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Connection between charge transfer and alloying core-level shifts based on density-functional calculations
The measurement of alloying core-level binding energy (CLBE) shifts has been
used to give a precise meaning to the fundamental concept of charge transfer.
Here, ab-initio density-functional calculations for the intermetallic compound
MgAu are used to investigate models which try to make a connection between the
core levels shifts and charge transfer. The calculated CLBE shifts agree well
with experiment, and permit an unambiguous separation into initial-state and
screening contributions. Interestingly, the screening contribution is large and
cannot be neglected in any reasonable description. Comparison of the calculated
results with the predictions of simple models show that these models are not
adequate to describe the realistic situation. On the positive side, the
accuracy of the density-functional calculations indicates that the combination
of experiments with such calculations is a powerful tool to investigate unknown
systems.Comment: RevTeX 10 pages incl 8 figure
Which radius for the Sun?
The high accuracy reached by solar limb observations, by helioseismic
measurements and by Standard Solar Models (SSMs) calculations suggests that
general relativity corrections are included when discussing the solar radius.
The Allen value (R = 695.99 0.07 Mm) has to be reduced by 1.5
Km. This correction, which is small as compared with present accuracy, should
be kept in mind for future more precise measurements and/or calculations.Comment: Latex, 3 page
Beauveria bassiana strain ATCC 74040 (Naturalis®), a valuable tool for the control of the cherry fruit fly (Rhagoletis cerasi)
Naturalis® is a bioinsecticide based on living conidiospores of the naturally occuring
Beauveria bassiana strain ATCC 74040. The entomopathogenic fungus acts primarily by
contact: once attached to the insect’s cuticle, the conidiospores germinate producing
penetration hyphae, which enter and proliferate inside the insect’s body. The fungus
invades and feeds on its host, causing its death due to dehydration and/or depletion of
nutrients. Several years of laboratory, semi-field and field studies showed that also Tephritid
flies (Ceratitis capitata, Rhagoletis cerasi, Bactrocera oleae) are susceptible to infection by
B. bassiana strain ATCC 74040. The results of efficacy trials conducted in 2004-05 are
reported. Naturalis was tested both alone and in an integrated pest management strategy.
The product showed high efficacy in controlling R. cerasi, comparable to or higher than
that of the chemical reference treatment. The B. bassiana-based product Naturalis can thus
be considered an efficient tool for the control of the cherry fruit fly
Bounds on hep neutrinos
The excess of highest energy solar-neutrino events recently observed by
Superkamiokande can be in principle explained by anomalously high
-neutrino flux . Without using SSM calculations, from the
solar luminosity constraint we derive that cannot exceed
the SSM estimate by more than a factor three. If one makes the additional
hypothesis that neutrino production occurs where the He concentration
is at equilibrium, helioseismology gives an upper bound which is (less then)
two times the SSM prediction. We argue that the anomalous -neutrino flux
of order of that observed by Superkamiokande cannot be explained by
astrophysics, but rather by a large production cross-section.Comment: 7 pages, RevTeX fil
Gribov horizon and non-perturbative BRST symmetry in the maximal Abelian gauge
The non-perturbative nilpotent exact BRST symmetry of the Gribov-Zwanziger
action in the Landau gauge constructed in [ arXiv:1506.06995 [hep-th]] is
generalized to the case of Euclidean Yang-Mills theories quantized in the
maximal Abelian gauge. The resulting diagonal gluon propagator is evaluating in
dimensions D=4,3,2. In D=4,3 a decoupling type behavior is found in the
infrared region, while in D=2 a scaling type behavior emerges.Comment: Reviewed version with a new section and new references adde
Extracting convergent surface energies from slab calculations
The formation energy of a solid surface can be extracted from slab
calculations if the bulk energy per atom is known. It has been pointed out
previously that the resulting surface energy will diverge with slab thickness
if the bulk energy is in error, in the context of calculations which used
different methods to study the bulk and slab systems. We show here that this
result is equally relevant for state-of-the-art computational methods which
carefully treat bulk and slab systems in the same way. Here we compare
different approaches, and present a solution to the problem that eliminates the
divergence and leads to rapidly convergent and accurate surface energies.Comment: 3 revtex pages, 1 figure, in print on J. Phys. Cond. Mat
A non-perturbative study of matter field propagators in Euclidean Yang-Mills theory in linear covariant, Curci-Ferrari and maximal Abelian gauges
In this work, we study the propagators of matter fields within the framework
of the Refined Gribov-Zwanziger theory, which takes into account the effects of
the Gribov copies in the gauge-fixing quantization procedure of Yang-Mills
theory. In full analogy with the pure gluon sector of the Refined
Gribov-Zwanziger action, a non-local long-range term in the inverse of the
Faddeev-Popov operator is added in the matter sector. Making use of the recent
BRST invariant formulation of the Gribov-Zwanziger framework achieved in [Capri
et al 2016], the propagators of scalar and quark fields in the adjoint and
fundamental representations of the gauge group are worked out explicitly in the
linear covariant, Curci-Ferrari and maximal Abelian gauges. Whenever lattice
data are available, our results exhibit good qualitative agreement.Comment: 27 pages, no figures; V2, minor modifications, to appear in EPJ
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