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Muon Pair Production by Electron-Photon Scatterings
The cross section for muon pair productions by electrons scattering over
photons, , is calculated analytically in the leading order. It is
pointed out that for the center-of-mass energy range, ,
the cross section for is less than b. The differential
energy spectrum for either of the resulting muons is given for the purpose of
high-energy neutrino astronomy. An implication of our result for a recent
suggestion concerning the high-energy cosmic neutrino generation through this
muon pair is discussed.Comment: a comment added, to appear in Phys. Rev. D, Rapid Communicatio
Influence of Grassland Management on Carbon Allocation in a Semiarid Temperate Steppe
Grazing lands in North China are often excessively grazed and widely degraded, while hay-making lands appear to be in relatively good condition due to grazing exclusion, but they are facing a continuous loss of nutrients in the harvested biomass. In semiarid grasslands, plant productivity and community composition are significantly altered by grazing and haying. Grazing mostly leads to negative effects on aboveground productivity, however root biomass seems to increase with moderate grazing (Gao et al. 2009; Derner et al. 2006), although responses can vary. Aboveground biomass removal can increase C3 grass dominance and productivity (Hofer and Bragg 1981). Grazing exclusion is a valuable mechanism of sequestering soil C (He 2008). However, grazing can change C allocation patterns and affect the amount of C entering the soil. Here we examine the potential effects of common management practices (exclusion with fencing, grazing and hay-making) on semiarid grasslands above- and below-ground C pools. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the potential of grazing exclusion and annual last-summer haying in previous grazing lands on the storage of C in semiarid grasslands of northern China
Qubit Entanglement Dephasing Dynamics Driven by a Bath of Spins
We study the entanglement dynamics for a two-spin system coupled to a spin
environment of different configurations by z-x type interaction. The models
considered in this paper are solved both analytically and numerically giving
rise to some concise analytical expressions when certain approximations are
properly made. Our purpose is to find how the initial states of the environment
with different numbers of spins affect the decay or revival of the entanglement
between central qubits. In Particular, it is found that the block-entangled
environment could speed up the decay and revival of the qubit entanglement. Our
results exhibit some interesting features that have not been found for a boson
bath.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures.Submitted to New Journal of Physic
Phenomenology of Higgs bosons in the Zee-Model
To generate small neutrino masses radiatively, the Zee-model introduces two
Higgs doublets and one weak-singlet charged Higgs boson to its Higgs sector.
From analyzing the renormalization group equations, we determine the
possibile range of the lightest CP-even Higgs boson () mass and the Higgs
boson self-couplings as a function of the cut-off scale beyond which either
some of the coupling constants are strong enough to invalidate the perturbative
analysis or the stability of the electroweak vacuum is no longer guaranteed.
Using the results obtained from the above analysis, we find that the singlet
charged Higgs boson can significantly modify the partial decay width of via radiative corrections, and its collider phenomenology can
also be drastically different from that of the charged Higgs bosons in the
usual two-Higgs-doublet models.Comment: Added a paragraph and a figure in Section V, corrected typos, added
references. (RevTeX, 45 pages, 16 figures included.) To appear in Physical
Review
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