Caracterización de la raza criolla colombiana Blanco Orejinegro, 2. Parámetros genéticos de crecimiento postdestete.

Con el propósito de evaluar los parámetros de características de crecimiento postdestete del ganado criollo Blanco Orejinegro (BON), se analizaron los datos de 530 terneros (machos y hembras) nacidos durante los años 1978 a 1983 en el Centro de Investigaciones El Nus (Antioquia) localizado a 800 m.s.n.m., 2200 m.m de precipitación anual, 23 grados centígrados de temperatura promedio y 87 por ciento de humedad relativa. Después del destete a los 8 meses de edad, machos y hembras fueron manejados separadamente en praderas de puntero (Hyparrhenia rufa) y con libre acceso a una mezcla mineral. Las características estudiadas y sus respectivos promedios, para machos y hembras, fueron: ganancias diarias postdestete (GDPD), 177 gramos (gr), peso ajustado a 16 meses de edad (P 16 m) 213.7 kgs y conformación muscular de los cuartos posteriores a los 16 meses de edad 50.7 puntos. Las heredabilidades estimadas fueron: GDPD, 0.083, P 16 m y conformación muscular de los cuartos posteriores a los 16 meses 0.104. Las correlaciones genéticas (G) entre GDPD y P 16 m (0.913) y entre P 16 m y cuartos posteriores a los 16 meses (1.105) fueron de elevada magnitud, igualmente sus errores estandar, 0.91 y 0.40, respectivamente. Las correlaciones fenotípicas (F) entre las anteriores características fueron: 0.531 y 0.641, respectivamente.Ganado de doble propósito-Ganaderia doble proposit

Caracterización de la raza criolla colombiana Blanco Orejinegro (BON), 4. Heterosis del crecimiento predestete de BON, Cebú y sus cruces con Charolais y Santa Gertrudis.

Se analizaron las características de crecimiento predestete y los valores de heterosis individual (hi) y materna (hm) de las progenies resultantes del apareamiento de vacas BON, Cebú (C) y cruzadas F1 BONxC y CxBON con toros BON, C, Charolais (Ch) y Santa Gertrudis (SG). De los registros de 508 terneros nacidos entre 1977 y 1983 en el Centro de Investigación El Nus (Ant.) localizado a 800 m.s.n.m., 2200 mm de precipitación anual, 23 grados centígrados de temperatura media y 87 por ciento de humedad relativa. Las características de crecimiento estudiadas y los valores promedios de los terneros BON y C, con los correspondientes valores de hi, expresada en porcentajes de las diferencias en comportamiento de los híbridos BONxC y CxBON con respecto al promedio del comportamiento de los animales puros, fueron: peso al nacimiento (PN), 26.9 kg y 12.4 por ciento, ganancias diarias de nacimiento al destete (PD), 580 g y 14.1 por ciento, peso al destete (PD) a los 8 meses de edad, ajustado a 240 días, 166.2 kg y 13.6 por ciento, y calificación de la muscularidad de los cuartos posteriores al destete (CD), 50.3 puntos y 9.4 por ciento. Estos valores de hi fueron significativos (P menor que 0.01). Los terneros BON pesaron al nacer 2.8 kg (P menor que 0.05) más que los C (28.5 vs 25.7), ganaron 45 g menos por día (557 vs 602 g/dia) y pesaron 8 kg menos al destete (162.2 vs 170.2 kg) (P menor que 0.01) y recibieron 4.7 puntos menos (P menor que 0.01) en la CD (47.9 vs 52.6). Los valores de hm definida como la ventaja o desventaja de utilizar una madre cruzada y estimada de las diferencias de las progenies de las vacas cruzadas F1 (BONxC y CxBON) y de las de sus progenitoras puras BON y C apareadas todas ellas con toros Ch y SG fueron, excepto la CD, significativos (P menor que 0.05) positivos. Los valores medios de las características en los dihíbridos ChxBON, CHxC, SGxBON y SGxC, y los correspondientes valores de hm fueron:;PN, 27.5 kg y 9.3 por ciento, GDPD, 656 g/día y 9.3 por ciento, PD, 184.8 kg y 9.2 por ciento y CD, 50.4 puntos y 4.4 por cientoGanado de carne-Ganadería carn

Measurements of long-range near-side angular correlations in sNN=5\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}=5TeV proton-lead collisions in the forward region

Two-particle angular correlations are studied in proton-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}=5$TeV, collected with the LHCb detector at the LHC. The analysis is based on data recorded in two beam configurations, in which either the direction of the proton or that of the lead ion is analysed. The correlations are measured in the laboratory system as a function of relative pseudorapidity, $\Delta\eta$, and relative azimuthal angle, $\Delta\phi$, for events in different classes of event activity and for different bins of particle transverse momentum. In high-activity events a long-range correlation on the near side, $\Delta\phi \approx 0$, is observed in the pseudorapidity range $2.0<\eta<4.9$. This measurement of long-range correlations on the near side in proton-lead collisions extends previous observations into the forward region up to $\eta=4.9$. The correlation increases with growing event activity and is found to be more pronounced in the direction of the lead beam. However, the correlation in the direction of the lead and proton beams are found to be compatible when comparing events with similar absolute activity in the direction analysed.Comment: All figures and tables, along with any supplementary material and additional information, are available at https://lhcbproject.web.cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/LHCbProjectPublic/LHCb-PAPER-2015-040.htm

Evidence for the strangeness-changing weak decay Ξb−→Λb0π−\Xi_b^-\to\Lambda_b^0\pi^-

Using a $pp$ collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0~fb$^{-1}$, collected by the LHCb detector, we present the first search for the strangeness-changing weak decay $\Xi_b^-\to\Lambda_b^0\pi^-$. No $b$ hadron decay of this type has been seen before. A signal for this decay, corresponding to a significance of 3.2 standard deviations, is reported. The relative rate is measured to be ${{f_{\Xi_b^-}}\over{f_{\Lambda_b^0}}}{\cal{B}}(\Xi_b^-\to\Lambda_b^0\pi^-) = (5.7\pm1.8^{+0.8}_{-0.9})\times10^{-4}$, where $f_{\Xi_b^-}$ and $f_{\Lambda_b^0}$ are the $b\to\Xi_b^-$ and $b\to\Lambda_b^0$ fragmentation fractions, and ${\cal{B}}(\Xi_b^-\to\Lambda_b^0\pi^-)$ is the branching fraction. Assuming $f_{\Xi_b^-}/f_{\Lambda_b^0}$ is bounded between 0.1 and 0.3, the branching fraction ${\cal{B}}(\Xi_b^-\to\Lambda_b^0\pi^-)$ would lie in the range from $(0.57\pm0.21)\%$ to $(0.19\pm0.07)\%$.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, All figures and tables, along with any supplementary material and additional information, are available at https://lhcbproject.web.cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/LHCbProjectPublic/LHCb-PAPER-2015-047.htm

Study of the production of Λb0\Lambda_b^0 and B‾0\overline{B}^0 hadrons in pppp collisions and first measurement of the Λb0→J/ψpK−\Lambda_b^0\rightarrow J/\psi pK^- branching fraction

The product of the $\Lambda_b^0$ ($\overline{B}^0$) differential production cross-section and the branching fraction of the decay $\Lambda_b^0\rightarrow J/\psi pK^-$ ($\overline{B}^0\rightarrow J/\psi\overline{K}^*(892)^0$) is measured as a function of the beauty hadron transverse momentum, $p_{\rm T}$, and rapidity, $y$. The kinematic region of the measurements is $p_{\rm T}<20~{\rm GeV}/c$ and $2.0<y<4.5$. The measurements use a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3~{\rm fb}^{-1}$ collected by the LHCb detector in $pp$ collisions at centre-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s}=7~{\rm TeV}$ in 2011 and $\sqrt{s}=8~{\rm TeV}$ in 2012. Based on previous LHCb results of the fragmentation fraction ratio, $f_{\Lambda_B^0}/f_d$, the branching fraction of the decay $\Lambda_b^0\rightarrow J/\psi pK^-$ is measured to be \begin{equation*} \mathcal{B}(\Lambda_b^0\rightarrow J/\psi pK^-)= (3.17\pm0.04\pm0.07\pm0.34^{+0.45}_{-0.28})\times10^{-4}, \end{equation*} where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, the third is due to the uncertainty on the branching fraction of the decay $\overline{B}^0\rightarrow J/\psi\overline{K}^*(892)^0$, and the fourth is due to the knowledge of $f_{\Lambda_b^0}/f_d$. The sum of the asymmetries in the production and decay between $\Lambda_b^0$ and $\overline{\Lambda}_b^0$ is also measured as a function of $p_{\rm T}$ and $y$. The previously published branching fraction of $\Lambda_b^0\rightarrow J/\psi p\pi^-$, relative to that of $\Lambda_b^0\rightarrow J/\psi pK^-$, is updated. The branching fractions of $\Lambda_b^0\rightarrow P_c^+(\rightarrow J/\psi p)K^-$ are determined.Comment: 29 pages, 19figures. All figures and tables, along with any supplementary material and additional information, are available at https://lhcbproject.web.cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/LHCbProjectPublic/LHCb-PAPER-2015-032.htm

BB flavour tagging using charm decays at the LHCb experiment

An algorithm is described for tagging the flavour content at production of neutral $B$ mesons in the LHCb experiment. The algorithm exploits the correlation of the flavour of a $B$ meson with the charge of a reconstructed secondary charm hadron from the decay of the other $b$ hadron produced in the proton-proton collision. Charm hadron candidates are identified in a number of fully or partially reconstructed Cabibbo-favoured decay modes. The algorithm is calibrated on the self-tagged decay modes $B^+ \to J/\psi \, K^+$ and $B^0 \to J/\psi \, K^{*0}$ using $3.0\mathrm{\,fb}^{-1}$ of data collected by the LHCb experiment at $pp$ centre-of-mass energies of $7\mathrm{\,TeV}$ and $8\mathrm{\,TeV}$. Its tagging power on these samples of $B \to J/\psi \, X$ decays is $(0.30 \pm 0.01 \pm 0.01) \%$.Comment: All figures and tables, along with any supplementary material and additional information, are available at http://lhcbproject.web.cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/LHCbProjectPublic/LHCb-PAPER-2015-027.htm

Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with three electrons or muons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The analysis is based on 4.7 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data delivered by the Large Hadron Collider and recorded with the ATLAS detector. Observations are consistent with Standard Model expectations in three signal regions that are either depleted or enriched in Z-boson decays. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set in R-parity conserving phenomenological minimal supersymmetric models and in simplified models, significantly extending previous results

Jet size dependence of single jet suppression in lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s(NN)) = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Measurements of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions at the LHC provide direct sensitivity to the physics of jet quenching. In a sample of lead-lead collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 7 inverse microbarns, ATLAS has measured jets with a calorimeter over the pseudorapidity interval |eta| < 2.1 and over the transverse momentum range 38 < pT < 210 GeV. Jets were reconstructed using the anti-kt algorithm with values for the distance parameter that determines the nominal jet radius of R = 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5. The centrality dependence of the jet yield is characterized by the jet "central-to-peripheral ratio," Rcp. Jet production is found to be suppressed by approximately a factor of two in the 10% most central collisions relative to peripheral collisions. Rcp varies smoothly with centrality as characterized by the number of participating nucleons. The observed suppression is only weakly dependent on jet radius and transverse momentum. These results provide the first direct measurement of inclusive jet suppression in heavy ion collisions and complement previous measurements of dijet transverse energy imbalance at the LHC.Comment: 15 pages plus author list (30 pages total), 8 figures, 2 tables, submitted to Physics Letters B. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2011-02