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Vertical motions in the disk of NGC 5668 as seen with optical Fabry-Perot spectroscopy
We have observed the nearly face-on spiral galaxy NGC 5668 with the TAURUS II
Fabry-Perot interferometer at the William Herschel Telescope using the
line to study the kinematics of the ionized gas. From the extracted
data cube we construct intensity, velocity and velocity dispersion maps. We
calculate the rotation curve in the innermost 2 arcmin and we use the residual
velocity field to look for regions with important vertical motions. By
comparing the geometry of these regions in the residual velocity field with the
geometry in the intensity and velocity dispersion maps we are able to select
some regions which are very likely to be shells or chimneys in the disk. The
geometry and size of these regions are very similar to the shells or chimneys
detected in other galaxies by different means. Moreover, it is worth noting
than this galaxy has been reported to have a population of neutral hydrogen
high velocity clouds (Schulman et al. 1996) which, according to these
observations, could have been originated by chimneys similar to those reported
in this paper.Comment: 7 pages with 9 figures. LaTeX file using A&A v4.0 macro
Radiative vector meson decay
We study the radiative , and decay into and taking into account mechanisms in which there
are two sequential vector-vector-pseudoscalar or
axial-vector--vector--pseudoscalar steps followed by the coupling of a vector
meson to the photon, considering the final state interaction of the two mesons.
Other mechanisms in which two kaons are produced through the same sequential
mechanisms or from vector meson decay into two kaons which undergo final state
interaction leading to the final pair of pions or , are also
considered. The results of the parameter free theory, together with the
theoretical uncertainties, are compared with the latest experimental results at
Frascati and Novosibirsk.Comment: Prepared for the 10th International Symposium on Meson-Nucleon
Physics and the Structure of the Nucleo
Baryonic Resonances from the Interactions of the Baryon Decuplet and Meson Octet
We study -wave interactions of the baryon decuplet with the octet of
pseudoscalar mesons using the lowest order chiral Lagrangian. We find two bound
states in the SU(3) limit corresponding to the octet and decuplet
representations. These are found to split into eight different trajectories in
the complex plane when the SU(3) symmetry is broken gradually. Finally, we are
able to provide a reasonable description for a good number of 4-star
resonances listed by the Particle Data Group. In particular, the
, the and the states are well
reproduced. We predict a few other resonances and also evaluate the couplings
of the observed resonances to the various channels from the residues at the
poles of the scattering matrix from where partial decay widths into different
channels can be evaluated.Comment: Contribution to the HADRON05 Conference, Rio de Janeiro, September
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Double Pion Photoproduction in Nuclei
The inclusive A(gamma,pi+ pi-)X reaction is studied theoretically. A sizeable
enhancement of the cross section is found, in comparison with the scaling of
the deuteron cross section (sigma_deuteron * A/2). This enhancement is due to
the modifications in the nuclear medium of the gamma N ----> pi pi N amplitude
and the pion dispersion relation. The enhancement is found to be bigger than
the one already observed in the (pi,pi pi) reaction in nuclei.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures (figures available from authors); TeX, Version
3.141 [PD VMS 3.4/CERN 1.0
Nucleon Emision Off Nuclei Induced By Neutrino Interactions
We make a review of the main nuclear effects that affect neutrino-nucleus
cross sections. We discuss how the different models in the literature try to
describe these different effects, and thus try to compare between them. We
focus on the quasi-elastic reaction in the neutrino energy region of around 1
GeV, where recent data from MiniBoone are available. Among the issues discussed
are the different treatment of medium corrections to initial and nal state
nucleon wave functions and the problem of the rescattering of ejected nucleons.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures. To appear in the proceedings for NuFact09; July
20-25, (2009) Illinois Institute of Technolog
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