153 research outputs found
Biomolecular sensing using surface micromachined silicon plates
Micromachined sensors to detect surface stress changes associated with interactions between an immobilized chemically selective receptor and a target analyte are presented. The top isolated sensing surface of a free-standing silicon plate is prepared with a thin Au layer, followed by a covalent attachment of chemical or biomolecule forming a chemically-selective surface. Surface stress changes in air are measured capacitively due to the formation of an alkanethiol self-assembled monolayer (SAM). Detection of biomolecular binding in liquid samples is measured optically using the streptavidin-biotin complex and AM. tuberculosis antigen-antibody system used for clinical tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis
QCD Effective action at high temperature and small chemical potential
We present a construction of an effective Yang-Mills action for QCD, from the
expansion of the fermionic determinant in terms of powers of the chemical
potential at high temperature, for the case of massless quarks. We analyze this
expansion in the perturbative region and find that it gives extra spurious
information. We propose for the non-perturbative sector a simplified effective
action which, in principle, contains only the relevant information.Comment: 3 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the 7th Conference on Strong
& Electroweak Matter (SEWM06), BNL, May 200
Derivative expansion of quadratic operators in a general 't Hooft gauge
A derivative expansion technique is developed to compute functional
determinants of quadratic operators, non diagonal in spacetime indices. This
kind of operators arise in general 't Hooft gauge fixed Lagrangians. Elaborate
applications of the developed derivative expansion are presented.Comment: 40 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Interplay of quark and meson degrees of freedom in a near-threshold resonance
We investigate the interplay of quark and meson degrees of freedom in a
physical state representing a near-threshold resonance for the case of a single
continuum channel. We demonstrate that such a near-threshold resonance may
possess quite peculiar properties if both quark and meson dynamics generate
weakly coupled near-threshold poles in the S-matrix. In particular, the
scattering t-matrix may possess zeros in this case. We also discuss possible
implications for production reactions as well as studies within lattice QCD.Comment: LaTeX2e, 11 pages, minor typo corrections, to appear in Eur.Phys.J.
Massive quantum fields in a conical background
Representations of the Klein-Gordon and Dirac propagators are determined in a
dimensional conical background for massive fields twisted by an arbitrary
angle . The Dirac propagator is shown to be obtained from the
Klein-Gordon propagator twisted by angles where
is the cone deficit angle. Vacuum expectation values are determined
by a point-splitting method in the proper time representation of the
propagators. Analogies with the Aharonov-Bohm effect are pointed out throughout
the paper and a conjecture on an extension to fields of arbitrary spin is
given.Comment: Propagator (11) is rewritten in a more convenient form and the one
before that is amended. A more concise expression is given for the energy
density of a twisted spinor. The references contain minor correction
Higher-Spin Theory and Space-Time Metamorphoses
Introductory lectures on higher-spin gauge theory given at 7 Aegean workshop
on non-Einstein theories of gravity. The emphasis is on qualitative features of
the higher-spin gauge theory and peculiarities of its space-time
interpretation. In particular, it is explained that Riemannian geometry cannot
play a fundamental role in the higher-spin gauge theory. The higher-spin
symmetries are argued to occur at ultra high energy scales beyond the Planck
scale. This suggests that the higher-spin gauge theory can help to understand
Quantum Gravity. Various types of higher-spin dualities are briefly discussed.Comment: 37 pages, no figures; V2: references adde
Non-perturbative quenched propagator beyond the infrared approximation
A new approach to the quenched propagator in QED beyond the IR limit is
proposed. The method is based on evolution equations in the proper time.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure; Misprint on reference correcte
Nonperturbative late time asymptotics for heat kernel in gravity theory
Recently proposed nonlocal and nonperturbative late time behavior of the heat
kernel is generalized to curved spacetimes. Heat kernel trace asymptotics is
dominated by two terms one of which represents a trivial covariantization of
the flat-space result and another one is given by the Gibbons-Hawking integral
over asymptotically-flat infinity. Nonlocal terms of the effective action
generated by this asymptotics might underly long- distance modifications of the
Einstein theory motivated by the cosmological constant problem. New mechanisms
of the cosmological constant induced by infrared effects of matter and graviton
loops are briefly discussed.Comment: 22 pages, LaTeX, final version, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Renormalization-Group Improved Effective Potential for Interacting Theories with Several Mass Scales in Curved Spacetime
The renormalization group (RG) is used in order to obtain the RG improved
effective potential in curved spacetime. This potential is explicitly
calculated for the Yukawa model and for scalar electrodynamics, i.e. theories
with several (namely, more than one) mass scales, in a space of constant
curvature. Using the -theory on a general curved spacetime
as an example, we show how it is possible to find the RG improved effective
Lagrangian in curved spacetime. As specific applications, we discuss the
possibility of curvature induced phase transitions in the Yukawa model and the
effective equations (back-reaction problem) for the -theory
on a De Sitter background.Comment: 18 pages, LaTeX file, UB-ECM-PF 93/2
Ultraviolet Complete Quantum Gravity
An ultraviolet complete quantum gravity theory is formulated in which vertex
functions in Feynman graphs are entire functions and the propagating graviton
is described by a local, causal propagator. The cosmological constant problem
is investigated in the context of the ultraviolet complete quantum gravity.Comment: 11 pages, no figures. Changes to text. Results remain the same.
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