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Mineral investigations in the Teign Valley, Devon. Part 1, barytes
Geochemical studies in the Teign Valley, em?loying
stream sediment and soil samples, have indicated extensions
of barytes mineralisation some 2. 5 km north and 1.2 km
south of the formerly mined strike length. Ba-Pb-Zn
mineralisation is now known to extend over a total length
of 12. 3 km and over a width rarely less than O. :; km,
. though ore bodies large enough to be worked occur only
intermittently within this belt.
The part of the southern extension lying outside the
Dartmoor National Park was investigated by a programme
of deeper sampl~ng using a "'ltrac percussive drill to
obtahl powdered rock sampt"t:o for assay. To the south of
Hennock village a balytes-rich zone has been defined, some
1.2 km long and 260 m wide, within which narrower
high-grade deposits are indicated.· Base metal analyses
suggest that this barytes is relatively free from serious
sulphide contaminants but, in some cases, the iron oxide
ccntent is appreciable and the ore is highly discoloured
Power corrections in e+ e- --> pi+ pi-, K+ K- and B --> K pi, pi pi
CLEO-c measurements of the timelike form factors F_pi, F_K at \sqrt{s}=3.671
GeV provide a direct probe of power corrections (PC's) at energies near m_B.
PC's in F_pi, F_K and B \to K pi, pi pi are separated into perturbative and
soft parts. In F_pi, F_K the latter are \ge O(10) larger. A PC fit to the B \to
K pi, pi pi data also yields a \ge O(10) soft-to-perturbative hierarchy for the
QCD penguin PC's. Hence, both can be attributed to dominance of the soft-ovelap
between energetic (approximately) back-to-back collinear partons, and
consistency of the B\to K pi, pi pi fit with the Standard Model appears to be
naturally realized. The CP asymmetries S_{K_s pi^0}, C_{K_s pi^0} are well
determined, providing a clean test for new physics.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, version published in Eur. Phys. J. C; elaborated
on the connection between power corrections in e+e- ->M1 M2 and the B-> M1 M2
QCD penguin amplitudes; removed speculation that soft-overlaps are much
larger for PP than for VP and VV final states, this is not supported by a new
analysis in preparatio
Final state interactions in the decay
In this article, we study the final-state rescattering effects in the decay
, the numerical results indicate the corrections are
comparable with the contribution from the naive factorizable amplitude, and the
total amplitudes can accommodate the experimental data.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure, revised version, to appear in EPJ
14Be(p,n)14B reaction at 69 MeV in inverse kinematics
A Gamow-Teller (GT) transition from the drip-line nucleus 14Be to 14B was
studied via the (p,n) reaction in inverse kinematics using a secondary 14Be
beam at 69 MeV/nucleon. The invariant mass method is employed to reconstruct
the energy spectrum. A peak is observed at an excitation energy of 1.27(2) MeV
in 14B, together with bumps at 2.08 and 4.06(5) MeV. The observed forward
peaking of the state at 1.27 MeV and a good description for the differential
cross section, obtained with a DWBA calculation provide support for the 1+
assignment to this state. By extrapolating the cross section to zero momentum
transfer the GT-transition strength is deduced. The value is found to compare
well with that reported in a beta-delayed neutron emission study.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Hard pomeron enhancement of ultrahigh-energy neutrino-nucleon cross-sections
An unknown small-x behavior of nucleon structure functions gives appreciable
uncertainties to high-energy neutrino-nucleon cross-sections. We construct
structure functions using at small x Regge inspired description by A. Donnachie
and P. V. Landshoff with soft and hard pomerons, and employing at larger x the
perturbative QCD expressions. The smooth interpolation between two regimes for
each Q^2 is provided with the help of simple polynomial functions. To obtain
low-x neutrino-nucleon structure functions and
singlet part of from Donnachie-Landshoff
function , we use the Q^2-dependent ratios R_2(Q^2) and
R_3(Q^2) derived from perturbative QCD calculations. Non-singlet part of F_3 at
low x, which is very small, is taken as power-law extrapolation of perturbative
function at larger x. This procedure gives a full set of smooth
neutrino-nucleon structure functions in the whole range of x and Q^2 at
interest.
Using these structure functions, we have calculated the neutrino-nucleon
cross-sections and compared them with some other cross-sections known in
literature. Our cross-sections turn out to be the highest among them at the
highest energies, which is explained by contribution of the hard pomeron.Comment: Final revised version, accepted by Phys. Rev. D; 18 pages, 7 figure
Production and Decay of D_1(2420)^0 and D_2^*(2460)^0
We have investigated and final states and
observed the two established charmed mesons, the with mass
MeV/c and width MeV/c and
the with mass MeV/c and width
MeV/c. Properties of these final states, including
their decay angular distributions and spin-parity assignments, have been
studied. We identify these two mesons as the doublet predicted
by HQET. We also obtain constraints on {\footnotesize } as a function of the cosine of the relative phase of the two
amplitudes in the decay.Comment: 15 pages in REVTEX format. hardcopies with figures can be obtained by
sending mail to: [email protected]
Transversity in hard exclusive electroproduction of pseudoscalar mesons
Estimates for electroproduction of pseudoscalar mesons at small values of
skewness are presented. Cross sections and asymmetries for these processes are
calculated within the handbag approach which is based on factorization in hard
parton subprocesses and soft generalized parton distributions (GPDs). The
latter are constructed from double distributions. Transversity GPDs are taken
into account; they are accompanied by twist-3 meson wave functions. For most
pseudoscalar-meson channels a combination of H-tilde_T plays a
particularly prominent role. This combination of GPDs which we constrain by
moments obtained from lattice QCD, leads with the exception of the pi+ and eta'
channels, to large transverse cross sections.Comment: 36 pages and 27 figure
Quark Matter in a Strong Magnetic Background
In this chapter, we discuss several aspects of the theory of strong
interactions in presence of a strong magnetic background. In particular, we
summarize our results on the effect of the magnetic background on chiral
symmetry restoration and deconfinement at finite temperature. Moreover, we
compute the magnetic susceptibility of the chiral condensate and the quark
polarization at zero temperature. Our theoretical framework is given by chiral
models: the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL), the Polyakov improved NJL (or PNJL) and
the Quark-Meson (QM) models. We also compare our results with the ones obtained
by other groups.Comment: 34 pages, survey. To appear in Lect. Notes Phys. "Strongly
interacting matter in magnetic fields" (Springer), edited by D. Kharzeev, K.
Landsteiner, A. Schmitt, H.-U. Ye
The Role of Inflammatory Mediators in the Pathogenesis of Otitis Media and Sequelae
This review deals with the characteristics of various inflammatory mediators identified in the middle ear during otitis media and in cholesteatoma. The role of each inflammatory mediator in the pathogenesis of otitis media and cholesteatoma has been discussed. Further, the relation of each inflammatory mediator to the pathophysiology of the middle and inner ear along with its mechanisms of pathological change has been described. The mechanisms of hearing loss including sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) as a sequela of otitis media are also discussed. The passage of inflammatory mediators through the round window membrane into the scala tympani is indicated. In an experimental animal model, an application of cytokines and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a bacterial toxin, on the round window membrane induced sensorineural hearing loss as identified through auditory brainstem response threshold shifts. An increase in permeability of the blood-labyrinth barrier (BLB) was observed following application of these inflammatory mediators and LPS. The leakage of the blood components into the lateral wall of the cochlea through an increase in BLB permeability appears to be related to the sensorineural hearing loss by hindering K+ recycling through the lateral wall disrupting the ion homeostasis of the endolymph. Further studies on the roles of various inflammatory mediators and bacterial toxins in inducing the sensorineumral hearing loss in otitis media should be pursued
Integrating sequence and array data to create an improved 1000 Genomes Project haplotype reference panel
A major use of the 1000 Genomes Project (1000GP) data is genotype imputation in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Here we develop a method to estimate haplotypes from low-coverage sequencing data that can take advantage of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) microarray genotypes on the same samples. First the SNP array data are phased to build a backbone (or 'scaffold') of haplotypes across each chromosome. We then phase the sequence data 'onto' this haplotype scaffold. This approach can take advantage of relatedness between sequenced and non-sequenced samples to improve accuracy. We use this method to create a new 1000GP haplotype reference set for use by the human genetic community. Using a set of validation genotypes at SNP and bi-allelic indels we show that these haplotypes have lower genotype discordance and improved imputation performance into downstream GWAS samples, especially at low-frequency variants. © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved
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