27 research outputs found
Horizons Inside Classical Lumps
Hopefully tex-able version.Comment: 13 pages, UMHEP-37
Exchange Current Corrections to Neutrino--Nucleus Scattering
Relativistic exchange current corrections to neutrino--nucleus cross sections
are presented assuming non--vanishing strange quark form factors for the
constituent nucleons. For charged current processes the exchange current
corrections can lower the impulse approximation results by 10\% while these
corrections are found to be sensitive to both the nuclear density and the
strange quark axial form factor of the nucleon for neutral current processes.
Implications on the LSND experiment to determine this form factor are
discussed.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, revtex 3.0, full postscript version of the file
and figures available at
http://www.nikhefk.nikhef.nl/projects/Theory/preprints/preprints.html To
appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
A New Variable Modified Chaplygin Gas Model Interacting with Scalar Field
In this letter we present a new form of the well known Chaplygin gas model by
introducing inhomogeneity in the EOS. This model explains crossing.
Also we have given a graphical representation of the model using
parameters. We have also considered an interaction of this model with the
scalar field by introducing a phenomenological coupling function and have shown
that the potential decays with time.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
HST Imaging of the Host Galaxies of High Redshift Radio-Loud Quasars
We present rest-frame UV and Ly-alpha images of spatially-resolved structures
around five high-redshift radio-loud quasars obtained with the WFPC2 camera on
the Hubble Space Telescope. We find that all five quasars are extended and this
"fuzz" contains ~5-40% of the total continuum flux and 15-65% of the Ly-alpha
flux within a radius of about 1.5 arcsec. The rest-frame UV luminosities of the
hosts are log lambda P_lambda = 11.9 to 12.5 solar luminosities (assuming no
internal dust extinction), comparable to the luminous radio galaxies at similar
redshifts and a factor 10 higher than both radio-quiet field galaxies at z~2-3
and the most UV-luminous low redshift starburst galaxies. The Ly-alpha
luminosities of the hosts are (in the log) approximately 44.3-44.9 erg/s which
are also similar to the those of luminous high redshift radio galaxies and
considerably larger than the Ly-alpha luminosities of high redshift field
galaxies. To generate the Ly-alpha luminosities of the hosts would require
roughly a few percent of the total observed ionizing luminosity of the quasar.
We find good alignment between the extended Ly-alpha and the radio sources,
strong evidence for jet-cloud interactions in two cases, again resembling radio
galaxies, and what is possibly the most luminous radio-UV synchrotron jet in
one of the hosts at z=2.110.Comment: 36 pages (latex, aas macros), 3 figures (3 gif and 10 postscript
files), accepted for publication in the the Astrophysical Journal Supplement
Serie
Can the Chaplygin gas be a plausible model for dark energy?
In this note two cosmological models representing the flat Friedmann Universe
filled with a Chaplygin fluid, with or without dust, are analyzed in terms of
the recently proposed "statefinder" parameters. Trajectories of both models in
the parameter plane are shown to be significantly different w.r.t. "quiessence"
and "tracker" models. The generalized Chaplygin gas model with an equation of
state of the form is also analyzed in terms of the
statefinder parameters.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Relic Neutralino Densities and Detection Rates with Nonuniversal Gaugino Masses
We extend previous analyses on the interplay between nonuniversalities in the
gaugino mass sector and the thermal relic densities of LSP neutralinos, in
particular to the case of moderate to large tan beta. We introduce a set of
parameters that generalizes the standard unified scenario to cover the complete
allowed parameter space in the gaugino mass sector. We discuss the physical
significance of the cosmologically preferred degree of degeneracy between
charginos and the LSP and study the effect this degree of degeneracy has on the
prospects for direct detection of relic neutralinos in the next round of dark
matter detection experiments. Lastly, we compare the fine tuning required to
achieve a satisfactory relic density with the case of universal gaugino masses,
as in minimal supergravity, and find it to be of a similar magnitude. The
sensitivity of quantifiable measures of fine-tuning on such factors as the
gluino mass and top and bottom masses is also examined.Comment: Uses RevTeX; 14 pages, 16 figure
Bianchi Type V Viscous Fluid Cosmological Models in Presence of Decaying Vacuum Energy
Bianchi type V viscous fluid cosmological model for barotropic fluid
distribution with varying cosmological term is investigated. We have
examined a cosmological scenario proposing a variation law for Hubble parameter
in the background of homogeneous, anisotropic Bianchi type V space-time.
The model isotropizes asymptotically and the presence of shear viscosity
accelerates the isotropization. The model describes a unified expansion history
of the universe indicating initial decelerating expansion and late time
accelerating phase. Cosmological consequences of the model are also discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Interacting new generalized Chaplygin gas
We have presented a model in which the new generalized Chaplygin gas
interacts with matter. We find that there exists a stable scaling solution at
late times in the evolution of the universe. Moreover, the phantom crossing
scenario is observed in this model.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Int. J. Theor. Phy
Phase space analysis of interacting dark energy in f(T) cosmology
In this paper, we examine the interacting dark energy model in
cosmology. We assume dark energy as a perfect fluid and choose a specific
cosmologically viable form . We show that there is one
attractor solution to the dynamical equation of Friedmann equations.
Further we investigate the stability in phase space for a general model
with two interacting fluids. By studying the local stability near the critical
points, we show that the critical points lie on the sheet in the
phase space, spanned by coordinates . From this critical sheet,
we conclude that the coupling between the dark energy and matter .Comment: 13 pages,2 figures, Published in "Central European Journal of
Physics