213 research outputs found
The Rotation Average in Lightcone Time-Ordered Perturbation Theory
We present a rotation average of the two-body scattering amplitude in the
lightcone time()-ordered perturbation theory. Using a rotation average
procedure, we show that the contribution of individual time-ordered diagram can
be quantified in a Lorentz invariant way. The number of time-ordered diagrams
can also be reduced by half if the masses of two bodies are same. In the
numerical example of theory, we find that the higher Fock-state
contribution is quite small in the lightcone quantization.Comment: 25 pages, REVTeX, epsf.sty, 69 eps file
Role of retardation in 3-D relativistic equations
Equal-time Green's function is used to derive a three-dimensional integral
equation from the Bethe-Salpeter equation. The resultant equation, in the
absence of anti-particles, is identical to the use of time-ordered diagrams,
and has been used within the framework of coupling to study the
role of energy dependence and non-locality when the two-body potential is the
sum of -exchange and crossed exchange. The results show that
non-locality and energy dependence make a substantial contribution to both the
on-shell and off-shell amplitudes.Comment: 17 pages, RevTeX; 8 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
C56 (Nov. 97
GAGA Factor Maintains Nucleosome-Free Regions and Has a Role in RNA Polymerase II Recruitment to Promoters
Previous studies have shown that GAGA Factor (GAF) is enriched on promoters with paused RNA Polymerase II (Pol II), but its genome-wide function and mechanism of action remain largely uncharacterized. We assayed the levels of transcriptionally-engaged polymerase using global run-on sequencing (GRO-seq) in control and GAF-RNAi Drosophila S2 cells and found promoter-proximal polymerase was significantly reduced on a large subset of paused promoters where GAF occupancy was reduced by knock down. These promoters show a dramatic increase in nucleosome occupancy upon GAF depletion. These results, in conjunction with previous studies showing that GAF directly interacts with nucleosome remodelers, strongly support a model where GAF directs nucleosome displacement at the promoter and thereby allows the entry Pol II to the promoter and pause sites. This action of GAF on nucleosomes is at least partially independent of paused Pol II because intergenic GAF binding sites with little or no Pol II also show GAF-dependent nucleosome displacement. In addition, the insulator factor BEAF, the BEAF-interacting protein Chriz, and the transcription factor M1BP are strikingly enriched on those GAF-associated genes where pausing is unaffected by knock down, suggesting insulators or the alternative promoter-associated factor M1BP protect a subset of GAF-bound paused genes from GAF knock-down effects. Thus, GAF binding at promoters can lead to the local displacement of nucleosomes, but this activity can be restricted or compensated for when insulator protein or M1BP complexes also reside at GAF bound promoters
Entanglement of Fock-space expansion and covariance in light-front Hamiltonian dynamics
We investigate in a model with scalar ``nucleons'' and mesons the
contributions of higher Fock states that are neglected in the ladder
approximation of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation. This leads to a breaking of
covariance, both in light-front and in instant-form Hamiltonian dynamics. The
lowest Fock sector neglected has two mesons in the intermediate state and
corresponds to the stretched box. First we show in a simplified example that
the contributions of higher Fock states are much smaller on the light-front
than in instant-form dynamics. Then we show for a scattering amplitude above
threshold that the stretched boxes are small, however, necessary to retain
covariance. For an off energy-shell amplitude covariance is not necessarily
maintained and this is confirmed by our calculations. Again, the stretched
boxes are found to be small.Comment: 17 pages, revtex, 14 figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.
Light-Front Bethe-Salpeter Equation
A three-dimensional reduction of the two-particle Bethe-Salpeter equation is
proposed. The proposed reduction is in the framework of light-front dynamics.
It yields auxiliary quantities for the transition matrix and the bound state.
The arising effective interaction can be perturbatively expanded according to
the number of particles exchanged at a given light-front time. An example
suggests that the convergence of the expansion is rapid. This result is
particular for light-front dynamics. The covariant results of the
Bethe-Salpeter equation can be recovered from the corresponding auxiliary
three-dimensional ones. The technical procedure is developed for a two-boson
case; the idea for an extension to fermions is given. The technical procedure
appears quite practicable, possibly allowing one to go beyond the ladder
approximation for the solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation. The relation
between the three-dimensional light-front reduction of the field-theoretic
Bethe-Salpeter equation and a corresponding quantum-mechanical description is
discussed.Comment: 42 pages, 5 figure
Bremsstrahlung radiation by a tunneling particle
We study the bremsstrahlung radiation of a tunneling charged particle in a
time-dependent picture. In particular, we treat the case of bremsstrahlung
during alpha-decay, which has been suggested as a promissing tool to
investigate the problem of tunneling times. We show deviations of the numerical
results from the semiclassical estimates. A standard assumption of a preformed
particle inside the well leads to sharp high-frequency lines in the
bremsstrahlung emission. These lines correspond to "quantum beats" of the
internal part of the wavefunction during tunneling arising from the
interference of the neighboring resonances in the well.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Relativistic bound-state equations in three dimensions
Firstly, a systematic procedure is derived for obtaining three-dimensional
bound-state equations from four-dimensional ones. Unlike ``quasi-potential
approaches'' this procedure does not involve the use of delta-function
constraints on the relative four-momentum. In the absence of negative-energy
states, the kernels of the three-dimensional equations derived by this
technique may be represented as sums of time-ordered perturbation theory
diagrams. Consequently, such equations have two major advantages over
quasi-potential equations: they may easily be written down in any Lorentz
frame, and they include the meson-retardation effects present in the original
four-dimensional equation. Secondly, a simple four-dimensional equation with
the correct one-body limit is obtained by a reorganization of the generalized
ladder Bethe-Salpeter kernel. Thirdly, our approach to deriving
three-dimensional equations is applied to this four-dimensional equation, thus
yielding a retarded interaction for use in the three-dimensional bound-state
equation of Wallace and Mandelzweig. The resulting three-dimensional equation
has the correct one-body limit and may be systematically improved upon. The
quality of the three-dimensional equation, and our general technique for
deriving such equations, is then tested by calculating bound-state properties
in a scalar field theory using six different bound-state equations. It is found
that equations obtained using the method espoused here approximate the wave
functions obtained from their parent four-dimensional equations significantly
better than the corresponding quasi-potential equations do.Comment: 28 pages, RevTeX, 6 figures attached as postscript files. Accepted
for publication in Phys. Rev. C. Minor changes from original version do not
affect argument or conclusion
Infinite Nuclear Matter on the Light Front: Nucleon-Nucleon Correlations
A relativistic light front formulation of nuclear dynamics is developed and
applied to treating infinite nuclear matter in a method which includes the
correlations of pairs of nucleons: this is light front Brueckner theory. We
start with a hadronic meson-baryon Lagrangian that is consistent with chiral
symmetry. This is used to obtain a light front version of a one-boson-exchange
nucleon-nucleon potential (OBEP). The accuracy of our description of the
nucleon-nucleon (NN) data is good, and similar to that of other relativistic
OBEP models. We derive, within the light front formalism, the Hartree-Fock and
Brueckner Hartree-Fock equations. Applying our light front OBEP, the nuclear
matter saturation properties are reasonably well reproduced. We obtain a value
of the compressibility, 180 MeV, that is smaller than that of alternative
relativistic approaches to nuclear matter in which the compressibility usually
comes out too large. Because the derivation starts from a meson-baryon
Lagrangian, we are able to show that replacing the meson degrees of freedom by
a NN interaction is a consistent approximation, and the formalism allows one to
calculate corrections to this approximation in a well-organized manner. The
simplicity of the vacuum in our light front approach is an important feature in
allowing the derivations to proceed. The mesonic Fock space components of the
nuclear wave function are obtained also, and aspects of the meson and nucleon
plus-momentum distribution functions are computed. We find that there are about
0.05 excess pions per nucleon.Comment: 39 pages, RevTex, two figure
Nucleon-Nucleon Optical Model for Energies to 3 GeV
Several nucleon-nucleon potentials, Paris, Nijmegen, Argonne, and those
derived by quantum inversion, which describe the NN interaction for T-lab below
300$ MeV are extended in their range of application as NN optical models.
Extensions are made in r-space using complex separable potentials definable
with a wide range of form factor options including those of boundary condition
models. We use the latest phase shift analyses SP00 (FA00, WI00) of Arndt et
al. from 300 MeV to 3 GeV to determine these extensions. The imaginary parts of
the optical model interactions account for loss of flux into direct or resonant
production processes. The optical potential approach is of particular value as
it permits one to visualize fusion, and subsequent fission, of nucleons when
T-lab above 2 GeV. We do so by calculating the scattering wave functions to
specify the energy and radial dependences of flux losses and of probability
distributions. Furthermore, half-off the energy shell t-matrices are presented
as they are readily deduced with this approach. Such t-matrices are required
for studies of few- and many-body nuclear reactions.Comment: Latex, 40 postscript pages including 17 figure
Background Light in Potential Sites for the ANTARES Undersea Neutrino Telescope
The ANTARES collaboration has performed a series of {\em in situ}
measurements to study the background light for a planned undersea neutrino
telescope. Such background can be caused by K decays or by biological
activity. We report on measurements at two sites in the Mediterranean Sea at
depths of 2400~m and 2700~m, respectively. Three photomultiplier tubes were
used to measure single counting rates and coincidence rates for pairs of tubes
at various distances. The background rate is seen to consist of three
components: a constant rate due to K decays, a continuum rate that
varies on a time scale of several hours simultaneously over distances up to at
least 40~m, and random bursts a few seconds long that are only correlated in
time over distances of the order of a meter. A trigger requiring coincidences
between nearby photomultiplier tubes should reduce the trigger rate for a
neutrino telescope to a manageable level with only a small loss in efficiency.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Astroparticle
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