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Combined QCD analysis of e^+ e^- data at sqrt(s) = 14 to 172 GeV
A study of the energy dependence of event shape observables is presented. The
strong coupling constant \alpha_s has been determined from the mean values of
six event shape observables. Power corrections, employed for the measurement of
\alpha_s, have been found to approximately account for hadronisation effects.Comment: 6 pages, uses espcrc2.sty (included) and epsfig.sty, LaTeX, 8
.eps-file
Tests of Power Corrections to Event Shape Distributions from e+e- Annihilation
A study of differential event shape distributions using e+e- data at
centre-of-mass energies of 35 to 183 GeV is presented. We investigated
non-perturbative power corrections for the thrust, C-parameter, total and wide
jet broadening observables. We observe a good description of the distributions
by the combined resummed QCD calculations plus power corrections from the
dispersive approach. The single non-perturbative parameter \alpha_0 is measured
to be \alpha_0 (2 GeV) = 0.502 +- 0.013 (stat.) ^{+0.046)_{-0.032} (exp. syst.)
^{+0.074}_{-0.053} (theo. syst.) and is found to be universal for the
observables studied within the given systematic uncertainties. Using revised
calculations of the power corrections for the jet broadening variables,
improved consistency of the individual fit results is obtained. Agreement is
also found with results extracted from the mean values of event shape
distributions.Comment: 19 pages, LaTeX2e, 8 .eps-files included, paper contributed to the
EPS-HEP99 conference in Tampere, Finlan
A Case Study on Artefact-based RE Improvement in Practice
Most requirements engineering (RE) process improvement approaches are
solution-driven and activity-based. They focus on the assessment of the RE of a
company against an external norm of best practices. A consequence is that
practitioners often have to rely on an improvement approach that skips a
profound problem analysis and that results in an RE approach that might be
alien to the organisational needs. In recent years, we have developed an RE
improvement approach (called \emph{ArtREPI}) that guides a holistic RE
improvement against individual goals of a company putting primary attention to
the quality of the artefacts. In this paper, we aim at exploring ArtREPI's
benefits and limitations. We contribute an industrial evaluation of ArtREPI by
relying on a case study research. Our results suggest that ArtREPI is
well-suited for the establishment of an RE that reflects a specific
organisational culture but to some extent at the cost of efficiency resulting
from intensive discussions on a terminology that suits all involved
stakeholders. Our results reveal first benefits and limitations, but we can
also conclude the need of longitudinal and independent investigations for which
we herewith lay the foundation
Discovery of a Small Central Disk of CO and HI in the Merger Remnant NGC 34
We present CO(1-0) and HI(21-cm) observations of the central region of the
wet merger remnant NGC 34. The Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave
Astronomy (CARMA) observations detect a regularly rotating disk in CO with a
diameter of 2.1 kpc and a total molecular hydrogen mass of (. The rotation curve of this gas disk rises steeply,
reaching maximum velocities at 1" (410 pc) from the center. Interestingly, HI
observations done with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array show that the
absorption against the central continuum has the exact same velocity range as
the CO in emission. This strongly suggests that the absorbing HI also lies
within 1" from the center, is mixed in and corotates with the molecular gas. A
comparison of HI absorption profiles taken at different resolutions (5"-45")
shows that the spectra at lower resolutions are less deep at the systemic
velocity. This provides evidence for HI emission in the larger beams, covering
the region from 1 kpc to 9 kpc from the center. The central rapidly rotating
disk was likely formed either during the merger or from fall-back material.
Lastly, the radio continuum flux of the central source at mm wavelengths
( mJy) is significantly higher than expected from an extrapolation
of the synchrotron spectrum, indicating the contribution of thermal free-free
emission from the central starburst.Comment: Accepted for publication in A
C-Parameter and Jet Broadening at PETRA Energies
e^+e^- annihilation data recorded by the JADE detector at PETRA were used to
measure the C-parameter for the first time at \sqrt{s}= 35 and 44 GeV. The
distributions were compared to a resummed QCD calculation.
In addition, we applied extended resummed calculations to the total and wide
jet broadening variables, B_T and B_W. We combined the results on \alpha_s with
those of our previous study of differential 2-jet rate, thrust, and heavy jet
mass, obtaining
\alpha_s(35 GeV) = 0.1448 +0.0117 -0.0070 and \alpha_s(44 GeV) = 0.1392
+0.0105 -0.0074.
Moreover power corrections to the mean values of the observables mentioned
above were investigated considering the Milan factor and the improved
prediction for the jet broadening observables.
Our study, which considered e^+e^- data of five event shape observables
between \sqrt{s}= 14 and 183 GeV, yielded \alpha_s(M_{Z^0})=0.1177 +0.0035
-0.0034.Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX2e, 9 .eps-files included, abbreviated version of the
paper contributed to the ICHEP'98 conference in Vancouver, submitted to Phys.
Lett.
Beyond conventional factorization: Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with radial oscillator spectrum
The eigenvalue problem of the spherically symmetric oscillator Hamiltonian is
revisited in the context of canonical raising and lowering operators. The
Hamiltonian is then factorized in terms of two not mutually adjoint factorizing
operators which, in turn, give rise to a non-Hermitian radial Hamiltonian. The
set of eigenvalues of this new Hamiltonian is exactly the same as the energy
spectrum of the radial oscillator and the new square-integrable eigenfunctions
are complex Darboux-deformations of the associated Laguerre polynomials.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure
Extended WKB method, resonances and supersymmetric radial barriers
Semiclassical approximations are implemented in the calculation of position
and width of low energy resonances for radial barriers. The numerical
integrations are delimited by t/T<<8, with t the period of a classical particle
in the barrier trap and T the resonance lifetime. These energies are used in
the construction of `haired' short range potentials as the supersymmetric
partners of a given radial barrier. The new potentials could be useful in the
study of the transient phenomena which give rise to the Moshinsky's diffraction
in time.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, 3 table
DBpedia's triple pattern fragments: usage patterns and insights
Queryable Linked Data is published through several interfaces, including SPARQL endpoints and Linked Data documents. In October 2014, the DBpedia Association announced an official Triple Pattern Fragments interface to its popular DBpedia dataset. This interface proposes to improve the availability of live queryable data by dividing query execution between clients and servers. In this paper, we present a usage analysis between November 2014 and July 2015. In 9 months time, the interface had an average availability of 99.99 %, handling 16,776,170 requests, 43.0% of which were served from cache. These numbers provide promising evidence that low-cost Triple Pattern Fragments interfaces provide a viable strategy for live applications on top of public, queryable datasets
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