Hyperons in nuclear matter

The chiral version of the QMC model, in which the effect of gluon and pion exchanges is included self-consistently, is applied to the hyperons in a nuclear medium. The hyperfine interaction due to the gluon exchange plays an important role in the in-medium baryon spectra, while the pion-cloud effect is relatively small. At the quark mean-field level, the $\Lambda$ feels more attractive force than the \Sigma or \Xi in matter.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figure

The energy dependence of the πN\pi N amplitude and the three-nucleon interaction

By calculating the contribution of the $\pi-\pi$ three-body force to the three-nucleon binding energy in terms of the $\pi N$ amplitude using perturbation theory, we are able to determine the importance of the energy dependence and the contribution of the different partial waves of the $\pi N$ amplitude to the three-nucleon force. A separable representation of the non-pole $\pi N$ amplitude allows us to write the three-nucleon force in terms of the amplitude for $NN\rightarrow NN^*$, propagation of the $NNN^*$ system, and the amplitude for $NN^*\rightarrow NN$, with $N^*$ being the $\pi N$ quasi-particle amplitude in a given state. The division of the $\pi N$ amplitude into a pole and non-pole gives a procedure for the determination of the $\pi NN$ form factor within the model. The total contribution of the three-body force to the binding energy of the triton for the separable approximation to the Paris nucleon-nucleon potential (PEST) is found to be very small mainly as a result of the energy dependence of the $\pi N$ amplitude, the cancellation between the $S$- and $P$-wave $\pi N$ amplitudes, and the soft $\pi NN$ form factor.Comment: RevTex file, 36 pages, 10 figures available from authors: [email protected]

Seismic Risk Evaluation of R.C. Buildings in Japan Designated in Accordance with the 1990 AIJ Guidelines

National Science Foundation Grant BCS 91-06390Kajima Foundatio

Cosmic ray intensity and the tilt of the neutral sheet

Recent publications have related long-term variations in cosmic ray intensity at the Earth with long term variations in the tilt of the neutral sheet in the inner heliosphere. The tilt of the neutral sheet from 1971 to 1974 is compared with the cosmic ray intensity at Earth, recorded by the Mt. Washington neutron monitor. The remarkable large decreases in cosmic ray intensity which occurred in 1973 and 1974 correlate well with excursions in the tilt of the neutral sheet which occurred earlier during these same two years

Interannual differences in the regressions of the polar caps of Mars

Analyses of the behavior of the Martian polar caps in the recent spacecraft and ground based observations seem to reveal the existence of year to year variations on their regressions. In order to investigate the interannual differences in the regressions of the polar caps, the earlier data by Fischbacher et al., were reexamined, which were based on the measurements of the large number of high quality photographic plates and films collected from 1905 to 1965 at the Lowell Observatory. The results are reported and discussed