Inertia Assessment From Transient Measurements: Recent Perspective From Japanese WAMS

Understanding Japanese Politics from a Local Perspective

Recent Heavy-Flavor Measurements from OPAL

A selection of recent heavyavor results from OPAL using the LEP1 data sample are presented. The average polarization of b baryons in hadronic Z decay has been measured to be 0:56 0:13(stat:) 0:09(syst:) using semileptonic decays of b baryons. A search has been conducted for the radially excited D 0 and has produced a 95% CL upper limit on its production of f(Z ! D 0 (2629)) Br(D 0 ! D + ) < 2:1...

Transient growth without inertia

We study transient growth in inertialess plane Couette and Poiseuille flows of viscoelastic fluids. For streamwise-constant three-dimensional fluctuations, we demonstrate analytically the existence of initial conditions that lead to quadratic scaling of both the kinetic energy density and the elastic energy with the Weissenberg number, We. This shows that in strongly elastic channel flows of vi...

Antineutrinos from nuclear reactors: recent oscillation measurements

Nuclear reactors are themost intenseman-made source of antineutrinos, providing a useful tool for the study of these particles. Oscillation due to the neutrinomixing angleθ13 is revealed by the disappearance of reactor νe over∼kmdistances. Use of additional identical detectors located near nuclear reactors reduce systematic uncertainties related to reactorνe emission and detector efficiency, si...

Lessons from Recent Measurements of CP Violation

We discuss various implications of recent experimental results concerning CP violation and mixing in K → ππ, B → ψKS , D → Kπ and D → KK decays. 1. Progress in Experiments The study of CP violation is entering a new era. For a long period only a single CP violating observable has been measured [1]: |εK | = 2.27× 10. (1.1) In the near future, however, we will learn the values of CP asymmetries i...