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Remark on lattice BRST invariance
A recently claimed resolution to the lattice Gribov problem in the context of
chiral lattice gauge theories is examined. Unfortunately, I find that the old
problem remains.Comment: 4 pages, plain TeX, presentation improved (see acknowledgments
Femtoscopy and energy-momentum conservation effects in proton-proton collisions at 900 GeV in ALICE
Two particle correlations are used to extract information about the
characteristic size of the system for proton-proton collisions at 900 GeV
measured by the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider experiment) detector at CERN. The
correlation functions obtained show the expected Bose-Einstein effect for
identical particles, but there are also long range correlations present that
shift the baseline from the expected flat behavior. A possible source of these
correlations is the conservation of energy and momentum, especially for small
systems, where the energy available for particle production is limited. A new
technique, first introduced by the STAR collaboration, of quantifying these
long range correlations using energy-momentum conservation considerations is
presented here. It is shown that the baseline of the two particle correlation
function can be described using this technique.Comment: Hot Quarks 2010 conference proceedings, to appear in Journal of
Physics: Conference Series (JPCS
Emissivity measurements of reflective surfaces at near-millimeter wavelengths
We have developed an instrument for directly measuring the emissivity of reflective surfaces at near-millimeter wavelengths. The thermal emission of a test sample is compared with that of a reference surface, allowing the emissivity of the sample to be determined without heating. The emissivity of the reference surface is determined by one’s heating the reference surface and measuring the increase in emission. The instrument has an absolute accuracy of Δe = 5 x 10^-4 and can reproducibly measure a difference in emissivity as small as Δe = 10^-4 between flat reflective samples. We have used the instrument to measure the emissivity of metal films evaporated on glass and carbon fiber-reinforced plastic composite surfaces. We measure an emissivity of (2.15 ± 0.4) x 10^-3 for gold evaporated on glass and (2.65 ± 0.5) x 10^-3 for aluminum evaporated on carbon fiber-reinforced plastic composite
Shocks in unmagnetized plasma with a shear flow: Stability and magnetic field generation
A pair of curved shocks in a collisionless plasma is examined with a
two-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. The shocks are created by
the collision of two electron-ion clouds at a speed that exceeds everywhere the
threshold speed for shock formation. A variation of the collision speed along
the initially planar collision boundary, which is comparable to the ion
acoustic speed, yields a curvature of the shock that increases with time. The
spatially varying Mach number of the shocks results in a variation of the
downstream density in the direction along the shock boundary. This variation is
eventually equilibrated by the thermal diffusion of ions. The pair of shocks is
stable for tens of inverse ion plasma frequencies. The angle between the mean
flow velocity vector of the inflowing upstream plasma and the shock's
electrostatic field increases steadily during this time. The disalignment of
both vectors gives rise to a rotational electron flow, which yields the growth
of magnetic field patches that are coherent over tens of electron skin depths.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures accepted for publication in Physics of Plasma
HerMES: Lyman Break Galaxies Individually Detected at 0.7 ≤ z ≤ 2.0 in GOODS-N with Herschel/SPIRE
As part of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey we have investigated the rest-frame far-infrared (FIR) properties of a sample of more than 4800 Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey North field. Most LBGs are not detected individually, but we do detect a sub-sample of 12 objects at 0.7 2.5. The UV-to-FIR spectral energy distributions of the objects detected in the rest-frame FIR are investigated using the code CIGALE to estimate physical parameters. We find that LBGs detected by SPIRE are high-mass, luminous infrared galaxies. It appears that LBGs are located in a triangle-shaped region in the A_(FUV) versus log L_(FUV) = 0 diagram limited by A_(FUV) = 0 at the bottom and by a diagonal following the temporal evolution of the most massive galaxies from the bottom right to the top left of the diagram. This upper envelop can be used as upper limits for the UV dust attenuation as a function of L_(FUV). The limits of this region are well explained using a closed-box model, where the chemical evolution of galaxies produces metals, which in turn lead to higher dust attenuation when the galaxies age
Two-Higgs-Doublet type-II and -III models and at the LHC
We study the constraints of the generic two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM)
type-III and the impacts of the new Yukawa couplings. For comparisons, we
revisit the analysis in the 2HDM type-II. To understand the influence of all
involving free parameters and to realize their correlations, we employ
-square fitting approach by including theoretical and experimental
constraints, such as S, T, and U oblique parameters, the production of standard
model Higgs and its decay to , , , etc.
The errors of analysis are taken at , , and confidence
levels. Due to the new Yukawa couplings being associated with
and , we find that the allowed
regions for and in the type-III model can be broader
when the dictated parameter is positive; however, for negative
, the limits are stricter than those in the type-II model. By using the
constrained parameters, we find that the deviation from the SM in the can be of . Additionally, we also study the top-quark
flavor-changing processes induced at the tree level in the type-III model and
find that when all current experimental data are considered, we get for and GeV and
slightly exceeds for GeV.Comment: 22 pages, 11 figures. v3: Slight change in the abstract, Figure.1
added and commented, the conclusion remains unchange
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