New Charm Results from Focus

New results from the photoproduction experiment FOCUS are reported: Dalitz plot analysis, semileptonic form factor ratios and excited meson spectroscopy.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, Frascati preprint style lnfprep.sty (included). Presented by S.Bianco at the 18th Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste 29 February-6 March, La Thuile, Vallee d'Aoste, Italy. Frascati preprint LNF-04/14(P), Fermilab preprint FERMILAB-CONF-04-372-

Prospect of D0 mixing and CPV at LHCb

Precision measurements in charm physics offer a window into a unique sector of potential New Physics interactions. LHCb is poised to become a world leading experiment for charm studies, recording enormous statistics with a detector tailored for flavor physics. This article presents recent charm CPV and mixing studies from LHCb, including LHCb's first CP asymmetry measurement with 37 inverse pb of data collected in 2010. The difference of the CP asymmetries of D0 decays to the K-K+ and \pi-\pi+ final states is determined to be \Delta A_{CP} = (-0.28 +/- 0.70 +/- 0.25)%. Significant updates to the material presented at the 4th International Workshop on Charm Physics are included.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm2010), Beijing, Chin

Space-time nature of causality

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Practical Algorithms for Multicast Support in Input Queues Switches

Abstract — This paper deals with multicast flow support in N × N Input Queued switch architectures. A practical approach to support multicast traffic is presented, assuming that O(N) queues are available at each input port. The focus is on dynamic queueing policies, where, at each input port, multicast flows are assigned to one among the available queues when flows become active: flows are assigned to queues according to switch queue status and, possibly, to flow information. We discuss queueing assignments, scheduling algorithms and flow activity definition models. We explain why dynamic queueing disciplines may outperform static policies, and we show that, even in the most favorable conditions for static policies, they provide comparable performance. I

Effects of Littlest Higgs model in rare D meson decays

A tree-level flavor changing neutral current in the up-like quark sector appears in one of the variations of the Littlest Higgs model. We investigate the effects of this coupling in the D+ -> pi+ l+ l- and D0 -> rho0 l+ l- decays, which are the most appropriate candidates for the experimental studies. However, the effects are found to be too small to be observed in the current and the foreseen experimental facilities. These decays are still dominated by the standard model long-distance contributions, which are reevaluated based on the new experimental input.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures; new constraint on scale f taken into account and effects on charm meson decays recalculate

The EMBH model in GRB 991216 and GRB 980425

This is a summary of the two talks presented at the Rome GRB meeting by C.L. Bianco and R. Ruffini. It is shown that by respecting the Relative Space-Time Transformation (RSTT) paradigm and the Interpretation of the Burst Structure (IBS) paradigm, important inferences are possible: a) in the new physics occurring in the energy sources of GRBs, b) on the structure of the bursts and c) on the composition of the interstellar matter surrounding the source.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, in the Proceedings of the "Third Rome Workshop on Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era", 17-20 September 2002, M. Feroci, F. Frontera, N. Masetti, L. Piro (editors