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The role of hyperfine mixing in semileptonic decays of doubly-heavy baryons
We analyze the effects of hyperfine mixing in semileptonic decays
of doubly heavy baryons. We qualitatively confirm the results by W. Roberts and
M. Pervin in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A, 2009, {\bf 24}: 2401-2413, finding that
mixing has a great impact on those transitions. However, predictions without
mixing differ by a factor of 2 and this discrepancy translates to the mixed
case where large differences in decay widths are observed between the two
calculations.Comment: 3 latex pages. Talk given at The 5-th International Conference on
Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP09), Beijing, September 200
Hyperfine mixing in semileptonic decay of doubly heavy baryons
We qualitatively corroborate the results of W. Roberts and M. Pervin in Int.
J. Mod. Phys. A 24, 2401 (2009) according to which hyperfine mixing greatly
affects the decay widths of semileptonic decays involving doubly heavy
baryons. However, our predictions for the decay widths of the unmixed
states differ from those reported in the work of Roberts and Pervin by a factor
of 2, and this discrepancy translates to the mixed case. We further show that
the predictions of heavy quark spin symmetry, might be used in the future to
experimentally extract information on the admixtures in the actual physical
baryons, in a model independent manner.Comment: 7 Latex pages, 4 Table
Masses and semileptonic decays of doubly heavy baryons in a nonrelativistic quark model
We evaluate masses and semileptonic decay widths for the ground state of
doubly heavy and baryons in the framework of a nonrelativistic
quark model. We solve the three-body problem by means of a variational ansatz
made possible by heavy-quark spin symmetry constraints. Our masses are
comparable to the ones obtained in relativistic calculations and we get one of
the best agreements with lattice data. Our simple wave functions are used to
evaluate semileptonic decays of doubly heavy and baryons. Our results for the decay widths are in reasonable
agreement with calculations done in a relativistic calculation in the
quark-diquark approximation. We also check that our wave functions comply with
what it is expected in the infinite heavy quark mass limit.Comment: 3 latex pages, two tables. To appear in the INPC07 proceeding
Masses and semileptonic decays of doubly heavy baryons in a nonrelativistic quark model
We evaluate masses and semileptonic decay widths for the ground state of
doubly heavy and baryons in the framework of a nonrelativistic
quark model. We solve the three-body problem by means of a variational ansatz
made possible by heavy-quark spin symmetry constraints. Our masses are
comparable to the ones obtained in relativistic calculations and we get one of
the best agreements with lattice data. Our simple wave functions are used to
evaluate semileptonic decays of doubly heavy and baryons. Our results for the decay widths are in reasonable
agreement with calculations done in a relativistic calculation in the
quark-diquark approximation. We also check that our wave functions comply with
what it is expected in the infinite heavy quark mass limit.Comment: 3 latex pages, two tables. To appear in the INPC07 proceeding
A new formulation of compartmental epidemic modelling for arbitrary distributions of incubation and removal times
The paradigm for compartment models in epidemiology assumes exponentially
distributed incubation and removal times, which is not realistic in actual
populations. Commonly used variations with multiple exponentially distributed
variables are more flexible, yet do not allow for arbitrary distributions. We
present a new formulation, focussing on the SEIR concept that allows to include
general distributions of incubation and removal times. We compare the solution
to two types of agent-based model simulations, a spatially homogeneous one
where infection occurs by proximity, and a model on a scale-free network with
varying clustering properties, where the infection between any two agents
occurs via their link if it exists. We find good agreement in both cases.
Furthermore a family of asymptotic solutions of the equations is found in terms
of a logistic curve, which after a non-universal time shift, fits extremely
well all the microdynamical simulations. The formulation allows for a simple
numerical approach; software in Julia and Python is provided.Comment: 21 pages, 11 figures. v2 matches published version: improved
presentation (including title, abstract and references), results and
conclusions unchange
Isoscaling and the high Temperature limit
This study shows that isoscaling, usually studied in nuclear reactions, is a
phenomenon common to all cases of fair sampling. Exact expressions for the
yield ratio and approximate expressions for the isoscaling parameters
and are obtained and compared to experimental results. It is
concluded that nuclear isoscaling is bound to contain a component due to
sampling and, thus, a words of caution is issued to those interested in
extracting information about the nuclear equation of state from isoscaling.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
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