Wroclaw neutrino event generator

A neutrino event generator developed by the Wroclaw Neutrino Group is described. The physical models included in the generator are discussed and illustrated with the results of simulations. The considered processes are quasi-elastic scattering and pion production modelled by combining the $\Delta$ resonance excitation and deep inelastic scattering.Comment: Talk given at 2nd Scandanavian Neutrino Workshop (SNOW 2006), Stockholm, Sweden, 2-6 May 2006. 3 pages, 6 figure

Local Fermi gas in inclusive muon capture from nuclei

We compare local Fermi gas and shell model in muon capture in nuclei in order to estimate the effect of finite nuclear size in low energy weak reactions.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of 20th Max Born Symposium, Wroclaw (Poland), December 7-10, 200

Simplified direct water footprint model to support urban water management

Water resources conservation corresponding to urban growth is an increasing challenge for European policy makers. Water footprint (WF) is one of the methods to address this challenge. The objective of this study was to develop a simplified model to assess the WF of direct domestic and non-domestic water use within an urban area and to demonstrate its effectiveness in supporting new urban water management strategies and solutions. The new model was tested on three Central European urban areas with different characteristics i.e., Wroclaw (Poland), Innsbruck (Austria), and Vicenza (Italy). Obtained WFs varied from 291 dm3/(day∙capita) in Wroclaw, 551 dm3/(day∙capita) in Vicezna to 714 dm3/(day∙capita) in Innsbruck. In addition, WF obtained with the proposed model for the city of Vicenza was compared with a more complex approach. The results proved the model to be robust in providing reasonable results using a small amount of data

Advanced Technology from and for Basic Science: Superconductivity and Superfluid Helium at the Large Hadron Collider

Inaugural Lecture of the Academic Year 2007-2008 - Politechnika Wroclawska/Wroclaw University of Technology - 2 October 2007 Translated in Polish by Maciej Chorowski - Wroclaw University of Technolog

M2-branes, Einstein manifolds and triple systems

This is the written version of a talk given on 1 July 2009 at the XXV Max Born Symposium: the Planck Scale, held in Wroclaw, Poland. I review the possible transverse geometries to supersymmetric M2-brane configurations and discuss the representation-theoretic description of their conjectured dual superconformal Chern-Simons theories.Comment: 12 pages; V2: reference(s) adde

Matrix Models, Emergent Spacetime and Symmetry Breaking

We discuss how a matrix model recently shown to describe emergent gravity may contain extra degrees of freedom which reproduce some characteristics of the standard model, in particular the breaking of symmetries and the correct quantum numbers of fermions.Comment: 10 pages. Talk presented by F.L. at the XXV Max Born Symposium, Wroclaw 200