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Determination of a Definition of Solar Grade Silicon
A definition of solar grade silicon was determined by investigating the singular and the combined effect of the impurities usually found in metallurgical grade silicon on solar cell device performance. The impurity matrix was defined by Jet Propulsion Laboratory Technical Direction Memorandum. The initial work was focussed on standardizing the solar cell process and test procedure, growing baseline crystals, growing crystals contaminated with carbon, iron, nickel, zirconium, aluminum and vanadium, solar blank preparation, and material characterization
phi-meson production in proton-antiproton annihilation
Apparent channel-dependent violations of the OZI rule in nucleon-antinucleon
annihilation reactions are discussed in the presence of an intrinsic
strangeness component in the nucleon. Admixture of strange-antistrange quark
pairs in the nucleon wave function enables the direct coupling to the phi-meson
in the annihilation channel without violating the OZI rule. Three forms are
considered in this work for the strangeness content of the proton wave
function, namely, the uud cluster with a strange-antistrange sea quark
component, kaon-hyperon clusters based on a simple chiral quark model, and the
pentaquark picture. Nonrelativistic quark model calculations reveal that the
strangeness magnetic moment and the strangeness contribution to the proton spin
from the first two models are consistent with recent experimental data. For the
third model, the uuds subsystem with the configurations FS[31]F[211]S[22] and
FS[31]F[31]S[22] leads to negative values for the strangeness magnetic moment
and the strangeness contribution to the proton spin. With effective quark line
diagrams incorporating the 3P0 quark model we give estimates for the branching
ratios of the proton-antiproton annihilation reactions at rest to two mesons.
Results for the branching ratios of phi-meson production from atomic
proton-antiproton s-wave states are for the first and third model found to be
strongly channel dependent, in good agreement with measured rates.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figur
Environmental Problems of Agriculture -- II. Pest and Weed Management: Monitoring and Forecasting in the German Democratic Republic
Intensive agricultural production requires constant control of an agroecosystem. One of the most important aspects of this control is plant protection through pest and weed management. Proper management should minimize economic losses from pests and weeds, while not forgetting environmental protection. The present paper describes a national system of pest and weed control which is in operation in the German Democratic Republic. At present, 87 types of pests, diseases, and weeds are monitored and controlled throughout the entire country.
In the GDR, three national operational systems have been developed as parts of an overall system for control of agricultural production. These are: a system of pest and weed management, a system of irrigation control, and a system of fertilizer application. They are fine examples of applied systems analysis which lie within the range of interests of the Resources and Environment Task 3, "Environmental Problems of Agriculture". Therefore, the principal authors of the systems were asked to describe their work in a Collaborative Paper which could be distributed through IIASA's information network.
Although emphasis in this paper is given to monitoring and forecasting issues, all stages of a management system, from monitoring through analysis of information, and forecast to a management decision, are described. The authors of the paper are affiliated with the Institute of Plants Protection in Eberswalde, GDR; the Institute is a part of the GDR Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Scalar meson mediated nuclear mu-e conversion
We study the nuclear mu-e conversion in the general framework of the
effective Lagrangian approach without referring to any specific realization of
the physics beyond the standard model (SM) responsible for lepton flavor
violation (LFV). We analyze the role of scalar meson exchange between the
lepton and nucleon currents and show its relevance for the coherent channel of
mu-e conversion. We show that this mechanism introduces modifications in the
predicted mu-e conversion rates in comparison with the conventional direct
nucleon mechanism, based on the contact type interactions of the nucleon
currents with the LFV leptonic current. We derive from the experimental data
lower limits on the mass scales of the generic LFV lepton-quark contact terms
and demonstrate that they are more stringent than the similar limits existing
in the literature.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figur
Axial form factor of the nucleon in the perturbative chiral quark model
We apply the perturbative chiral quark model (PCQM) at one loop to analyze
the axial form factor of the nucleon. This chiral quark model is based on an
effective Lagrangian, where baryons are described by relativistic valence
quarks and a perturbative cloud of Goldstone bosons as dictated by chiral
symmetry. We apply the formalism to obtain analytical expressions for the axial
form factor of the nucleon, which is given in terms of fundamental parameters
of low-energy pion-nucleon physics (weak pion decay constant, strong
pion-nucleon form factor) and of only one model parameter (radius of the
nucleonic three-quark core).Comment: 23 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys.
Effective Lagrangian approach to nuclear mu-e conversion and the role of vector mesons
We study nuclear mu-e conversion in the general framework of an effective
Lagrangian approach without referring to any specific realization of the
physics beyond the standard model (SM) responsible for lepton flavor violation
(LFV). We examine the impact of a specific hadronization prescription on the
analysis of new physics in nuclear mu-e conversion and stress the importance of
vector meson exchange between lepton and nucleon currents. A new issue of this
mechanism is the presence of the strange quark vector current contribution
induced by the phi meson. This allows us to extract new limits on the LFV
lepton-quark effective couplings from the existing experimental data.Comment: 19 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Phys Rev
Relativistic structure of one-meson and one-gluon exchange forces and the lower excitation spectrum of the Nucleon and the Delta
The lower excitation spectrum of the nucleon and is calculated in a
relativistic chiral quark model. Corrections to the baryon mass spectrum from
the second order self-energy and exchange diagrams induced by pion and gluon
fields are estimated in the field -theoretical framework. Convergent results
for the self-energy terms are obtained when including the intermediate quark
and antiquark states with a total momentum up to . Relativistic
one-meson and color-magnetic one-gluon exchange forces are shown to generate
spin 0, 1, 2, etc. operators, which couple the lower and the upper components
of the two interacting valence quarks and yield reasonable matrix elements for
the lower excitation spectrum of the Nucleon and Delta. The only contribution
to the ground state nucleon and comes from the spin 1 operators, which
correspond to the exchanged pion or gluon in the l=1 orbit, thus indicating,
that the both pion exchange and color-magnetic gluon exchange forces can
contribute to the spin of baryons. Is is shown also that the contribution of
the color-electric component of the gluon fields to the baryon spectrum is
enormously large (more than 500 MeV with a value ) and one needs
to restrict to very small values of the strong coupling constant or to exclude
completely the gluon-loop corrections to the baryon spectrum. With this
restriction, the calculated spectrum reproduces the main properties of the
data, however needs further contribution from the two-pion exchange and
instanton induced exchange (for the nucleon sector) forces in consistence with
the realistic NN-interaction models.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, 7 table
Selective functionalization of calix[4]arenes at the upper rim
Methods are described for the selective diametrical functionalization of calix[4]arenes at the upper rim by transfer of functionality and selective substitutions at the para positions of the phenol rings. The crystal structure of 26,28-dimethoxy-11,23-dinitrocalix[4]arene is described
Strong and Electromagnetic Decays of X(1835) as a Baryonium State
With the assumption that the recently observed X(1835) is a baryonium state
we have studied the strong decays of and the electromagnetic decay of in the framework of effective Lagrangian formalism. In the present
investigation we have included the contributions from the iso-singlet light
scalar resonances but we have not included the isospin violating effect. Our
result for the strong decay of is
smaller than the observed data. The decay width for the radiative decay of
is consistent with the assumption that it decays through
the glueball. In addition, the width for the strong decay of is larger than that of the strong decay of due to the large phase space and coupling constant
. From our investigation, it is not possible to interpret
X(1835) as a baryonium.Comment: Corrected typo
HEPCloud, a New Paradigm for HEP Facilities: CMS Amazon Web Services Investigation
Historically, high energy physics computing has been performed on large
purpose-built computing systems. These began as single-site compute facilities,
but have evolved into the distributed computing grids used today. Recently,
there has been an exponential increase in the capacity and capability of
commercial clouds. Cloud resources are highly virtualized and intended to be
able to be flexibly deployed for a variety of computing tasks. There is a
growing nterest among the cloud providers to demonstrate the capability to
perform large-scale scientific computing. In this paper, we discuss results
from the CMS experiment using the Fermilab HEPCloud facility, which utilized
both local Fermilab resources and virtual machines in the Amazon Web Services
Elastic Compute Cloud. We discuss the planning, technical challenges, and
lessons learned involved in performing physics workflows on a large-scale set
of virtualized resources. In addition, we will discuss the economics and
operational efficiencies when executing workflows both in the cloud and on
dedicated resources.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figure
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