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Experience with the Open Source based implementation for ATLAS Conditions Data Management System
Conditions Data in high energy physics experiments is frequently seen as
every data needed for reconstruction besides the event data itself. This
includes all sorts of slowly evolving data like detector alignment, calibration
and robustness, and data from detector control system. Also, every Conditions
Data Object is associated with a time interval of validity and a version.
Besides that, quite often is useful to tag collections of Conditions Data
Objects altogether. These issues have already been investigated and a data
model has been proposed and used for different implementations based in
commercial DBMSs, both at CERN and for the BaBar experiment. The special case
of the ATLAS complex trigger that requires online access to calibration and
alignment data poses new challenges that have to be met using a flexible and
customizable solution more in the line of Open Source components. Motivated by
the ATLAS challenges we have developed an alternative implementation, based in
an Open Source RDBMS. Several issues were investigated land will be described
in this paper:
-The best way to map the conditions data model into the relational database
concept considering what are foreseen as the most frequent queries.
-The clustering model best suited to address the scalability problem.
-Extensive tests were performed and will be described.
The very promising results from these tests are attracting the attention from
the HEP community and driving further developments.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, conferenc
Dynamics and stability of Bose-Einstein solitons in tilted optical lattices
Bloch oscillations of Bose-Einstein condensates realize sensitive matter-wave
interferometers. We investigate the dynamics and stability of bright-soliton
wave packets in one-dimensional tilted optical lattices with a modulated
mean-field interaction . By means of a time-reversal argument, we prove
the stability of Bloch oscillations of breathing solitons that would be
quasistatically unstable. Floquet theory shows that these breathing solitons
can be more stable against certain experimental perturbations than rigid
solitons or even non-interacting wave packets.Comment: final, published versio
Counter-rotation in relativistic magnetohydrodynamic jets
Young stellar object observations suggest that some jets rotate in the
opposite direction with respect to their disk. In a recent study, Sauty et al.
(2012) have shown that this does not contradict the magnetocentrifugal
mechanism that is believed to launch such outflows. Signatures of motions
transverse to the jet axis and in opposite directions have recently been
measured in M87 (Meyer et al. 2013). One possible interpretation of this motion
is the one of counter rotating knots. Here, we extend our previous analytical
derivation of counter-rotation to relativistic jets, demonstrating that
counter-rotation can indeed take place under rather general conditions. We show
that both the magnetic field and a non-negligible enthalpy are necessary at the
origin of counter-rotating outflows, and that the effect is associated with a
transfer of energy flux from the matter to the electromagnetic field. This can
be realized in three cases : if a decreasing enthalpy causes an increase of the
Poynting flux, if the flow decelerates, or, if strong gradients of the magnetic
field are present. An illustration of the involved mechanism is given by an
example of relativistic MHD jet simulation.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Cosmological constant constraints from observation-derived energy condition bounds and their application to bimetric massive gravity
Among the various possibilities to probe the theory behind the recent
accelerated expansion of the universe, the energy conditions (ECs) are of
particular interest, since it is possible to confront and constrain the many
models, including different theories of gravity, with observational data. In
this context, we use the ECs to probe any alternative theory whose extra term
acts as a cosmological constant. For this purpose, we apply a model-independent
approach to reconstruct the recent expansion of the universe. Using Type Ia
supernova, baryon acoustic oscillations and cosmic-chronometer data, we perform
a Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis to put constraints on the effective
cosmological constant . By imposing that the cosmological
constant is the only component that possibly violates the ECs, we derive lower
and upper bounds for its value. For instance, we obtain that and within,
respectively, and confidence levels. In addition, about
30\% of the posterior distribution is incompatible with a cosmological
constant, showing that this method can potentially rule it out as a mechanism
for the accelerated expansion. We also study the consequence of these
constraints for two particular formulations of the bimetric massive gravity.
Namely, we consider the Visser's theory and the Hassan and Roses's massive
gravity by choosing a background metric such that both theories mimic General
Relativity with a cosmological constant. Using the
observational bounds along with the upper bounds on the graviton mass we obtain
constraints on the parameter spaces of both theories.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl
CAVITATION EROSION MICRO-JETS STUDIES OF ALUMINUM SPECIMENS WITH THE AID OF THE COMPACT ROTATING DISK DEVICE
The shape of micro-jets created in the final stages of cavities collapses are studied here with the goal to explain the shape of the pits, formed on the surface of commercial aluminum specimens.These marks on the specimen surfaces are obtained experimentally with the aid of the compact rotating disk device and a scanning electronic microscope. Some explain is attempt, based on the theories of the potential flow and forms
Constraints on Cold Dark Matter Accelerating Cosmologies and Cluster Formation
We discuss the properties of homogeneous and isotropic flat cosmologies in
which the present accelerating stage is powered only by the gravitationally
induced creation of cold dark matter (CCDM) particles (). For
some matter creation rates proposed in the literature, we show that the main
cosmological functions such as the scale factor of the universe, the Hubble
expansion rate, the growth factor and the cluster formation rate are
analytically defined. The best CCDM scenario has only one free parameter and
our joint analysis involving BAO + CMB + SNe Ia data yields
() where
is the observed matter density parameter. In particular, this implies that the
model has no dark energy but the part of the matter that is effectively
clustering is in good agreement with the latest determinations from large scale
structure. The growth of perturbation and the formation of galaxy clusters in
such scenarios are also investigated. Despite the fact that both scenarios may
share the same Hubble expansion, we find that matter creation cosmologies
predict stronger small scale dynamics which implies a faster growth rate of
perturbations with respect to the usual CDM cosmology. Such results
point to the possibility of a crucial observational test confronting CCDM with
CDM scenarios trough a more detailed analysis involving CMB, weak
lensing, as well as the large scale structure.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication by Physical Rev.
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