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Search for rare purely leptonic decays at LHCb
Rare lepton decays of the B(s), D and K mesons are sensitive probes of New
Physics. In particular, the search for the decays
provides information on the presence of new (pseudo-)scalar particles. LHCb is
well suited for these analyses due to its large acceptance and trigger
efficiency, as well as its excellent invariant mass resolution and lepton
identification capabilities. The status of these analyses with
fb of pp collisions collected by LHCb in 2011 at TeV is
reviewed.Comment: Proceedings of CKM 2012, the 7th International Workshop on the CKM
Unitarity Triangle, University of Cincinnati, USA, 28 September - 2 October
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Reply to Notes on: âThe Generalised Index Numbersâ
Generalised Index Numbers, Basket Factor, Indicator Function
Economics and the Survivor Peasant
Peasants are survivor actors: they allocate all their resources and deploy refined strategies for securing a smooth horizon of consumption. Their stylized behavior is irrational only if development is the goal the peasant should follow. Subsistence as expression for describing rural economies is inadequate, since it doesn't connote the risk of starvation or death that peasants face. The survivor actor poses descriptive demands and normative implications. At a descriptive level, peasant's risk behavior is not ruled by inner preferences only, but depends on his expectations for securing a smooth consumption during the crop cycle. The utility model is apt for describing the survivor actor. Yet the exponent that defines the curvature of the utility includes a component that captures the aversion to uncertainty and a component that grasps the expectations about the chances to secure the horizon of consumption. This component defines a function of risk behavior, a counterpart of the Arrows-Pratt function of risk aversion. A normative for the survivor actor has to consider what is feasible, not what is desirable; what could be, not what should be. --
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