New predictions for inclusive heavy-quarkonium P-wave decays

We show that some nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics color-octet matrix elements can be written in terms of (derivatives of) wave functions at the origin and of nonperturbative universal constants once the factorization between the soft and ultrasoft scales is achieved by using an effective field theory where only ultrasoft degrees of freedom are kept as dynamical entities. This allows us to derive a new set of relations between inclusive heavy-quarkonium P-wave decays into light hadrons with different principal quantum numbers and with different heavy flavors. In particular, we can estimate the ratios of the decay widths of bottomonium P-wave states from charmonium data.

Limits on Anomalous Couplings from Higgs Boson Production at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

We estimate the attainable limits on the coefficients of dimension-6 operators from the analysis of Higgs boson phenomenology, in the framework of a SUL(2)UY(1) gauge-invariant effective Lagrangian. Our results, based on the data sample already collected by the collaborations at Fermilab Tevatron, show that the coefficients of Higgs-vector boson couplings can be determined with unprecedented accuracy. Assuming that the coefficients of all blind operators are of the same magnitude, we are also able to impose more restrictive bounds on the anomalous vector-boson triple couplings than the present limit from double gauge boson production at the Tevatron collider.

Energy-weighted sum rules for mesons in hot and dense matter

We study energy-weighted sum rules of the pion and kaon propagator in nuclear matter at finite temperature. The sum rules are obtained from matching the Dyson form of the meson propagator with its spectral Lehmann representation at low and high energies. We calculate the sum rules for specific models of the kaon and pion self-energy. The in-medium spectral densities of the K and (K) over bar mesons are obtained from a chiral unitary approach in coupled channels that incorporates the S and P waves of the kaon-nucleon interaction. The pion self-energy is determined from the P-wave coupling to particle-hole and Delta-hole excitations, modified by short-range correlations. The sum rules for the lower-energy weights are fulfilled satisfactorily and reflect the contributions from the different quasiparticle and collective modes of the meson spectral function. We discuss the sensitivity of the sum rules to the distribution of spectral strength and their usefulness as quality tests of model calculations.

Proton emission off nuclei induced by kaons in flight

We study the (K-, p) reaction on nuclei with a 1 GeV/c momentum kaon beam, paying special attention to the region of emitted protons having kinetic energy above 600 MeV, which was used to claim a deeply attractive kaon nucleus optical potential. Our model describes the nuclear reaction in the framework of a local density approach and the calculations are performed following two different procedures: one is based on a many-body method using the Lindhard function and the other is based on a Monte Carlo simulation. The simulation method offers flexibility to account for processes other than kaon quasielastic scattering, such as K- absorption by one and two nucleons, producing hyperons, and allows consideration of final-state interactions of the K-, the p, and all other primary and secondary particles on their way out of the nucleus, as well as the weak decay of the produced hyperons into pi N. We find a limited sensitivity of the cross section to the strength of the kaon optical potential. We also show a serious drawback in the experimental setup-the requirement for having, together with the energetic proton, at least one charged particle detected in the decay counter surrounding the target-as we find that the shape of the original cross section is appreciably distorted, to the point of invalidating the claims made in the experimental paper on the strength of the kaon nucleus optical.

Currículo e fenomenologia : limites e possibilidades no ensino experimental da física. 'Currículo y fenomenología : límites y posibilidades en la educación experimental de física'.

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A presença da fenomenologia na educação física brasileira : Implicações para o estudo do corpo e outras problematizações

This paper discusses the uses of phenomenology in Physical Education in Brazil. In methodological terms, it describes five studies that belong to this theoretical framework in the field, represented by authors such as Silvino Santin, Manuel Sérgio, Wagner Wey Moreira, Elenor Kunz and Terezinha Petrúcia da Nóbrega. It problematizes some aspects of this reception, by highlighting not only its boundaries, but also the challenges for research and reflection within this tradition in physical education

A presença da fenomenologia na educação física brasileira : Implicações para o estudo do corpo e outras problematizações

This paper discusses the uses of phenomenology in Physical Education in Brazil. In methodological terms, it describes five studies that belong to this theoretical framework in the field, represented by authors such as Silvino Santin, Manuel Sérgio, Wagner Wey Moreira, Elenor Kunz and Terezinha Petrúcia da Nóbrega. It problematizes some aspects of this reception, by highlighting not only its boundaries, but also the challenges for research and reflection within this tradition in physical education

A presença da fenomenologia na educação física brasileira : Implicações para o estudo do corpo e outras problematizações

This paper discusses the uses of phenomenology in Physical Education in Brazil. In methodological terms, it describes five studies that belong to this theoretical framework in the field, represented by authors such as Silvino Santin, Manuel Sérgio, Wagner Wey Moreira, Elenor Kunz and Terezinha Petrúcia da Nóbrega. It problematizes some aspects of this reception, by highlighting not only its boundaries, but also the challenges for research and reflection within this tradition in physical education

A concepção da atividade física dos pacientes soropositivos e doentes de Aids do serviço de assistência especializada do Centro Municipal de atendimento em doenças sexualmente transmissíveis e Aids de Porto Alegre

O profissional de Educação física, no contexto da AIDS, deve conceber a atividade física como um fenômeno simbólico. A carência desta concepção, pode impedir ou dificultar a sua práxis com indivíduos soropositivos e doentes de AIDS. A partir das premissas citadas anteriormente, houve a necessidade de compreender a concepção da atividade física de 43 colaboradores (23 soropositivos e 20 doentes de AIDS) que freqüentaram o Serviço de Assistência Especializada do Centro Municipal de Atendimento em Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis e AIDS de Porto Alegre, no período de novembro de 1997 a setembro de 1998. A construção teórica foi embasada na Fenomenologia de Merleau-Ponty e na Hermenêutica de Paul Ricoeur. O delineamento metodológico caracterizou-se por uma pesquisa num paradigma qualitativo, tipo de estudo exploratório-descritivo, coletando-se as informações através da entrevista semi-estruturada e do diário de campo e as organizando nas categorias O Mundo-Vida do Soropositivo e Doente de AIDS e A Terapia do Movimento. Na concepção dos colaboradores da pesquisa, a atividade física é indissociável do mundo-vida do soropositivo e doente de AIDS, que é caracterizado por um novo corpo e por uma nova socialidade, estigmatizada pela perda da identidade, pelo preconceito e pela discriminação. Nesse mundo, a atividade física é concebida como a terapia do movimento que preserva a vida e recupera a corporeidade, a partir da imagem corporal. Como conseqüência, existe o resgate da identidade, contribuindo para a diminuição do preconceito e da discriminação da sociedade. A realização da pesquisa proporcionou estabelecer diretrizes para orientar a práxis do profissional de Educação Física, como um agente de saúde no contexto da AIDS.

Física de Pomeron a altas energias

Neste trabalho investigamos a física de Pomeron, tanto em sua formulação perturbativa dada pela Cromodinâmica Quântica como o aspecto não-perturbativo dado pela teoria de Regge. Estes formalismos teóricos levam em consideração o fato que o Pomeron porta os números quânticos do vácuo e deve dominar o espalhamento entre partículas em altas energias. Partindo do formalismo de dipolos de cor, estudamos a interação perturbativa usual corrigida por efeitos de unitariedade em altas energias para os processos DIS e Drell- Yan, determinando a importância destas correções para ambos processos. Referente ao Pomeron não-perturbativo, investigamos os aspectos do modelo de múltiplos espalhamentos, o qual também contribui também para a unitariedade no setor suave. Dado os resultados similares entre modelos QCD e de Regge na descrição de DIS difrativo, propomos um novo observável, o coeficiente angular difrativo da função de estrutura difrativa, que permitirá discriminar dinâmicas subjacentes ao processo. Finalmente estudamos a fenomenologia associada à truncagem da série assintótica advinda do formalismo BFKL, e a utilizamos para descrever os principais observáveis em colisões hadrônicas e elétron-próton.

A dança dos monstros: corpo e estética na arte e na Educação Física

The speeches about the body in interface with the technology, that fulfill the contemporary discussions, have been a stage of innumerable ethical, epistemological, aesthetic and ontological reflections. These happened bodies of the biotechnological scene also invade the dance, making several possible dialogues, making old concepts instable, opening way to revealing explorations and bringing with it implications and reflections. In this context, this research has as objective to discuss relations between body and technology in the dance; to understand the aesthetic configurations of the monster in the dance as possibility to question the body; to establish relations between the monstrous body in the dance and the conceptions of body in the Physical Education. We believe to be able to contribute for the reflection in the field of the Physical Education, since the work visualizes to extend the field of the discussions on aesthetic body and, as well as evidencing dialogues between different areas of the knowledge, as the Art and the Physical Education. From the point of view of the method, the work follows orientation of the Phenomenology for an aesthetic image appreciation of the videos in the choreographies In'perfeito and Violência of Cena 11, Dance Group that has marked new aesthetic configurations in the brazilian dance. Thus, we took for us the reflections on the "significant scenes" proposed by Bicudo (2000), to appreciate the dance of Cena 11. We emphasize that, after the identification of the Significant Scenes, it was necessary to approach these scenes from close senses, from which we detach the appearance, the space and the gesture. We evidence that, the bodies revealed by the group Cena 11, show an aesthetic that it interlaces the beauty, the ugly and the grotesque. An aesthetic of the unharmony, capable to transgress the oppositions, dialoguing with multiple antagonisms and that it amplifies the apollonian aesthetic linear rules, so predominant in the history of the dance and the Physical Education. We identify some indicatives that take us to the problematizations on an affective and anarchic body, when questioning the tyranny of the perfect corporality; the naturalization of the pain; the closed gesture in a finished and unique grammar; the standardization of feminine and masculine roles and the negation of the feeling. From these indicatives, we discuss the aesthetic of the deformed bodies of Cena 11, approaching it of the conceptions of body in the Physical Education, sometimes criticizing the rationalists and naturalistic views, sometimes dialoguing with more recent perspectives studied by researchers of this area of knowledge, which point to a reflection on the body under the optics of the sensible

Body art, existência e conhecimento :a percepção do corpo na Educação Física

In the Renaissance, the anatomy project a map of the body. Since then, the human body has been investigated for innumerable techniques, configuring new landscapes on the condition human being and the proper knowledge. In accordance with Merleau-Ponty (1975), All technique is body technique. It configures and extends the Metaphysical structure of our meat. In this direction, any intervention in the human body, a tattooing, a surgery or a performance, extends the perception and the directions of the existence of the subject. Merleau-Ponty (1975) still affirms, that all technique presents objective interventions. However, the body, ahead of these interventions, doesn t have to be considered only object, but subject that, from the interventions, attributes sensible and meanings through the movements, also being this its way of being in the world. Searching to extend this reflection on the discontinuities between the object body and the subject body, as well as, with the objective to reflect on the relation between the corporal techniques and the production of the subjectivity and the knowledge of the physical education, we reflect on the body art, as one technique of body that marks the exterior of the body, exteriorizing the subjectivity, to search new means to the body and that ahead of this, we believe being able to project innumerable directions for the corporal transformations in the contemporarily. As a method for our reflection in we will support them in the phenomenology. IT presents as a new ontology, in which distinction does not occur enters the operating paper of the citizen that knows and the influence of the known object. The phenomenological understanding of body will be able to contribute with the knowledge of the Physical Education, a time that gives us important arguments on the experience of the body in relation with the nature, the culture, history. To be a body is to be tied to a world that we do not possess completive, but that we do not cease to search it

Física de sabores e modelos multi-Higgs

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