Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Claudio Frederico Pascoal da Silva
Citation names
- Silva, Claudio
- Claudio Pascoal da Silva
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 8E1F-2047-1338
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-1771-1517
Addresses
- Institut für Astroteilchenphysik Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344, Eggenstein, Eggenstein, Germany (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Particles and Fields Physics
- Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Nuclear Physics
- Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Optics
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
Italian | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
French | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) |
German | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2005/01/01 - 2010/10/13
Concluded
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Fisica (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Study of the Reflectance Distributions of Fluoropolymers and Other Rough Surfaces with Interest to Scintillation Detectors" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor |
2004
Concluded
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Física (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Análise dos Resultados da Simulação Monte Carlo de uma Câmara de Xénon Líquido e Modulação dos Processos de Reflexão nas
Superfícies" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17.0 |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2024/09/01 - 2026/08/30 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany |
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany | ||
2017/12/01 - 2024/02/28 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal |
2011/04/01 - 2016/11/30 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020/09/01 - 2024/08/31 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
2016 - 2018 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
2015 - 2016 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2005/01/01 - 2011/01/01 | Monitor do Departamento de Física | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2012/04 - 2014/06 | Participation in LUX experiment and R&D on liquid xenon detectors for dark matter search | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2011/01 - 2012/03 | Participation in the LUX Collaboration and R&D on Liquid Xenon Detectors for Dark Matter Search | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2010/01 - 2010/12 | Participation in ZEPLIN-III experiment and R&D of liquid xenon detectors for dark matter search | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2008/10 - 2009/12 | Participation in ZEPLIN-III experiment and R&D of liquid xenon detectors for dark matter search | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2007/07 - 2008/09 | Development of liquid xenon detectors for dark matter search and participation in the ZEPLIN Collaboration | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2006/11 - 2007/12 | Development of liquid xenon detectors for dark matter search and participation in the ZEPLIN Program of the UKDM Colaboration | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2005/09 - 2007/01 | Development of liquid xenon detectors for WIMP detection and participation in the ZEPLIN Program of the UKDMC | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2021/02/01 - 2024/01/31 | Participação da experiência LUX-ZEPLIN: análise dos dados do primeiro período de aquisição e preparação da segunda tomada
de dados
PTDC/FIS-PAR/2831/2020
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2017/12 - 2021/12 | Optical Studies for Performance and Optimization of DUNE and the LZ Dark Matter Detectors
IF/00877/2015/CP1311/CT0002
Principal investigator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2018/09/01 - 2021/08/31 | Participação na experiência LUX-ZEPLIN: contribuições científicas e técnicas
PTDC/FIS-PAR/28567/2017
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2016/01/01 - 2018/09/07 | Deteção directa de matéria escura: participação nas experiências LUX-ZEPLIN e LUX
PTDC/FIS-NUC/1525/2014
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2011/04/01 - 2016/08/31 | THE DETECTION OF DARK MATTER WITH LIQUID XENON DETECTORS
SFRH/BPD/73676/2010
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2011/01/01 - 2012/03/15 | Participação na Colaboração LUX e I&D em Detectores de Xénon Líquido para Detecção de Matéria Escura
CERN/FP/116374/2010
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2009/01/01 - 2011/12/31 | Estudo de viabilidade da utilização de dispersão Compton na reconstrução de imagens em PET
PTDC/FIS/67002/2006
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2005/01/01 - 2008/12/31 | ESTUDO DE DETECTORES DE XÉNON LÍQUIDO ULTRAPURO
SFRH/BD/19036/2004
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2006/11/01 - 2007/12/31 | Desenvolvimento de detectores de xénon líquido para matéria escura e participação no programa ZEPLIN da colaboração UKDM
POCI/FP/63925/2005
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2005/09/01 - 2007/01/31 | Desenvolvimento de detectores de xénon líquido para matéria escura e participação no programa ZEPLIN da colaboração UKDM
POCI/FP/63446/2005
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Coimbra, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Conference paper |
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Journal article |
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Preprint |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2020/06/22 | Sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment to the 0ßß decay of Xe-136 | XXIX International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics https://nusoft.fnal.gov/nova/nu2020postersession/pdf/posterPDF-581.pdf
Fermilab (online only conference) (United States)
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2019/10/10 | Dark Matter Day 2019: Finding the Missing Matter |
Centro Ciência Viva Rómulo de Carvalho (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2018/06/25 | Latest results from the LUX dark matter experiment | The 14th International Workshop Dark Side Of the Universe,
(Annecy, France)
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2017/03/20 | Dark Matter Searches in LUX | Rencontres de Moriond session on Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe
Rencontres de Moriond (La Thuile, Italy)
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2017/01/11 | Dark Matter Searches in LUX | Café com Física - Ciclo de Palestras do Departamento de Física da Universidade de Coimbra
Departamento de Física da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2016/11/28 | Dark Matter Searches in LUX | 13th International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA 2016) https://indico.cern.ch/event/491882/contributions/2317936/attachments/1378273/2093967/20161128_ClaudioSilva_COSPA_V2.pdf
CosPA (Sydney)
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2014/03/24 | First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX Detector | Seminar at CPPM (https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/9682/material/slides/0.pdf)
CCPM (Marselga, France)
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2014/03/18 | First results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment | Rencontres de Moriond EW 2014 (https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/9116/session/5/contribution/183/material/slides/0.pdf)
(La Thuile, Italy)
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2013/12/12 | First results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment | Seminar at the Laboratori Nazionali de Gran Sasso, Gran Sasso
INFN (Gran Sasso)
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2013/11/13 | Primeiros resultados da experiência de matéria escura LUX | Seminar at the Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra (https://indico.lip.pt/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=61)
Departamento de Física da Universidade de Coimbra
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2013/09/26 | Dark matter searches with the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment | Symposia 14th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics and Detctors (http://villaolmo.mib.infn.it/Conference_Program/Conference_Programme_2013.pdf)
ICATPP (Como, Italy)
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2011/12/18 | The LUX Dark Matter search experiment | IDPASC Dark Matter Workshop
IDPASC (Évora, Portugal)
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2011/06/11 | PTFE reflectance measurements, modelling and simulation for Xenon detectors | 2nd Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP 2011) (https://indico.cern.ch/event/102998/session/21/contribution/169)
TIPP (Chicago, United States)
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2007/09/14 | A New Reflection Model to the Geant4 Simulation | 12th Geant4 Collaboration Workshop in Manchester
Geant4 Collaboration (Manchester, United Kingdom)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2021/09/01 - Current | Two-neutrino and neutrinoless electron capture in Xe-124
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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2018/09/01 - Current | Continuous Calibration And Monitoring for LZ Dark Matter Experiment
Co-supervisor of Guilherme Pinheiro Pereira
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Fisica (PhD) |
2019/09/01 - 2021/09 | Sensitivity of the Measurement of Double Electron Caption in Xe-124 for LZ
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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2019/09/01 - 2021/03/01 | Measuring Diffuse Reflectance in a Liquid Interface - with applications to noble liquid detectors
Supervisor
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Física (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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2018/09/01 - 2020/07/30 | Magnetic Inelastic Dark Matter Searches in LUX
Supervisor
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Física (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2017 - Current | Outreach Activity: Fisica na UC, A Summer School in the University of Coimbra for undergraduate students, 2009, 2010 and 2017.
The students were involved in a project called Simula ¸c ~ao de Sistemas Gravitacionais. This project was proposed by me and
Orlando Oliveira (2017)
Other (Other)
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Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
2018/04/22 - 2018/04/24 | LUX Analysis Workshop - I organized this three-day workshop in the Department of Physics Coimbra on the LUX analysis. In total,
about 30 members of the LUX collaboration participated in this successful scientific meeting. (2018/04/24 - 2018/04/24)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
2017/10/21 - 2017/10/25 | LUX Workshop Analysis, , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, I organised this workshop in collaboration with the local
Berkeley group. In total, 25 members of the LUX collaboration participated in this scientific meeting. (2017/10/21 - 2017/10/25)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2020/07/30 | Magnetic Inelastic Dark Matter Searches in LUX
Supervisor
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Jacinto Renato Pinto Fonseca (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2021 - Current | Member of the Review Committee GPU optical simulations in LZ
Member
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2019/01/01 - Current | Review Committee of First direct detection constraint on mirror dark matter kinetic mixing using LUX 2013 data". Phys. Rev. D 101 (2020): 012003-012003 | |
2020 - 2021 | Member of the Writing Committee of "Constraints on Effective Field Theory Couplings Using 311.2 days of LUX Data" https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06998
Under journal revision - to be published in PRD
Member
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2018 - 2020 | Member of Writing Committee of Projected sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment to the 0¿ßß decay of Xe-136". Phys. Rev.
C 102 (2020): 014602-014602
Member
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2018/01/01 - 2019/08/01 | Coordinator of the High Energy ER group of LUX-ZEPLIN: this group is responsible for the physics analysis above the WIMP search
region
Coordinator
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2017/06 - 2018/05 | LUX Analysis Coordinator: The main tasks of the analysis coordinator are: i) to coordinate and review all the analysis activities
within the collaboration, ii) to manage the approval process of the analysis results, iii) to organise and chair the weekly
analysis meeting and attend all the other sub-group meetings; iv) to organise the LUX analysis workshops
Coordinator
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2016 - 2018 | Coordinator of the Writing Committee of Position reconstruction in LUX". Journal of Instrumentation 13 2 (2018)
Coordinator
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2016 - 2018 | Member of the Writing Committee "Calibration, event reconstruction, data analysis, and limit calculation for the LUX dark
matter experiment". Physical Review D 97 10 (2018)"
Member
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2014/01/01 - 2017/01/01 | Position Reconstruction Data analysis group in LUX: coordinator of the analysis responsible for the position reconstruction
related-analysis and field correction
Coordinator
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2016 - 2017 | Member of the Writing Committee Silva, Claudio. "Kr-83m calibration of the 2013 LUX dark matter search". Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017):
112009-112009
Member
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Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2021/09/05 - 2021/09/05 | PANIC 2021 | Lisbon |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2022/09/14 - Current | Nazareth School of IDPASC "A Dark Matter Problem" | (Doutoramento) | |
2023/02/01 - 2023/07/01 | Laboratorios Avançados em Física | Laboratorios Avançados de Física | |
2019/09/01 - 2020/12/22 | Projecto de Tese em Instrumentação (03005978) | Fisica (Doutoramento) | |
2018/09/01 - 2019/07/01 | Seminário I (02003413) | Fisica (Mestrado) | |
2018/09/01 - 2019/06/01 | Seminario II | Fisica (Mestrado) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
2018/03/01 - 2018/07/01 | Fisica Nuclear | Física (Mestrado) | |
2017/03/01 - 2017/07/01 | Física Nuclear | Física (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
2016/09/01 - 2017/02/28 | Radiações em Biomedicina (01003013) | Fisica (Mestrado) | |
2016/03/01 - 2016/07/01 | Ondas e Óptica | Física (Mestrado) |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2021/06/01 - 2021/10/01 | Summer School for Undergraduate Students | Diogo Gorgulho, Francisco Casalinho, & Tiago Martins |
2019/11/05 - 2021/02/05 | Orientação do Postdoc Salvatore Davide Porzio | Salvatore Davide Porzio |
Other jury / evaluation
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2020/01/01 - Current | Referee for Journal of Instrumentation (JINST ) | |
2010/01/01 - 2015/01/01 | Referee for the Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2009 | John Hubbell Award for the best student presentation by poster at the 11th International Symposium on Radiation Physics |
2003 | Dalla Bella prize for the best student in finishing the Physics course
Caixa Geral de Depositos, Portugal
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