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Longitudinal profiles of Extensive Air Showers with inclusion of charm and bottom particles
Charm and bottom particles are rare in Extensive Air Showers but the effect
of its presence can be radical in the development of the Extensive Air Showers
(EAS). If such particles arise with a large fraction of the primary energy,
they can reach large atmospheric depths, depositing its energy in deeper layers
of the atmosphere. As a consequence, the EAS observables (, and
) will be modified, as well as the shape of the longitudinal profile
of the energy deposited in the atmosphere. In this paper, we will modify the
CORSIKA Monte Carlo by the inclusion of charm and bottom production in the
first interaction of the primary cosmic ray. Results for different selections
of the typical values of the heavy particles and distinct production
models will be presented.Comment: Replacement of tex file by the correct versio
Pseudoclassical model for Weyl particle in 10 dimensions
A pseudoclassical model to describe Weyl particle in 10 dimensions is
proposed. In course of quantization both the massless Dirac equation and the
Weyl condition are reproduced automatically. The construction can be relevant
to Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz strings where the Weyl reduction in the Ramond sector
has to be made by hand.Comment: 5 page
Global analysis of piecewise linear systems using impact maps and surface Lyapunov functions
This paper presents an entirely new constructive global analysis methodology for a class of hybrid systems known as piecewise linear systems (PLS). This methodology infers global properties of PLS solely by studying the behavior at switching surfaces associated with PLS. The main idea is to analyze impact maps, i.e., maps from one switching surface to the next switching surface. Such maps are known to be "unfriendly" maps in the sense that they are highly nonlinear, multivalued, and not continuous. We found, however, that an impact map induced by an linear time-invariant flow between two switching surfaces can be represented as a linear transformation analytically parametrized by a scalar function of the state. This representation of impact maps allows the search for surface Lyapunov functions (SuLF) to be done by simply solving a semidefinite program, allowing global asymptotic stability, robustness, and performance of limit cycles and equilibrium points of PLS to be efficiently checked. This new analysis methodology has been applied to relay feedback, on/off and saturation systems, where it has shown to be very successful in globally analyzing a large number of examples. In fact, it is still an open problem whether there exists an example with a globally stable limit cycle or equilibrium point that cannot be successfully analyzed with this new methodology. Examples analyzed include systems of relative degree larger than one and of high dimension, for which no other analysis methodology could be applied. This success in globally analyzing certain classes of PLS has shown the power of this new methodology, and suggests its potential toward the analysis of larger and more complex PLS
No-horizon theorem for spacetimes with spacelike G1 isometry groups
We consider four-dimensional spacetimes which obey the
Einstein equations , and admit a global spacelike
isometry group. By means of dimensional reduction and local
analyis on the reduced (2+1) spacetime, we obtain a sufficient condition on
which guarantees that cannot contain apparent
horizons. Given any (3+1) spacetime with spacelike translational isometry, the
no-horizon condition can be readily tested without the need for dimensional
reduction. This provides thus a useful and encompassing apparent horizon test
for -symmetric spacetimes. We argue that this adds further evidence
towards the validity of the hoop conjecture, and signals possible violations of
strong cosmic censorship.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX, uses IOP package; published in Class. Quantum Gra
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