The nal states for the process b ! s have been extensively discussed in the literature. Similarly-detailed analyses for the case b ! s gluon have not been performed. Generally this process is searched for in 2-body decays such as B 0 ! K +. We present simple arguments to suggest that most of the time the quark-level process will give rise to nal states with rather high multiplicities. Comments ...

The multiplicity distributions at high energy e+e− annihilation are described well within the Two Stage Model in the region from 14 to 189 GeV. Energy dependence of parameters of this model gives the dynamic picture of the parton stage and the stage of hadronization. It is shown that oscillations in sign of the ratio of factorial cumulant moments over factorial moments of increasing order can b...

At the best of conferences, a talk initiates reactions and discussions which are more relevant for the proceedings than the talk itself. New bright ideas initiated by the reactions could call for presentation, or there could be an apparent need to review the basic arguments, perused and put in perspective in the discussions. I have at this conference had the privilege of experiencing the latter...

Femtosecond electric-field-assisted pump-probe measurements are a new approach to the study of fundamental processes within organic optoelectronic devices. Here we report a detailed study of organic light-emitting diodes based on poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene), using both temporal and spectral information to investigate polaron generation, due to field-induced singlet dissociation, and their subsequ...

I challenge the age-old binary opposition between human and animal, not as philosophers sometimes do by claiming that humans are also animals, or that animals are capable of suffering or intelligence, but rather by questioning the very category of ‘‘the animal’’ itself. This category groups a nearly infinite variety of living beings into one concept measured in terms of humans—animals are those...

The multiplicity distributions for individual fragment Z values in nuclear multifragmentation are binomial. The extracted maximum value of the multiplicity, mZ , is found to depend on Z according to mZ = Z0/Z, where Z0 is the source size. This is shown to be a strong indication of statistical coverage of fragmentation phase space. The inferred source sizes coincide with those extracted from the...

Intermediate mass fragment (IMF) multiplicity has been investigated for Au+Au reactions at incident energies of 100, 250 and 400MeV/A. From the analysis of the impact-parameter-dependence of the IMF multiplicity using our QMD plus statistical evaporation model, we found that 1) statistical decay process modifies the results greatly, and 2) the Fermi motion plays a role to increase the IMF multi...

We establish the multiplicity conjecture of Herzog, Huneke, and Srinivasan about the multiplicity of graded Cohen-Macaulay algebras over a field for codimension two algebras and for Gorenstein algebras of codimension three. In fact, we prove stronger bounds than the conjectured ones allowing us to characterize the extremal cases. This may be seen as a converse to the multiplicity formula of Hun...

We study multiplicity free representations of connected reductive groups. First we give a simple criterion to decide the multiplicity freeness of a representation. Then we determine all invariant differential operators in terms of a finite reflection group, the little Weyl group, and give a characterization of the spectrum of the Capelli operators. At the end, we reproduce the classification of...