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Production of W and Z bosons accompanied by jets at LHC startup
We report on potential for measurement of W and Z boson production
accompanied by jets at the CMS experiment. Of particular interest are jet
multiplicity and Pt distributions. The 10/pb to 100/pb datasets expected in the
startup year of operation of LHC are likely to already provide information
beyond the reach of the Tevatron collider both in jet multiplicity and Pt
range. We are especially interested in understanding the ratios of W+jets to
Z+jets distributions by comparing them to next-to-leading order Monte Carlo
generators, as these processes present a formidable background for searches of
new physics phenomena.Comment: Poster session at ICHEP08, Philadelphia, USA, July 2008. 3 pages,
LaTeX, 1 jpg figure. Updated with the new latex template for ICHEP0
Exploration-exploitation tradeoffs dictate the optimal distributions of phenotypes for populations subject to fitness fluctuations
We study a minimal model for the growth of a phenotypically heterogeneous
population of cells subject to a fluctuating environment in which they can
replicate (by exploiting available resources) and modify their phenotype within
a given landscape (thereby exploring novel configurations). The model displays
an exploration-exploitation trade-off whose specifics depend on the statistics
of the environment. Most notably, the phenotypic distribution corresponding to
maximum population fitness (i.e. growth rate) requires a non-zero exploration
rate when the magnitude of environmental fluctuations changes randomly over
time, while a purely exploitative strategy turns out to be optimal in two-state
environments, independently of the statistics of switching times. We obtain
analytical insight into the limiting cases of very fast and very slow
exploration rates by directly linking population growth to the features of the
environment.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
Non-commutative Painleve' equations and Hermite-type matrix orthogonal polynomials
We study double integral representations of Christoffel-Darboux kernels
associated with two examples of Hermite-type matrix orthogonal polynomials. We
show that the Fredholm determinants connected with these kernels are related
through the Its-Izergin-Korepin-Slavnov (IIKS) theory with a certain
Riemann-Hilbert problem. Using this Riemann-Hilbert problem we obtain a Lax
pair whose compatibility conditions lead to a non-commutative version of the
Painleve' IV differential equation for each family.Comment: Final version, accepted for publication on CMP: Communications in
Mathematical Physics. 24 pages, 1 figur
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