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GPS radio occultation: Results from CHAMP, GRACE and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
(2009)Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic SciencesThe Taiwan/US FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC (FORMOsa SATellite mission - 3/Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate) satellite nstellation was successfully launched on 14 April 2006. It is expected to leverage the use of the GPS (Global Positioning System) radio occultation data for atmospheric and ionospheric research to improve global weather forecasts and aid climate change related studies. FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC, together ...Journal Article -
Punishment Deters Crime Because Humans Are Bounded in Their Strategic Decision-Making
(2009)Journal of Artificial Societies and Social SimulationIs it rational to reduce criminal activities if punishments are increased? While intuition might suggest so, game theory concludes differently. From the game theoretical perspective, inspectors anticipate the effect of increased punishments on criminal behavior and reduce their inspection activities accordingly. This implies that higher punishments reduce inspections and do not affect crime rates. We present two laboratory experiments, ...Journal Article -
How Groups Can Foster Consensus: The Case of Local Cultures
(2009)Journal of Artificial Societies and Social SimulationA local culture denotes a set of rules on business behaviour among firms in a cluster. Similar to social norms or conventions, it is an emergent feature of interaction in an economic network. To model its emergence, we consider a distributed agent population, representing cluster firms. Further, we build on a continuous opinion dynamics model with bounded confidence (ε), which assumes that two agents only interact if differences in their ...Journal Article -
Study of charm fragmentation into D (* +/-) mesons in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA
(2009)The European Physical Journal CThe process of charm quark fragmentation is studied using D * ± meson production in deep-inelastic scattering as measured by the H1 detector at HERA. The parameters of fragmentation functions are extracted for QCD models based on leading order matrix elements and DGLAP or CCFM evolution of partons together with string fragmentation and particle decays. Additionally, they are determined for a next-to-leading order QCD calculation in the ...Journal Article -
Soft-gluon cancellation, phases and factorization with initial-state partons
(2009)Physics Letters BWe outline arguments for the cancellation of soft singularities in transition probabilities and parton distributions with incoming partons and Wilson lines, and with observed jets or heavy colored particles in the final states. We show the cancellation of Glauber gluons and divergent phases, relating finite remainders to corrections that arise from restrictions on final states in factorized cross sections.Journal Article -
Masses, fermions and generalized D-dimensional unitarity
(2009)Nuclear Physics BWe extend the generalized D-dimensional unitarity method for numerical evaluation of one-loop amplitudes by incorporating massive particles. The issues related to extending the spinor algebra to higher dimensions, treatment of external self-energy diagrams and mass renormalization are discussed within the context of the D-dimensional unitarity method. To validate our approach, we calculate in QCD the one-loop scattering amplitudes of a ...Journal Article -
A precision measurement of the inclusive ep scattering cross section at HERA
(2009)The European Physical Journal CA measurement of the inclusive deep inelastic neutral current e + p scattering cross section is reported in the region of four-momentum transfer squared, 12 GeV2≤Q 2≤150 GeV2, and Bjorken x, 2×10−4≤x≤0.1. The results are based on data collected by the H1 Collaboration at the ep collider HERA at positron and proton beam energies of E e =27.6 GeV and E p =920 GeV, respectively. The data are combined with previously published data, taken at ...Journal Article -
Measurement of diffractive scattering of photons with large momentum transfer at HERA
(2009)Physics Letters BJournal Article -
Measurement of CP Violation in Stop Cascade Decays at the LHC
(2009)The European Physical Journal CWe study the potential observation at the LHC of CP-violating effects in stop production and subsequent cascade decays, gg→t~it~i , t~i→tχ~0j , χ~0j→χ~01ℓ+ℓ− , within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We study T-odd asymmetries based on triple products between the different decay products. There may be a large CP asymmetry at the parton level, but there is a significant dilution at the hadronic level after integrating over the ...Journal Article -
Observation of the hadronic final state charge asymmetry in high Q2 deep-inelastic scattering at HERA
(2009)Physics Letters BA first measurement is presented of the charge asymmetry in the hadronic final state from the hard interaction in deep-inelastic ep neutral current scattering at HERA. The measurement is performed in the range of negative squared four momentum transfer 100 < Q 2 < 8000 GeV 2. The difference between the event normalised distributions of the scaled momentum, x p, for positively and negatively charged particles, measured in the current region ...Journal Article