Browsing by Author "Buthelezi, Z"

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    Fine structure of the isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance in Si 28 and Al 27
    (2016) Usman, I T; Buthelezi, Z; Carter, J; Cooper, G R J; Fearick, R W; Förtsch, S V; Fujita, H; Fujita, Y; von Neumann-Cosel, P; Neveling, R; Papakonstantinou, P; Pysmenetska, I; Richter, A; Roth, R; Sideras-Haddad, E; Smit, F D
    The International Society for Burns Injuries (ISBI) has published guidelines for the management of multiple or mass burns casualties, and recommends that 'each country has or should have a disaster planning system that addresses its own particular needs.' The need for a national burns disaster plan integrated with national and provincial disaster planning was discussed at the South African Burns Society Congress in 2009, but there was no real involvement in the disaster planning prior to the 2010 World Cup; the country would have been poorly prepared had there been a burns disaster during the event. This article identifies some of the lessons learnt and strategies derived from major burns disasters and burns disaster planning from other regions. Members of the South African Burns Society are undertaking an audit of burns care in South Africa to investigate the feasibility of a national burns disaster plan. This audit (which is still under way) also aims to identify weaknesses of burns care in South Africa and implement improvements where necessary.
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    Production of W± bosons in the semi-muonic channel at forward rapidity in ALICE
    (2013) Senosi, Kgotlaesele Johnson; Buthelezi, Z
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    The study of the production of heavy flavour muons as a function of charged-particle multiplicity in proton-proton collisions at 8TeV with ALICE at the LHC
    (2016) Mhlanga, Sibaliso; Cleymans, J W A; Buthelezi, Z
    ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a detector designed and optimized to study ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions in which a hot, dense and strongly interacting Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) medium called the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is created. ALICE also studies proton-proton collisions both to test for pertubative QCD (pQCD) theories and as reference for comparison with heavy-ion collisions. ALICE measures hadrons, leptons, and photons up to very high transverse momentum (pT), up to ∼100 GeV/c. It consists of a central barrel which covers a rapidity of | η | < 0.9 and a Muon Spectrometer which covers the forward rapidity, -4 < η < -2.5. The Muon Spectrometer measures dimuons from the decay of quarkonia (charm-anti-charm (c c ) e.g. J/Ψ), as well as single muons from heavy flavours (e.g. charm (c) and bottom (b) hadrons) and electroweak bosons (W ± , Z 0 ), which are tools for studying QGP as well as the initial conditions of the collision. In this thesis the production of heavy flavours is measured via the contribution of their muonic decays to the inclusive pT -differential muon yield, reconstructed with the Muon Spectrometer and studied as a function of charged-particle multiplicity in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV centre-of-mass energy. The charged-particle multi- plicity is measured in the central barrel. The aim of the study is to investigate the role of multi-parton interactions in the production of heavy quarks, particularly heavy flavour.