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The Three Loop Two-Mass Contribution to the Gluon Vacuum Polarization
We calculate the two-mass contribution to the 3-loop vacuum polarization of
the gluon in Quantum Chromodynamics at virtuality for general masses
and also present the analogous result for the photon in Quantum
Electrodynamics.Comment: 5 pages Late
Hall effect in laser ablated Co_2(Mn,Fe)Si thin films
Pulsed laser deposition was employed to grow thin films of the Heusler
compounds Co_2MnSi and Co_2FeSi. Epitaxial growth was realized both directly on
MgO (100) and on a Cr or Fe buffer layer. Structural analysis by x-ray and
electron diffraction shows for both materials the ordered L2_1 structure. Bulk
magnetization was determined with a SQUID magnetometer. The values agree with
the Slater-Pauling rule for half-metallic Heusler compounds. On the films grown
directly on the substrate measurements of the Hall effect have been performed.
The normal Hall effect is nearly temperature independent and points towards a
compensated Fermi surface. The anomalous contribution is found to be dominated
by skew scattering. A remarkable sign change of both normal and anomalous Hall
coefficients is observed on changing the valence electron count from 29 (Mn) to
30 (Fe).Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures submitted to J Phys
Testing gravity at the Second post-Newtonian level through gravitational deflection of massive particles
Expression for second post-Newtonian level gravitational deflection angle of
massive particles is obtained in a model independent framework. Several of its
important implications including the possibility of testing gravitational
theories at that level are discussed.Comment: 5 pages, couple of equations of the previous version are correcte
A Note on Asymptotic Freedom at High Temperatures
This short note considers, within the external field approach outlined in
hep-ph/0202026, the role of the lowest lying gluon Landau mode in QCD in the
high temperature limit. Its influence on a temperature- and field-dependent
running coupling constant is examined. The thermal imaginary part of the mode
is temperature-independent in our approach and exactly cancels the well-known
zero temperature imaginary part, thus rendering the Savvidy vacuum stable.
Combining the real part of the mode with the contributions from the higher
lying Landau modes and the vacuum contribution, a field-independent coupling
alpha_s(T) is obtained. It can be interpreted as the ordinary zero temperature
running coupling constant with average thermal momenta \approx 2pi T for
gluons and \approx pi T for quarks.Comment: 4 pages; minor changes, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
The two-mass contribution to the three-loop pure singlet operator matrix element
We present the two-mass QCD contributions to the pure singlet operator matrix
element at three loop order in x-space. These terms are relevant for
calculating the structure function at as well as
for the matching relations in the variable flavor number scheme and the heavy
quark distribution functions at the same order. The result for the operator
matrix element is given in terms of generalized iterated integrals that include
square root letters in the alphabet, depending also on the mass ratio through
the main argument. Numerical results are presented.Comment: 28 papges Latex, 3 figure
The weakly perturbed Schwarzschild lens in the strong deflection limit
We investigate the strong deflection limit of gravitational lensing by a
Schwarzschild black hole embedded in an external gravitational field. The study
of this model, analogous to the Chang & Refsdal lens in the weak deflection
limit, is important to evaluate the gravitational perturbations on the
relativistic images that appear in proximity of supermassive black holes hosted
in galactic centers. By a simple dimensional argument, we prove that the tidal
effect on the light ray propagation mainly occurs in the weak field region far
away from the black hole and that the external perturbation can be treated as a
weak field quadrupole term. We provide a description of relativistic critical
curves and caustics and discuss the inversion of the lens mapping. Relativistic
caustics are shifted and acquire a finite diamond shape. Sources inside the
caustics produce four sequences of relativistic images. On the other hand,
retro-lensing caustics are only shifted while remaining point-like to the
lowest order.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure
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