March 2000 arXiv papers — page 2

Saurabh Jha, Guillermo Torres, Robert P. Stefanik, David W. Latham

The triple-lined spectroscopic triple system HD 109648 has one of the shortest periods known for the outer orbit in a late-type triple, 120.5 days, and the ratio between the periods of the outer and inner orbits is small, 22:1. With such extreme values, this system should show orbital element variations over a timescale of about a decade. We have monitored t

D. C. Hannikainen, R. W. Hunstead, D. Campbell-Wilson, K. Wu

We report multifrequency radio observations of GRO J1655-40 obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope and the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory at the time of the major hard X-ray and radio outbursts in 1994 August-September. The radio emission reached levels of the order of a few Jy and was fo

James E. Rhoads, Sangeeta Malhotra, Arjun Dey, Daniel Stern

We report on a new survey for z=4.5 Lyman alpha sources, the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey. Our survey achieves an unprecedented combination of volume and sensitivity by using narrow-band filters on the new 8192x8192 pixel CCD Mosaic Camera at the 4 meter Mayall telescope of Kitt Peak National Observatory. Well-detected sources with flux and equivalen

Robert L. Kurucz

A Big Bang universe consisting, before recombination, of H, D, 3He, 4He, 6Li, and 7Li ions, electrons, photons, and massless neutrinos, at closure density, with a galaxy-size perturbation spectrum but no large-scale structure, will evolve into the universe as we now observe it. Evolution during the first billion years is controlled by radiation. Globular clu

H. C. Spruit

Radiatively inefficient (or advection dominated) disks are discussed at an introductory level. Ion supported and radiation supported flows are discussed, the different consequences of advection dominated flows onto black holes vs. solid surfaces (neutron stars, white dwarfs), hydrodynamics, the role of the ratio of specific heats, and the possible connection

M. Cvetic, H. Lu, C. N. Pope

We study the circumstances under which a Kaluza-Klein reduction on an n-sphere, with a massless truncation that includes all the Yang-Mills fields of SO(n+1), can be consistent at the full non-linear level. We take as the starting point a theory comprising a p-form field strength and (possibly) a dilaton, coupled to gravity in the higher dimension D. We show

R. C. Thomas, R. Kantowski

We present compact, analytic expressions for the age-redshift relation $τ(z)$ for standard Friedmann-Lema\^ \itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology. The new expressions are given in terms of incomplete Legendre elliptic integrals and evaluate much faster than by direct numerical integration.

M. A. Ruderman, L. Tao, W. Kluzniak

One of a family previously proposed ``central engines'' for cosmic gamma-ray burst sources (Kluźniak & Ruderman 1998) is considered in some detail. A steadily accreting $10^6$ Gauss magnetic white dwarf should ultimately collapse to a strongly differentially rotating, millisecond-rotation-period neutron star for a wide range of steady accretion rates

Yi Ling, Lee Smolin

We describe a new first-order formulation of D=11 supergravity which shows that that theory can be understood to arise from a certain topological field theory by the imposition of a set of local constraints on the fields, plus a lagrange multiplier term. The topological field theory is of interest as the algebra of its constraints realizes the D=11 supersymm

S. Lloyd, M. S. Shahriar, P. R. Hemmer

This paper proposes a scheme for creating and storing quantum entanglement over long distances. Optical cavities that store this long-distance entanglement in atoms could then function as nodes of a quantum network, in which quantum information is teleported from cavity to cavity. The teleportation can be carried out unconditionally via measurements of all f

Suphot Musiri, George Siopsis

We discuss non-extremal rotating D3-branes. We solve the wave equation for scalars in the supergravity background of certain distributions of branes and compute the absorption coefficients. The form of these coefficients is similar to the gray-body factors associated with black-hole scattering. They are given in terms of two different temperature parameters,

Duane A. Dicus, Wayne W. Repko

Previous calculations of photon-neutrino scattering in a constant background magnetic field are extended and corrected.

P. Q. Hung

If neutrinos have masses, why are they so tiny? Are these masses of the Dirac type or of the Majorana type? We are already familiar with the mechanism of how to obtain a tiny Majorana neutrino mass by the famous see-saw mechanism. The question is: Can one build a model in which a tiny Dirac neutrino mass arises in a more or less "natural" way? What w

Ho Trung Dung, Ludwig Knoll, Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

A formalism for studying spontaneous decay of an excited two-level atom in the presence of dispersing and absorbing dielectric bodies is developed. An integral equation, which is suitable for numerical solution, is derived for the atomic upper-state-probability amplitude. The emission pattern and the power spectrum of the emitted light are expressed in terms

M. Maris, S. T. Petcov

Detailed predictions for the day-night (D-N) asymmetry in the energy-integrated one year signals in the SNO detector in the case of the MSW $ν_e \to ν_{μ(τ)}$ and/or $ν_e \to ν_s$ transition solutions of the solar neutrino problem are presented. The asymmetries in the charged current (CC) and $ν- e^{-}$ elastic scattering (ES) event rates are calculated for

Jonathan Bagger, Takeo Moroi, Erich Poppitz

We show that N=1, D=4 Einstein-frame supergravity is inconsistent at one loop because of an anomaly in local supersymmetry transformations. A Jacobian must be added to the Einstein-frame Lagrangian to cancel this anomaly. We show how the Jacobian arises from the super-Weyl field redefinition that takes the superspace Lagrangian to the Einstein frame. We pres

M. Beyer, S. A. Sofianos, C. Kuhrts, G. Roepke

Among the light nuclear clusters the alpha-particle is by far the strongest bound system and therefore expected to play a significant role in the dynamics of nuclei and the phases of nuclear matter. To systematically study the properties of the alpha-particle we have derived an effective four-body equation of the Alt-Grassberger-Sandhas (AGS) type that inclu

Bumsoo Kyung

A model with d-wave pairing symmetry is studied by employing a non-perturbative sum rule approach. At low temperature the magnitude of a normal state pseudogap shows strong $\vec{k}$ or angle dependence well fitted by $\cos 2ϕ$ form. With increasing temperature, the pseudogap closes at some critical angle $ϕ_{c}$ and beyond this angle a single quasiparticle-

A. Kehagias, J. G. Russo

We describe string-theory and $d=11$ supergravity solutions involving symmetric spaces of constant negative curvature. Many examples of non-supersymmetric string compactifications on hyperbolic spaces $H_r$ of finite volume are given in terms of suitable cosets of the form $H_r/Γ$, where $Γ$ is a discrete group. We describe in some detail the cases of the no

Pai-Yi Hsiao, Martin Devaud, Jean-Claude Bacri

The acoustic coupling between two air bubbles immersed in water is clearly demonstrated. The system is acoustically forced, and its response is detected. The experimental results confirm that both theoretically predicted eigenmodes, respectively symmetrical and antisymmetrical, do exist. Their frequencies, measured as a function of the bubbles spacing, follo

Y. A. Coutinho, J. A. Martins Simoes, C. M. Porto

In this paper we discuss a left-right symmetric model for elementary particles and their connection with the mass spectrum of elementary fermions. The model is based on the group $SU(2)_L\otimes SU(2)_R\otimes U(1)$. New mirror fermions and a minimal set of Higgs particles that breaks the symmetry down to $U(1)_{em}$ are proposed. The model can accommodate a

J. Clausen, T. Opatrny, D. -G. Welsch

We suggest a scheme of using two-mode squeezed vacuum for conditional teleportation of quantum states of optical field. Alice mixes the input state with one of the squeezed modes on another squeezing device and detects the output photon numbers. The result is then communicated to Bob who shifts the photon number of his part accordingly. This is a principally

Arundhati Dasgupta, Hermann Nicolai, Jan Plefka

We derive the vertex operators that are expected to govern the emission of the massless d=11 supermultiplet from the supermembrane in the light cone gauge. We demonstrate that they form a representation of the supersymmetry algebra and reduce to the type IIA superstring vertex operators under double dimensional reduction, as well as to the vertices of the d=

M. Lohmann, H. -A. Krug von Nidda, M. V. Eremin, A. Loidl

We present angular dependent EPR measurements in NaV2O5 at X-band frequencies in the temperature range 4.2 K < T < 670 K. A detailed analysis in terms of the antisymmetric Dzyaloshinski-Moriya and the anisotropic exchange interactions yields the following scheme of charge order: On decreasing temperature a quarter-filled ladder with strong charge disproporti

Amir H. Abbassi, Amir M. Abbassi

It is shown that the field equations of general relativity in the Einstein tensor form and the unimodular theory of gravity do not fulfill the correspondence principle commitment completely. The consistent formalisms are briefly discussed.

B. Grzadkowski, Z. Hioki

Angular and energy distributions for leptons and bottom quarks in the process e+e- --> t tbar --> l/b ... have been calculated assuming the most general top-quark couplings. The double distributions depend both on modification of the top-quark production and tbW decay vertices. However, the leptonic angular distribution turned out to be insensitive to non-st

Graeme Mitchison, Serge Massar

Absorption-free (also known as ``interaction-free&#39;&#39;) measurement aims to detect the presence of an opaque object using a test particle without that particle being absorbed by the object. Here we consider semi-transparent objects which have an amplitude $α$ of transmitting a particle while leaving the state of the object unchanged and an amplitude $β$

Tohru Koma, Masanori Yamanaka

A phenomenological approach based on the principle of minimum heat generation is proposed for understanding experiments for metallic wires with a ferromagnetic domain wall controlled by a magnetic field. This approach elucidates the origin of negative jump and of hysteresis in the magnetoresistance experiments. To justify our approach, we computed the transm

Yas-Hiro Quano

Belavin&#39;s $\mathbb{Z}_n$-symmetric elliptic model with boundary reflection is considered on the basis of the boundary CTM bootstrap. We find non-diagonal $K$-matrices for $n>2$ that satisfy the reflection equation (boundary Yang--Baxter equation), and also find non-diagonal Boltzmann weights for the $A^{(1)}_{n-1}$-face model even for $n\geqq 2$. We deri

Klaus Morawetz

Starting from a point - like two - and three - particle interaction the kinetic equation is derived. While the drift term of the kinetic equation turns out to be determined by the known Skyrme mean field the collision integral appears in two - and three - particle parts. The cross section results from the same microscopic footing and is naturally density dep

S G Ghosh, A Beesham

We investigate the occurrence and nature of a naked singularity in the gravitational collapse of an inhomogeneous dust cloud described by a non self-similar higher dimensional Tolman spacetime. The necessary condition for the formation of a naked singularity or a black hole is obtained. The naked singularities are found to be gravitationally strong in the se

Shoichi Ichinose

A solution of the Randall-Sundrum model for a simplified case (one wall) is obtained. It is given by the $1/k^2$-expansion (thin wall expansion) where $1/k$ is the {\it thickness} of the domain wall. The vacuum setting is done by the 5D Higgs potential and the solution is for a {\it family} of the Higgs parameters. The mass hierarchy problem is examined. Som

H. C. Rosu

A one-parameter family of time dependent adiabatic indices is introduced for any given type of cosmological fluid of constant adiabatic index by a mathematical method belonging to the class of Darboux transformations. The procedure works for zero cosmological constant at the price of introducing a new constant parameter related to the time dependence of the

Thomas Schaefer

We perform a semi-classical study of chiral symmetry breaking and of the spectrum of the Dirac operator in QCD with adjoint fermions. For this purpose we calculate matrix elements of the adjoint Dirac operator between instanton zero modes and study their symmetry properties. We present simulations of the instanton ensemble for different numbers of Majorana f

R. M. Cavalcanti

Recently Thienel [Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 280 (2000), 140; quant-ph/9809047] investigated the Pauli equation for an electron moving in a plane under the influence of a perpendicular magnetic field which is the sum of a uniform field and a singular flux tube. Here we criticise his claim that one cannot properly solve this equation by treating the singular flux tube

Frank J. Tipler

Quantum nonlocality may be an artifact of the assumption that observers obey the laws of classical mechanics, while observed systems obey quantum mechanics. I show that, at least in the case of Bell&#39;s Theorem, locality is restored if observed and observer are both assumed to obey quantum mechanics, as in the Many-Worlds Interpretation. Using the MWI, I s

Sumiyoshi Abe, A. K. Rajagopal

A definition of the nonadditive (nonextensive) conditional entropy indexed by q is presented. Based on the composition law in terms of it, the Shannon-Khinchin axioms are generalized and the uniqueness theorem is established for the Tsallis entropy. The nonadditive conditional entropy, when considered in the quantum context, is always positive for separable

John M. Myers, F. Hadi Madjid

The design and operation of a quantum-mechanical device as a laboratory instrument puts models written in equations of quantum mechanics in contact with instruments. This contact is recordable in files of a Classical Digital Process-control Computer (CPC) used both to calculate with the equations and to manage the instruments. By noticing that equations and

Michael Mussinger, Aldo Delgado, Gernot Alber

An error avoiding quantum code is presented which is capable of stabilizing Grover&#39;s quantum search algorithm against a particular class of coherent errors. This error avoiding code consists of states only which are factorizable in the computational basis. Furthermore, its redundancy is smaller than the one which is achievable with a general error correc

B. Eggers, G. Alber

The dynamics of a laser-excited Rydberg electron under the influence of a fluctuating laser field are investigated. Rate equations are developed which describe these dynamics in the limit of large laser bandwidths for arbitrary types of laser fluctuations. These equations apply whenever all coherent effects have already been damped out. The range of validity

Jeff Hasty, Joel Pradines, Milos Dolnik, J. J. Collins

The regulation of cellular function is often controlled at the level of gene transcription. Such genetic regulation usually consists of interacting networks, whereby gene products from a single network can act to control their own expression or the production of protein in another network. Engineered control of cellular function through the design and manipu

Ya. S. Derbenev, V. A. Anferov

The traditional method of spin-flipping a stored polarized beam is based on slowly crossing an rf induced depolarizing resonance. This paper discusses a novel approach where the polarization reversal is achieved by trapping the beam polarization into a stable spin-flipping motion on top of the rf induced resonance at a half-revolution frequency.

Holger Faisst, Bruno Eckhardt

We discuss the flow between concentric rotating cylinders in the limit of large radii where the system approaches plane Couette flow. We discuss how in this limit the linear instability that leads to the formation of Taylor vortices is lost and how the character of the transition approaches that of planar shear flows. In particular, a parameter regime is ide

Sebastien Camalet, Frank Julicher

We discuss a two-dimensional model for the dynamics of axonemal deformations driven by internally generated forces of molecular motors. Our model consists of an elastic filament pair connected by active elements. We derive the dynamic equations for this system in presence of internal forces. In the limit of small deformations, a perturbative approach allows

Sebastien Camalet, Thomas Duke, Frank Julicher, Jacques Prost

We introduce the concept of self-tuned criticality as a general mechanism for signal detection in sensory systems. In the case of hearing, we argue that active amplification of faint sounds is provided by a dynamical system which is maintained at the threshold of an oscillatory instability. This concept can account for the exquisite sensitivity of the audito

M. Ya. Amusia, V. R. Shaginyan

An infinite system of neutrons interacting by a model pair potential is considered. We investigate a case when this potential is sufficiently strong attractive, so that its scattering length tends to infinity. It appeared, that if the structure of the potential is simple enough, including no finite parameters, reliable evidences can be presented that such a

M. Mirea

Using an alpha decay level scheme, an explanation for the fine structure in odd nuclei is evidenced by taking into account the radial and rotational couplings between the unpaired nucleon and the core of the decaying system. It is stated that the experimental behavior of the alpha decay fine structure phenomenon is directed by the dynamical characteristics o

Marko Robnik, Valery G. Romanovski

We investigate some properties of the WKB series for arbitrary analytic potentials and then specifically for potentials $x^N$ ($N$ even), where more explicit formulae for the WKB terms are derived. Our main new results are: (i) We find the explicit functional form for the general WKB terms $σ_k&#39;$, where one has only to solve a general recursion relation

R. C. T. Ghiotto, A. L. Malvezzi

We solve the spectrum of quantum spin chains based on representations of the Temperley-Lieb algebra associated with the quantum groups ${\cal U}% _{q}(X_{n})$ for $X_{n}=A_{1},$ $B_{n},$ $C_{n}$ and $D_{n}$. The tool is a modified version of the coordinate Bethe Ansatz through a suitable choice of the Bethe states which give to all models the same status rel

Valery Romanovski, Marko Robnik

We obtain the rigorous WKB expansion to all orders for the radial Kepler problem, using the residue calculus in evaluating the WKB quantization condition in terms of a complex contour integral in the complexified coordinate plane. The procedure yields the exact energy spectrum of this Schrödinger eigenvalue problem and thus resolves the controversies around

George Krylov, Marko Robnik

We derive a closed-form expression for the Green function of linear evolution equations with the Dirichlet boundary condition for an arbitrary region, based on the singular perturbation approach to boundary problems.

Marko Robnik, Valery G. Romanovski

We give a short proof of Urabe&#39;s criteria for the isochronicity of periodical solutions of the equation $\ddot{x}+g(x)=0$. We show that apart from the harmonic oscillator there exists a large family of isochronous potentials which must all be non-polynomial and not symmetric (an even function of the coordinate x).

George Krylov, Marko Robnik

We discuss the explicit construction of the Schroedinger equations admitting a representation through some family of general polynomials. Almost all solvable quantum potentials are shown to be generated by this approach. Some generalization has also been performed in higher-dimensional problems.

Marko Robnik

We review the main ideas and results in the stationary problems of quantum chaos in generic (mixed) systems, whose classical dynamics has regular (invariant tori) and chaotic regions coexisting in the phase space. First we discuss the universality classes of spectral fluctuations (GOE/GUE for ergodic systems, and Poissonian for integrable systems). We explai

Jason Fulman

By algebraic group theory, there is a map from the semisimple conjugacy classes of a finite group of Lie type to the conjugacy classes of the Weyl group. Picking a semisimple class uniformly at random yields a probability measure on conjugacy classes of the Weyl group. We conjecture that this measure agrees with a second measure on conjugacy classes of the W

Yongge Tian

This paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, we develop a general method for expressing ranks of matrix expressions that involve Moore-Penrose inverses, group inverses, Drazin inverses, as well as weighted Moore-Penrose inverses of matrices. Through this method we establish a variety of valuable rank equalities related to generalized inverses of

Pavel Etingof, Dmitri Nikshych

Given a dynamical twist for a finite dimensional Hopf algebra we construct two weak Hopf algebras, using methods of Xu and Etingof-Varchenko, and show that they are dual to each other. We generalize the theory of dynamical quantum groups to the case when the quantum parameter q is a root of unity. These objects turn out to be self-dual -- which is a fundamen

Avner Ash, Paul E. Gunnells, Mark McConnell

Let $N>1$ be an integer, and let $Γ= Γ_0 (N) \subset \SL_4 (\Z)$ be the subgroup of matrices with bottom row congruent to $(0,0,0,*)\mod N$. We compute $H^5 (Γ; \C) $ for a range of $N$, and compute the action of some Hecke operators on many of these groups. We relate the classes we find to classes coming from the boundary of the Borel-Serre compactification

Martin Bordemann

On every split supermanifold equipped with the Rothstein even super-Poisson bracket we construct a deformation quantization by means of a Fedosov-type procedure. In other words, the supercommutative algebra of all smooth sections of the dual Grassmann algebra bundle of an arbitrarily given vector bundle E (equipped with a fibre metric) over a symplectic mani

A. A. Balinsky, W. D. Evans

Two results are proved for $\mathrm{nul} \mathbb{P}_A$, the dimension of the kernel of the Pauli operator $\mathbb{P}_A = \bigl\{\bbfσ \cdotp \bigl(\frac{1}{i} \bbf{\nabla} + \vec{A} \bigr) \bigr\} ^2 $ in $[L^2 (\mathbb{R}^3)]^2$: (i) for $|\vec{B}| \in L^{3/2} (\mathbb{R}^3),$ where $\vec{B} = \mathrm{curl} \vec{A}$ is the magnetic field, $\mathrm{nul} \ \

W. D. Evans, D. J. Harris, J. Lang

The Hardy operator $T_a$ on a tree $\G$ is defined by \[(T_af)(x):=v(x) \int^x_a u(t)f(t) dt \qquad {for} a, x\in \G. \] Properties of $T_a$ as a map from $L^p(\G)$ into itself are established for $1\le p \le \infty$. The main result is that, with appropriate assumptions on $u$ and $v$, the approximation numbers $a_n(T_a)$ of $T_a$ satisfy \[ (*) \lim_{n\to

Stefan Ivanov

The target space of a (4,0) supersymmetric two-dimensional sigma model with Wess-Zumino term has a connection with totally skew-symmetric torsion and holonomy contained in Sp(n).Sp(1), QKT-connection. We study the geometry of QKT-connections. We find conditions to the existence of a QKT-connection and prove that if it exists it is unique. Studying conformal

Emilia Mezzetti, Dario Portelli

A classification theorem is given of projective threefolds that are covered by a two-dimensional family of lines, but not by a higher dimensional family.

M. du Sautoy, F. Loeser

We associate motivic zeta functions to a large class of infinite dimensional Lie algebras

Jih-Hsin Cheng

We introduce a global Cauchy-Riemann($CR$)-invariant and discuss its behavior on the moduli space of $CR$-structures. We argue that this study is related to the Smale conjecture in 3-topology and the problem of counting complex structures. Furthermore, we propose a contact-analogue of Ray-Singer&#39;s analytic torsion. This ``contact torsion&#39;&#39; is exp

A. Baranov, I. Suprunenko

In this paper branching rules for the fundamental representations of the symplectic groups in positive characteristic are found. The submodule structure of the restrictions of the fundamental modules for the group $Sp_{2n}(K)$ to the naturally embedded subgroup $Sp_{2n-2}(K)$ is determined. As a corollary, inductive systems of fundamental representations for

Liu Zhao, Xiang-Mao Ding

An elliptic two-parameter deformation of the (universal enveloping superalgebra of) affine Lie superalgebra $osp(1|2)^{(1)}$ is proposed in terms of free boson realization. This deformed superalgebra is shown to fit in the framework of infinite Hopf family of superalgebras, a generalization of the infinite Hopf family of algebras proposed earlier by the auth

V. Ya. Fainberg, B. M. Pimentel

Starting from Generating functional for Green Function (GF), constracted from Lagrangian action in Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau (DKP) theory (L-approach) we strictly prove that the physical matrix elements of S-matrix in DKP and Klein-Gordon-Fock (KGF) theories coincide in cases of interaction spin O particles with external and quantized Maxwell and Yang-Mills field

Wei-Min Sun, Xiang-Song Chen, Fan Wang

We find that sometimes the usual definition of functional integration over the gauge group through limiting process may have internal difficulties.

Debashis Ghoshal, Ashoke Sen

It has been conjectured that an extremum of the tachyon potential of a bosonic D-brane represents the vacuum without any D-brane, and that various tachyonic lump solutions represent D-branes of lower dimension. We show that the tree level effective action of p-adic string theory, the expression for which is known exactly, provides an explicit realisation of

M. Znojil, F. Cannata, B. Bagchi, R. Roychoudhury

A new model of supersymmetry between bosons and fermions is proposed. Its representation space is spanned by states with PT symmetry and real energies but the inter-related partner Hamiltonians themselves remain complex and non-Hermitian. The formalism admits vanishing Witten index.

Suresh Govindarajan, T. Jayaraman

We consider Landau-Ginzburg (LG) models with boundary conditions preserving A-type N=2 supersymmetry. We show the equivalence of a linear class of boundary conditions in the LG model to a particular class of boundary states in the corresponding CFT by an explicit computation of the open-string Witten index in the LG model. We extend the linear class of bound

T. M. Aliev, A. Ozpineci

We calculate the magnetic moments of decuplet baryons containing strange quarks within the framework of light cone QCD sum rules taking into account the SU(3) flavor symmetry breaking effects. It is obtained that magnetic moments of the neutral $\sso$ and $\xis0$ baryons are mainly determined by the SU(3) breaking terms. A comparison of our results on the ma

Daniel F. Litim, Cristina Manuel

Within classical transport theory, an approach is presented to derive systematically effective collision terms and noise sources for effective kinetic equations of non-Abelian plasmas. This procedure amounts to the `integrating-out&#39; of fluctuations, and is applicable for in- and out-of-equilibrium situations. When applied to a hot non-Abelian plasma clos

Jiri Chyla, Marek Tasevsky

We explore the relevance of extending the concept of the structure to the longitudinally polarized virtual photon involved in hard collisions. We show that for moderate photon virtualities and in the kinematical region accessible in current experiments at HERA and LEP, the contributions of its longitudinal polarization to hard collisions are sizable and shou

J. Bernabéu, M. C. Bañuls

The conditions to induce appreciable CP-and T-odd effects in neutrino oscillations are discussed. The propagation in matter leads to fake CP-and CPT-odd asymmetries, besides a Bohm-Aharonov type modification of the interference pattern. We study the separation of fake and genuine CP violation by means of energy and distance dependence.

C. J. A. P. Martins, E. P. S. Shellard

We provide a general overview of the velocity-dependent one-scale model for cosmic string evolution and discuss two further extensions to it. We introduce and justify a new ansatz for the momentum parameter $k$, and also incorporate the effect of radiation backreaction. We thus discuss the evolution of the basic large-scale features of cosmic string networks

B. A. Kniehl, G. Kramer, B. Pötter

We present a new determination of the strong coupling constant alpha_s through the scaling violations in the fragmentation functions for charged pions, charged kaons, and protons. In our fit we include the latest e+e- annihilation data from CERN LEP1 and SLAC SLC on the Z-boson resonance and older, yet very precise data from SLAC PEP at center-of-mass energy

E. N. Bukina, V. M. Dubovik, V. S. Zamiralov

It is shown that in the framework of GIM model,the parity-violating (PV) $Σ^{+}(uus) \Rightarrow p(uud) + γ$ decay amplitude does not vanish but just transforms into another PV decay amplitude, namely, of the $Ω^{+}_{cc}(ccs)\to Ξ^{+}_{cc}(ccd)+γ$ decay. The known result is used that the relevant part of the CP-invariant effective current$\times$ current Ham

M. Consoli

We present a simple semi-perturbative argument in favour of a peculiar infrared behaviour of the (singlet) Higgs propagator. On the basis of `triviality&#39; one expects a continuum limit with a two-point function $Γ_2(q) \to (q^2 + M^2_h)$. However, this is not valid in the limit $q \to 0$ where one actually finds a singular behaviour. This is in agreement

Han Liang, Ma Wen-Gan, Jiang Yi, Zhou Mian-Lai

In this paper we investigated the Drell-Yan process of the light neutralino pair $\tildeχ^0_{i}\tildeχ^0_{j}~(i,j=1,2)$ productions at hadron colliders. We studied the dependence of the coupling properties of two light neutralino $\tildeχ^0_{1,2}$ on the three SUSY Lagrangian parameters $M_1$, $M_2$ and $μ$, and find that the production rate of $\tildeχ^0_1

JIANG Yi, MA Wen-Gan, HAN Liang, YU Zeng-Hui

The production of a neutralino pair via gluon-gluon fusion is studied in the minimal supersymmetric model(MSSM) at proton-proton colliders. The numerical analysis of their production rates are carried out in the mSUGRA scenario. The results show that this cross section may reach about 80 femto barn for $\tildeχ^{0}_{1}\tildeχ^{0}_{2}$ pair production and 23

Elena Gubankova, Chueng-Ryong Ji, Stephen R. Cotanch

A systematic procedure to consistently formulate a field theoretical, QCD bound state problem with a fixed number of constituents is outlined. The approach entails applying the Hamiltonian flow equations, which are a set of continuous unitary transformations, to a QCD motivated Hamiltonian with a confining interaction. The method is developed in detail for g

E. Gubankova

The light-front QCD is studied using the method of flow equations. Solving the light-front gluon gap equation, the effective gluon mass is generated dynamically. The effective interaction between static quark and antiquark, generated through elimination of the quark-gluon minimal coupling by flow equations, has the Coulomb, $1/q^2$, and confining, $1/q^4$, s

E. -M. Ilgenfritz, M. Muller-Preussker, A. I. Veselov

For pure SU(2) lattice gauge theory at finite T, by the help of the cooling method, we search for classical (approximate) solutions having non-trivial holonomy at the spatial boundary. We identify various typical objects and provide their relative frequency of occurence for the confinement and deconfinement phases. Among the configurations obtained we see al

Yigal Shamir

In perturbation theory, the wave function of domain-wall quarks decreases exponentially with the fifth coordinate. We show that, regardless of the quark&#39;s own momentum, the fall-off rate of the one-loop wave function is equal to the slowest rate encountered at tree-level for any lattice four-momentum. We propose new domain-wall actions involving beyond-n

Kees de Jager

A review of data on the nucleon electromagnetic form factors in the space-like region is presented. Recent results from experiments using polarized beams and polarized targets or nucleon recoil polarimeters have yielded a significant improvement on the precision of the data obtained with the traditional Rosenbluth separation. Future plans for extended measur

The WA102 Collaboration, D. Barberis

The reaction pp -> pf (eta eta) ps has been studied at 450 GeV/c. For the first time a partial wave analysis of the centrally produced eta eta system has been performed. Signals for the f0(1500), f0(1710) and f2(2150) are observed and the decay branching fractions of these states are determined.

Igor Bulyzhenkov

Both the non-homogeneous slowness of electromagnetic waves in gravitational fields and the frequency red shift contribute to the gravitational light bending. This twofold contribution explains the measured deflection of light rays by the Sun under Euclidean geometry of space.

Massimo Giovannini

We present new solutions of the string cosmological effective action in the presence of a homogeneous Maxwell field with pure magnetic component. Exact solutions are derived in the case of space-independent dilaton and vanishing torsion background. In our examples the four dimensional metric is either of Bianchi-type III and VI$_{-1}$ or Kantowski-Sachs.

Robert Paternoga, Robert Graham

We investigate a triad representation of the Chern-Simons state of quantum gravity with a non-vanishing cosmological constant. It is shown that the Chern-Simons state, which is a well-known exact wavefunctional within the Ashtekar theory, can be transformed to the real triad representation by means of a suitably generalized Fourier transformation, yielding a

Yoshihiko Gotoh, Steve Renals

This paper discusses the development of trainable statistical models for extracting content from television and radio news broadcasts. In particular we concentrate on statistical finite state models for identifying proper names and other named entities in broadcast speech. Two models are presented: the first represents name class information as a word attrib

Freddy Y. Y. Choi

This paper describes a method for linear text segmentation which is twice as accurate and over seven times as fast as the state-of-the-art (Reynar, 1998). Inter-sentence similarity is replaced by rank in the local context. Boundary locations are discovered by divisive clustering.

G. Antoniou, D. Billington, G. Governatori, M. J. Maher

The importance of transformations and normal forms in logic programming, and generally in computer science, is well documented. This paper investigates transformations and normal forms in the context of Defeasible Logic, a simple but efficient formalism for nonmonotonic reasoning based on rules and priorities. The transformations described in this paper have

Jian-Ming Tang

In two dimensions a microscopic theory providing a basis for the naive analogy between a quantized vortex in a superfluid and an electron in a uniform magnetic field is presented. Following the variational approach developed by Peierls, Yoccoz, and Thouless, the cyclotron motion of a vortex is described by the many-body wave function, which is a linear combi

Yueh-Lin Loo, Richard A. Register, Anthony J. Ryan

Crystallization within the discrete spheres of a block copolymer mesophase was studied by time-resolved x-ray scattering. The cubic packing of microdomains, established by self-assembly in the melt, is preserved throughout crystallization by strong interblock segregation even though the amorphous matrix block is well above its glass transition temperature. H

G. Hechenblaikner, O. M. Marago&#39;, E. Hodby, J. Arlt

We report the observation of harmonic generation and strong nonlinear coupling of two collective modes of a condensed gas of rubidium atoms. Using a modified TOP trap we changed the trap anisotropy to a value where the frequency of the m=0 high-lying mode corresponds to twice the frequency of the m=0 low-lying mode, thus leading to strong nonlinear coupling

Leonid Burakovsky, Dean L. Preston

The melting of elemental solids is modelled as a dislocation-mediated transition on a lattice. Statistical mechanics of linear defects is used to obtain a new relation between melting temperature, crystal structure, atomic volume, and shear modulus that is accurate to 17% for at least half of the Periodic Table.

A. K. Rajagopal, Sumiyoshi Abe

Traditionally the exponential canonical distributions of Gibbsian statistical mechanics are given theoretical justification in at least four different ways: steepest descent method, counting method, Khinchin&#39;s method based on te central limit theorem, and maximum entropy principle of Jaynes. Equally ubiquitous power-law canonical distributions are shown

M. D. Martin, L. Vina, J. K. Son, E. E. Mendez

We have studied polariton spin dynamics in a GaAs/AlGaAs microcavity by means of polarization- and time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy as a function of excitation density and normal mode splitting. The experiments reveal a novel behavior of the degree of polarization of the emission, namely the existence of a finite delay to reach its maximum value.