444 research outputs found
On the uniqueness of Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime
We establish a new uniqueness theorem for the three dimensional
Schwarzschild-de Sitter metrics. For this some new or improved tools are
developed. These include a reverse Lojasiewicz inequality, which holds in a
neighborhood of the extremal points of any smooth function. We further prove
smoothness of the set of maxima of the lapse, whenever this set contains a
topological hypersurface. This leads to a new strategy for the classification
of well behaved static solutions of Einstein equations with a positive
cosmological constant, based on the geometry of the maximum-set of the lapse.Comment: 22 pages, 1 figur
Buda-Lund hydro model for ellipsoidally symmetric fireballs and the elliptic flow at RHIC
The ellipsoidally symmetric extension of Buda-Lund hydrodynamic model is
shown here to yield a natural description of the pseudorapidity dependence of
the elliptic flow , as determined recently by the PHOBOS experiment
for Au+Au collisions at and 200 GeV. With the same set of
parameters, the Buda-Lund model describes also the transverse momentum
dependence of of identified particles at mid-rapidity. The results
confirm the indication for quark deconfinement in Au+Au collisions at RHIC,
obtained from a successful Buda-Lund hydro model fit to the single particle
spectra and two-particle correlation data, as measured by the BRAHMS, PHOBOS,
PHENIX and STAR collaborations.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figures, 1 table added, discussion extended and an
important misprint in the caption of Fig. 1 is correcte
Neuroscience application for the analysis of cultural ecosystem services related to stress relief in forest
The paper presents an integrated methodology to assess psychological and physiological responses of people when exposed to forests, with the main objective of assessing the suitability of different stands for stress recovery on the basis of tree species and density. From the methodological viewpoint, the study applies both a Restoration Outcome Scale (ROS) questionnaire and a neuroscientific technique grounded on electro-encephalographic (EEG) measurement. Results show different outcomes for conifers and broadleaves as well as a statistical significance of density in the evaluation of an individual’s emotional state. A forest with a high density of conifers and low density of broadleaves seems to be the proper combination for stress recovery. The differences among psychological stated preferences and EEG trends highlights potential conflict among “needs” and “wants” of people in the topic of stress relief. Potential applications of the research for health care and territorial marketing operations are suggested
Detecting a First-Order Transition in the QCD Phase Diagram with Baryon-Baryon Correlations
We suggest baryon-baryon correlations as an experimentally accessible
signature for a first-order phase transition between a baryon-rich phase, like
quarkyonic, and a baryon-suppressed hadronic phase in the QCD phase diagram. We
examine the consequences of baryon-rich bubble formation in an expanding medium
and show how the two-particle correlations vary in the transverse and
longitudinal direction depending on the strength of the radial flow, the bubble
temperature, and the time when the baryons are emitted.Comment: Revised published version, 6 pages in PL
Type 1 diabetes, thyroid, gastric and adrenal humoral autoantibodies are present altogether in almost one third of adult celiac patients at diagnosis, with a higher frequency than children and adolescent celiac patients
Background: No data are available on the frequency of organ-specific humoral autoimmunity at diagnosis of adult celiac disease (CD). Aim: To evaluate the humoral immunoreactivities specific of type 1 diabetes (T1D), thyroid (THD), atrophic-gastritis (AG) and Addison’s (AD) diseases in 92 adult CD patients at diagnosis and 237 adult healthy subjects (CTRL). Methods: T1D, THD and AD specific autoantibodies were analyzed by radioimmunoprecipitation assays. AG autoantibodies were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Results: Of 92 CD patients, 31.5% were positive for at least one of the organ-specific autoantibodies investigated (p <.0001 vs CTRL). Thyroid, diabetes, gastric and adrenal-autoantibodies, that increase with age at diagnosis, were detected in 12.0%, 10.9%, 10.9%, 2.2% of CD patients, respectively. Gastric- and diabetes- rather than thyroid- and adrenal-autoimmunity seem to be specifically related to presence of CD. Conclusions: One third of adult CD patients at diagnosis is target of at least one organ-specific autoantibody. A systematic organ-specific autoantibody screening in these patients might be of value to promptly identify, prevent or treat the relative diseases
v4: A small, but sensitive observable for heavy ion collisions
Higher order Fourier coefficients of the azimuthally dependent single
particle spectra resulting from noncentral heavy ion collisions are
investigated. For intermediate to large transverse momenta, these anisotropies
are expected to become as large as 5 %, and should be clearly measurable. The
physics content of these observables is discussed from two different extreme
but complementary viewpoints, hydrodynamics and the geometric limit with
extreme energy loss.Comment: as published: typos corrected, Fig. 3 slightly improved in numerics
and presentatio
Quark Matter 2006: high-pT and jets
An overview of new experimental results on high-\pT{} particle production and
jets in heavy ion collisions from the Quark Matter 2006 conference is
presented.Comment: Presented at Quark Matter 200
New method for measuring azimuthal distributions in nucleus-nucleus collisions
The methods currently used to measure azimuthal distributions of particles in
heavy ion collisions assume that all azimuthal correlations between particles
result from their correlation with the reaction plane. However, other
correlations exist, and it is safe to neglect them only if azimuthal
anisotropies are much larger than 1/sqrt(N), with N the total number of
particles emitted in the collision. This condition is not satisfied at
ultrarelativistic energies. We propose a new method, based on a cumulant
expansion of multiparticle azimuthal correlations, which allows to measure much
smaller values of azimuthal anisotropies, down to 1/N. It is simple to
implement and can be used to measure both integrated and differential flow.
Furthermore, this method automatically eliminates the major systematic errors,
which are due to azimuthal asymmetries in the detector acceptance.Comment: final version (misprints corrected), to be published in Phys.Rev.
Parton coalescence at RHIC
Using a covariant coalescence model, we study hadron production in
relativistic heavy ion collisions from both soft partons in the quark-gluon
plasma and hard partons in minijets. Including transverse flow of soft partons
and independent fragmentation of minijet partons, the model is able to describe
available experimental data on pion, kaon, and antiproton spectra. The
resulting antiproton to pion ratio is seen to increase at low transverse
momenta and reaches a value of about one at intermediate transverse momenta, as
observed in experimental data at RHIC. A similar dependence of the antikaon to
pion ratio on transverse momentum is obtained, but it reaches a smaller value
at intermediate transverse momenta. At high transverse momenta, the model
predicts that both the antiproton to pion and the antikaon to pion ratio
decrease and approach those given by the perturbative QCD. Both collective flow
effect and coalescence of minijet partons with partons in the quark-gluon
plasma affect significantly the spectra of hadrons with intermediate transverse
momenta. Elliptic flows of protons, Lambdas, and Omegas have also been
evaluated from partons with elliptic flows extracted from fitting measured pion
and kaon elliptic flows, and they are found to be consistent with available
experimental data.Comment: 12 pages, 11 figure
Jets as a Probe of Dense Matter at RHIC
Jet quenching in the matter created in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
provides a tomographic tool to probe the medium properties. Recent experimental
results on jet production at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) are
reviewed. Jet properties in p+p and d+Au collisions have been measured,
establishing the baseline for studying jet modification in heavy-ion
collisions. Current progress on detailed studies of high transverse momentum
production in Au+Au collisions is discussed, with an emphasis on dihadron
correlation measurements.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures. Plenary talk given at 17th International
Conference on Ultra Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter
2004), Oakland, California, 11-17 Jan 2004. Submitted to J.Phys.
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