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Influence of diffusion on models for non-equilibrium wetting
It is shown that the critical properties of a recently studied model for
non-equilibrium wetting are robust if one extends the dynamic rules by
single-particle diffusion on terraces of the wetting layer. Examining the
behavior at the critical point and along the phase transition line, we identify
a special point in the phase diagram where detailed balance of the dynamical
processes is partially broken.Comment: 6 pages, 9 figure
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Next-generation sequencing of dsRNA is greatly improved by treatment with the inexpensive denaturing reagent DMSO.
dsRNA is the genetic material of important viruses and a key component of RNA interference-based immunity in eukaryotes. Previous studies have noted difficulties in determining the sequence of dsRNA molecules that have affected studies of immune function and estimates of viral diversity in nature. DMSO has been used to denature dsRNA prior to the reverse-transcription stage to improve reverse transcriptase PCR and Sanger sequencing. We systematically tested the utility of DMSO to improve the sequencing yield of a dsRNA virus (Φ6) in a short-read next-generation sequencing platform. DMSO treatment improved sequencing read recovery by over two orders of magnitude, even when RNA and cDNA concentrations were below the limit of detection. We also tested the effects of DMSO on a mock eukaryotic viral community and found that dsRNA virus reads increased with DMSO treatment. Furthermore, we provide evidence that DMSO treatment does not adversely affect recovery of reads from a ssRNA viral genome (influenza A/California/07/2009). We suggest that up to 50 % DMSO treatment be used prior to cDNA synthesis when samples of interest are composed of or may contain dsRNA
Tensor mesons produced in tau lepton decays
Light tensor mesons (T = a_2, f_2 and K_2^*) can be produced in decays of tau
leptons. In this paper we compute the branching ratios of tau --> T pi nu
decays by assuming the dominance of intermediate virtual states to model the
form factors involved in the relevant hadronic matrix element. The exclusive
f_2(1270) pi^- decay mode turns out to have the largest branching ratio, of
O(10^-4) . Our results indicate that the contributions of tensor meson
intermediate states to the three-pseudoscalar channels of tau decays are rather
small.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure. Version accepted for publication in PRD, some
typos are corrected and comments are added in section 4. Conclusions remain
unchange
Nonleptonic two-body B-decays including axial-vector mesons in the final state
We present a systematic study of exclusive charmless nonleptonic two-body B
decays including axial-vector mesons in the final state. We calculate branching
ratios of B\to PA, VA and AA decays, where A, V and P denote an axial-vector, a
vector and a pseudoscalar meson, respectively. We assume naive factorization
hypothesis and use the improved version of the nonrelativistic ISGW quark model
for form factors in B\to A transitions. We include contributions that arise
from the effective \Delta B=1 weak Hamiltonian H_{eff}. The respective
factorized amplitude of these decays are explicitly showed and their penguin
contributions are classified. We find that decays B^-to a_1^0\pi^-,\barB^0\to
a_1^{\pm}\pi^{\mp}, B^-\to a_1^-\bar K^0, \bar B^0\to a_1^+K^-, \bar B^0\to
f_1\bar K^0, B^-\to f_1K^-, B^-\to K_1^-(1400)\etap, B^-\to b_1^-\bar K^{0},
and \bar B^0\to b_1^+\pi^-(K^-) have branching ratios of the order of 10^{-5}.
We also study the dependence of branching ratios for B \to K_1P(V,A) decays
(K_1=K_1(1270),K_1(1400)) with respect to the mixing angle between K_A and K_B.Comment: 28 pages, 2 tables and one reference added, notation changed in
appendices, some numerical results and abstract correcte
Dynamics of soliton-like solutions for slowly varying, generalized gKdV equations: refraction vs. reflection
In this work we continue the description of soliton-like solutions of some
slowly varying, subcritical gKdV equations.
In this opportunity we describe, almost completely, the allowed behaviors:
either the soliton is refracted, or it is reflected by the potential, depending
on its initial energy. This last result describes a new type of soliton-like
solution for gKdV equations, also present in the NLS case.
Moreover, we prove that the solution is not pure at infinity, unlike the
standard gKdV soliton.Comment: 51 pages, submitte
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