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Latina/o Conversion and Miracle-Seeking at a Buddhist Temple
The growing diversification of the US Latino religious’ experiences calls for scholarly attention beyond Protestant or Catholic categories. This study begins to answer this call. Using interview data with 26 Latinos collected over 2 years of observation at the True Lama Meditation Center (TLMC) in Houston, Texas, we describe how Latinos who convert to Buddhism or actively attend the temple while also continuing to attend Christian services (both Catholic and Protestant) see themselves and understand their religious identities and practices. We then explore the reasons for their conversion or changes in religious identities and practices through various theoretical lens. Although the majority of respondents now claim to be Buddhist, many did not switch religions but augmented or extended their religious identities and practices. Reasons for conversion to Buddhism or concurrent involvement at the temple and Buddhist faith practices include seeking material support and miracles and those seeking spiritual fulfillment they felt they were not getting in Christian faith practices
Variable stars in the VVV globular clusters
Indexación: Scopus.The VVV survey observed some of the most crowded and most obscured regions in the inner Milky Way during the last years. A significant sample of the less known globular clusters in our galaxy lie there. Combining the high-resolution, wide-field, near infrared capabilities of the survey camera, the use of 5 different filters, and multi-epoch observations, we are able to overcome many of the previous challenges that prevented a proper study of these objects. Particularly, the identification of the RR Lyrae stars in these globular clusters is proving to be a fundamental tool to establish accurately their distances and reddenings, and to infer information about the Oosterhoff dichotomy that Galactic globular clusters seem to follow. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017.https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2017/21/epjconf_puls2017_01022.pd
Hyperon effects on the properties of -stable neutron star matter
We present results from Brueckner-Hartree-Fock calculations for
-stable neutron star matter with nucleonic and hyperonic degrees of
freedom employing the most recent parametrizations of the baryon-baryon
interaction of the Nijmegen group. Only and are present up
to densities . The corresponding equations of state are then used
to compute properties of neutron stars such as masses and radii.Comment: 4 pages, contributed talk at HYP2000, Torino, 23-27 Oct. 200
Particle Multiplicity in Jets and Sub-jets with Jet Axis from Color Current
We study the particle multiplicity in a jet or sub-jet as derived from an
energy-multiplicity 2-particle correlation. This definition avoids the notion
of a globally fixed jet axis and allows for the study of smaller jet cone
openings in a more stable way. The results are sensitive to the mean color
current in the jet from primary parton which takes into
account intermediate partonic processes in the sub-jet production where at high energies. We generalize previous calculations in
Leading Logarithmic Approximation (LLA). The size of the effects related to
this jet axis definition are computed for multiplicities in sub-jets with
different opening angles and energies by including contributions from the
Modified LLA (MLLA) and Next-to-MLLA to the leading order QCD results
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Thermodynamics and Phase Structure of the Two-Flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio Model Beyond Large-N_c
The optimized perturbation theory (OPT) method is applied to the
version of the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model both at zero and at finite
temperature and/or density. At the first nontrivial order the OPT exhibits a
class of 1/N_c corrections which produce nonperturbative results that go beyond
the standard large-N_c, or mean-field approximation. The consistency of the OPT
method with the Goldstone theorem at this order is established, and appropriate
OPT values of the basic NJL (vacuum) parameters are obtained by matching the
pion mass and decay constant consistently. Deviations from standard large-N_c
relations induced by OPT at this order are derived, for example, for the
Gell--Mann-Oakes-Renner relation. Next, the results for the critical quantities
and the phase diagram of the model, as well as a number of other
thermodynamical quantities of interest, are obtained with OPT and then
contrasted with the corresponding results at large N_c.Comment: 29 pages, 20 figures, revtex. Minor corrections. In press Phys. Rev.
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