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Electroweak and finite width corrections to top quark decays into transverse and longitudinal -bosons
We calculate the electroweak and finite width corrections to the decay of an
unpolarized top quark into a bottom quark and a -gauge boson where the
helicities of the are specified as longitudinal, transverse-plus and
transverse-minus. Together with the corrections these
corrections may become relevant for the determination of the mass of the top
quark through angular decay measurements.Comment: 4 pages, 7 postscript figures adde
Antiferromagnetic resonance in ferroborate NdFe(BO)$_4
The AFMR spectra of the NdFe(BO) crystal are measured in a wide
range of frequencies and temperatures. It is found that by the type of magnetic
anisotropy the compound is an "easy-plane" antiferromagnet with a weak
anisotropy in the basal plane. The effective magnetic parameters are
determined: anisotropy fields =1.14 kOe and =60 kOe and
magnetic excitation gaps =101.9 GHz and =23.8 GHz.
It is shown that commensurate-incommensurate phase transition causes a shift in
resonance field and a considerable change in absorption line width.
At temperatures below 4.2 K nonlinear regimes of AFMR excitation at low
microwave power levels are observed
IR finiteness of the ghost dressing function from numerical resolution of the ghost SD equation
We solve numerically the Schwinger-Dyson (SD hereafter) ghost equation in the
Landau gauge for a given gluon propagator finite at k=0 (alpha_gluon=1) and
with the usual assumption of constancy of the ghost-gluon vertex ; we show that
there exist two possible types of ghost dressing function solutions, as we have
previously inferred from analytical considerations : one singular at zero
momentum, satisfying the familiar relation alpha_gluon+2 alpha_ghost=0 between
the infrared exponents of the gluon and ghost dressing functions(in short,
respectively alpha_G and alpha_F) and having therefore alpha_ghost=-1/2, and
another which is finite at the origin (alpha_ghost=0), which violates the
relation. It is most important that the type of solution which is realized
depends on the value of the coupling constant. There are regular ones for any
coupling below some value, while there is only one singular solution, obtained
only at a critical value of the coupling. For all momenta k<1.5 GeV where they
can be trusted, our lattice data exclude neatly the singular one, and agree
very well with the regular solution we obtain at a coupling constant compatible
with the bare lattice value.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figures (one new figure and a short paragraph added
Nonperturbative structure of the quark-gluon vertex
The complete tensor structure of the quark--gluon vertex in Landau gauge is
determined at two kinematical points (`asymmetric' and `symmetric') from
lattice QCD in the quenched approximation. The simulations are carried out at
beta=6.0, using a mean-field improved Sheikholeslami-Wohlert fermion action,
with two quark masses ~ 60 and 115 MeV. We find substantial deviations from the
abelian form at the asymmetric point. The mass dependence is found to be
negligible. At the symmetric point, the form factor related to the
chromomagnetic moment is determined and found to contribute significantly to
the infrared interaction strength.Comment: 16 pages, 11 figures, JHEP3.cl
Quantifying fat replacement of muscle by quantitative MRI in muscular dystrophy
Imaging- and therapeutic targets in neoplastic and musculoskeletal inflammatory diseas
The Infrared Behaviour of the Pure Yang-Mills Green Functions
We review the infrared properties of the pure Yang-Mills correlators and
discuss recent results concerning the two classes of low-momentum solutions for
them reported in literature; i.e. decoupling and scaling solutions. We will
mainly focuss on the Landau gauge and pay special attention to the results
inferred from the analysis of the Dyson-Schwinger equations of the theory and
from "{\it quenched}" lattice QCD. The results obtained from properly
interplaying both approaches are strongly emphasized.Comment: Final version to be published in FBS (54 pgs., 11 figs., 4 tabs
Temporal biomass dynamics of an Arctic plankton bloom in response to increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide
Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in the linked cluster expansion
We investigate dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in the Coulomb gauge
Hamiltonian QCD. Within the framework of the linked cluster expansion we extend
the BCS ansatz for the vacuum and include correlation beyond the
quark-antiquark paring. In particular we study the effects of the three-body
correlations involving quark-antiquark and transverse gluons. The high momentum
behavior of the resulting gap equation is discussed and numerical computation
of the chiral symmetry breaking is presented.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figure
Spin structure of the nucleon: QCD evolution, lattice results and models
The question how the spin of the nucleon is distributed among its quark and
gluon constituents is still a subject of intense investigations. Lattice QCD
has progressed to provide information about spin fractions and orbital angular
momentum contributions for up- and down-quarks in the proton, at a typical
scale \mu^2~4 GeV^2. On the other hand, chiral quark models have traditionally
been used for orientation at low momentum scales. In the comparison of such
model calculations with experiment or lattice QCD, fixing the model scale and
the treatment of scale evolution are essential. In this paper, we present a
refined model calculation and a QCD evolution of lattice results up to
next-to-next-to-leading order. We compare this approach with the Myhrer-Thomas
scenario for resolving the proton spin puzzle.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, equation (9) has been corrected leading to a
revised figure 1b. Revision matches published versio
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