Searcharxiv⌕ Search

arXiv subjects

B. Hoeneisen

Publications and source records attributed to B. Hoeneisen.

24 records · Page 2Linked to original sources
arXiv2002

Global warming: What does the data tell us?

We analyze global surface temperature data obtained at 13472 weather stations from the year 1702 to 1990. The mean annual temperature of a station fluctuates from year to year by typically +-0.6oC (one standard deviation). Superimposed on this fluctuation is a linear increase of the temperature by typically 0.40oC per century ever since reliable data is available, i.e. since 1702. The world population has doubled from 1952 to 1990, yet we see no statistically significant acceleration of global warming in this period. We conclude that the effect of humankind on global warming up to 1990 is 0.0 +- 0.1oC.

physics.ao-ph↗
arXiv2001

Real-Time Data Processing in the Muon System of the D0 Detector

This paper presents a real-time application of the 16-bit fixed point Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), in the Muon System of the D0 detector located at the Fermilab Tevatron, presently the world's highest-energy hadron collider. As part of the Upgrade for a run beginning in the year 2000, the system is required to process data at an input event rate of 10 KHz without incurring significant deadtime in readout. The ADSP21csp01 processor has high I/O bandwidth, single cycle instruction execution and fast task switching support to provide efficient multisignal processing. The processor's internal memory consists of 4K words of Program Memory and 4K words of Data Memory. In addition there is an external memory of 32K words for general event buffering and 16K words of Dual Port Memory for input data queuing. This DSP fulfills the requirement of the Muon subdetector systems for data readout. All error handling, buffering, formatting and transferring of the data to the various trigger levels of the data acquisition system is done in software. The algorithms developed for the system complete these tasks in about 20 microseconds per event.

hep-ex↗
arXiv2000

Like-sign dimuon charge asymmetry in the decay of B B-bar pairs

We discuss the CP-violating dimuon charge asymmetry of events p p-bar ---> B B-bar X ---> mu mu X in the Standard Model. Our conclusion is that the asymmetry is larger than previously expected and may reach a few percent for the (B_d^0, B-bar_d^0) system. The analysis is also extended to the Two Higgs Doublet Model (Model II).

hep-ph↗
arXiv2000

A simple model of the hierarchical formation of galaxies

We develop a simple, fast and predictive model of the hierarchical formation of galaxies which is in quantitative agreement with observations. Comparing simulations with observations we place constraints on the density of the universe and on the power spectrum of density fluctuations.

astro-ph↗