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    Observatoires du développement, observatoires pour le développement

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    Le cas des migrations clandestines internationales Ă©claire le conflit entre les dĂ©finitions de l'espace et du temps des acteurs et des analystes. La relativitĂ© des distinctions spatiales officielles s'allie Ă  la relativitĂ© de la durĂ©e ou de la rĂ©currence des migrations pour faire que mesurer les migrations et retrouver les migrants constituent des tĂąches distinctes. On retrouve donc ici la richesse du contraste entre les dĂ©finitions objectives et subjectives du continuum spatio-temporel et la nĂ©cessitĂ© d'adapter l'instrument aux propriĂ©tĂ©s spĂ©cifiques du phĂ©nomĂšne dont on veut rendre compte. De lĂ , la complexitĂ© de la distinction entre les notions de territoire et de rĂ©seau, ou encore entre les notions de temps universel et de cycle de vie. Il en rĂ©sulte qu'une analyse ne peut donner des rĂ©sultats prĂ©cis que si elle repose sur des modes diffĂ©renciĂ©s, les uns privilĂ©giant les inventaires, les autres les flux et que si elle implique le mĂ©lange de donnĂ©es venant de sources distinctes. L'adaptation d'instruments de mesure aux variations de durĂ©e, de direction, d'Ă©tapes intermĂ©diaires et de taille des unitĂ©s migrantes reprĂ©sente une innovation susceptible d'ĂȘtre gĂ©nĂ©ralisĂ©e Ă  d'autres contextes. (RĂ©sumĂ© d'auteur

    Light Non-degenerate Composite Partners at the LHC

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    We study the implications of a large degree of compositeness for the light generation quarks in composite pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone-boson Higgs models. We focus in particular on viable scenarios where the right-handed up-type quarks have a sizable mixing with the strong dynamics. For concreteness we assume the latter to be characterized by an SO(5)/SO(4) symmetry with fermionic resonances in the SO(4) singlet and fourplet representations. Singlet partners dominantly decay to a Higgs boson and jets. As no dedicated searches are currently looking for these final states, singlet partners can still be rather light. Conversely, some fourplet partners dominantly decay to an electroweak gauge boson and a jet, a signature which has been analyzed at the LHC. To constrain the parameter space of this scenario we have reinterpreted various LHC analyses. In the limit of first two generation degeneracy, as in minimal flavor violation or U(2)-symmetric flavor models, fourplet partners need to be relatively heavy, with masses above 1.8 TeV, or the level of compositeness needs to be rather small. The situation is rather different in models that deviate from the first two generation degeneracy paradigm, as the charm parton distribution functions are suppressed relative to the up quark ones. The right-handed charm quark can be composite and its partners being as light as 600 GeV, while the right-handed up quark needs either to be mostly elementary or to have its partners as heavy as 2 TeV. Models with fully composite singlet fermions are also analyzed, leading to similar conclusions. Finally, we consider the case where both the fourplet and the singlet states are present. In this case the bounds could be significantly weaken due to a combination of smaller production rates and the opening of new channels including cascade processes.Comment: 49 pages, 18 figure

    Proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture in R^n

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    The least-area hypersurface enclosing and separating two given volumes in R^n is the standard double bubble.Comment: 20 pages, 22 figure
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