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Investigation of system readiness when some defect types are unknown
Unbiased estimate and tests for readiness index for systems with unknown defects not causing system failur
Compensating linkage for main rotor control
A compensating linkage for the rotor control system on rotary wing aircraft is described. The main rotor and transmission are isolated from the airframe structure by clastic suspension. The compensating linkage prevents unwanted signal inputs to the rotor control system caused by relative motion of the airframe structure and the main rotor and transmission
Infrared singularities in Landau gauge Yang-Mills theory
We present a more detailed picture of the infrared regime of Landau gauge
Yang-Mills theory. This is done within a novel framework that allows one to
take into account the influence of finite scales within an infrared power
counting analysis. We find that there are two qualitatively different infrared
fixed points of the full system of Dyson-Schwinger equations. The first extends
the known scaling solution, where the ghost dynamics is dominant and gluon
propagation is strongly suppressed. It features in addition to the strong
divergences of gluonic vertex functions in the previously considered uniform
scaling limit, when all external momenta tend to zero, also weaker kinematic
divergences, when only some of the external momenta vanish. The second solution
represents the recently proposed decoupling scenario where the gluons become
massive and the ghosts remain bare. In this case we find that none of the
vertex functions is enhanced, so that the infrared dynamics is entirely
suppressed. Our analysis also provides a strict argument why the Landau gauge
gluon dressing function cannot be infrared divergent.Comment: 29 pages, 25 figures; published versio
Recent developments in radiative B decays
We report on recent theoretical progress in radiative B decays. We focus on a
calculation of logarithmically enhanced QED corrections to the branching ratio
and forward-backward asymmetry in the inclusive rare decay anti-B --> X(s) l+
l-, and present the results of a detailed phenomenological analysis. We also
report on the calculation of NNLO QCD corrections to the inclusive decay anti-B
--> X(s) gamma. As far as exclusive modes are concerned we consider
transversity amplitudes and the impact of right-handed currents in the
exclusive anti-B --> K^* l+ l- decay. Finally, we state results for exclusive B
--> V gamma decays, notably the time-dependent CP-asymmetry in the exclusive B
--> K^* gamma decay and its potential to serve as a so-called ``null test'' of
the Standard Model, and the extraction of CKM and unitarity triangle parameters
from B --> (rho,omega) gamma and B --> K^* gamma decays.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in the proceedings of
International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2007),
Manchester, England, 19-25 Jul 200
Activated O2 dissociation and formation of oxide islands on the Be(0001) surface: Another atomistic model for metal oxidation
By simulating the dissociation of O2 molecules on the Be(0001) surface using
the first-principles molecular dynamics approach, we propose a new atomistic
model for the surface oxidation of sp metals. In our model, only the
dissociation of the first oxygen molecule needs to overcome an energy barrier,
while the subsequent oxygen molecules dissociate barrierlessly around the
adsorption area. Consequently, oxide islands form on the metal surface, and
grow up in a lateral way. We also discover that the firstly dissociated oxygen
atoms are not so mobile on the Be(0001) surface, as on the Al(111) surface. Our
atomistic model enlarges the knowledge on metal surface oxidations by perfectly
explaining the initial stage during the surface oxidation of Be, and might be
applicable to some other sp metal surfaces.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
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