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Sofia University
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About: Sofia University is a education organization based out in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Large Hadron Collider & Laser. The organization has 8533 authors who have published 15730 publications receiving 306320 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Sofia & BFUS.
Topics: Large Hadron Collider, Laser, Population, Standard Model, Adsorption
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TL;DR: Aigner and Ziegler as discussed by the authors presented beautiful proofs of some of the most exciting and historically important mathematical theorems, focusing on human endeavour to make the proofs more and more simple and striking.
Abstract: Proofs from THE BOOK, by Martin Aigner and Giinter M. Ziegler. Pp.199. £19. 1999. ISBN 3 540 63698 6 (Springer-Verlag). I would like to begin with the authors' words from the Preface of this book: Paul Erd6s liked to talk about The Book, in which God maintains the perfect proofs for mathematical theorems, following the dictum of G. H. Hardy that there is no permanent place for ugly mathematics. ErdSs also said that 'you need not believe in God but, as a mathematician, you should believe in The Book'. This excellent book is dedicated to the memory of Paul ErdSs. Paul himself wrote several pages but he is not listed as a co-author because of his death in the summer of 1996. The idea of the book is to present beautiful proofs of some of the most exciting and historically important mathematical theorems. The book focuses on human endeavour to make the proofs more and more simple and striking.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that nematodes offer excellent perspectives to assess effects of pollutants at the community level and suggest that the nematode community was also affected indirectly by copper and pH via other components of the soil food web.
Abstract: Four copper (0, 250, 500, and 750 kg Cu · haa−1) and pH (4.0, 4.7, 5.4, and 6.1 in 1 M KCl) treatments were applied to an arable agroecosystem. Effects on the nematode community were assessed after 10 years of exposure under field conditions. Both copper and pH had major influences on nematodes. The effect of copper was generally enhanced with decreasing soil pH. The lowest copper application rate which had a significant negative effect on the total number of nematodes was 250 kg. ha−1 at pH 4.0, which is equivalent to a copper concentration of 0.32 mg.L−1 in 0.01 M calcium chloride (Cu-CaCl2). Species composition and the abundance of trophic groups were more sensitive than the total number of nematodes. Combinations of high copper and low pH significantly reduced the number of bacterial-feeding nematodes, whereas the number of hyphal-feeding nematodes increased. Omnivorous and predacious nematodes showed the most sensitive response, becoming extinct when Cu-CaCl2 was 0.8 to 1.4 mg.L−1. Plant-feeding nematodes showed the largest differences in abundance and appeared to reflect the effects of copper and pH on primary production. The results suggest that the nematode community was also affected indirectly by copper and pH via other components of the soil food web. It is concluded that nematodes offer excellent perspectives to assess effects of pollutants at the community level.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison of the relative yields of upsilon resonances in the mu(+) mu(-) decay channel in PbPb and pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 2.76 TeV, is performed with data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC.
Abstract: A comparison of the relative yields of Upsilon resonances in the mu(+) mu(-) decay channel in PbPb and pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 2.76 TeV, is performed with data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Using muons of transverse momentum above 4 GeV/c and pseudorapidity below 2.4, the double ratio of the Upsilon(2S) and Upsilon(3S) excited states to the Upsilon(1S) ground state in PbPb and pp collisions,(Upsilon(2S+3S)/Upsilon(1S)[PbPb])/(Upsilon(2S+3S)/Upsilon(1S)[pp]), is found to be 0.31 - 0.15 + 0.19 (stat.) +/- 0.03 (syst.). The probability to obtain the measured value, or lower, if the true double ratio is unity, has been calculated to be less than 1%.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare three spectral synthesis models for single stellar populations (SSPs): Pegase-HR, Galaxev and Vazdekis/Miles, and analyse spectra of Galactic clusters whose populations are known from studies of colour-magnitude diagrams (CMD) and spectroscopy of individual stars.
Abstract: Fitting whole spectra at intermediate spectral resolution (R= 1000–3000), to derive physical properties of stellar populations, appears as an optimized alternative to methods based on spectrophotometric indices: it uses all the redundant information contained in the signal. This paper addresses the validation of the method and it investigates the quality of the population models together with the reliability of the fitting procedures. Our method compares observed optical spectra with models to derive the age, metallicity and line broadening due to the internal kinematics. It is insensitive to the shape of the continuum and the results are consistent with Lick indices but three times more precise. We are using two algorithms: steckmap, a non-parametric regularized program and nbursts a parametric non-linear minimization.
We compare three spectral synthesis models for single stellar populations (SSPs): Pegase-HR, Galaxev and Vazdekis/Miles, and we analyse spectra of Galactic clusters whose populations are known from studies of colour–magnitude diagrams (CMD) and spectroscopy of individual stars.
We find the following. (1) The quality of the models critically depends on the stellar library they use, and in particular on its coverage in age, metallicity and surface gravity of the stars. Pegase-HR and Vazdekis/Miles are consistent, while the comparison between Pegase-HR and Bruzual & Charlot shows some systematics reflecting the limitations of the stellar library (STELIB) used to generate the latter models. (2) The two fitting programs are consistent. (3) For globular clusters and M67 spectra, the method restitutes metallicities in agreement with spectroscopy of stars with a precision of 0.14 dex. (4) The spectroscopic ages are very sensitive to the presence of a blue horizontal branch (BHB) or of blue stragglers. A BHB morphology results in a young SSP-equivalent age. Fitting a free amount of blue stars in addition to the SSP model to mimic the BHB improves and stabilizes the fit and restores ages in agreement with CMDs studies. This method is potentially able to disentangle age or BHB effects in extragalactic clusters. Full spectrum fitting is reliable method to derive the parameters of a stellar population.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the fractional transverse momentum radial distribution (FTSR) is defined as the radial distribution of the jets produced in heavy-ion collisions and the first measurement of jet shapes is presented.
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Michael Tytgat | 134 | 1449 | 94133 |
Leander Litov | 133 | 1424 | 92713 |
Eric Conte | 132 | 1206 | 84593 |
Georgi Sultanov | 132 | 1493 | 93318 |
Plamen Iaydjiev | 131 | 1285 | 87958 |
Anton Dimitrov | 130 | 1236 | 86919 |
Jordan Damgov | 129 | 1195 | 85490 |
Borislav Pavlov | 129 | 1245 | 86458 |
Jean-Laurent Agram | 128 | 1221 | 84423 |
Cristina Botta | 128 | 1160 | 79070 |
Jean-Charles Fontaine | 128 | 1190 | 84011 |
Peicho Petkov | 128 | 1111 | 83495 |
Muhammad Ahmad | 128 | 1187 | 79758 |
Roumyana Hadjiiska | 126 | 1003 | 73091 |
Mircho Rodozov | 124 | 972 | 70519 |