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Higgs self coupling measurement in e+e- collisions at center-of-mass energy of 500 GeV
Feasibility of the measurement of the trilinear self-couplings of the Higgs
boson is studied. Such a measurement would experimentally determine the
structure of the Higgs potential. Full hadronic and semi-leptonic final states
of the double-Higgs strahlung have been investigated.Comment: 10 pages, 5 tables, 8 figure
On the filamentary environment of galaxies
The correlation between the large-scale distribution of galaxies and their
spectroscopic properties at z=1.5 is investigated using the Horizon MareNostrum
cosmological run.
We have extracted a large sample of 10^5 galaxies from this large
hydrodynamical simulation featuring standard galaxy formation physics. Spectral
synthesis is applied to these single stellar populations to generate spectra
and colours for all galaxies. We use the skeleton as a tracer of the cosmic web
and study how our galaxy catalogue depends on the distance to the skeleton. We
show that galaxies closer to the skeleton tend to be redder, but that the
effect is mostly due to the proximity of large haloes at the nodes of the
skeleton, rather than the filaments themselves.
This effects translate into a bimodality in the colour distribution of our
sample. The origin of this bimodality is investigated and seems to follow from
the ram pressure stripping of satellite galaxies within the more massive
clusters of the simulation.
The virtual catalogues (spectroscopical properties of the MareNostrum
galaxies at various redshifts) are available online at
http://www.iap.fr/users/pichon/MareNostrum/cataloguesComment: 18 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
A variational principle for fluid sloshing with vorticity, dynamically coupled to vessel motion
A variational principle is derived for two-dimensional incompressible
rotational fluid flow with a free surface in a moving vessel when both the
vessel and fluid motion are to be determined. The fluid is represented by a
stream function and the vessel motion is represented by a path in the planar
Euclidean group. Novelties in the formulation include how the pressure boundary
condition is treated, the introduction of a stream function into the
Euler-Poincar\'e variations, the derivation of free surface variations, and how
the equations for the vessel path in the Euclidean group, coupled to the fluid
motion, are generated automatically.Comment: 19 pages, 3 figure
Criterion for purely elastic Taylor-Couette instability in the flows of shear-banding fluids
In the past twenty years, shear-banding flows have been probed by various
techniques, such as rheometry, velocimetry and flow birefringence. In micellar
solutions, many of the data collected exhibit unexplained spatio-temporal
fluctuations. Recently, it has been suggested that those fluctuations originate
from a purely elastic instability of the flow. In cylindrical Couette geometry,
the instability is reminiscent of the Taylor-like instability observed in
viscoelastic polymer solutions. In this letter, we describe how the criterion
for purely elastic Taylor-Couette instability should be adapted to
shear-banding flows. We derive three categories of shear-banding flows with
curved streamlines, depending on their stability.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Potential "ways of thinking" about the shear-banding phenomenon
Shear-banding is a curious but ubiquitous phenomenon occurring in soft
matter. The phenomenological similarities between the shear-banding transition
and phase transitions has pushed some researchers to adopt a 'thermodynamical'
approach, in opposition to the more classical 'mechanical' approach to fluid
flows. In this heuristic review, we describe why the apparent dichotomy between
those approaches has slowly faded away over the years. To support our
discussion, we give an overview of different interpretations of a single
equation, the diffusive Johnson-Segalman (dJS) equation, in the context of
shear-banding. We restrict ourselves to dJS, but we show that the equation can
be written in various equivalent forms usually associated with opposite
approaches. We first review briefly the origin of the dJS model and its initial
rheological interpretation in the context of shear-banding. Then we describe
the analogy between dJS and reaction-diffusion equations. In the case of
anisotropic diffusion, we show how the dJS governing equations for steady shear
flow are analogous to the equations of the dynamics of a particle in a quartic
potential. Going beyond the existing literature, we then draw on the Lagrangian
formalism to describe how the boundary conditions can have a key impact on the
banding state. Finally, we reinterpret the dJS equation again and we show that
a rigorous effective free energy can be constructed, in the spirit of early
thermodynamic interpretations or in terms of more recent approaches exploiting
the language of irreversible thermodynamics.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, tutorial revie
Cavitation-induced force transition in confined viscous liquids under traction
We perform traction experiments on simple liquids highly confined between
parallel plates. At small separation rates, we observe a simple response
corresponding to a convergent Poiseuille flow. Dramatic changes in the force
response occur at high separation rates, with the appearance of a force plateau
followed by an abrupt drop. By direct observation in the course of the
experiment, we show that cavitation accounts for these features which are
reminiscent of the utmost complex behavior of adhesive films under traction.
Surprisingly enough, this is observed here in purely viscous fluids.Comment: Submitted to Physical Review Letters on May 31, 2002. Related
informations on http://www.crpp.u-bordeaux.fr/tack.htm
Gluon propagator in diffractive scattering
In this work, we perform a comparison of the employ of distinct gluon
propagators with the experimental data in diffractive processes, elastic
scattering and light meson photo-production. The gluon propagators are
calculated through non-perturbative methods, being justified their use in this
class of events, due to the smallness of the momentum transfer. Our results are
not able to select the best choice for the modified gluon propagator among the
analyzed ones, showing that the application of this procedure in this class of
high energy processes, although giving a reasonable fit to the experimental
data, should be taken with same caution.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
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Non Gaussian extrema counts for CMB maps
In the context of the geometrical analysis of weakly non Gaussian CMB maps,
the 2D differential extrema counts as functions of the excursion set threshold
is derived from the full moments expansion of the joint probability
distribution of an isotropic random field, its gradient and invariants of the
Hessian. Analytic expressions for these counts are given to second order in the
non Gaussian correction, while a Monte Carlo method to compute them to
arbitrary order is presented. Matching count statistics to these estimators is
illustrated on fiducial non-Gaussian "Planck" data.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
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