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Miniature vibration isolator Patent
Miniature vibration isolator utilizing elastic tubing materia
Laplacian modes probing gauge fields
We show that low-lying eigenmodes of the Laplace operator are suitable to
represent properties of the underlying SU(2) lattice configurations. We study
this for the case of finite temperature background fields, yet in the
confinement phase. For calorons as classical solutions put on the lattice, the
lowest mode localizes one of the constituent monopoles by a maximum and the
other one by a minimum, respectively. We introduce adjustable phase boundary
conditions in the time direction, under which the role of the monopoles in the
mode localization is interchanged. Similar hopping phenomena are observed for
thermalized configurations. We also investigate periodic and antiperiodic modes
of the adjoint Laplacian for comparison.
In the second part we introduce a new Fourier-like low-pass filter method. It
provides link variables by truncating a sum involving the Laplacian eigenmodes.
The filter not only reproduces classical structures, but also preserves the
confining potential for thermalized ensembles. We give a first characterization
of the structures emerging from this procedure.Comment: 43 pages, 26 figure
Chromosome mapping: radiation hybrid data and stochastic spin models
This work approaches human chromosome mapping by developing algorithms for
ordering markers associated with radiation hybrid data. Motivated by recent
work of Boehnke et al. [1], we formulate the ordering problem by developing
stochastic spin models to search for minimum-break marker configurations. As a
particular application, the methods developed are applied to 14 human
chromosome-21 markers tested by Cox et al. [2]. The methods generate
configurations consistent with the best found by others. Additionally, we find
that the set of low-lying configurations is described by a Markov-like ordering
probability distribution. The distribution displays cluster correlations
reflecting closely linked loci.Comment: 26 Pages, uuencoded LaTex, Submitted to Phys. Rev. E,
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More on Symmetries in Heavy Quark Effective Theory
We present a general classification of all normal and ``chiral" symmetries of
heavy quark effective theories. Some peculiarities and conondrums associated
with the ``chiral" symmetries are discussed.Comment: 15 pages, preprint UR-1320, ER40685-77
Capacity of different cell types to stimulate cytotoxic T lymphocyte precursor cells in the presence of interleukin 2
Plastic-adherent cells enriched for dendritic cells (AC) were found to be among the most potent stimulator cells for the activation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in vitro in the presence of interleukin 2 (IL 2) and a constant second set of allogeneic stimulator cells. Concanavalin A-activated nylon wool-nonadherent spleen cells ( CNWT ), concanavalin A-activated unfractionated spleen cells ( Cspl ), and some variants of the ESb T lymphoma line were equally effective as stimulator cells, however, and provoked a substantial cytotoxic response at concentrations of 10(4) cells per culture or less. In contrast, nonactivated nylon wool-nonadherent spleen cells ( NWT ) or unfractionated spleen cells (Spl) and cells of the P815 mastocytoma, the Meth A fibrosarcoma, and the T cell lymphomas Ly 5178 Eb and ESb did not stimulate cytotoxic responses at these cell concentrations. The strong stimulatory potential of the Cspl preparation was reduced by treatment with anti-Thy-1 antibody plus complement, whereas the stimulatory activity of the AC preparation was resistant to this treatment. All cell types tested expressed class I major histocompatibility antigens. Nonactivated NWT cells, in contrast to the CNWT preparation, showed no detectable staining with anti-I-E or anti-I-A antibodies and also a slightly weaker staining with class I antisera. Experiments with the tumor cell lines revealed, however, that there was no strict correlation between stimulatory potential and density of class I alloantigens or the expression of I-E determinants. Experiments on primary cytotoxic responses in vivo gave similar results. Experiments in cultures with a single set of stimulator cells and I region-compatible responder cells indicated that AC and Cspl or CNWT also have a markedly stronger capacity than NWT to induce IL 2-dependent DNA synthesis
J/Psi Production from Electromagnetic Fragmentation in Z decay
The rate for is suprisingly large
with about one event for every million decays. The reason for this is
that there is a fragmentation contribution that is not suppressed by a factor
of . In the fragmentation limit with
fixed, the differential decay rate for factors into electromagnetic decay rates and universal
fragmentation functions. The fragmentation functions for lepton fragmentation
and photon fragmentation into are calculated to lowest order in
. The fragmentation approximation to the rate is shown to match the
full calculation for greater than about .Comment: 16 pages and 8 figure
Second Order Power Corrections in the Heavy Quark Effective Theory I. Formalism and Meson Form Factors
In the heavy quark effective theory, hadronic matrix elements of currents
between two hadrons containing a heavy quark are expanded in inverse powers of
the heavy quark masses, with coefficients that are functions of the kinematic
variable . For the ground state pseudoscalar and vector mesons, this
expansion is constructed at order . A minimal set of universal form
factors is defined in terms of matrix elements of higher dimension operators in
the effective theory. The zero recoil normalization conditions following from
vector current conservation are derived. Several phenomenological applications
of the general results are discussed in detail. It is argued that at zero
recoil the semileptonic decay rates for and receive only small second order corrections, which are unlikely
to exceed the level of a few percent. This supports the usefulness of the heavy
quark expansion for a reliable determination of .Comment: (34 pages, REVTEX, two postscript figures available upon request),
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Phenomenological Study of Strong Decays of Heavy Hadrons in Heavy Quark Effective Theory
The application of the tensor formalism of the heavy quark effective theory
(HQET) at leading order to strong decays of heavy hadrons is presented.
Comparisons between experimental and theoretical predictions of ratios of decay
rates for B mesons, D mesons and kaons are given. The application of HQET to
strange mesons presents some encouraging results. The spin-flavor symmetry is
used to predict some decay rates that have not yet been measured.Comment: 10 page
Elastic effects on relaxation volume tensor calculations
Relaxation volume tensors quantify the effect of stress on diffusion of
crystal defects. Continuum linear elasticity predicts that calculations of
these parameters using periodic boundary conditions do not suffer from
systematic deviations due to elastic image effects and should be independent of
supercell size or symmetry. In practice, however, calculations of formation
volume tensors of the interstitial in Stillinger-Weber silicon
demonstrate that changes in bonding at the defect affect the elastic moduli and
result in system-size dependent relaxation volumes. These vary with the inverse
of the system size. Knowing the rate of convergence permits accurate estimates
of these quantities from modestly sized calculations. Furthermore, within the
continuum linear elasticity assumptions the average stress can be used to
estimate the relaxation volume tensor from constant volume calculations.Comment: 31 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Analyticity Properties and Unitarity Constraints of Heavy Meson Form Factors
We derive new bounds on the b-number form factor of the B meson.
(Revised version of hep-ph/9306214).Comment: 22 page
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