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A Parton Model for Inclusive Semileptonic B Meson Decays
The parton model for semileptonic B meson decays is studied with special
attention to the decay distributions. We find that the spectra show dramatic
variations when we introduce cuts on the hadronic energy or invariant mass of
hadrons. Results for both and decays are
presented. The detailed spectra may help to separate the two types of decays.Comment: 9 pages, DO-TH 93/29, OHSTPY-HEP-T-93-011, September 199
Spectra of Modular and Small-World Matrices
We compute spectra of symmetric random matrices describing graphs with
general modular structure and arbitrary inter- and intra-module degree
distributions, subject only to the constraint of finite mean connectivities. We
also evaluate spectra of a certain class of small-world matrices generated from
random graphs by introducing short-cuts via additional random connectivity
components. Both adjacency matrices and the associated graph Laplacians are
investigated. For the Laplacians, we find Lifshitz type singular behaviour of
the spectral density in a localised region of small values. In the
case of modular networks, we can identify contributions local densities of
state from individual modules. For small-world networks, we find that the
introduction of short cuts can lead to the creation of satellite bands outside
the central band of extended states, exhibiting only localised states in the
band-gaps. Results for the ensemble in the thermodynamic limit are in excellent
agreement with those obtained via a cavity approach for large finite single
instances, and with direct diagonalisation results.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figure
Second and third season QUaD CMB temperature and polarization power spectra
We report results from the second and third seasons of observation with the
QUaD experiment. Angular power spectra of the Cosmic Microwave Background are
derived for both temperature and polarization at both 100 GHz and 150 GHz, and
as cross frequency spectra. All spectra are subjected to an extensive set of
jackknife tests to probe for possible systematic contamination. For the
implemented data cuts and processing technique such contamination is
undetectable. We analyze the difference map formed between the 100 and 150 GHz
bands and find no evidence of foreground contamination in polarization. The
spectra are then combined to form a single set of results which are shown to be
consistent with the prevailing LCDM model. The sensitivity of the polarization
results is considerably better than that of any previous experiment -- for the
first time multiple acoustic peaks are detected in the E-mode power spectrum at
high significance.Comment: 24 pages, 23 figures, updated to reflect published versio
Observing many body effects on lepton pair production from low mass enhancement and flow at RHIC and LHC energies
The spectral function at finite temperature calculated using the
real-time formalism of thermal field theory is used to evaluate the low mass
dilepton spectra. The analytic structure of the propagator is studied
and contributions to the dilepton yield in the region below the bare
peak from the different cuts in the spectral function are discussed. The
space-time integrated yield shows significant enhancement in the region below
the bare peak in the invariant mass spectra. It is argued that the
variation of the inverse slope of the transverse mass () distribution can
be used as an efficient tool to predict the presence of two different phases of
the matter during the evolution of the system. Sensitivity of the effective
temperature obtained from the slopes of the spectra to the medium effects
are studied
Probing in-medium vector meson decays by double-differential di-electron spectra in heavy-ion collisions at SIS energies
Within a transport code simulation for heavy-ion collisions at bombarding
energies around 1 AGeV, we demonstrate that double-differential di-electron
spectra with suitable kinematical cuts are useful to isolate (i) the
meson peak even in case of strong broadening, and (ii) the in-medium
decay contribution. The expected in-medium modifications of the vector meson
spectral densities can thus be probed in this energy range via the di-electron
channel
Ghost-free and Modular Invariant Spectra of a String in SL(2,R) and Three Dimensional Black Hole Geometry
Spectra of a string in and three dimensional (BTZ) black hole
geometry are discussed. We consider a free field realization of ^sl (2,R)
different from the standard ones in treatment of zero-modes. Applying this to
the string model in SL(2,R), we show that the spectrum is ghost-free. The
essence of the argument is the same as Bars' resolution to the ghost problem,
but there are differences; for example, the currents do not contain logarithmic
cuts. Moreover, we obtain a modular invariant partition function. This
realization is also applicable to the analysis of the string in the three
dimensional black hole geometry, the model of which is described by an orbifold
of the SL(2,R) WZW model. We obtain ghost-free and modular invariant spectra
for the black hole theory as well. These spectra provide examples of few
sensible spectra of a string in non-trivial backgrounds with curved time and,
in particular, in a black hole background with an infinite number of
propagating modes.Comment: 18 pages, Latex; typos and some terminology correcte
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