51 research outputs found
On Continuous Full-Order Integral-Terminal Sliding Mode Control with Unknown Apriori Bound on Uncertainty
This study aims at providing a solution to the problem of designing a
continuous and finite-time control for a class of nonlinear systems in the
presence of matched uncertainty with an unknown apriori bound. First, we
propose a Full-Order Integral-Terminal Sliding Manifold (FOITSM) with a
conventional (discontinuous) sliding mode to show that it provides the combined
attributes of the nonsingular terminal and integral sliding mode algorithms.
Secondly, an Adaptive Disturbance Observer (ADO) has been designed to alleviate
the effect of the uncertainty acting on the system. On application of the
ADO-based Full-Order Integral-Terminal Sliding Mode Control (FOITSMC), the
chattering phenomenon in control input has been reduced substantially in the
presence of conditionally known matched disturbances. Moreover, the adaptive
gains of ADO are updated non-monotonically without over-bounding the acting
disturbance, yet sustain the global boundedness of state trajectories within a
specific bound. %Finally, an application of the proposed algorithm for attitude
stabilization of a rigid spacecraft has been successively shown.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figure
Determination of equation of state of quark matter from and suppression at RHIC and LHC
The long life-time of the quark-gluon plasma likely to be created in the
relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies renders it sensitive
to the details of the equation of state of the quark-matter. We show that the
dependence of the survival probability of the directly produced
at RHIC energies and that of the directly produced at LHC energies
is quite sensitive to the speed of sound in the quark matter, which relates the
pressure and the energy density of the plasma. The transverse expansion of the
plasma is shown to strongly affect the suppression at LHC energies.Comment: 26 pages including 11 figures. (Submitted to Eur. Phys. Jour. C
Hydrogen bonded molecular rectangle of N,N-bis(3-quinolyl- methylene)diphenylethanedionedihydrazone
416-419The title compound, N,N-bis (3-quinolylmethylene) diphenylethanedionedihydrazone (I) (molecular formula, C34H24N6) has been synthesized by the reaction of quinoline 3-carboxaldehyde and diphenylethanedionedihydrazone in 2:1 molar ratio. The molecular structure has been characterized by room-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction which reveals that two quinoline moieties are disposed nearly perpendicularly around the central C-C bond giving an âLâ shape to the molecule. This particular geometry gives rise to the hydrogen bonded supramolecular rectangle of two self-complementary molecules. These supramolecular units are further assembled by - interaction
suppression: gluonic dissociation {\em vs.} colour screening
We evaluate the suppression of production in an equilibrating quark
gluon plasma for two competing mechanisms: Debye screening of colour
interaction and dissociation due to energetic gluons. Results are obtained for
and collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. At RHIC energies the
gluonic dissociation of the charmonium is found to be equally important for
both the systems while the screening of the interaction plays a significant
role only for the larger systems.
At LHC energies the Debye mechanism is found to dominate for both the
systems. While considering the suppression of directly produced at
LHC energies, we find that only the gluonic dissociation mechanism comes into
play for the initial conditions taken from the self screened parton cascade
model in these studies. Thus we find that a systematic study of quarkonium
suppression for systems of varying dimensions can help identify the source and
the extent of the suppression.Comment: (revised) 5 pages including 3 figures, discussion expande
Evolution of strangeness in equilibrating and expanding quark-gluon plasma
We evaluate the strangeness production from equilibrating and transversely
expanding quark gluon plasma which may be created in the wake of relativistic
heavy ion collisions. We consider boost invariant longitudinal and
cylindrically symmetric transverse expansion of a gluon dominated partonic
plasma, which is in local thermal equilibrium. Initial conditions obtained from
the self screened parton cascade model are used. We empirically find that the
final extent of the partonic equilibration rises almost linearly with the
square of the initial energy density. This along with the corresponding
variation with the number of participants may help us distinguish between
various models of parton production.Comment: RevTex, 10 pages including 6 figures comprising 11 postscript files,
text modified considerably with an added figure (Fig. 6) and this version
accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
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