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    Non semi-simple sl(2) quantum invariants, spin case

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    Invariants of 3-manifolds from a non semi-simple category of modules over a version of quantum sl(2) were obtained by the last three authors in [arXiv:1404.7289]. In their construction the quantum parameter qq is a root of unity of order 2r2r where r>1r>1 is odd or congruent to 22 modulo 44. In this paper we consider the remaining cases where rr is congruent to zero modulo 44 and produce invariants of 33-manifolds with colored links, equipped with generalized spin structure. For a given 33-manifold MM, the relevant generalized spin structures are (non canonically) parametrized by H1(M;C/2Z)H^1(M;\mathbb C/2\mathbb Z).Comment: 13 pages, 16 figure

    Statistical Mechanical Calculation of Anisotropic Step Stiffness of a Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Lattice Gas Model with Next-Nearest-Neighbor Interactions: Application to Si(111) Surface

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    We study a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice gas model with both nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor interactions in a staggered field, which describes the surface of stoichiometrically binary crystal. We calculate anisotropic step tension, step stiffness, and equilibrium island shape, by an extended random walk method. We apply the results to Si(111) 7×\times7 reconstructed surface and high-temperature Si(111) 1×\times1 surface. We also calculate inter-step interaction coefficient.Comment: revised on May 29 1999: RevTeX v3.1, 10 pages with 9 figures (one figure added

    Non-universal equilibrium crystal shape results from sticky steps

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    The anisotropic surface free energy, Andreev surface free energy, and equilibrium crystal shape (ECS) z=z(x,y) are calculated numerically using a transfer matrix approach with the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. The adopted surface model is a restricted solid-on-solid (RSOS) model with "sticky" steps, i.e., steps with a point-contact type attraction between them (p-RSOS model). By analyzing the results, we obtain a first-order shape transition on the ECS profile around the (111) facet; and on the curved surface near the (001) facet edge, we obtain shape exponents having values different from those of the universal Gruber-Mullins-Pokrovsky-Talapov (GMPT) class. In order to elucidate the origin of the non-universal shape exponents, we calculate the slope dependence of the mean step height of "step droplets" (bound states of steps) using the Monte Carlo method, where p=(dz/dx, dz/dy)$, and represents the thermal averag |p| dependence of , we derive a |p|-expanded expression for the non-universal surface free energy f_{eff}(p), which contains quadratic terms with respect to |p|. The first-order shape transition and the non-universal shape exponents obtained by the DMRG calculations are reproduced thermodynamically from the non-universal surface free energy f_{eff}(p).Comment: 31 pages, 21 figure

    Vicinal Surface with Langmuir Adsorption: A Decorated Restricted Solid-on-solid Model

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    We study the vicinal surface of the restricted solid-on-solid model coupled with the Langmuir adsorbates which we regard as two-dimensional lattice gas without lateral interaction. The effect of the vapor pressure of the adsorbates in the environmental phase is taken into consideration through the chemical potential. We calculate the surface free energy ff, the adsorption coverage Θ\Theta, the step tension γ\gamma, and the step stiffness γ~\tilde{\gamma} by the transfer matrix method combined with the density-matrix algorithm. Detailed step-density-dependence of ff and Θ\Theta is obtained. We draw the roughening transition curve in the plane of the temperature and the chemical potential of adsorbates. We find the multi-reentrant roughening transition accompanying the inverse roughening phenomena. We also find quasi-reentrant behavior in the step tension.Comment: 7 pages, 12 figures (png format), RevTeX 3.1, submitted to Phys. Rev.

    Primordial Gravitational Waves Enhancement

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    We reconsider the enhancement of primordial gravitational waves that arises from a quantum gravitational model of inflation. A distinctive feature of this model is that the end of inflation witnesses a brief phase during which the Hubble parameter oscillates in sign, changing the usual Hubble friction to anti-friction. An earlier analysis of this model was based on numerically evolving the graviton mode functions after guessing their initial conditions near the end of inflation. The current study is based on an equation which directly evolves the normalized square of the magnitude. We are also able to make a very reliable estimate for the initial condition using a rapidly converging expansion for the sub-horizon regime. Results are obtained for the energy density per logarithmic wave number as a fraction of the critical density. These results exhibit how the enhanced signal depends upon the number of oscillatory periods; they also show the resonant effects associated with particular wave numbers.Comment: 25 pages, 14 figure

    Multi-Colour Braid-Monoid Algebras

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    We define multi-colour generalizations of braid-monoid algebras and present explicit matrix representations which are related to two-dimensional exactly solvable lattice models of statistical mechanics. In particular, we show that the two-colour braid-monoid algebra describes the Yang-Baxter algebra of the critical dilute A-D-E models which were recently introduced by Warnaar, Nienhuis, and Seaton as well as by Roche. These and other solvable models related to dense and dilute loop models are discussed in detail and it is shown that the solvability is a direct consequence of the algebraic structure. It is conjectured that the Yang-Baxterization of general multi-colour braid-monoid algebras will lead to the construction of further solvable lattice models.Comment: 32 page

    Construction of some missing eigenvectors of the XYZ spin chain at the discrete coupling constants and the exponentially large spectral degeneracy of the transfer matrix

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    We discuss an algebraic method for constructing eigenvectors of the transfer matrix of the eight vertex model at the discrete coupling parameters. We consider the algebraic Bethe ansatz of the elliptic quantum group Eτ,η(sl2)E_{\tau, \eta}(sl_2) for the case where the parameter η\eta satisfies 2Nη=m1+m2τ2 N \eta = m_1 + m_2 \tau for arbitrary integers NN, m1m_1 and m2m_2. When m1m_1 or m2m_2 is odd, the eigenvectors thus obtained have not been discussed previously. Furthermore, we construct a family of degenerate eigenvectors of the XYZ spin chain, some of which are shown to be related to the sl2sl_2 loop algebra symmetry of the XXZ spin chain. We show that the dimension of some degenerate eigenspace of the XYZ spin chain on LL sites is given by N2L/NN 2^{L/N}, if L/NL/N is an even integer. The construction of eigenvectors of the transfer matrices of some related IRF models is also discussed.Comment: 19 pages, no figure (revisd version with three appendices

    Simultaneous measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current cross section on oxygen and carbon without pions in the final state at T2K

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    Authors: K. Abe,56 N. Akhlaq,45 R. Akutsu,57 A. Ali,32 C. Alt,11 C. Andreopoulos,54,34 L. Anthony,21 M. Antonova,19 S. Aoki,31 A. Ariga,2 T. Arihara,59 Y. Asada,69 Y. Ashida,32 E. T. Atkin,21 Y. Awataguchi,59 S. Ban,32 M. Barbi,46 G. J. Barker,66 G. Barr,42 D. Barrow,42 M. Batkiewicz-Kwasniak,15 A. Beloshapkin,26 F. Bench,34 V. Berardi,22 L. Berns,58 S. Bhadra,70 S. Bienstock,53 S. Bolognesi,6 T. Bonus,68 B. Bourguille,18 S. B. Boyd,66 A. Bravar,13 D. Bravo Berguño,1 C. Bronner,56 S. Bron,13 A. Bubak,51 M. Buizza Avanzini ,10 T. Campbell,7 S. Cao,16 S. L. Cartwright,50 M. G. Catanesi,22 A. Cervera,19 D. Cherdack,17 N. Chikuma,55 G. Christodoulou,12 M. Cicerchia,24,† J. Coleman,34 G. Collazuol,24 L. Cook,42,28 D. Coplowe,42 A. Cudd,7 A. Dabrowska,15 G. De Rosa,23 T. Dealtry,33 S. R. Dennis,34 C. Densham,54 F. Di Lodovico,30 N. Dokania,39 S. Dolan,12 T. A. Doyle,33 O. Drapier,10 J. Dumarchez,53 P. Dunne,21 A. Eguchi,55 L. Eklund,14 S. Emery-Schrenk,6 A. Ereditato,2 A. J. Finch,33 G. Fiorillo,23 C. Francois,2 M. Friend,16,‡ Y. Fujii,16,‡ R. Fujita,55 D. Fukuda,40 R. Fukuda,60 Y. Fukuda,37 K. Fusshoeller,11 C. Giganti,53 M. Gonin,10 A. Gorin,26 M. Guigue,53 D. R. Hadley,66 J. T. Haigh,66 P. Hamacher-Baumann,49 M. Hartz,62,28 T. Hasegawa,16,‡ S. Hassani,6 N. C. Hastings,16 Y. Hayato,56,28 A. Hiramoto,32 M. Hogan,8 J. Holeczek,51 N. T. Hong Van,20,27 T. Honjo,41 F. Iacob,24 A. K. Ichikawa,32 M. Ikeda,56 T. Ishida,16,‡ M. Ishitsuka,60 K. Iwamoto,55 A. Izmaylov,26 N. Izumi,60 M. Jakkapu,16 B. Jamieson,67 S. J. Jenkins,50 C. Jesús-Valls,18 M. Jiang,32 P. Jonsson,21 C. K. Jung,39,§ X. Junjie,57 P. B. Jurj,21 M. Kabirnezhad,42 A. C. Kaboth,48,54 T. Kajita,57,§ H. Kakuno,59 J. Kameda,56 D. Karlen,63,62 S. P. Kasetti,35 Y. Kataoka,56 Y. Katayama,69 T. Katori,30 Y. Kato,56 E. Kearns,3,28,§ M. Khabibullin,26 A. Khotjantsev,26 T. Kikawa,32 H. Kikutani,55 H. Kim,41 S. King,30 J. Kisiel,51 A. Knight,66 T. Kobata,41 T. Kobayashi,16,‡ L. Koch,42 T. Koga,55 A. Konaka,62 L. L. Kormos,33 Y. Koshio,40,§ A. Kostin,26 K. Kowalik,38 H. Kubo,32 Y. Kudenko,26,∥ N. Kukita,41 S. Kuribayashi,32 R. Kurjata,65 T. Kutter,35 M. Kuze,58 L. Labarga,1 J. Lagoda,38 M. Lamoureux,24 D. Last,43 M. Lawe,33 M. Licciardi,10 R. P. Litchfield,14 S. L. Liu,39 X. Li,39 A. Longhin,24 L. Ludovici,25 X. Lu,42 T. Lux,18 L. N. Machado,23 L. Magaletti,22 K. Mahn,36 M. Malek,50 S. Manly,47 L. Maret,13 A. D. Marino,7 L. Marti-Magro,56,28 T. Maruyama,16,‡ T. Matsubara,16 K. Matsushita,55 V. Matveev,26 C. Mauger,43 K. Mavrokoridis,34 E. Mazzucato,6 N. McCauley,34 J. McElwee,50 K. S. McFarland,47 C. McGrew,39 A. Mefodiev,26 C. Metelko,34 M. Mezzetto,24 A. Minamino,69 O. Mineev,26 S. Mine,5 M. Miura,56,§ L. Molina Bueno,11 S. Moriyama,56,§ Th. A. Mueller,10 L. Munteanu,6 S. Murphy,11 Y. Nagai,7 T. Nakadaira,16,‡ M. Nakahata,56,28 Y. Nakajima,56 A. Nakamura,40 K. Nakamura,28,16,‡ S. Nakayama,56,28 T. Nakaya,32,28 K. Nakayoshi,16,‡ C. E. R. Naseby,21 T. V. Ngoc,20,¶ K. Niewczas,68 K. Nishikawa,16,* Y. Nishimura,29 E. Noah,13 T. S. Nonnenmacher,21 F. Nova,54 P. Novella,19 J. Nowak,33 J. C. Nugent,14 H. M. O’Keeffe,33 L. O’Sullivan,50 T. Odagawa,32 T. Ogawa,16 R. Okada,40 K. Okumura,57,28 T. Okusawa,41 S. M. Oser,4,62 R. A. Owen,45 Y. Oyama,16,‡ V. Palladino,23 V. Paolone,44 M. Pari,24 W. C. Parker,48 S. Parsa,13 J. Pasternak,21 M. Pavin,62 D. Payne,34 G. C. Penn,34 L. Pickering,36 C. Pidcott,50 G. Pintaudi,69 C. Pistillo,2 B. Popov,53,** K. Porwit,51 M. Posiadala-Zezula,64 A. Pritchard,34 B. Quilain,10 T. Radermacher,49 E. Radicioni,22 B. Radics,11 P. N. Ratoff,33 C. Riccio,39 E. Rondio,38 S. Roth,49 A. Rubbia,11 A. C. Ruggeri,23 C. Ruggles,14 A. Rychter,65 K. Sakashita,16,‡ F. Sánchez,13 G. Santucci,70 C. M. Schloesser,11 K. Scholberg,9,§ M. Scott,21 Y. Seiya,41,†† T. Sekiguchi,16,‡ H. Sekiya,56,28,§ D. Sgalaberna,11 A. Shaikhiev,26 A. Shaykina,26 M. Shiozawa,56,28 W. Shorrock,21 A. Shvartsman,26 M. Smy,5 J. T. Sobczyk,68 H. Sobel,5,28 F. J. P. Soler,14 Y. Sonoda,56 S. Suvorov,26,6 A. Suzuki,31 S. Y. Suzuki,16,‡ Y. Suzuki,28 A. A. Sztuc,21 M. Tada,16,‡ M. Tajima,32 A. Takeda,56 Y. Takeuchi,31,28 H. K. Tanaka,56,§ H. A. Tanaka,52,61 S. Tanaka,41 Y. Tanihara,69 N. Teshima,41 L. F. Thompson,50 W. Toki,8 C. Touramanis,34 T. Towstego,61 K. M. Tsui,34 T. Tsukamoto,16,‡ M. Tzanov,35 Y. Uchida,21 M. Vagins,28,5 S. Valder,66 Z. Vallari,39 D. Vargas,18 G. Vasseur,6 W. G. S. Vinning,66 T. Vladisavljevic,54 V. V. Volkov,26 T. Wachala,15 J. Walker,67 J. G. Walsh,33 Y. Wang,39 D. Wark,54,42 M. O. Wascko,21 A. Weber,54,42 R. Wendell,32,§ M. J. Wilking,39 C. Wilkinson,2 J. R. Wilson,30 K. Wood,39 C. Wret,47 K. Yamamoto,41,†† C. Yanagisawa,39,‡‡ G. Yang,39 T. Yano,56 K. Yasutome,32 N. Yershov,26 M. Yokoyama,55,§ T. Yoshida,58 M. Yu,70 A. Zalewska,15 J. Zalipska,38 K. Zaremba,65 G. Zarnecki,38 M. Ziembicki,65 E. D. Zimmerman,7 M. Zito,53 S. Zsoldos,30 and A. Zykova26 (T2K Collaboration)This paper reports the first simultaneous measurement of the double differential muon neutrino chargedcurrent cross section on oxygen and carbon without pions in the final state as a function of the outgoing muon kinematics, made at the ND280 off-axis near detector of the T2K experiment. The ratio of the oxygen and carbon cross sections is also provided to help validate various models’ ability to extrapolate between carbon and oxygen nuclear targets, as is required in T2K oscillation analyses. The data are taken using a neutrino beam with an energy spectrum peaked at 0.6 GeV. The extracted measurement is compared with the prediction from different Monte Carlo neutrino-nucleus interaction event generators, showing particular model separation for very forward-going muons. Overall, of the models tested, the result is best described using local Fermi gas descriptions of the nuclear ground state with RPA suppression

    Scintillator ageing of the T2K near detectors from 2010 to 2021

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    The T2K experiment widely uses plastic scintillator as a target for neutrino interactions and an active medium for the measurement of charged particles produced in neutrino interactions at its near detector complex. Over 10 years of operation the measured light yield recorded by the scintillator based subsystems has been observed to degrade by 0.9-2.2% per year. Extrapolation of the degradation rate through to 2040 indicates the recorded light yield should remain above the lower threshold used by the current reconstruction algorithms for all subsystems. This will allow the near detectors to continue contributing to important physics measurements during the T2K-II and Hyper-Kamiokande eras. Additionally, work to disentangle the degradation of the plastic scintillator and wavelength shifting fibres shows that the reduction in light yield can be attributed to the ageing of the plastic scintillator. The long component of the attenuation length of the wavelength shifting fibres was observed to degrade by 1.3-5.4% per year, while the short component of the attenuation length did not show any conclusive degradation.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación SEV-2016-0588, PID2019-107564GB-I00, PGC2018-099388-BI00European Union 713673, 754496, RISE-GA822070-JENNIFER2 2020, RISE-GA872549-SK2HKJSPS KAKENHI (JP16H06288, JP18K03682, JP18H03701, JP18H05537, JP19J01119, JP19J22440, JP19J22258, JP20H00162, JP20H00149, JP20J2030

    Brazilian community restaurants’ low-income food handlers : association between the nutritional status and the presence of non-communicable chronic diseases

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    This cross-sectional study aimed primarily to determine the association between the nutritional status and the presence of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) among community restaurants’ food handlers, since their access to food can influence their body mass index (BMI). The study discusses the socio-demographic status of participants, dietary intake, the prevalence of overweightness/obesity, and self-reported diagnosed NCDs. In 36 Community Restaurants (CRs) from all of the Brazilian regions, we collected data from 559 food handlers. We used a questionnaire to collect socio-demographic data and the reported diagnosed chronic diseases. For the anthropometric evaluation with Body Mass Index calculation, we measured the weight and the height of the individuals. They were all weighed before having lunch at the CR, without shoes and coats. Associations between variables were analyzed by the chi-square test and Poisson regression at a significance level of 5%, considering health as the outcome variable. Most of the food handlers were female (63.1%), married or with a partner (51.7%), and overweight (59.9%). Among the food handlers that presented diagnosed NCDs (n = 96, 17.2% of food handlers), 45.8% (n = 44) presented hypertension and 12.5% (n = 12) type 2 diabetes mellitus. There was a significant association between BMI and NCD status in the studied population. The total daily sodium intake of food handlers was higher than the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), especially from the CR lunch, which may raise the risk of chronic diseases such as hypertension (the most prevalent non-communicable disease found in our study). Despite that, in general, the CRs provide access to cheap and adequate meals to their workers, considering energy intake and the proportion of macronutrients. In this population, overweightness and obesity were prevalent; there was an association of obesity with chronic disease in the study population. Therefore, it is necessary for better menu planning for CRs to guarantee sodium reduction throughout time
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