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Chain Formation by Spin Pentamers in eta-Na9V14O35
The nature of the gapped ground state in the quasi-one-dimensional compound
eta-Na9V14O35 cannot easily be understood, if one takes into account the odd
number of spins on each structural element. Combining the results of specific
heat, susceptibility and electron spin resonance measurements we show that
eta-Na9V14O35 exhibits a novel ground state where multi-spin objects build up a
linear chain. These objects - pentamers - consist of five antiferromagnetically
arranged spins with effective spin 1/2. Their spatial extent results in an
exchange constant along the chain direction comparable to the one in the
high-temperature state.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
The Nakayama automorphism of the almost Calabi-Yau algebras associated to SU(3) modular invariants
We determine the Nakayama automorphism of the almost Calabi-Yau algebra A
associated to the braided subfactors or nimrep graphs associated to each SU(3)
modular invariant. We use this to determine a resolution of A as an A-A
bimodule, which will yield a projective resolution of A.Comment: 46 pages which constitutes the published version, plus an Appendix
detailing some long calculations. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1110.454
Can a combination of the conformal thin-sandwich and puncture methods yield binary black hole solutions in quasi-equilibrium?
We consider combining two important methods for constructing
quasi-equilibrium initial data for binary black holes: the conformal
thin-sandwich formalism and the puncture method. The former seeks to enforce
stationarity in the conformal three-metric and the latter attempts to avoid
internal boundaries, like minimal surfaces or apparent horizons. We show that
these two methods make partially conflicting requirements on the boundary
conditions that determine the time slices. In particular, it does not seem
possible to construct slices that are quasi-stationary and avoid physical
singularities and simultaneously are connected by an everywhere positive lapse
function, a condition which must obtain if internal boundaries are to be
avoided. Some relaxation of these conflicting requirements may yield a soluble
system, but some of the advantages that were sought in combining these
approaches will be lost.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX2e, 2 postscript figure
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Starfire poloidal coil systems
The poloidal coils for STARFIRE consists of three systems: (1) equilibrium field (EF) coils; (2) ohmic heating (OH) coils; and (3) correction field (CF) coils. The EF coils are superconducting and lie outside the toroidal field (TF) coils. These coils provide the bulk of the equilibrium field necessary to keep the plasma positioned in the vacuum chamber with the desired cross sectional shape and pressure and current distributions. Having these coils outside of the TF coils requires that they have a larger stored energy and larger currents but eases the assembly, maintenance, and reliability of the coils. The STARFIRE OH system is relatively small compared to tokamaks in which the current is entirely ohmically driven. It is designed to provide sufficient flux in the early startup to raise the plasma current to the point (1 to 2 MA) where the rf current drive can take over
Vacuum Stability Bound on Extended GMSB Models
Extensions of GMSB models were explored to explain the recent reports of the
Higgs boson mass around 124-126 GeV. Some models predict a large mu term, which
can spoil the vacuum stability of the universe. We study two GMSB extensions:
i) the model with a large trilinear coupling of the top squark, and ii) that
with extra vector-like matters. In both models, the vacuum stability condition
provides upper bounds on the gluino mass if combined with the muon g-2. The
whole parameter region is expected to be covered by LHC at sqrt{s} = 14 TeV.
The analysis is also applied to the mSUGRA models with the vector-like matters.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figure
Discovery of an Unusual Dwarf Galaxy in the Outskirts of the Milky Way
In this Letter, we announce the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, Leo T, in
the Local Group. It was found as a stellar overdensity in the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey Data Release 5 (SDSS DR5). The color-magnitude diagram of Leo T shows
two well-defined features, which we interpret as a red giant branch and a
sequence of young, massive stars. As judged from fits to the color-magnitude
diagram, it lies at a distance of about 420 kpc and has an intermediate-age
stellar population with a metallicity of [Fe/H]= -1.6, together with a young
population of blue stars of age of 200 Myr. There is a compact cloud of neutral
hydrogen with mass roughly 10^5 solar masses and radial velocity 35 km/s
coincident with the object visible in the HIPASS channel maps. Leo T is the
smallest, lowest luminosity galaxy found to date with recent star-formation. It
appears to be a transition object similar to, but much lower luminosity than,
the Phoenix dwarf.Comment: Ap J (Letters) in press, the subject of an SDSS press release toda
Early stage morphology of quench condensed Ag, Pb and Pb/Ag hybrid films
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) has been used to study the morphology of
Ag, Pb and Pb/Ag bilayer films fabricated by quench condensation of the
elements onto cold (T=77K), inert and atomically flat Highly Oriented Pyrolytic
Graphite (HOPG) substrates. All films are thinner than 10 nm and show a
granular structure that is consistent with earlier studies of QC films. The
average lateral diameter, , of the Ag grains, however, depends on
whether the Ag is deposited directly on HOPG ( = 13 nm) or on a Pb
film consisting of a single layer of Pb grains ( = 26.8 nm). In
addition, the critical thickness for electrical conduction () of Pb/Ag
films on inert glass substrates is substantially larger than for pure Ag films.
These results are evidence that the structure of the underlying substrate
exerts an influence on the size of the grains in QC films. We propose a
qualitative explanation for this previously unencountered phenomenon.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures and one tabl
Testing the Nambu-Goldstone Hypothesis for Quarks and Leptons at the LHC
The hierarchy of the Yukawa couplings is an outstanding problem of the
standard model. We present a class of models in which the first and second
generation fermions are SUSY partners of pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons that
parameterize a non-compact Kahler manifold, explaining the small values of
these fermion masses relative to those of the third generation. We also provide
an example of such a model. We find that various regions of the parameter space
in this scenario can give the correct dark matter abundance, and that nearly
all of these regions evade other phenomenological constraints. We show that for
gluino mass ~700 GeV, model points from these regions can be easily
distinguished from other mSUGRA points at the LHC with only 7 fb^(-1) of
integrated luminosity at 14 TeV. The most striking signatures are a dearth of
b- and tau-jets, a great number of multi-lepton events, and either an
"inverted" slepton mass hierarchy, narrowed slepton mass hierarchy, or
characteristic small-mu spectrum.Comment: Corresponds to published versio
Circulating markers of arterial thrombosis and late-stage age-related macular degeneration: a case-control study.
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to examine the relation of late-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with markers of systemic atherothrombosis. METHODS: A hospital-based case-control study of AMD was undertaken in London, UK. Cases of AMD (n=81) and controls (n=77) were group matched for age and sex. Standard protocols were used for colour fundus photography and to classify AMD; physical examination included height, weight, history of or treatment for vascular-related diseases and smoking status. Blood samples were taken for measurement of fibrinogen, factor VIIc (FVIIc), factor VIIIc, prothrombin fragment F1.2 (F1.2), tissue plasminogen activator, and von Willebrand factor. Odds ratios from logistic regression analyses of each atherothrombotic marker with AMD were adjusted for age, sex, and established cardiovascular disease risk factors, including smoking, blood pressure, body mass index, and total cholesterol. RESULTS: After adjustment FVIIc and possibly F1.2 were inversely associated with the risk of AMD; per 1 standard deviation increase in these markers the odds ratio were, respectively, 0.62 (95% confidence interval 0.40, 0.95) and 0.71 (0.46, 1.09). None of the other atherothrombotic risk factors appeared to be related to AMD status. There was weak evidence that aspirin is associated with a lower risk of AMD. CONCLUSIONS: This study does not provide strong evidence of associations between AMD and systematic markers of arterial thrombosis, but the potential effects of FVIIc, and F1.2 are worthy of further investigation
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