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Measurements of elastohydrodynamic film thickness, wear and tempering behavior of high pressure oxygen turbopump bearings
The reusable design of the Space Shuttle requires a target life of 7.5 hours for the turbopumps of the Space Shuttle main engine (SSME). This large increase from the few hundred seconds required in single-use rockets has caused various problems with the bearings of the turbopumps. The berings of the high pressure oxygen turbopump (HPOTP) were of particular concern because of wear, spalling, and cage failures at service time well below the required 7.5 hours. Lubrication and wear data were developed for the bearings. Since the HPOTP bearings operate in liquid oxygen, conventional liquid lubricants cannot be applied. Therefore, solid lubricant coatings and lubricant transfer from the polytetrafluorethylene (FTFE) cage were the primary lubrication approaches for the bearings. Measurements were made using liquid nitrogen in a rolling disk machine to determine whether usable elastohydrodynamic films could be generated to assist in the bearing lubrication
Riccati parameter modes from Newtonian free damping motion by supersymmetry
We determine the class of damped modes \tilde{y} which are related to the
common free damping modes y by supersymmetry. They are obtained by employing
the factorization of Newton's differential equation of motion for the free
damped oscillator by means of the general solution of the corresponding Riccati
equation together with Witten's method of constructing the supersymmetric
partner operator. This procedure leads to one-parameter families of (transient)
modes for each of the three types of free damping, corresponding to a
particular type of %time-dependent angular frequency. %time-dependent,
antirestoring acceleration (adding up to the usual Hooke restoring
acceleration) of the form a(t)=\frac{2\gamma ^2}{(\gamma t+1)^{2}}\tilde{y},
where \gamma is the family parameter that has been chosen as the inverse of the
Riccati integration constant. In supersymmetric terms, they represent all those
one Riccati parameter damping modes having the same Newtonian free damping
partner modeComment: 6 pages, twocolumn, 6 figures, only first 3 publishe
Integrable Systems in Stringy Gravity
Static axisymmetric Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton and stationary axisymmetric
Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion (EMDA) theories in four space-time dimensions
are shown to be integrable by means of the inverse scattering transform method.
The proof is based on the coset-space representation of the 4-dim theory in a
space-time admitting a Killing vector field. Hidden symmetry group of the
four-dimensional EMDA theory, unifying T and S string dualities, is shown to be
Sp(2, R) acting transitively on the coset Sp(2, R)/U(2). In the case of
two-parameter Abelian space-time isometry group, the hidden symmetry is the
corresponding infinite-dimensional group of the Geroch-Kinnersley-Chitre type.Comment: 8 pages, LATEX, MSU-DTP-94/21, October 9
Measurement of the Branching Fractions for D^0 → π^-e^+v_e and D^0 → + K^-e^+V_e and Determination of │V_(cd)/V_(cs)│^2
Measurements of the exclusive branching fractions B(D^0→π^-e^+ν_e) and B(D^0→K^-e^+ν_e), using data collected at the ψ(3770) with the Mark III detector at the SLAC e^+e^- storage ring SPEAR, are used to determine the ratio of the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements │V_(cd)/V_(cs)│^2 =0.057_(-0.015)^(+0.038)±0.005
Search for the decay D^0→K^0e^+e^-
A search for the decay of the charmed meson D^0→K^0e^+e^- is presented, based on data collected at the ψ(3770) resonance with the Mark III detector at the SLAC storage ring SPEAR. No evidence for this process is found, resulting in an upper limit on the decay branching ratio of 1.7×10^(-3) at the 90% confidence level
Broadband multi-wavelength campaign on PKS 2005-489
The spectral energy distribution (SED) of high-frequency peaked BL Lac
objects (HBL) is characterized by two peaks: one in the UV-X-ray and one in the
GeV-TeV regime. An interesting object for analyzing these broadband
characteristics is PKS 2005-489, which in 2004 showed the softest TeV spectrum
ever measured. In 2009, a multi-wavelength campaign has been conducted with,
for the first time, simultaneous observations by H.E.S.S. (TeV), Fermi/LAT
(GeV), RXTE (keV), Swift (keV, UV, optical) and ATOM (optical) to cover the two
peaks of the SED. During this campaign PKS 2005-489 underwent a high state in
all wavebands which gives the opportunity to study in detail the emission
processes of a high state of this interesting HBL.Comment: 2009 Fermi Symposium; eConf Proceedings C09112
Monodromy-data parameterization of spaces of local solutions of integrable reductions of Einstein's field equations
For the fields depending on two of the four space-time coordinates only, the
spaces of local solutions of various integrable reductions of Einstein's field
equations are shown to be the subspaces of the spaces of local solutions of the
``null-curvature'' equations constricted by a requirement of a universal (i.e.
solution independent) structures of the canonical Jordan forms of the unknown
matrix variables. These spaces of solutions of the ``null-curvature'' equations
can be parametrized by a finite sets of free functional parameters -- arbitrary
holomorphic (in some local domains) functions of the spectral parameter which
can be interpreted as the monodromy data on the spectral plane of the
fundamental solutions of associated linear systems. Direct and inverse problems
of such mapping (``monodromy transform''), i.e. the problem of finding of the
monodromy data for any local solution of the ``null-curvature'' equations with
given canonical forms, as well as the existence and uniqueness of such solution
for arbitrarily chosen monodromy data are shown to be solvable unambiguously.
The linear singular integral equations solving the inverse problems and the
explicit forms of the monodromy data corresponding to the spaces of solutions
of the symmetry reduced Einstein's field equations are derived.Comment: LaTeX, 33 pages, 1 figure. Typos, language and reference correction
Einstein's equations and the chiral model
The vacuum Einstein equations for spacetimes with two commuting spacelike
Killing field symmetries are studied using the Ashtekar variables. The case of
compact spacelike hypersurfaces which are three-tori is considered, and the
determinant of the Killing two-torus metric is chosen as the time gauge. The
Hamiltonian evolution equations in this gauge may be rewritten as those of a
modified SL(2) principal chiral model with a time dependent `coupling
constant', or equivalently, with time dependent SL(2) structure constants. The
evolution equations have a generalized zero-curvature formulation. Using this
form, the explicit time dependence of an infinite number of
spatial-diffeomorphism invariant phase space functionals is extracted, and it
is shown that these are observables in the sense that they Poisson commute with
the reduced Hamiltonian. An infinite set of observables that have SL(2) indices
are also found. This determination of the explicit time dependence of an
infinite set of spatial-diffeomorphism invariant observables amounts to the
solutions of the Hamiltonian Einstein equations for these observables.Comment: 22 pages, RevTeX, to appear in Phys. Rev.
U-Duality and Symplectic Formulation of Dilaton-Axion Gravity
We study a bosonic four--dimensional effective action corresponding to the
heterotic string compactified on a 6--torus (dilaton--axion gravity with one
vector field) on a curved space--time manifold possessing a time--like Killing
vector field. Previously an existence of the global
symmetry (--duality) as well as the symmetric space property of the
corresponding --model have been established following Neugebauer and
Kramer approach. Here we present an explicit form of the generators
in terms of coset variables and construct a representation of the coset in
terms of the physical target space coordinates. Complex symmetric
matrix (``matrix dilaton --axion'') is introduced for which --duality
takes the matrix valued form. In terms of this matrix the theory is
further presented as a K\"ahler --model. This leads to a more concise
formulation which opens new ways to construct exact classical
solutions. New solution (corresponding to constant ) is obtained
which describes the system of point massless magnetic monopoles endowed with
axion charges equal to minus monopole charges. In such a system mutual magnetic
repulsion is exactly balanced by axion attraction so that the resulting space
time is locally flat but possesses multiple Taub--NUT singularities.Comment: LATEX, 20 pages, no figure
New first integral for twisting type-N vacuum gravitational fields with two non-commuting Killing vectors
A new first integral for the equations corresponding to twisting type-N
vacuum gravitational fields with two non-commuting Killing vectors is
introduced. A new reduction of the problem to a complex second-order ordinary
differential equation is given. Alternatively, the mentioned first integral can
be used in order to provide a first integral of the second-order complex
equation introduced in a previous treatment of the problem.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, uses ioplppt.sty and iopl12.sty; to be published in
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