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Chiral behavior of baryon magnetic moments
The utility of chiral effective field theory, constructed in a manner in
which loop contributions are suppressed as one moves outside the power-counting
regime, is explored for baryon magnetic moments. Opportunities for the study of
significant chiral curvature in valence and full QCD and the nontrivial
behavior of strange- and light-quark contributions to the magnetic moment of
the Lambda baryon are highlighted.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures; prepared for the proceedings of Achievements and
New Directions in Subatomic Physics: Workshop in Honour of Tony Thomas' 60th
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Inward foreign direct investment and constitutional change in Scotland
Purpose - To undertake an analysis of the implications of potential Scottish independence for inward foreign direct investment (FDI), multinational enterprise strategies, and the local economy.<p></p>
Design/methodology/approach - Takes a multidisciplinary approach drawing upon literature and evidence in the international business and management, political economy, and economic geography fields to analyze the role and impact of inward FDI in Scotland following possible Scottish independence.<p></p>
Findings - Scotland continues as an attractive location for FDI, with greater diversity than hitherto. While the country’s comparative advantages in immobile natural resources provide some protection from uncertainty, weak embeddedness is a risk factor irrespective of independence. A range of transition costs of independence are identified, which could be high and of indeterminate duration, and some will be sector-specific. There are also new possibilities for tailoring of policies, and potential reindustrialization opportunities in renewable technologies. The foreign investors most vulnerable to political risks and uncertainties are those whose market scope is the rest of the UK (rUK) either as exporters or value chain integrators, in addition to the high political risk industries of energy, banking, and financial services and defence. Scottish subsidiaries’ significance within their parent MNE groups will also be a major factor in determining responses to political risks and uncertainties.<p></p>
Originality/value - Specific focus upon the impact of potential independence on the foreign-owned sector as a major contributor to the Scottish economy.<p></p>
Chiral extrapolation and physical insights
It has recently been established that finite-range regularisation in chiral
effective field theory enables the accurate extrapolation of modern lattice QCD
results to the chiral regime. We review some of the highlights of
extrapolations of quenched lattice QCD results, including spectroscopy and
magnetic moments. The resonance displays peculiar chiral features in
the quenched theory which can be exploited to demonstrate the presence of
significant chiral corrections.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, presented at LHP2003, Cairns, Australi
Hadron structure on the back of an envelope
In order to remove a little of the mysticism surrounding the issue of
strangeness in the nucleon, we present simple, physically transparent estimates
of both the strange magnetic moment and charge radius of the proton. Although
simple, the estimates are in quite good agreement with sophisticated
calculations using the latest input from lattice QCD. We further explore the
possible size of systematic uncertainties associated with charge symmetry
violation (CSV) in the recent precise determination of the strange magnetic
moment of the proton. We find that CSV acts to increase the error estimate by
0.003 \mu_N such that G_M^s = -0.046 +/- 0.022 \mu_N.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure, Invited talk at First Workshop on Quark-Hadron
Duality and the Transition to pQCD, Frascati, June 6-8 200
Chiral Symmetry and the Intrinsic Structure of the Nucleon
Understanding hadron structure within the framework of QCD is an extremely
challenging problem. In order to solve it, it is vital that our thinking should
be guided by the best available insight. Our purpose here is to explain the
model independent consequences of the approximate chiral symmetry of QCD for
two famous results concerning the structure of the nucleon. We show that both
the apparent success of the constituent quark model in reproducing the ratio of
the proton to neutron magnetic moments and the apparent success of the Foldy
term in reproducing the observed charge radius of the neutron are coincidental.
That is, a relatively small change of the current quark mass would spoil both
results.Comment: RevTeX, 10 pages, 2 figure
Extrapolation of lattice QCD results beyond the power-counting regime
Resummation of the chiral expansion is necessary to make accurate contact
with current lattice simulation results of full QCD. Resummation techniques
including relativistic formulations of chiral effective field theory and
finite-range regularization (FRR) techniques are reviewed, with an emphasis on
using lattice simulation results to constrain the parameters of the chiral
expansion. We illustrate how the chiral extrapolation problem has been solved
and use FRR techniques to identify the power-counting regime (PCR) of chiral
perturbation theory. To fourth-order in the expansion at the 1% tolerance
level, we find 0 \le m_pi \le 0.18 GeV for the PCR, extending only a small
distance beyond the physical pion mass.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, plenary talk at BARYONS 2004, Paris, Oct. 25-2
A List of Wisconsin Springtails With New Records and Annotations (Hexapoda: Parainsecta: Collembola)
Twenty Collembola species new to Wisconsin were collected from soil at two agricultural sites in southern Wisconsin, including an undescribed species of Isotomidae. The state faunal list now contains 52 species representing seven families
Chiral extrapolations for nucleon magnetic moments
Lattice QCD simulations have made significant progress in the calculation of
nucleon electromagnetic form factors in the chiral regime in recent years. With
simulation results achieving pion masses of order ~180 MeV, there is an
apparent challenge as to how the physical regime is approached. By using
contemporary methods in chiral effective field theory, both the quark-mass and
finite-volume dependence of the isovector nucleon magnetic moment are carefully
examined. The extrapolation to the physical point yields a result that is
compatible with experiment, albeit with a combined statistical and systematic
uncertainty of 10%. The extrapolation shows a strong finite-volume dependence;
lattice sizes of L > 5 fm must be used to simulate results within 2% of the
infinite-volume result for the magnetic moment at the physical pion mass.Comment: 7 pages, 12 figures, 1 tabl
Power Counting Regime of Chiral Effective Field Theory and Beyond
Chiral effective field theory complements numerical simulations of quantum
chromodynamics (QCD) on a space-time lattice. It provides a model-independent
formalism for connecting lattice simulation results at finite volume and a
variety of quark masses to the physical world. The asymptotic nature of the
chiral expansion places the focus on the first few terms of the expansion.
Thus, knowledge of the power-counting regime (PCR) of chiral effective field
theory, where higher-order terms of the expansion may be regarded as
negligible, is as important as knowledge of the expansion itself. Through the
consideration of a variety of renormalization schemes and associated
parameters, techniques to identify the PCR where results are independent of the
renormalization scheme are established. The nucleon mass is considered as a
benchmark for illustrating this general approach. Because the PCR is small, the
numerical simulation results are also examined to search for the possible
presence of an intrinsic scale which may be used in a nonperturbative manner to
describe lattice simulation results outside of the PCR. Positive results that
improve on the current optimistic application of chiral perturbation theory
beyond the PCR are reported.Comment: 18 pages, 55 figure
Integrability and maximally helicity violating diagrams in n=4 supersymmetric yang-mills theory.
We apply maximally helicity violating (MHV) diagrams to the derivation of the one-loop dilatation operator of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in the SO(6) sector. We find that in this approach the calculation reduces to the evaluation of a single MHV diagram in dimensional regularization. This provides the first application of MHV diagrams to an off-shell quantity. We also discuss other applications of the method and future directions
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