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Quarkonia production at forward rapidity in Pb+Pb collisions at TeV with the ALICE detector
The study of formation of heavy quarkonia in relativistic heavy ion
collisions provides important insight into the properties of the produced high
density QCD medium. Lattice QCD studies show sequential suppression of
quarkonia states with increasing temperature; which affirms that a full
spectroscopy, can provide us a thermometer for the matter produced under
extreme conditions in relativistic heavy ion collisions and one of the most
direct probes of de-confinement. Muons from the decay of charmonium resonances
are detected in ALICE Experiment in p+p and Pb+Pb collisions with a muon
spectrometer, covering the forward rapidity region(). The analysis of
the inclusive J/ production in the first Pb+Pb data collected in the fall
2010 at a center of mass energy of TeV is discussed.
Preliminary results on the nuclear modification factor () and the
central to peripheral nuclear modification factor () are presented.Comment: 2 figures. Proceedings for XXV International Symposium on Lepton
Photon Interactions at High Energies, 22-27th August 2011, Mumbai, Indi
Using the probabilistic evaluation tool for the analytical solution of large Markov models
Stochastic Petri net-based Markov modeling is a potentially very powerful and generic approach for evaluating the performance and dependability of many different systems, such as computer systems, communication networks, manufacturing systems, etc. As a consequence of their general applicability, SPN-based Markov models form the basic solution approach for several software packages that have been developed for the analytic solution of performance and dependability models. In these tools, stochastic Petri nets are used to conveniently specify complicated models, after which an automatic mapping can be carried out to an underlying Markov reward model. Subsequently, this Markov reward model is solved by specialized solution algorithms, appropriately selected for the measure of interest. One of the major aspects that hampers the use of SPN-based Markov models for the analytic solution of performance and dependability results is the size of the state space. Although typically models of up to a few hundred thousand states can conveniently be solved on modern-day work-stations, often even larger models are required to represent all the desired detail of the system. Our tool PET (probabilistic evaluation tool) circumvents problems of large state spaces when the desired performance and dependability measure are transient measures. It does so by an approach named probabilistic evaluatio
Anomalously interacting new extra vector bosons and their first LHC constraints
In this review phenomenological consequences of the Standard Model extension
by means of new spin-1 chiral fields with the internal quantum numbers of the
electroweak Higgs doublets are summarized. The prospects for resonance
production and detection of the chiral vector and bosons at
the LHC energies are considered. The boson can be observed as a
Breit-Wigner resonance peak in the invariant dilepton mass distributions in the
same way as the well-known extra gauge bosons. However, the bosons
have unique signatures in transverse momentum, angular and pseudorapidity
distributions of the final leptons, which allow one to distinguish them from
other heavy neutral resonances. In 2010, with 40 pb of the LHC
proton-proton data at the energy 7 TeV, the ATLAS detector was used to search
for narrow resonances in the invariant mass spectrum of and
final states and high-mass charged states decaying to a charged
lepton and a neutrino. No statistically significant excess above the Standard
Model expectation was observed. The exclusion mass limits of 1.15 TeV and
1.35 TeV were obtained for the chiral neutral and charged
bosons, respectively. These are the first direct limits on the and
boson production. For almost all currently considered exotic models the
relevant signal is expected in the central dijet rapidity region. On the
contrary, the chiral bosons do not contribute to this region but produce an
excess of dijet events far away from it. For these bosons the appropriate
kinematic restrictions lead to a dip in the centrality ratio distribution over
the dijet invariant mass instead of a bump expected in the most exotic models.Comment: 24 pages, 34 figure, based on talk given by V.A.Bednyakov at 15th
Lomonosov conference, 22.08.201
A method for analyzing the performance aspects of the fault-tolerance mechanisms in FDDI
The ability of error recovery mechanisms to make the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) satisfy real-time performance constraints in the presence of errors is analyzed. A complicating factor in these analyses is the rarity of the error occurrences, which makes direct simulation unattractive. Therefore, a fast simulation technique, called injection simulation, which makes it possible to analyze the performance of FDDI, including its fault tolerance behavior, was developed. The implementation of injection simulation for polling models of FDDI is discussed, along with simulation result
Supersymmetry in the shadow of photini
Additional neutral gauge fermions -- "photini" -- arise in string
compactifications as superpartners of U(1) gauge fields. Unlike their vector
counterparts, the photini can acquire weak-scale masses from soft SUSY breaking
and lead to observable signatures at the LHC through mass mixing with the bino.
In this work we investigate the collider consequences of adding photini to the
neutralino sector of the MSSM. Relatively large mixing of one or more photini
with the bino can lead to prompt decays of the lightest ordinary supersymmetric
particle; these extra cascades transfer most of the energy of SUSY decay chains
into Standard Model particles, diminishing the power of missing energy as an
experimental handle for signal discrimination. We demonstrate that the missing
energy in SUSY events with photini is reduced dramatically for supersymmetric
spectra with MSSM neutralinos near the weak scale, and study the effects on
limits set by the leading hadronic SUSY searches at ATLAS and CMS. We find that
in the presence of even one light photino the limits on squark masses from
hadronic searches can be reduced by 400 GeV, with comparable (though more
modest) reduction of gluino mass limits. We also consider potential discovery
channels such as dilepton and multilepton searches, which remain sensitive to
SUSY spectra with photini and can provide an unexpected route to the discovery
of supersymmetry. Although presented in the context of photini, our results
apply in general to theories in which additional light neutral fermions mix
with MSSM gauginos.Comment: 23 pages, 8 figures, references adde
What did HERA teach us about the structure of the proton?
Starting in 2008 the H1 and ZEUS experiments have been combining their data
in order to provide the most complete and accurate set of deep-inelastic data
as the legacy of HERA. The present review presents these combinations, both
published and preliminary, and explores how they have been used to give
information on the structure of the proton. The HERAPDF parton distribution
functions (PDFs) are presented and compared with other current PDFs and with
data from the Tevatron and LHC colliders.Comment: 49 pages, 49 figures, to be published in J.Phys.
Gauged flavour symmetry for the light generations
We study the phenomenology of a model where an SU(2)^3 flavour symmetry
acting on the first two generation quarks is gauged and Yukawa couplings for
the light generations are generated by a see-saw mechanism involving heavy
fermions needed to cancel flavour-gauge anomalies. We find that, in constrast
to the SU(3)^3 case studied in the literature, most of the constraints related
to the third generation, like electroweak precision bounds or B physics
observables, can be evaded, while characteristic collider signatures are
predicted.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figure
Modeling association between DNA copy number and gene expression with constrained piecewise linear regression splines
DNA copy number and mRNA expression are widely used data types in cancer
studies, which combined provide more insight than separately. Whereas in
existing literature the form of the relationship between these two types of
markers is fixed a priori, in this paper we model their association. We employ
piecewise linear regression splines (PLRS), which combine good interpretation
with sufficient flexibility to identify any plausible type of relationship. The
specification of the model leads to estimation and model selection in a
constrained, nonstandard setting. We provide methodology for testing the effect
of DNA on mRNA and choosing the appropriate model. Furthermore, we present a
novel approach to obtain reliable confidence bands for constrained PLRS, which
incorporates model uncertainty. The procedures are applied to colorectal and
breast cancer data. Common assumptions are found to be potentially misleading
for biologically relevant genes. More flexible models may bring more insight in
the interaction between the two markers.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AOAS605 the Annals of
Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Cross Section Ratios between different CM energies at the LHC: opportunities for precision measurements and BSM sensitivity
The staged increase of the LHC beam energy provides a new class of
interesting observables, namely ratios and double ratios of cross sections of
various hard processes. The large degree of correlation of theoretical
systematics in the cross section calculations at different energies leads to
highly precise predictions for such ratios. We present in this letter few
examples of such ratios, and discuss their possible implications, both in terms
of opportunities for precision measurements and in terms of sensitivity to
Beyond the Standard Model dynamics.Comment: 19 pages, 9 figure
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