POST MORTEM OVER NEW LABOUR

ABSTRACTAllerede før New Labours fald fra magten var der fuld gang i analyserne af, hvad essensen af partiets historie som regeringsbærende var. Artiklen er en læsning af disse analyser, der lokaliserer, præsenterer og diskuterer tre dominerende fortællinger: en biografisk, en politisk og en historisk med det formål at indkredse svaret på spørgsmålet om, hvad New Labour egentligt var. En central pointe er, at ingen af disse fortællinger forklarer den grundlæggende modsætning i New Labour-projektet: at partiet som regeringsbærende var fortaler for menneskerettigheder, tolerance og demokratisering samtidig med at dets politiske praksis havde klare autoritære træk

NEDERLANDSKE FORBINDELSER

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Tørstens allerbedste ven. Cola'ens Danmarkshistorie fra 1930'erne til 1960'erne

Klaus Petersen & Nils Arne SørensenThe History of Coca-Cola in Denmark from the 1930s to the 1960sCoca-Cola is one of the world’s best know brands and a symbol of American influence worldwide – sarcastically reflected in the term »Coca-Colonization.« After 1945 Coca-Cola became virtually synonymous with the USA, and for that very reason countless consumers were attracted to the product. On the other hand, the brand was feared by numerous interest groups, by some because of that same symbolic stature, but by others for narrower economic reasons. It was in this context that Coca-Cola after 1945 became a bone of contention in a number of European countries such as France, Italy, Switzerland and Sweden.Coca-Cola made its debut in Denmark in 1935. It ran into substantial resistance from the well-established brewery interests, and it succeeded in capturing only a quite limited share of the beverage market. During World War II production had to be completely abandoned. It was only after the war, and not the least in the 1950s, that there was something like a Coca-Cola war – with established Danish producers and Danish politicians and authorities on the one side, and Coca-Cola and its Danish partners on the other as the main combatants. Among the more outstanding battles were a legal case taken by Coca-Cola all the way to the Supreme Court against a small mineral water producer; the introduction (and later abrogation) of a prohibitively high special tax on cola drinks (i.e. containing extract of the kola nut); and the decision by Danish manufacturers to launch a national cola-beverage, Jolly Cola, to compete with the original American product. Even after the annulment of the cola tax in 1959 the war continued as a battle for market shares. The present article combines cultural, political and economic perspectives of inquiry in an effort to trace their historical developments, focusing all the while on the actors and their (shifting) interests.Translated by Michael Wolf

INFRASTRUKTUR OG HISTORIE

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Measurement of the top quark forward-backward production asymmetry and the anomalous chromoelectric and chromomagnetic moments in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Abstract The parton-level top quark (t) forward-backward asymmetry and the anomalous chromoelectric (d̂ t) and chromomagnetic (μ̂ t) moments have been measured using LHC pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected in the CMS detector in a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The linearized variable AFB(1) is used to approximate the asymmetry. Candidate t t ¯ events decaying to a muon or electron and jets in final states with low and high Lorentz boosts are selected and reconstructed using a fit of the kinematic distributions of the decay products to those expected for t t ¯ final states. The values found for the parameters are AFB(1)=0.048−0.087+0.095(stat)−0.029+0.020(syst),μ̂t=−0.024−0.009+0.013(stat)−0.011+0.016(syst), and a limit is placed on the magnitude of | d̂ t| < 0.03 at 95% confidence level. [Figure not available: see fulltext.

MUSiC : a model-unspecific search for new physics in proton-proton collisions at root s=13TeV

Results of the Model Unspecific Search in CMS (MUSiC), using proton-proton collision data recorded at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb(-1), are presented. The MUSiC analysis searches for anomalies that could be signatures of physics beyond the standard model. The analysis is based on the comparison of observed data with the standard model prediction, as determined from simulation, in several hundred final states and multiple kinematic distributions. Events containing at least one electron or muon are classified based on their final state topology, and an automated search algorithm surveys the observed data for deviations from the prediction. The sensitivity of the search is validated using multiple methods. No significant deviations from the predictions have been observed. For a wide range of final state topologies, agreement is found between the data and the standard model simulation. This analysis complements dedicated search analyses by significantly expanding the range of final states covered using a model independent approach with the largest data set to date to probe phase space regions beyond the reach of previous general searches.Peer reviewe

Search for new particles in events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

A search is presented for new particles produced at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV, using events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 101 fb(-1), collected in 2017-2018 with the CMS detector. Machine learning techniques are used to define separate categories for events with narrow jets from initial-state radiation and events with large-radius jets consistent with a hadronic decay of a W or Z boson. A statistical combination is made with an earlier search based on a data sample of 36 fb(-1), collected in 2016. No significant excess of events is observed with respect to the standard model background expectation determined from control samples in data. The results are interpreted in terms of limits on the branching fraction of an invisible decay of the Higgs boson, as well as constraints on simplified models of dark matter, on first-generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to quarks and neutrinos, and on models with large extra dimensions. Several of the new limits, specifically for spin-1 dark matter mediators, pseudoscalar mediators, colored mediators, and leptoquarks, are the most restrictive to date.Peer reviewe

Measurement of prompt open-charm production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

The production cross sections for prompt open-charm mesons in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV are reported. The measurement is performed using a data sample collected by the CMS experiment corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 29 nb(-1). The differential production cross sections of the D*(+/-), D-+/-, and D-0 ((D) over bar (0)) mesons are presented in ranges of transverse momentum and pseudorapidity 4 < p(T) < 100 GeV and vertical bar eta vertical bar < 2.1, respectively. The results are compared to several theoretical calculations and to previous measurements.Peer reviewe