CP Violation in Heavy Neutrino Mediated e−e−→W−W−e^- e^- \to W^- W^-

We consider the reaction $e^- e^- \rightarrow W^- W^-$ mediated by possible heavy neutrino exchange at future LINAC energies of $\sqrt{s}>> 2 m_W$. This reaction is sensitive to CP phases of the neutrino mixing matrices, even at the level of Born amplitudes. Certain integrated cross-sections are shown to have the power to resolve the CP phases when the experimental configurations are varied. Asymmetries sensitive to CP violation (involving initial QED phases) for $e^- e^-$ and $e^+ e^+$ reactions are constructed and their consequences considered.Comment: 9 pages plain Latex and 4 figures available separately as uuencoded figure

A Reproducible Study on Remote Heart Rate Measurement

This paper studies the problem of reproducible research in remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). Most of the work published in this domain is assessed on privately-owned databases, making it difficult to evaluate proposed algorithms in a standard and principled manner. As a consequence, we present a new, publicly available database containing a relatively large number of subjects recorded under two different lighting conditions. Also, three state-of-the-art rPPG algorithms from the literature were selected, implemented and released as open source free software. After a thorough, unbiased experimental evaluation in various settings, it is shown that none of the selected algorithms is precise enough to be used in a real-world scenario

Physics with Like-Sign Muon Beams

We point out that both the specific lepton number content and the high energies potentially attainable with muon-muon colliders make it advisable to consider the technical feasibility of including an option of like-sign incoming beams in the studies towards a proposal to build a muon-muon collider with center-of-mass energies in the TeV region. This capability will add some unique physics capabilities to the project. Special attention will have to be paid to polarization retention for the muons.Comment: 13 pages, uuencoded postscript file, also available from ftp://gluon.hep.physik.uni-muenchen.de/preprints/scipp9534.u

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The 10th Biennial Hatter Cardiovascular Institute workshop: cellular protection—evaluating new directions in the setting of myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke, and cardio-oncology

Due to its poor capacity for regeneration, the heart is particularly sensitive to the loss of contractile cardiomyocytes. The onslaught of damage caused by ischaemia and reperfusion, occurring during an acute myocardial infarction and the subsequent reperfusion therapy, can wipe out upwards of a billion cardiomyocytes. A similar program of cell death can cause the irreversible loss of neurons in ischaemic stroke. Similar pathways of lethal cell injury can contribute to other pathologies such as left ventricular dysfunction and heart failure caused by cancer therapy. Consequently, strategies designed to protect the heart from lethal cell injury have the potential to be applicable across all three pathologies. The investigators meeting at the 10th Hatter Cardiovascular Institute workshop examined the parallels between ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), ischaemic stroke, and other pathologies that cause the loss of cardiomyocytes including cancer therapeutic cardiotoxicity. They examined the prospects for protection by remote ischaemic conditioning (RIC) in each scenario, and evaluated impasses and novel opportunities for cellular protection, with the future landscape for RIC in the clinical setting to be determined by the outcome of the large ERIC-PPCI/CONDI2 study. It was agreed that the way forward must include measures to improve experimental methodologies, such that they better reflect the clinical scenario and to judiciously select combinations of therapies targeting specific pathways of cellular death and injury

Model-Independent Z′Z' Limits from Electron-Electron Collisions

Model independent constraints on the mass of an extra neutral gauge boson and its couplings to charged leptons are given for the $e^-e^-$ option of a future linear collider. Analytic exclusion limits are derived in the Born approximation. The results are compared with those of the $e^+e^-$ mode. The influence of radiative corrections is discussed.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, 4 Figures, uuencoded Postscriptfile, MPI-Ph/94-23, LMU-04/9

El cuento de senderos que se bifurcan. El Noble cuento del enperador Carlos Maynes y sus encrucijadas genéricas

Tras un breve balance del estado de la cuestión en cuanto a las fuentes del Carlos Maynes, este trabajo estudia los cambios genéricos que obran en este relato: paso de «cantar de gesta» a «cuento maravilloso», es decir a relato en prosa de aventuras caballerescas; del docere al delectare; del tema de las reinas injustamente acusadas a la problemática del buen gobierno en el espacio conflictivo de la corte. Estos cruces temáticos nuevos del Carlos Maynes abren, además, muchas puertas: nuevos grupos sociales pueden entrar a formar parte del espacio literario –con la creación de personajes como los villanos Barroquer y Griomoart–, pero también nuevos tonos y estilos como por ejemplo la mezcla de burlas y veras. Se insiste también en la posición del relato en la antología escurialense. El hecho de que sea el relato con el que se cierra el códice es altamente significativo si pensamos que la obra es totalmente inaugural: es la magistral obertura, con todos sus leitmotivs, para anunciar los futuros libros de caballerías como el Zifar y el Amadís