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Probing Quark Gluon Liquid Using Transverse Momentum Fluctuations
The onset of equilibration in nuclear collisions can lead to related trends
in the centrality dependence of the average transverse momentum, pt
fluctuations and net charge fluctuations. We extend the transport description
of S. Gavin (Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 162301 (2004)) to include radial flow.Comment: Talk given at the 18th International Conference on Ultra Relativistic
Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2005), Budapest, Hungary, 4-9 Aug.
200
Different strokes, smokes, for different folks: Naomi Mitchison's solution three
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David Stafford-Clark (1916-1999): seeing through a celebrity psychiatrist
This article uses the mass-media career of the British psychiatrist David Stafford-Clark (1916-1999) as a case study in the exercise of cultural authority by celebrity medical professionals in post-war Britain. Stafford-Clark rose to prominence in the mass media, particularly through his presenting work on medical and related topics for BBC TV and Radio, and was in the vanguard of psychiatrists and physicians who eroded professional edicts on anonymity. At the height of his career, he traded upon his celebrity status, and consequent cultural authority, to deliver mass media sermons on a variety of social, cultural, and political topics. Stafford-Clark tried to preserve his sense of personal and intellectual integrity by clinging to a belief that his authority in the public sphere was ultimately to be vindicated by his literary, intellectual, and spiritual significance. But as his credibility dwindled, he came to distrust the cultural intermediaries, such as broadcasters and publishers, who had supported him
Fluctuations from Thermalization at RHIC
The centrality dependence of dynamic fluctuations of the transverse momentum
and the net charge can signal the approach to local thermal equilibrium in
nuclear collisions. I explore this signal by comparing transport-theory
calculations to STAR and PHENIX data at a range of energies. In particular, I
find that this model can describe PHENIX data on the dependence of fluctuations
on the transverse momentum range in which they are measured.Comment: 6 pages, 5 eps figures, Talk given at the 20th Winter Workshop on
Nuclear Dynamics, Trelawny Beach, Jamaica, 15-20 March 200
Not-I/Thou: Agent Intellect and the Immemorial
Not-I/Thou: The Other Subject of Art & Architecture is to be a highly focused exhibition/folio of works by perhaps 12 artists (preferably little-known or obscure), with precise commentaries denoting the discord between the autonomous object (the artwork or architectural object per se) and the larger field of reference (worlds); inference (associative magic), and insurrection (against power and privilege) â or, the Immemorial. Engaging the age-old âtheological apparatusesâ of the artwork, the folio is intended to upend the current fascination with personality, celebrity, and fashion to reach the timeless horizon of the subject of Art and Architecture as the subject other than the subject of Art and Architecture proper. Word as image, and image as word, is the central paradox given to this discord â an elective, yet universal condition that also makes certain art and architectural works heedlessly existential-metaphysical (and, therefore, âtheologicalâ). This paper, as part of the essay âWhite Paper: Gray Areas and Black Zones,â is a preliminary investigation of the conceptual architecture for the overall, ongoing exhibition/book project
Measurement of the Charge Ratio of Atmospheric Muons with the CMS Detector
This paper describes a new measurement of the flux ratio of positive and
negative muons from cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere, using data
collected by the CMS detector at ground level and in the underground
experimental cavern. The excellent performance of the CMS detector allowed
detection of muons in the momentum range from 3 GeV to 1 TeV. For muon momenta
below 100 GeV the flux ratio is measured to be a constant , the most precise measurement to date. At higher
momenta an increase in the charge asymmetry is observed, in agreement with
models of muon production in cosmic-ray showers and compatible with previous
measurements by deep-underground experiments.Comment: Invited talk given at XVI International Symposium on Very High Energy
Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2010), Batavia, IL, USA, 28 June - 2 July
2010. 4 page
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Sustainable food? Teikei, co-operatives and food citizenship in Japan and the UK
This paper explores in particular how Teikei groups, as forms of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), operate in Japan, focussing on one particular group. The paper links the Teikei approach to debates around social capital and consumer-citizenship, arguing that pre-existing consumer/citizen institutions may usefully be engaged in developing food citizenship and CSA operations. The discussion is linked to CSA and various other alternative food networks (AFNs) that have grown up in various forms in Japan, the US, the UK and elsewhere in Europe over the past thirty years or so. CSA in similar fashion to Teikei involves bringing producers and consumers closer together in terms of reconnecting the agricultural producer and consumer to aid food traceability and quality (including organic). CSA also exhibits elements of new assemblies of agricultural governance based on enhanced consumer-citizenship where consumers, to varying degrees, have a say in what and how produce is grown and how the land is managed
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