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Parasites of the Spotted Sucker, Minytrema melanops (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae) from Arkansas and Oklahoma
During October 2015, March and April 2016 and again between March and April 2017, 15 Spotted Sucker (Minytrema melanops) were collected from sites in the Ouachita (n = 5), Red (n = 1), and St. Francis (n = 5) river drainages, Arkansas, and the Arkansas River drainage, Oklahoma (n = 4), and examined for protozoan and metazoan parasites. Found were Calyptospora sp., Myxobolus sp., Pseudomurraytrema alabarrum, Biacetabulum banghami, Penarchigetes oklensis, and Acanthocephalus sp. New host and distributional records are documented for these parasites
Unitarity constraints on the stabilized Randall-Sundrum scenario
Recently proposed stabilization mechanism of the Randall-Sundrum metric gives
rise to a scalar radion, which couples universally to matter with a weak
interaction ( TeV) scale. Demanding that gauge boson scattering as
described by the effective low enerrgy theory be unitary upto a given scale
leads to significant constraints on the mass of such a radion.Comment: 10 page Latex 2e file including 4 postscript figures. Accepted in
Journal of Physics
New Physics Effects From B Meson Decays
In this talk, we point out some of the present and future possible signatures
of physics beyond the Standard Model from B-meson decays, taking R-parity
conserving and violating supersymmetry as illustrative examples.Comment: Talk given at the Sixth Workshop on High Energy Particle
Phenomenology (WHEPP-6), Chennai (Madras), India. Includes 2 epsf figure
Unparticle physics in top pair signals at the LHC and ILC
We study the effects of unparticle physics in the pair productions of top
quarks at the LHC and ILC. By considering vector, tensor and scalar unparticle
operators, as appropriate, we compute the total cross sections for pair
production processes depending on scale dimension d_{\U}. We find that the
existence of unparticles would lead to measurable enhancements on the SM
predictions at the LHC. In the case of ILC this may become two orders of
magnitude larger than that of SM, for smaller values of d_\U, a very striking
signal for unparticles.Comment: 19 pages, 9 figures, analysis for ILC has been adde
CP violation at colliders
The prospects of experimental detection of violation at and
colliders are reviewed. After a general discussion on the
quantities which can measure violation and on the implications of the
theorem, various possibilities of measuring violation arising
outside the standard model are taken up. violation in leptonic processes,
especially polarization effects in are discussed
next. violation in and production and decay is
also described. (Based on talk presented at the WHEPP3, Madras, January 1994).Comment: 20 pages, latex, no figures (only revision is the comment that the
article is based on a talk presented at WHEPP3, Madras, January 1994
Fractal Inspired Models of Quark and Gluon Distributions and Longitudinal Structure Function FL(x, Q2) at small x
In recent years, Fractal Inspired Models of quark and gluon densities at
small x have been proposed. In this paper, we investigate longitudinal
structure function F-L (x, Q2) within this approach. We make predictions using
the QCD based approximate relation between the longitudinal structure function
and the gluon density. As the Altarelli-Martinelli equation for the
longitudinal structure function cannot be applied to Model I due to the
presence of a singularity in the Bjorken x-space we consider Model II only. The
qualitative feature of the prediction of Model II is found to be compatible
with the QCD expectation.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication on 10-07-2010 in Indian
Journal of Physic
UC-276 Akwaaba Web Server Security Project
Our team engaged in a mock cybersecurity drill. Our objective was to take on the roll of cybersecurity consultants and to secure a mock business website. Afterwards, we were to engage in the active defense of the site from another team, while perpetuating attacks on another team\u27s site. Goals: -Secure a business website and then engage in it\u27s active defense. -Perform a successful attack(s) on another team\u27s website. Outcomes: -Developed a comprehensive security policy -Documented site risk and vulnerabilities -Implemented security and configuration change
NLO Corrections to lepton pair production beyond the Standard Model at hadron colliders
We consider lepton pair production at a hadron collider in a class of
effective theories with the relevant operators being four-fermion contact
interaction. Despite the nonrenormalizable nature of the interaction, we
explicitly demonstrate that calculating QCD corrections is both possible and
meaningful. Calculating the corrections for various differential distributions,
we show that these can be substantial and significantly different from those
within the SM. Furthermore, the corrections have a very distinctive flavour
dependence. And finally, the scale dependence of the cross sections are greatly
reduced once the NLO corrections are taken into account.Comment: 23 pages, 14 figures, few typos corrected, written in JHEP styl
Origin of the large phonon band-gap in SrTiO3 and the vibrational signatures of ferroelectricity in ATiO3 perovskite: First principles lattice dynamics and inelastic neutron scattering of PbTiO3, BaTiO3 and SrTiO3
We report first principles density functional perturbation theory
calculations and inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the phonon
density of states, dispersion relations and electromechanical response of
PbTiO3, BaTiO3 and SrTiO3. The phonon density-of-states of the quantum
paraelectric SrTiO3 is found to be fundamentally distinct from that of
ferroelectric PbTiO3 and BaTiO3 with a large 70-90 meV phonon band-gap. The
phonon dispersion and electromechanical response of PbTiO3 reveal giant
anisotropies. The interplay of covalent bonding and ferroelectricity, strongly
modulates the electromechanical response and give rise to spectacular
signatures in the phonon spectra. The computed charge densities have been used
to study the bonding in these perovskites. Distinct bonding characteristics in
the ferroelectric and paraelectric phases give rise to spectacular vibrational
signatures. While a large phonon band-gap in ATiO3 perovskites seems a
characteristic of quantum paraelectrics, anisotropy of the phonon spectra
correlates well with ferroelectric strength. These correlations between the
phonon spectra and ferroelectricity, can guide future efforts at custom
designing still more effective piezoelectrics for applications. These results
suggest that vibrational spectroscopy can help design novel materials.Comment: 11 pages, 4 color figures and 2 Table
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