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Fitting Precision Electroweak Data with Exotic Heavy Quarks
The 1999 precision electroweak data from LEP and SLC persist in showing some
slight discrepancies from the assumed standard model, mostly regarding and
quarks. We show how their mixing with exotic heavy quarks could result in a
more consistent fit of all the data, including two unconventional
interpretations of the top quark.Comment: 7 pages, no figure, 2 typos corrected, 1 reference update
Rotational CARS application to simultaneous and multiple-point temperature and concentration determination in a turbulent flow
Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) from the pure rotational Raman lines of N2 is employed to measure the instantaneous (approximately 10 ns) rotational temperature of N2 gas at room temperature and below with good spatial resolution (0.2 x 0.2 x 3.0 cu mm). A broad bandwidth dye laser is used to obtain the entire rotational spectrum from a single laser pulse; the CARS signal is then dispersed by a spectrograph and recorded on an optical multichannel analyzer. A best fit temperature is found in several seconds with the aid of a computer for each experimental spectrum by a least squares comparison with calculated spectra. The model used to calculate the theoretical spectra incorporates the temperature and pressure dependence of the pressure-broadened rotational Raman lines, includes the nonresonant background susceptibility, and assumes that the pump laser has a finite linewidth. Temperatures are fit to experimental spectra recorded over the temperature range of 135 to 296 K, and over the pressure range of .13 to 15.3 atm
Interlayer Exchange Coupling Beyond the Proximity Force Approximation
Ion bombardment has been shown to be capable of enhancing the interlayer
exchange coupling in a trilayer system that exhibits giant magnetoresistance.
We demonstrate that this phenomenon can be derived from the phase coherence
among scattered paths within the two rough interfaces when their topographies
are correlated. In the case of mild corrugations, our method reproduces the
predictions by the proximity force approximation which does not consider the
interference. When the characteristic Fourier conjugate of the tomography
becomes large and comparable to the Fermi momentum, interesting new features
arise and can only be captured by our more general approach. Among our
findings, the scenario of an enhanced interlayer exchange coupling due to the
interface roughness is explained, along with how it depends on the sample
parameters. An additional channel for the resonant transmission is identified
due to extra scattering paths from the roughness.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, submitted to PRB (2010
A Characteristic Planetary Feature in Double-Peaked, High-Magnification Microlensing Events
A significant fraction of microlensing planets have been discovered in
high-magnification events, and a significant fraction of these events exhibit a
double-peak structure at their peak. However, very wide or very close binaries
can also produce double-peaked high-magnification events, with the same gross
properties as those produced by planets. Traditionally, distinguishing between
these two interpretations has relied upon detailed modeling, which is both
time-consuming and generally does not provide insight into the observable
properties that allow discrimination between these two classes of models. We
study the morphologies of these two classes of double-peaked high-magnification
events, and identify a simple diagnostic that can be used to immediately
distinguish between perturbations caused by planetary and binary companions,
without detailed modeling. This diagnostic is based on the difference in the
shape of the intra-peak region of the light curves. The shape is smooth and
concave for binary lensing, while it tends to be either boxy or convex for
planetary lensing. In planetary lensing this intra-peak morphology is due to
the small, weak cusp of the planetary central caustic located between the two
stronger cusps. We apply this diagnostic to five observed double-peaked
high-magnification events to infer their underlying nature. A corollary of our
study is that good coverage of the intra-peak region of double-peaked
high-magnification events is likely to be important for their unique
interpretation.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Probing the Coupling between Dark Components of the Universe
We place observational constraints on a coupling between dark energy and dark
matter by using 71 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first year of the
five-year Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS), the cosmic microwave background (CMB)
shift parameter from the three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
(WMAP), and the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak found in the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The interactions we study are (i) constant coupling
delta and (ii) varying coupling delta(z) that depends on a redshift z, both of
which have simple parametrizations of the Hubble parameter to confront with
observational data. We find that the combination of the three databases
marginalized over a present dark energy density gives stringent constraints on
the coupling, -0.08 < delta < 0.03 (95% CL) in the constant coupling model and
-0.4 < delta_0 < 0.1 (95% CL) in the varying coupling model, where delta_0 is a
present value. The uncoupled LambdaCDM model (w_X = -1 and delta = 0) still
remains a good fit to the data, but the negative coupling (delta < 0) with the
equation of state of dark energy w_X < -1 is slightly favoured over the
LambdaCDM model.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, RevTeX, minor corrections, references added,
accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Decays of the Meson to a -Wave Charmonium State or
The semileptonic decays,
, and the two-body
nonleptonic decays, , (here and
denote and respectively, and
indicates a meson) were computed. All of the form factors appearing in the
relevant weak-current matrix elements with as its initial state and a
-wave charmonium state as its final state for the decays were precisely
formulated in terms of two independent overlapping-integrations of the
wave-functions of and the -wave charmonium and with proper kinematics
factors being `accompanied'. We found that the decays are quite sizable, so
they may be accessible in Run-II at Tevatron and in the foreseen future at LHC,
particularly, when BTeV and LHCB, the special detectors for B-physics, are
borne in mind. In addition, we also pointed out that the decays may potentially be used as a fresh window to look for the
charmonium state, and the cascade decays,
() with one of the radiative decays
being followed accordingly, may affect
the observations of meson through the decays () substantially.Comment: 24 pages, 3 figures, the replacement for improving the presentation
and adding reference
Magnetic Photon Splitting: Computations of Proper-time Rates and Spectra
The splitting of photons in the presence of an intense magnetic field has
recently found astrophysical applications in polar cap models of gamma-ray
pulsars and in magnetar scenarios for soft gamma repeaters. Numerical
computation of the polarization-dependent rates of this third order QED process
for arbitrary field strengths and energies below pair creation threshold is
difficult: thus early analyses focused on analytic developments and simpler
asymptotic forms. The recent astrophysical interest spurred the use of the
S-matrix approach by Mentzel, Berg and Wunner to determine splitting rates. In
this paper, we present numerical computations of a full proper-time expression
for the rate of splitting that was obtained by Stoneham, and is exact up to the
pair creation threshold. While the numerical results derived here are in accord
with the earlier asymptotic forms due to Adler, our computed rates still differ
by as much as factors of 3 from the S-matrix re-evaluation of Wilke and Wunner,
reflecting the extreme difficulty of generating accurate S-matrix numerics for
fields below about \teq{4.4\times 10^{13}}Gauss. We find that our proper-time
rates appear very accurate, and exceed Adler's asymptotic specializations
significantly only for photon energies just below pair threshold and for
supercritical fields, but always by less than a factor of around 2.6. We also
provide a useful analytic series expansion for the scattering amplitude valid
at low energies.Comment: 13 pages, AASTeX format, including 3 eps figures, ApJ in pres
Solutions for real dispersionless Veselov-Novikov hierarchy
We investigate the dispersionless Veselov-Novikov (dVN) equation based on the
framework of dispersionless two-component BKP hierarchy. Symmetry constraints
for real dVN system are considered. It is shown that under symmetry reductions,
the conserved densities are therefore related to the associated Faber
polynomials and can be solved recursively. Moreover, the method of hodograph
transformation as well as the expressions of Faber polynomials are used to find
exact real solutions of the dVN hierarchy.Comment: 14 page
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