98 research outputs found
Threshold Effects And Perturbative Unification
We discuss the effect of the renormalization procedure in the computation of
the unification point for running coupling constants. We explore the effects of
threshold--crossing on the --functions. We compute the running of the
coupling constants of the Standard Model, between and , using a mass
dependent subtraction procedure, and then compare the results with ,
and with the -- function approximation. We also do this for the Minimal
Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model. In the latter, the bounds on
susy masses that one obtains by requiring perturbative unification are
dependent, to some extent, on the procedure.Comment: 22 pages, REVTEX-2.1, 6 Post-Script figures are include
Schwinger's Dynamical Casimir Effect: Bulk Energy Contribution
Schwinger's Dynamical Casimir Effect is one of several candidate explanations
for sonoluminescence. Recently, several papers have claimed that Schwinger's
estimate of the Casimir energy involved is grossly inaccurate. In this letter,
we show that these calculations omit the crucial volume term. When the missing
term is correctly included one finds full agreement with Schwinger's result for
the Dynamical Casimir Effect. We have nothing new to say about sonoluminescence
itself except to affirm that the Casimir effect is energetically adequate as a
candidate explanation.Comment: 6 pages. Uses LaTeX with RevTeX package in two-column forma
A Liquid Model Analogue for Black Hole Thermodynamics
We are able to characterize a 2--dimensional classical fluid sharing some of
the same thermodynamic state functions as the Schwarzschild black hole. This
phenomenological correspondence between black holes and fluids is established
by means of the model liquid's pair-correlation function and the two-body
atomic interaction potential. These latter two functions are calculated exactly
in terms of the black hole internal (quasilocal) energy and the isothermal
compressibility. We find the existence of a ``screening" like effect for the
components of the liquid.Comment: 20 pages and 6 Encapsulated PostScript figure
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