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Search for massive rare particles with the SLIM experiment
The SLIM experiment is a large array of nuclear track detectors located at
the Chacaltaya High Altitude Laboratory (5260 m a.s.l.). The preliminary
results from the analysis of ~383 m^2 exposed for 4.07 y are here reported. The
detector is sensitive to Intermediate Mass Magnetic Monopoles, 10^5 < M_M <
10^12 GeV, and to SQM nuggets and Q-balls, which are possible Dark Matter
candidates.Comment: 4 pages, 5 EPS figures. Talk given at the 10th ICATPP Conference on
Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics
Applications, Como, Italy, 8-12 October 200
BCS-BEC crossover in a two-dimensional Fermi gas
We investigate the crossover from Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS)
superfluidity to Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in a two-dimensional Fermi
gas at T=0 using the fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo method. We calculate the
equation of state and the gap parameter as a function of the interaction
strength, observing large deviations compared to mean-field predictions. In the
BEC regime our results show the important role of dimer-dimer and atom-dimer
interaction effects that are completely neglected in the mean-field picture.
Results on Tan's contact parameter associated with short-range physics are also
reported along the BCS-BEC crossover.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Self-Configuring Socio-Technical Systems: Redesign at Runtime
Modern information systems are becoming more and more socio-technical systems, namely systems composed of human (social) agents and software (technical) systems operating together in a common environment. The structure of such systems has to evolve dynamically in response to the changes of the environment. When new requirements are introduced, when an actor leaves the system or when a new actor comes, the socio-technical structure needs to be redesigned and revised. In this paper, an approach to dynamic reconfiguration of a socio-technical system structure in response to internal or external changes is proposed. The approach is based on planning techniques for generating possible alternative configurations, and local strategies for their evaluation. The reconfiguration mechanism is presented, which makes the socio-technical system self-configuring, and the approach is discussed and analyzed on a simple case study
Atmospheric neutrino oscillations in MACRO
In this paper we first give a short overview of the MACRO detector, which was
operational at the Gran Sasso Laboratory from 1989 till 2000. Then we present
and discuss the results on atmospheric neutrino oscillations, concerning medium
(~4 GeV) and high (~50 GeV) energy data. Using the Multiple Coulomb Scattering
of muons inside the lower part of the detector, estimates of neutrino energies
were made for the high energy sample. The MACRO data, angular distributions,
absolute flux and L/E_nu distributions favour nu_mu nu_tau oscillations
with maximal mixing and Dm^2=2.5 x 10^-3 eV^2.Comment: 13 pages, 11 EPS figures included with epsfig, uses article.sty. Talk
given at NO-VE, Int. Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations in VEnice, Venice,
Italy, 24-26 July 2001. Fig. 9 updated, Ref. 9 changed and content changed in
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