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Reply To "Comment on 'Quantum String Seal Is Insecure' "
In Phys. Rev. A. 76, 056301 (2007), He claimed that the proof in my earlier
paper [Phys. Rev. A 75, 012327 (2007)] is insufficient to conclude the
insecurity of all quantum string seals because my measurement strategy cannot
obtain non-trivial information on the sealed string and escape detection at the
same time. Here, I clarify that our disagreement comes from our adoption of two
different criteria on the minimum amount of information a quantum string seal
can reveal to members of the public. I also point out that He did not follow my
measurement strategy correctly.Comment: 2 page
Searching for radiative pumping lines of OH masers: II. The 53.3um absorption line towards 1612MHz OH maser sources
This paper analyzes the 53.3um line in the ISO LWS spectra towards a similar
sample of OH/IR sources. We find 137 LWS spectra covering 53.3um and associated
with 47 galactic OH/IR sources. Ten of these galactic OH/IR sources are found
to show and another 5 ones tentatively show the 53.3um absorption while another
7 sources highly probably do not show this line. The source class is found to
be correlated with the type of spectral profile: red supergiants (RSGs) and AGB
stars tend to show strong blue-shifted filling emission in their 53.3um
absorption line profiles while HII regions tend to show a weak red-shifted
filling emission in the line profile. GC sources and megamasers do not show
filling emission feature. It is argued that the filling emission might be the
manifestation of an unresolved half emission half absorption profile of the
53.3um doublet. The 53.3 to 34.6um equivalent width (EW) ratio is close to
unity for RSGs but much larger than unity for GC sources and megamasers while H
II regions only show the 53.3um line. The pump rate defined as maser to IR
photon flux ratio is approximately 5% for RSGs. The pump rates of GC sources
are three order of magnitude smaller. Both the large 53.3 to 34.6um EW ratio
and the small pump rate of the GC OH masers reflect that the two detected
`pumping lines' in these sources are actually of interstellar origin. The pump
rate of Arp 220 is 32%--much larger than that of RSGs, which indicates that the
contribution of other pumping mechanisms to this megamaser is important.Comment: 34 pages, 12 figures, 4 table
Probing Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Mechanism at the LHC: A Guideline from Power Counting Analysis
We formulate the equivalence theorem as a theoretical criterion for
sensitively probing the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism, and develop a
precise power counting method for the chiral Lagrangian formulated electroweak
theories. Armed with these, we perform a systematic analysis on the
sensitivities of the scattering processes
and for testing all possible effective bosonic
operators in the chiral Lagrangian formulated electroweak theories at the CERN
Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The analysis shows that these two kinds of
processes are "complementary" in probing the electroweak symmetry breaking
sector.Comment: Extended version, 11-page-Latex-file and 3 separate PS-Figs. To be
Published in Mod.Phys.Lett.
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