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Production of multi-strange baryons in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions with ALICE
In the perspective of comparisons between proton-proton and heavy-ion
physics, understanding the production mechanisms (soft and hard) in pp that
lead to strange particles is of importance. Measurements of charged
multi-strange (anti-)baryons (Omega and Xi) are presented for pp collisions at
sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. This report is based on results obtained by ALICE (A Large Ion
Collider Experiment) from the 2010 data-taking.
Taking advantage of the characteristic cascade-decay topology, the
identification of Xi-, anti-Xi+, Omega- and anti-Omega+ can be performed, over
a wide range of momenta (e.g. from 0.6 to 8.5 GeV/c for Xi-, with the present
statistics analysed). The production at central rapidity (|y| < 0.5) as a
function of transverse momentum, dN/dptdy, is presented. These results are
compared to PYTHIA Perugia 2011 predictions.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Strangeness In Quark Matter (SQM 2011),
18-24 Sept. 2011, Krakow. To be published in Acta Physica Polonica B (APPB
Revelation and Phenomenal Relations
Revelation, or the view that the essence of phenomenal properties is presented to us, is as intuitively attractive as it is controversial. It is notably at the core of defences of anti-physicalism. I propose in this paper a new argument against Revelation. It is usually accepted that low-level sensory phenomenal properties, like phenomenal red, loudness or brightness, stand in relation of similarity and quantity. Furthermore, these similarity and quantitative relations are taken to be internal, that is, to be fixed by what their relata are. I argue that, under some plausible additional premises, no account of what grounds these relations in the essence of their relata is consistent with Revelation, at least if we take common phenomenological descriptions for granted. As a result, the plausibility of Revelation is undermined. One might however resist this conclusion by weakening the epistemic relation postulated between subjects and their phenomenal properties
Unitary and non-unitary transitions around a cosmological bounce
In this work, we investigate the notion of time and unitarity in the vicinity
of a bounce in quantum cosmology, that is, a turning point for the scale
factor. Because WKB methods drastically fail near a turning point, the scale
factor cannot play the role of time in such scenarios. We overcome this
difficulty by studying the dynamics of matter transitions when using its
conjugate momentum as a time. We find precise conditions so as to recover
unitarity, and hence, a consistent notion of probability. We then compute
transitions in a concrete example, extract the specific feature of a bounce and
argue about the necessity of the conjugate momentum representation to go beyond
the background field approximation. Our analysis is also equally relevant for a
closed Universe undergoing a recollapsing phase.Comment: 25 pages, 1 figure, published versio
Complexity of Grammar Induction for Quantum Types
Most categorical models of meaning use a functor from the syntactic category
to the semantic category. When semantic information is available, the problem
of grammar induction can therefore be defined as finding preimages of the
semantic types under this forgetful functor, lifting the information flow from
the semantic level to a valid reduction at the syntactic level. We study the
complexity of grammar induction, and show that for a variety of type systems,
including pivotal and compact closed categories, the grammar induction problem
is NP-complete. Our approach could be extended to linguistic type systems such
as autonomous or bi-closed categories.Comment: In Proceedings QPL 2014, arXiv:1412.810
Measurements of inclusive J/psi production in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV with the ALICE experiment
Charmonium is a prominent probe of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), expected to
be formed in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion (A-A) collisions. It has been
predicted that the J/psi(c-cbar) particle is dissolved in the deconfined medium
created in A-A systems. However this suppression can be counterbalanced via
regeneration of the charm/anti-charm bound state in QGP or via statistical
production at the phase boundary. At LHC energies, the latter mechanisms are
expected to play a more important role, due to a charm production cross section
significantly larger than at lower energies.
Measurements obtained by the ALICE experiment for inclusive J/psi production
are shown, making use of Pb-Pb data at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV, collected in 2010
and 2011. In particular, the focus is given on the nuclear modification factor,
R_AA, derived for forward (2.5 < y < 4) and mid rapidities (|y| < 0.9), both
down to zero transverse momentum (pT). The centrality, y and pT dependences of
R_AA are presented and discussed in the context of theoretical models, together
with PHENIX and CMS results.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures. To be published in PoS. Proceedings of the Xth
QCHS conference (Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum), 2012, 8-12
October 2012, Munich. See corresponding presentation under TUM indico :
http://intern.universe-cluster.de/indico/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=246&sessionId=36&confId=229
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