arXiv papers from June 2005

B. Sato, D. A. Fischer, G. W. Henry, G. Laughlin

Doppler measurements from Subaru and Keck have revealed radial velocity variations in the V=8.15, G0IV star HD 149026 consistent with a Saturn-Mass planet in a 2.8766 day orbit. Photometric observations at Fairborn Observatory have detected three complete transit events with depths of 0.003 mag at the predicted times of conjunction. HD 149026 is now the seco

Frank Daniel Steffen

The axino and the gravitino are extremely weakly interacting candidates for the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). We demonstrate that either of them could provide the right amount of cold dark matter. Assuming that a charged slepton is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP), we discuss how NLSP decays into the axino/gravitino LSP can provi

Bassem Ben Hamed, Lubomir Gavrilov

We classify all functions satisfying non-trivial families of PVI equations. It turns out that, up to an Okamoto equivalence, there are exactly four families parameterized by affine planes or lines. Each affine space is generated by points of "geometric origin", associated either to deformations of elliptic surfaces with four singular fibers, or to deformatio

Sergei M. Kopeikin

Experimental discovery of the gravitomagnetic fields generated by translational and/or rotational currents of matter is one of primary goals of modern gravitational physics. The rotational (intrinsic) gravitomagnetic field of the Earth is currently measured by the Gravity Probe B. The present paper makes use of a parametrized post-Newtonian (PN) expansion of

Sven Aerts

A property of a system is called actual, if the observation of the test that pertains to that property, yields an affirmation with certainty. We formalize the act of observation by assuming that the outcome correlates with the state of the observed system and is codified as an actual property of the state of the observer at the end of the measurement interac

David Makovoz, Francine R. Marleau

MOPEX (MOsaicking and Point source EXtraction) is a package developed at the Spitzer Science Center for astronomical image processing. We report on the point source extraction capabilities of MOPEX. Point source extraction is implemented as a two step process: point source detection and profile fitting. Non-linear matched filtering of input images can be per

Luciano da Fontoura Costa, Fernando Rocha, Silene Araujo de Lima

Several systems involve spatial arrangements of elements such as molecules or cells, the characterization of which bears important implications to biological and physical investigations. Traditional approaches to quantify spatial order and regularity have relied on nearest neighbor distances or the number of sides of cells. The current work shows that superi

L. S. Matthews, K. Qiao, T. W. Hyde

A self-consistent three-dimensional model for a complex (dusty) plasma is used to study the effects of multiple-sized dust grains in a dust crystal. In addition to the interparticle forces, which interact through a Yukawa potential, the model includes the effects of gravity, the variation of the sheath potential above the powered electrode, and a radial conf

Emmanuel Kowalski, Olivier Robert, Jie Wu

We discuss questions related to the non-existence of gaps in the series defining modular forms and other arithmetic functions of various types, and improve results of Serre, Balog and Ono, and Alkan, using new results about exponential sums and the distribution of $B$-free numbers.

F. J. Robinson, P. Demarque, D. B. Guenther, Y. -C. Kim

Compared to the Sun, the atmospheric structure and convective flow in Procyon A exhibit the following characteristics: (1) the highly superadiabatic transition layer (SAL) is located at much shallower optical depth; it is in a dynamically active region, and its outer region is located part of the time in the optically thin atmosphere; (2) the outer region of

Anatoly Konechny, Andrei Parnachev, David A. Sahakyan

We study the $\NN=2$ string theory or the $\NN=4$ topological string on the deformed CHS background. That is, we consider the $\NN=2$ minimal model coupled to the $\NN=2$ Liouville theory. This model describes holographically the topological sector of Little String Theory. We use degenerate vectors of the respective $\NN=2$ Verma modules to find the set of B

BaBar Collaboration

We present preliminary results from a lepton-tagged fully-inclusive measurement of $B \to X_{s}\gamma$ decays, where $X_{s}$ is any strange hadronic state. Results are based on a BaBar data set of 88.5 million $B\bar{B}$ pairs at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance. We present a reconstructed photon energy spectrum in the $\Upsilon(4S)$ frame, and partial branching

A. Birkedal, R. C. Group, K. Matchev

We first discuss the motivation for measuring slepton masses at the LHC, emphasizing their importance for cosmology. Next we investigate the possibility of making slepton mass determinations at the LHC in neutralino decays. We demonstrate that by studying the shape of the dilepton invariant mass distribution in the decay neutralino_2 -> neutralino_1 + l^+ +

David A. Lowe

It has been proposed that a quantum group structure underlies de Sitter/Conformal field theory duality. These ideas are used to give a microscopic operator counting interpretation for the entropy of two-dimensional dilaton de Sitter space. This agrees with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy up to a factor of order unity.

Sean N. Raymond, Thomas Quinn, Jonathan I. Lunine

The ``minimum-mass solar nebula'' (MMSN) model estimates the surface density distribution of the protoplanetary disk by assuming the planets to have formed in situ. However, significant radial migration of the giant planets likely occurred in the Solar system, implying a distortion in the values derived by the MMSN method. The true density profiles of protop

Zuzana Srostlik, Joanna M. Rankin

The paper provides a new analysis of this famous five-component ({\bf M}) pulsar. In addition to the star's core-active ``abnormal'' mode, we find two distinct behaviors within its ``normal'' mode, a ``quiet-normal'' mode with regular 2.8-period subpulse modulation and little or no core activity, and a ``flare-normal'' mode, where the core is regularly brigh

Vincenzo Cirigliano, Benjamin Grinstein, Gino Isidori, Mark B. Wise

We extend the notion of Minimal Flavor Violation to the lepton sector. We introduce a symmetry principle which allows us to express lepton flavor violation in the charged lepton sector in terms of neutrino masses and mixing angles. We explore the dependence of the rates for flavor changing radiative charged lepton decays (ell(i) -> ell(j) + gamma) and mu-to-

P. Ocvirk, C. Pichon, A. Lancon, E. Thiebaut

We introduce STECKMAP (STEllar Content and Kinematics via Maximum A Posteriori), a method to recover the kinematical properties of a galaxy simultaneously with its stellar content from integrated light spectra. It is an extension of STECMAP (astro-ph/0505209) to the general case where the velocity distribution of the underlying stars is also unknown. %and ca

P. Coleman, J. B. Marston, A. J. Schofield

We discuss the transport anomalies associated with the development of heavy electrons out of a neutral spin fluid using the large-N treatment of the Kondo-Heisenberg lattice model. At the phase transition in this model the spin excitations suddenly acquire charge. The Higgs process by which this takes place causes the constraint gauge field to loosely ``lock

V. Tripathi, P. Chandra, P. Coleman

We argue that key characteristics of the enigmatic transition at $T_0= 17.5K $ in $URu_2Si_2$ indicate that the hidden order is a density wave formed within a band of composite quasiparticles, whose detailed structure is determined by local physics. We expand on our proposal (with J.A. Mydosh) of the hidden order as incommnesurate orbital antiferromagnetism

J. Rech, P. Coleman, G. Zarand, O. Parcollet

We apply the Schwinger boson scheme to the fully screened Kondo model and generalize the method to include antiferromagnetic interactions between ions. Our approach captures the Kondo crossover from local moment behavior to a Fermi liquid with a non-trivial Wilson ratio. When applied to the two impurity model, the mean-field theory describes the "Varma Jones

D. Espada, A. Bosma, L. Verdes-Montenegro, E. Athanassoula

We present a HI synthesis imaging study of NGC 864 (CIG 96), a spiral galaxy well isolated from similarly sized companions, yet presenting an intriguing asymmetry in its integral HI spectrum. The asymmetry in the HI profile is associated with a strong kinematical perturbation in the gaseous envelope of the galaxy, where at one side the decay of the rotation

A. B. Clark, A. Karch

We propose and study a supersymmetric version of the Janus domain wall solution of type IIB supergravity. Janus is dual to N=4 super Yang Mills theory with a coupling constant that jumps across an interface. While the interface in the Janus field theory completely breaks all supersymmetries, it was found earlier that some supersymmetry can be restored in the

S. P. de Alwis

We examine the procedure for integrating out heavy fields in supersymmetric (both global and local) theories. We find that the usual conditions need to be modified in general and we discuss the restrictions under which they are valid. These issues are relevant for recent work in string compactification with fluxes.

S. P. de Alwis

We examine recent work on compactifications of string theory with fluxes, where effective potentials for light moduli have been derived after integrating out moduli that are assumed to be heavy at the classical level, and then adding non-perturbative (NP) corrections to the superpotential. We find that this two stage procedure is not valid and that the corre

Gustavo Burdman, Bogdan A. Dobrescu, Eduardo Ponton

We construct gauge theories in two extra dimensions compactified on the chiral square, which is a simple compactification that leads to chiral fermions in four dimensions. Stationarity of the action on the boundary specifies the boundary conditions for gauge fields. Any six-dimensional gauge field decomposed in Kaluza-Klein modes includes a tower of heavy sp

Karin Baur, Jeffrey M. Rabin, David A. Meyer

We study a one-dimensional lattice gas "dynamical geometry model" in which local reversible interactions of counter-rotating groups of particles on a ring can create or destroy lattice sites. We exhibit many periodic orbits and and show that all other solutions have asymptotically growing lattice length in both directions of time. We explain why the length g

Yves Elskens, Michael K. -H. Kiessling, Valeria Ricci

In two recent publications [Commun. PDE, vol.22, p.307--335 (1997), Commun. Math. Phys., vol.203, p.1--19 (1999)], A. Komech, M. Kunze and H. Spohn studied the joint dynamics of a classical point particle and a wave type generalization of the Newtonian gravity potential, coupled in a regularized way. In the present paper the many-body dynamics of this model

Hector Blandin, Rafael Diaz

Replacing the usual notion of quotient sets by the notion of orbiquotient sets we obtain a generalization of P\'olya theory. The key ingredient of our extended theory is the definition of the orbicycle index polynomial which we compute in several examples. We apply our theory to the study of orbicycles on orbiquotient sets. Keywords: Orbifolds, P\'olya Theor

Hassan Firouzjahi, S. -H. Henry Tye

This paper has been withdrawn. The interpretation of tension spectrum of cosmic superstrings in terms of KK momentum is invalid as presented in section 2. A new paper based on calculations of the KK spectrum presented here will be submitted.

Tobias Herman, James Day, John Beamish

Aerogels are very compliant materials - even small stresses can lead to large deformations. In this paper we present measurements of the linear deformation of high porosity aerogels during adsorption of low surface tension fluids, performed using a Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT). We show that the degree of deformation of the aerogel during c

O. Linnyk, S. Leupold, U. Mosel

We predict the triple differential cross section of the unpolarized Drell-Yan process at sqrt(S)=6 GeV. The model incorporates primordial parton transverse momentum and quark off-shellness effects caused by the initial state interaction.

Marc Sauvage, Richard J. Tuffs, Cristina C. Popescu

Following on from IRAS, ISO has provided a huge advancement in our knowledge of the phenomenology of the infrared (IR) emission of normal galaxies and the underlying physical processes. Highlights include: the discovery of an extended cold dust emission component, present in all types of gas-rich galaxies and carrying the bulk of the dust luminosity; the def

Dominik Janzing

What is the simplest Hamiltonian which can implement quantum computation without requiring any control operations during the computation process? In a previous paper we have constructed a 10-local finite-range interaction among qubits on a 2D lattice having this property. Here we show that pair-interactions among qutrits on a 2D lattice are sufficient, too,

Darren Funk-Neubauer

Let V denote a finite dimensional vector space over an algebraically closed field. Let U_0, U_1,..., U_d denote a sequence of nonzero subspaces whose direct sum is V. Let R:V \to V and L:V \to V denote linear maps with the following properties: for 0 \leq i \leq d, R U_i \subseteq U_{i+1} and L U_i \subseteq U_{i-1} where U_{-1}=0, U_{d+1}=0; for 0 \leq i \l

M. Ammler, V. Joergens, R. Neuhaeuser

We show how the assumption of coeval formation can be used to constrain the effective temperatures of the components of young eclipsing double-lined spectroscopic binaries. Our method extends the approach of White et al. (1999) to a two-step analysis. The first step compares evolutionary models to the observed masses and radii and selects those models that p

M. N. Barreto, D. Bazeia, R. Menezes

We investigate models described by real scalar fields, searching for defect structures in the presence of interactions which explicitly violate Lorentz and CPT symmetries. We first deal with a single field, and we investigate a class of models which supports traveling waves that violate Lorentz invariance. This scenario is then generalized to the case of two

Jun Cui, Jill Bechtold, Jian Ge, David M. Meyer

We used HST/STIS to obtain the spectrum of molecular hydrogen associated with the damped Ly$\alpha$ system at $z_{\rm abs}=1.7765$ toward the quasar Q1331+170 at $z_{\rm em}=2.084$. Strong ${\rm H}_2$ absorption was detected, with a total ${\rm H}_2$ column density of $N({\rm H}_2)=(4.45\pm 0.36)\times 10^{19} {\rm cm^{-2}}$.The molecular hydrogen fraction i

Dan Solomon

Diracs hole theory (HT) and quantum field theory (QFT) are generally considered to be equivalent to each other. However, it has been recently shown by several researchers that this is not necessarily the case. When the change in the vacuum energy was calculated for a time independent perturbation HT and QFT yielded different results. In this paper we extend

BaBar Collaboration, B. Aubert

We present an updated measurement of time-dependent \CP asymmetries and the \CP-odd fraction in the decay $B^0 \to D^{*+}D^{*-}$ using $232 \times 10^{6} \BB$ pairs collected by the \babar detector at the PEP-II $B$ factory. We determine the \CP-odd fraction to be $0.125 \pm 0.044\stat \pm 0.007\syst$. The time-dependent \CP asymmetry parameters $C_+$ and $S

Anthony J. Kuhlman, Ulrich W. Heinz

We present a full Monte Carlo simulation of the multiplicity and eccentricity distributions in U+U collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 A GeV. While unavoidable trigger inefficiencies in selecting full-overlap U+U collisions cause significant modifications of the multiplicity distribution shown in PRL94, 132301 (2005), a selection of source eccentricities by cutting

D. Wang, E. E. Eyler, P. L. Gould, W. C. Stwalley

We report on the state-selective detection of near-dissociation ultracold KRb molecules in the ground $X^1\Sigma^+$ state and the metastable $a^3\Sigma^+$ state. The molecules are produced by photoassociation of ultracold atoms followed by radiative decay into high vibrational levels of the $X$ and $a$ states. Detection utilizes resonance-enhanced one-color

Jakob Jonsson, Tomas Dahlen, Ariel Goobar, Christofer Gunnarsson

Gravitational lensing of high-redshift supernovae is potentially an important source of uncertainty when deriving cosmological parameters from the measured brightness of Type Ia supernovae, especially in deep surveys with scarce statistics. Photometric and spectroscopic measurements of foreground galaxies along the lines-of-sight of 33 supernovae discovered

Gianluca Geloni, Evgeni Saldin, Evgeni Schneidmiller, Mikhail Yurkov

This paper describes a theory of transverse coherence properties of Undulator Radiation. Our study is of very practical relevance, because it yields specific predictions of Undulator Radiation cross-spectral density in various parts of the beamline. On the contrary, usual estimations of coherence properties assume that the undulator source is quasi-homogeneo

David Terhune

An arbitrary-depth reduction theorem for the `convolution' multiple L-values of Euler-Zagier type is proven by an analytic method. To this end, generalized polylogarithms associated to Dirichlet characters are defined. The proof uses the monodromies of these functions and the parities of generating functions of generalized Bernoulli numbers. Some general for

Christofer Gunnarsson, Tomas Dahlen, Ariel Goobar, Jakob Jonsson

We investigate the possibility of correcting for the magnification due to gravitational lensing of standard candle sources, such as Type Ia supernovae. Our method uses the observed properties of the foreground galaxies along the lines-of-sight to each source and the accuracy of the lensing correction depends on the quality and depth of these observations as

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We study initial-state radiation events, $e^+e^- \to \gamma_{ISR}\pi^+\pi^-J/\psi$, with data collected with the BaBar detector. We observe an accumulation of events near 4.26 GeV/$c^2$ in the invariant-mass spectrum of $\pi^+\pi^-J/\psi$. Fits of the mass spectrum indicate that a broad resonance with a mass of about 4.26 GeV/$c^2$ is required to describe th

Sherry Towers

The author has recently examined the departmental web pages of the `top 50' physics research universities, as ranked by the National Research Council (NRC). Most of the departmental web pages contained biographical data (ie; year and institute of PhD, etc) of their faculty members. Of the approximately 1750 faculty members at the `top 50' universities that w

Allan Adams, Jacques Distler, Morten Ernebjerg

We prove the existence of topological rings in (0,2) theories containing non-anomalous left-moving U(1) currents by which they may be twisted. While the twisted models are not topological, their ground operators form a ring under non-singular OPE which reduces to the (a,c) or (c,c) ring at (2,2) points and to a classical sheaf cohomology ring at large radius

B. Wiendlocha, J. Tobola, S. Kaprzyk, D. Fruchart

We present results of electronic structure calculations for intermetallic perovskite Sc3InB with Full--Potential KKR-LDA method. Sc3InB is very promising candidate for a new superconductor (related to 8K MgCNi3) and can be regarded as a boron-inserted cubic Sc3In, which is a high--pressure allotropic form of the hexagonal weak ferromagnet Sc3In. We predict t

V. V. Smith, K. Cunha, I. I. Ivans, J. C. Lattanzio

We present fluorine abundances in seven red-giant members of the globular cluster M4 (NGC 6121). These abundances were derived from the HF (1--0) R9 line at 2.3357 microns in high-resolution infrared spectra obtained with the Phoenix spectrograph on Gemini-South. Many abundances in the target stars have been studied previously, so that their overall abundanc

E. Jimenez-Bailon, M. Santos-Lleo, M. Dahlem, M. Ehle

Earlier observations of NGC 1808 in various wavebands (X-ray, optical, near-infrared, radio) provided evidence for the existence of either a starburst or a Seyfert 2 nucleus. We here present the results of multiwavelength XMM-Newton and Chandra observations, which directly prove the co-existence of thermal diffuse plasma and non-nuclear unresolved point-like

G. Peter Lepage

"Preprint" of paper from 1989 that wasn't arxiv'ed at the time. Abstract: Our understanding of quantum field theories, and, in particular, of renomalization has changed radically in recent years; renormalization is no longer a deeply mysterious procedure for hiding embarrassing infinities. This talk is a non-technical presentation of modern attitudes towards

The Pioneer Explorer Collaboration, H. Dittus, S. G. Turyshev, C. Lämmerzahl

The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft yielded the most precise navigation in deep space to date. These spacecraft had exceptional acceleration sensitivity. However, analysis of their radio-metric tracking data has consistently indicated that at heliocentric distances of $\sim 20-70$ astronomical units, the orbit determinations indicated the presence of a small, a

G. Trinchieri, J. Sulentic, W. Pietsch, D. Breitschwerdt

The prototype compact group known as Stephan's Quintet (SQ) was observed with XMM-Newton in order to complement the excellent resolution of Chandra with high sensitivity to extended emission. SQ is a dynamic environment whose main effect, at both X-ray and optical wavelengths, appears to be ISM stripping. This is manifested by: 1) secular evolution of morpho

Nikolai Kiesel, Christian Schmid, Ulrich Weber, Rupert Ursin

Linear optics quantum logic gates are the best tool to generate multi-photon entanglement. Simplifying a recent approach [Phys. Rev. A 65, 062324; Phys. Rev. A 66, 024308] we were able to implement the conditional phase gate with only one second order interference at a polarization dependent beam splitter, thereby significantly increasing its stability. The

Allan P. Donsig, David R. Pitts

For a Banach D-bimodule M over an abelian unital C*-algebra D, we define E(M) as the collection of norm-one eigenvectors for the dual action of D on the Banach space dual of M. Equip E(M) with the weak-* topology. We develop general properties of E(M). It is properly viewed as a coordinate system for M when M is a subset of C, where C is a unital C*-algebra

Oleg Y. Gnedin, Andrew Gould, Jordi Miralda-Escude, Andrew R. Zentner

Precise proper motion measurements (sigma_mu ~ 10 mkas/yr) of the recently discovered hyper-velocity star (HVS) SDSS J090745.0+024507 would yield significant constraints on the axis ratios and orientation of a triaxial model for the Galactic halo. Triaxiality of dark matter halos is predicted by Cold Dark Matter models of galaxy formation and may be used to

Jozsef Balogh, Robin Pemantle

An infinite sequence of 0's and 1's evolves by flipping each~1 to a~0 exponentially at rate one. When a~1 flips, all bits to its right also flip. Starting from any configuration with finitely many 1's to the left of the origin, we show that the leftmost~1 moves right with linear speed. Upper and lower bounds are given on the speed.

M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

The exchange and correlation $E_{xc}$ of strongly correlated electrons in 2D layers of finite width are studied as a function of the density parameter $r_s$, spin-polarization $\zeta$ and the temperature $T$. We explicitly treat strong-correlation effects via pair-distribution functions, and introduce an equivalent constant-density approximation (CDA) applic

A. P. Martynenko

In the framework based on the quasipotential method and relativistic quark model a new covariant expression for the heavy quark fragmentation amplitude to fragment into the pseudoscalar and vector S-wave heavy mesons is obtained. It contains all possible relativistic corrections including the terms connected with the transformation law of the bound state wav

D. Mohapatra

We report the observation of the flavor-changing neutral current process b --> d gamma using a sample of 386*10^6 B meson pairs accumulated by the Belle detector at the KEKB e+ e- collider. We measure branching fractions for the exclusive modes B- --> rho- gamma, B0bar --> rho0 gammaand B0bar --> omega gamma. Assuming that these three modes are related by is

Simon Trebst, Ulrich Schollwoeck, Matthias Troyer, Peter Zoller

We study controlled generation and measurement of superfluid d-wave resonating valence bond (RVB) states of fermionic atoms in 2D optical lattices. Starting from loading spatial and spin patterns of atoms in optical superlattices as pure quantum states from a Fermi gas, we adiabatically transform this state to an RVB state by change of the lattice parameters

V. M. Apalkov, Tapash Chakraborty, C. Schuller

We report on our investigation of the low-lying energy spectra and charge density of a two-dimensional quantum Hall liquid at $\nu=\frac25$ that is Coulomb coupled to a quantum dot. The dot contains a hole and two/three electrons. We found that any external perturbation (caused by the close proximity of the quantum dot) locally changes the spin polarization

K. Abe

We report measurements of B meson decays to two kaons using 250/fb of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy e+ e- collider. We find evidence of signals in B+ -> K0(bar) K+ and B0 -> K0 K0(bar) with significances of 3.0 sigma and 3.5 sigma, respectively. The corresponding branching fractions are measured to be BF(B+ -> K0(bar) K

Ding-fang Zeng

We derive the metric of an expanding universe with zero accelerations by pure kinematic method. By doing so we expatiate physics related with co-moving coordinate system in details. The most important discovery or our study is, in an expanding universe with zero accelerations, the red-shift of photons from distance galaxies is determined by the co-moving coo

Jinpeng An, Zhengdong Wang

In this paper we prove some properties of the nonabelian cohomology $H^1(A,G)$ of a group $A$ with coefficients in a connected Lie group $G$. When $A$ is finite, we show that for every $A$-submodule $K$ of $G$ which is a maximal compact subgroup of $G$, the canonical map $H^1(A,K)\to H^1(A,G)$ is bijective. In this case we also show that $H^1(A,G)$ is always

G. Pancheri, O. Shekhovtsova, G. Venanzoni

In this paper we consider the possibility to test the FSR model in the reaction $e^+e^-\to\pi^+\pi^-\gamma$ at DA$\Phi$NE. We propose to consider the low $Q^2$ region ($Q^2$ is the invariant mass squared of the di-pion system) to study the different models describing $gamma^*\to\pi^+\pi^-\gamma$ interaction. As illustration we compare the scalar QED and Reso

R. Cianci, S. Vignolo, D. Bruno

In the gauge natural bundle framework a new space is introduced and a first-order purely frame-formulation of General Relativity is obtained.

Ch. Hartnack, H. Oeschler, Joerg Aichelin

The stiffness of the hadronic equation of state has been extracted from the production rate of $K^+$ mesons in heavy ion collisions around 1 $A$ GeV incident energy. The data are best described with a compressibility coefficient $\kappa$ around 200 MeV, a value which is usually called ``soft''. This is concluded from a detailed comparison of the results of t

V. P. Goncalves, M. V. T. Machado

The ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions (UPC's) are an important alternative to study the QCD dynamics until the next generation of $e^+e^-/ ep / eA $ colliders become reality. Due to the coherent action of all the protons in the nucleus, the electromagnetic field is very strong and the resulting flux of equivalent photons is large, which allows to study tw

H. Steinberg, O. M. Auslaender, A. Yacoby, J. Qian

The many-body wave-function of an interacting one-dimensional electron system is probed, focusing on the low-density, strong interaction regime. The properties of the wave-function are determined using tunneling between two long, clean, parallel quantum wires in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure, allowing for gate-controlled electron density. As electron density

T. Verechtchaguina, I. M. Sokolov, L. Schimansky-Geier

Motivated by the dynamics of resonant neurons we consider a differentiable, non-Markovian random process $x(t)$ and particularly the time after which it will reach a certain level $x_b$. The probability density of this first passage time is expressed as infinite series of integrals over joint probability densities of $x$ and its velocity $\dot{x}$. Approxima

Eleftherios Gkioulekas

In this paper, we revisit the claim that the Eulerian and quasi-Lagrangian same time correlation tensors are equal. This statement allows us to transform the results of an MSR quasi-Lagrangian statistical theory of hydrodynamic turbulence back to the Eulerian representation. We define a hierarchy of homogeneity symmetries between incremental homogeneity and

Claudio Altafini

In an N-level quantum mechanical system, the problem of unitary feedback stabilization of mixed density operators to periodic orbits admits a natural Lyapunov-based time-varying feedback design. A global description of the domain of attraction of the closed-loop system can be provided based on a ``root-space''-like structure of the space of density operators

Olivier Besida

An hybrid iterative Tykhonov regularization approach with an accelerating algorithm is considered. This method is illustrated by two neutron spectrum unfoldings measured with a Bonner Sphere system.

R. van Boekel, C. P. Dullemond, C. Dominik

We present simulations of the interferometric visibilities of Herbig Ae star disks. We investigate whether interferometric measurements in the 10 micrometer atmospheric window are sensitive to the presence of an increased scale height at the inner disk edge, predicted by recent models. Furthermore, we investigate whether such measurements can discriminate be

S. Kimura, A. Bonasera, S. Cavallaro

We study the effect of screening by bound electrons in low energy nuclear reactions. We use molecular dynamics to simulate the reactions involving many electrons: D+$d$, D+D, $^3$He+$d$, $^3$He+D, $^6$Li+$d$, $^6$Li+D, $^7$Li+$p$, $^7$Li+H. Quantum effects corresponding to the Pauli and Heisenberg principles are enforced by constraints in terms of the phase

Didier Poilblanc, Andreas Laeuchli, Matthieu Mambrini, Frederic Mila

The confinement of a spinon liberated by doping two-dimensional frustrated quantum antiferromagnets with a non-magnetic impurity or a mobile hole is investigated. For a static vacancy, an intermediate behavior between complete deconfinement (kagome) and strong confinement (checkerboard) is identified in the J_1{-}J_2{-}J_3 model on the square lattice, with t

S. I. Maximov

In this article, I present a new approach and a novel model to the study of the life cycle of wages. The key idea is that wage can be thought as remuneration paid for the competency. It is assumed with the approach that there are three mechanisms acting at micro level and resulting in the change of workers' competencies during their lives. These are an endog

Andrej Zorko, Denis Arcon, Alexandross Lappas, Zvonko Jaglicic

A study of an impurity driven phase-transition into a magnetically ordered state in the spin-liquid Haldane chain compound PbNi2V2O8 is presented. Both, macroscopic magnetization as well as 51V nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements reveal that the spin nature of dopants has a crucial role in determining the stability of the induced long-range magneti

Viktor Kaufman, Tamara Mihaljev, Barbara Drossel

We derive mostly analytically the scaling behavior of the number of nonfrozen and relevant nodes in critical Kauffman networks (with two inputs per node) in the thermodynamic limit. By defining and analyzing a stochastic process that determines the frozen core we can prove that the mean number of nonfrozen nodes scales with the network size N as N^{2/3}, wit

V. Chiochia, M. Swartz, Y. Allkofer, D. Bortoletto

In this paper we discuss the measurement of charge collection in irradiated silicon pixel sensors and the comparison with a detailed simulation. The simulation implements a model of radiation damage by including two defect levels with opposite charge states and trapping of charge carriers. The modeling proves that a doubly peaked electric field generated by

Olaf Strelcyk, Thomas Korb, Herbert Schoeller

We study the nonequilibrium spin current through a quantum dot consisting of two localized spin-1/2 coupled to two ferromagnetic insulators. The influence of an intra-dot magnetic field and exchange coupling, different dot-reservoir coupling configurations, and the influence of magnon chemical potential differences vs. magnetic field gradients onto the spin

K. Kovarik, W. Oeller, C. Weber

Recent high precision calculations for production processes of the SUSY particles at the next linear collider are reviewed. Special attention is paid to the input parameter definition. Numerical results for the SPS1a' benchmark point as proposed in the SPA project, are presented.

Jörg Ruppert

The wake induced in a hot QCD medium by a high momentum parton (jet precursor) is calculated in the framework of linear response theory. Two different scenarios are discussed: a weakly coupled quark gluon plasma (pQGP) as described by hard-thermal loop (HTL) perturbation theory and a strongly cupled QGP (sQGP) with the properties of a quantum liquid. In the

A. Daleo, D. de Florian, R. Sassot

We compute the order alpha_s^2 corrections to the one particle inclusive electroproduction cross section of hadrons with non vanishing transverse momentum. We compare our results with H1 data on forward production of pi^0, and conclude that the data is well described by the DGLAP approach. within the theoretical uncertainties.

J. C. Flores

A solvable quantum $LC$ circuit with charge discreteness is studied. Two discrete spectral branches are obtained: (i) the normal branch corresponding to a charged capacitor with integer effective charge $k=q_{e}n$ ($q_{e}$ elementary charge, $n$ integer) and (ii) the anomalous branch where the energy is related to non-integer effective charge $k=q_{e}(n-x)$

Krzysztof Pachucki, Andrzej Czarnecki, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Vladimir A. Yerokhin

Within a systematic approach based on the dimensionally regularized nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics, we derive the complete result for the two-loop correction to order $(\alpha/\pi)^2 (Z \alpha)^4$ for the $g$ factor of an electron bound in an $nS$ state of a hydrogenlike ion. The results obtained significantly improve the accuracy of the theoretical

F. Guillen Santos, V. Navarro, P. Pascual, A. Roig

We prove that for a topological operad $P$ the operad of oriented cubical chains, $C^{ord}_\ast(P)$, and the operad of singular chains, $S_\ast(P)$, are weakly equivalent. As a consequence, $C^{ord}_\ast(P;\mathbb{Q})$ is formal if and only if $S_\ast(P;\mathbb{Q})$ is formal, thus linking together some formality results spread in the literature. The proof i

G. Peter Lepage

This is the "preprint" for a paper that came out in 1998 but for some reason wasn't posted then. Abstract:These lectures are for novices to lattice QCD. They introduce a set of simple ideas and numerical techniques that can be implemented in a short period of time and that are capabable of generating nontrivial, nonperturbative results from lattice QCD. The

P. Artoisenet, J. -M. Gerard, J. Weyers

We extend the simple scenario for $\Psi'$ decays suggested a few years ago. The $c\bar c$ pair in the $\Psi'$ does not annihilate directly into three gluons but rather survives before annihilating. An interesting prediction is that a large fraction of all $\Psi'$ decays could originate from the $\Psi' \to \eta_{c} (3\pi)$ channel which we urge experimentalis

D. de Florian, G. A. Navarro, R. Sassot

We present results on the quark and gluon polarization in the nucleon obtained in a combined next to leading order analysis to the available inclusive and semi-inclusive polarized deep inelastic scattering data.

H. Burkhardt, B. Pietrzyk

Recent improvements in the low energy e+e- annihilation data and their influence on the determination of the hadronic contribution to the running of the QED fine structure constant at m_Z are discussed. Using CMD-2 and KLOE measurements in the rho region we obtain Delta alpha(5)_had(s) = 0.02758 +/- 0.00035 at s = m_Z^2.

T. V. Zaqarashvili, G. Belvedere

We suggest that the observed long-period Alfv{\'e}n waves in the solar wind may be generated in the solar interior due to the pulsation of the Sun in the fundamental radial mode. The period of this pulsation is about 1 hour. The pulsation causes a periodical variation of density and large-scale magnetic field, this affecting the Alfv{\'e}n speed in the solar

Oana Dragulete, Tudor S. Ratiu, Miguel Rodriguez-Olmos

This paper studies singular contact reduction for cosphere bundles at the zero value of the momentum map. A stratification of the singular quotient, finer than the contact one and better adapted to the bundle structure of the problem, is obtained. The strata of this new stratification are a collection of cosphere bundles and coisotropic or Legendrian submani

M. I. Vysotsky

We determine the domains of the values of unitarity triangle angle alpha, allowed by the charmless strangeless B_d (\bar B_d) decays.

Judith G. Cohen, Stephen Shectman, Ian Thompson, Andrew McWilliam

We demonstrate that there are systematic scale errors in the [Fe/H] values determined by the Hamburg/ESO Survey (and by the HK Survey by inference) for certain extremely metal poor (EMP) highly C-enhanced giants. The consequences of these scale errors are that a) the fraction of carbon stars at extremely low metallicities has been substantially overestimated

Sam Payne

We show that the dual of the cone of divisors on a complete Q-factorial toric variety X whose stable base loci have dimension less than k is generated by curves on small modifications that move in families sweeping out the birational transforms of k-dimensional subvarieties of X. We give an example showing that it does not suffice to consider curves on X its

L. Arrabito, D. Autiero, E. Barbuto, C. Bozza

We describe a possible search for muonic radioactivity from lead nuclei using the base elements ("bricks" composed by lead and nuclear emulsion sheets) of the long-baseline OPERA neutrino experiment. We present the results of a Monte Carlo simulation concerning the expected event topologies and estimates of the background events. Using few bricks, we could r