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The Impact Of Cold Dark Matter Variants On The Halos Of The First Stars And Galaxies: Angular Momentum And Vortex Creation In BEC Dark Matter
If cold dark matter elementary particles form a Bose-Einstein condensate, their superfluidity may distinguish them from other forms of cold dark matter, including the creation of quantum vortices. We have shown that such vortices are favored in strongly-coupled condensates. Vortex creation causes central densities to drop, thus affecting the dynamics of the gaseous baryonic component and subsequently star formation.Astronom
Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates in Homogeneous Traps
We extend the results of a previous paper on the Gross-Pitaevskii description
of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in two-dimensional traps to confining
potentials of the form V(r) = r^s, . Writing the coupling constant
as we study the limit . We derive rigorously the
leading asymptotics of the ground state energy and the density profile when the
rotation velocity \Omega tends to infinity as a power of . The case
of asymptotically homogeneous potentials is also discussed.Comment: LaTex2e, 16 page
Enabling Electroweak Baryogenesis through Dark Matter
We study the impact on electroweak baryogenesis from a swifter cosmological
expansion induced by dark matter. We detail the experimental bounds that one
can place on models that realize it, and we investigate the modifications of
these bounds that result from a non-standard cosmological history. The
modifications can be sizeable if the expansion rate of the Universe increases
by several orders of magnitude. We illustrate the impact through the example of
scalar field dark matter, which can alter the cosmological history enough to
enable a strong-enough first-order phase transition in the Standard Model when
it is supplemented by a dimension six operator directly modifying the Higgs
boson potential. We show that due to the modified cosmological history,
electroweak baryogenesis can be realized, while keeping deviations of the
triple Higgs coupling below HL-LHC sensitivies. The required scale of new
physics to effectuate a strong-enough first order phase transition can change
by as much as twenty percent as the expansion rate increases by six orders of
magnitude
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The persistence of L1 patterns in SLA: incidental learning and the boundary crossing constraint
The present study analyses the influence of L1 patterns in the descriptions of motion events by Arab EFL learners. First we establish the differences in the construal of motion events by native speakers of Arabic and English (n=20 for each group). 12 prompts (cartoons) were used where a figure crosses a boundary in a certain manner (running, crawling etc.). In line with the literature (Talmy 1985, 1991, 2000a, 2000b and Slobin 1987 et passim), Arab native speakers avoid the use of manner of motion verbs in the description of these events in their first language and use simple path verbs (e.g. enter, go etc.), whereas speakers of English mostly use manner verbs. These deeply engrained differences between L1 and L2 are a learning challenge in SLA. The same prompts were used with two groups of Arab EFL learners (intermediate, n = 34; advanced, n = 30), who live in the UK. These learners follow the Arabic pattern in English. They use only simple path verbs and avoid the use of manner verbs in the description of the boundary crossings. As the learners do not produce ungrammatical sentences, they will not get negative feedback (e.g. from a teacher) and rely entirely on incidental learning from the input. However, despite the high frequency of these manner verbs in the daily input of the learners, they do not acquire the patterns of the target language even at a high proficiency level. This confirms results from earlier studies with different language pairs (e.g. Larrañaga et al. 2012). L1 patterns in the use of manner verbs with boundary crossings are persistent across proficiency levels in L2, and their influence cannot be overcome simply by exposure to the target language. Implicit learning in this context is hardly possible and explicit teaching and learning is needed to overcome the influence of the first language
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