Non-dopplerian cosmological redshift parameters in a model of graviton-dusty universe

Possible effects are considered which would be caused by a hypothetical superstrong interaction of photons or massive bodies with single gravitons of the graviton background. If full cosmological redshift magnitudes are caused by the interaction, then the luminosity distance in a flat non-expanding universe as a function of redshift is very similar to the specific function which fits supernova cosmology data by Riess et al. From another side, in this case every massive body, slowly moving relatively to the background, would experience a constant acceleration, proportional to the Hubble constant, of the same order as a small additional acceleration of Pioneer 10, 11.Comment: 5 pages. It was presented: at SIGRAV'2000 Congress, Italy (this version); in Proc. of the Int. Symp. "FFP 4" (9-13 Dec 2000, Hyderabad, India), Sidharth& Altaisky, Eds., Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001;in Proc. of the 4th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on GW (Perth, W. Australia, 8-13 July 2001

A model of gravitation with global U(1)-symmetry

It is shown that an embedding of the general relativity $4-$space into a flat $12-$space gives a model of gravitation with the global $U(1)-$symmetry and the discrete $D_{1}-$one. The last one may be transformed into the $SU(2)-$symmetry of the unified model, and the demand of independence of $U(1)-$ and $SU(2)-$transformations leads to the estimate $\sin^{2}\theta_{min}=0,20$ where $\theta_{min}$ is an analog of the Weinberg angle of the standard model.Comment: 7 page

On the polarization properties of the charmed baryon Lambda^+_c in the Lambda^+_c -> p + K^- + pi^+ + pi^0 decay

The polarization properties of the charmed Lambda^+_c baryon are investigated in weak non-leptonic four-body Lambda^+_c -> p + K^- + pi^+ + pi^0 decay. The probability of this decay and the angular distribution of the probability are calculated in the effective quark model with chiral U(3)XU(3) symmetry incorporating Heavy Quark Effective theory (HQET) and the extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with a linear realization of chiral U(3)XU(3) symmetry. The theoretical value of the probability of the decay Lambda^+_c -> p + K^- + pi^+ + pi^0 relative to the probability of the decay Lambda^+_c -> p + K^- + pi^+ does not contain free parameters and fits well experimental data. The application of the obtained results to the analysis of the polarization of the Lambda^+_c produced in the processes of photo and hadroproduction is discussed.Comment: 10 pages, no figures, Late

Data compression using correlations and stochastic processes in the ALICE Time Projection chamber

In this paper lossless and a quasi lossless algorithms for the online compression of the data generated by the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) detector of the ALICE experiment at CERN are described. The first algorithm is based on a lossless source code modelling technique, i.e. the original TPC signal information can be reconstructed without errors at the decompression stage. The source model exploits the temporal correlation that is present in the TPC data to reduce the entropy of the source. The second algorithm is based on a lossy source code modelling technique. In order to evaluate the consequences of the error introduced by the lossy compression, the results of the trajectory tracking algorithms that process data offline are analyzed, in particular, with respect to the noise introduced by the compression. The offline analysis has two steps: cluster finder and track finder. The results on how these algorithms are affected by the lossy compression are reported. In both compression technique entropy coding is applied to the set of events defined by the source model to reduce the bit rate to the corresponding source entropy. Using TPC simulated data, the lossless and the lossy compression achieve a data reduction to 49.2% of the original data rate and respectively in the range of 35% down to 30% depending on the desired precision.In this study we have focused on methods which are easy to implement in the frontend TPC electronics.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, Talk from the 2003 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP03), La Jolla, Ca, USA, March 2003, PSN THLT00