109 research outputs found
Light meson resonances from unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory
We report on our recent progress in the generation of resonant behavior in
unitarized meson-meson scattering amplitudes obtained from Chiral Perturbation
Theory. These amplitudes provide simultaneously a remarkable description of the
resonance region up to 1.2 GeV as well as the low energy region, since they
respect the chiral symmetry expansion. By studying the position of the poles in
these amplitudes it is possible to determine the mass and width of the
associated resonances, as well as to get a hint on possible classification
schemes, that could be of interest for the spectroscopy of the scalar sector.Comment: Invited talk to the II International Workshop on Hadron Physics &
Effective Theories of Low Energy QCD. 25-29 September 2002. Coimbra. Portuga
Meson resonances from unitarized meson scattering at one loop in Chiral Perturbation Theory
We show the results for the scattering poles associated to the rho, f0, a0,
K*, sigma and kappa resonances in meson-meson scattering. Our amplitudes are
obtained from the complete one-loop meson-meson scattering amplitudes from
Chiral Perturbation Theory. Once unitarized with the Inverse Amplitude Method,
they describe remarkably well the data simultaneously in the low energy and
resonance regions up to 1.2 GeV, using low energy parameters compatible with
present determinations.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on
``Quark confinement and the hadron spectrum'', held in Gargnano, Garda Lake,
Italy. 10-14th September 2002. 3 page
Unitarization of the complete meson-meson scattering at one loop in Chiral Perturbation Theory
We report on our one-loop calculation of all the two meson scattering
amplitudes within SU(3) Chiral Perturbation Theory, i.e. with pions, kaons and
etas. Once the amplitudes are unitarized with the coupled channel Inverse
Amplitude Method, they satisfy simultaneously the correct low-energy chiral
constraints and unitarity. We obtain a remarkable description of meson-meson
scattering data up to 1.2 GeV including the scattering lengths and seven light
resonances.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of QCD@work: International Workshop on
QCD: Theory and Experiment. Martina Franca (Italy) June 16-20. 200
Complete meson-meson scattering within one loop in Chiral Perturbation Theory: Unitarization and resonances
We review our recent one-loop calculation of all the two meson scattering
amplitudes within SU(3) Chiral Perturbation Theory, i.e. with pions, kaons and
etas. By unitarizing these amplitudes we are able to generate dynamically the
lightest resonances in meson-meson scattering. We thus obtain a remarkable
description of the meson-meson scattering data right from threshold up to 1.2
GeV, in terms of chiral parameters in good agreement with previous
determinations.Comment: 4 pages, To appear in the Proceedings of the IX International
Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, HADRON2001, IHEP, Protvino, Russia, August
200
Rho and Sigma Mesons in Unitarized Thermal ChPT
We present our recent results for the rho and sigma mesons considered as
resonances in pion-pion scattering in a thermal bath. We use chiral
perturbation theory to fourth order in p for the low energy behaviour, then
extend the analysis via the unitarization method of the Inverse Amplitude into
the resonance region. The width of the rho broadens about twice the amount
required by phase space considerations alone, its mass staying practically
constant up to temperatures of order 150 MeV. The sigma meson behaves in
accordance to chiral symmetry restoration expectations.Comment: Proc. Workshop Strong and Electroweak Matter 02, Heidelberg, German
Thermal Instability in a Cooling and Expanding Medium Including Self-Gravity and Conduction
A systematic study of the linear thermal stability of a medium subject to
cooling, self-gravity and thermal conduction is carried out for the case when
the unperturbed state is subject to global cooling and expansion. A general,
recursive WKB solution for the perturbation problem is obtained which can be
applied to a large variety of situations in which there is a separation of
time-scales for the different physical processes. Solutions are explicitly
given and discussed for the case when sound propagation and/or self-gravity are
the fastest processes, with cooling, expansion and thermal conduction operating
on slower time-scales. A brief discussion is also added for the solutions in
the cases in which cooling or conduction operate on the fastest time-scale. The
general WKB solution obtained in this paper permits solving the problem of the
effect of thermal conduction and self-gravity on the thermal stability of a
globally cooling and expanding medium. As a result of the analysis, the
critical wavelength (often called Field length) above which cooling makes the
perturbations unstable against the action of thermal conduction is generalized
to the case of an unperturbed background with net cooling. As an astrophysical
application, the generalized Field length is calculated for a hot (10^4 - 10^8
K), optically thin medium (as pertains, for instance, for the hot interstellar
medium of SNRs or superbubbles) using a realistic cooling function and
including a weak magnetic field. The stability domains are compared with the
predictions made on the basis of models for which the background is in thermal
equilibrium. The instability domain of the sound waves, in particular, is seen
to be much larger in the case with net global cooling.Comment: 36 pages, 6 figures, accepted by ApJ, probable publication date:
April 20, 200
A Decadal Inversion of CO2 Using the Global Eulerian-Lagrangian Coupled Atmospheric Model (GELCA): Sensitivity to the Ground-Based Observation Network
We present an assimilation system for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) using a Global Eulerian-Lagrangian Coupled Atmospheric model (GELCA), and demonstrate its capability to capture the observed atmospheric CO2 mixing ratios and to estimate CO2 fluxes. With the efficient data handling scheme in GELCA, our system assimilates non-smoothed CO2 data from observational data products such as the Observation Package (ObsPack) data products as constraints on surface fluxes. We conducted sensitivity tests to examine the impact of the site selections and the prior uncertainty settings of observation on the inversion results. For these sensitivity tests, we made five different sitedata selections from the ObsPack product. In all cases, the time series of the global net CO2 flux to the atmosphere stayed close to values calculated from the growth rate of the observed global mean atmospheric CO2 mixing ratio. At regional scales, estimated seasonal CO2 fluxes were altered, depending on the CO2 data selected for assimilation. Uncertainty reductions (URs) were determined at the regional scale and compared among cases. As measures of the model-data mismatch, we used the model-data bias, root-mean-square error, and the linear correlation. For most observation sites, the model-data mismatch was reasonably small. Regarding regional flux estimates, tropical Asia was one of the regions that showed a significant impact from the observation network settings. We found that the surface fluxes in tropical Asia were the most sensitive to the use of aircraft measurements over the Pacific, and the seasonal cycle agreed better with the results of bottom-up studies when the aircraft measurements were assimilated. These results confirm the importance of these aircraft observations, especially for constraining surface fluxes in the tropics
Adjoint of the global Eulerian-Lagrangian coupled atmospheric transport model (A-GELCA v1.0): development and validation
We present the development of the Adjoint of the Global Eulerian–Lagrangian Coupled Atmospheric (A-GELCA) model that consists of the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) model as an Eulerian three-dimensional transport model (TM), and FLEXPART (FLEXible PARTicle dispersion model) as the Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model (LPDM). The forward tangent linear and adjoint components of the Eulerian model were constructed directly from the original NIES TM code using an automatic differentiation tool known as TAF (Transformation of Algorithms in Fortran; http://www.FastOpt.com), with additional manual pre- and post-processing aimed at improving transparency and clarity of the code and optimizing the performance of the computing, including MPI (Message Passing Interface). The Lagrangian component did not require any code modification, as LPDMs are self-adjoint and track a significant number of particles backward in time in order to calculate the sensitivity of the observations to the neighboring emission areas. The constructed Eulerian adjoint was coupled with the Lagrangian component at a time boundary in the global domain. The simulations presented in this work were performed using the A-GELCA model in forward and adjoint modes. The forward simulation shows that the coupled model improves reproduction of the seasonal cycle and short-term variability of CO2. Mean bias and standard deviation for five of the six Siberian sites considered decrease roughly by 1 ppm when using the coupled model. The adjoint of the Eulerian model was shown, through several numerical tests, to be very accurate (within machine epsilon with mismatch around to ±6 e−14) compared to direct forward sensitivity calculations. The developed adjoint of the coupled model combines the flux conservation and stability of an Eulerian discrete adjoint formulation with the flexibility, accuracy, and high resolution of a Lagrangian backward trajectory formulation. A-GELCA will be incorporated into a variational inversion system designed to optimize surface fluxes of greenhouse gases
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