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Radion Potential and Brane Dynamics
We examine the cosmology of the Randall-Sundrum model in a dynamic setting
where scalar fields are present in the bulk as well as the branes. This
generates a mechanism similar to that of Goldberger-Wise for radion
stabilization and the recovery of late-cosmology features in the branes. Due to
the induced radion dynamics, the inflating branes roll towards the minimum of
the radion potential, thereby exiting inflation and reheating the Universe. In
the slow roll part of the potential, the 'TeV' branes have maximum inflation
rate and energy as their coupling to the radion and bulk modes have minimum
suppresion. Hence, when rolling down the steep end of the potential towards the
stable point, the radion field (which appears as the inflaton of the effective
4D theory in the branes) decays very fast, reheats the Universe .This process
results decayin a decrease of brane's canonical vacuum energy .
However, at the minimum of the potential is small but not
neccessarily zero and the fine-tuning issue remains .Density perturbation
constraints introduce an upper bound when the radion stabilizies. Due to the
large radion mass and strong suppression to the bulk modes, moduli problems and
bulk reheating do not occur. The reheat temperature and a sufficient number of
e-folding constraints for the brane-universe are also satisfied. The model
therefore recovers the radiation dominated FRW universe.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures,extraneous sentences removed, 2 footnotes added,
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Quintessential Kination and Leptogenesis
Thermal leptogenesis induced by the CP-violating decay of a right-handed
neutrino (RHN) is discussed in the background of quintessential kination, i.e.,
in a cosmological model where the energy density of the early Universe is
assumed to be dominated by the kinetic term of a quintessence field during some
epoch of its evolution. This assumption may lead to very different
observational consequences compared to the case of a standard cosmology where
the energy density of the Universe is dominated by radiation. We show that,
depending on the choice of the temperature T_r above which kination dominates
over radiation, any situation between the strong and the super--weak wash--out
regime are equally viable for leptogenesis, even with the RHN Yukawa coupling
fixed to provide the observed atmospheric neutrino mass scale ~ 0.05 eV. For M<
T_r < M/100, i.e., when kination stops to dominate at a time which is not much
later than when leptogenesis takes place, the efficiency of the process,
defined as the ratio between the produced lepton asymmetry and the amount of CP
violation in the RHN decay, can be larger than in the standard scenario of
radiation domination. This possibility is limited to the case when the neutrino
mass scale is larger than about 0.01 eV. The super--weak wash--out regime is
obtained for T_r << M/100, and includes the case when T_r is close to the
nucleosynthesis temperature ~ 1 MeV. Irrespective of T_r, we always find a
sufficient window above the electroweak temperature T ~ 100 GeV for the
sphaleron transition to thermalize, so that the lepton asymmetry can always be
converted to the observed baryon asymmetry.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figure
Dilaton-Axion hair for slowly rotating Kerr black holes
Campbell et al. demonstrated the existence of axion ``hair'' for Kerr black
holes due to the non-trivial Lorentz Chern-Simons term and calculated it
explicitly for the case of slow rotation. Here we consider the dilaton coupling
to the axion field strength, consistent with low energy string theory and
calculate the dilaton ``hair'' arising from this specific axion source.Comment: 13 pages + 1 fi
High energy scattering in 2+1 QCD
High energy scattering in 2+1 QCD is studied using the recent approach of
Verlinde and Verlinde. We calculate the color singlet part of the quark-quark
scattering exactly within this approach, and discuss some physical implication
of this result. We also demonstrate, by two independent methods, that
reggeization fails for the color singlet channel. We briefly comment on the
problem in 3+1 QCD.Comment: 20 pages, references adde
Time evolution towards q-Gaussian stationary states through unified Ito-Stratonovich stochastic equation
We consider a class of single-particle one-dimensional stochastic equations
which include external field, additive and multiplicative noises. We use a
parameter which enables the unification of the traditional
It\^o and Stratonovich approaches, now recovered respectively as the
and particular cases to derive the associated Fokker-Planck
equation (FPE). These FPE is a {\it linear} one, and its stationary state is
given by a -Gaussian distribution with , where characterizes the
strength of the confining external field, and is the (normalized)
amplitude of the multiplicative noise. We also calculate the standard kurtosis
and the -generalized kurtosis (i.e., the standard
kurtosis but using the escort distribution instead of the direct one). Through
these two quantities we numerically follow the time evolution of the
distributions. Finally, we exhibit how these quantities can be used as
convenient calibrations for determining the index from numerical data
obtained through experiments, observations or numerical computations.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure
Monolithic millimeter-wave diode grid frequency multiplier arrays
Monolithic diode frequency multiplier arrays, including barrier-N-N(+) (BNN) doubler, multi-quantum-barrier-varactor (MQBV) tripler, Schottky-quantum-barrier-varactor (SQBV) tripler, and resonant-tunneling-diode (RTD) tripler arrays, have been successfully fabricated with yields between 85 and 99 percent. Frequency doubling and/or tripling have been observed for all the arrays. Output powers of 2.4-2.6 W (eta = 10-18 percent) at 66 GHz with the BNN doubler and 3.8-10 W (eta = 1.7-4 percent) at 99 GHz with the SQBV tripler have been achieved
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