Who pulled the plug?

Fluctuating pulled fronts & Pomerons

I give a physical discussion of the influence of particle number fluctuations on the high energy evolution in QCD. I emphasize the event–by–event description and the correspondence with the problem of ‘fluctuating pulled fronts’ in statistical physics. I show that the correlations generated by fluctuations reduce the phase–space for BFKL evolution up to saturation. Because of that, the evolutio...

Pulled Fronts and the Reproductive Individual

In War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy expressed his opinions about the importance of “great men” in determining the outcome of historical processes. He said that particular individuals are relatively unimportant in comparison to the overall “forces of history”, comprising the actions, ideas, and emotions of the masses of human beings. Amusingly enough, the relative importance of the individual and the ...

Just a pulled hamstring?

Ultrasonography of pulled elbow.

We used ultrasonography in ten children with pulled elbow to compare measurements of the radiocapitellar distance (RCD) on the affected and the unaffected sides. Similar measurements were made in a group of ten age-matched normal children. The mean RCD in pronation of the affected and normal sides in the patients with pulled elbows was 7.2 mm +/- 0.7 and 3.8 mm +/- 0.5, respectively (p < 0.0001...

The Shape of Branes Pulled by Strings

We examine the system where a string stretches between pair of D-branes, and study the bending of the D-brane caused by the tension of the string. If the distance between the pair of D-branes is sent to infinity, the tension of the string stretching between them is strong enough to pull the spike all the way to infinity. We study the shape of these spikes when the branes are finite distance apa...