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Protonium Formation in the p̅-H Collision At Low Energies by a Diabatic Approach
We present a diabatization technique in combination with the recently developed hyperspherical close coupling (HSCC) method. In contrast to the strict diabatization, our simple diabatization procedure transforms only sharp avoided crossings in the adiabatic hyperspherical potential curves into real crossings. With this approach, the weak collision channels can be removed from the close-coupling calculations. This method is used to study the antiproton-hydrogen collision at low energies. In the case of a scaled down (anti)proton mass, we show that a 10-channel calculation is enough to obtain converged cross sections at low energies. The results also indicate that protonium formation occurs mostly to the lowest states of the different excited protonium manifolds
Charge Transfer in Slow Collisions of O⁸⁺ and Ar⁸⁺ Ions with H(1s) Below 2 KeV/Amu
We calculated the charge-transfer cross sections for O⁸⁺ + H collisions for energies from 1eV/amu to 2keV/amu, using the recently developed hyperspherical close-coupling method. In particular, the discrepancy for electron capture to the n = 6 states of O⁷⁺ from the previous theoretical calculations is further analyzed. Our results indicate that at low energies (below 100eV∕amu) electron capture to the n=6 manifold of O7+ becomes dominant. The present results are used to resolve the long-standing discrepancies from the different elaborate semiclassical calculations near 100eV/amu. We have also performed the semiclassical atomic orbital close-coupling calculations with straight-line trajectories. We found the semiclassical calculations agree with the quantal approach at energy above 100eV/amu, where the collision occurs at large impact parameters. Calculations for Ar⁸⁺ + H collisions in the same energy range have also been carried out to analyze the effect of the ionic core on the subshell cross sections. By using diabatic molecular basis functions, we show that converged results can be obtained with small numbers of channels
On the theory of Gordan-Noether on homogeneous forms with zero Hessian (Improved version)
We give a detailed proof for Gordan-Noether's results in "Ueber die
algebraischen Formen, deren Hesse'sche Determinante identisch verschwindet"
published in 1876 in Mathematische Annahlen. C. Lossen has written a paper in a
similar direction as the present paper, but did not provide a proof for every
result. In our paper, every result is proved. Furthermore, our paper is
independent of Lossen's paper and includes a considerable number of new
observations.
An earlier version of this paper has been printed in Proceedings of the
School of Science of Tokai University, Vol.49, Mar. 2014. In this version, a
serious error has been corrected and some new results have been added
Conducting rigorous research with subgroups of at-risk youth: lessons learned from a teen pregnancy prevention project in Alaska
In 2010, Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) received federal funding to test an
evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The grant required a major modification to an existing
program and a randomized control trial (RCT) to test its effectiveness. As the major modifications, Alaska
used peer educators instead of adults to deliver the program to youth aged 1419 instead of the original
curriculum intended age range of 1214. Cultural and approach adaptations were included as well. After
4 years of implementation and data collection, the sample was too small to provide statistically significant
results. The lack of findings gave no information about the modification, nor any explanation of how the
curriculum was received, or reasons for the small sample. This paper reports on a case study follow-up to
the RCT to better understand outcome and implementation results. For this study, researchers reviewed
project documents and interviewed peer educators, state and local staff, and evaluators. Three themes
emerged from the data: (a) the professional growth of peer educators and development of peer education, (b)
difficulties resulting from curriculum content, especially for subpopulations of sexually active youth, youth
identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and/or asexual, pregnant, and parenting
youth and (c) the appropriateness of an RCT with subpopulations of at-risk youth. Three recommendations
emerged from the case study. First, including as many stakeholders as possible in the program and
evaluation design phases is essential, and must be supported by appropriate funding streams and training.
Second, there must be recognition of the multiple small subpopulations found in Alaska when adapting
programs designed for a larger and more homogeneous population. Third, RCTs may not be appropriate
for all population subgroups.Ye
On the geometry of C^3/D_27 and del Pezzo surfaces
We clarify some aspects of the geometry of a resolution of the orbifold X =
C3/D_27, the noncompact complex manifold underlying the brane quiver standard
model recently proposed by Verlinde and Wijnholt. We explicitly realize a map
between X and the total space of the canonical bundle over a degree 1 quasi del
Pezzo surface, thus defining a desingularization of X. Our analysis relys
essentially on the relationship existing between the normalizer group of D_27
and the Hessian group and on the study of the behaviour of the Hesse pencil of
plane cubic curves under the quotient.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. JHEP style. Added references.
Corrected typos. Revised introduction, results unchanged
Understanding Common Perceptions of the Drylands
Drylands occupy over 40% of the earth’s surface and are home to more than 2 billion people. Drylands are key to the food and nutritional security of the planet and vital to the economies and livelihoods of dryland inhabitants. Yet, drylands are commonly perceived as unproductive, economically inefficient and marginal lands where small-scale farmers and pastoralists practice environmentally degrading activities. Driven by inadequate understanding and misconceptions of the drylands, policy-makers devise inappropriate policies and interventions. The BRECcIA project developed an online Drylands Perceptions Survey to understand the perceptions of researchers, practitioners and policy makers working in the drylands of Kenya, Malawi and Ghana. This paper presents results from a pilot of 40 responses and is part of a wider ongoing study. Results show that many respondents subscribe to a number of common drylands statements or assumptions, although other statements are challenged and respondents disagree with the assumptions. In another set of cases, respondents had mixed views and a more nuanced picture emerged that is context dependent. Through the BRECcIA project, the survey findings are being used to shape the development of new and revised dryland training courses with a more critical policy and research focus for policy-makers, practitioners, researchers and students in Kenya
Equivalence of the Siegert-pseudostate and Lagrange-mesh R-matrix methods
Siegert pseudostates are purely outgoing states at some fixed point expanded
over a finite basis. With discretized variables, they provide an accurate
description of scattering in the s wave for short-range potentials with few
basis states. The R-matrix method combined with a Lagrange basis, i.e.
functions which vanish at all points of a mesh but one, leads to simple
mesh-like equations which also allow an accurate description of scattering.
These methods are shown to be exactly equivalent for any basis size, with or
without discretization. The comparison of their assumptions shows how to
accurately derive poles of the scattering matrix in the R-matrix formalism and
suggests how to extend the Siegert-pseudostate method to higher partial waves.
The different concepts are illustrated with the Bargmann potential and with the
centrifugal potential. A simplification of the R-matrix treatment can usefully
be extended to the Siegert-pseudostate method.Comment: 19 pages, 1 figur
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