Center Vortices, Instantons, and Confinement

We study the relation between center vortices and instantons in lattice QCD.Comment: 3 pages, 1 color figure, LaTeX209 using BoxedEPS and esprc2.sty (provided); talk presented by J.W. Negele to be published in Lattice99 (Topology); email to [email protected]

Scaling Analysis of Improved Actions for Pure SU(3) Gauge Theory

We have explored the behaviour of some improved actions based on a nonperturbative renormalization group (RG) analysis in coupling space. We calculate the RG flow in two-coupling space (\boneone,\bonetwo) and examine the restoration of rotational invariance and the scaling of physical quantities $(T_c/\sqrt{\sigma})$.Comment: LATTICE98(improvement

Los recursos genéticos caprinos y el desarrollo de los pequeños productores en Perú

Resumen de la comunicación presentada al III Congreso Ibérico sobre Recursos Genéticos Animale

Defect Detection in Synthetic Fibre Ropes using Detectron2 Framework

Fibre ropes with the latest technology have emerged as an appealing alternative to steel ropes for offshore industries due to their lightweight and high tensile strength. At the same time, frequent inspection of these ropes is essential to ensure the proper functioning and safety of the entire system. The development of deep learning (DL) models in condition monitoring (CM) applications offers a simpler and more effective approach for defect detection in synthetic fibre ropes (SFRs). The present paper investigates the performance of Detectron2, a state-of-the-art library for defect detection and instance segmentation. Detectron2 with Mask R-CNN architecture is used for segmenting defects in SFRs. Mask R-CNN with various backbone configurations has been trained and tested on an experimentally obtained dataset comprising 1,803 high-dimensional images containing seven damage classes (loop high, loop medium, loop low, compression, core out, abrasion, and normal respectively) for SFRs. By leveraging the capabilities of Detectron2, this study aims to develop an automated and efficient method for detecting defects in SFRs, enhancing the inspection process, and ensuring the safety of the fibre ropes.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, 4 table

Application of a bonded critical state model to design tunnel support for rockmass bulking

Gabion-type support is a favoured option to restrain bulking in pillar walls of mine footprint tunnels. It uses closely spaced short reinforcements in tunnel walls (typically fully grouted rebar) in combination with surface support (rock fragment retention systems such as shotcrete, weld wire mesh, straps, etc.). The system is installed while the rock is still mostly intact and is conceived to maintain support capacity even when, the rock attains a fully fragmented state, acting then like a gabion or earth-reinforced type retaining wall. In this paper the interaction between the support system and the highly stressed pillar walls is investigated numerically by means of finite element analyses within the framework of displacement-based design. Because the material response should capture the passage from intact rock to fully fragmented state, an advanced elasto-plastic bonded constitutive model was adopted as a simulation framework. The model is calibrated to replicate the mechanical behaviour of Bursnip Sandstone and Amarelo Pais Granite. These two rocks were selected because of high quality triaxial tests results from the literature. After showing the good performance of the model to reproduce both low and high pressure triaxial compression behaviour an extensive parametric study investigating the effects of bolt types on gabion response is presented.This work was partly supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain through the research grant BIA2017-84752-RPostprint (published version

How Mitochondrial DNA Can Write Pre-History: Kinship and Culture in Duero Basin (Spain) during Chalcolithic and Bronze Age

The chronological period from the beginning of the Chalcolithic Age to the end of the Bronze Age on the Iberian northern sub-plateau of the Iberic Peninsula involves interesting social and cultural phenomena, such as the appearance of the Bell Beaker and, later, the Cogotas I cultures. This work constructs a genetic characterisation of the maternal lineages of the human population that lived on the northern sub-plateau between 5000 and 3000 years ago through an analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), a kind of genetic marker that is inherited through maternal lineages, unaltered from generation to generation. Population and cultural questions are investigated through mtDNA analyses. This study intends to shed light on the following questions. Were individuals who were buried together in multiple or collective burials biologically related through their maternal lineages? Were there distinct maternal human lineages in the same or different geographical areas if different material cultures (Bell Beaker and Cogotas I) were associated with the arrival of new human populations who established close biological relationships with the endogenous populations? Or could this be the result of the transmission of knowledge without human populations mixing? Another important question is whether the material cultures were related to the female populations. We analysed 91 individuals from 28 different archaeological sites of the Iberian northern sub-plateau from four different chrono-cultural periods (Pre-Bell Beaker, Bell Beaker, Proto-Cogotas I, and Cogotas I), from the end of the Chalcolithic Age up to the Bronze Age. There were two historical moments of new populations arriving: the first during the Pre-Bell Beaker period, associated with the K mtDNA haplogroup, and the second during the Proto-Cogotas I culture, with new lineages of the H, HVO, and T haplogroups. Neither of these new population flows were directly associated with the maximum development of the two main material cultures Bell Beaker and Cogotas I, so they must have occurred immediately beforehand, during the Pre-Bell Beaker and Proto-Cogotas I periods, respectively. However, we cannot discard an association between the populations and material cultures. Curiously, it has also been observed that there was also a tendency towards multiple burials, in which the individuals who were buried together belonged to the same maternal lineage, during these two periods of population change. This study has shed some light on the populational changes that occurred through these different periods in this specific geographical area of the northern sub-plateau of the Iberian Peninsula

Integrability in Theories with Local U(1) Gauge Symmetry

Using a recently developed method, based on a generalization of the zero curvature representation of Zakharov and Shabat, we study the integrability structure in the Abelian Higgs model. It is shown that the model contains integrable sectors, where integrability is understood as the existence of infinitely many conserved currents. In particular, a gauge invariant description of the weak and strong integrable sectors is provided. The pertinent integrability conditions are given by a U(1) generalization of the standard strong and weak constraints for models with two dimensional target space. The Bogomolny sector is discussed, as well, and we find that each Bogomolny configuration supports infinitely many conserved currents. Finally, other models with U(1) gauge symmetry are investigated.Comment: corrected typos, version accepted in J. Phys.

Diverse corrugation pattern in radially shrinking carbon nanotubes

Stable cross-sections of multi-walled carbon nanotubes subjected to electron-beam irradiation are investigated in the realm of the continuum mechanics approximation. The self-healing nature of sp$^2$ graphitic sheets implies that selective irradiation of the outermost walls causes their radial shrinkage with the remaining inner walls undamaged. The shrinking walls exert high pressure on the interior part of nanotubes, yielding a wide variety of radial corrugation patterns ({\it i.e.,} circumferentially wrinkling structures) in the cross section. All corrugation patterns can be classified into two deformation phases for which the corrugation amplitudes of the innermost wall differ significantly.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure

Interacción de terraplenes con la atmósfera y su protección mediante el uso de geomembranas

Pérez-Romero J, Ciantia M O, Arroyo M & Vaunat J (2016). Interacción de terraplenes con la atmósfera y su protección mediante el uso de geomembranas. 10º Simposio Nacional de Ingeniería Geotécnica; Reconocimiento, Tratamiento y Mejora del Terreno. Sociedad Española de Mecánica del Suelo, La Coruña, octubre de 2016, pp. 707-715Una vez ejecutado el terraplén de una obra lineal se inicia el proceso de interacción del mismo con la atmósfera, el cual coincide en el tiempo con el periodo de explotación de la infraestructura. El proceso más relevante de dicha interacción consiste en los cambios de humedad que se producen en su interior y una de las consecuencias es la generación de asientos postconstructivos. En este artículo se presentan los resultados de la simulación numérica de la exposición de un terraplén, durante un periodo de diez años, a dos climas de diferentes características. Se describen los cambios de humedad que predice el modelo numérico, así como los asientos asociados. Por otra parte se plantea el uso de geomembranas como herramienta para limitar el acceso de humedad al interior del relleno, lo cual a su vez supone una mitigación de los asientos postconstructivos. Para ello se simulan geomembranas dispuestas en diferentes configuraciones geométricas, analizándose las ventajas que ofrecen cada una de ellas de cara a la protección del relleno a largo plazo.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech