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Experience with the Open Source based implementation for ATLAS Conditions Data Management System
Conditions Data in high energy physics experiments is frequently seen as
every data needed for reconstruction besides the event data itself. This
includes all sorts of slowly evolving data like detector alignment, calibration
and robustness, and data from detector control system. Also, every Conditions
Data Object is associated with a time interval of validity and a version.
Besides that, quite often is useful to tag collections of Conditions Data
Objects altogether. These issues have already been investigated and a data
model has been proposed and used for different implementations based in
commercial DBMSs, both at CERN and for the BaBar experiment. The special case
of the ATLAS complex trigger that requires online access to calibration and
alignment data poses new challenges that have to be met using a flexible and
customizable solution more in the line of Open Source components. Motivated by
the ATLAS challenges we have developed an alternative implementation, based in
an Open Source RDBMS. Several issues were investigated land will be described
in this paper:
-The best way to map the conditions data model into the relational database
concept considering what are foreseen as the most frequent queries.
-The clustering model best suited to address the scalability problem.
-Extensive tests were performed and will be described.
The very promising results from these tests are attracting the attention from
the HEP community and driving further developments.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, conferenc
Noncommutative Particles in Curved Spaces
We present a formulation in a curved background of noncommutative mechanics,
where the object of noncommutativity is considered as an
independent quantity having a canonical conjugate momentum. We introduced a
noncommutative first-order action in D=10 curved spacetime and the covariant
equations of motions were computed. This model, invariant under diffeomorphism,
generalizes recent relativistic results.Comment: 1+15 pages. Latex. New comments and results adde
Quantum complex scalar fields and noncommutativity
In this work we analyze complex scalar fields using a new framework where the
object of noncommutativity represents independent degrees of
freedom. In a first quantized formalism, and its canonical
momentum are seen as operators living in some Hilbert space.
This structure is compatible with the minimal canonical extension of the
Doplicher-Fredenhagen-Roberts (DFR) algebra and is invariant under an extended
Poincar\'e group of symmetry. In a second quantized formalism perspective, we
present an explicit form for the extended Poincar\'e generators and the same
algebra is generated via generalized Heisenberg relations. We also introduce a
source term and construct the general solution for the complex scalar fields
using the Green's function technique.Comment: 13 pages. Latex. Final version to appear in Physical Review
Hamiltonian embedding of the massive noncommutative U(1) theory
We show that the massive noncommutative U(1) can be embedded in a gauge
theory by using the BFFT Hamiltonian formalism. By virtue of the peculiar
non-Abelian algebraic structure of the noncommutative massive U(1) theory,
several specific identities involving Moyal commutators had to be used in order
to make the embedding possible. This leads to an infinite number of steps in
the iterative process of obtaining first-class constraints. We also shown that
the involutive Hamiltonian can be constructed.Comment: 8 pages, Revtex (multicol
O uso do motor stirling no ensino de termodinâmica : uma estratégia metodológica
Neste trabalho propomos a utilização do motor Stirling de forma contextualizada, em aulas de Física, no Ensino Médio, mediante uma estratégia metodológica fundamentada na teoria de Ausubel, a partir dos subsunçores presentes na estrutura cognitiva dos estudantes. Nessa perspectiva, sugerimos uma abordagem que utilize questionamentos que possam viabilizar o ancoramento dos novos conhecimentos nos referidos subsunçores, tornando-os mais elaborados. Com isso, acreditamos que essa estratégia pode facilitar a aprendizagem significativa do ciclo de Carnot, bem como o tratamento dos aspectos sócio-ambientais relacionados ao motor Stirling
O uso do motor stirling no ensino de termodinâmica : uma estratégia metodológica
Neste trabalho propomos a utilização do motor Stirling de forma contextualizada, em aulas de Física, no Ensino Médio, mediante uma estratégia metodológica fundamentada na teoria de Ausubel, a partir dos subsunçores presentes na estrutura cognitiva dos estudantes. Nessa perspectiva, sugerimos uma abordagem que utilize questionamentos que possam viabilizar o ancoramento dos novos conhecimentos nos referidos subsunçores, tornando-os mais elaborados. Com isso, acreditamos que essa estratégia pode facilitar a aprendizagem significativa do ciclo de Carnot, bem como o tratamento dos aspectos sócio-ambientais relacionados ao motor Stirling
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