Impossible puzzle films : a cognitive approach to contemporary complex cinema / / Miklós Kiss and Steven Willemsen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792834803321
• Autore: Kiss Miklós (College teacher)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh, [Scotland] : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-4744-3047-3; 1-4744-0674-2; 1-4744-0673-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
• Classificazione: AP 45200
• Disciplina: 791.43684
• Soggetti: Motion pictures - Philosophy; Narration (Rhetoric)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I.1 In this book -- Chapter 1 Contemporary Complex Cinema -- 1.1 Complex conditions: the resurgence of narrative complexity -- 1.2 Complex cinema as brain-candy for the empowered viewer -- 1.3 Narrative taxonomies: simple, complex, puzzle plots -- Chapter 2 Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema -- 2.1 Why an (embodied-)cognitive approach? -- 2.2 Various forms of complexity and their effects on sense-making -- 2.3 A cognitive approach to classifying complexity -- Chapter 3 Narrative Complexity and Dissonant Cognitions -- 3.1 The concept of cognitive dissonance -- 3.2 Cognitions in dissonance: from social psychology to narrative engagement -- 3.3 Types of dissonance in narrative comprehension -- 3.4 Cognitive access to impossible storyworlds: immersed and reflected operations -- 3.5 ‘Impossibilities’ and embodied cognition -- Chapter 4 Taming Dissonance: Cognitive Operations and Interpretive Strategies -- 4.1 Cognitive dissonance versus narrative coherence -- 4.2 Reducing dissonance: interpretation and naturalisation -- 4.3 Coping with dissonance: frame-switches and poetic and aesthetic readings -- 4.4 Frame-switching as hermeneutic play in impossible puzzle films -- ; Chapter 5 Impossible Puzzle Films: Between Art Cinema and (Post-)Classical Narration -- 5.2 Impossible puzzle films and (post-)classical narration -- Chapter 6 Wallowing in Dissonance: The Attractiveness of Impossible Puzzles -- 6.1 Hermeneutic play and interpretive multiplicity -- 6.2 Orientation, navigation, mapping -- 6.3 Game logic and the fascination in failure -- 6.4 Effort justification -- 6.5 Diegetisation of decoupling -- 6.6 Fascination in infinity -- 6.7 Destabilised ontological certainty -- 6.8. Eudaimonic motivations and intrinsic needs -- References -- Filmography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: By blending film studies and cognitive sciences, Miklós Kiss and Steven Willemsen's study on impossible puzzle films looks into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind. Films looked at include 'Donnie Darko,' 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Primer.'

Charming Decays of the Higgs, Z, and W Bosons : Development and Deployment of a New Calibration Method for Charm Jet Identification / / by Spandan Mondal

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911002552203321
• Autore: Mondal Spandan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025
• ISBN: 9783031846779
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2025.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XVI, 160 p. 50 illus., 44 illus. in color.)
• Collana: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5061
• Disciplina: 539.72
• Soggetti: Particles (Nuclear physics); Quantum field theory; Particle accelerators; Particle Physics; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory; Accelerator Physics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The Standard Model -- Experimental setup -- Data ; analysis technologies -- Physics object definitions -- Flavour tagging -- Charm tagger calibration -- Analysis strategy -- The VHcc, VZcc, and VWcq analyses -- Signal extraction -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents searches for the Higgs boson, Z boson, and W boson decaying into charm quark(s) performed with proton-proton collision data at √s = 13TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, CERN, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1 and recorded between 2016 and 2018. The searches are carried out using events in which the Higgs/Z/W boson is produced in association with a leptonically-decaying Z or W boson. This thesis also discusses a novel calibration algorithm for charm jet identification that enables maximal use of the available information related to charm jets. The new method is used to correct the entire distribution expected as output when jet flavour identification algorithms are applied to jets of different flavours. The calibrated results improve over traditional efficiency measurements and help enhance the sensitivities of the Higgs, Z, and W searches. This book primarily reports on the so-called resolved-jet topology of the Higgs/Z/W boson searches, where the boson candidates are reconstructed using two separate small-radius (AK4) jets. Upon statistically combining the results of the resolved-jet search with a complementary merged-jet approach, the observed (expected) upper limit on the Higgs decay to charm quarks corresponds to 14 (7.6) times the Standard Model expectation at the 95% CL which is the most stringent direct limit to date. A significance of 5.7σ (5.9σ) over the background-only prediction is observed (expected) in case of the search for charmed Z boson decays. Only the resolved-jet topology is used in the search for charmed W decays and the observed (expected) significance is 5.6σ (5.7σ) over the background-only prediction. These mark the first observations of charmed decays of the Z and W bosons at a hadron collider experiment.