Convergence to the Critical Attractor at Infinite and Tangent Bifurcation Points

The dynamics of the convergence to the critical attractor for the logistic map is investigated. At the border of chaos, when the Liapunov exponent is zero, the use of the non-extensive statistical mechanics formalism allows to define a weak sensitivity or insensitivity to initial conditions. Using this formalism we analyse how a set of initial conditions spread all over the phase space converges to the critical attractor in the case of infinite bifurcation and tangent bifurcation points. We show that the phenomena is governed in both cases by a power-law regime but the critical exponents depend on the type of bifurcation and may also depend on the numerical experiment set-up. Differences and similarities between the two cases are also discussed.Comment: 5 figures, accepted for publication in Int. J. of Bifurcation and Chaos (July 2006

Parametric study of space power systems. Volume 1 - Summary Final report

Summary of methodology and results of study of space power system

Charmless B Decays at CDF

he CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron p-pbar collider pioneered the exploration of charmless b-hadron decays in hadron collisions. This provided a unique, rich and highly successful program of measurements that is currently reaching its full maturity. I report here results on two-body decays and the new analysis of B0s-->phiphi decays in a event sample corresponding to 2.9 fb-1.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, part of the proceedings of the BEAUTY2009 conference. Introduction slightly changed. Minor corrections in other text. References adde

B physics at CDF - the Beauty of hadron collisions

The CDF experiment at the Tevatron p-pbar collider established that extensive and detailed exploration of the b-quark dynamics is possible in hadron collisions, with results competitive and supplementary to those from e+e- colliders. This provides an unique, rich, and highly rewarding program that is currently reaching full maturity. I report a few recent world-leading results on rare decays, CP-violation in Bs mixing, and b-> s penguin decays.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. Write-up of the proceedings of the "Third Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and Experiments in Heavy Flavour Physics" (Capri2010