July 1997 arXiv papers — page 3

Shung-ichi Ando, Dong-Pil Min

The radiative muon capture(RMC) on a proton is analyzed by means of heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. The emitted photon energy spectrum is calculated and compared with the experimental data by taking the spin sum on the muonic atom states. We find that one-loop order corrections to the tree order amplitude modify the photon spectrum by less than five

A. Sharma, A. N. Mitra

A qqq BSE formalism based on an input 4-fermion Lagrangian of `current' u,d quarks, is employed for the construction of a relativistic qqq-wave function) via the BSE. Chiral invariance is ensured by the vector character of the gluonic propagator in the infrared regime, while the `constituent' masses are the low momentum limits of the dynamicalmass fu

Arnon Dar

Supernova 1987A became a milestone in physics and astronomy. The most important things that have been learned from it, the most important problems yet to be solved and the prospects for learning important new physics from future observations of nearby supernova explosions are shortly summarized.

Arjun Berera

Factorization, in the sense defined for inclusive hard scattering, is discussed for diffractive hard scattering. A factorization theorem similar to its inclusive counterpart is presented for diffractive DIS. For hadron-hadron diffractive hard scattering, in contrast to its inclusive counterpart, the expected breakdown of factorization is discussed. Cross sec

O. Brodbeck, M. Heusler, N. Straumann, M. Volkov

It is shown that the non-Abelian black hole solutions have stationary generalizations which are parameterized by their angular momentum and electric Yang-Mills charge. In particular, there exists a non-static class of stationary black holes with vanishing angular momentum. It is also argued that the particle-like Bartnik-McKinnon solutions admit slowly rotat

Robert Shrock, Shan-Ho Tsai

We prove a general rigorous lower bound for $W(Λ,q)=\exp(S_0(Λ,q)/k_B)$, the exponent of the ground state entropy of the $q$-state Potts antiferromagnet, on an arbitrary Archimedean lattice $Λ$. We calculate large-$q$ series expansions for the exact $W_r(Λ,q)=q^{-1}W(Λ,q)$ and compare these with our lower bounds on this function on the various Archimedean la

J. J. Rodríguez-Núñez, S. Schafroth

We implement the numerical method of summing Green function diagrams on the Matsubara frequency axis for the fluctuation exchange (FLEX) approximation. Our method has previously been applied to the attractive Hubbard model for low density. Here we apply our numerical algorithm to the Hubbard model close to half filling ($ρ= 0.40$), and for $T/t = 0.03$, in o

Claudia Filippi, C. J. Umrigar, X. Gonze

We consider two perturbative schemes to calculate excitation energies, each employing the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian as the unperturbed system. Using accurate exchange-correlation potentials generated from essentially exact densities and their exchange components determined by a recently proposed method, we evaluate energy differences between the ground state and

Leon Balents, M. Cristina Marchetti, Leo Radzihovsky

We study a periodic medium driven over a random or periodic substrate. Our work is based on nonequilibrium continuum hydrodynamic equations of motion, which we derive microscopically. We argue that in the random case instabilities will always destroy the LRO of the lattice. In most, if not all, cases, the stable driven ordered state is a transverse smectic,

Thomas Guhr, Axel Mueller-Groeling, Hans A. Weidenmueller

We review the development of random-matrix theory (RMT) during the last decade. We emphasize both the theoretical aspects, and the application of the theory to a number of fields. These comprise chaotic and disordered systems, the localization problem, many-body quantum systems, the Calogero-Sutherland model, chiral symmetry breaking in QCD, and quantum grav

Takuya Okabe

We show variationally that instability of the ferromagnetic state in the Hubbard model is largely controlled by softening of a long-wavelength spin-wave excitation, except in the over-doped strong-coupling region where the individual-particle excitation becomes unstable first. A similar conclusion is drawn also for the double exchange ferromagnet. Generally

O. Ujsaghy, A. Zawadowski

The electrical resistivity including the Kondo resistivity increase at low temperature is calculated for thin films of dilute magnetic alloys. Assuming that in the non-magnetic host the spin-orbit interaction is strong like in Au and Cu, the magnetic impurities have a surface anisotropy calculated in part I. That anisotropy hinders the motion of the spin. In

O. Ujsaghy, A. Zawadowski

Motivated by the recent measurements of Kondo resistivity in thin films and wires, where the Kondo amplitude is suppressed for thinner samples, the surface anisotropy for magnetic impurities is studied. That anisotropy is developed in those cases where in addition to the exchange interaction with the impurity there is strong spin-orbit interaction for conduc

M. A. Moore, T. J. Newman, A. J. Bray, S-K. Chin

We consider a general class of type-II superconductors which are described by N complex order parameters (OP), with an overall U(N) symmetry for the energy functional. In the lowest energy state, each OP adopts its own particular lattice structure, making the spatial variation of the overall condensate very complex. We present detailed results for the case N

Muktish Acharyya

We have studied the nucleation in the two dimensional Ising model by Monte Carlo simulation. The nucleation time has been studied as a function of the magnetic field for various system sizes. The logarithm of the nucleation time is found to be proportional to the inverse of the magnetic field.The crossover field and time are studied as a function of system s

Johann Kroha

The exponentially strong damping of the conventional Friedel oscillations at elevated temperature T as well as due to disorder poses a severe problem to the Hume-Rothery (HR) stabilization mechanism of amorphous and quasicrystalline alloys. We show that quantum correlations induced by electron-electron interactions in the presence of random impurity scatteri

G. M. Schütz

We study diffusion-limited (on-site) pair annihilation $A+A\to 0$ and (on-site) fusion $A+A\to A$ which we show to be equivalent for arbitrary space-dependent diffusion and reaction rates. For one-dimensional lattices with nearest neighbour hopping we find that in the limit of infinite reaction rate the time-dependent $n$-point density correlations for many-

Andrei Manolescu, Rolf R. Gerhardts

The magnetoresistivity tensor of an interacting two-dimensional electron system with a lateral and unidirectional electric or magnetic modulation, in a perpendicular quantizing magnetic field, is calculated within the Kubo formalism. The influence of the spin splitting of the Landau bands and of the density of states (DOS) on the internal structure of the Sh

G. Date, M. V. N. Murthy

We report on a study of a finite system of classical confined particles in two-dimensions in the presence of a uniform magnetic field and interacting via a two-body repulsive potential. We develop a simple analytical method of analysis to obtain ground state energies and configurations. We prove analytically the minimum energy configurations are independent

S. S. Eikenberry, G. G. Fazio, S. M. Ransom

We present a timing study of the young rotation-powered pulsar 0540-69 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, based on 130 kiloseconds of archival ROSAT data spanning a $\sim 3$-year period. We use ``$f- \dot f$'' techniques to measure the pulsar frequency as a function of frequency derivative at 17 independent epochs. From these measurements we derive a tim

Nicholas B. Suntzeff

Ten years of photometric observations of SN 1987A are reviewed. The optical and near-infrared colors are now declining at less than 1 magnitude per 1000 days, which is consistent with both the infrared ``freeze-out'' and the possible energy sources powering the nebula. The ``uvoir'' bolometric luminosity at ten years is estimated to be log10(

The MACHO Collaboration, C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves

We describe the search for delta Scuti stars in the MACHO database of bulge fields. Concentrating on a sample of high amplitude delta Scutis, we examine the light curves and pulsation modes. We also discuss their spatial distribution and evolutionary status using mean colors and absolute magnitudes.

John N. Bahcall, Marc Kamionkowski

In a series of recent papers, Ivanov et al. and Oberhummer et al. have calculated the rate for the $p + p \to d + e^+ + ν_e$ reaction with a zero-range four-fermion effective interaction and find a result 2.9 times higher than the standard value calculated from non-relativistic potential theory. Their procedure is shown to give a wrong answer because their a

S. Charpinet, G. Fontaine, P. Brassard, B. Dorman

We present new results of a stability analysis of realistic models of post-extreme horizontal branch stars. We find that g-mode instabilities develop in some of these models as a result of a potent epsilon-mechanism associated with the presence of an active H-burning shell. The epsilon-process drives low order and low degree g-modes with typical periods in t

D. Yu. Konenkov, S. B. Popov

We studied possible evolution of the rotational period and the magnetic field of the X-ray source RX J0720.4-3125 assuming this source to be an isolated neutron star accreting interstellar medium. Magnetic field of the source is estimated to be $10^6 - 10^9$ G, and it is difficult to explain observed rotational period 8.38 s without invoking hypothesis of th

R. P. Fender, G. G. Pooley, C. Brocksopp, S. J. Newell

We report imaging photometry of the radio-jet black hole candidate source GRS 1915+105 in the infrared K band. The observations reveal rapid infrared flare events on timescales of less than an hour. These events are strikingly similar to those regularly observed in radio monitoring at 15 GHz. Furthermore, when dereddened, the infrared events have comparable

Vasso Agapitou, John C. B. Papaloizou, Caroline Terquem

We study the global bending modes of a thin annular disc subject to both an internally generated magnetic field and a magnetic field due to a dipole embedded in the central star with axis aligned with the disc rotation axis. When there is a significant inner region of the disc corotating with the star, we find spectra of unstable bending modes. These may lea

J. Bland-Hawthorn, D. H. Jones

The Taurus Tunable Filter (TTF) is a tunable narrowband interference filter covering wavelengths from 6300 A to the sensitivity drop-off of conventional CCDs (9600 A), although a blue `arm' (3700-6500 A) is to be added by the end of 1997. The TTF offers monochromatic imaging at the cassegrain foci of both the Anglo-Australian and William Herschel Telesco

Brad K. Gibson, Francesca Matteucci

Chemical and photometric models of elliptical galaxies with infall of primordial gas, and subsequent ejection of processed material via galactic winds, are described. Ensuring that these models are consistent with the present-day colour-luminosity relation and the measured intracluster medium (ICM) abundances, we demonstrate that the initial mass function (I

Winfried Zimdahl

Previously defined covariant and gauge-invariant perturbation variables, representing, e.g., the fractional spatial energy density gradient on hypersurfaces of constant expansion, are used to simplify the linear perturbation analysis of a classical scalar field. With the help of conserved quantities on large scales we establish an exact first-order relation

Naoki Seto, Jun'ichi Yokoyama

The statistical distribution of the radial pairwise peculiar velocity of galaxies is known to have an exponential form as implied by observations and explicitly shown in N-body simulations. Here we calculate its statistical distribution function using the Zel'dovich approximation assuming that the primordial density fluctuations are Gaussian distributed.

Patricia Schwarz

The colliding plane wave metric discovered by Ferrari and Ibañez to be locally isometric to the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole is extended to the case of general axion-dilaton black holes. Because the transformation maps either black hole horizon to the focal plane of the colliding waves, this entire class of colliding plane wave spacetimes only suff

A. H. Hoang, T. Teubner

Non-singlet ${\cal{O}}(α_s^2)$ corrections from light quarks are calculated analytically for the massive quark-antiquark pair production rates through the vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudoscalar currents for all energies above the threshold. The results are presented in terms of the moments of the absorptive part of the vacuum polarization function of

C. P. Burgess, J. M. Cline, R. MacKenzie, R. Ray

We construct a microscopic model of electron interactions which gives rise to both superconductivity and antiferromagnetism, and which admits an approximate SO(5) symmetry that relates these two phases. The symmetry can be exact, or it may exist only in the long-wavelength limit, depending on the detailed form of the interactions. We compute the macroscopic

Klaus Geiger, Berndt Mueller

We examine the qualitative features of parton production through materialization in heavy-ion collisions within perturbative QCD, and estimate the magnitude of the resulting parton density created during the early stage of the collisions. The implications for ``anomalous'' $J/ψ$ suppression observed in Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN SPS are discussed.

Chris Quigg

I recall the development of quarkonium quantum mechanics after the discovery of $Υ$. I emphasize the empirical approach to determining the force between quarks from the properties of $c\bar{c}$ and $b\bar{b}$ bound states. I review the application of scaling laws, semiclassical methods, theorems and near-theorems, and inverse-scattering techniques. I look fo

Suzanne Talon, Pawan Kumar

The orbital period of the binary pulsar PSR J0045-7319, which is located in our neighbouring galaxy the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), appears to be decreasing on a timescale of half a million year. This timescale is more than two orders of magnitude smaller than what is expected from the standard theory of tidal dissipation. Kumar and Quataert (1997a) propos

E. R. Seaquist, D. T. Frayer, D. A. Frail

We report the detection of OH satellite line masers at 1720 MHz and 1612 MHz from the nuclear region of the starburst galaxy M82. The observations were aimed at detecting 1720 MHz maser emission from the known radio emitting SNR in the nuclear region. At 1720 MHz we detect six features above the 5-sigma limit set by noise, four in emission and two in absorpt

S. Karataglidis, C. Bennhold

Charged pion photoproduction is proposed as a new method to study halo nuclei. In particular, it is demonstrated that the reaction 17O(gamma,pi^-)17F(1/2+, 0.495 MeV) is well-suited to investigate the well-known proton halo in 17F which is not amenable to radioactive beam experiments. The cross sections are shown to be very sensitive to the halo structure of

David V. Bowen, Max Pettini, Brian Boyle

We present the first results of a survey designed to understand the origin of the Lyman alpha-forest absorption systems at low redshift. Using the WYFFOS and HYDRA multi-fibre spectrographs on the WHT and WIYN telescopes, we have identified 51 galaxies brighter than b_j=18.5 within 30 arcmins of the sightline of the QSO 1821+643. We find three galaxies withi

Bert Schroer

The content of this paper is incorporated into hep-th/9805093

Thoralf Hanisch, Goetz S. Uhrig, Erwin Mueller-Hartmann

We investigate the instability of the saturated ferromagnetic ground state (Nagaoka state) in the Hubbard model on various lattices in dimensions d=2 and d=3. A variational resolvent approach is developed for the Nagaoka instability both for U = infinity and for U < infinity which can easily be evaluated in the thermodynamic limit on all common lattices. Our

Michael R. Douglas

We discuss the relation between supersymmetric gauge theory of branes and supergravity; as it was discovered in D-brane physics, and as it appears in Matrix theory, with emphasis on motion in curved backgrounds. We argue that gauged sigma model Lagrangians can be used as definitions of Matrix theory in curved space. Lecture given at Strings &#39;97; June 20,

M. Abolhasani, M. Golshani

In a recent paper, A.Valentini tried to obtain Born&#39;s principle as a result of a subquantum heat death, using classical H-theorem and the definition of a proper quantum H-theorem within the framwork of Bohm&#39;s theory. In this paper, we shall show the possibility of solving the problem of action-reaction asymmetry present in Bohm&#39;s theory by modify

H. Chamati, D. M. Danchev, E. S. Pisanova, N. S. Tonchev

A $d$--dimensional quantum model in the spherical approximation confined to a general geometry of the form $L^{d-d^{\prime}} \times\infty^{d^{\prime}}\times L_τ^{z}$ ($L$--linear space size and $L_τ$--temporal size) and subjected to periodic boundary conditions is considered. Because of its close relation with the quantum rotors model it can be regarded as a

D. Bodeker, M. Laine

In order to investigate the features of the classical approximation at high temperatures for real time correlation functions, the plasmon frequencies and damping rates were recently computed numerically in the SU(2)+Higgs model and in the pure SU(2) theory. We compare the lattice results with leading order hard thermal loop resummed perturbation theory. In t

Piero Olla

The energy spectrum in three examples of inhomogeneous, anisotropic turbulence, namely, purely mechanical wall turbulence, the Bolgiano-Obukhov cascade and helical turbulence, is analyzed. As one could expect, simple dimensional reasoning leads to incorrect results and must be supplemented by informations on the dynamics. In the case of wall turbulence, an h

Luiz N. da Costa, Adi Nusser, Wolfram Freudling, Riccardo Giovanelli

We present a comparison between the peculiar velocity fields measured from the SFI all-sky Sbc-Sc Tully-Fisher catalog and that derived from the \iras 1.2 Jy redshift survey galaxy distribution. The analysis is based on the expansion of these data in redshift space using smooth orthonormal functions and is performed using low and high resolution expansions,

M. Zwierzycki, S. Krompiewski

We have found that some periods of interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) oscillations as a function of cap-layer (CL) thickness may be suppressed if the in-plane extremal spanning vectors of the cap- and ferromagnet-materials Fermi surfaces do not coincide. The suppression of the IEC oscillations vs. the CL thickness holds also if the magnetic slab thickness te

Christof Schmidhuber

The three-dimensional topologies of the membrane of M-theory can be constructed by performing Dehn surgery along knot lines. We investigate membranes wrapped around a circle and the correponding subset of topologies (Seifert manifolds). The knot lines are interpreted as magnetic flux tubes in an XY model coupled to Maxwell theory. In this model the eleventh

Ming-Hsien Tu

We consider the nonstandard constrained KP (ncKP) hierarchy which is obtained from the multi-constraint KP hierarchy by gauge transformation. The second Hamiltonian structure of the ncKP hierarchy can be simplified by factorizing the Lax operator into multiplication form, thus the generalized Miura transformation is obtained. We also discuss the free field r

Jacek Dobaczewski, Witold Nazarewicz

Physics of radioactive nuclear beams is one of the main frontiers of nuclear science today. Experimentally, thanks to technological developments, we are on the verge of invading the territory of extreme N/Z ratios in an unprecedented way. Theoretically, nuclear exotica represent a formidable challenge for the nuclear many-body theories and their power to pre

Urs Achim Wiedemann

In non-central heavy ion collisions, identical two particle Hanbury-Brown/Twiss (HBT) correlations C(K,q) depend on the azimuthal direction of the pair momentum K. We investigate the consequences for a harmonic analysis of the corresponding HBT radius parameters. Our discussion includes both, a model- independent analysis of these parameters in the Gaussian

F. Ritz, H. Arenhoevel, T. Wilbois

Relativistic effects and the role of heavy meson exchange in deuteron photodisintegration are studied systematically for photon energies below the pion production threshold. In a (p/M)-expansion, all leading order relativistic one-body and pi-exchange as well as all static heavy meson exchange currents consistent with the Bonn OBEPQ model are included. In ad

S. A. Sofianos, S. A. Rakityansky

A microscopic treatment of eta-nucleus system is presented. Using this, the poles of the amplitude describing elastic scattering of eta-meson off the light nuclei ^2H, ^3H, ^3He, and ^4He have been located in the second quadrant of the complex plane of the eta-nucleus relative momentum. The results obtained indicate that, within the existing uncertainties in

Stefan Neuwirth

We investigate several aspects of almost 1-unconditionality. We characterize the metric unconditional approximation property UMAP in terms of ``block unconditionality&#39;&#39;. Then we focus on translation invariant subspaces $L^p_E(T)$ and $C_E(T)$ of functions on the circle and express block unconditionality as arithmetical conditions on $E$. Our work sho

Yossi Lonke

Zonoids whose polars are zonoids cannot have proper faces of dimension other than $n-1$ or zero ($n\geq 3$). However, there exist non smooth zonoids whose polars are zonoids. Examples in $R^3$ and $R^4$ are given.

G. W. Gibbons

This is a summary of the work in the author&#39;s recent paper with this title written with Jerome Gauntlett, George Papadopoulos and Paul Townsend, hep-th/9702202. We showed how to construct hyper-Kähler 8-metrics in terms of arrangements of three-dimensional hyperplanes in six-dimensional euclidean space. The slopes of the planes define two relatively prim

Sadhan K. Adhikari, T. Frederico, R. M. Marinho

The utility of lattice discretization technique is demonstrated for solving nonrelativistic quantum scattering problems and specially for the treatment of ultraviolet divergences in these problems with some potentials singular at the origin in two and three space dimensions. This shows that lattice discretization technique could be a useful tool for the nume

T. Fujiwara, H. Igarashi, Y. Takimoto

Correlation functions of Toda field vertices are investigated by applying the method of integrating zero-mode developed for Liouville theory. We generalize the relations among the zero-, two- and three-point couplings known in Liouville case to arbitrary Toda theories. Two- and three-point functions of Toda vertices associated with the simple roots are obtai

M. Calixto, V. Aldaya, J. Guerrero

The algebra of linear and quadratic functions of basic observables on the phase space of either the free particle or the harmonic oscillator possesses a finite-dimensional anomaly. The quantization of these systems outside the critical values of the anomaly leads to a new degree of freedom which shares its internal character with spin, but nevertheless featu

Ph Brax, C. Grojean, C. A. Savoy

We investigate the geometry of the moduli spaces of dual electric and magnetic N=1 supersymmetric field theories. Using the SU(N_c) gauge group as a guideline we show that the electric and magnetic moduli spaces coincide for a suitable choice of the Kahler potential of the magnetic theory. We analyse the Kahler structure of the dual moduli spaces.

Yi-Yen Wu

Some recent developments in the weakly-coupled heterotic string phenomenology are reviewed. We discuss several important issues such as dilaton/moduli stabilization, supersymmetry breaking (by hidden-sector gaugino condensation), gauge coupling unification (or the Newton&#39;s constant), the QCD axion, as well as cosmological problems involving the dilaton/m

P. H. Chankowski, S. Pokorski

We review the loop effects of the low energy supersymmetry. The global success of the Standard Model rises two related questions: how strongly the mass scales of the superpartners are constrained and can they be, nevertheless, indirectly seen in precision measurements. The bulk of the electroweak data is well screened from supersymmetric loop effects, due to

M. Svec

We have performed a new model independent amplitude analysis of reaction $π^- p \to π^- π^+ n$ measured at CERN at 17.2 GeV/c on polarized target. The analysis extends the range of dipion mass from 600--880 MeV used in the previous study to 580--1080 MeV. Our purpose is to study the role of $f_0(980)$ interference and to better determine the resonance parame

Jonathan L. Feng, Takeo Moroi

We examine the prospects for determining $\tanβ$ from heavy Higgs scalar production in the minimal supersymmetric standard model at a future $e^+e^-$ collider. Our analysis is independent of assumptions of parameter unification, and we consider general radiative corrections in the Higgs sector. Bounds are presented for $\sqrt{s} = 500$ GeV and 1 TeV, several

J. Fleischer, A. V. Kotikov, O. L. Veretin

The differential equation method is applied to evaluate analytically two-loop vertex Feynman diagrams. Three on-shell infrared divergent planar two-loop diagrams with zero thresholds contributing to the processes Z --> bb bar (for zero b mass) and/or H --> gg are calculated in order to demonstrate a new application of this method.

V. E. Markushin, M. P. Locher

The phi pi+ pi- production in p pbar annihilation at rest is strongly enhanced by a two step mechanism with intermediate K Kbar pi pi states. The relative yield of the phi production due to the resonant final state interaction decreases with increasing total energy of the p pbar system.

Yu. S. Kalashnikova, A. V. Nefediev

Propagation of the heavy quark in the field of a static antiquark source is studied in the framework of effective Dirac equation. The model of QCD vacuum is described by bilocal gluonic correlators. In the heavy quark limit the effective interaction is reduced to the potential one with 5/6 Lorentz scalar and 1/6 Lorentz vector linear confinement, while spin-

B. de Carlos, J. M. Moreno

We calculate the weak magnetic dipole moment of different fermions in the MSSM. In particular, we consider in detail the predictions for the WMDM of the tau lepton and bottom quark. We compare the purely SUSY contributions with two Higss doublet models and SM predictions. For the tau lepton, we show that chargino diagrams give the main SUSY contribution, whi

Benjamin Svetitsky

I review evidence for the stability of bubbles in the quark-gluon plasma near the confinement phase transition. In analogy with the much-studied oil-water emulsions, this raises the possibility that there are many phases between the pure plasma and the pure hadron gas, characterized by spontaneous inhomogeneity and modulation. In studying emulsions, statisti

H. G. Ballesteros, J. M. Carmona, L. A. Fernandez, A. Tarancon

We study the antiferromagnetic O(N) model in the F_4 lattice. Monte Carlo simulations are applied for investigating the behavior of the transition for N=2,3. The numerical results show a first order nature but with a large correlation length. The $N \to \infty$ limit is also considered with analytical methods.

C. Evangelista, A. Palano, D. Drijard, N. H. Hamann

The pbar p -> Ks Ks -> 4pi+/- cross section was measured at incident antiproton momenta between 0.6 and 1.9 GeV/c using the CERN Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR). This investigation was part of a systematic study of in-flight antiproton-proton annihilations into two-neutral-meson final states in a search for hadronic resonances. A coarse scan of the pbar p

T. Heuring

Measurements of the inclusive jet cross section and the dijet angular distribution using data from the Tevatron are presented. Comparisons to NLO QCD show good agreement below 250 GeV, but CDF data show an excess at higher ET; qualitative agreement is seen between the CDF and DO cross sections. Analysis of the dijet angular distributions exclude quark compos

Johan Kustermans

A. Van Daele introduced and investigated so-called algebraic quantum groups. We proved that such algebraic quantum groups give rise to C*-algebraic quantum groups in the sense of Masuda, Nakagami & Woronowicz. We prove in this paper that the analytic structure of these C*-algebraic quantum groups can be pulled down to the algebraic quantum group.

Johan Kustermans

Strongly continuous one-parameter representations on C*-algebras and their extension to the multiplier algebra are investigated. We give also a proof of the Stone theorem on Hilbert C*-modules and look into some related problems.

R. de-Picciotto, M. Reznikov, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky

We performed measurements of Quantum Shot Noise in order to determine the quasiparticle charge in the Fractional Quantum Hall regime. The noise is generated by a current flow through a partially transmitting Quantum Point Contact in a 2DEG. The noise is directly proportional to the charge of the quasiparticles, thus allowing direct determination of the charg

D. R. Grempel, M. J. Rozenberg

We solve the $S=1/2$ infinite-range random Heisenberg Hamiltonian in the paramagnetic phase using quantum Monte Carlo and analytical techniques. We find that the spin-glass susceptibility diverges at a finite temperature $T_g$ which demonstrates the existence of a low-temperature ordered phase. Quantum fluctuations reduce the critical temperature and the eff

Stephane Cueille, Clement Sire

We explore a new definition of the persistence exponent, measuring the probability that a spin never flips after a quench of an Ising-like model at a temperature 0<T<Tc, while the usual definition only makes sense at T=0. This probability is now defined for spin blocks, and a general scaling for it, involving time and block linear size is introduced and illu

L. Schweitzer, I. Kh. Zharekeshev

The statistics of the energy eigenvalues at the metal-insulator-transition of a two-dimensional disordered system with spin-orbit interaction is investigated numerically. The critical exponent $ν$ is obtained from the finite-size scaling of the number $J_0$ which is related to the probability $Q_{n}(s)$ of having $n$ energy levels within an interval of width

M. Watzlawek, G. Naegele

We study the combined effects of electrostatic and hydrodynamic interactions (HI) on the short-time dynamics of charge-stabilized colloidal spheres. For this purpose, we calculate the translational and the rotational self-diffusion coefficients, $D^t_s$ and $D^r_s$, as function of volume fraction $ϕ$ for various values of the effective particle charge $Z$ an

Richard P. Sear

A simple model of a polymer with long rigid segments which interact via excluded volume repulsions and short ranged attractions is proposed. The coil-globule transition of this model polymer is strongly first order, the globule is crystalline and the coil which coexists with the globule is swollen. A virial expansion truncated at low order is shown to provid

M. Watzlawek, G. Naegele

We report on calculations of the translational and rotational short-time self-diffusion coefficients $D^t_s$ and $D^r_s$ for suspensions of charge-stabilized colloidal spheres. These diffusion coefficients are affected by electrostatic forces and many-body hydrodynamic interactions (HI). Our computations account for both two-body and three-body HI. For stron

Anton Bovier

In a recent paper ``The capacity of the Hopfield model, J. Feng and B. Tirozzi claim to prove rigorous results on the storage capacity that are in conflict with the predictions of the replica approach. We show that their results are in error and that their approach, even when the worst mistakes are corrected, is not giving any mathematically rigorous results

A. K. Zhuravlev, M. I. Katsnelson, A. V. Trefilov

An accurate numerical consideration is carried out of the ground state for the simplified model which is traditionally used for the description of Verwey transition and related phenomena. In the framework of 1D spinless fermion model, the effects of next-nearest neighbour (NNN) interaction on the metal-insulator transition are investigated for electron conce

Kazuhiko Kuroki, Hideo Aoki

Quantum Monte Carlo is used to investigate the possibility of d_{x^2-y^2} superconductivity in the two-dimensional repulsive Hubbard model. A small energy scale relevant to possible pairing requires a care (i.e., sufficiently small level separation between the $k$ points $(δk,π-δk&#39;)$ and $(π-δk&#39;&#39;,δk&#39;&#39;&#39;)$ with small $δk$&#39;s) to dete

C. L. Henley

Zhang recently conjectured an approximate SO(5) symmetry relating antiferromagnetic and superconducting states in high-T_c cuprates. Here, an exact SO(5) symmetry is implemented in a generalized Hubbard model (with long-range interactions) on a lattice. The possible relation to a more realistic extended Hubbard Hamiltonian is discussed.

Sandra Carberry, Terrence Harvey

This paper presents a message planner, TraumaGEN, that draws on rhetorical structure and discourse theory to address the problem of producing integrated messages from individual critiques, each of which is designed to achieve its own communicative goal. TraumaGEN takes into account the purpose of the messages, the situation in which the messages will be rece

John Coleman, Arthur Dirksen, Sarmad Hussain, Juliette Waals

We give an overview of multilingual speech synthesis using the IPOX system. The first part discusses work in progress for various languages: Tashlhit Berber, Urdu and Dutch. The second part discusses a multilingual phonological grammar, which can be adapted to a particular language by setting parameters and adding language-specific details.

John Coleman, Janet Pierrehumbert

In foundational works of generative phonology it is claimed that subjects can reliably discriminate between possible but non-occurring words and words that could not be English. In this paper we examine the use of a probabilistic phonological parser for words to model experimentally-obtained judgements of the acceptability of a set of nonsense words. We comp

M. B. Isichenko

The variational principle of V. I. Arnold [J. Appl. Math. Mech. Vol. 29, P. 1002 (1965)] is extended to the general conservative inhomogeneous, compressible, and conducting fluid. The concept of iso-vortical flows is generalized to an &#34;invariant foliation&#34; of the phase space. The foliation, which may or may not correspond to explicit conservation law

The MACHO Collaboration, C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves

Mean colors and magnitudes of RR Lyrae stars in 24 fields towards the Galactic bulge from the MACHO database are presented. Accurate mean reddenings are computed for these fields on the basis of the mean colors. The distribution along the line of sight of the RR Lyrae population is examined on the basis of the mean magnitudes, and it is shown that the bulk o

The MACHO Collaboration, C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves

The recent suggestion that the microlensing events observed towards the Large Magellanic Cloud are due to an intervening Sgr-like dwarf galaxy is examined. A search for foreground RR Lyrae in the MACHO photometry database yields 20 stars whose distance distribution follow the expected halo density profile. Cepheid and red giant branch clump stars in the MACH

J. M. Cordes, David F. Chernoff

We use astrometric, distance and spindown data on pulsars to: (1) estimate three-dimensional velocity components, birth distances from the galactic plane, and ages of individual objects; (2) determine the distribution of space velocities and the scale height of pulsar progenitors; (3) test spindown laws for pulsars; (4) test for correlations between space ve

Jean-Luc Starck, Marguerite Pierre

In the context of assessing and characterizing structures in X-ray images, we compare different approaches. Most often the intensity level is very low and necessitates a special treatment of Poisson statistics. The method based on wavelet function histogram is shown to be the most reliable one. We also present a multi-resolution filtering method based on the

A. Frass, C. Koehler, G. Hermann, M. Hess

The sensitivity of an Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescope is calibrated by shining, from a distant pulsed monochromatic light source, a defined photon flux onto the mirror. The light pulse is captured and reconstructed by the telescope in an identical fashion as real Cherenkov light. The intensity of the calibration light pulse is monitored via a calibra

J. C. N. de Araujo, R. Opher

The possible existence of a primordial magnetic field in the universe has been previously investigated in many articles. Studies involving the influence of a magnetic field in the nucleosyntesis era, studies considering the effects in the formation of structures during the radiation era and the matter era have been considered. We here assume the existence of

Marguerite Pierre, Jean-Luc Starck

Using a set of ROSAT HRI deep pointings, we investigate the presence of small-scale structures in the central regions of clusters of galaxies. Our sample comprises 23 objects up to z=0.32, 13 of them known to host a cooling flow. Structures are detected and characterized using a wavelet analysis, their statistical significance being assessed by a rigorous tr

Cristina C. Popescu, Piero Rafanelli, Stefano Benetti, Ulrich Hopp

We present the properties of the supernova SN 1995ah discovered in a Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy (BCD) around 10 days after the maximum. This is the first supernova event observed in a BCD. The photometric and spectroscopic data suggest that SN 1995ah is a Type II supernova and could belong to the rare Bright SNII Linear subclass, for which <M(R)>~<M(B)>=-18.9

Kari Enqvist

The observed galactic magnetic fields may have a primordial origin. I briefly review the observations, their interpretation in terms of the dynamo theory, and the current limits on cosmological magnetic fields. Several possible mechanisms for generating a primordial magnetic field are then discussed. Turbulence and the evolution of the microscopic fields to