Deconfinement and Gluon Plasma Dynamics in Improved Holographic QCD (2008)
Gursoy, U., Kiritsis, E., Mazzanti, L., Nitti, F.
The finite temperature physics of the pure glue sector in the improved holographic QCD model of arXiv:0707.1324 and arXiv:0707.1349 is addressed. The thermodynamics of 5D dilaton gravity duals to...
Holography and Emergent 4D Gravity (2008)
I review recent work toward constructing, via five-dimensional holographic duals, four-dimensional theories in which spin-2 states (gravitons) are emergent. The basic idea is to extend to gravity...
Exploring improved holographic theories for QCD: Part II (2007)
Gursoy, U., Kiritsis, E., Nitti, F.
This paper is a continuation of ArXiv:0707.1324 where improved holographic theories for QCD were set up and explored. Here, the IR confining geometries are classified and analyzed. They all end in a...
Metastable Vacua in Brane Worlds (2007)
Dudas, E., Mourad, J., Nitti, F.
We analyze vacuum decay in brane world setups, where a free scalar field in five dimensions has a localized potential admitting metastable vacua. We study in particular the bounce solution and its...
Metastable Vacua in Brane Worlds (2007)
Dudas, E., Mourad, J., Nitti, F.
We analyze vacuum decay in brane world setups, where a free scalar field in five dimensions has a localized potential admitting metastable vacua. We study in particular the bounce solution and its...
Numerical methods for fluctuation driven interactions between dielectrics (2007)
Pasquali, S., Nitti, F., Maggs, A. C.
We develop a discretized theory of thermal Casimir interactions to numerically calculate the interactions between fluctuating dielectrics. From a constrained partition function we derive a surface...
Naturalness in Cosmological Initial Conditions (2005)
We propose a novel approach to the problem of constraining cosmological initial conditions. Within the framework of effective field theory, we classify initial conditions in terms of boundary terms...
Hidden sl(2,R) Symmetry in 2D CFTs and the Wave Function of 3D Quantum Gravity (2003)
We show that all two-dimensional conformal field theories possess a hidden sl(2,R) affine symmetry. More precisely, we add appropriate ghost fields to an arbitrary CFT, and we use them to construct...
Experimental Results of the European HELINOISE Aeroacoustic Rotor Test (1995)
Splettstoesser, W.R., Niesl, G., Cenedese, F., Nitti, F., Papanikas, D.G.
In a cooperative research program between eight European partners, a 40% geometrically and dynamically scaled and highly instrumented model of the ECD (formerly MBB) BO 105 helicopter main rotor was...
Experimental Results of the European HELINOISE Aeroacoustic Rotor Test in the DNW (1993)
Splettstoesser, W., Niesl, G., Cenedese, F., Nitti, F., Papanikas, D.
Cut off values of bone mineral density defining postmenopausal women with bone fractures.
Riario-Sforza, G G, Incorvaia, C, Scazzoso, A, Travisi, T, Nitti, F, Fumagalli, M
OBJECTIVES--To define cut off values of bone mineral density (BMD), measured at different forearm sites by single photon absorptiometry, that discriminated postmenopausal women who have had fractures...