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Domain walls in Born-Infeld-dilaton background
We study the dynamics of domain walls in Einstein-Born-Infeld-dilaton theory.
Dilaton is non-trivially coupled with the Born-Infeld electromagnetic field. We
find three different types of solutions consistent with the dynamic domain
walls. For every case, the solutions have singularity. Further more, in these
backgrounds, we study the dynamics of domain walls. We qualitatively plot
various form of the bulk metrics and the potential encountered by the domain
walls. In many cases, depending upon the value of the parameters, the domain
walls show bouncing universe and also undergo inflationary phase followed by
standard decelerated expansion.Comment: 18 pages,6 figures,latex, References added, Some points clarifie
Protection from experimental colitis by theaflavin-3,3'-digallate correlates with inhibition of IKK and NF-κB activation
Background and purpose: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is associated with activation of nuclear factor κ B (NF-κB) involved in regulating the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and proinflammatory cytokine genes. As theaflavin-3,3'-digallate (TFDG), the most potent anti-oxidant polyphenol of black tea, down-regulates NF-κB activation, we investigated if TFDG is beneficial in colonic inflammation by suppressing iNOS and proinflammatory cytokines. Experimental approach: The in vivo efficacy of TFDG was assessed in mice with trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS)-induced colitis. Both mRNA and protein levels of proinflammatory cytokines and iNOS were analyzed in colon tissue treated with or without TFDG. NF-κB activation was determined by electrophoretic mobility shift assay and levels of NF-κB inhibitory protein (IκBα) were analyzed by Western blotting. Key results: Oral administration of TFDG (5 mg kg-1 daily i.g.) significantly improved TNBS-induced colitis associated with decreased mRNA and protein levels of TNF-α, IL-12, IFN- and iNOS in colonic mucosa. DNA binding and Western blotting revealed increase in NF-κB activation and IκB depletion in TNBS-treated mice from Day 2 through Day 8 with a maximum at Day 4, which resulted from increased phosphorylation of IκB and higher activity of IκB kinase (IKK). Pretreatment with TFDG markedly inhibited TNBS-induced increases in nuclear localization of NF-κBα, cytosolic IKK activity and preserved IκBα in colon tissue. Conclusions and Implications: TFDG exerts protective effects in experimental colitis and inhibits production of inflammatory mediators through a mechanism that, at least in part, involves inhibition of NF-κB activation
Quantum chaos in the spectrum of operators used in Shor's algorithm
We provide compelling evidence for the presence of quantum chaos in the
unitary part of Shor's factoring algorithm. In particular we analyze the
spectrum of this part after proper desymmetrization and show that the
fluctuations of the eigenangles as well as the distribution of the eigenvector
components follow the CUE ensemble of random matrices, of relevance to
quantized chaotic systems that violate time-reversal symmetry. However, as the
algorithm tracks the evolution of a single state, it is possible to employ
other operators, in particular it is possible that the generic quantum chaos
found above becomes of a nongeneric kind such as is found in the quantum cat
maps, and in toy models of the quantum bakers map.Comment: Title and paper modified to include interesting additional
possibilities. Principal results unaffected. Accepted for publication in
Phys. Rev. E as Rapid Com
High-k HfO2 based metal-oxide-semiconductor devices using silicon and silicon carbide semiconductor
In this paper we have calculated the flatband capacitance (CFB) for high-k dielectric material hafnia oxide (HfO2) as an insulator and silicon carbide (SiC) as a semiconductor material for metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) devices. We simulate the capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristics of the MOS devices with ultrathin oxide using ATLAS, a commercially available TCAD tool from SILVACO. The tool has investigated the effect on C-V characteristics of different oxide thickness and doping concentration of SiO2 and HfO2 as insulators and Si and SiC as semiconductor based MOS devices. Excellent agreement was observed over a wide range of oxide thickness and substrate doping for the materials. The C-V characteristics of different polytype of SiC semiconductor also studied for n-type MOS devices.
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The interplay between the charged Higgs and squark-gluino events at the LHC
In some extensions of the standard model with extended Higgs sectors, events
from new particle production may pass the selection criteria for Higgs search
in different channels at the LHC - 14 TeV and mimic Higgs signals. This
intriguing possibility is illustrated by PYTHIA based simulations using several
representative points in the parameter space of the minimal supersymmetric
standard model (MSSM) including a point in the minimal supergravity model
consistent with the Dark matter (DM) relic density data. Our simulations
explore the interplay between the charged Higgs signal and typical
squark-gluino events. We argue that the standard selections like the one based
on the polarization properties of the 's from charged Higgs decay, though
adequate for handling the SM background, may not be very efficient in the
presence of SUSY backgrounds. We then propose an alternative search strategy
based on pure kinematics which sufficiently controls both the SM and the MSSM
backgrounds. For charged Higgs masses () in the deep decoupling regime
(600 GeV \lsim m_{H^{\pm}} \lsim 800 GeV) this method works well and extends
the LHC reach close to 800 GeV for an integrated luminosity of 30
with or without the SUSY background. For a lighter charged Higgs a judicious
combination of the old selections and some of the cuts proposed by us may
disentangle the Higgs signal from the squark-gluino backgrounds quite
effectively
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