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    Selenium and vascular health

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    Scaling, domains, and states in the four-dimensional random field Ising magnet

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    The four dimensional Gaussian random field Ising magnet is investigated numerically at zero temperature, using samples up to size 64464^4, to test scaling theories and to investigate the nature of domain walls and the thermodynamic limit. As the magnetization exponent ÎČ\beta is more easily distinguishable from zero in four dimensions than in three dimensions, these results provide a useful test of conventional scaling theories. Results are presented for the critical behavior of the heat capacity, magnetization, and stiffness. The fractal dimensions of the domain walls at criticality are estimated. A notable difference from three dimensions is the structure of the spin domains: frozen spins of both signs percolate at a disorder magnitude less than the value at the ferromagnetic to paramagnetic transition. Hence, in the vicinity of the transition, there are two percolating clusters of opposite spins that are fixed under any boundary conditions. This structure changes the interpretation of the domain walls for the four dimensional case. The scaling of the effect of boundary conditions on the interior spin configuration is found to be consistent with the domain wall dimension. There is no evidence of a glassy phase: there appears to be a single transition from two ferromagnetic states to a single paramagnetic state, as in three dimensions. The slowing down of the ground state algorithm is also used to study this model and the links between combinatorial optimization and critical behavior.Comment: 13 pages, 16 figure

    Effects of the CP Odd Dipole Operators on Gluino Production at Hadron Colliders

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    We present the cross sections for the hadroproduction of gluinos by taking into account the CP odd dipole operators in supersymmetric QCD. The dependence of the cross sections on these operators is analyzed for the hadron colliders the Tevatron (S\sqrt S=1.8 TeV) and the Cern LHC (S\sqrt{S}=14 TeV). The enhancement of the hadronic cross section is obviously mass dependent and for a 500 GeV gluino, is up to 16 % (over 73 pb) at the LHC while it is 8 % (over 0.63 fb) at the Tevatron.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures and 4 table

    Single and pair production of heavy leptons in E6E_6 model

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    We investigate the single and pair production of new heavy leptons via string inspired E6E_{6} model at future linear colliders. Signal and corresponding backgrounds for these leptons are studied. We have found that single production of heavy leptons is more relevant than that of pair production, as expected. For a maximal mixing value of 0.1, the upper mass limits of 2750 GeV in the single case and 1250 GeV in the pair production case are obtained at s=3\sqrt{s}=3 TeV collider option.Comment: 14 pages, 10 figure

    Repository case history: University of Strathclyde Strathprints

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    GERT EXCLUSIVE-OR combining paths and loops of electrical networks

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    Program takes a network with multi-parameter branches and reduces it to a network having a single branch connecting source nodes to sink nodes. The program calculates probability, expected time, and variance in the time to go from each source node to each sink node of the GERT network
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