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Heavy Hyperon--Antihyperon Production
Based on the experience from the production of anti-Lambda Lambda and
anti-Sigma Sigma pairs at LEAR (experiment PS185) it is suggested to continue
the investigations towards the heavier antihyperon--hyperon pairs anti-Xi Xi
and anti-Omega Omega in view of: (1) the production dynamics of the heavier
antihyperon--hyperon out of the anti-p p annihilation (2) a comparison of the
(3s 3anti-s quark system) anti-Omega Omega to the (3 (anti-s s)) 3 phi meson
production, where both systems have similar masses (3.345 and 3.057,
respectively) and identical valence quark content. A systematic study of the
antihyperon--hyperon production with increasing strangeness content is
interesting for the following reasons: The anti-Omega Omega production is the
creation of two spin 3/2 objects out of the two spin 1/2 anti-p p particles.
Results of the PS185 experiments prove a clear dominance of the spin triplet
anti-s s dissociation. In the Omega anti-Omega the three s-quarks (three anti-s
quarks) are aligned to spin 3/2 each. If the three anti-s s pairs are now all
in spin triplet configurations when created out of the gluonic interaction they
should have spin parity quantum number as 3^- as long as Omega anti-Omega is
created with relative L=0 angular momentum. The comparison of the Omega
anti-Omega baryon pair to the phi phi phi three meson production (where the
three anti-s s quark pairs might not but can be produced without relative
correlation) would provide a unique determination of the intermediate matter
state. Measurements of excitation functions and polarization transfers should
be used to examine these gluon rich anti-p p --> anti-Omega Omega and anti-p p
--> phi phi phi reaction channels. Such experiments should be performed at the
PANDA detector at the FAIR facility of the GSI.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Presented at LEAP05: International Conference on
Low Energy Antiproton Physics, Bonn - Juelich, Germany, May 16-22, 200
Orbital order out of spin disorder: How to measure the orbital gap
The interplay between spin and orbital degrees of freedom in the Mott-Hubbard
insulator is studied by considering an orbitally degenerate superexchange
model. We argue that orbital order and the orbital excitation gap in this model
are generated through the order-from-disorder mechanism known previously from
frustrated spin models. We propose that the orbital gap should show up
indirectly in the dynamical spin structure factor; it can therefore be measured
using the conventional inelastic neutron scattering method
Deceleration of antiprotons for physics experiments at low energy: A low energy antiproton factory
On the two-loop corrections to the Higgs mass in trilinear R-parity violation
We study the impact of large trilinear R-parity violating couplings on the
lightest CP-even Higgs boson mass in supersymmetric models. We use the publicly
available computer codes SARAH and SPheno to compute the leading two-loop
corrections. We use the effective potential approach. For not too heavy third
generation squarks (< 1 TeV) and couplings close to the unitarity bound we find
positive corrections up to a few GeV in the Higgs mass.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Coin Tossing is Strictly Weaker Than Bit Commitment
We define cryptographic assumptions applicable to two mistrustful parties who
each control two or more separate secure sites between which special relativity
guarantees a time lapse in communication. We show that, under these
assumptions, unconditionally secure coin tossing can be carried out by
exchanges of classical information. We show also, following Mayers, Lo and
Chau, that unconditionally secure bit commitment cannot be carried out by
finitely many exchanges of classical or quantum information. Finally we show
that, under standard cryptographic assumptions, coin tossing is strictly weaker
than bit commitment. That is, no secure classical or quantum bit commitment
protocol can be built from a finite number of invocations of a secure coin
tossing black box together with finitely many additional information exchanges.Comment: Final version; to appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Estimación de biomasa aérea en pasturas templadas de sistemas lecheros pastoriles
En sistemas lecheros pastoriles la estacionalidad y la variación interanual de la productividad forrajera constituyen la principal restricción tanto biofísica como económica. La medición de biomasa aérea permite estimar el forraje disponible y la productividad forrajera. Para medir la biomasa aérea de un recurso el productor puede utilizar tanto métodos directos como indirectos. El presente trabajo estudia estos métodos de estimación de biomasa aérea en una pastura mixta (trébol blanco, trébol rojo y cebadilla) de un establecimiento lechero ubicado en Suipacha, Pcia. de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Entre 2007 y 2008 tres observadores recorrieron un potrero cada tres semanas y estimaron la biomasa aérea presente en 12 unidades de muestreo de 0,09 m². Luego, se cortó al ras del suelo el material presente en cada unidad, se recolectó y se llevó al laboratorio para su procesamiento. Los métodos indirectos utilizados fueron la estimación visual, el pasturómetro y la regla graduada. Se generaron ecuaciones de calibración para cada método a distintas escalas temporales (Capítulo 2). Los resultados sugieren que los métodos indirectos son buenos estimadores de la biomasa aérea obtenida por cortes, tanto a escala anual como a escala estacional. En algunos casos, la precisión de la calibración del método estuvo afectada por la estación considerada. La validación de los modelos se realizó a dos niveles de análisis (Capítulo 3). La validación con una ecuación por estación sugiere que el método más preciso fue la estimación visual. En cambio, la validación con una ecuación para todo el período sugiere que todos los métodos fueron poco precisos. Algunos de los métodos estudiados en este trabajo, como la estimación visual y el pasturómetro, se presentan como promisorios. El uso de métodos sencillos, económicos y prácticos como estos permitiría mejorar el manejo y la eficiencia de los sistemas de producción de leche de base pastoril
Learning a kernel matrix for nonlinear dimensionality reduction
We investigate how to learn a kernel matrix for high dimensional data that lies on or near a low dimensional manifold. Noting that the kernel matrix implicitly maps the data into a nonlinear feature space, we show how to discover a mapping that unfolds the underlying manifold from which the data was sampled. The kernel matrix is constructed by maximizing the variance in feature space subject to local constraints that preserve the angles and distances between nearest neighbors. The main optimization involves an instance of semidefinite programming---a fundamentally different computation than previous algorithms for manifold learning, such as Isomap and locally linear embedding. The optimized kernels perform better than polynomial and Gaussian kernels for problems in manifold learning, but worse for problems in large margin classification. We explain these results in terms of the geometric properties of different kernels and comment on various interpretations of other manifold learning algorithms as kernel methods
A quantum protocol for cheat-sensitive weak coin flipping
We present a quantum protocol for the task of weak coin flipping. We find
that, for one choice of parameters in the protocol, the maximum probability of
a dishonest party winning the coin flip if the other party is honest is
1/sqrt(2). We also show that if parties restrict themselves to strategies
wherein they cannot be caught cheating, their maximum probability of winning
can be even smaller. As such, the protocol offers additional security in the
form of cheat sensitivity.Comment: 4 pages RevTex. Differs from the journal version only in that the
sentences: "The ordering of the authors on this paper was chosen by a coin
flip implemented by a trusted third party. TR lost." have not been remove
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