Vacuum type I spacetimes and aligned Papapetrou fields: symmetries
We analyse type I vacuum solutions admitting an isometry whose Killing 2-form is aligned with a principal bivector of the Weyl tensor, and we show that these solutions belong to a family of type I metrics which admit a group G3 of isometries. We give a classification of this family and study the Bianchi type for each class. The classes compatible with an aligned Killing 2-form are also determined. The Szekeres–Brans theorem is extended to non-vacuum spacetimes with vanishing Cotton tensor.

title: Creatable Universes
abstract: We consider the question of properly defining energy and momenta for non asymptotic Minkowskian spaces in general relativity. Only spaces of this type, whose energy, linear 3momentum, and intrinsic angular momentum vanish, would be candidates for creatable universes, that is, for universes which could have arisen from a vacuum quantum fluctuation. Given a universe, we completely characterize the family of coordinate systems for which one could sensibly say that this universe is a creatable universe.  04.20.-q, 98.80.Jk Electronic address: joan.ferrando@uv.es Electronic address: ramon.lapiedra@uv.es Electronic address: antonio.morales@uv.es

title: On the space-times admitting two shear-free geodesic null congruences
abstract: We analyze the space-times admitting two shear-free geodesic null congruences. The integrability conditions are presented in a plain tensorial way as equations on the volume element U of the time-like 2-plane that these directions define. From these we easily deduce significant consequences. We obtain explicit expressions for the Ricci and Weyl tensors in terms of U and its first and second order covariant derivatives. We study the different compatible Petrov-Bel types and give the necessary and sufficient conditions that characterize every type in terms of U. The type D case is analyzed in detail and we show that every type D space-time admitting a 2 + 2 conformal Killing tensor also admits a conformal Killing-Yano tensor.

title: An intrinsic characterization of 2 + 2 warped spacetimes
abstract: We give several equivalent conditions that characterize the 2 + 2 warped spacetimes: imposing the existence of a Killing–Yano tensor A subject to complementary algebraic restrictions, in terms of the projector v (or of the canonical 2-form U) associated with the 2-planes of the warped product. These planes are the principal planes of the Weyl and/or Ricci tensors and can be explicitly obtained from them. Therefore, we obtain the necessary and sufficient (local) conditions for a metric tensor to be a 2 + 2 warped product. These conditions exclusively involve explicit concomitants of the Riemann tensor. We present a similar analysis for the conformally 2 + 2 product spacetimes and give an invariant classification of them. The warped products correspond to two of these invariant classes. The more degenerate class is the set of product metrics which are also studied from an invariant point of view. The interest of these results in labeling specific solutions of the Einstein equations is outlined.

title: Emission coordinates in Minkowski space‐time
abstract: The theory of relativistic positioning systems and their natural associated emission coordinates are essential ingredients in the analysis of navigation systems and astrometry. Here we study emission coordinates in Minkowski space‐time. For any choice of the four emitters (arbitrary space‐time trajectories) the relation between the corresponding emission coordinates and the inertial ones are explicitly given.

title: On the classification of type D space–times
abstract: We give a classification of the type D space–times based on the invariant differential properties of the Weyl principal structure. Our classification is established using tensorial invariants of the Weyl tensor and, consequently, besides its intrinsic nature, it is valid for the whole set of the type D metrics and it applies on both, vacuum and nonvacuum solutions. We consider the Cotton-zero type D metrics and we study the classes that are compatible with this condition. The subfamily of space–times with constant argument of the Weyl eigenvalue is analyzed in more detail by offering a canonical expression for the metric tensor and by giving a generalization of some results about the nonexistence of purely magnetic solutions. The usefulness of these results is illustrated in characterizing and classifying a family of Einstein–Maxwell solutions. Our approach permits us to give intrinsic and explicit conditions that label every metric, obtaining in this way an operational algorithm to detect them. In partic...

title: Measurement of beauty production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA using decays into electrons
abstract: The production of beauty quarks in ep interactions has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA for exchanged four-momentum squared Q2>10 GeV2, using an integrated luminosity of 363 pb−1. The beauty events were identified using electrons from semileptonic b decays with a transverse momentum $0.9 < p_{T}^{e} < 8$ GeV and pseudorapidity |ηe|<1.5. Cross sections for beauty production were measured and compared with next-to-leading-order QCD calculations. The beauty contribution to the proton structure function F2 was extracted from the double-differential cross section as a function of Bjorken-x and Q2.

title: Boosted objects: a probe of beyond the standard model physics
abstract: We present the report of the hadronic working group of the BOOST2010 workshop held at the University of Oxford in June 2010. The first part contains a review of the potential of hadronic decays of highly boosted particles as an aid for discovery at the LHC and a discussion of the status of tools developed to meet the challenge of reconstructing and isolating these topologies. In the second part, we present new results comparing the performance of jet grooming techniques and top tagging algorithms on a common set of benchmark channels. We also study the sensitivity of jet substructure observables to the uncertainties in Monte Carlo predictions.

title: Monte Carlo mass production for the ZEUS experiment on the Grid
abstract: The detector and collider upgrades for HERA-II have considerably increased the demand on computing resources for Monte Carlo production for the ZEUS experiment. In order to close the gap, the existing production system was extended to be able to use Grid resources as well. This integrated system has been successfully in production since November 2004. A total of 275 million events have been simulated by thirty different Grid sites within eight months exceeding the capacity of the old system. We present the production setup and introduce the toolkit that has been developed by ZEUS for efficient use of the existing Grid middleware.

title: Inclusive-jet photoproduction at HERA and determination of alpha(s)
abstract: Inclusive-jet cross sections have been measured in the reaction e p → e + jet + X for photon virtuality Q 2 1 GeV 2 and γp centre-of-mass energies in the region 142 W γ p 293 GeV with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 300 pb − 1 . Jets were identified using the k T , anti- k T or SIScone jet algorithms in the laboratory frame. Single-differential cross sections are presented as functions of the jet transverse energy, E T jet , and pseudorapidity, η jet , for jets with E T jet > 17 GeV and − 1 η jet 2.5 . In addition, measurements of double-differential inclusive-jet cross sections are presented as functions of E T jet in different regions of η jet . Next-to-leading-order QCD calculations give a good description of the measurements, except for jets with low E T jet and high η jet . The influence of non-perturbative effects not related to hadronisation was studied. Measurements of the ratios of cross sections using different jet algorithms are also presented; the measured ratios are well described by calculations including up to O ( α s 2 ) terms. Values of α s ( M Z ) were extracted from the measurements and the energy-scale dependence of the coupling was determined. The value of α s ( M Z ) extracted from the measurements based on the k T jet algorithm is α s ( M Z ) = 0.1206 − 0.0022 + 0.0023 ( exp . ) − 0.0035 + 0.0042 ( th . ) ; the results from the anti- k T and SIScone algorithms are compatible with this value and have a similar precision.

title: Forward jet production in deep inelastic ep scattering and low-x parton dynamics at HERA
abstract: Differential inclusive jet cross sections in neutral current deep inelastic ep scattering have been measured with the ZEUS detector using an integrated luminosity of 38.7 pb −1 . The jets have been identified using the k T cluster algorithm in the longitudinally invariant inclusive mode in the laboratory frame; they have been selected with jet transverse energy, E T jet above 6 GeV and jet pseudorapidity, η jet , between −1 and 3. Measurements of cross sections as functions of E T jet , Bjorken x and the photon virtuality, Q 2 , are presented. Three phase-space regions have been selected in order to study parton dynamics from the most global to the most restrictive region of forward-going (close to the proton-beam direction) jets at low x , where the effects of BFKL evolution might be present. The measurements have been compared to the predictions of leading-logarithm parton-shower Monte Carlo models and fixed-order perturbative QCD calculations. In the forward region, O ( α s 1 ) QCD calculations underestimate the data up to an order of magnitude at low x . An improved description of the data in this region is obtained by including O ( α s 2 ) QCD corrections, which account for the lowest-order t ˆ -channel gluon-exchange diagrams, highlighting the importance of such terms in the parton dynamics at low x .