and Hallgren, A. and Halzen, F. and Hansen, E. and Hansmann, B. and Hansmann, T. and Hanson, K. and Hebecker, D. and Heereman, D. and Helbing, K. and Hellauer, R. and Hickford, S. and Hignight, J. and Hill, G. C. and Hoffman, K. D. and Hoffmann, R. and Holzapfel, K. and Homeier, A. and Hoshina, K. and Huang, F. and Huber, Mark and Huelsnitz, W. and Hultqvist, K. and In, S. and Ishihara, A. and Jacobi, E. and Japaridze, G. S. and Jeong, M. and Jero, K. and Jones, B. J. P. and Jurkovic, M. and Kappes, A. and Karg, T. and Karle, A. and Katz, U. and Kauer, M. and Keivani, A. and Kelley, J. L. and Kemp, J. and Kheirandish, A. and Kim, M. and Kintscher, T. and Kiryluk, J. and Kittler, T. and Klein, S. R. and Kohnen, G. and Koirala, R. and Kolanoski, H. and Konietz, R. and K{\"o}pke, L. and Kopper, C. and Kopper, S. and Koskinen, D. J. and Kowalski, M. and Krings, K. and Kroll, M. and Kr{\"u}ckl, G. and Kr{\"u}ger, C. and Kunnen, J. and Kunwar, S. and Kurahashi, N. and Kuwabara, T. and Labare, M. and Lanfranchi, J. L. and Larson, M. J. and Lennarz, D. and Lesiak-Bzdak, M. and Leuermann, M. and Leuner, J. and Lu, L. and L{\"u}nemann, J. and Madsen, J. and Maggi, G. and Mahn, K. B. M. and Mancina, S. and Mandelartz, M. and Maruyama, R. and Mase, K. and Maunu, R. and McNally, F. and Meagher, K. and Medici, M. and Meier, M. and Meli, A. and Menne, T. and Merino, G. and Meures, T. and Miarecki, S. and Middell, E. and Mohrmann, L. and Montaruli, T. and Moulai, M. and Nahnhauer, R. and Naumann, U. and Neer, G. and Niederhausen, H. and Nowicki, S. C. and Nygren, D. R. and Pollmann, A. Obertacke and Olivas, A. and Omairat, A. and O'Murchadha, A. and Palczewski, T. and Pandya, H. and Pankova, D. V. and Penek, {\"O}. and Pepper, J. A. and Heros, C. P{\´e}rez de los and Pfendner, C. and Pieloth, D. and Pinat, E. and Posselt, J. and Price, P. B. and Przybylski, G. T. and Quinnan, M. and Raab, C. and R{\"a}del, L. and Rameez, M. and Rawlins, K. and Reimann, R. and Relich, M. and Resconi, E. and Rhode, W. and Richman, M. and Riedel, B. and Robertson, S. and Rongen, M. and Rott, C. and Ruhe, T. and Ryckbosch, D. and Rysewyk, D. and Sabbatini, L. and Herrera, S. E. Sanchez and Sandrock, A. and Sandroos, J. and Sarkar, S. and Satalecka, K. and Schimp, M. and Schlunder, P. and Schmidt, T. and Schoenen, S. and Sch{\"o}neberg, S. and Sch{\"o}nwald, A. and Schumacher, L. and Seckel, D. and Seunarine, S. and Soldin, D. and Song, M. and Spiczak, G. M. and Spiering, C. and Stahlberg, M. and Stamatikos, M. and Stanev, T. and Stasik, A. and Steuer, A. and Stezelberger, T. and Stokstad, R. G. and St{\"o}ßl, A. and Str{\"o}m, R. and Strotjohann, N. L. and Sullivan, G. W. and Sutherland, M. and Taavola, H. and Taboada, I. and Tatar, J. and Ter-Antonyan, S. and Terliuk, A. and Tešić, G. and Tilav, S. and Toale, P. A. and Tobin, M. N. and Toscano, S. and Tosi, D. and Tselengidou, M. and Turcati, A. and Unger, E. and Usner, M. and Vallecorsa, S. and Vandenbroucke, J. and Eijndhoven, N. van and Vanheule, S. and Rossem, M. van and Santen, J. van and Veenkamp, J. and Vehring, M. and Voge, M. and Vraeghe, M. and Walck, C. and Wallace, A. and Wallraff, M. and Wandkowsky, N. and Weaver, Ch. and Wendt, C. and Westerhoff, S. and Whelan, B. J. and Wickmann, S. and Wiebe, K. and Wiebusch, C. H. and Wille, L. and Williams, D. R. and Wills, L. and Wissing, H. and Wolf, M. and Wood, T. R. and Woolsey, E. and Woschnagg, K. and Xu, D. L. and Xu, X. W. and Xu, Y. and Yanez, J. P. and Yodh, G. and Yoshida, S. and Zoll, M.}, title = {The Contribution of FERMI-2LAC Blazars to diffuse TEV-PEV Neutrino Flux}, volume = {835}, pages = {45}, journal = {The Astrophysical Journal}, number = {1}, publisher = {IOP Publishing}, address = {London}, issn = {1538-4357}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/45}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{AartsenAckermannAdamsetal.2017, author = {Aartsen, M. G. and Ackermann, M. and Adams, J. and Aguilar, J. A. and Ahlers, M. and Ahrens, M. and Altmann, D. and Andeen, K. and Anderson, T. and Ansseau, I. and Anton, G. and Archinger, M. and Arg{\"u}elles, C. and Auffenberg, J. and Axani, S. and Bai, X. and Barwick, S. W. and Baum, V. and Bay, R. and Beatty, J. J. and Becker Tjus, J. and Becker, K.-H. and BenZvi, S. and Berley, D. and Bernardini, E. and Bernhard, Anna and Besson, D. Z. and Binder, G. and Bindig, D. and Bissok, M. and Blaufuss, E. and Blot, S. and Bohm, C. and B{\"o}rner, M. and Bos, F. and Bose, D. and B{\"o}ser, S. and Botner, O. and Braun, J. and Brayeur, L. and Bretz, H.-P. and Bron, S. and Burgman, A. and Carver, T. and Casier, M. and Cheung, E. and Chirkin, D. and Christov, A. and Clark, K. and Classen, L. and Coenders, S. and Collin, G. H. and Conrad, J. M. and Cowen, D. F. and Cross, R. and Day, M. and de Andr{\´e}, J. P. A. M. and De Clercq, C. and del Pino Rosendo, E. and Dembinski, H. and De Ridder, S. and Desiati, P. and de Vries, K. D. and de Wasseige, G. and de With, M. and DeYoung, T. and D{\´i}az-V{\´e}lez, J. C. and di Lorenzo, V. and Dujmovic, H. and Dumm, J. P. and Dunkman, M. and Eberhardt, B. and Ehrhardt, T. and Eichmann, B. and Eller, P. and Euler, S. and Evenson, P. A. and Fahey, S. and Fazely, A. R. and Feintzeig, J. and Felde, J. and Filimonov, K. and Finley, C. and Flis, S. and F{\"o}sig, C.-C. and Franckowiak, A. and Friedman, E. and Fuchs, T. and Gaisser, T. K. and Gallagher, J. and Gerhardt, L. and Ghorbani, K. and Giang, W. and Gladstone, L. and Glauch, T. and Gl{\"u}senkamp, T. and Goldschmidt, A. and Gonzalez, J. G. and Grant, D. and Griffith, Z. and Haack, C. and Hallgren, A. and Halzen, F. and Hansen, E. and Hansmann, T. and Hanson, K. and Hebecker, D. and Heereman, D. and Helbing, K. and Hellauer, R. and Hickford, S. and Hignight, J. and Hill, G. C. and Hoffman, K. D. and Hoffmann, R. and Hoshina, K. and Huang, F. and Huber, Mark and Hultqvist, K. and In, S. and Ishihara, A. and Jacobi, E. and Japaridze, G. S. and Jeong, M. and Jero, K. and Jones, B. J. P. and Kang, W. and Kappes, A. and Karg, T. and Karle, A. and Katz, U. and Kauer, M. and Keivani, A. and Kelley, J. L. and Kheirandish, A. and Kim, J. and Kim, M. and Kintscher, T. and Kiryluk, J. and Kittler, T. and Klein, S. R. and Kohnen, G. and Koirala, R. and Kolanoski, H. and Konietz, R. and K{\"o}pke, L. and Kopper, C. and Kopper, S. and Koskinen, D. J. and Kowalski, M. and Krings, K. and Kroll, M. and Kr{\"u}ckl, G. and Kr{\"u}ger, C. and Kunnen, J. and Kunwar, S. and Kurahashi, N. and Kuwabara, T. and Labare, M. and Lanfranchi, J. L. and Larson, M. J. and Lauber, F. and Lennarz, D. and Lesiak-Bzdak, M. and Leuermann, M. and Lu, L. and L{\"u}nemann, J. and Madsen, J. and Maggi, G. and Mahn, K. B. M. and Mancina, S. and Mandelartz, M. and Maruyama, R. and Mase, K. and Maunu, R. and McNally, F. and Meagher, K. and Medici, M. and Meier, M. and Meli, A. and Menne, T. and Merino, G. and Meures, T. and Miarecki, S. and Montaruli, T. and Moulai, M. and Nahnhauer, R. and Naumann, U. and Neer, G. and Niederhausen, H. and Nowicki, S. C. and Nygren, D. R. and Obertacke Pollmann, A. and Olivas, A. and O'Murchadha, A. and Palczewski, T. and Pandya, H. and Pankova, D. V. and Peiffer, P. and Penek, {\"O}. and Pepper, J. A. and P{\´e}rez de los Heros, C. and Pieloth, D. and Pinat, E. and Price, P. B. and Przybylski, G. T. and Quinnan, M. and Raab, C. and R{\"a}del, L. and Rameez, M. and Rawlins, K. and Reimann, R. and Relethford, B. and Relich, M. and Resconi, E. and Rhode, W. and Richman, M. and Riedel, B. and Robertson, S. and Rongen, M. and Rott, C. and Ruhe, T. and Ryckbosch, D. and Rysewyk, D. and Sabbatini, L. and Sanchez Herrera, S. E. and Sandrock, A. and Sandroos, J. and Sarkar, S. and Satalecka, K. and Schlunder, P. and Schmidt, T. and Schoenen, S. and Sch{\"o}neberg, S. and Schumacher, L. and Seckel, D. and Seunarine, S. and Soldin, D. and Song, M. and Spiczak, G. M. and Spiering, C. and Stanev, T. and Stasik, A. and Stettner, J. and Steuer, A. and Stezelberger, T. and Stokstad, R. G. and St{\"o}ßl, A. and Str{\"o}m, R. and Strotjohann, N. L. and Sullivan, G. W. and Sutherland, M. and Taavola, H. and Taboada, I. and Tatar, J. and Tenholt, F. and Ter-Antonyan, S. and Terliuk, A. and Tešić, G. and Tilav, S. and Toale, P. A. and Tobin, M. N. and Toscano, S. and Tosi, D. and Tselengidou, M. and Turcati, A. and Unger, E. and Usner, M. and Vandenbroucke, J. and van Eijndhoven, N. and Vanheule, S. and van Rossem, M. and van Santen, J. and Vehring, M. and Voge, M. and Vogel, E. and Vraeghe, M. and Walck, C. and Wallace, A. and Wallraff, M. and Wandkowsky, N. and Weaver, Ch. and Weiss, M. J. and Wendt, C. and Westerhoff, S. and Whelan, B. J. and Wickmann, S. and Wiebe, K. and Wiebusch, C. H. and Wille, L. and Williams, D. R. and Wills, L. and Wolf, M. and Wood, T. R. and Woolsey, E. and Woschnagg, K. and Xu, D. L. and Xu, X. W. and Xu, Y. and Yanez, J. P. and Yodh, G. and Yoshida, S. and Zoll, M.}, title = {Search for annihilating dark matter in the Sun with 3 years of IceCube data}, volume = {77}, pages = {146}, journal = {The European Physical Journal C}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {1434-6052}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4689-9}, year = {2017}, abstract = {We present results from an analysis looking for dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the IceCube neutrino telescope. Gravitationally trapped dark matter in the Sun's core can annihilate into Standard Model particles making the Sun a source of GeV neutrinos. IceCube is able to detect neutrinos with energies >100 GeV while its low-energy infill array DeepCore extends this to >10GeV. This analysis uses data gathered in the austral winters between May 2011 and May 2014, corresponding to 532 days of livetime when the Sun, being below the horizon, is a source of up-going neutrino events, easiest to discriminate against the dominant background of atmospheric muons. The sensitivity is a factor of two to four better than previous searches due to additional statistics and improved analysis methods involving better background rejection and reconstructions. The resultant upper limits on the spin-dependent dark matter-proton scattering cross section reach down to 1.46×10-5pb for a dark matter particle ofmass 500GeV annihilating exclusively into τ+τ-particles. These are currently the most stringent limits on the spin-dependent dark matter-proton scattering cross section for WIMP masses above 50GeV.}, language = {en} } @article{AartsenAckermannAdamsetal.2017, author = {Aartsen, M.G. and Ackermann, M. and Adams, J. and Aguilar, J.A. and Ahlers, M. and Ahrens, M. and Altmann, D. and Andeen, K. and Anderson, T. and Ansseau, I. and Anton, G. and Archinger, M. and Arg{\"u}elles, C. and Auer, R. and Auffenberg, J. and Axani, S. and Baccus, J. and Bai, X. and Barnet, S. and Barwick, S. W. and Baum, V. and Bay, R. and Beattie, K. and Beatty, J.J. and Tjus, J. Becker and Becker, K.-H. and Bendfelt, T. and BenZvi, S. and Berley, D. and Bernardini, E. and Bernhard, Anna and Besson, D. 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De and Descamps, F. and Desiati, P. and de Vries, K.D. and de Wasseige, G. and de With, M. and DeYoung, T. and D{\´i}az-V{\´e}lez, J.C. and di Lorenzo, V. and Dujmovic, H. and Dumm, J.P. and Dunkman, M. and Eberhardt, B. and Edwards, W.R. and Ehrhardt, T. and Eichmann, B. and Eller, P. and Euler, S. and Evenson, P.A. and Fahey, S. and Fazely, A.R. and Feintzeig, J. and Felde, J. and Filimonov, K. and Finley, C. and Flis, S. and F{\"o}sig, C.-C. and Franckowiak, A. and Fr{\`e}re, M. and Friedman, E. and Fuchs, T. and Gaisser, T. K. and Gallagher, J. and Gerhardt, L. and Ghorbani, K. and Giang, W. and Gladstone, L. and Glauch, T. and Glowacki, D. and Gl{\"u}senkamp, T. and Goldschmidt, A. and Gonzalez, J.G. and Grant, D. and Griffith, Z. and Gustafsson, L. and Haack, C. and Hallgren, A. and Halzen, F. and Hansen, E. and Hansmann, T. and Hanson, K. and Haugen, J. and Hebecker, D. and Heereman, D. and Helbing, K. and Hellauer, R. and Heller, R. and Hickford, S. and Hignight, J. and Hill, G.C. and Hoffman, K.D. and Hoffmann, R. and Hoshina, K. and Huang, F. and Huber, Mark and Hulth, P.O. and Hultqvist, K. and In, S. and Inaba, M. and Ishihara, A. and Jacobi, E. and Jacobsen, J. and Japaridze, G.S. and Jeong, M. and Jero, K. and Jones, A. and Jones, B.J.P. and Joseph, J. and Kang, W. and Kappes, A. and Karg, T. and Karle, A. and Katz, U. and Kauer, M. and Keivani, A. and Kelley, J.L. and Kemp, J. and Kheirandish, A. and Kim, J. and Kim, M. and Kintscher, T. and Kiryluk, J. and Kitamura, N. and Kittler, T. and Klein, S.R. and Kleinfelder, S. and Kleist, M. and Kohnen, G. and Koirala, R. and Kolanoski, H. and Konietz, R. and K{\"o}pke, L. and Kopper, C. and Kopper, S. and Koskinen, D.J. and Kowalski, M. and Krasberg, M. and Krings, K. and Kroll, M. and Kr{\"u}ckl, G. and Kr{\"u}ger, C. and Kunnen, J. and Kunwar, S. and Kurahashi, N. and Kuwabara, T. and Labare, M. and Laihem, K. and Landsman, H. and Lanfranchi, J.L. and Larson, M. J. and Lauber, F. and Laundrie, A. and Lennarz, D. and Leich, H. and Lesiak-Bzdak, M. and Leuermann, M. and Lu, L. and Ludwig, J. and L{\"u}nemann, J. and Mackenzie, C. and Madsen, J. and Maggi, G. and Mahn, K.B.M. and Mancina, S. and Mandelartz, M. and Maruyama, R. and Mase, K. and Matis, H. and Maunu, R. and McNally, F. and McParland, C.P. and Meade, P. and Meagher, K. and Medici, M. and Meier, M. and Meli, A. and Menne, T. and Merino, G. and Meures, T. and Miarecki, S. and Minor, R.H. and Montaruli, T. and Moulai, M. and Murray, T. and Nahnhauer, R. and Naumann, U. and Neer, G. and Newcomb, M. and Niederhausen, H. and Nowicki, S. C. and Nygren, D.R. and Pollmann, A. Obertacke and Olivas, A. and O'Murchadha, A. and Palczewski, T. and Pandya, H. and Pankova, D.V. and Patton, S. and Peiffer, P. and Penek, {\"O}. and Pepper, J.A. and Heros, C. P{\´e}rez de los and Pettersen, C. and Pieloth, D. and Pinat, E. and Price, P.B. and Przybylski, G.T. and Quinnan, M. and Raab, C. and R{\"a}del, L. and Rameez, M. and Rawlins, K. and Reimann, R. and Relethford, B. and Relich, M. and Resconi, E. and Rhode, W. and Richman, M. and Riedel, B. and Robertson, S. and Rongen, M. and Roucelle, C. and Rott, C. and Ruhe, T. and Ryckbosch, D. and Rysewyk, D. and Sabbatini, L. and Herrera, S.E. Sanchez and Sandrock, A. and Sandroos, J. and Sandstrom, P. and Sarkar, S. and Satalecka, K. and Schlunder, P. and Schmidt, T. and Schoenen, S. and Sch{\"o}neberg, S. and Schukraft, A. and Schumacher, L. and Seckel, D. and Seunarine, S. and Solarz, M. and Soldin, D. and Song, M. and Spiczak, G.M. and Spiering, C. and Stanev, T. and Stasik, A. and Stettner, J. and Steuer, A. and Stezelberger, T. and Stokstad, R.G. and St{\"o}ßl, A. and Str{\"o}m, R. and Strotjohann, N.L. and Sulanke, K.-H. and Sullivan, G.W. and Sutherland, M. and Taavola, H. and Taboada, I. and Tatar, J. and Tenholt, F. and Ter-Antonyan, S. and Terliuk, A. and Tešić, G. and Thollander, L. and Tilav, S. and Toale, P.A. and Tobin, M.N. and Toscano, S. and Tosi, D. and Tselengidou, M. and Turcati, A. and Unger, E. and Usner, M. and Vandenbroucke, J. and Eijndhoven, N. van and Vanheule, S. and Rossem, M. van and Santen, J. van and Vehring, M. and Voge, M. and Vogel, E. and Vraeghe, M. and Wahl, D. and Walck, C. and Wallace, A. and Wallraff, M. and Wandkowsky, N. and Weaver, Ch. and Weiss, M. J. and Wendt, C. and Westerhoff, S. and Wharton, D. and Whelan, B.J. and Wickmann, S. and Wiebe, K. and Wiebusch, C.H. and Wille, L. and Williams, D.R. and Wills, L. and Wisniewski, P. and Wolf, M. and Wood, T.R. and Woolsey, E. and Woschnagg, K. and Xu, D. L. and Xu, X.W. and Xu, Y. and Yanez, J.P. and Yodh, G. and Yoshida, S. and Zoll, M.}, title = {The IceCube Neutrino Observatory: instrumentation and online systems}, volume = {12}, pages = {P03012}, journal = {Journal of Instrumentation}, number = {03}, publisher = {IOP Publishing}, address = {London}, issn = {1748-0221}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/03/p03012}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{AartsenAckermannAdamsetal.2018, author = {Aartsen, M.G. and Ackermann, M. and Adams, J. and Aguilar, J.A. and Ahlers, M. and Ahrens, M. and Altmann, D. and Andeen, K. and Anderson, T. and Ansseau, I. and Anton, G. and Archinger, M. and Arg{\"u}elles, C. and Auffenberg, J. and Axani, S. and Bai, X. and Barwick, S. W. and Baum, V. and Bay, R. and Beatty, J.J. and Becker Tjus, J. and Becker, K.-H. and BenZvi, S. and Berley, D. and Bernardini, E. and Bernhard, Anna and Besson, D. Z. and Binder, G. and Bindig, D. and Bissok, M. and Blaufuss, E. and Blot, S. and Bohm, C. and B{\"o}rner, M. and Bos, F. and Bose, D. and B{\"o}ser, S. and Botner, O. and Braun, J. and Brayeur, L. and Bretz, H.-P. and Bron, S. and Burgman, A. and Carver, T. and Casier, M. and Cheung, E. and Chirkin, D. and Christov, A. and Clark, K. and Classen, L. and Coenders, S. and Collin, G.H. and Conrad, J. 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K. and Gallagher, J. and Gerhardt, L. and Ghorbani, K. and Giang, W. and Gladstone, L. and Glauch, T. and Gl{\"u}senkamp, T. and Goldschmidt, A. and Gonzalez, J.G. and Grant, D. and Griffith, Z. and Haack, C. and Hallgren, A. and Halzen, F. and Hansen, E. and Hansmann, T. and Hanson, K. and Hebecker, D. and Heereman, D. and Helbing, K. and Hellauer, R. and Hickford, S. and Hignight, J. and Hill, G.C. and Hoffman, K.D. and Hoffmann, R. and Holzapfel, K. and Hoshina, K. and Huang, F. and Huber, Mark and Hultqvist, K. and In, S. and Ishihara, A. and Jacobi, E. and Japaridze, G.S. and Jeong, M. and Jero, K. and Jones, B.J.P. and Jurkovic, M. and Kang, W. and Kappes, A. and Karg, T. and Karle, A. and Katz, U. and Kauer, M. and Keivani, A. and Kelley, J.L. and Kheirandish, A. and Kim, J. and Kim, M. and Kintscher, T. and Kiryluk, J. and Kittler, T. and Klein, S.R. and Kohnen, G. and Koirala, R. and Kolanoski, H. and Konietz, R. and K{\"o}pke, L. and Kopper, C. and Kopper, S. and Koskinen, D.J. and Kowalski, M. and Krings, K. and Kroll, M. and Kr{\"u}ckl, G. and Kr{\"u}ger, C. and Kunnen, J. and Kunwar, S. and Kurahashi, N. and Kuwabara, T. and Labare, M. and Lanfranchi, J.L. and Larson, M. 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W. and Baum, V. and Bay, R. and Beatty, J.J. and Becker Tjus, J. and Becker, K.-H. and BenZvi, S. and Berley, D. and Bernardini, E. and Bernhard, Anna and Besson, D. Z. and Binder, G. and Bindig, D. and Bissok, M. and Blaufuss, E. and Blot, S. and Bohm, C. and B{\"o}rner, M. and Bos, F. and Bose, D. and B{\"o}ser, S. and Botner, O. and Braun, J. and Brayeur, L. and Bretz, H.-P. and Bron, S. and Burgman, A. and Carver, T. and Casier, M. and Cheung, E. and Chirkin, D. and Christov, A. and Clark, K. and Classen, L. and Coenders, S. and Collin, G.H. and Conrad, J. M. and Cowen, D.F. and Cross, R. and Day, M. and de Andr{\´e}, J.P.A.M. and De Clercq, C. and del Pino Rosendo, E. and Dembinski, H. and De Ridder, S. and Desiati, P. and de Vries, K.D. and de Wasseige, G. and de With, M. and DeYoung, T. and D{\´i}az-V{\´e}lez, J.C. and di Lorenzo, V. and Dujmovic, H. and Dumm, J.P. and Dunkman, M. and Eberhardt, B. and Ehrhardt, T. and Eichmann, B. and Eller, P. and Euler, S. and Evenson, P.A. and Fahey, S. and Fazely, A.R. and Feintzeig, J. and Felde, J. and Filimonov, K. and Finley, C. and Flis, S. and F{\"o}sig, C.-C. and Franckowiak, A. and Friedman, E. and Fuchs, T. and Gaisser, T. 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= {Abdalsalam, Mohannad Mohamad Alsayed}, title = {Convective losses inside a cavity of a novel insulating glass flat-plate solar thermal collector}, publisher = {Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt}, address = {Ingolstadt}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-35881}, pages = {IX, 87}, school = {Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Large-scale solar thermal district heating plants are considered to serve as a renewable alternative in European District Heating systems but their execution imposes widely-considered demand fluctuations and initial cost challenges. Consequently, A novel Insulated glass flat plate solar thermal collector (IGFPC) of low manufacturing cost is introduced to the industry, nevertheless, more research is needed on the collector's convective heat losses and efficiency. This research focuses on the numerical study of the convective heat losses inside the cavity of the novel IGFPC. The review of other literature concludes the inability to describe the convective losses inside the cavity using other researchers' correlations due to its large aspect ratio and high operating Rayleigh range so a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation using the Finite Elements Method (FEM) is performed. The research investigates the optimum simulation settings and the optimum mesh size to solve the CFD simulation, in addition to, the governing correlations representing the heat transfer regime inside the cavity. The cavity inclination is studied at angles 0, 15, 30, 45, and 60 degrees heated from below, and Rayleigh numbers ranging from 10^3 to 10^6. It is concluded that the Reynolds stress model (RSM) is the most accurate turbulent model to represent turbulent flow inside the cavity and its results are comparable to other results from the literature. In comparison with the literature review, the simulation results show low convective heat losses at Ra < Ra critical and high convective heat losses at Ra > Ra critical. It is also noted that at a lower Rayleigh number, the cavity experience edge rolls at lower inclination angles and cell rolls at higher inclination angles. Finally, a correlation in the Nusselt Rayleigh domain is derived to be used for numerically calculating overall losses and efficiency for cavities with a high aspect ratio. Keywords: solar district heating, convective heat losses, solar thermal collector, insulated glass flat-plate collector, natural convection, computational fluid dynamics, Nusselt / Rayleigh correlations, Rayleigh number, rectangular cavity, cavity inclination angle}, language = {en} }