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Virtual contributions from and in the decays
We study the quasi-two-body decays with
in the perturbative QCD approach and focus on the virtual contributions from
the off-shell and in the four
measured decays , , and . For the and
decays, their branching fractions concentrate in a very small region of
near pole mass, and the virtual contributions from
, in the region GeV, are about of the
corresponding quasi-two-body results. We define two ratios and
, from which we conclude that the flavor- symmetry will be
maintained for the decays with very small breaking at
any physical value of the . The
and decays can be employed as a constraint
for the decay width, with preferred values consistent with previous
theoretical predictions for this quantity.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures. Published versio
Impact of Edge States on Device Performance of Phosphorene Heterojunction Tunneling Field Effect Transistors
Black phosphorus (BP) tunneling transistors (TFETs) using heterojunction (He)
are investigated by atomistic quantum transport simulations. It is observed
that edge states have a great impact on transport characteristics of BP
He-TFETs, which result in the potential pinning effect and deteriorate the gate
control. While, on-state current can be effectively enhanced by using hydrogen
to saturate the edge dangling bonds in BP He-TFETs, in which edge states are
quenched. By extending layered BP with a smaller band gap to the channel region
and modulating the BP thickness, device performance of BP He-TFETs can be
further optimized and fulfill the requirements of the international technology
road-map for semiconductors (ITRS) 2013 for low power applications. In 15 nm
3L-1L and 4L-1L BP He-TFETs along armchair direction on-state current can reach
above 10 A/m with the fixed off-state current of 10 m. It
is also found that ambipolar effect can be effectively suppressed in BP
He-TFETs.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
QCD corrections to Upsilon production via color-octet states at the Tevatron and LHC
The NLO QCD corrections to Upsilon production via S-wave color-octet states
Upsilon(^1S_0^8,^3S_1^8) at the Tevatron and LHC is calculated. The K factors
of total cross section (ratio of NLO to LO) are 1.313 and 1.379 for
Upsilon(^1S_0^8) and Upsilon(^3S_1^8) at the Tevatron, while at the LHC they
are 1.044 and 1.182, respectively. By fitting the experimental data from the
D0, the matrix elements for S-wave color-octet states are obtained. And new
predictions for Upsilon production are presented. The prediction for the
polarization of inclusive Upsilon contains large uncertainty rising from the
polarization of Upsilon from feed-down of chi_b. To further clarify the
situation, new measurements on the production and polarization for direct
Upsilon are expected.Comment: 13 pages, 10 Figure
Dimensional crossover of thermal conductance in graphene nanoribbons: A first-principles approach
First-principles density-functional calculations are performed to investigate
the thermal transport properties in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). The
dimensional crossover of thermal conductance from one to two dimensions (2D) is
clearly demonstrated with increasing ribbon width. The thermal conductance of
GNRs in a few nanometer width already exhibits an approximate low-temperature
dependence of , like that of 2D graphene sheet which is attributed to
the quadratic nature of dispersion relation for the out-of-plane acoustic
phonon modes. Using a zone-folding method, we heuristically derive the
dimensional crossover of thermal conductance with the increase of ribbon width.
Combining our calculations with the experimental phonon mean-free path, some
typical values of thermal conductivity at room temperature are estimated for
GNRs and for 2D graphene sheet, respectively. Our findings clarify the issue of
low-temperature dependence of thermal transport in GNRs and suggest a
calibration range of thermal conductivity for experimental measurements in
graphene-based materials.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figure
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