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Measurements of the correlation between electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays and light hadrons with ALICE at the LHC
In relativistic heavy-ion physics two-particle correlations provide a very
useful tool to investigate the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). This observable is
sensitive to several of the properties of the QGP such as resonances,
interaction of partons with the medium and collective effects (e. g. elliptic
flow). In the present work, the correlation function between electrons from
heavy-flavour hadron decays and light hadrons was measured in pp and Pb-Pb
collisions (central and semi-central). Furthermore, in pp collisions the
relative beauty contribution to the total cross section of electrons from
heavy-flavour decays was estimated by comparing the measured correlation with
Monte-Carlo templates.Comment: Strangeness in Quark Matter 2013 conference proceedin
Three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics as an effective interaction
We obtain a Quantum Electrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions by applying a
Kaluza--Klein type method of dimensional reduction to Quantum Electrodynamics
in 3+1 dimensions rendering the model more realistic to application in
solid-state systems, invariant under translations in one direction. We show
that the model obtained leads to an effective action exhibiting an interesting
phase structure and that the generated Chern--Simons term survives only in the
broken phase.Comment: 10 pages in Plain Te
Magnetism and Electronic Correlations in Quasi-One-Dimensional Compounds
In this contribution on the celebration of the 80th birthday anniversary of
Prof. Ricardo Ferreira, we present a brief survey on the magnetism of
quasi-one-dimensional compounds. This has been a research area of intense
activity particularly since the first experimental announcements of magnetism
in organic and organometallic polymers in the mid 80s. We review experimental
and theoretical achievements on the field, featuring chain systems of
correlated electrons in a special AB2 unit cell structure present in inorganic
and organic compounds
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