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COMPASS Results on Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries
New results on single spin asymmetries of charged hadrons produced in
deep-inelastic scattering of muons on a transversely polarised LiD target are
presented. The data were taken in the years 2002, 2003 and 2004 with the
COMPASS spectrometer using the muon beam of the CERN SPS at 160 GeV/c.
Preliminary results are given for the Sivers asymmetry and for all the three
``quark polarimeters'' presently used in COMPASS to measure the transversity
distributions. The Collins and the Sivers asymmetries for charged hadrons turn
out to be compatible with zero, within the small (~1%) statistical errors, at
variance with the results from HERMES on a transversely polarised proton
target. Similar results have been obtained for the two hadron asymmetries and
for the Lambda polarisation. First attempts to describe the Collins and the
Sivers asymmetries measured by COMPASS and HERMES allow to give a consistent
picture of these transverse spin effects.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of Advanced Studies Institute:
Symmetries And Spin (SPIN-Praha-2006), 19-26 Jul 2006, Prague, Czech Republi
Demolition by Neglect: Repairing Buildings by Repairing Legislation
One of the biggest problems today facing communities with historic preservation ordinances is delinquent owners who don’t have the will or the finances to maintain their historic properties and landmarks. Historic preservation law plays an important role in building a sense of patriotism and community togetherness, fostering education and providing incentives for aesthetically pleasing architecture. When residents can identify with a community, this creates a dialogue and sense of belonging. There are also environmental and psychological impacts of preserving old buildings, since human beings are positively affected by their surroundings when they feel a sense of place. When buildings in a historic district fall prey to \u27demolition by neglect,\u27 meaning that the owners allow their property to reach a state of deterioration, the entire sense of community can be lost
COMPASS results on Collins and Sivers asymmetries for charged hadrons
The study of transverse spin and transverse momentum effects is an important
part of the scientific program of COMPASS, a fixed target experiment at the
CERN SPS taking data since 2002. The studies are carried on by measuring the
hadrons produced in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) of 160 GeV/c muons off
different targets. Among the possible asymmetries in the hadron azimuthal
distributions, particularly interesting are the Collins and Sivers asymmetries
which the COMPASS Collaboration has measured using transversely polarised
deuteron and proton targets. The new results for charged pions and kaons
obtained from the 2010 run with a transversely polarised proton target are
presented.Comment: presented at: SPIN2012, 20th International Spin Physics Symposium,
Dubna, Russia, 17-23 September, 201
Loop amplitudes in maximal supergravity with manifest supersymmetry
We present a description for amplitude diagrams in maximal supergravities
obtained by dimensional reduction from D=11, derived from a field theory point
of view using the pure spinor formalism. The advantages of this approach are
the manifest supersymmetry present in the formalism, and the limited number of
interaction terms in the action. Furthermore, we investigate the conditions set
by this description in order for amplitudes in maximal supergravity to be
finite in the ultraviolet limit. Typically, there is an upper limit to the
dimension, set by the loop order, which for an arbitrary number of loops is no
larger than two. In four dimensions, the non-renormalisation power of the
formalism fails for the 7-loop contribution to the 4-point amplitude, all of
which is in clear agreement with previous work.Comment: 53 pp. v2: refs. adde
Introduction
Publication within the project “The V4 towards migration challenges in Europe. An analysis and recommendations” is financed by Visegrad Fund
Modeling the angular correlation function and its full covariance in Photometric Galaxy Surveys
Near future cosmology will see the advent of wide area photometric galaxy
surveys, like the Dark Energy Survey (DES), that extent to high redshifts (z ~
1 - 2) but with poor radial distance resolution. In such cases splitting the
data into redshift bins and using the angular correlation function ,
or the power spectrum, will become the standard approach to extract
cosmological information or to study the nature of dark energy through the
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) probe. In this work we present a detailed
model for at large scales as a function of redshift and bin width,
including all relevant effects, namely nonlinear gravitational clustering,
bias, redshift space distortions and photo-z uncertainties. We also present a
model for the full covariance matrix characterizing the angular correlation
measurements, that takes into account the same effects as for and
also the possibility of a shot-noise component and partial sky coverage.
Provided with a large volume N-body simulation from the MICE collaboration we
built several ensembles of mock redshift bins with a sky coverage and depth
typical of forthcoming photometric surveys. The model for the angular
correlation and the one for the covariance matrix agree remarkably well with
the mock measurements in all configurations. The prospects for a full shape
analysis of at BAO scales in forthcoming photometric surveys such
as DES are thus very encouraging.Comment: 23 pages, 21 figures Revised version accepted by MNRAS. Description
of mocks re-structured. Mocks including redshift distortions and Photo-z
publicly available at http://www.ice.cat/mic
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