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OPERATING MANUAL FOR THE AE-6 REACTOR
An attempt is made to provide a single reference source for material pertinent to the maintenance and operation of the AE-6 Reactor. Descriptions of various components are included, as well as the common operational and maintenance procedures and check lists. Information is given on the subcritical assemblies that may be studied. (W.D.M.
Some morphometric relationships in Etelis oculatus Valenciennes (queen snapper), landed in St. Lucia, W.I.
Diffuse inverse Compton and synchrotron emission from dark matter annihilations in galactic satellites
Annihilating dark matter particles produce roughly as much power in electrons
and positrons as in gamma ray photons. The charged particles lose essentially
all of their energy to inverse Compton and synchrotron processes in the
galactic environment. We discuss the diffuse signature of dark matter
annihilations in satellites of the Milky Way (which may be optically dark with
few or no stars), providing a tail of emission trailing the satellite in its
orbit. Inverse Compton processes provide X-rays and gamma rays, and synchrotron
emission at radio wavelengths might be seen. We discuss the possibility of
detecting these signals with current and future observations, in particular
EGRET and GLAST for the gamma rays.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
Shear Viscosity in the O(N) Model
We compute the shear viscosity in the O(N) model at first nontrivial order in
the large N expansion. The calculation is organized using the 1/N expansion of
the 2PI effective action (2PI-1/N expansion) to next-to-leading order, which
leads to an integral equation summing ladder and bubble diagrams. We also
consider the weakly coupled theory for arbitrary N, using the three-loop
expansion of the 2PI effective action. In the limit of weak coupling and
vanishing mass, we find an approximate analytical solution of the integral
equation. For general coupling and mass, the integral equation is solved
numerically using a variational approach. The shear viscosity turns out to be
close to the result obtained in the weak-coupling analysis.Comment: 37 pages, few typos corrected; to appear in JHE
Hydrodynamics of thermal granular convection
A hydrodynamic theory is formulated for buoyancy-driven ("thermal") granular
convection, recently predicted in molecular dynamic simulations and observed in
experiment. The limit of a dilute flow is considered. The problem is fully
described by three scaled parameters. The convection occurs via a supercritical
bifurcation, the inelasticity of the collisions being the control parameter.
The theory is expected to be valid for small Knudsen numbers and nearly elastic
grain collisions.Comment: 4 pages, 4 EPS figures, some details adde
Universality in percolation of arbitrary Uncorrelated Nested Subgraphs
The study of percolation in so-called {\em nested subgraphs} implies a
generalization of the concept of percolation since the results are not linked
to specific graph process. Here the behavior of such graphs at criticallity is
studied for the case where the nesting operation is performed in an
uncorrelated way. Specifically, I provide an analyitic derivation for the
percolation inequality showing that the cluster size distribution under a
generalized process of uncorrelated nesting at criticality follows a power law
with universal exponent . The relevance of the result comes from
the wide variety of processes responsible for the emergence of the giant
component that fall within the category of nesting operations, whose outcome is
a family of nested subgraphs.Comment: 5 pages, no figures. Mistakes found in early manuscript have been
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Transport coefficients in high temperature gauge theories: (II) Beyond leading log
Results are presented of a full leading-order evaluation of the shear
viscosity, flavor diffusion constants, and electrical conductivity in high
temperature QCD and QED. The presence of Coulomb logarithms associated with
gauge interactions imply that the leading-order results for transport
coefficients may themselves be expanded in an infinite series in powers of
1/log(1/g); the utility of this expansion is also examined. A
next-to-leading-log approximation is found to approximate the full
leading-order result quite well as long as the Debye mass is less than the
temperature.Comment: 38 pages, 6 figure
Input-output theory for fermions in an atom cavity
We generalize the quantum optical input-output theory developed for optical
cavities to ultracold fermionic atoms confined in a trapping potential, which
forms an "atom cavity". In order to account for the Pauli exclusion principle,
quantum Langevin equations for all cavity modes are derived. The dissipative
part of these multi-mode Langevin equations includes a coupling between cavity
modes. We also derive a set of boundary conditions for the Fermi field that
relate the output fields to the input fields and the field radiated by the
cavity. Starting from a constant uniform current of fermions incident on one
side of the cavity, we use the boundary conditions to calculate the occupation
numbers and current density for the fermions that are reflected and transmitted
by the cavity
Interference of a Tonks-Girardeau Gas on a Ring
We study the quantum dynamics of a one-dimensional gas of impenetrable bosons
on a ring, and investigate the interference that results when an initially
trapped gas localized on one side of the ring is released, split via an
optical-dipole grating, and recombined on the other side of the ring. Large
visibility interference fringes arise when the wavevector of the optical dipole
grating is larger than the effective Fermi wavevector of the initial gas.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
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