Bose-Einstein and Other Correlations in Hadronic Z Decay

In hadronic Z decays, Bose-Einstein correlations in neutral pion pairs are compared to those in identical charged pion pairs. Bose-Einstein correlations are also measured in triplets of identical charged pions, and comparison with those in pairs of pions indicates that pion production is completely incoherent. Further, factorial cumulants are used to compare correlations among like-sign as well as among all particles with those of several Monte Carlo models.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, Rencontres de Moriond - QCD 200

QCD at LEP

Several preliminary QCD results from e+e- interactions at LEP are reported. These include studies of event shape variables, which are used to determine alpha_s and for studies of the validity of power corrections. Further, a study of color reconnection effects in 3-jet Z decays is reported.Comment: Invited talk at XXXIII Intl. Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Cracow, Poland, 5-11 Sept., 2003. To appear in the proceedings in Acta Physica Polonic

Bose-Einstein correlations in e+e- annihilation and e+e- ==> W+W-

Results on Bose-Einstein correlations in e+e- ==> hadrons are reviewed.Comment: Talk given at Fourth Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, Kromeriz, Czech Republic, August 15-17, 2005. A shortened version will appear in the proceeding

New Bose-Einstein Results from L3

In hadronic Z decays, we compare Bose-Einstein correlations in \Pgpz pairs with those in identical charged pion pairs. We also measure Bose-Einstein correlations in triplets of identical charged pions. From the first study, the source radius is found to be smaller for \Pgpz-\Pgpz than for \Pgppm-\Pgppm, as would be expected, e.g., in a string model. However, the second study shows that the data are consistent with the pion production being completely incoherent. Both studies use data collected by the L3 collaboration at LEP.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures in eps, talk given at XXXI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Sept 1-7, 2001, Datong China. see http://ismd31.ccnu.edu.cn

Measurement of the Scaling Property of Factorial Moments in Hadronic Z Decay

Both three- and one-dimensional studies of local multiplicity fluctuations in hadronic Z decay are performed using data of the L3 experiment at LEP. The normalized factorial moments in three dimensions exhibit power-law scaling, indicating that the fluctuations are isotropic, which correspends to a self-similar fractal. A detailed study of the corresponding one-dimensional moments confirms this conclusion. However, two-jet subsamples have anisotropic fluctuations, correspending to a self-affine fractal. These features are, at least qualitatively, reproduced by the Monte Carlo models \JETSET and \HERWIG.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures in eps, talk given at XXXI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Sept 1-7, 2001, Datong China. see http://ismd31.ccnu.edu.cn

The oxidation and sublimation of graphite in simulated re-entry environments

Graphite oxidation and sublimation in simulated reentry environment

The time evolution of marginally trapped surfaces

In previous work we have shown the existence of a dynamical horizon or marginally trapped tube (MOTT) containing a given strictly stable marginally outer trapped surface (MOTS). In this paper we show some results on the global behavior of MOTTs assuming the null energy condition. In particular we show that MOTSs persist in the sense that every Cauchy surface in the future of a given Cauchy surface containing a MOTS also must contain a MOTS. We describe a situation where the evolving outermost MOTS must jump during the coalescence of two seperate MOTSs. We furthermore characterize the behavior of MOTSs in the case that the principal eigenvalue vanishes under a genericity assumption. This leads to a regularity result for the tube of outermost MOTSs under the genericity assumption. This tube is then smooth up to finitely many jump times. Finally we discuss the relation of MOTSs to singularities of a space-time.Comment: 21 pages. This revision corrects some typos and contains more detailed proofs than the original versio