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Two Kinds of Economy, Two Kinds of Self—Toward More Manageable, Hence More Sustainable and Just Supply Chains
Contemporary systems of production, distribution, and retail provide many
end-consumers, although certainly not all, with an unprecedentedly wide
choice of cheap, high quality goods and services. Yet this bounty comes at ever
higher, ultimately unsustainable environmental and social cost. Something must
change but what and how? Simply how production, distribution and retail
are organized? Simply patterns of consumption, that is, overconsumption on
the part of some, who must be convinced to consume less? Or must the target
be production, distribution, retail, and consumption in their totality, that is,
economic life as a whole? This paper sketches a basis and general framework for
answering these questions
Measuring the hadronic spectrum of the quark plasma
Journal ArticleIn an effort to characterize the large-scale structure and composition of the Q C D plasma at zero baryon-number density in the vicinity of the high-temperature phase transition, we have carried out a numerical simulation in SU(3) lattice gauge theory with four flavors of low-mass staggered fermions on a 6 x 103 lattice. A small data sample was also collected on 6 x 102 X 20 lattices. The simulation uses the Illinois hybrid microcanonical algorithm, adapted for measurements of hadronic screening lengths. Measurements were carried out at three values of the gauge coupling B and at three values each of the bare quark mass. The principal quantities measured are the static screening masses in several color-singlet channels with quark valence qq and qqq. Clear evidence for a hadronic screening spectrum is found, suggesting the presence of hadronic plasma modes. The spectral multiplets, extrapolated to zero quark mass, are consistent with a restoration of the SU (N) X SU (N) chiral symmetry
Heavy-quark meson spectrum tests of the Oktay-Kronfeld action
The Oktay-Kronfeld (OK) action extends the Fermilab improvement program for
massive Wilson fermions to higher order in suitable power-counting schemes. It
includes dimension-six and -seven operators necessary for matching to QCD
through order in HQET power counting, for
applications to heavy-light systems, and in NRQCD power
counting, for applications to quarkonia. In the Symanzik power counting of
lattice gauge theory near the continuum limit, the OK action includes all
and some terms. To assess whether the
theoretical improvement is realized in practice, we study combinations of
heavy-strange and quarkonia masses and mass splittings, designed to isolate
heavy-quark discretization effects. We find that, with one exception, the
results obtained with the tree-level-matched OK action are significantly closer
to the continuum limit than the results obtained with the Fermilab action. The
exception is the hyperfine splitting of the bottom-strange system, for which
our statistical errors are too large to draw a firm conclusion. These studies
are carried out with data generated with the tadpole-improved Fermilab and OK
actions on 500 gauge configurations from one of MILC's ~fm,
-flavor, asqtad-staggered ensembles.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
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