385 research outputs found
The Symphonie System And Its Utilizations
After the successful completion of the SYMPHONIE project development phase, which resulted in the injection into geostationary orbit of two flight models (December 1974 and August 1975), the French- German programme is carrying on in the aim of setting up and performing a great number of different experiments demonstrating the capability of this 4/6 GHz satellite system to comply with all kinds of utilizations
Phenomenological discussion of decays in QCD improved factorization approach
Trying a global fit of the experimental branching ratios and CP-asymmetries
of the charmless decays according to QCD factorization, we find it
impossible to reach a satisfactory agreement, the confidence level (CL) of the
best fit is smaller than .1 %. This failure reflects the difficulty to
accommodate several large experimental branching ratios of the strange
channels. Furthermore, experiment was not able to exclude a large direct CP
asymmetry in , which is predicted very small by QCD
factorization. Proposing a fit with QCD factorization complemented by a
charming-penguin inspired model we reach a best fit which is not excluded by
experiment (CL of about 8 %) but is not fully convincing.
These negative results must be tempered by the remark that some of the
experimental data used are recent and might still evolve significantly.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures (requires epsfig, psfrag),talk presented at the
XXXVIIIth Rencontres de Moriond: Electroweak Interactions and Unified
Theories,Les Arcs, France, March 15-22, 2003. To be published in the
Proceeding
Nuclear models on a lattice
We present the first results of a quantum field approach to nuclear models
obtained by lattice techniques. Renormalization effects for fermion mass and
coupling constant in case of scalar and pseudoscalar interaction lagrangian
densities are discussed.Comment: 4 pages - 7 figures ; Invited talk to QCD 05: 12th International QCD
Conference, 4-9 Jul 2005, Montpellier, France ; To appear in Nucl. Phys. B
(Proc. Suppl.
Instanton traces in lattice gluon correlation functions
Strong coupling constant computed in Landau gauge and MOM renormalization
scheme from lattice two and three gluon Green Functions exhibits an unexpected
behavior in the deep IR, showing a maximum value around . We
analise this coupling below this maximum within a semiclassical approach, were
gluon degrees of freedom at very low energies are described in terms of the
classical solutions of the lagrangian, namely instantons. We provide some new
results concerning the relationship between instantons and the low energy
dynamics of QCD, by analising gluon two- and three-point Green functions
separately and with the help of a cooling procedure to eliminate short range
correlations.Comment: 4 pages, talk given at XXXX Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and Hadronic
Interactions, La Thuile (Italy
apeNEXT: A multi-TFlops Computer for Simulations in Lattice Gauge Theory
We present the APE (Array Processor Experiment) project for the development
of dedicated parallel computers for numerical simulations in lattice gauge
theories. While APEmille is a production machine in today's physics simulations
at various sites in Europe, a new machine, apeNEXT, is currently being
developed to provide multi-Tflops computing performance. Like previous APE
machines, the new supercomputer is largely custom designed and specifically
optimized for simulations of Lattice QCD.Comment: Poster at the XXIII Physics in Collisions Conference (PIC03),
Zeuthen, Germany, June 2003, 3 pages, Latex. PSN FRAP15. Replaced for adding
forgotten autho
CCC meets ICU: Redefining the role of critical care of cancer patients
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Currently the majority of cancer patients are considered ineligible for intensive care treatment and oncologists are struggling to get their patients admitted to intensive care units. Critical care and oncology are frequently two separate worlds that communicate rarely and thus do not share novel developments in their fields. However, cancer medicine is rapidly improving and cancer is eventually becoming a chronic disease. Oncology is therefore characterized by a growing number of older and medically unfit patients that receive numerous novel drug classes with unexpected side effects.</p> <p>Discussion</p> <p>All of these changes will generate more medically challenging patients in acute distress that need to be considered for intensive care. An intense exchange between intensivists, oncologists, psychologists and palliative care specialists is warranted to communicate the developments in each field in order to improve triage and patient treatment. Here, we argue that "critical care of cancer patients" needs to be recognized as a medical subspecialty and that there is an urgent need to develop it systematically.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>As prognosis of cancer improves, novel therapeutic concepts are being introduced and more and more older cancer patients receive full treatment the number of acutely ill patients is growing significantly. This development a major challenge to current concepts of intensive care and it needs to be redefined who of these patients should be treated, for how long and how intensively.</p
The apeNEXT project (Status report)
We present the current status of the apeNEXT project. Aim of this project is
the development of the next generation of APE machines which will provide
multi-teraflop computing power. Like previous machines, apeNEXT is based on a
custom designed processor, which is specifically optimized for simulating QCD.
We discuss the machine design, report on benchmarks, and give an overview on
the status of the software development.Comment: Talk from the 2003 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics
(CHEP03), La Jolla, Ca, USA, March 2003, 8 pages, LaTeX, 12 eps figures. PSN
THIT00
Formalism for dilepton production via virtual photon bremsstrahlung in hadronic reactions
We derive a set of new formulas for various distributions in dilepton
production via virtual photon bremsstrahlung from pseudoscalar mesons and
unpolarized spin-one-half fermions. These formulas correspond to the leading
and sub-leading terms in the Low-Burnett-Kroll expansion for real photon
bremsstrahlung. The relation of our leading-term formulas to previous works is
also shown. Existing formulas are examined in the light of Lorentz covariance
and gauge invariance. Numerical comparison is made in a simple example, where
an "exact" formula and real photon data exist. The results reveal large
discrepancies among different bremsstrahlung formulas. Of all the leading-term
bremsstrahlung formulas, the one derived in this work agrees best with the
exact formula. The issues of M_T-scaling and event generators are also
addressed.Comment: 37 pages, RevTeX, epsf.sty, 10 embedded figure
The apeNEXT project
Numerical simulations in theoretical high-energy physics (Lattice QCD) require huge computing resources. Several generations of massively parallel computers optimised for these applications have been developed within the APE (array processor experiment) project. Large prototype systems of the latest generation, apeNEXT, are currently being assembled and tested. This contribution explains how the apeNEXT architecture is optimised for Lattice QCD, provides an overview of the hardware and software of apeNEXT, and describes its new features, like the SPMD programming model and the C compiler
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