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Quantum chromodynamics with various number of flavors
The phase structure of QCD with various number of flavors is studied for
Wilson quarks. For the case of we find that the finite temperature
deconfining transition is of first order in the chiral limit on an
lattice. Together with our previous results that the deconfining transition in
the chiral limit is continuous for and is first order for , the
order of the transition is found to be consistent with a prediction of
universality. The case of QCD is also studied in the strong coupling
limit and the phase structure is found to be quite similar to the case of
: There exists a critical number of flavors and for the confinement is broken even in the strong coupling limit for light
quarks. corresponding to 7 for .Comment: 3 pages with 5 PS figures, LaTeX (espcrc2.sty required), UTHEP-26
Scaling of the critical temperature and quark potential with a renormalization group improved SU(3) gauge action
We study the scaling property of the ratio of the critical temperature
to the square root of the string tension in the SU(3) pure gauge
theory using a renormalization group improved action. We first determine the
critical coupling on lattices with temporal extension and 6,
and then calculate the static quark potential at the critical couplings on
lattices at zero temperature. The values of in the
infinite volume limit are identical within errors, while they are slightly
larger than the value extrapolated to the continuum limit with the standard
action. We also note that the rotational invariance of the static quark
potential is remarkably restored in the both cases, and that the potential
in physical units scales in the whole region of investigated.Comment: 3 pages of Latex, 5 PostScript figures, Talk presented at
LATTICE96(finite temperature
Phase structure of QCD for general number of flavors
We investigate and elucidate the phase structure of QCD for general number of
flavors with Wilson quarks, varying from 2 up to 300. Based on
numerical results combined with the result of the perturbation theory we
propose the following picture: When , there is only a trivial fixed
point and therefore the theory in the continuum limit is trivial. On the other
hand, when , there is a non-trivial fixed point and therefore
the theory is non-trivial with anomalous dimensions, however, without quark
confinement. Theories which satisfy both quark confinement and spontaneous
chiral symmetry breaking in the continuum limit exist only for . We
also discuss the structure of the deconfining phase at finite temperatures for
the small number of flavors such as and 3, through a systematic study
of it for general number of flavors.Comment: LaTeX, 7 pages, 10 PS figures, Talk presented at LATTICE96(poster)
and LATTICE96(finite temperature
Transport Coefficients of Quark Gluon Plasma for Pure Gauge Models
The transport coefficients of quark gluon plasma are calculated on a lattice
16**3X8, with the pure gauge models. Matsubara Green's functions of energy
momentum tensors have very large fluctuations and about a few million MC sweeps
are needed to reduce the errors reasonably small in the case of the standard
action. They are much suppressed if Iwasaki's improved action is employed.
Preliminary results show that the transport coefficients roughly depend on the
coupling constant as a**(-3)(g) in the case of SU(2).Comment: Talk presented at LATTICE96(finite temperature), 3 pages in latex, 4
Postscript figure
Post-Oligarchic Evolution of Protoplanetary Embryos and the Stability of Planetary Systems
We investigate the orbit-crossing time (T_c) of protoplanet systems both with
and without a gas-disk background. The protoplanets are initially with equal
masses and separation (EMS systems) scaled by their mutual Hill's radii. In a
gas-free environment, we find log (T_c/yr) = A+B \log (k_0/2.3). Through a
simple analytical approach, we demonstrate that the evolution of the velocity
dispersion in an EMS system follows a random walk. The stochastic nature of
random-walk diffusion leads to (i) an increasing average eccentricity ~
t^1/2, where t is the time; (ii) Rayleigh-distributed eccentricities
(P(e,t)=e/\sigma^2 \exp(-e^2/(2\sigma^2)) of the protoplanets; (iii) a
power-law dependence of T_c on planetary separation. As evidence for the
chaotic diffusion, the observed eccentricities of known extra solar planets can
be approximated by a Rayleigh distribution. We evaluate the isolation masses of
the embryos, which determine the probability of gas giant formation, as a
function of the dust and gas surface densities.Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures (2 color ones), accepted for publication in Ap
Phase transition of color-superconductivity and cooling behavior of quark stars
We discuss the color-superconductivity and its effect on the cooling behavior
of strange quark stars. The neutrino emissivity and specific heat of quark
matter are calculated within the BCS theory. In the superconducting phase, the
emissivity decreases and causes suppression of the cooling rate. It is shown
that the phase transition leads to a sudden discontinuous suppression of the
cooling rate in cooperation with the specific heat.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Chiral Phase Transition in Lattice QCD with Wilson Quarks
The nature of the chiral phase transition in lattice QCD is studied for the
cases of 2, 3 and 6 flavors with degenerate Wilson quarks, mainly on a lattice
with the temporal direction extension . We find that the chiral phase
transition is continuous for the case of 2 flavors, while it is of first order
for 3 and 6 flavors.Comment: uuencoded compressed tar file, LaTeX, 14 pages, 7 figure
Finite-temperature chiral transitions in QCD with the Wilson quark action
We investigate the finite-temperature phase structure and the scaling of the
chiral condensate in lattice QCD with two degenerate light quarks, using a
renormalization group improved gauge action and the Wilson quark action. We
obtain a phase diagram which is consistent with that from the parity-flavor
breaking scenario. The scaling relation for the chiral condensate assuming the
critical exponents and the scaling function of the three dimensional O(4) model
is remarkably satisfied for a wide range of parameters. This indicates that the
chiral transition in two flavor QCD is of second order in the continuum limit.Comment: LaTeX, 3 pages, 4 EPS figures, Talk presented at LATTICE97 (finite
temperature
Interannual differences in the regressions of the polar caps of Mars
Analyses of the behavior of the Martian polar caps in the recent spacecraft and ground based observations seem to reveal the existence of year to year variations on their regressions. In order to investigate the interannual differences in the regressions of the polar caps, the earlier data by Fischbacher et al., were reexamined, which were based on the measurements of the large number of high quality photographic plates and films collected from 1905 to 1965 at the Lowell Observatory. The results are reported and discussed
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