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FIR Filter Implementation by Efficient Sharing of Horizontal and Vertical Common Sub-expressions
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Resummation Effects in Vector-Boson and Higgs Associated Production
Fixed-order QCD radiative corrections to the vector-boson and Higgs
associated production channels, pp -> VH (V=W, Z), at hadron colliders are well
understood. We combine higher order perturbative QCD calculations with
soft-gluon resummation of both threshold logarithms and logarithms which are
important at low transverse momentum of the VH pair. We study the effects of
both types of logarithms on the scale dependence of the total cross section and
on various kinematic distributions. The next-to-next-to-next-to-leading
logarithmic (NNNLL) resummed total cross sections at the LHC are almost
identical to the fixed-order perturbative next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO)
rates, indicating the excellent convergence of the perturbative QCD series.
Resummation of the VH transverse momentum (p_T) spectrum provides reliable
results for small values of p_T and suggests that implementing a jet-veto will
significantly decrease the cross sections.Comment: 25 pages, references update
Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis during Pregnancy.
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a syndrome of excessive immune activation that mimics and occurs with other systemic diseases. A 35-year-old female presented with signs of viral illness at 13 weeks of pregnancy and progressed to acute liver failure (ALF). We discuss the diagnosis of HLH and Kikuchi-Fujimoto (KF) lymphadenitis in the context of pregnancy and ALF. HLH may respond to comorbid disease-specific therapy, and more toxic treatment can be avoided
Post-Newtonian Models of Binary Neutron Stars
Using an energy variational method, we calculate quasi-equilibrium
configurations of binary neutron stars modeled as compressible triaxial
ellipsoids obeying a polytropic equation of state. Our energy functional
includes terms both for the internal hydrodynamics of the stars and for the
external orbital motion. We add the leading post-Newtonian (PN) corrections to
the internal and gravitational energies of the stars, and adopt hybrid orbital
terms which are fully relativistic in the test-mass limit and always accurate
to PN order. The total energy functional is varied to find quasi-equilibrium
sequences for both corotating and irrotational binaries in circular orbits. We
examine how the orbital frequency at the innermost stable circular orbit
depends on the polytropic index n and the compactness parameter GM/Rc^2. We
find that, for a given GM/Rc^2, the innermost stable circular orbit along an
irrotational sequence is about 17% larger than the innermost secularly stable
circular orbit along the corotating sequence when n=0.5, and 20% larger when
n=1. We also examine the dependence of the maximum neutron star mass on the
orbital frequency and find that, if PN tidal effects can be neglected, the
maximum equilibrium mass increases as the orbital separation decreases.Comment: 53 pages, LaTex, 9 figures as 10 postscript files, accepted by Phys.
Rev. D, replaced version contains updated reference
General-relativistic coupling between orbital motion and internal degrees of freedom for inspiraling binary neutron stars
We analyze the coupling between the internal degrees of freedom of neutron
stars in a close binary, and the stars' orbital motion. Our analysis is based
on the method of matched asymptotic expansions and is valid to all orders in
the strength of internal gravity in each star, but is perturbative in the
``tidal expansion parameter'' (stellar radius)/(orbital separation). At first
order in the tidal expansion parameter, we show that the internal structure of
each star is unaffected by its companion, in agreement with post-1-Newtonian
results of Wiseman (gr-qc/9704018). We also show that relativistic interactions
that scale as higher powers of the tidal expansion parameter produce
qualitatively similar effects to their Newtonian counterparts: there are
corrections to the Newtonian tidal distortion of each star, both of which occur
at third order in the tidal expansion parameter, and there are corrections to
the Newtonian decrease in central density of each star (Newtonian ``tidal
stabilization''), both of which are sixth order in the tidal expansion
parameter. There are additional interactions with no Newtonian analogs, but
these do not change the central density of each star up to sixth order in the
tidal expansion parameter. These results, in combination with previous analyses
of Newtonian tidal interactions, indicate that (i) there are no large
general-relativistic crushing forces that could cause the stars to collapse to
black holes prior to the dynamical orbital instability, and (ii) the
conventional wisdom with respect to coalescing binary neutron stars as sources
of gravitational-wave bursts is correct: namely, the finite-stellar-size
corrections to the gravitational waveform will be unimportant for the purpose
of detecting the coalescences.Comment: 22 pages, 2 figures. Replaced 13 July: proof corrected, result
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Boundary Critical Phenomena in SU(3) "Spin" Chains
SU(3)-invariant "spin" chains with a single impurity, such as a modified
exchange coupling on one link, are analyzed using boundary conformal field
theory techniques. These chains are equivalent to a special case of the "tJV"
model, i.e. the t-J model with a nearest neighbour repulsion added. In the
continuum limit they are equivalent to two free bosons at a special value of
the compactification radii. The SU(3) symmetry, which is made explicit in this
formulation, provides insight into the exact solution of a non-trivial boundary
critical point found earlier in another formulation of this model as a theory
of quantum Brownian motion.Comment: 19 pages, Rev Te
Multi-wavelength Stellar Polarimetry of the Filamentary Cloud IC5146: I. Dust Properties
We present optical and near-infrared stellar polarization observations toward
the dark filamentary clouds associated with IC5146. The data allow us to
investigate the dust properties (this paper) and the magnetic field structure
(Paper II). A total of 2022 background stars were detected in -, -,
-, and/or -bands to mag. The ratio of the polarization
percentage at different wavelengths provides an estimate of ,
the wavelength of peak polarization, which is an indicator of the small-size
cutoff of the grain size distribution. The grain size distribution seems to
significantly change at 3 mag, where both the average and dispersion
of decrease. In addition, we found
0.6-0.9 m for mag, which is larger than the 0.55 m
in the general ISM, suggesting that grain growth has already started in low
regions. Our data also reveal that polarization efficiency (PE ) decreases with as a power-law in -, -, and
-bands with indices of -0.710.10, -1.230.10 and -0.530.09.
However, -band data show a power index change; the PE varies with
steeply (index of -0.950.30) when mag but softly
(index of -0.250.06) for greater values. The soft decay of PE in
high regions is consistent with the Radiative Aligned Torque model,
suggesting that our data trace the magnetic field to mag.
Furthermore, the breakpoint found in -band is similar to the where we
found the dispersion significantly decreased. Therefore, the
flat PE- in high regions implies that the power index changes result
from additional grain growth.Comment: 31 pages, 17 figures, and 3 tables; accepted for publication in Ap
Innermost Stable Circular Orbit of Inspiraling Neutron-Star Binaries: Tidal Effects, Post-Newtonian Effects and the Neutron-Star Equation of State
We study how the neutron-star equation of state affects the onset of the
dynamical instability in the equations of motion for inspiraling neutron-star
binaries near coalescence. A combination of relativistic effects and Newtonian
tidal effects cause the stars to begin their final, rapid, and
dynamically-unstable plunge to merger when the stars are still well separated
and the orbital frequency is 500 cycles/sec (i.e. the gravitational
wave frequency is approximately 1000 Hz). The orbital frequency at which the
dynamical instability occurs (i.e. the orbital frequency at the innermost
stable circular orbit) shows modest sensitivity to the neutron-star equation of
state (particularly the mass-radius ratio, , of the stars). This
suggests that information about the equation of state of nuclear matter is
encoded in the gravitational waves emitted just prior to the merger.Comment: RevTeX, to appear in PRD, 8 pages, 4 figures include
Modulation of the high mobility two-dimensional electrons in Si/SiGe using atomic-layer-deposited gate dielectric
Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET's) using
atomic-layer-deposited (ALD) AlO as the gate dielectric are fabricated
on the Si/SiGe heterostructures. The low-temperature carrier
density of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in the strained Si quantum
well can be controllably tuned from 2.5cm to
4.5cm, virtually without any gate leakage current.
Magnetotransport data show the homogeneous depletion of 2DES under gate biases.
The characteristic of vertical modulation using ALD dielectric is shown to be
better than that using Schottky barrier or the SiO dielectric formed by
plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor-deposition(PECVD).Comment: 3 pages Revtex4, 4 figure
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