An Analytical Framework to Describe the Interactions Between Individuals and a Continuum

We consider a discrete set of individual agents interacting with a continuum. Examples might be a predator facing a huge group of preys, or a few shepherd dogs driving a herd of sheeps. Analytically, these situations can be described through a system of ordinary differential equations coupled with a scalar conservation law in several space dimensions. This paper provides a complete well posedness theory for the resulting Cauchy problem. A few applications are considered in detail and numerical integrations are provided

CASTOR: The ALICE forward detector for identification of Centauros and Strangelets in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at the LHC

The physics motivation for a very forward detector for the ALICE heavy ion experiment at the CERN LHC is discussed. A phenomenological model describing the formation and decay of a Centauro fireball in nucleus-nucleus collisions is presented. The CASTOR detector which is aimed to measure the hadronic and photonic content of an interaction and to identify deeply penetrating objects in the very forward, baryon-rich phase space 5.6 < eta < 7.2 in an event-by-event mode is described. Results of simulations of the expected response of the calorimeter, and in particular to the passage of strangelets, are presented.Comment: Presented at XXVIII Int. Symp. on Multiparticle Dynamics, Delphi, 6-11 Sept. 1998. 9 pages, 11 figure

Observation of a threshold effect in the anomalous J/ψJ/\psi suppression

We report on a search for a phase transition from ordinary nuclear matter to a state of deconfined quarks and gluons as predicted by lattice QCD calculations. A new measurement of charmonium production in Pb-Pb interactions at 158 GeV/c per nucleon agrees with our previous results and confirms the anomalous $J/\psi$ suppression we had already observed on a significantly smaller data sample. New event selection and analysis techniques show that, for peripheral collisions, the $J/\psi$ cross-section per nucleon-nucleon collision agrees with the precise suppression pattern inferred from a wide range of measurements extending from $p-p$ up to S-U collisions. As the collisions become more central, the Pb-Pb cross-section exhibits a clear departure from this normal behaviour. The onset of the anomalous $J/\psi$ suppression reported here is the first clear observation of a threshold effect in heavy ion collisions and can be considered as a strong indication of the production of a deconfined quark-gluon phase in central Pb-Pb collisions

Charmonium production in Pb-Pb collisions

NA50The elaboration of specific media-planning is necessary to communicate with an opinion leader. Opinion leaders in 27 product categories are selected from a 10,000 sample of French representative consumers. Magazine is the favorite media of opinion leaders; the more important is the number of product categories in which a consumer is leaders, the greater the media consumption. Leaders do not systematically prefer the Internet, their preference appears to be category specific. However, a second study conducted among 600 brand website visitors shows that brand sites represent a major information source for the leaders

Strangeness measurements in NA50 experiment with Pb projectiles

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Riociguat treatment in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: Final safety data from the EXPERT registry

Objective: The soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator riociguat is approved for the treatment of adult patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and inoperable or persistent/recurrent chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) following Phase

Influence of Deterministic Attenuation and Amplification of Optical Signals on Entanglement and Distillation of Gaussian and Non-Gaussian Quantum States

We study general rules of entanglement dynamics for two-mode continuous variable states subjected to deterministic phase-insensitive attenuation and amplification. Since those processes inevitably involve quantum noises, we propose and solve the problem of finding noise levels destroying entanglement of Gaussian and non-Gaussian states. The amplification with power gain greater or equal than 2 necessarily leads to the total loss of entanglement. We consider non-Gaussian states whose entanglement is robust to arbitrary signal attenuation and amplification provided the noise is restricted by some value close to the quantum limited operation. We calculate the lower bound on distillation rate of Bell states