October 2001 arXiv papers — page 4

Aaron J. Barth, Marc Sarzi, Luis C. Ho, Hans-Walter Rix

We describe techniques for measuring the central masses of galaxies using emission-line kinematics observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. For accurate results, it is necessary to model various instrumental effects, particularly the blurring due to the telescope PSF and the width of the spectroscopic aperture. Observations of nuclear gas disks often reveal

Luis C. Ho, Marc Sarzi, Hans-Walter Rix, Joseph C. Shields

Gas-dynamical studies using the Hubble Space Telescope are an integral component for future progress in the search for massive black holes in galactic nuclei. Here we present an extensive set of gas rotation curves obtained with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph for the central regions of 23 disk galaxies. We find that the bulges of randomly selected,

Philip J. Armitage

We use three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the structure of the boundary layer between an accretion disc and a non-rotating, unmagnetized star. Under the assumption that cooling is efficient, we obtain a narrow but highly variable transition region in which the radial velocity is only a small fraction of the sound speed. A large fracti

L. M. Close, D. Potter, W. Brandner, M. Lloyd-Hart

Use of the highly sensitive Hokupa'a curvature wavefront sensor has allowed for the first time direct adaptive optics (AO) guiding on brown dwarfs and VLM stars (SpT=M7-L2). An initial survey of 9 such objects discovered one 0.15" binary (2MASSJ 1426316+155701). The companion is about half as bright as the primary (Delta K = 0.61+/-0.05$, Delta H = 0

I. Burud, P. Magain, S. Sohy, J. Hjorth

We present a new method to estimate time delays from light curves of lensed quasars. The method is based on chi^2 minimization between the data and a numerical model light curve. A linear variation can be included in order to correct for slow long-term microlensing effects in one of the lensed images. An iterative version of the method can be applied in orde

J. E. Hibbard, J. H. van Gorkom, M. P. Rupen, D. Schiminovich

We have begun a compilation of HI maps of peculiar galaxies kindly contributed by individual investigators, many as part of the ``Gas & Galaxy Evolution'' conference. In this gallery we present images of the first 181 objects, which includes over 400 individually cataloged galaxies. The images consist of a greyscale representation of the optical morp

Zhongxiang Wang, Deepto Chakrabarty, Paul Roche, Philip A. Charles

We present multiband optical/infrared photometry of V4580 Sgr, the optical counterpart of the accretion-powered millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658, taken during the 1998 X-ray outburst of the system. The optical flux is consistent with emission from an X-ray-heated accretion disk. Self-consistent modeling of the X-ray and optical emission during the outburs

Dennis Zaritsky, Jason Harris, Ian B. Thompson, Eva K. Grebel

We present our catalog of U, B, V, and I stellar photometry of the central 18 sq. degree area of the Small Magellanic Cloud. We combine our data with the 2MASS and DENIS catalogs to provide, when available, U through K_S data for stars. Internal and external astrometric and photometric tests using existing optical photometry (U, B, and V from Massey's br

A. M. Aliaga, V. Quilis, J. V. Arnau, D. Saez

Non-linear evolution of cosmological energy density fluctuations triggers deviations from Gaussianity in the temperature distribution of the cosmic microwave background. A method to estimate these deviations is proposed. N-body simulations -- in a $Λ$CDM cosmology -- are used to simulate the strongly non-linear evolution of cosmological structures. It is pro

E. Pancino, M. Bellazzini, F. R. Ferraro

We present wide field multiband photometry of the very low surface brightness dwarf Spheroidal galaxy (dSph) Sextans. We have found convincing evidence for the presence of multiple stellar populations in this galaxy. In particular we discovered: (a) a Blue Horizontal Branch tail kinked over the instability strip; (b) a clearly bimodal distribution in color o

O. G. Benvenuto, A. M. Serenelli, L. G. Althaus, R. H. Barba

We present a method to calculate masses for components of both eclipsing and non-eclipsing binary systems as long as their apsidal motion rates are available. The method is based on the fact that the equation that gives the rate of apsidal motion is a supplementary equation that allows the computation of the masses of the components, if the radii and the int

T. Bosler, T. Smecker-Hane, A. McWilliam

How can we accurately determine the metallicity of faint red giant stars in nearby galaxies? The equivalent widths of the broad absorption lines from Ca II at 8498, 8542, and 8662 Angstrom (the calcium triplet) have shown a smooth relationship to metallicity, [Fe/H], in Galactic globular clusters, i.e., old, metal-poor stars. The exact relationship depends o

Greg L. Bryan, Taotao Fang

Recent FUSE and STIS observations of OVI absorption at low redshift along the sightline to distant quasars have been interpreted as the signature of a warm-hot diffuse component of the intergalactic medium (IGM). In these proceedings we show that the predicted numbers of such absorbers in numerical simulations agree with the observed characteristics, lending

C. M. Dutra, B. X. Santiago, E. L. D. Bica

We built K band extinction maps in the area of two candidate low-extinction windows in the inner Bulge: W0.2-2.1 at (l,b) = (0.25o,-2.15o), and W359.4-3.1 at (l,b) = (359.40o,-3.10o). We employed JHKs photometry from the 2MASS Point Source Catalog. Extinction values were determined by fitting the upper giant branch found in the present 2MASS Ks x J-Ks diagra

Natalie A. Webb, Bruce Gendre, Didier Barret

We have examined preliminary data of the globular cluster, M22, from the EPIC MOS detectors on board XMM-Newton. We have detected 27 X-ray sources within the centre of the field of view, 24 of which are new detections. Three sources were found within the core of the cluster. From spectral analysis of the X-ray sources, it is possible that the object at the c

Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Guenther Hasinger, Monique Arnaud, Piero Rosati

We report on the XMM-Newton (XMM) observation of RXJ1053.7+5735, one of the most distant (z = 1.26) X-ray selected clusters of galaxies, which also shows an unusual double-lobed X-ray morphology, indicative of possible cluster-cluster interaction. The cluster was discovered during our ROSAT deep pointings in the direction of the Lockman Hole. The XMM observa

C. L. Carilli, G. B. Taylor

Magnetic fields in galaxy clusters have been measured using a variety of techniques, including: studies of synchrotron relic and halo radio sources within clusters, studies of inverse Compton X-ray emission from clusters, surveys of Faraday rotation measures of polarized radio sources both within and behind clusters, and studies of Cluster Cold Fronts in X-r

N. L. Martin-Hernandez, E. Peeters, C. Morisset, A. G. G. M. Tielens

Based on the ISO spectral catalogue of compact HII regions by Peeters et al. (2001), we present a first analysis of the hydrogen recombination and atomic fine-structure lines originated in the ionized gas. The sample consists of 34 HII regions located at galactocentric distances between Rgal = 0 and 15 kpc. The SWS HI recombination lines between 2 and 8 mum

Gerard Gilmore

The GAIA Observatory, ESA's Cornerstone 6 mission, addresses the origin and evolution of our Galaxy, and a host of other scientific challenges. GAIA will provide unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion stars in our Galaxy and throughout the Lo

Markus Wittkowski

So far, high resolution techniques on the one hand provide morphological information on bright nearby objects. On the other hand, telescopes with large collecting areas allow us to detect very faint and distant objects, but not to obtain a spatial resolution which is sufficient for detailed morphological studies. Currently, the construction of large optical

M. Piat, G. Lagache, J. P. Bernard, M. Giard

This paper discusses the Cosmic Background (CB) dipoles observations in the framework of the Planck mission. Dipoles observations can be used in three ways: (i) It gives a measurement of the peculiar velocity of our Galaxy which is an important observation in large scale structures formation model. (ii) Measuring the dipole can give unprecedent information o

F. Mannucci, L. Pozzetti, D. Thompson, E. Oliva

We present J band observations of a complete sample of 57 red galaxies selected to have K<20 and R-K>5.3. We use the Pozzetti and Mannucci (2000) prescriptions, based on the R-K and J-K colours, to separate the two dominant populations, old ellipticals and dusty starbursts. We find that both populations are present in the current sample and have similar abun

Matthias Bartelmann, Simon D. M. White

Galaxy clusters can be detected as surface brightness enhancements in smoothed optical surveys. This method does not require individual galaxies to be identifiable, and enables clusters to be detected out to surprisingly high redshifts, as recently demonstrated by the Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey (LCDCS). Here, we investigate redshift limits for clust

D. A. Green

Observations of the Crab Nebula at 850 micron made with the &#34;Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array&#34; (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope are presented. A variety of chop-throws and scanning directions was used in these observations, to well sample structure over a range of scales and directions. The resulting image, which was restored usi

Michele Bellazzini, Francesco R. Ferraro, Elena Pancino

We have obtained an accurate estimate of the absolute I magnitude of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (M_I(TRGB)) for the globular cluster Omega Cen, based {\em (a)} on the largest photometric database ever assembled for a globular, by Pancino et al. (2000), and {\em (b)} on a direct distance estimate for \omen, recently obtained by Thompson et al.(2001) from

G. Rüdiger, M. Küker

An explanation is presented for the rather strong total surface differential rotation of the observed very young solar-type stars like AB Dor and PZ Tel. Due to its rapid rotation a nonuniform energy flux leaves the stellar core so that the outer convection zone is nonuniformly heated from below. Due to this `gravity darkening&#39; of the equator a meridiona

S. C. Ellis, L. R. Jones

The X-ray luminosities of the Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS) clusters of galaxies with redshifts 0.3<z<0.6 are remeasured using ROSAT PSPC data. It is found that the new luminosities are on average 1.18 +/- 0.08 times higher than previously measured but that this ratio depends strongly on the X-ray core radii we measure. For the clusters

R. D. Oudmaijer, J. Palacios, C. Eiroa, the EXPORT collaboration

This paper presents optical UBVRI broadband photo-polarimetry of the EXPORT sample obtained at the 2.5m Nordic Optical Telescope. The database consists of multi-epoch photo-polarimetry of 68 pre-main-sequence and main-sequence stars. An investigation of the polarization variability indicates that 22 objects are variable at the 3sigma level in our data. All t

Heon-Young Chang, Chang-Hwan Lee, Insu Yi

We investigate consequences of a continuously energy-injecting central engine of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow emission, assuming that a highly magnetized pulsar is left beaming in the core of a GRB progenitor. Beaming and continuous energy-injection are natural consequences of the pulsar origin of GRB afterglows. Whereas previous studies have considered c

Linpeng Cheng, Yongheng Zhao, Janyan Wei

In paper 1 (Cheng et al. 2001) we have shown that the soft X-ray spectra of two types of Seyfert 1 galaxies statistically vary differently with increasing intensity. In order to understand how the spectrum of blazars changes, the spectral shape variability of 18 blazars observed by ROSAT/PSPC mode are studied by presenting the correlation of Hardness Ratio 1

S. Tantisrisuk, R. Webster

The 2-point spatial correlation function (CF), $ξ(s)$, has been used to study the clustering of the galaxies in the preliminary version of the HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalogue (HIPASS BGC), which includes the 1,000 HI brightest galaxies in the Southern sky. This is the first time the CF has been used to analyse an HI-selected sample. The CF is well described b

R. Bowen, S. H. Hansen, A. Melchiorri, J. Silk

Recent estimates of cosmological parameters derived from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies are based on the assumption that we know the precise amount of energy density in relativistic particles in the universe, $ω_{rel}$, at all times. There are, however, many possible mechanisms that can undermine this assumption. In this paper we investigate

Martin D. Weinberg, Neal Katz

Simulations predict that the dark matter halos of galaxies should have central cusps, while those inferred from observed galaxies do not have cusps. We demonstrate, using both linear perturbation theory and n-body simulations, that a disk bar, which should be ubiquitous in forming galaxies, can produce cores in cuspy CDM dark matter profiles within five bar

I. S. Aranson, J. S. Olafsen

We study experimentally the particle velocity fluctuations in an electrostatically driven dilute granular gas. The experimentally obtained velocity distribution functions have strong deviations from Maxwellian form in a wide range of parameters. We have found that the tails of the distribution functions are consistent with a stretched exponential law with ty

M. X. LaBute, R. V. Kulkarni, R. G. Endres, D. L. Cox

We have examined cobalt based valence tautomer molecules such as Co(SQ)$_2$(phen) using density functional theory (DFT) and variational configuration interaction (VCI) approaches based upon a model Hamiltonian. Our DFT results extend earlier work by finding a reduced total energy gap (order 0.6 eV) between high temperature and low temperature states when we

Samir Salim, Andrew Gould, Rob Olling

Three planned astrometry survey satellites, FAME, DIVA, and GAIA, all aim at observing magnitude-limited samples. We argue that substantial additional scientific opportunities are within the reach of these mission if they devote a modest fraction of their catalogs to selected targets that are fainter than their magnitude limits. We show that the addition of

Jacqueline Chen, K. Y. Lo, Robert A. Gruendl, Miao-Ling Peng

We present new interferometric HI and CO (1-0) observations of the luminous infrared source, Arp 256. Arp 256 consists of two spiral galaxies in an early stage of merging, with a projected nuclear separation of 29 kpc (54&#34;) and an infrared luminosity of 2.0E11 L_sun. Despite the large separation of the galaxies&#39; nuclei and mildly disrupted stellar co

J. Greenhough, P. C. Birch, S. C. Chapman, G. Rowlands

We analyse the distributions of the number of goals scored by home teams, away teams, and the total scored in the match, in domestic football games from 169 countries between 1999 and 2001. The probability density functions (PDFs) of goals scored cannot be fitted over their entire ranges by Poisson or negative binomial distributions; here, we compare the PDF

L. R. Huiszoon, K. Schalm, A. N. Schellekens

We analyze unoriented Wess-Zumino-Witten models from a geometrical point of view. We show that the geometric interpretation of simple current crosscap states is as centre orientifold planes localized on conjugacy classes of the group manifold. We determine the locations and dimensions of these planes for arbitrary simply-connected groups and orbifolds thereo

J. -P. Blaizot, E. Iancu, A. Rebhan

We compute analytically the diagonal quark number susceptibilities for a quark-gluon plasma at finite temperature and zero chemical potential, and compare with recent lattice results. The calculation uses the approximately self-consistent resummation of hard thermal and dense loops that we have developed previously. For temperatures between 1.5 to 5 $T_c$, o

C. Q. Geng, C. W. Hwang, C. C. Liu

We study the rare decays of $B_c^+\to D_{q}^{(*)+}l\bar{l}$ ($q=d,s$ and $l=ν_l,e,μ,τ)$ in the standard model. The form factors are evaluated in the light front and constituent quark models, respectively. We find that the decay branching ratios calculated in the two models for $B_c^+\to D^+_q l\bar{l}$ agree well with each other, whereas those for $B_c^+\to

L3 Collaboration

The charged-particle multiplicity distribution is measured for all hadronic events as well as for light-quark and b-quark events produced in e+e- collisions at the Z pole. Moments of the charged-particle multiplicity distributions are calculated. The H moments of the multiplicity distributions are studied, and their quasi-oscillations as a function of the ra

Ulf H. Danielsson

In this paper we show that the entropy of de Sitter space with a black hole in arbitrary dimension can be understood using a modified Cardy-Verlinde entropy formula. We also comment on the observer dependence of the de Sitter entropy.

M. Botta Cantcheff

We thereby prove that a large class of topologically massive theories of the Cremmer-Scherk-Kalb-Ramond-type in any $d$ dimensions corresponds to gauge non-invariant first-order theories that can be interpreted as self-dual models.

M. Ciuchini, E. Franco, V. Lubicz, F. Mescia

Theoretical predictions of beauty hadron lifetimes, based on the heavy quark expansion up to and including order 1/mb^2, do not to reproduce the experimental measurements of the lifetime ratios tau(B+)/tau(Bd) and tau(Lambdab)/tau(Bd). Large corrections to these predictions come from phase-space enhanced 1/mb^3 contributions, i.e. hard spectator effects. In

M. Artuso, CLEO Collaboration

Using data recorded by the CLEO II and CLEO II.V detector configurations at CESR, we report new measurements of the masses of the Sigma_c^{++} and Sigma_c^0 charmed baryons, and the first measurements of their intrinsic widths. We find M(Sigma_c^{++}) - M(Lambda_c^+) = 167.4 +- 0.1 +- 0.2 MeV, Gamma(Sigma_c^{++}) = 2.3 +- 0.2 +- 0.3 MeV, and M(Sigma_c^0) - M

L. Jenkovszky, V. K. Magas, E. Predazzi

By using the concept of duality between direct channel resonances and Regge exchanges we relate the small- and large-$x$ behavior of the structure functions. We show that even a single resonance exhibits Bjorken scaling at large $Q^2$.

Samuli Hemming, Esko Keski-Vakkuri

We study the spectrum of bosonic string theory on rotating BTZ black holes, using a SL(2,R) WZW model. Previously, Natsuume and Satoh have analyzed strings on BTZ black holes using orbifold techniques. We show how an appropriate spectral flow in the WZW model can be used to generate the twisted sectors, emphasizing how the spectral flow works in the hyperbol

Adrian Patrascioiu, Erhard Seiler

We determine some points on the finite size scaling curve for the correlation length in the two dimensional O(3) and icosahedron spin models. The Monte Carlo data are consistent with the two models possessing the same continuum limit. The data also suggest that the continuum scaling curve lies above the estimate of Kim and of Caracciolo et al and thus leads

Enzo Branchini, Amiram Eldar, Adi Nusser

We present extensive tests of the Fast Action Method (FAM) for recovering the past orbits of mass tracers in an expanding universe from their redshift-space coordinates at the present epoch. The tests focus on the reconstruction of present-day peculiar velocities using mock catalogs extracted from high resolution $N$-body simulations. The method allows for a

V. P. Goncalves, C. A. Bertulani

At high energies a quark-gluon plasma is expected to be formed in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. The theoretical description of these processes is directly associated to a complete knowledge of the details of medium effects in the nuclear gluon distribution. In this paper we analyze the possibility to constraint the behavior of this distribution consi

Rodolfo Cuerno, Mario Castro

We propose a unified moving boundary problem for surface growth by electrochemical and chemical vapor deposition, which is derived from constitutive equations into which stochastic forces are incorporated. We compute the coefficients in the interface equation of motion as functions of phenomenological parameters. The equation features the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang

Roberto Emparan, Harvey S. Reall

The vacuum Einstein equations in five dimensions are shown to admit a solution describing an asymptotically flat spacetime regular on and outside an event horizon of topology S^1 x S^2. It describes a rotating ``black ring&#39;&#39;. This is the first example of an asymptotically flat vacuum solution with an event horizon of non-spherical topology. There is

Andreas Gustavsson

We show that the central charges that group theory allows in the (2,0) supersymmetry translations algebra arise from a string and a 3-brane by commuting two supercharges. We show that the net force between two such parallel strings vanishes. We show that all the coupling constants are fixed numbers, due to supersymmetry, and self-duality of the three-form fi

Roberto Emparan, Harvey S. Reall

It was shown by Weyl that the general static axisymmetric solution of the vacuum Einstein equations in four dimensions is given in terms of a single axisymmetric solution of the Laplace equation in three-dimensional flat space. Weyl&#39;s construction is generalized here to arbitrary dimension $D\ge 4$. The general solution of the D-dimensional vacuum Einste

K. Maki, P. Thalmeier, H. Won

The symmetry of superconductivity in borocarbides LuNi2B2C and YNi2B2C is an outstanding issue. Here an anisotropic s- wave order parameter (or s+g model) is proposed for these borocarbides. In spite of the dominant s- wave component the proposed superconducting order parameter has nodes and gives rise to the H^(1/2) dependent specific heat in the vortex sta

D. Noltingk

This paper is a continuation of earlier work where a classical history theory of pure electrodynamics was developed in which the the history fields have \emph{five} components. The extra component is associated with an extra constraint, thus enlarging the gauge group of histories electrodynamics. In this paper we quantise the classical theory developed previ

H. Babujian, M. Karowski

The purpose of the &#34;bootstrap program&#34; is to construct integrable quantum field theories in 1+1 dimensions in terms of their Wightman functions explicitly. As an input the integrability and general assumptions of local quantum field theories are used. The object is to be achieved in tree steps: 1) The S-matrix is obtained using a qualitative knowledg

Jnanadeva Maharana

The scenario that the Universe contracts towards a big crunch and then undergoes a transition to expanding Universe in envisaged in the quantum string cosmology approach. The Wheeler-De Witt equation is solved exactly for an exponential dilaton potential. S-duality invariant cosmological effective action, for type IIB theory, is considered to derive classica

Robert Oeckl

We construct a generalization of pure lattice gauge theory (LGT) where the role of the gauge group is played by a tensor category. The type of tensor category admissible (spherical, ribbon, symmetric) depends on the dimension of the underlying manifold (<=3, <=4, any). Ordinary LGT is recovered if the category is the (symmetric) category of representations o

Oscar Bolina

This paper has been withdrawn by the author.

Tom Theuns, Saleem Zaroubi, Tae-Sun Kim, Panayiotis Tzanavaris

The temperature of the low-density intergalactic medium is set by the balance between adiabatic cooling resulting from the expansion of the universe, and photo-heating by the UV-background. We have analysed the Lyman-alpha forest of eleven high-resolution quasar spectra using wavelets, and find strong evidence of a marked jump in the temperature at the mean

R. Casadio, B. Harms

We study the conditions for the existence of black holes that can be produced in colliders at TeV-scale if the space-time is higher dimensional. On employing the microcanonical picture, we find that their life-times strongly depend on the details of the model. If the extra dimensions are compact (ADD model), microcanonical deviations from thermality are in g

Jiro Murata

A polarized hadron collider experiment must have a great discovery potential for a search of physics beyond the standard model. Experimental data of various symmetry tests at RHIC are going to be obtained within a few years. The author developed a simulation tool, studying a sensitivity of hunting contact interaction at RHIC by measuring parity violating spi

H. Moya-Cessa, D. Jonathan, P. L. Knight

We show that, under certain combinations of the parameters governing the interaction of a harmonically trapped ion with a laser beam, it is possible to find one or more exact eigenstates of the Hamiltonian, with no approximations except the optical rotating-wave approximation. These are related via a unitary equivalence to exact eigenstates of the full Jayne

R. de la Madrid

It is shown that the natural framework for the solutions of any Schrodinger equation whose spectrum has a continuous part is the Rigged Hilbert Space rather than just the Hilbert space. The difficulties of using only the Hilbert space to handle unbounded Schrodinger Hamiltonians whose spectrum has a continuous part are disclosed. Those difficulties are overc

M. Ziman, P. Stelmachovic, V. Buzek, M. Hillery

We design a universal quantum homogenizer, which is a quantum machine that takes as an input a system qubit initially in the state $ρ$ and a set of N reservoir qubits initially prepared in the same state $ξ$. In the homogenizer the system qubit sequentially interacts with the reservoir qubits via the partial swap transformation. The homogenizer realizes, in

Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt, Thorsten Koehler

Advances in micro-technology of the last years have made it possible to carry optics textbooks experiments over to atomic and molecular beams, such as diffraction by a double slit or transmission grating. The usual wave-optical approach gives a good qualitative description of these experiments. However, small deviations therefrom and sophisticated quantum me

D. M. Snyder

A neurophysiological thesis is proposed for thermal sensitivity that accounts for the disorder in physical processes that is fundamental to temperature. There is likely some form of thermal equilibrium rapidly established between thermoreceptors and the external environment local to those thermoreceptors that accounts for gauging the temperature accurately w

D. M. Snyder

As a subject, an observer is fundamentally at rest in a reference frame, and this being at rest allows for measuring the motion of physical objects. Exploring the experience of centrifugal force brings to the fore the natural inclination to see oneself at rest in a reference frame. The discrepancy between the experience of centrifugal force and its lack of f

S. Kriso, R. Friedrich, J. Peinke, P. Wagner

Traffic flow data collected by an induction loop detector on the highway close to Koeln-Nord are investigated with respect to their dynamics including the stochastic content. In particular we present a new method, with which the flow dynamics can be extracted directly from the measured data. As a result a Langevin equation for the traffic flow is obtained. F

Xavier Calbet, Maria Carmen Romero, Juan Manuel Sancho, Pilar Ripodas

A possible relationship between sunspot number and total annual precipitation from the Izana Observatory has been found. The annual precipitation period ranges from 1916 to 1998, thus including nearly eight 11-year solar cycles. When points of total precipitation for a given year at Izana are plotted on the ordinate axis versus the yearly sunspot number on t

Zhen Ye, Dezhang Chu

This paper presents a comment on the recent work on fish counting in a tank (J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 2587-2597 (2001)). It is pointed out that there are ambiguities with the counting method.

Eduardo S. Fraga, Robert D. Pisarski, Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich

We discuss the equation of state for cold, dense quark matter in perturbation theory, and how it might match onto that of hadronic matter. Certain choices of the renormalization scale correspond to a strongly first order chiral transition, and may generate a new class of small and very dense quark stars. The results for the mass-radius relation are compatibl

Shi-yuan Li, Xin-Nian Wang

Hadron multiplicity in the central rapidity region of high-energy heavy-ion collisions is investigated within a two-component mini-jet model which consists of soft and semi-hard particle production. The hard contribution from mini-jets is reevaluated using the latest parameterization of parton distributions and nuclear shadowing. The energy dependence of the

Aurel Bulgac, Yongle Yu

We introduce a natural and simple to implement renormalization scheme of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) equations for the case of zero range pairing interaction. This renormalization scheme proves to be equivalent to a simple energy cut-off with a position or density dependent running coupling constant. Subsequently, we present self-consistent HFB calcula

A. S. Dmitriev, A. I. Panas, S. O. Starkov

We discuss the concept of Direct Chaotic Communication (DCC). The scheme is based on the following ideas: (1) the chaotic source generates chaotic oscillations directly in the specified microwave band; (2) information component is input by means of formation of the appropriate stream of chaotic radio pulses; (3) envelope detection is used. The principle of c

Leonid D. Lantsman

This series of lectures is planned as a generalization of author&#39;s large (more than fifteen years) experience of work in the theoretical physics. The modern theoretical physics is based on the group-theoretical approach which generates the formalism of the principal fibre bundles and the instanton approach. The latter is based on the Pontrjagin&#39;s deg

Olguta Buse

We study the symplectomorphism groups $G_λ=Symp_0(M,ω_λ)$ of an arbitrary closed manifold M equipped with a 1-parameter family of symplectic forms $ω_λ$ with variable cohomology class. We show that the existence of nontrivial elements in $π_*({\cal A},{\cal A}&#39;)$, where $({\cal A},{\cal A}&#39;)$ is a suitable pair of spaces of almost complex structures,

Adam Logan

We sharpen our previous results on the g and n such that the moduli space of curves of genus g with n marked points is of general type.

Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz, Pedro Real

We present here a combinatorial method for computing cup-$i$ products and Steenrod squares of a simplicial set $X$. This method is essentially based on the determination of explicit formulae for the component morphisms of a higher diagonal approximation (i.e., a family of morphisms measuring the lack of commutativity of the cup product on the cochain level)

S. Ole Warnaar

Transformation formulas for four-parameter refinements of the q-trinomial coefficients are proven. The iterative nature of these transformations allows for the easy derivation of several infinite series of q-trinomial identities, and can be applied to prove many instances of Bressoud&#39;s generalized Borwein conjecture.

Israel Gelfand, Vladimir Retakh, Robert Lee Wilson

This is the first of series of talks presented at a permanent Rutgers workshop on noncommutative algebra and geometry. We study here quadratic and quadratic-linear algebras defined by factorizations of noncommutative polynomials and differential polynomials. Such algebras posses a natural derivation and give us a new understanding of a nature of noncommutati

Chengang Zhou

We study the scalar quantum field theory on a generic noncommutative two-sphere as a special case of noncommutative curved space, which is described by the deformation quantization algebra obtained from symplectic reduction and parametrized by $H^2(S^2, \QR)$. The fuzzy sphere is included as a special case parametrized by the integer two-cohomology class $H^

Manuel Asorey, Fernando Falceto, German Sierra

We study the relationship between the holomorphic unitary connection of Chern-Simons theory with temporal Wilson lines and the Richardson&#39;s exact solution of the reduced BCS Hamiltonian. We derive the integrals of motion of the BCS model, their eigenvalues and eigenvectors as a limiting case of the Chern-Simons theory.

Antoine Van Proeyen

Special geometry is most known from 4-dimensional N=2 supergravity, though it contains also quaternionic and real geometries. In this review, we first repeat the connections between the various special geometries. Then the constructions are given starting from the superconformal approach. Without going in detail, we give the main underlying principles. We de

H. J de Vega, A. L. Larsen, N. Sanchez

Non-singular two and three dimensional string cosmologies are constructed using the exact conformal field theories corresponding to SO(2,1)/SO(1,1) and SO(2,2)/SO(2,1). {\it All} semi-classical curvature singularities are canceled in the exact theories for both of these cosets, but some new quantum curvature singularities emerge. However, considering differe

N. A. Gromov, I. V. Kostyakov, V. V. Kuratov

We define a class of orthosymplectic superalgebras $osp(m;j|2n;ω)$ which may be obtained from $osp(m|2n)$ by contractions and analytic continuations in a similar way as the orthogonal and the symplectic Cayley-Klein algebras are obtained from the corresponding classical ones. Contractions of $osp(1|2)$ and $osp(3|2)$ are regarded as an examples.

ST Tsou

In these lectures I shall explain how a new-found nonabelian duality can be used to solve some outstanding questions in particle physics. The first lecture introduces the concept of electromagnetic duality and goes on to present its nonabelian generalization in terms of loop space variables. The second lecture discusses certain puzzles that remain with the S

Bang-Rong Zhou

The Schwinger-Dyson equation of fermion self-energy in the linearization approximation is solved exactly in a theory with gauge and effective four-fermion interactions. Different expressions for the indepedent solutions which respectively submit to irregular and regular ultraviolet boundary condition are derived and expounded.

Sergiu I. Vacaru, Denis Gontsa

We study anisotropic reheating (entropy production) on 3D brane from a decaying bulk scalar field in the brane-world picture of the Universe by considering off-diagonal metrics and anholonomic frames. We show that a significant amount of, in general, anisotropic dark radiation is produced in this process unless only the modes which satisfy a specific relatio

Bohdan Grzadkowski, Jose Wudka

In this talk we consider the modifications induced by heavy physics on the triviality and vacuum stability bounds on the Higgs-boson mass. We parameterize the heavy interactions using an effective Lagrangian and find that the triviality bound is essentially unaffected for weakly-coupled heavy physics. In contrast there are significant modifications in the st

Bohdan Grzadkowski, Jose Wudka

In this talk we consider the modifications induced by heavy physics on the triviality and vacuum stability bounds on the Higgs-boson mass. We parameterize the heavy interactions using an effective Lagrangian and find that the triviality bound is essentially unaffected for weakly-coupled heavy physics. In contrast there are significant modifications in the st

Keith A. Olive, Maxim Pospelov

Bekenstein&#39;s model of a scalar field, ϕ, that affects the electromagnetic permeability (usually identified with ``changing α&#39;&#39;) predicts tiny variations of the effective fine structure constant up to very high red-shifts, |α(z=3.5)/α_0-1| < 10^{-10}, when the constraints from Eötvös-Dicke-Braginsky types of experiments are imposed. We generalize

Michael Martin Nieto, John D. Anderson, Philip A. Laing, Eunice L. Lau

Because of their unique designs, the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft have provided the cleanest Doppler, deep-space navigation data. Analysis of this data can be interpreted as showing an anomalous acceleration of these craft directed towards the Sun of $a_P \sim 8 \times 10^{-8} {\rm cm/s}^2$. The background of this discovery and the significance of the result

A. Le Yaouanc, L. Oliver, O. Pene, J. -C. Raynal

We underline a problem existing in the heavy quark limit of QCD concerning the rates of semileptonic B decays into P-wave $D_J(j)$ mesons, where $j = {1 \over 2}$ (wide states) or $j = {3 \over 2}$ (narrow states). The leading order sum rules of Bjorken and Uraltsev suggest $Γ[ \bar{B} \to D_{0,1} ({1 \over 2}) \ell ν] \ll Γ[ \bar{B} \to D_{1,2} ({3 \over 2}

D. Bardin, S. Jadach, T. Riemann, Z. Was

We study predictions for the reaction $e^+e^- \to {\bar ν} ν(n γ)$. The complete one-loop corrections are taken into account and higher order contributions, in particular those for the observed real photons, are added whenever necessary. The event generator \KK MC, a general-purpose Monte Carlo generator for the process $e^+e^- \to \bar f f nγ$ based on the

S. Mattiello, M. Beyer, T. Frederico, H. J. Weber

We present a relativistic three-body equation to investigate three-quark clusters in hot and dense quark matter. To derive such an equation we use the Dyson equation approach. The equation systematically includes the Pauli blocking factors as well as the self energy corrections of quarks. Special relativity is realized through the light front form. Presently

G. Ridolfi

The capabilities of a neutrino factory in the determination of polarized parton distributions from charged-current deep-inelastic scattering experiments is discussed. We present a study of the accuracy in the determination of polarized parton distributions that would be possible with such a facility. We show that these measurements have the potential to dist

Stefan Antusch, Manuel Drees, Joern Kersten, Manfred Lindner

In a recent re-analysis of the Standard Model (SM) beta-function for the effective neutrino mass operator, we found that the previous results were not entirely correct. Therefore, we consider the analogous dimension five operators in a class of Two Higgs Doublet Models (2HDM&#39;s) and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). Deriving the renormaliz