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The CEDAR Project
We describe the plans and objectives of the CEDAR project (Combined e-Science
Data Analysis Resource for High Energy Physics) newly funded by the PPARC
e-Science programme in the UK. CEDAR will combine the strengths of the well
established and widely used HEPDATA database of HEP data and the innovative
JetWeb data/Monte Carlo comparison facility, built on the HZTOOL package, and
will exploit developing grid technology. The current status and future plans of
both of these individual sub-projects within the CEDAR framework are described,
showing how they will cohesively provide (a) an extensive archive of Reaction
Data, (b) validation and tuning of Monte Carlo programs against these reaction
data sets, and (c) a validated code repository for a wide range of HEP code
such as parton distribution functions and other calculation codes used by
particle physicists. Once established it is envisaged CEDAR will become an
important Grid tool used by LHC experimentalists in their analyses and may well
serve as a model in other branches of science where there is a need to compare
data and complex simulations.Comment: 4 pages, 4 postscript figures, uses CHEP2004.cls. Presented at
Computing in High-Energy Physics (CHEP'04), Interlaken, Switzerland, 27th
September - 1st October 200
HepData and JetWeb: HEP data archiving and model validation
The CEDAR collaboration is extending and combining the JetWeb and HepData
systems to provide a single service for tuning and validating models of
high-energy physics processes. The centrepiece of this activity is the fitting
by JetWeb of observables computed from Monte Carlo event generator events
against their experimentally determined distributions, as stored in HepData.
Caching the results of the JetWeb simulation and comparison stages provides a
single cumulative database of event generator tunings, fitted against a wide
range of experimental quantities. An important feature of this integration is a
family of XML data formats, called HepML.Comment: 4 pages, 0 figures. To be published in proceedings of CHEP0
HepForge: A lightweight development environment for HEP software
Setting up the infrastructure to manage a software project can become a task
as significant writing the software itself. A variety of useful open source
tools are available, such as Web-based viewers for version control systems,
"wikis" for collaborative discussions and bug-tracking systems, but their use
in high-energy physics, outside large collaborations, is insubstantial.
Understandably, physicists would rather do physics than configure project
management tools.
We introduce the CEDAR HepForge system, which provides a lightweight
development environment for HEP software. Services available as part of
HepForge include the above-mentioned tools as well as mailing lists, shell
accounts, archiving of releases and low-maintenance Web space. HepForge also
exists to promote best-practice software development methods and to provide a
central repository for re-usable HEP software and phenomenology codes.Comment: 3 pages, 0 figures. To be published in proceedings of CHEP06. Refers
to the HepForge facility at http://hepforge.cedar.ac.u
Consistent thermodynamics for spin echoes
Spin-echo experiments are often said to constitute an instant of
anti-thermodynamic behavior in a concrete physical system that violates the
second law of thermodynamics. We argue that a proper thermodynamic treatment of
the effect should take into account the correlations between the spin and
translational degrees of freedom of the molecules. To this end, we construct an
entropy functional using Boltzmann macrostates that incorporates both spin and
translational degrees of freedom. With this definition there is nothing special
in the thermodynamics of spin echoes: dephasing corresponds to Hamiltonian
evolution and leaves the entropy unchanged; dissipation increases the entropy.
In particular, there is no phase of entropy decrease in the echo. We also
discuss the definition of macrostates from the underlying quantum theory and we
show that the decay of net magnetization provides a faithful measure of entropy
change.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figs. Changed figures, version to appear in PR
Bath generated work extraction and inversion-free gain in two-level systems
The spin-boson model, often used in NMR and ESR physics, quantum optics and
spintronics, is considered in a solvable limit to model a spin one-half
particle interacting with a bosonic thermal bath. By applying external pulses
to a non-equilibrium initial state of the spin, work can be extracted from the
thermalized bath. It occurs on the timescale \T_2 inherent to transversal
(`quantum') fluctuations. The work (partly) arises from heat given off by the
surrounding bath, while the spin entropy remains constant during a pulse. This
presents a violation of the Clausius inequality and the Thomson formulation of
the second law (cycles cost work) for the two-level system.
Starting from a fully disordered state, coherence can be induced by employing
the bath. Due to this, a gain from a positive-temperature (inversion-free)
two-level system is shown to be possible.Comment: 4 pages revte
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