72 research outputs found
Different phytase levels and energy densities in broiler diets on performance, nutrient digestibility, and bone integrity from 28 to 35 days of age
ABSTRACT The study was carried out with the objective of evaluating the effects of using phytase levels at different energy densities in the diet of broilers, from 28 to 35 days of age. The experimental diets contained increasing levels of apparent metabolizable energy corrected for nitrogen balance and different levels of phytase. Growth performance variables, nutrient digestibility, as well as variables related to bone integrity were examined. Diets containing 500 FTU/kg in combination with 3150kcal.kg-1 of AMEn resulted in better growth performance. Supplementation with 500 and 1000 FTU/kg in the diets provide better coefficients of apparent and ileal digestibility of calcium and phosphorus, but negatively influence the deposition of calcium, phosphorus, dry matter, and ash in the tibia, in addition to adversely affecting the breakage and area of these bones in broilers. Bone length and the levels of magnesium and zinc present in the tibias were not influenced by the energy and phytase levels of the diets. There is no interaction between the different energetic densities and the phytase doses in the variables analyzed in the studied period. Increasing the energy density of diets resulted in improved apparent and ileal digestibility for most nutrients
Robust exponential decay of correlations for singular-flows
We construct open sets of Ck (k bigger or equal to 2) vector fields with
singularities that have robust exponential decay of correlations with respect
to the unique physical measure. In particular we prove that the geometric
Lorenz attractor has exponential decay of correlations with respect to the
unique physical measure.Comment: Final version accepted for publication with added corrections (not in
official published version) after O. Butterley pointed out to the authors
that the last estimate in the argument in Subsection 4.2.3 of the previous
version is not enough to guarantee the uniform non-integrability condition
claimed. We have modified the argument and present it here in the same
Subsection. 3 figures, 34 page
Central exclusive production of dijets at hadronic colliders
In view of the recent diffractive dijet data from CDF run II, we critically
re-evaluate the standard approach to the calculation of central production of
dijets in quasi-elastic hadronic collisions. We find that the process is
dominated by the non-perturbative region, and that even perturbative
ingredients, such as the Sudakov form factor, are not under theoretical
control. Comparison with data allows us to fix some of the uncertainties.
Although we focus on dijets, our arguments apply to other high-mass central
systems, such as the Higgs boson.Comment: 37 pages, 18 figures. Two new appendices, and a discussion of the
upper scale of the Sudakov form factor are introduced. The text about the
calculation of the uncertainties has been rewritte
Helicity of the W Boson in Lepton+Jets ttbar Events
We examine properties of ttbar candidates events in lepton+jets final states
to establish the helicities of the W bosons in t->W+b decays. Our analysis is
based on a direct calculation of a probability that each event corresponds to a
ttbar final state, as a function of the helicity of the W boson. We use the 125
events/pb sample of data collected by the DO experiment during Run I of the
Fermilab Tevatron collider at sqrt{s}=1.8 TeV, and obtain a longitudinal
helicity fraction of F_0=0.56+/-0.31, which is consistent with the prediction
of F_0=0.70 from the standard model
Hard Single Diffraction in pbarp Collisions at root-s = 630 and 1800 GeV
Using the D0 detector, we have studied events produced in proton-antiproton
collisions that contain large forward regions with very little energy
deposition (``rapidity gaps'') and concurrent jet production at center-of-mass
energies of root-s = 630 and 1800 Gev. The fractions of forward and central jet
events associated with such rapidity gaps are measured and compared to
predictions from Monte Carlo models. For hard diffractive candidate events, we
use the calorimeter to extract the fractional momentum loss of the scattered
protons.Comment: 11 pages 4 figures. submitted to PR
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