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- Aad, G., et al.
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Readiness of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter for LHC collisions
- 2010
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Ingår i: European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1434-6044 .- 1434-6052. ; 70:4, s. 1193-1236
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Tile hadronic calorimeter of the ATLAS detector has undergone extensive testing in the experimental hall since its installation in late 2005. The readout, control and calibration systems have been fully operational since 2007 and the detector has successfully collected data from the LHC single beams in 2008 and first collisions in 2009. This paper gives an overview of the Tile Calorimeter performance as measured using random triggers, calibration data, data from cosmic ray muons and single beam data. The detector operation status, noise characteristics and performance of the calibration systems are presented, as well as the validation of the timing and energy calibration carried out with minimum ionising cosmic ray muons data. The calibration systems' precision is well below the design value of 1%. The determination of the global energy scale was performed with an uncertainty of 4%.
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- Hollander, Ernst
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Bretton Woods as a prerequisite for the Swedish Model
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the suggested paper I will discuss my idea that one of the main conditions for the Rehn-Meidner Model – which was first described for a wider audience in 1952 – was the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944. I actually suggested this to Meidner and other economists at a conference in Stockholm in the 1990s. But none of those present were prepared to discuss the subject. I have, however, not been able to abandon the idea. My inspiration in this mainly comes from Eric Helleiner's, States and the Reemergence of Global Finance (1994) as well as acquaintance with Swedish Model thinking gained during decades of exposure to actors central to the model's further fate. The title of the keynote ch. 2 in Helleiner (1944) is "Bretton Woods and the Endorsement of Capital Controls". Helleiner's high-lighting of 'the double nature of' Bretton Woods was far from main-stream when his book was published. By 'the double nature of' Bretton Woods I refer to the trait that Bretton Woods at the same time provided a framework for liberalising trade in goods and controling movements of capital. When global finance reemerged in the 1970s it led to problems for most of the welfare states built during the early postwar period ( ≈ 1950s - 1960s). The Swedish welfare state was among the most resilient but to my judgement important parts of it have been dismantled. In order to thoroughly study and understand the issues raised above I think that a large research project would be needed. My intention with the suggested paper is to give an impetus to this rather than to seriously initiate the research.
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- Hollander, Ernst
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Halting Global Degradation? : Forces which might Reverse the Spread of Toxic Work
- 2012
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Ingår i: ILPC 2012 Papers.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the suggested paper I want to contribute to making it possible to imagine the reversal of two global trends. In wide circles it is un-controversial to claim that those trends are threatening the very fabric of life. The trends which I have in mind are the degradation of work and the toxification of the biosphere.The paper builds on my contribution to a three year research project called INFLOW.My main contribution was a research report titled The doll, the globe and the boomerang - chemical hazards futures introduced by a doll travelling from China to Sweden. In the report I inter alia discuss a number of forces which – in the long run – might reverse the trends.A product chain that I use as illustration starts in the heart of the new workshop of the world – the Pearl River Delta in the South Chinese province Guandong. Research initiated by a group of ethnic Chinese scholars is a good starting point when discussing internal "Southern" forces for reversal. One important conclusion of their work is that "despite formidable institutional odds, Chinese workers do resist ... the commodification of labor power".Important "Northern" support for "internal Southern forces", such as the Chinese forces hinted to above, will be needed. I call some of the non-governmental forces "Castellian" with reference to Manuel Castells' discussion of the multi-pronged movement that has started to act on global warming. INGOs, Unions and progressive academics are among those forces."Gramscian forces" will also be essential in spite of the weakening of state regulatory power which are crucial when interpreting our times.Technological and entrepreneurial forces as well as such forces as demand shapers in the North will of course also be important for a possible reversal.
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- Hollander, Ernst, 1947-
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The Doll, the Globe and the Boomerang : Chemical Risks in the Future : Introduced by a Chinese Doll Coming to Sweden
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This research report concerns the role of chemical risk information in attempts to 'detoxify' global product chains. Under what conditions can such information make a difference and how can we combine interdisciplinarities in order to study this hitherto dark terrain? Seven 'images' are painted in order to discuss these questions. The introductory image pictures a doll made in Southern China who ends up at a day care centre in Malmoe, Sweden. To describe the methodological problems which arise when studying this 'doll chain' I use the image of going into the dark. A set of three images describe much discussed futures for the 'detox' efforts, futures which might lead the Swedish public at large to complacency or despair. My dramatising names for the three futures are: "REACHing a less contaminated EU", "Race to the bottom", and "Submission". My main aim is, however, to paint an image of global 'detoxification from below' and an image of 'interdisciplinarities in dialogue' in order to study the Herculean task of detoxification of global product chains. Those two images are simultaneously elaborated in chapter II and then summarised in chapter III. My hope is that I – through this report – will help make global detoxification from below 'possible to imagine'. At the methodological level, I argue for concepts and proto-concepts such as 'interdisciplinarity', 'boundary spanning', 'multiple partisanships' and 'transformative pressure'. I allow myself a completely unrealistic end (section III.4), in order not to be overwhelmed by the seriousness of the problems discussed in the rest of the report. The report is my main contribution to the research project INFLOW which i.a. has studied the flow of chemical risk information in global product chains.
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