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Key features of the TMD soft-factor structure
We show that the geometry of the Wilson lines, entering the operator
definition of the transverse-momentum dependent parton distributions and that
of the soft factor, follows from the kinematics of the underlying physical
process in conjunction with the gauge invariance of the QCD Lagrangian. We
demonstrate our method in terms of concrete examples and determine the paths of
the associated Wilson lines. The validation of the factorization theorem in our
approach is postponed to future work.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures. Invited contribution presented by the first
author at the Lightcone 2013+ Conference, Skiathos, Greece, 20-24 May, 2013.
Matches version to appear in Few Body System
Formal Solution of the Fourth Order Killing equations for Stationary Axisymmetric Vacuum Spacetimes
An analytic understanding of the geodesic structure around non-Kerr
spacetimes will result in a powerful tool that could make the mapping of
spacetime around massive quiescent compact objects possible. To this end, I
present an analytic closed form expression for the components of a the fourth
order Killing tensor for Stationary Axisymmetric Vacuum (SAV) Spacetimes. It is
as yet unclear what subset of SAV spacetimes admit this solution. The solution
is written in terms of an integral expression involving the metric functions
and two specific Greens functions. A second integral expression has to vanish
in order for the solution to be exact. In the event that the second integral
does not vanish it is likely that the best fourth order approximation to the
invariant has been found. This solution can be viewed as a generalized Carter
constant providing an explicit expression for the fourth invariant, in addition
to the energy, azimuthal angular momentum and rest mass, associated with
geodesic motion in SAV spacetimes, be it exact or approximate. I further
comment on the application of this result for the founding of a general
algorithm for mapping the spacetime around compact objects using gravitational
wave observatories.Comment: 5 Page
QCD-Thermodynamics using 5-dim Gravity
We calculate the critical temperature and free energy of the gluon plasma
using the dilaton potential arXiv:0911.0627[hep-ph] in the gravity theory of
AdS/QCD. The finite temperature observables are calculated in two ways: first,
from the Page-Hawking computation of the free energy, and secondly using the
Bekenstein-Hawking proportionality of the entropy with the area of the horizon.
Renormalization is well defined, because the T=0 theory has asymptotic freedom.
We further investigate the change of the critical temperature with the number
of flavours induced by the change of the running coupling constant in the
quenched theory. The finite temperature behaviour of the speed of sound,
spatial string tension and vacuum expectation value of the Polyakov loop follow
from the corresponding string theory in AdS_5.Comment: 38 pages, 12 figure
Introduction: Localized Structures in Dissipative Media: From Optics to Plant Ecology
Localised structures in dissipative appears in various fields of natural
science such as biology, chemistry, plant ecology, optics and laser physics.
The proposed theme issue is to gather specialists from various fields of
non-linear science toward a cross-fertilisation among active areas of research.
This is a cross-disciplinary area of research dominated by the nonlinear optics
due to potential applications for all-optical control of light, optical
storage, and information processing. This theme issue contains contributions
from 18 active groups involved in localized structures field and have all made
significant contributions in recent years.Comment: 14 pages, 0 figure, submitted to Phi. Trasaction Royal Societ
Delayed feedback control of self-mobile cavity solitons
Control of the motion of cavity solitons is one the central problems in
nonlinear optical pattern formation. We report on the impact of the phase of
the time-delayed optical feedback and carrier lifetime on the self-mobility of
localized structures of light in broad area semiconductor cavities. We show
both analytically and numerically that the feedback phase strongly affects the
drift instability threshold as well as the velocity of cavity soliton motion
above this threshold. In addition we demonstrate that non-instantaneous carrier
response in the semiconductor medium is responsible for the increase in
critical feedback rate corresponding to the drift instability
Tracing diffusion in porous media with fractal properties
This work is concerned with conditional averaging methods which can be used for modeling of transport in porous media with volume reactions in the fluid phase and surface reactions at the fluid/solid interface. The model under consideration takes into account convection, diffusion within the pores and on larger scales, and homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions. Near the interface with fractal properties, the fluid flow is slow, and diffusion, as a transport mechanism, dominates over convection. Following the conditional moment closure paradigm, we employ a diffusion tracer as a reference scalar field that makes the conditional averaging sensitive to the proximity of a point to the interface. The resulting conditionally averaged reactive transport equations are governed by the probability density function (PDF) of the diffusion tracer, and this makes the study of its behavior an important problem. We consider a hitting time stochastic interpretation of the diffusion tracer, establish integral equations relating it to a subsidiary distance tracer, and obtain distance-diffusion inequalities. Assuming that the fluid/solid interface and pores themselves possess fractal properties which are quantified, in particular, by a variant of the Minkowski-Bouligand fractal dimension, we investigate the interplay between the interface and network scenarios of fractality in the scaling laws of the diffusion tracer PDF. We also discuss and employ several hypotheses, including a lognormal cascade hypothesis on the behavior of the diffusion tracer at different length scales
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