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Quark-hadron duality, axial anomaly and mixing
Interplay between axial anomaly and quark-hadron duality in the presence of
strong mixing is considered. The anomaly sum rule for meson transition form
factors based on the dispersive representation of axial anomaly and
quark-hadron duality in octet channel is analyzed. The comparison of this sum
rule to the experimental data on and mesons transition form
factors shows that the interval of duality in this channel is rather small,
contradicting the usual understanding of quark-hadron duality. The same values
of interval of duality are supported by considering the two-point correlator in
the local duality limit. This contradiction may be resolved by introducing of
some nonperturbative non-OPE correction to the relevant spectral density. The
form and value of this correction are discussed.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure, reference adde
The Build-Up of the Hubble Sequence in the COSMOS Field
We use ~8,600 >5e10 Msol COSMOS galaxies to study how the morphological mix
of massive ellipticals, bulge-dominated disks, intermediate-bulge disks,
bulge-less disks and irregular galaxies evolves from z=0.2 to z=1. The
morphological evolution depends strongly on mass. At M>3e11 Msol, no evolution
is detected in the morphological mix: ellipticals dominate since z=1, and the
Hubble sequence has quantitatively settled down by this epoch. At the 1e11 Msol
mass scale, little evolution is detected, which can be entirely explained with
major mergers. Most of the morphological evolution from z=1 to z=0.2 takes
place at masses 5e10 - 1e11 Msol, where: (i) The fraction of spirals
substantially drops and the contribution of early-types increases. This
increase is mostly produced by the growth of bulge-dominated disks, which vary
their contribution from ~10% at z=1 to >30% at z=0.2 (cf. the elliptical
fraction grows from ~15% to ~20%). Thus, at these masses, transformations from
late- to early-types result in disk-less elliptical morphologies with a
statistical frequency of only 30% - 40%. Otherwise, the processes which are
responsible for the transformations either retain or produce a non-negligible
disk component. (ii) The bulge-less disk galaxies, which contribute ~15% to the
intermediate-mass galaxy population at z=1, virtually disappear by z=0.2. The
merger rate since z=1 is too low to account for the disappearance of these
massive bulge-less disks, which most likely grow a bulge via secular evolution.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ
Sr2V3O9 and Ba2V3O9: quasi one-dimensional spin-systems with an anomalous low temperature susceptibility
The magnetic behaviour of the low-dimensional Vanadium-oxides Sr2V3O9 and
Ba2V3O9 was investigated by means of magnetic susceptibility and specific heat
measurements. In both compounds, the results can be very well described by an
S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain with an intrachain exchange of J = 82
K and J = 94 K in Sr2V3O9 and Ba2V3O9, respectively. In Sr2V3O9,
antiferromagnetic ordering at T_N = 5.3 K indicate a weak interchain exchange
of the order of J_perp ~ 2 K. In contrast, no evidence for magnetic order was
found in Ba2V3O9 down to 0.5 K, pointing to an even smaller interchain
coupling. In both compounds, we observe a pronounced Curie-like increase of the
susceptibility below 30 K, which we tentatively attribute to a staggered field
effect induced by the applied magnetic field. Results of LDA calculations
support the quasi one-dimensional character and indicate that in Sr2V3O9, the
magnetic chain is perpendicular to the structural one with the magnetic
exchange being transferred through VO4 tetrahedra.Comment: Submitted to Phy. Rev.
Study of color suppressed modes
The color suppressed modes are
analyzed in perturbative QCD approach. We find that the dominant contribution
is from the non-factorizable diagrams. The branching ratios calculated in our
approach for agree with current experiments. By
neglecting the gluonic contribution, we predict the branching ratios of are at the comparable size of , but smaller than that of .Comment: revtex, 5 pages, axodraw.st
Damped Bloch oscillations of cold atoms in optical lattices
The paper studies Bloch oscillations of cold neutral atoms in the optical
lattice. The effect of spontaneous emission on the dynamics of the system is
analyzed both analytically and numerically. The spontaneous emission is shown
to cause (i) the decay of Bloch oscillations with the decrement given by the
rate of spontaneous emission and (ii) the diffusive spreading of the atoms with
a diffusion coefficient depending on {\em both} the rate of spontaneous
emission and the Bloch frequency.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figure
Bell Correlations and the Common Future
Reichenbach's principle states that in a causal structure, correlations of
classical information can stem from a common cause in the common past or a
direct influence from one of the events in correlation to the other. The
difficulty of explaining Bell correlations through a mechanism in that spirit
can be read as questioning either the principle or even its basis: causality.
In the former case, the principle can be replaced by its quantum version,
accepting as a common cause an entangled state, leaving the phenomenon as
mysterious as ever on the classical level (on which, after all, it occurs). If,
more radically, the causal structure is questioned in principle, closed
space-time curves may become possible that, as is argued in the present note,
can give rise to non-local correlations if to-be-correlated pieces of classical
information meet in the common future --- which they need to if the correlation
is to be detected in the first place. The result is a view resembling Brassard
and Raymond-Robichaud's parallel-lives variant of Hermann's and Everett's
relative-state formalism, avoiding "multiple realities."Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Charming CP Violation and Dipole Operators from RS Flavor Anarchy
Recently the LHCb collaboration reported evidence for direct CP violation in
charm decays. The value is sufficiently large that either substantially
enhanced Standard Model contributions or non-Standard Model physics is required
to explain it. In the latter case only a limited number of possibilities would
be consistent with other existing flavor-changing constraints. We show that
warped extra dimensional models that explain the quark spectrum through flavor
anarchy can naturally give rise to contributions of the size required to
explain the the LHCb result. The D meson asymmetry arises through a sizable
CP-violating contribution to a chromomagnetic dipole operator. This happens
naturally without introducing inconsistencies with existing constraints in the
up quark sector. We discuss some subtleties in the loop calculation that are
similar to those in Higgs to \gamma\gamma. Loop-induced dipole operators in
warped scenarios and their composite analogs exhibit non-trivial dependence on
the Higgs profile, with the contributions monotonically decreasing when the
Higgs is pushed away from the IR brane. We show that the size of the dipole
operator quickly saturates as the Higgs profile approaches the IR brane,
implying small dependence on the precise details of the Higgs profile when it
is quasi IR localized. We also explain why the calculation of the coefficient
of the lowest dimension 5D operator is guaranteed to be finite. This is true
not only in the charm sector but also with other radiative processes such as
electric dipole moments, b to s\gamma, \epsilon'/\epsilon_K and \mu\ to
e\gamma. We furthermore discuss the interpretation of this contribution within
the framework of partial compositeness in four dimensions and highlight some
qualitative differences between the generic result of composite models and that
obtained for dynamics that reproduces the warped scenario.Comment: 14 page
Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka-rule violation and B\to \eta^{(\prime)}K branching ratios
We show that few-percent Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka-rule violating effects in the
quark-flavor basis for the - mixing can enhance the chiral scale
associated with the meson few times. This enhancement is sufficient
for accommodating the dramatically different data of the
and branching ratios. We comment on other proposals for resolving
this problem, including flavor-singlet contributions, axial U(1) anomaly, and
nonperturbative charming penguins. Discrimination of the above proposals by
means of the and
data is suggested.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, discussion on B\to\eta^{(\prime)}K* added, more
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Strongly linked current flow in polycrystalline forms of the new superconductor MgB2
The discovery of superconductivity at 39 K in MgB2[1] raises many issues. One
of the central questions is whether this new superconductor resembles a
high-temperature-cuprate superconductor or a low-temperature metallic
superconductor in terms of its current carrying characteristics in applied
magnetic fields. In spite of the very high transition temperatures of the
cuprate superconductors, their performance in magnetic fields has several
drawbacks[2]. Their large anisotropy restricts high bulk current densities to
much less than the full magnetic field-temperature (H-T) space over which
superconductivity is found. Further, weak coupling across grain boundaries
makes transport current densities in untextured polycrystalline forms low and
strongly magnetic field sensitive[3,4]. These studies of MgB2 address both
issues. In spite of the multi-phase, untextured, nano-scale sub-divided nature
of our samples, supercurrents flow throughout without the strong sensitivity to
weak magnetic fields characteristic of Josephson-coupled grains[3].
Magnetization measurements over nearly all of the superconducting H-T plane
show good temperature scaling of the flux pinning force, suggestive of a
current density determined by flux pinning. At least two length scales are
suggested by the magnetization and magneto optical (MO) analysis but the cause
of this seems to be phase inhomogeneity, porosity, and minority insulating
phase such as MgO rather than by weakly coupled grain boundaries. Our results
suggest that polycrystalline ceramics of this new class of superconductor will
not be compromised by the weak link problems of the high temperature
superconductors, a conclusion with enormous significance for applications if
higher temperature analogs of this compound can be discovered
Can the Mechanism for Hybrid Decays be Detected?
Two mechanisms for the () hybrid meson decay processes
are investigated. These mechanisms are applied to
and decays to
illustrate the validity of the decay mechanisms and to obtain independent
information on the coupling of to quark and gluonic operators.
From this information, we find that
is substantially different
in the two decay mechanisms, and hence future experimental measurements of this
ratio will provide valuable information for substantiating the hybrid nature of
these states and for determining the mechanism for these hybrid decays.Comment: 5 pages, revtex, 1 eps figure embedded in manuscript. Analysis and
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