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Lifetimes of Heavy-Flavour Hadrons -- Whence and Whither?
A theoretical treatment for the weak decays of heavy-flavour hadrons has been
developed that is genuinely based on QCD. Its methodology as it applies to
total lifetimes and the underlying theoretical issues are sketched. Predictions
are compared with present data. One discrepancy emerges: the beauty baryon
lifetime appears to be significantly shorter than expected. The ramifications
of those findings are analyzed in detail.Comment: 15 pages, no figures, LATEX, two references added and new information
concerning a lower charm content in B decays incorporate
The leader operators of the -dimensional relativistic rotating oscillators
The main pairs of leader operators of the quantum models of relativistic
rotating oscillators in arbitrary dimensions are derived. To this end one
exploits the fact that these models generate P\"{o}schl-Teller radial problems
with remarkable properties of supersymmetry and shape invariance.Comment: 11 page
Robustness to fundamental uncertainty in AGI alignment
The AGI alignment problem has a bimodal distribution of outcomes with most outcomes clustering around the poles of total success and existential, catastrophic failure. Consequently, attempts to solve AGI alignment should, all else equal, prefer false negatives (ignoring research programs that would have been successful) to false positives (pursuing research programs that will unexpectedly fail). Thus, we propose adopting a policy of responding to points of metaphysical and practical uncertainty associated with the alignment problem by limiting and choosing necessary assumptions to reduce the risk false positives. Herein we explore in detail some of the relevant points of uncertainty that AGI alignment research hinges on and consider how to reduce false positives in response to them
CP, T and CPT Symmetries at the Turn of a New Millenium
After summarizing the status concerning CP violation in 1998 I describe the
exciting developments of the last two years and extrapolate to the future. I
comment on recent lessons about T and CPT invariance maninly from CPLEAR and
emphasize the potential of finding New Physics by analyzing and
charm decays and searching for electric dipole moments.Comment: 21 pages, LaTex, Lecture given at LEAP2000, Venice, Italy, Aug. 21 -
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