Finite element analysis of laminated plates and shells, volume 1

The finite element method is used to investigate the static behavior of laminated composite flat plates and cylindrical shells. The analysis incorporates the effects of transverse shear deformation in each layer through the assumption that the normals to the undeformed layer midsurface remain straight but need not be normal to the mid-surface after deformation. A digital computer program was developed to perform the required computations. The program includes a very efficient equation solution code which permits the analysis of large size problems. The method is applied to the problem of stretching and bending of a perforated curved plate

Fitting Precision Electroweak Data with Exotic Heavy Quarks

The 1999 precision electroweak data from LEP and SLC persist in showing some slight discrepancies from the assumed standard model, mostly regarding $b$ and $c$ quarks. We show how their mixing with exotic heavy quarks could result in a more consistent fit of all the data, including two unconventional interpretations of the top quark.Comment: 7 pages, no figure, 2 typos corrected, 1 reference update

Theoretical and experimental investigation on modulation-inducing retrodirective optical systems /miros/ monthly progress report, 20 dec. 1964 - 20 jan. 1965

Modulation inducing retrodirecting optical system - diode mount for gallium arsenide lasers, and generation of alkaline line by stimulated Raman emissio

Origin of spin reorientation transitions in antiferromagnetic MnPt-based alloys

Antiferromagnetic MnPt exhibits a spin reorientation transition (SRT) as a function of temperature, and off-stoichiometric Mn-Pt alloys also display SRTs as a function of concentration. The magnetocrystalline anisotropy in these alloys is studied using first-principles calculations based on the coherent potential approximation and the disordered local moment method. The anisotropy is fairly small and sensitive to the variations in composition and temperature due to the cancellation of large contributions from different parts of the Brillouin zone. Concentration and temperature-driven SRTs are found in reasonable agreement with experimental data. Contributions from specific band-structure features are identified and used to explain the origin of the SRTs.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figure

The magnetic dipole transitions in the (cbˉ)(c\bar{b}) binding system

The magnetic dipole transitions between the vector mesons $B_c^*$ and their relevant pseudoscalar mesons $B_c$ ($B_c$, $B_c^*$, $B_c(2S)$, $B_c^*(2S)$, $B_c(3S)$ and $B_c^*(3S)$ etc, the binding states of $(c\bar{b})$ system) of the $B_c$ family are interesting. To see the `hyperfine' splitting due to spin-spin interaction is an important topic for understanding the spin-spin interaction and the spectrum of the the $(c\bar{b})$ binding system. The knowledge about the magnetic dipole transitions is also very useful for identifying the vector boson $B_c^*$ mesons experimentally, whose masses are just slightly above the masses of their relevant pseudoscalar mesons $B_c$ accordingly. Considering the possibility to observe the vector mesons via the transitions at $Z^0$ factory and the potentially usages of the theoretical estimate on the transitions, we fucus our efforts on calculating the magnetic dipole transitions, i.e. precisely to calculate the rates for the transitions such as decays $B_c^*\to B_c\gamma$ and $B_c^*\to B_c e^+e^-$, and particularly work in the Behte-Salpeter framework. In the estimate, as a typical example, we carefully investigate the dependance of the rate $\Gamma(B_c^*\to B_c\gamma)$ on the mass difference $\Delta M=M_{B_c^*}-M_{B_c}$ as well.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, 1 tabl

Shifting RbR_b with AFBbA^b_{FB}

Precision measurements at the $Z$ resonance agree well with the standard model. However, there is still a hint of a discrepancy, not so much in $R_b$ by itself (which has received a great deal of attention in the past several years) but in the forward-backward asymmetry $A^b_{FB}$ together with $R_b$. The two are of course correlated. We explore the possibilty that these and other effects are due to the mixing of $b_L$ and $b_R$ with one or more heavy quarks.Comment: 11 pages, 1 Figure, LaTex fil