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The mass of unimodular lattices
The purpose of this paper is to show how to obtain the mass of a unimodular
lattice from the point of view of the Bruhat-Tits theory. This is achieved by
relating the local stabilizer of the lattice to a maximal parahoric subgroup of
the special orthogonal group, and appealing to an explicit mass formula for
parahoric subgroups developed by Gan, Hanke and Yu.
Of course, the exact mass formula for positive defined unimodular lattices is
well-known. Moreover, the exact formula for lattices of signature (1,n) (which
give rise to hyperbolic orbifolds) was obtained by Ratcliffe and Tschantz,
starting from the fundamental work of Siegel. Our approach works uniformly for
the lattices of arbitrary signature (r,s) and hopefully gives a more conceptual
way of deriving the above known results.Comment: 15 pages, to appear in J. Number Theor
Frequency-sweep examination for wave mode identification in multimodal ultrasonic guided wave signal
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Ultrasonic guided waves can be used to assess and monitor long elements of a structure from a single position. The greatest challenges for any guided wave system are the plethora of wave modes arising from the geometry of the structural element which propagate with a range of frequency-dependent velocities and the interpretation of these combined signals reflected by discontinuities in the structural element. In this paper, a novel signal processing technique is presented using a combination of frequency-sweep measurement, sampling rate conversion, and Fourier transform. The technique is applied to synthesized and experimental data to identify different modes in complex ultrasonic guided wave signals. It is demonstrated throughout the paper that the technique also has the capability to derive the time of flight and group velocity dispersion curve of different wave modes in field inspections. © 2014 IEEE
Morphological evolution of a 3D CME cloud reconstructed from three viewpoints
The propagation properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are crucial to
predict its geomagnetic effect. A newly developed three dimensional (3D) mask
fitting reconstruction method using coronagraph images from three viewpoints
has been described and applied to the CME ejected on August 7, 2010. The CME's
3D localisation, real shape and morphological evolution are presented. Due to
its interaction with the ambient solar wind, the morphology of this CME changed
significantly in the early phase of evolution. Two hours after its initiation,
it was expanding almost self-similarly. CME's 3D localisation is quite helpful
to link remote sensing observations to in situ measurements. The investigated
CME was propagating to Venus with its flank just touching STEREO B. Its
corresponding ICME in the interplanetary space shows a possible signature of a
magnetic cloud with a preceding shock in VEX observations, while from STEREO B
only a shock is observed. We have calculated three principle axes for the
reconstructed 3D CME cloud. The orientation of the major axis is in general
consistent with the orientation of a filament (polarity inversion line)
observed by SDO/AIA and SDO/HMI. The flux rope axis derived by the MVA analysis
from VEX indicates a radial-directed axis orientation. It might be that locally
only the leg of the flux rope passed through VEX. The height and speed profiles
from the Sun to Venus are obtained. We find that the CME speed possibly had
been adjusted to the speed of the ambient solar wind flow after leaving COR2
field of view and before arriving Venus. A southward deflection of the CME from
the source region is found from the trajectory of the CME geometric center. We
attribute it to the influence of the coronal hole where the fast solar wind
emanated from.Comment: ApJ, accepte
Superconducting Pairing Symmetries in Anisotropic Triangular Quantum Antiferromagnets
Motivated by the recent discovery of a low temperature spin liquid phase in
layered organic compound -(ET)Cu(CN) which becomes a
superconductor under pressure, we examine the phase transition of Mott
insulating and superconducting (SC) states in a Hubbard-Heisenberg model on an
anisotropic triangular lattice. We use a renormalized mean field theory to
study the Gutzwiller projected BCS wavefucntions. The half filled electron
system is a Mott insulator at large on-site repulsion , and is a
superconductor at a moderate . The symmetry of the SC state depends on the
anisotropy, and is gapful with symmetry near the
isotropic limit and is gapless with symmetry at small anisotropy
ratio.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
production associated with a T-odd (anti)quark at the LHC in NLO QCD
In the framework of the littlest Higgs model with T parity, we study the
production in association with a T-odd (anti)quark of the first two
generations at the CERN Large Hadron Collider up to the QCD next-to-leading
order. The kinematic distributions of final decay products and the theoretical
dependence of the cross section on the factorization/renormalization scale are
discussed. We apply three schemes in considering the QCD NLO contributions and
find that the QCD NLO corrections by adopting the (II) and (III) subtraction
schemes can keep the convergence of the perturbative QCD description and reduce
the scale uncertainty of the leading order cross section. By using these two
subtraction schemes, the QCD NLO corrections to the production
process enhance the leading order cross section with a K-factor in the range of
.Comment: 31 pages, 12 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev.
SUSY QCD impact on top-pair production associated with a -boson at a photon-photon collider
The top-pair production in association with a -boson at a photon-photon
collider is an important process in probing the coupling between top-quarks and
vector boson and discovering the signature of possible new physics. We describe
the impact of the complete supersymmetric QCD(SQCD) next-to-leading order(NLO)
radiative corrections on this process at a polarized or unpolarized photon
collider, and make a comparison between the effects of the SQCD and the
standard model(SM) QCD. We investigate the dependence of the lowest-order(LO)
and QCD NLO corrected cross sections in both the SM and minimal supersymmetric
standard model(MSSM) on colliding energy in different polarized
photon collision modes. The LO, SM NLO and SQCD NLO corrected distributions of
the invariant mass of -pair and the transverse momenta of final
-boson are presented. Our numerical results show that the pure SQCD
effects in \ggttz process can be more significant in the polarized photon
collision mode than in other collision modes, and the relative SQCD radiative
correction in unpolarized photon collision mode varies from 32.09% to
when goes up from to .Comment: 22 pages and 13 figure
Gossamer Superconductivity near Antiferromagnetic Mott Insulator in Layered Organic Conductors
Layered organic superconductors are on the verge of the Mott insulator. We
use Gutzwiller variational method to study a Hubbard model including a spin
exchange coupling term. The ground state is found to be a Gossamer
superconductor at small on-site Coulomb repulsion U and an antiferromagnetic
Mott insulator at large U, separated by a first order phase transition. Our
theory is qualitatively consistent with major experiments reported in organic
superconductors.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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