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    NRQCD results on the MILC extra coarse ensemble

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    We present preliminary results using NRQCD to describe heavy quarks on the MILC 2+1 flavour dynamical extra coarse ensemble. We calculate the spectra of low lying states in bottomonium to complement earlier results on the finer MILC ensembles. We then exploit the coarseness of the lattices to calculate charm propagators using NRQCD. These are used to examine the charmonium spectrum and to calclate the mass of the BcB_c using NRQCD. Finally we look breifly at the BdB_d and BsB_s systems using the imporoved staggered formalism to describe the light valence quarks.Comment: 6 pages, Talk presented at Lattice 2005 (Heavy Quarks), Dublin, 25-30 July 200

    Outstanding bile pigment problems

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    In this review of the chemistry, biochemistry and chemical pathology of the bile pigments I am well aware that I shall ask many more questions than I am able to answer. It seems appropriate that the subject should be considered under the five headings: -Chemistry; Formation from Haem Proteins; Transport in the Blood; Conjugation and Transport to the Bile; and Changes in the Gut. I shall conclude with a brief account of the early labelled bilirubin. Because investigation of the pathological significance of the chemical changes undergone in the body is possible only if the chemical structures of the bile pigments are accurately known, my department in London has been very much concerned during the last 15 years with the chemistry of the bile pigments. The work I shall describe has been carried out in collaboration with Dr. NICHOLSON, Dr. KULCZYCKA, Dr. COLE, Dr. PETRYKA and more recently by Mr. STOLL and Miss LEMMON.</p

    Infrared Quasi Fixed Points and Mass Predictions in the MSSM II: Large tan(beta) Scenario

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    We consider the infrared quasi fixed point solutions of the renormalization group equations for the Yukawa couplings and soft supersymmetry breaking parameters in the MSSM in the \underline{large tanβ\tan\beta} regime. The existence of IR quasi fixed points together with the values of gauge couplings, third generation quarks, lepton and Z-boson masses allows one to predict masses of the Higgs bosons and SUSY particles as functions of the only free parameter, m1/2m_{1/2}, or the gluino mass. The lightest Higgs boson mass for MSUSY1M_{SUSY} \approx 1 TeV is found to be mh=128.20.47.1±5m_h=128.2-0.4-7.1 \pm 5 GeV for μ>0\mu>0 and mh=120.60.13.8±5m_h=120.6-0.1-3.8 \pm 5 GeV for μ<0\mu<0.Comment: 15 pages, LateX file with 4 eps figures, corrected numbers, new column in table, last versio

    Iodinated Aluminum(III) Corroles with Long-Lived Triplet Excited States

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    The first reported iodination of a corrole leads to selective functionalization of the four C–H bonds on one pole of the macrocycle. An aluminum(III) complex of the tetraiodinated corrole, which exhibits red fluorescence, possesses a long-lived triplet excited state

    Fracture mechanics approach to design analysis of notches, steps and internal cut-outs in planar components

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    A new approach to the assessment and optimization of geometric stress-concentrating features is proposed on the basis of the correspondence between sharp crack or corner stressfield intensity factors and conventional elastic stress concentration factors (SCFs) for radiused transitions. This approach complements the application of finite element analysis (FEA) and the use of standard SCF data from the literature. The method makes it possible to develop closed-form solutions for SCFs in cases where corresponding solutions for the sharp crack geometries exist. This is helpful in the context of design optimization. The analytical basis of the correspondence is shown, together with the limits on applicability where stress-free boundaries near the stress concentrating feature are present or adjacent features interact. Examples are given which compare parametric results derived from FEA with closed-form solutions based on the proposed method. New information is given on the stress state at a 90° corner or width step, where the magnitude of the stress field intensity is related to that of the corresponding crack geometry. This correspondence enables the user to extend further the application of crack-tip stress-field intensity information to square-cornered steps, external U-grooves, and internal cut-outs

    Heavy-Light Meson Semileptonic Decays with Staggered Light Quarks

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    We report on exploratory studies of heavy-light meson semileptonic decays using Asqtad light quarks, NRQCD heavy quarks and Symanzik improved glue on coarse quenched lattices. Oscillatory contributions to three-point correlators coming from the staggered light quarks are found to be handled well by Bayesian fitting methods. B meson decays to both the Goldstone pion and to one of the point-split non-Goldstone pions are investigated. One-loop perturbative matching of NRQCD/Asqtad heavy-light currents is incorporated.Comment: 3 pages, 3 postscript figures, Lattice2003(heavy

    Microscopic expressions for the thermodynamic temperature

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    We show that arbitrary phase space vector fields can be used to generate phase functions whose ensemble averages give the thermodynamic temperature. We describe conditions for the validity of these functions in periodic boundary systems and the Molecular Dynamics (MD) ensemble, and test them with a short-ranged potential MD simulation.Comment: 21 pages, 2 figures, Revtex. Submitted to Phys. Rev.
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