Euclidean thermal spinor Green's function in the spacetime of a straight cosmic string

Within the framework of the quantum field theory at finite temperature on a conical space, we determine the Euclidean thermal spinor Green's function for a massless spinor field. We then calculate the thermal average of the energy-momentum tensor of a thermal bath of massless fermions. In the high-temperature limit, we find that the straight cosmic string does not perturb the thermal bathComment: 11 pages, latex, no figure

Crescimento vegetativo de cafeeiros (Coffea arabica L.) cultivar catuaí recepados em duas épocas, conduzidos em espaçamentos crescentes.

O experimento foi instalado na Fazenda Experimental da EPAMIG em Machado, sul de Minas Gerais, em 1992, com o objetivo de avaliar as conseqüências da redução de espaçamentos entre as linhas e entre as plantas na linha de plantio sobre a produção e a fenologia do cafeeiro. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi um fatorial 4 x 3 com parcela subdividida, sendo quatro distâncias entre as linhas (2,0? 2,5? 3,0 e 3,5 m) três distâncias entre as plantas na linha de plantio (0,5? 0,75? 1,0 m), e duas épocas de poda (uma precoce feita logo após a colheita no mês de julho 2002 e a outra tardia no mês de janeiro de 2003), totalizando 24 tratamentos dispostos em blocos ao acaso em três repetições. Em julho de 2002 e em janeiro de 2003 foram realizadas as podas tipo "recepa", no qual foram conduzidos duas brotações por planta. Em agosto de 2004 foram avaliados o crescimento dos componentes vegetativos das plantas da parcela útil de cada uma das parcelas. Os espaçamentos adotados não influenciaram o crescimento de nenhum dos componentes vegetativos das brotações no período avaliado. Todas as características vegetativas foram influenciadas positivamente pela adoção da poda precoce

Cosmic String Wakes in Scalar-Tensor Gravities

The formation and evolution of cosmic string wakes in the framework of a scalar-tensor gravity are investigated in this work. We consider a simple model in which cold dark matter flows past an ordinary string and we treat this motion in the Zel'dovich approximation. We make a comaprison between our results and previous results obtained in the context of General Relativity. We propose a mechanism in which the contribution of the scalar field to the evolution of the wakes may lead to a cosmological observation.Comment: Replaced version to be published in the Classical and Quantum Gravit

Higher order effects in the 16O(d,p)17O^{16}O(d,p)^{17}O and 16O(d,n)17F^{16}O(d,n)^{17}F transfer reactions

Full Coupled Channels Calculations were performed for the $^{16}O(d,n)^{17}F$ and $^{16}O(d,p)^{17}O$ transfer reactions at several deuteron incident energies from $E_{lab}=2.29$ MeV up to 3.27 MeV. A strong polarization effect between the entrance channel and the transfer channels $^{16}O(d,n)^{17}F(1/2^{+},0.495)$ and $^{16}O(d,p)^{17}O(1/2^{+},0.87)$ was observed. This polarization effect had to be taken into account in order to obtain realistic spectroscopic factors from these reactions.Comment: 15 papes, 13 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.

Cosmic String in Scalar-Tensor Gravity

The gravitational properties of a local cosmic string in the framework of scalar-tensor gravity are examined. We find the metric in the weak-field approximation and we show that, contrary to the General Relativity case, the cosmic string in scalar-tensor gravitation exerces a force on non-relativistic, neutral test particle. This force is proportional to the derivative of the conformal factor $A^{2}(\phi)$ and it is always attractive. Moreover, this force could have played an important role at the Early Universe, although nowadays it can be neglegible. It is also shown that the angular separation $\delta\varphi$ remains unaltered for scalar-tensor cosmic strings.Comment: 15 pages, LATEX, no figure