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Advance in dynamical spontaneous symmetry breaking
Recently, a condition is derived for a nontrivial solution of the
Schwinger-Dyson equation to be accompanied by a Goldstone bound state in a
special quantum electrodynamics model. This result is extended and a new form
of the Goldstone theorem is obtained in a general quantum field theory
framework.Comment: 3 pages, LaTeX, no figure
Joint Probabilistic Data Association-Feedback Particle Filter for Multiple Target Tracking Applications
This paper introduces a novel feedback-control based particle filter for the
solution of the filtering problem with data association uncertainty. The
particle filter is referred to as the joint probabilistic data
association-feedback particle filter (JPDA-FPF). The JPDA-FPF is based on the
feedback particle filter introduced in our earlier papers. The remarkable
conclusion of our paper is that the JPDA-FPF algorithm retains the innovation
error-based feedback structure of the feedback particle filter, even with data
association uncertainty in the general nonlinear case. The theoretical results
are illustrated with the aid of two numerical example problems drawn from
multiple target tracking applications.Comment: In Proc. of the 2012 American Control Conferenc
RE-1000 free-piston Stirling engine hydraulic output system description
The NASA Lewis Research Center was involved in free-piston Stirling engine research since 1976. Most of the work performed in-house was related to characterization of the RE-1000 engine. The data collected from the RE-1000 tests were intended to provide a data base for the validation of Stirling cycle simulations. The RE-1000 was originally build with a dashpot load system which did not convert the output of the engine into useful power, but was merely used as a load for the engine to work against during testing. As part of the interagency program between NASA Lewis and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, (ORNL), the RE-1000 was converted into a configuration that produces useable hydraulic power. A goal of the hydraulic output conversion effort was to retain the same thermodynamic cycle that existed with the dashpot loaded engine. It was required that the design must provide a hermetic seal between the hydraulic fluid and the working gas of the engine. The design was completed and the hardware was fabricated. The RE-1000 was modified in 1985 to the hydraulic output configuration. The early part of the RE-1000 hydraulic output program consisted of modifying hardware and software to allow the engine to run at steady-state conditions. A complete description of the engine is presented in sufficient detail so that the device can be simulated on a computer. Tables are presented showing the masses of the oscillating components and key dimensions needed for modeling purposes. Graphs are used to indicate the spring rate of the diaphragms used to separate the helium of the working and bounce space from the hydraulic fluid
Low-lying even parity meson resonances and spin-flavor symmetry
A study is presented of the wave meson-meson interactions involving
members of the nonet and of the octet. The starting point is an
SU(6) spin-flavor extension of the SU(3) flavor Weinberg-Tomozawa Lagrangian.
SU(6) symmetry breaking terms are then included to account for the physical
meson masses and decay constants, while preserving partial conservation of the
axial current in the light pseudoscalar sector. Next, the matrix amplitudes
are obtained by solving the Bethe Salpeter equation in coupled-channel with the
kernel built from the above interactions. The poles found on the first and
second Riemann sheets of the amplitudes are identified with their possible
Particle Data Group (PDG) counterparts. It is shown that most of the low-lying
even parity PDG meson resonances, specially in the and sectors,
can be classified according to multiplets of the spin-flavor symmetry group
SU(6). The , and some resonances cannot be
accommodated within this SU(6) scheme and thus they would be clear candidates
to be glueballs or hybrids. Finally, we predict the existence of five exotic
resonances ( and/or ) with masses in the range 1.4--1.6 GeV,
which would complete the , , and multiplets of
SU(3)SU(2).Comment: 43 pages, 2 figures, 61 tables. Improved discussion of Section II. To
appear in Physical Review
The stability and the shape of the heaviest nuclei
In this paper, we report a systematic study of the heaviest nuclei within the
relativistic mean field (RMF) model. By comparing our results with those of the
Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov method (HFB) and the finite range droplet model (FRDM),
the stability and the shape of the heaviest nuclei are discussed. The
theoretical predictions as well as the existing experimental data indicate that
the experimentally synthesized superheavy nuclei are in between the fission
stability line, the line connecting the nucleus with maximum binding energy per
nucleon in each isotopic chain, and the -stability line, the line
connecting the nucleus with maximum binding energy per nucleon in each isobaric
chain. It is shown that both the fission stability line and the
-stability line tend to be more proton rich in the superheavy region.
Meanwhile, all the three theoretical models predict most synthesized superheavy
nuclei to be deformed.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Journal of Physics
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