185 research outputs found
Petersen Diagram Revolution
Over the recent years, the Petersen diagram for classical pulsators, Cepheids
and RR Lyr stars, populated with a few hundreds of new multiperiodic variables.
We review our analyses of the OGLE data, which resulted in the significant
extension of the known, and in the discovery of a few new and distinct forms of
multiperiodic pulsation. The showcase includes not only radial mode pulsators,
but also radial-non-radial pulsators and stars with significant modulation
observed on top of the beat pulsation. First theoretical models explaining the
new forms of stellar variability are briefly discussed.Comment: 5 pages; to be published in the proceedings of the 22nd Los Alamos
Stellar Pulsation Conference "Wide-field variability surveys: a 21st-century
perspective", San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, Nov. 28 - Dec. 2, 201
Hexatic phase in the two-dimensional Gaussian-core model
We present a Monte Carlo simulation study of the phase behavior of
two-dimensional classical particles repelling each other through an isotropic
Gaussian potential. As in the analogous three-dimensional case, a
reentrant-melting transition occurs upon compression for not too high
temperatures, along with a spectrum of water-like anomalies in the fluid phase.
However, in two dimensions melting is a continuous two-stage transition, with
an intermediate hexatic phase which becomes increasingly more definite as
pressure grows. All available evidence supports the
Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young scenario for this melting transition.
We expect that such a phenomenology can be checked in confined monolayers of
charge-stabilized colloids with a softened core.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Generalized Relativistic Meson Wave Function
We study the most general, relativistic, constituent meson
wave function within a new covariant framework. We find that by including a
tensor wave function component, a pure valence quark model is now capable of
reproducing not only all static pion data (, )
but also the distribution amplitude, form factor , and structure
functions. Further, our generalized spin wave function provides a much better
detailed description of meson properties than models using a simple
relativistic extension of the nonrelativistic wave function.Comment: 17 pages, REXTeX 3.0 file, (uuencoded postscript files of 8 figures
appended
Uncovering hidden modes in RR Lyrae stars
The Kepler space telescope revealed new, unexpected phenomena in RR Lyrae
stars: period doubling and the possible presence of additional modes.
Identifying these modes is complicated because they blend in the rich features
of the Fourier-spectrum. Our hydrodynamic calculations uncovered that a
'hidden' mode, the 9th overtone is involved in the period doubling phenomenon.
The period of the overtone changes by up to 10 per cent compared to the linear
value, indicating a very significant nonlinear period shift caused by its
resonance with the fundamental mode. The observations also revealed weak peaks
that may correspond to the first or second overtones. These additional modes
are often coupled with period doubling. We investigated the possibilities and
occurrences of mutual resonances between the fundamental mode and multiple
overtones in our models. These theoretical findings can help interpreting the
origin and nature of the 'hidden' modes may be found in the high quality light
curves of space observatories.Comment: In proceedings of "20th Stellar Pulsation Conference Series: Impact
of new instrumentation & new insights in stellar pulsations", 5-9 September
2011, Granada, Spai
Non-malleable codes for space-bounded tampering
Non-malleable codes—introduced by Dziembowski, Pietrzak and Wichs at ICS 2010—are key-less coding schemes in which mauling attempts to an encoding of a given message, w.r.t. some class of tampering adversaries, result in a decoded value that is either identical or unrelated to the original message. Such codes are very useful for protecting arbitrary cryptographic primitives against tampering attacks against the memory. Clearly, non-malleability is hopeless if the class of tampering adversaries includes the decoding and encoding algorithm. To circumvent this obstacle, the majority of past research focused on designing non-malleable codes for various tampering classes, albeit assuming that the adversary is unable to decode. Nonetheless, in many concrete settings, this assumption is not realistic
Rotational covariance and light-front current matrix elements
Light-front current matrix elements for elastic scattering from hadrons with
spin~1 or greater must satisfy a nontrivial constraint associated with the
requirement of rotational covariance for the current operator. Using a model
meson as a prototype for hadronic quark models, this constraint and its
implications are studied at both low and high momentum transfers. In the
kinematic region appropriate for asymptotic QCD, helicity rules, together with
the rotational covariance condition, yield an additional relation between the
light-front current matrix elements.Comment: 16 pages, [no number
Spin Structure of the Pion in a Light-Cone Representation
The spin structure of the pion is discussed by transforming the wave function
for the pion in the naive quark model into a light-cone representation. It is
shown that there are higher helicity () states in
the full light-cone wave function for the pion besides the ordinary helicity
() component wave functions as a consequence from
the Melosh rotation relating spin states in light-front dynamics and those in
instant-form dynamics. Some low energy properties of the pion, such as the
electromagnetic form factor, the charged mean square radius, and the weak decay
constant, could be interrelated in this representation with reasonable
parameters.Comment: 15 Latex pages, 2 figures upon reques
Light Baryons in a Constituent Quark Model with Chiral Dynamics
It is shown from rigorous three-body Faddeev calculations that the masses of
all 14 lowest states in the and spectra can be described within a
constituent quark model with a Goldstone-boson-exchange interaction plus linear
confinement between the constituent quarks.Comment: 12 pages, submitted to Phys. Lett.
Nucleon electroweak form factors in a meson-cloud model
The meson-cloud model of the nucleon consisting of a system of three valence
quarks surrounded by a meson cloud is applied to study the electroweak
structure of the proton and neutron. The electroweak nucleon form factors are
calculated within a light-front approach, by obtaining an overall good
description of the experimental data. Charge densities as a function of the
transverse distance with respect to the direction of the three-momentum
transfer are also discussed.Comment: Prepared for Proceedings of NSTAR2007, Workshop on the physics of
excited nucleons, Bonn (Germany), 5-8 September 200
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