Quantitative m-XRF analysis based on standardless calibration is limited by the lack of information on the shape of the excitation spectrum resulting from using capillary lenses. The measurement of radiation scattered from a sample was used in combination with Monte Carlo simulation of radiation transport to estimate the energy spectral distribution of the excitation radiation. Further, a standardless calibration based on the fundamental parameter method implemented in the IAEA-QXAS software package was carried out and verified for glass and fused ore certified reference materials. The accuracy and repeatability achieved are reported.

We have included the effective description of squark interactions with charginos/neutralinos in the MadGraph MSSM model. This effective description includes the effective Yukawa couplings, and another logarithmic term which encodes the supersymmetry-breaking. We have performed an extensive test of our implementation analyzing the results of the partial decay widths of squarks into charginos and neutralinos obtained by using FeynArts/FormCalc programs and the new model file in MadGraph. We present results for the cross-section of top-squark production decaying into charginos and neutralinos.

A conceptual design of a beam-shaping assembly for boron neutron capture therapy using deuterium-tritium accelerator based neutrons source is developed. Calculations based on a simple geometry model for the radiation transport are initially performed to estimate the assembly materials and their linear dimensions. Afterward, the assembly geometry is produced, optimized and verified. In order to perform these calculations the general-purpose MCNP code is used. Irradiation time and therapeutic gain are utilized as beam assessment parameters. Metallic uranium and manganese are successfully tested for fast-to-epithermal neutron moderation. In the present beam-shaping assembly proposal, the therapeutic gain is improved by 23% and the accelerator current required for a fixed irradiation period is reduced by six times compared to previous proposals based on the same D-T reaction.

A detailed study of top-quark polarizations and tt charge asymmetries, induced by topsquark-pair production at the LHC and the subsequent decayst → tχ 0 1 , is performed within the effective description of squark interactions, which includes the effective Yukawa couplings and another logarithmic term encoding the supersymmetry breaking. This effective approach is more suitable for its introduction into Monte-Carlo simulations and we make use of its implementation in MadGraph in order to investigate the possibilities of the charge asymmetry A C , measured at the LHC and consistent with SM expectations, to discriminate among different SUSY scenarios and analyze the implications of these scenarios in the top polarizations and related observables. * arian@unizar.es † ernesto.arganda@unizar.es ‡ siannah@unizar.es