522 research outputs found
Reflection-less device allows electromagnetic warp drive
One of the striking properties of artificially structured materials is the
negative refraction, an optical feature that known natural materials do not
exhibit. Here, we propose a simple design, composed of two parallel layers of
materials with different refraction indices , that constructs perfect
reflection-less devices. The electromagnetic waves can tunnel from one layer to
the other, a feature that resembles a truncation of the physical space leading
to an electromagnetic warp drive. Since the refractive indices do not require
any large values, this method demonstrates for the first time the practical
feasibility of guiding electromagnetic fields in complete absence of reflection
phenomena and without degradation of transmission efficiency at all.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
Two pion electroproduction
We have extended a model for the reaction to virtual
photons and selected the diagrams which have a in the final state. The
agreement found with the and reactions is good. The sensitivity of the results to
transition form factors is also studied. The present reaction,
selecting a particular final state, is an extra test for models of the
amplitude.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Talk given at Meson 2000 Workshop, Krakow,
Poland, 19-23 May 200
Radiative production of the Lambda(1405) resonance in K collisions on protons and nuclei
We have carried a theoretical study of the K^- p\to M B \gamma reaction with
M B = K^-p, \bar{K}^0 n, \pi^- \Sigma^+, \pi^+ \Sigma^-, \pi^0 \Sigma^0, \pi^0
\Lambda, for K^- lab. momenta between 200 and 500 MeV/c, using a chiral unitary
approach for the strong K^-p interaction with its coupled channels. The
\Lambda(1405) resonance, which is generated dynamically in this approach, shows
up clearly in the d\sigma/dM_I spectrum, providing new tests for chiral
symmetry and the unitary approach, as well as information regarding the nature
of the resonance. The photon detection alone, summing all channels, is shown to
reproduce quite accurately the strength and shape of the \Lambda(1405)
resonance. Analogous reactions in nuclei can provide much information on the
properties of this resonance in a nuclear medium.Comment: 11 pages, 3 postscripts figure
Dynamical meson-baryon resonances with chiral Lagrangians
The s-wave meson-baryon interaction is studied using the lowest-order chiral
Lagrangian in a unitary coupled-channels Bethe-Salpeter equation. In the
strangeness sector the low-energy dynamics leads to the
dynamical generation of the as a state, along with
a good description of the scattering observables. At higher energies,
the is also found to be generated dynamically as a
quasibound state for the first time. For strangeness S=0, it is the
resonance that emerges from the coupled-channels equations,
leading to a satisfactory description of meson-baryon scattering observables in
the energy region around the . We speculate on the possible
dynamical generation of resonances within the chiral sector as
or quasibound states.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, Talk given at NSTAR2001, Workshop on the Physics
of Excited Nucleons, Mainz (Germany), March 7-10, to be published in World
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