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The newly observed open-charm states in quark model
Comparing the measured properties of the newly observed open-charm states
D(2550), D(2600), D(2750), D(2760), D_{s1}(2710), D_{sJ}(2860), and
D_{sJ}(3040) with our predicted spectroscopy and strong decays in a constituent
quark model, we find that: (1) the D(2\,^1S_0) assignment to D(2550) remains
open for its too broad width determined by experiment; (2) the D(2600) and
can be identified as the 2\,^3S_1-1\,^3D_1 mixtures; (3) if
the D(2760) and D(2750) are indeed the same resonance, they would be the
D(1\,^3D_3); otherwise, they could be assigned as the D(1\,^3D_3) and
, respectively; (4) the could be either the
's partner or the D_s(1\,^3D_3); and (5) both the
and interpretations for the seem likely. The
and radiative decays of these sates are also studied. Further
experimental efforts are needed to test the present quarkonium assignments for
these new open-charm states.Comment: 26 pages,7 figures, journal versio
Data acquisition system for the MuLan muon lifetime experiment
We describe the data acquisition system for the MuLan muon lifetime
experiment at Paul Scherrer Institute. The system was designed to record muon
decays at rates up to 1 MHz and acquire data at rates up to 60 MB/sec. The
system employed a parallel network of dual-processor machines and repeating
acquisition cycles of deadtime-free time segments in order to reach the design
goals. The system incorporated a versatile scheme for control and diagnostics
and a custom web interface for monitoring experimental conditions.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods
Perturbation Theory for Spin Ladders Using Angular-Momentum Coupled Bases
We compute bulk properties of Heisenberg spin-1/2 ladders using
Rayleigh-Schr\"odinger perturbation theory in the rung and plaquette bases. We
formulate a method to extract high-order perturbative coefficients in the bulk
limit from solutions for relatively small finite clusters. For example, a
perturbative calculation for an isotropic ladder yields an
eleventh-order estimate of the ground-state energy per site that is within
0.02% of the density-matrix-renormalization-group (DMRG) value. Moreover, the
method also enables a reliable estimate of the radius of convergence of the
perturbative expansion. We find that for the rung basis the radius of
convergence is , with defining the ratio between
the coupling along the chain relative to the coupling across the chain. In
contrast, for the plaquette basis we estimate a radius of convergence of
. Thus, we conclude that the plaquette basis offers the
only currently available perturbative approach which can provide a reliable
treatment of the physically interesting case of isotropic spin
ladders. We illustrate our methods by computing perturbative coefficients for
the ground-state energy per site, the gap, and the one-magnon dispersion
relation.Comment: 22 pages. 9 figure
GADGET: A code for collisionless and gasdynamical cosmological simulations
We describe the newly written code GADGET which is suitable both for
cosmological simulations of structure formation and for the simulation of
interacting galaxies. GADGET evolves self-gravitating collisionless fluids with
the traditional N-body approach, and a collisional gas by smoothed particle
hydrodynamics. Along with the serial version of the code, we discuss a parallel
version that has been designed to run on massively parallel supercomputers with
distributed memory. While both versions use a tree algorithm to compute
gravitational forces, the serial version of GADGET can optionally employ the
special-purpose hardware GRAPE instead of the tree. Periodic boundary
conditions are supported by means of an Ewald summation technique. The code
uses individual and adaptive timesteps for all particles, and it combines this
with a scheme for dynamic tree updates. Due to its Lagrangian nature, GADGET
thus allows a very large dynamic range to be bridged, both in space and time.
So far, GADGET has been successfully used to run simulations with up to 7.5e7
particles, including cosmological studies of large-scale structure formation,
high-resolution simulations of the formation of clusters of galaxies, as well
as workstation-sized problems of interacting galaxies. In this study, we detail
the numerical algorithms employed, and show various tests of the code. We
publically release both the serial and the massively parallel version of the
code.Comment: 32 pages, 14 figures, replaced to match published version in New
Astronomy. For download of the code, see
http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/gadget (new version 1.1 available
Specific Heat of the 2D Hubbard Model
Quantum Monte Carlo results for the specific heat c of the two dimensional
Hubbard model are presented. At half-filling it was observed that
at very low temperatures. Two distinct features were also identified: a low
temperature peak related to the spin degrees of freedom and a higher
temperature broad peak related to the charge degrees of freedom. Away from
half-filling the spin induced feature slowly disappears as a function of hole
doping while the charge feature moves to lower temperature. A comparison with
experimental results for the high temperature cuprates is discussed.Comment: 6 pages, RevTex, 11 figures embedded in the text, Submitted to Phys.
Rev.
Study of the , , and in the radiative decays
In this paper we present an approach to study the radiative decay modes of
the into a photon and one of the tensor mesons ,
, as well as the scalar ones and .
Especially we compare predictions that emerge from a scheme where the states
appear dynamically in the solution of vector meson--vector meson scattering
amplitudes to those from a (admittedly naive) quark model. We provide evidence
that it might be possible to distinguish amongst the two scenarios, once
improved data are available.Comment: The large Nc argument improved; version published in EPJA
A Novel Patient-Reported Outcome-Based Evaluation (PROBE) of Quality of Life in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
OBJECTIVES:There is increased interest in measuring patient-reported outcomes (PROs) such as quality of life (QoL) among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We aimed to create and validate a new measure of QoL to assess the psychosocial burden of IBD using publicly available assessment tools.METHODS:Using the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's IBD Partners cohort, we performed several cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses to create a new PRO-based evaluation (PROBE) of QoL among patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). We used factor analysis and Pearson correlation test to identify candidate questions for inclusion, Wilcoxon rank-sum test to examine responsiveness of the PROBE to changes in disease activity, and test-retest reliability assessments in patients with stable disease activity. We also compared the PROBE to the Short Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire to assess construct validity.RESULTS:A total of 4,854 patients (64% CD, 36% UC) completed surveys with 6 items included in the final PROBE. Compared with baseline there was a significant decrease in PROBE scores at follow-up among patients who experienced a flare for UC (25.0 vs 22.2, P = 0.001) and CD (23.1 vs 21.0, P < 0.001). Among patients with stable disease activity, Cronbach alpha was 0.87 in CD and 0.82 in UC. The PROBE correlated well with the Short Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire in CD (r = 0.88) and UC (r = 0.86).DISCUSSION:We created a novel measure to assess QoL in patients with IBD using publicly available survey items. This new PROBE can be used to facilitate clinical care, clinical and epidemiological research, and quality improvement
Evidence for the fourth P11 resonance predicted by the constituent quark model
It is pointed out that the third of five low-lying P11 states predicted by a
constituent quark model can be identified with the third of four states in a
solution from a three-channel analysis by the Zagreb group. This is one of the
so-called ``missing'' resonances, predicted at 1880 MeV. The fit of the Zagreb
group to the pi N -> eta N data is the crucial element in finding this fourth
resonance in the P11 partial wave.Comment: 8 pages, revtex; expanded acknowledgement
Quark exchange model for charmonium dissociation in hot hadronic matter
A diagrammatic approach to quark exchange processes in meson-meson scattering
is applied to the case of inelastic reactions of the type
(Q\barQ)+(q\barq)\rightarrow (Q\barq) + (q\barQ), where and refer to
heavy and light quarks, respectively. This string-flip process is discussed as
a microscopic mechanism for charmonium dissociation (absorption) in hadronic
matter. The cross section for the reaction is
calculated using a potential model, which is fitted to the meson mass spectrum.
The temperature dependence of the relaxation time for the \J/Psi distribution
in a homogeneous thermal pion gas is obtained. The use of charmonium for the
diagnostics of the state of hot hadronic matter produced in ultrarelativistic
nucleus-nucleus collisions is discussed.Comment: 24 pages, 3 tables, 7 figure
Tidal Dwarf Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts
We present the first attempt at measuring the production rate of tidal dwarf
galaxies (TDGs) and estimating their contribution to the overall dwarf
population. Using HST/ACS deep imaging data from GOODS and GEMS surveys in
conjunction with photometric redshifts from COMBO-17 survey, we performed a
morphological analysis for a sample of merging/interacting galaxies in the
Extended Chandra Deep Field South and identified tidal dwarf candidates in the
rest-frame optical bands. We estimated a production rate about 1.4 {\times}
10^{-5} per Gyr per comoving volume for long-lived TDGs with stellar mass 3
{\times} 10^{8-9} solar mass at 0.5<z<1.1. Together with galaxy merger rates
and TDG survival rate from the literature, our results suggest that only a
marginal fraction (less than 10%) of dwarf galaxies in the local universe could
be tidally-originated. TDGs in our sample are on average bluer than their host
galaxies in the optical. Stellar population modelling of optical to
near-infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for two TDGs favors a burst
component with age 400/200 Myr and stellar mass 40%/26% of the total,
indicating that a young stellar population newly formed in TDGs. This is
consistent with the episodic star formation histories found for nearby TDGs.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space
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