September 1997 arXiv papers — page 3

Michael J. West

Clusters of galaxies are often embedded in larger-scale superclusters with dimensions of tens or perhaps even hundreds of Mpc. Observational and theoretical evidence suggest an important connection between cluster properties and their surroundings, with cluster formation being driven primarily by the infall of material along large-scale filaments. Nowhere is

M. R. Hogerheijde, H. J. van Langevelde, L. G. Mundy, G. A. Blake

The young binary system T Tau was observed with the Owens Valley Millimeter Array at 267 GHz continuum and HCO+ J=3-2 emission at 0.8'' resolution, with the JCMT-CSO single-baseline interferometer in 357 GHz continuum, and with the W. M. Keck Telescope at 4 micron. The 267 GHz emission is unresolved with a flux of 397 +/- 35 mJy, located close to the

G. Giovannini, W. D. Cotton, L. Feretti, L. Lara

We present new VLA, MERLIN and VLBI images for the radio galaxy 3C 338, and the results of the monitoring of its arcsecond core flux density. Present high sensitivity observations allow us to investigate the radio structure of this source and to confirm the presence of two symmetric parsec scale jets. Morphological changes between different epochs are eviden

Timothy R. Bedding, Hans Kjeldsen

Despite numerous attempts and many hours of telescope time, there has so far been no confirmed detection of solar-like oscillations in any star except the Sun. We review recent efforts, with particular emphasis on the technique of monitoring equivalent widths of Balmer lines, including a description of the steps in data reduction.

L. Evain

We give upper-bounds for the dimension of some linear systems. The theorem improves the differential Horace method introduced by Alexander-Hirschowitz, and was conjectured by Simpson. Possible applications are the calculus of the dimension of linear systems of hypersurfaces in a projective space $\PP^n$ with generically prescribed singularities, and the calc

W. Barth

By a K3-surface with nine cusps I mean a surface with nine isolated double points A_2, but otherwise smooth, such that its minimal desingularisation is a K3-surface. It is shown, that such a surface admits a cyclic triple cover branched precisely over the cusps. This parallels the theorem of Nikulin, that a K3-surface with 16 nodes is a Kummer quotient of a

Per Kraus

We study the leading order spin dependence of graviton scattering in eleven dimensions, and show that the results obtained from supergravity and from Matrix Theory precisely agree.

E. Kanzieper, V. Freilikher

Spectral correlations in unitary invariant, non-Gaussian ensembles of large random matrices possessing an eigenvalue gap are studied within the framework of the orthogonal polynomial technique. Both local and global characteristics of spectra are directly reconstructed from the recurrence equation for orthogonal polynomials associated with a given random mat

Jeremy Schiff

A map is presented that associates with each element of a loop group a solution of an equation related by a simple change of coordinates to the Camassa-Holm (CH) Equation. Certain simple automorphisms of the loop group give rise to Backlund transformations of the equation. These are used to find 2-soliton solutions of the CH equation, as well as some novel s

R. J. Furnstahl, John J. Rusnak, Brian D. Serot

A compelling feature of relativistic mean-field phenomenology has been the reproduction of spin-orbit splittings in finite nuclei after fitting only to equilibrium properties of infinite nuclear matter. This successful result occurs when the velocity dependence of the equivalent central potential that leads to saturation arises primarily because of a reduced

Fedele Lizzi, Richard J. Szabo

The structure of S-duality in U(1) gauge theory on a 4-manifold M is examined using the formalism of noncommutative geometry. A noncommutative space is constructed from the algebra of Wilson-'t Hooft line operators which encodes both the ordinary geometry of M and its infinite-dimensional loop space geometry. S-duality is shown to act as an inner automor

B. B. Deo, L. Maharana

The role of Higgs sector of the standard model in first order phase transition is reexamined.It is found that a solution to the mass gap equations exist which can be used in higher orders. This possible solution leads to a transition which is found to be strongly first order and the ratio of the critical scaler field and the critical temperature is about 1.2

QCDSP Collaboration, Dong Chen, Ping Chen, Norman H. Christ

The QCDSP machine at Columbia University has grown to 2,048 nodes achieving a peak speed of 100 Gigaflops. Software for quenched and Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) evolution schemes has been developed for staggered fermions, with support for Wilson and clover fermions under development. We provide an overview of the runtime environment, the current status of the Q

C. Bernard, C. DeTar, Steven Gottlieb, U. M. Heller

We use simulations of heavy quark effective field theory to calculate the Isgur-Wise function, and we demonstrate the feasibility of calculating the matrix element for the $B \to π+ \leptons$ decay in the lattice heavy quark effective theory (HQET).

Xiang-Yu Ge, Mark D. Gould, Yao-Zhong Zhang, Huan-Qiang Zhou

A class of integrable boundary terms for the eight-state supersymmtric $U$ model are presented by solving the graded reflection equations. The boundary model is solved by using the coordinate Bethe ansatz method and the Bethe ansatz equations are obtained.

A. Panaitescu, P. Meszaros

We derive the equation for the surface of equal arrival times of radiation from a thin relativistic shell interacting with an external medium, representing the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst produced by a fireball. Due to the deceleration, these surfaces become distorted ellipsoids and, at sufficiently late times, most of the light (either bolometric or in a

Liliya L. R. Williams

Recently, Park and Gott reported an interesting observation: image separation of lensed QSOs declines with QSO redshift more precipitously than expected in any realistic world model, if the lenses are taken to be either singular isothermal spheres or point masses. In this Letter I propose that the observed trend arises naturally if the lensing galaxies have

H. F. Chau, H. -K. Lo

Alice has made a decision in her mind. While she does not want to reveal it to Bob at this moment, she would like to convince Bob that she is committed to this particular decision and that she cannot change it at a later time. Is there a way for Alice to get Bob's trust? Until recently, researchers had believed that the above task can be performed with t

M. Jaime, P. Lin, M. B Salamon, P. Han

The resistivity in the ferromagnetic state of flux-grown La_{2/3}(Pb,Ca)_{1/3}MnO_3 single crystals, measured in magnetic fields up to 7 T, reveals a strong quadratic temperature dependence at and above 50 K. At lower temperatures, this contribution drops precipitously leaving the resistivity essentially temperature independent below 20 K. The Seebeck coeffi

A. Gabrieli, G. Ridolfi

We compute the structure function $g_2$ for a gluon target in perturbative QCD at order $\as$. We show that its first moment vanishes, as predicted by the Burkhardt-Cottingham sum rule.

M. Grazzini

I present a calculation of the one particle deep inelastic cross section in the target fragmentation region in (ϕ^3)_6. The renormalized cross section gets a large logarithmic correction whose coefficient is precisely the scalar DGLAP kernel. The result is found to be consistent with an extended factorization hypothesis and with infrared power counting.

Masahiro Fukushima, Hideo Suganuma, Atsunori Tanaka, Hiroshi Toki

We investigate the confinement properties in the multi-instanton system, where the size distribution is assumed to be $ ρ^{-5} $ for the large instanton size $ ρ$. We find that the instanton vacuum gives the area law behavior of the Wilson loop, which indicates existence of the linear confining potential. In the multi-instanton system, the string tension inc

K. Camarda, E. Seidel

We consider the numerical evolution of dynamic black hole initial data sets with a full 3D, nonlinear evolution code. These data sets consist of single black holes distorted by strong gravitational waves, and mimic the late stages of coalescing black holes. Through comparison with results from well established axisymmetric codes, we show that these dynamic b

George Jorjadze, Wlodzimierz Piechocki

We consider particle dynamics in singular gravitational field. In 2d spacetime the system splits into two independent gravitational systems without singularity. Dynamical integrals of each system define $sl(2,R)$ algebra, but the corresponding symmetry transformations are not defined globally. Quantization leads to ambiguity. By including singularity one can

Jayajit Das, Madan Rao

We study the dynamics of ordering of a nonconserved Heisenberg magnet. The dynamics consists of two parts --- an irreversible dissipation into a heat bath and a reversible precession induced by a torque due to the local molecular field. For quenches to zero temperature, we provide convincing arguments, both numerically (Langevin simulation) and analytically

R. Resta

The position operator (defined within the Schroedinger representation in the standard way) becomes meaningless when periodic boundary conditions are adopted for the wavefunction, as usual in condensed matter physics. We show how to define the position expectation value by means of a simple many-body operator acting on the wavefunction of the extended system.

S. D. Ryder, A. V. Zasov, V. McIntyre, W. Walsh

We present the results of a new HI, optical, and H-alpha interferometric study of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 157. Our combined C- and D-array observations with the VLA show a large-scale, ring-like structure in the neutral hydrogen underlying the optical disk, together with an extended, low surface density component going out to nearly twice the Holmberg r

Rob Ivison, J. A. Yates, P. J. Hall

We report high spatial and spectral resolution measurements of masers towards R Aqr and H1-36, both of which are examples of the sub-class of symbiotic stars that contain a long-period Mira-type variable. Our observations have resulted in the first detection of 321-GHz H2O maser action towards a symbiotic Mira - R Aqr. Comparison with simultaneous 22-GHz H2O

Henry A. Kobulnicky, Evan D. Skillman

Using Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet and ground-based optical spectroscopy, we measure the C/O and N/O ratios of three metal-poor galaxies with similar metallicity but differing N/O. The C/O ratios estimated from C III] lambda1909 and [O III] lambda5007 lines are consistent with those measured from C II] lambda2326 and [O II] lambda3727 lines. We develop

Saint Clair Cemin, Lee Smolin

We propose a scenario for the origin of life based on the coevolution of lipid bilayer vesicles and protein channels.

T. L. Ivanenko, J. W. Negele

To elucidate the role in hadron structure of quark zero modes associated with instantons, the lowest eigenfunctions of the Dirac operator have been calculated in quenched QCD, full QCD, and full QCD with cooling. Eigenmodes associated with a single instanton and an instanton-anti-instanton pair were studied to understand the role of lattice artifacts for Wil

J. W. Negele

A variety of evidence from lattice QCD is presented revealing the dominant role of instantons in the propagation of light quarks in the QCD vacuum and in light hadron structure. The instanton content of lattice gluon configurations is extracted, and observables calculated from the instantons alone are shown to agree well with those calculated using all gluon

Jorge Kurchan

The fluctuation theorem of Gallavotti and Cohen holds for finite systems undergoing Langevin dynamics. In such a context all non-trivial ergodic theory issues are by-passed, and the theorem takes a particularly simple form. As a particular case, we obtain a nonlinear fluctuation-dissipation theorem valid for equilibrium systems perturbed by arbitrarily stron

James A. Feigenbaum, Peter G. O. Freund, Mircea Pigli

Gravitational analogues of the nonlinear electrodynamics of Born and of Born and Infeld are introduced and applied to the black hole problem. This work is mainly devoted to the 2-dimensional case in which the relevant lagrangians are nonpolynomial in the scalar curvature.

Paolo Tommasini, Eddy Timmermans, A. F. R. de Toledo Piza

We illustrate the description of correlated subsystems by studying the simple two-body Hydrogen atom. We study the entanglement of the electron and proton coordinates in the exact analytical solution. This entanglement, which we quantify in the framework of the density matrix formalism, describes correlations in the electron-proton motion.

Eddy Timmermans

The zero-temperature system of two dilute overlapping Bose-Einstein condensates is unstable against long wavelength excitations if the interaction strength between the distinguishable bosons exceeds the geometric mean of the like-boson interaction strengths. If the condensates attract each other, the instability is similar to the instability of the negative

Alan Chodos, Hisakzau Minakata

We summarize recent work showing how the Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz may be used to study the finite-density first-order phase transition in the Gross-Neveu model. The application to trans-polyacetylene is discussed, and the significance of the results is addressed.

J. M. Roman, J. Soto

By using an effective field theory for the electromagnetic interaction of spin waves, we show that, in certain antiferromagnets, the latter induce non-reciprocal effects in the microwave region, which should be observable in the second harmonic generation and produce gyrotropic birefringency. We calculate the various (non-linear) susceptibilities in terms of

J. M. Roman, J. Soto

We present a systematic construction of effective lagrangians for the low energy and momentum region of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spin waves in crystalline solids. We fully exploit the spontaneous symmetry breaking pattern $SU(2)\to U(1)$, the fact that spin waves are its associated Goldstone modes, the crystallographic space group and time reversa

A. Sedrakian, J. Cordes

We show that the neutron star's crust-core interface acts as a potential barrier on the peripheral neutron vortices approaching this interface and thus prevents their continuous decay on it in the course of equilibrium state deceleration. The barrier arises due to the interaction of vortex magnetic flux with the Meissner currents set up by the crustal ma

Francesco Fidaleo

A characterization of the split property for an inclusion $N\subset M$ of $W^*$-factors with separable predual is established in terms of the canonical non-commutative $L^2$ embedding considered in \cite{B1,B2} $$ \F_2:a\in N\to \D_{M,\Om}^{1/4}a\Om\in L^2(M,\Om) $$ associated with an arbitrary fixed standard vector $\Om$ for $M$. This characterization follo

A. A. Andrianov, V. A. Andrianov, V. L. Yudichev, R. Rodenberg

Quark models with four-fermion interaction including derivatives of fields in the strong coupling regime are used to implement composite-Higgs extensions of the Standard Model. In this approach the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry occurs in two (or more) channels (near polycritical values for coupling constants), giving rise to two (or more) composite H

Gregory Moore, Edward Witten

We analyze the u-plane contribution to Donaldson invariants of a four-manifold X. For $b_2^+(X)>1$, this contribution vanishes, but for $b_2^+=1$, the Donaldson invariants must be written as the sum of a u-plane integral and an SW contribution. The u-plane integrals are quite intricate, but can be analyzed in great detail and even calculated. By analyzing th

P. Meszaros, M. J. Rees, R. A. M. J. Wijers

We discuss the afterglows from the evolution of both spherical and anisotropic fireballs decelerating in an inhomogeneous external medium. We consider both the radiative and adiabatic evolution regimes, and analyze the physical conditions under which these regimes can be used. Afterglows may be expected to differ widely among themselves, depending on the ang

F. R. Klinkhamer

Self-consistent Ansaetze are presented for the left- and right-handed isodoublet fermion zero-modes of the constrained instanton Istar in the vacuum sector of euclidean SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs theory. These left- and right-handed fermion wave functions do not coincide and, most likely, have maxima at different positions. This may be important for the fermion

Johan Linde, Tommy Ohlsson, Hakan Snellman

We present calculations of the decuplet baryon magnetic moments in the chiral quark model. As input we use parameters obtained in qualitatively accurate fits to the octet baryon magnetic moments studied previously. The values found for the magnetic moments of $Δ^{++}$ and $Ω^{-}$ are in good agreement with experiments. We finally calculate the total quark sp

C. R. Werner, U. Eckern

We consider the problem of sliding motion of a charge-density-wave subject to static disorder within an elastic medium model. Starting with a field-theoretical formulation, which allows exact disorder averaging, we propose a self-consistent approximation scheme to obtain results beyond the standard large-velocity expansion. Explicit calculations are carried

A. M. Green, P. Pennanen

As a step towards understanding multi-quark systems abundant in nature we construct a model that reproduces the binding energies of static four-quark systems. These energies have been calculated using SU(2) lattice gauge theory for a set of six different geometries representative of the general case. The model is based on ground and excited state two-body po

A. A. Sen, N. Banerjee

Gravitational field of a stationary circular cosmic string loop has been studied in the context of full nonlinear Einstein's theory of gravity. It has been assumed that the radial and tangential stresses of the loop are equal to the energy density of the string loop. An exact solution for the system has been presented which has a singularity at a finite

B. Piette, D. H. Tchrakian

We use a prescription to gauge the su(2) Skyrme model with a U(1) field, characterised by a conserved Baryonic current. This model reverts to the usual Skyrme model in the limit of the gauge coupling constant vanishing. We show that there exist axially symmetric static solutions with zero magnetic charge, which can be electrically either charged or uncharged

T. Gannon, M. A. Walton

We consider the fusion algebras arising in e.g. Wess-Zumino-Witten conformal field theories, affine Kac-Moody algebras at positive integer level, and quantum groups at roots of unity. Using properties of the modular matrix $S$, we find small sets of primary fields (equivalently, sets of highest weights) which can be identified with the variables of a polynom

Yeong E. Kim, Alexander L. Zubarev

Using the Hilbert-Schmidt theorem, we reformulate the R-matrix theory in terms of a uniformly and absolutely convergent expansion. Term by term differentiation is possible with this expansion in the neighborhood of the surface. Methods for improving the convergence are discussed when the R-function series is truncated for practical applications.

Avinash Khare

On the occasion of the birth centenary of the discovery of electron, I discuss its role in the area of Elementary Particle Physics. I emphasize that the discovery of electron marks the end of the speculation era lasting more than 2500 years. The key developments leading to the discovery of electron by J.J. Thomson are mentioned. The standard model is briefly

A. K. Motovilov, S. A. Sofianos, E. A. Kolganova

We present a mathematically rigorous method for solving three-atomic bound state and scattering problems. The method is well suited for applications in systems where the inter-atomic interaction is of a hard-core nature. It has been employed to obtain the ground- and excited-state energies for the Helium trimer and to calculate, for the first time, the scatt

S. R. Beane, T. D. Cohen, D. R. Phillips

We study an effective field theory of interacting nucleons at distances much greater than the pion's Compton wavelength. In this regime the NN potential is conjectured to be the sum of a delta function and its derivatives. The question we address is whether this sum can be consistently truncated at a given order in the derivative expansion, and systemati

Dario Vretenar

The relativistic mean-field theory provides a framework in which the nuclear many-body problem is described as a self-consistent system of nucleons and mesons. In the mean-field approximation, the self-consistent time evolution of the nuclear system describes the dynamics of collective motion: double giant resonances, nuclear compressibility from monopole re

M. Schleif, R. Wünsch

We consider a chiral one-loop hedgehog soliton of the bosonized SU(2)$_f$ Nambu & Jona-Lasinio model which is embedded in a hot medium of constituent quarks. Energy and radius of the soliton are determined in self-consistent mean-field approximation. Quasi-classical corrections to the soliton energy are derived by means of the pushing and cranking approaches

Seungho Choe

We show that signs of pole residues $λ_N, λ_Λ, λ_Σ, λ_Ξ$ for ${1\over2}^+$ octet baryons are identical in the QCD sum rule approach. To do this we compare signs of meson-baryon coupling constants $ g_{KN Λ}, g_{KN Σ}$, $g_{πΛΣ}$ and $g_{KΛΞ}$ each other.

Stuart Samuel

An approximation is used that permits one to explicitly solve the two-point Schwinger-Dyson equations of the U(N) lattice chiral models. The approximate solution correctly predicts a phase transition for dimensions $d$ greater than two. For $d \le 2 $, the system is in a single disordered phase with a mass gap. The method reproduces known $N=\infty$ results

J. M. F. Labastida, Carlos Lozano

In these lectures we present a general introduction to topological quantum field theories. These theories are discussed in the framework of the Mathai-Quillen formalism and in the context of twisted N=2 supersymmetric theories. We discuss in detail the recent developments in Donaldson-Witten theory obtained from the application of results based on duality fo

Pablo M. Llatas

Under the assumption of axial symmetry we introduce a map from dilatonic gravity to a string-like action. This map allows one to introduce, in a rather simple way, the equivalent of string theory T-duality in dilatonic gravity. Here we choose the duality group to be an $SO(2,1)$ group and, for a particular rotation, we recover a symmetry of dilatonic gravity

Dmitri Sorokin

We briefly review the structure and properties of self-dual field actions.

Aram A. Saharian

We analyze the problem of graceful exit from superinflationary pre-big bang phase of string cosmology within the context of lowest-order string effective action. The previous no go theorems are generalized for the case when higher genus terms of general form and additional matter fields are included. It is shown that the choice of the E-frame essentially sim

A. Kudryavtsev, B. Piette, W. J. Zakrzewski

We study classical solutions of the vector O(3) sigma model in (2+1) dimensions, spontaneously broken to O(2)xZ2. The model possesses Skyrmion-type solutions as well as stable domain walls which connect different vacua. We show that different types of waves can propagate on the wall, including waves carrying a topological charge. The domain wall can also abs

Motoi Tachibana

We investigate the phase structures of various N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories including even the exceptional gauge group from the viewpoint of superconvergence of the gauge field propagator. Especially we analyze in detail whether a new type of duality recently discovered by Oehme in $SU(N_c)$ gauge theory coupled to fundamental matter fields can be found

R. Martinez, J. -Alexis Rodriguez, M. Vargas

We calculate the one loop corrections to the chromomagnetic dipole moment of the top quark in the framework of the Standard Model, the two Higgs doublet model and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. In the Standard Model we consider the QCD and the electroweak corrections generated by gluon and Higgs boson exchanges, respectively. In the Minimal Super

Pierre Sikivie

Contents: 1. The strong CP problem 2. Dark matter axions 3. The cavity detector of galactic halo axions 4. Caustic rings in the density distribution of cold dark matter halos

Sanghyeon Chang, Claudio Coriano, John K. Elwood

We investigate the role of the transverse spin dependence in Drell Yan lepton pair production to NLO in QCD at parton level. In our analysis we deal with the large $p_T$ distributions. We give very compact expressions for the virtual $O(α_s^2)$ corrections to the cross section and show that the singularities factorize. The study is performed in the $\bar{MS}

Ernest Ma

If the minimal standard model of quarks and leptons is extended to include just a righthanded partner to nu_tau, then the quantum number B-3L_tau can be added as a gauge symmetry without the appearance of anomalies. A suitable extension of the scalar sector allows one neutrino to have a seesaw mass, and the other two to have radiative masses, with acceptable

G. L. Fogli, E. Lisi, D. Montanino

We present an updated analysis of the solar neutrino problem in terms of both Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) and vacuum neutrino oscillations, with the inclusion of the preliminary data collected by the SuperKamiokande experiment during 306.3 days of operation. In particular, the observed energy spectrum of the recoil electrons from 8B neutrino scatterin

Decio Cocolicchio

The mixing effects and the $CP(T)$--violating formalism for Kaon, B--mesons and similar unstable oscillating systems, are recovered by means of a method based on the properties of the complex singularities in the $S$--matrix theory with unstable intermediate states. General $q^2$--dependent relations for CP--asymmetries are then introduced.

K. Golec-Biernat, J. Kwiecinski, A. Szczurek

The "triple-Regge" analysis of subleading Reggeon contributions to the diffractive structure function in DIS at HERA is presented. The recently published data allow to estimate the only free parameter of the analysis related to the ratio of the RRP and PPP couplings. The large value of this ratio is prefered which is in agreement with analyses of sof

Leonard S. Kisslinger, Zhenping Li

We develop an ansatze of the sigma enhancement of the I=0, L=0 $π$-$π$ scattering amplitude as arising from a low-energy glueball pole. Using this picture we estimate the $π^0π^0$ to $π^0$ branching ratio for the decays of the Roper resonance, which we previously found to be a hybrid in our QCD sum rule calculation. We find that the sigma decay might be a go

W. L. van Neerven

We discuss the order alpha_s^2 corrections to the longitudinal spin structure function g_1(x,Q^2,m^2) which are due to heavy flavour contributions. Here Q denotes the virtuality of the photon and m stands for the heavy flavour mass. Since the exact heavy quark coefficient functions are not known yet we have used the asymptotic forms which are strictly speaki

N. V. Krasnikov

We investigate a model of $SU(2) \otimes U(1)$ singlet scalars coupled to Standard Model. We point out that for the case of maximal mixing between singlet scalars and standard Higgs boson the Higgs boson production cross section is smaller than the standard Higgs boson production by factor $\frac{1}{N+1}$, where N is the number of singlet scalar scalars. For

R. Häußling, M. Paschke, F. Scheck

Triangular mass matrices for neutrinos and their charged partners contain full information on neutrino mixing in a most concise form. Although the scheme is general and model independent, triangular matrices are typical for reducible but indecomposable representations of graded Lie algebras which, in turn, are characteristic for the standard model in noncomm

D. I. Kazakov

Recently proposed relations between the renormalization group functions of the soft supersymmetry breaking terms and those of a rigid theory allow one to consider a possibility of constructing a totally all loop finite N=1 SUSY gauge theory, including the soft SUSY breaking terms. The requirement of finiteness, which can be satisfied in previously constructe

N. D. Hari Dass, V. Soni

We show by explicit construction of an alternative theory for the strong interactions that it cannot be distinguished from QCD by any of the usual precision tests except on extending these theories to the full electroweak theory, by the Z- particle width.

K. J. Juge, J. Kuti, C. J. Morningstar

The gluon excitations of the QCD vacuum are investigated in the presence of a static quark-antiquark source. It is shown that the ground state potential and the excitation spectrum of dynamical gluon degrees of freedom, as determined in our lattice simulations, agree remarkably well with model predictions based on the diaelectric properties of the confining

K. J. Juge, J. Kuti, C. J. Morningstar

A comprehensive determination of the rich, low-lying spectrum of gluonic excitations in the presence of a static quark-antiquark pair is presented. Our results are obtained from several simulations on anisotropic lattices using an improved action and a large set of gluonic operators. The hybrid quarkonium states are studied in the quenched approximation usin

D. Smith, H. Simma, M. Teper

We present a study of the instanton size and spatial distributions in pure SU(3) gauge theory using under-relaxed cooling. We also investigate the low-lying eigenmodes of the (improved) Wilson-Dirac operator, in particular, the appearance of zero-modes and their space-time localisation with respect to instantons in the underlying gauge field.

Michael Ogilvie

A natural mechanism for finite temperature quark confinement arises via the coupling of the adjoint Polyakov loop to the chromomagnetic field. Lattice simulations and analytical results both support this hypothesis. Finite temperature SU(3) lattice simulations show that a large external coupling to the chromomagnetic field restores confinement at temperature

Mark Alford, Timothy R. Klassen, Peter Lepage

We investigate a tadpole-improved tree-level-O(a^3)-accurate action, D234c, on coarse lattices, using the mean link in Landau gauge to measure the tadpole contribution. We find that D234c shows much better rotational invariance than Sheikholeslami-Wohlert, and that mean-link tadpole improvement gives much better hadron mass scaling than plaquette tadpole imp

S. Capitani, M. Guagnelli, M. Luescher, S. Sint

We show that the renormalization factor relating the renormalization group invariant quark masses to the bare quark masses computed in lattice QCD can be determined non-perturbatively. The calculation is based on an extension of a finite-size technique previously employed to compute the running coupling in quenched QCD. As a by-product we obtain the $Λ$--par

S. Aoki, Y. Taniguchi

We calculate one loop corrections to the domain-wall quark propagator in QCD. We show how the wave function is renormalized in this theory. Especially we are interested in the behavior of the massless fermion mode, which exists near the domain wall at the tree level. We show that this massless mode is stable against the quantum correction.

Claudia Glasman

Studies on the structure of the photon are presented by means of the extraction of a leading order effective parton distribution in the photon and measurements of inclusive jet differential cross sections in photoproduction. Measurements of the internal structure of jets have been performed and are also presented as a function of the transverse energy and ps

B. K. Berger, D. Garfinkle, V. Moncrief

The spatially homogeneous, isotropic Standard Cosmological Model appears to describe our Universe reasonably well. However, Einstein's equations allow a much larger class of cosmological solutions. Theorems originally due to Penrose and Hawking predict that all such models (assuming reasonable matter properties) will have an initial singularity. The natu

H. -J. Schmidt

We answer to question Nr. 55 [Are there pictorial examples that distinguish covariant and contravariant vectors ?] posed by D. Neuenschwander, Am. J. Phys. 65 (1), 11 (1997)

H. -J. Schmidt

Assuming SO(3)-spherical symmetry, the 4-dimensional Einstein equation reduces to an equation conformally related to the field equation for 2-dimensional gravity following from the Lagrangian L = R^(1/3). Solutions for 2-dimensional gravity always possess a local isometry because the traceless part of its Ricci tensor identically vanishes. Combining both fac

S. Mignemi, H. -J. Schmidt

We define under which circumstances two multi-warped product spacetimes can be considered equivalent and then we classify the spaces of constant curvature in the Euclidean and Lorentzian signature. For dimension D=2, we get essentially twelve representations, for D=3 exactly eighteen. More general, for every even D, 5D+2 cases exist, whereas for every odd D,

Francesco Fidaleo

We characterize classes of linear maps between operator spaces $E$, $F$ which factorize through maps arising in a natural manner via the Pisier vector-valued non-commutative $L^p$ spaces $S_p[E^*]$ based on the Schatten classes on the separable Hilbert space $l^2$. These classes of maps can be viewed as quasi-normed operator ideals in the category of operato

Neal Fowler, Marcelo Laca

Let F_n be the fixed-point algebra of the gauge action of the circle on the Cuntz algebra O_n. For every pure state ρof F_n and every representation θof C(T) we construct a representation of O_n, and we use the resulting class of representations to parameterize the space of all states of O_n which extend ρ. We show that the gauge group acts transitively on t

S. T. R. Pinho, T. A. S. Haddad, S. R. Salinas

We write exact renormalization-group recursion relations for nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic Ising models on Migdal-Kadanoff hierarchical lattices with a distribution of aperiodic exchange interactions according to a class of substitutional sequences. For small geometric fluctuations, the critical behavior is unchanged with respect to the uniform case. For la

Eddy Timmermans, G. T. Trammell, J. P. Hannon

The interference of the directly emitted photoelectron wave and the wave scattered coherently by neighboring atoms gives holographic fringes in the photoelectron emission intensity $I(\hat{\bf R})$. In the electron emission holography technique in surface physics, $I(\hat{\bf R})$ is inverted holographically to give a 3D-image of the environment of the sourc

Pierre Cizeau, Stefano Zapperi, Gianfranco Durin, H. Eugene Stanley

We derive an equation of motion for the the dynamics of a ferromagnetic domain wall driven by an external magnetic field through a disordered medium and we study the associated depinning transition. The long-range dipolar interactions set the upper critical dimension to be $d_c=3$, so we suggest that mean-field exponents describe the Barkhausen effect for th

E. Orignac, T. Giamarchi

We analyze an anisotropic spin 1/2 two legs ladder in the presence of various type of random perturbations. The generic phase diagram for the pure system, in a way similar to spin one chains, consists of four phases: an Antiferromagnet, a Haldane gap or a Singlet phase (depending on the sign of interchain coupling) and two XY phases designated by XY1 and XY2

Tota Nakamura, Kiyomi Okamoto

We have analyzed the experimental susceptibility data of KCuCl$_3$ and found that the data are well-explained by the double-spin-chain models with strong antiferromagnetic dimerization. Large quantum Monte Carlo calculations were performed for the first time in the spin systems with frustration. This was made possible by removing the negative-sign problem wi

Nobuo Furukawa, Kazuma Hirota

Spin excitation spectrum of CMR manganites are studied from both theoretical and experimental sides. Scaling relations for the spin wave lifetime in the electronic model with double-exchange interaction is observed, which is consistent with results for neutron inelastic scattering experiments for (La,Y)$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$MnO$_3$. Roles of other interactions a

C. Ratsch, P. Ruggerone, M. Scheffler

Metallic films are important in catalysis, magneto-optic storage media, and interconnects in microelectronics, and it is crucial to predict and control their morphologies. The evolution of a growing crystal is determined by the behavior of each individual atom, but technologically relevant structures have to be described on a time scale of the order of (at l

P. Provero

The two-point correlation functions of statistical models show in general both poles and cuts in momentum space. The former correspond to the spectrum of massive excitations of the model, while the latter originate from interaction effects, namely creation and annihilation of virtual pairs of excitations. We discuss the effect of such interactions on the lon