21,061 research outputs found
Hadronic Form Factors: Combining QCD Calculations with Analyticity
I discuss recent applications of QCD light-cone sum rules to various form
factors of pseudoscalar mesons. In this approach both soft and hard
contributions to the form factors are taken into account. Combining QCD
calculation with the analyticity of the form factors, one enlarges the region
of accessible momentum transfers.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, Talk at the Workshop "Shifmania, Crossing the
boundaries: Gauge dynamics at strong coupling", May 14-17,2009, Minneapolis,
USA; table entry and reference update
Leading twist contribution to color singlet decays
In this paper the leading twist contribution to
decays in the color singlet approximation is considered. It is shown, that the
predictions for \Br(\chi_0\to\omega\omega) is in a good agreement with the
experimental data, while \Br(\chi_{c2}\to\omega\omega) differs from the
experiment significantly.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX; minor changes, some refrences adde
Analysis of the vertex with the light-cone QCD sum rules
In this article, we analyze the vertex with the light-cone QCD
sum rules. The strong coupling constant is an important
parameter in evaluating the charmonium absorption cross sections in searching
for the quark-gluon plasmas. Our numerical value for the is
consistent with the prediction of the effective SU(4) symmetry and vector meson
dominance theory.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, revised versio
‘‘There’s so much more to it than what I initially thought’’: Stepping into researchers’ shoes with a class activity in a first year psychology survey course
In psychology, it is widely agreed that research methods, although central to the discipline, are particularly challenging to learn and teach, particularly at introductory level. This pilot study explored the potential of embedding a student-conducted research activity in a one-semester undergraduate Introduction to Psychology survey course, with the aims of (a) engaging students with the topic of research methods; (b) developing students’ comprehension and application of research methods concepts; and (c) building students’ ability to link research with theory. The research activity explored shoe ownership, examining gender differences and relationships with age, and linking to theories of gender difference and of consumer identity. The process of carrying out the research and reflecting on it created a contextualized, active learning environment in which students themselves raised many issues that research methods lectures seek to cover. Students also wrote richer assignments than standard first year mid-term essay
Poisson transition rates from time-domain measurements with finite bandwidth
In time-domain measurements of a Poisson two-level system, the observed
transition rates are always smaller than those of the actual system, a general
consequence of finite measurement bandwidth in an experiment. This
underestimation of the rates is significant even when the measurement and
detection apparatus is ten times faster than the process under study. We derive
here a quantitative form for this correction using a straightforward
state-transition model that includes the detection apparatus, and provide a
method for determining a system's actual transition rates from
bandwidth-limited measurements. We support our results with computer
simulations and experimental data from time-domain measurements of
quasiparticle tunneling in a single-Cooper-pair transistor.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Estimates for measures of sections of convex bodies
A estimate in the hyperplane problem with arbitrary measures has
recently been proved in \cite{K3}. In this note we present analogs of this
result for sections of lower dimensions and in the complex case. We deduce
these inequalities from stability in comparison problems for different
generalizations of intersection bodies
Faster Algorithms for Weighted Recursive State Machines
Pushdown systems (PDSs) and recursive state machines (RSMs), which are
linearly equivalent, are standard models for interprocedural analysis. Yet RSMs
are more convenient as they (a) explicitly model function calls and returns,
and (b) specify many natural parameters for algorithmic analysis, e.g., the
number of entries and exits. We consider a general framework where RSM
transitions are labeled from a semiring and path properties are algebraic with
semiring operations, which can model, e.g., interprocedural reachability and
dataflow analysis problems.
Our main contributions are new algorithms for several fundamental problems.
As compared to a direct translation of RSMs to PDSs and the best-known existing
bounds of PDSs, our analysis algorithm improves the complexity for
finite-height semirings (that subsumes reachability and standard dataflow
properties). We further consider the problem of extracting distance values from
the representation structures computed by our algorithm, and give efficient
algorithms that distinguish the complexity of a one-time preprocessing from the
complexity of each individual query. Another advantage of our algorithm is that
our improvements carry over to the concurrent setting, where we improve the
best-known complexity for the context-bounded analysis of concurrent RSMs.
Finally, we provide a prototype implementation that gives a significant
speed-up on several benchmarks from the SLAM/SDV project
A new design for the CERN-Fr\'ejus neutrino Super Beam
We present an optimization of the hadron focusing system for a low-energy
high-intensity conventional neutrino beam (Super-Beam) proposed on the basis of
the HP-SPL at CERN with a beam power of 4 MW and an energy of 4.5 GeV. The far
detector would be a 440 kton Water Cherenkov detector (MEMPHYS) located at a
baseline of 130 km in the Fr\'ejus site. The neutrino fluxes simulation relies
on a new GEANT4 based simulation coupled with an optimization algorithm based
on the maximization of the sensitivity limit on the mixing angle.
A new configuration adopting a multiple horn system with solid targets is
proposed which improves the sensitivity to and the CP violating
phase .Comment: 11 pages, 18 figures, 2 table
Heavy-to-Light Form Factors in the Final Hadron Large Energy Limit of QCD
We argue that the Large Energy Effective Theory (LEET), originally proposed
by Dugan and Grinstein, is applicable to exclusive semileptonic, radiative and
rare heavy-to-light transitions in the region where the energy release E is
large compared to the strong interaction scale and to the mass of the final
hadron, i.e. for q^2 not close to the zero-recoil point. We derive the
Effective Lagrangian from the QCD one, and show that in the limit of heavy mass
M for the initial hadron and large energy E for the final one, the heavy and
light quark fields behave as two-component spinors. Neglecting QCD
short-distance corrections, this implies that there are only three form factors
describing all the pseudoscalar to pseudoscalar or vector weak current matrix
elements. We argue that the dependence of these form factors with respect to M
and E should be factorizable, the M-dependence (sqrt(M)) being derived from the
usual heavy quark expansion while the E-dependence is controlled by the
behaviour of the light-cone distribution amplitude near the end-point u=1. The
usual expectation of the (1-u) behaviour leads to a 1/E^2 scaling law, that is
a dipole form in q^2. We also show explicitly that in the appropriate limit,
the Light-Cone Sum Rule method satisfies our general relations as well as the
scaling laws in M and E of the form factors, and obtain very compact and simple
expressions for the latter. Finally we note that this formalism gives
theoretical support to the quark model-inspired methods existing in the
literature.Comment: Latex2e, 25 pages, no figure. Slight changes in the title and the
phrasing. Misprint in Eq. (25) corrected. To appear in Phys. Rev.
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