Coello's Spanish "Hamlet" (1872)

El príncipe Hamlet, by the Spanish playwright Carlos Coello (1850-1888), premiered in Madrid on November 22, 1872 and, described by the author as a “trágico-fantástico” drama, is unique in the history of Spanish translations and adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The play reflects Spain’s late introduction to Shakespeare’s work, in comparison to other European countries. In the Prologue, Coello, who calls Shakespeare “the English Calderón,” insists that his play is a completely new play, “subject to the needs of the Spanish scene and the special conditions of our audience.” Built from the original text, the play includes dialogues and soliloquies of the original and much of its plot. One of the play’s most interesting features is that of the development of the characters and of the subtexts—including such topics as lost honor and the unequal relationship between men and women. In this way, El príncipe Hamlet becomes a rewrite of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, emblematic of the Spanish theatrical tradition of the Golden Age, which was revitalized in the first half of the 19th century in Spain. The Spanish theatre of the 19th century, with its romantic and nationalistic bent, looked to its own 16th and 17th century plays as models, rather than importing foreign works. Nevertheless, Coello’s El príncipe Hamlet exposed the Spanish public to Shakespeare’s work at a time when performances of his plays in Spain were scarce and translations of his works were still based on previous versions done by the French.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Spanish as the language of translation in Spain and Latin America: Shakespeare’s retranslations as a case in point.

A short description of the linguistic decisions taken by three Argentinian translators of Shakespeare (Rafael Squirru, Miguel Ángel Montezanti and Carlos Gamerro) with respect to the language of translation (Spanish). In the three cases, they try to reflect the regional variety known as "ríoplatense", although in different degrees and for different reasons.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Top-quark mass effects in double and triple Higgs production in gluon-gluon fusion at NLO

The observation of double and triple scalar boson production at hadron colliders could provide key information on the Higgs self couplings and the potential. As for single Higgs production the largest rates for multiple Higgs production come from gluon-gluon fusion processes mediated by a top-quark loop. However, at variance with single Higgs production, top-quark mass and width effects from the loops cannot be neglected. Computations including the exact top-quark mass dependence are only available at the leading order, and currently predictions at higher orders are obtained by means of approximations based on the Higgs-gluon effective field theory (HEFT). In this work we present a reweighting technique that, starting from events obtained via the MC@NLO method in the HEFT, allows to exactly include the top-quark mass and width effects coming from one- and two-loop amplitudes. We describe our approach and apply it to double Higgs production at NLO in QCD, computing the needed one-loop amplitudes and using approximations for the unknown two-loop ones. The results are compared to other approaches used in the literature, arguing that they provide more accurate predictions for distributions and for total rates as well. As a novel application of our procedure we present predictions at NLO in QCD for triple Higgs production at hadron colliders.Comment: 24 pages, 8 figure

On the Impact of Lepton PDFs

In this paper we discuss the effect of the complete leading-order QED corrections to the DGLAP equations in the perturbative evolution of parton distribution functions (PDFs). This requires the extension of the purely QCD DGLAP evolution, including a PDF for the photons and, consistently, also for the charged leptons $e^{\pm}$, $\mu^\pm$ and $\tau^\pm$. We present the implementation of the QED-corrected DGLAP evolution in the presence of photon and lepton PDFs in the APFEL program and, by means of different assumptions for the initial scale PDFs, we produce for the first time PDF sets containing charged lepton distributions. We also present phenomenological studies that aim to assess the impact of the presence of lepton PDFs in the proton for some relevant SM (and BSM) processes at the LHC at 13 TeV and the FCC-hh at 100 TeV. The impact of the photon PDF is also outlined for those processes.Comment: 32 pages, 19 figures, matches published version in JHE

K-ary n-cube based off-chip communications architecture for high-speed packet processors

We present a detailed study of Higgs boson production in association with a single top quark at the LHC, at next-to-leading order accuracy in QCD. We consider total and differential cross sections, at the parton level as well as by matching short distance events to parton showers, for both t-channel and s-channel production. We provide predictions relevant for the LHC at 13 TeV together with a thorough evaluation of the residual uncertainties coming from scale variation, parton distributions, strong coupling constant and heavy quark masses. In addition, for t-channel production, we compare results as obtained in the 4-flavour and 5-flavour schemes, pinning down the most relevant differences between them. Finally, we study the sensitivity to a non-standard-model relative phase between the Higgs couplings to the top quark and to the weak bosons

Project feeding more, wasting less: leading young students to a sensitive look regarding the mitigation of food wastage

[Resumo] O desperdício de alimentos passou a ser discutido com constância em razão da necessidade de se erradicar a fome e de problemas ambientais. Nesse sentido, a UFRGS CLN desenvolveu em escolas municipais de Caxias do Sul/RS, juntamente com a Prefeitura Municipal, a UCS e o Instituto Pampeanos de Preservação Ambiental, um projeto de educação ambiental com foco no combate ao desperdício de alimentos. O projeto contemplou mais de 1.100 estudantes de 6º ao 9º ano do ensino fundamental, contando com atividades extracurriculares propostas por um grupo multidisciplinar. Como exemplo, pode ser citado o plantio de hortas nas escolas; a realização de seminários tratando da relação do desperdício de alimentos com o meio ambiente; gincanas; e oficinas de compostagem e culinária. Para a execução das ações, foram selecionadas pela prefeitura cinco escolas com situações de vulnerabilidade social. Do total de indicações das escolas, 84,7% sinalizam que os estudantes se mostraram satisfeitos com as atividades desenvolvidas e 93,7% que os ministrantes foram esclarecedores durante as intervenções. Em relação às informações de estudantes, 50,0% das indicações informam que foram tomadas iniciativas em casa após o início do projeto na escola. Os resultados foram considerados satisfatórios, havendo espaço para aperfeiçoamentos.[Abstract] Food wastage has been fully debated due to the need to eradicate hunger and environmental problems. In this respect, UFRGS CLN developed in municipal schools of Caxias do Sul/RS, supported by the City Hall, the University of Caxias do Sul and the Pampeanos Institute of Environmental Preservation, an environmental education project focused on combating food wastage. The project included more than 1,100 students in grades 6 through 9 of elementary school. The project included extracurricular activities proposed by a multidisciplinary group. For example, vegetable gardens were planted in schools, seminars dealing with the relationship between food waste and the environment were developed; as well as competitions; and composting and cooking workshops. For the development of the actions, the City Hall chose fve schools with social vulnerability situations. Considering the total indications from schools, 84.7% point the students were satisfed with the activities and 93.7% stated the activities were instructive. Regarding students information, 50.0% of the indications show that were taken initiatives at home after the project started in school. The results are considered satisfactory, but there are still opportunities for enhancement

Higgs characterisation at NLO in QCD: CP properties of the top-quark Yukawa interaction

At the LHC the CP properties of the top-quark Yukawa interaction can be probed through Higgs production in gluon fusion or in association with top quarks. We consider the possibility for both CP-even and CP-odd couplings to the top quark to be present, and study CP-sensitive observables at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD, including parton-shower effects. We show that the inclusion of NLO corrections sizeably reduces the theoretical uncertainties, and confirm that di-jet correlations in $H+2$ jet production through gluon fusion and correlations of the top-quark decay products in $t\bar tH$ production can provide sensitive probes of the CP nature of the Higgs interactions.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures, 12 tables; v2: references added, version to appear in EPJ

Top-quark charge asymmetry and polarization in ttˉW±t\bar{t}W^\pm production at the LHC

We study the charge asymmetry between the $t$ and $\bar t$ quark at the LHC, when they are produced in association with a $W$ boson. Though sizably reducing the cross section with respect to the inclusive production, requiring a $W$ boson in the final state has two important implications. First, at leading order in QCD, $t \bar t W^{\pm}$ production can only occur via $q \bar q$ annihilation. As a result, the asymmetry between the $t$ and $\bar t$ generated at NLO in QCD is significantly larger than that of inclusive $t \bar t$ production, which is dominated by gluon fusion. Second, the top quarks tend to inherit the polarization of the initial-state quarks as induced by the $W$-boson emission. Hence, the decay products of the top quarks display a sizable asymmetry already at the leading order in QCD. We study the relevant distributions and their uncertainties in the standard model, compare them to those obtained in a simple axigluon model and discuss prospects for measurements at the LHC and beyond.Comment: 11 pages (with figures), version accepted by PLB for publicatio

Doña Mercedes de Castilla de James Fenimore Cooper, traducida por Pedro Alonso o'Crowley

En 1841 se publicó en Cádiz Doña Mercedes de Castilla o El viaje a Catay, primera traducción española de la novela de James Fenimore Cooper, Mercedes of Castile or The Voyage to Cathay, realizada por el prolífico traductor gaditano Pedro Alonso O'Crowley. La novela es una crónica novelada del primer viaje de Colón y despertó gran interés en España. En este artículo, a partir de dos niveles de análisis del texto traducido, el macro y el microtextual, se describen diversas características de esta traducción. Doña Mercedes puede considerarse un ejemplo de la política traductora de la Imprenta de la Revista Médica de Cádiz a mediados del siglo XIX, así como una muestra del estilo de traducción de O'Crowley.The first Spanish translation of James Fenimore Cooper's novel Mercedes of Castile, or The Journey to Cathay was published in Cádiz in 1841 with the title Doña Mercedes de Castilla o El viaje a Catay. The novel was translated by the prolific translator Pedro Alonso O'Crowley, born in Cádiz. The novel, a fictional chronicle of the first voyage of Columbus, aroused a great interest in Spain. In the present article, various features of this translation are described, using two levels of analysis of the translated text, the macro- and the microtextual. Doña Mercedes can be considered as a case study in the politics of translation carried out by the Imprenta de la Revista Médica of Cádiz in the mid-19th century, as well as a sample of O'Crowley's style of translation