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Estimates for parameters and characteristics of the confining SU(3)-gluonic field in neutral kaons and chiral limit for pseudoscalar nonet
First part of the paper is devoted to applying the confinement mechanism
proposed earlier by the author to estimate the possible parameters of the
confining SU(3)-gluonic field in neutral kaons. The estimates obtained are
consistent with the widths of the electromagnetic decays
too. The corresponding estimates of the gluon
concentrations, electric and magnetic colour field strengths are also adduced
for the mentioned field at the scales of the mesons under consideration. The
second part of the paper takes into account the results obtained previously by
the author to estimate the purely gluonic contribution to the masses of all the
mesons of pseudoscalar nonet and also to consider a possible relation with a
phenomenological string-like picture of confinement. Finally, the problem of
masses in particle physics is shortly discussed within the framework of
approach to the chiral symmetry breaking in quantum chromodynamics (QCD)
proposed recently by the author.Comment: LaTeX, 16 pages, 2 figure
Dirac Monopoles in the Ernst--Schwarzschild Spacetime
It is discussed that the Ernst--Schwarzschild metric describing a nonrotating
black hole in the external magnetic field admits the solutions of the Dirac
monopole types for the corresponding Maxwell equations. The given solutions are
obtained in explicit form and a possible influence of the conforming Dirac
monopoles on Hawking radiation is also outlined.Comment: Int. Journal of Modern Physics A, vol. 18 (2003), 2153-215
Ions in glass forming glycerol: Close correlation of alpha and fast beta relaxation
We provide broadband dielectric loss spectra of glass-forming glycerol with
varying additions of LiCl. The measurements covering frequencies up to 10 THz
extend well into the region of the fast beta process, commonly ascribed to
caged molecule dynamics. Aside of the known variation of the structural alpha
relaxation time and a modification of the excess wing with ion content, we also
find a clear influence on the shallow loss minimum arising from the fast beta
relaxation. Within the framework of mode-coupling theory, the detected
significant broadening of this minimum is in reasonable accord with the found
variation of the alpha-relaxation dynamics. A correlation between
alpha-relaxation rate and minimum position holds for all ion concentrations and
temperatures, even below the critical temperature defined by mode-coupling
theory.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Estimates for parameters and characteristics of the confining SU(3)-gluonic field in an -meson
The confinement mechanism proposed earlier by the author is applied to
estimate the possible parameters of the confining SU(3)-gluonic field in an
-meson. For this aim the electric form factor of an
-meson is nonperturbatively computed in an explicit analytic form.
The estimates obtained are also consistent with the width of the
electromagnetic decay . The corresponding estimates of
the gluon concentrations, electric and magnetic colour field strengths are also
adduced for the mentioned field at the scales of the meson under consideration.Comment: 20 pages, LaTe
Asymptotic normalization coefficients for mirror virtual nucleon decays in a microscopic cluster model
It has been suggested recently (Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 232501 (2003)) that
charge symmetry of nucleon-nucleon interactions relates the Asymptotic
Normalization Coefficients (ANCs) of proton and neutron virtual decays of
mirror nuclei. This relation is given by a simple analytical formula which
involves proton and neutron separation energies, charges of residual nuclei and
the range of their strong interaction with the last nucleon. Relation between
mirror ANCs, if understood properly, can be used to predict astrophysically
relevant direct proton capture cross sections using neutron ANCs measured with
stable beams. In this work, we calculate one-nucleon ANCs for several light
mirror pairs, using microscopic two-, three- and four-cluster models, and
compare the ratio of mirror ANCs to the predictions of the simple analytic
formula. We also investigate mirror symmetry between other characteristics of
mirror one-nucleon overlap integrals, namely, spectroscopic factors and
single-particle ANCs.Comment: 12 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Inflationary spacetimes are not past-complete
Many inflating spacetimes are likely to violate the weak energy condition, a
key assumption of singularity theorems. Here we offer a simple kinematical
argument, requiring no energy condition, that a cosmological model which is
inflating -- or just expanding sufficiently fast -- must be incomplete in null
and timelike past directions. Specifically, we obtain a bound on the integral
of the Hubble parameter over a past-directed timelike or null geodesic. Thus
inflationary models require physics other than inflation to describe the past
boundary of the inflating region of spacetime.Comment: We improve the basic argument to apply to a wider class of
spacetimes, use a better title and add a discussion of cyclic models. 4
pages, 1 figure, RevTe
Benchmark on neutron capture extracted from reactions
Direct neutron capture reactions play an important role in nuclear
astrophysics and applied physics. Since for most unstable short-lived nuclei it
is not possible to measure the cross sections, reactions
have been used as an alternative indirect tool. We analyze simultaneously
at deuteron energies and 56 MeV
and the thermal reaction at 25 meV. We include results for the
ground state and the first excited state of Ca. From the low-energy
reaction, the neutron asymptotic normalization coefficient (ANC) is
determined. Using this ANC, we extract the spectroscopic factor (SF) from the
higher energy data and the data. The SF obtained through
the 56 MeV data are less accurate but consistent with those from the
thermal capture. We show that to have a similar dependence on the single
particle parameters as in the , the (d,p) reaction should be
measured at 30 MeV.Comment: 5 pg, 4 figs, Phys. Rev. C (rapid) in pres
Inflationary cosmology of the extreme cosmic string
Starting with a study of the cosmological solution to the Einstein equations
for the internal spacetime of an extreme supermassive cosmic string kink, and
by evaluating the probability measure for the formation of such a kink in
semiclassical approximation using a minisuperspace with the appropriate
symmetry, we have found a set of arguments in favor of the claim that the
kinked extreme string can actually be regarded as a unbounded chain of pairs of
Planck- sized universes. Once one such universe pairs is created along a
primordial phase transition at the Planck scale, it undergoes an endless
process of continuous self-regeneration driven by chaotic inflation in each of
the universes forming the pair.Comment: 15 pages, RevTex, to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys.
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