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Thermal Properties of a Simulated Lunar Material in Air and in Vacuum
Thermal properties of simulated lunar material in air and in vacuu
Improved Method for Detecting Local Discontinuities in CMB data by Finite Differencing
An unexpected distribution of temperatures in the CMB could be a sign of new
physics. In particular, the existence of cosmic defects could be indicated by
temperature discontinuities via the Kaiser-Stebbins effect. In this paper, we
show how performing finite differences on a CMB map, with the noise regularized
in harmonic space, may expose such discontinuities, and we report the results
of this process on the 7-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures; Text has been edited, in line with the PRD
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A Heavy Fermion Can Create a Soliton: A 1+1 Dimensional Example
We show that quantum effects can stabilize a soliton in a model with no
soliton at the classical level. The model has a scalar field chirally coupled
to a fermion in 1+1 dimensions. We use a formalism that allows us to calculate
the exact one loop fermion contribution to the effective energy for a spatially
varying scalar background. This energy includes the contribution from
counterterms fixed in the perturbative sector of the theory. The resulting
energy is therefore finite and unambiguous. A variational search then yields a
fermion number one configuration whose energy is below that of a single free
fermion.Comment: 10 pages, RevTeX, 2 figures composed from 4 .eps files; v2: fixed
minor errors, added reference; v3: corrected reference added in v
The Drell-Yan process and Deep Inelastic Scattering from the lattice
We report on measurements of the h_1 structure function, relevant to
calculating cross-sections for the Drell-Yan process. This is a quantity which
can not be measured in Deep Inelastic Scattering, it gives additional
information on the spin carried by the valence quarks, as well as insights on
how relativistic the quarks are.Comment: 3 pages, Latex, 3 figures, espcrc2.sty included, Talk presented at
LATTICE96(phenomenology
CMB Likelihood Functions for Beginners and Experts
Although the broad outlines of the appropriate pipeline for cosmological
likelihood analysis with CMB data has been known for several years, only
recently have we had to contend with the full, large-scale, computationally
challenging problem involving both highly-correlated noise and extremely large
datasets (). In this talk we concentrate on the beginning and end of
this process. First, we discuss estimating the noise covariance from the data
itself in a rigorous and unbiased way; this is essentially an iterated
minimum-variance mapmaking approach. We also discuss the unbiased determination
of cosmological parameters from estimates of the power spectrum or experimental
bandpowers.Comment: Long-delayed submission. In AIP Conference Proceedings "3K Cosmology"
held in Rome, Oct 5-10, 1998, edited by Luciano Maiani, Francesco Melchiorri
and Nicola Vittorio, 343-347, New York, American Institute of Physics 199
A Thin HI Circumnuclear Disk in NGC4261
We report on high sensitivity, spectral line VLBI observations of the HI
absorption feature in the radio galaxy NGC4261. Although absorption is only
detectable on the most sensitive baseline, it can be unambiguously associated
with the counterjet and is interpreted to originate in a thin atomic
circumnuclear disk. This structure is probably a continuation of the dusty
accretion disk inferred from HST imaging, which could be feeding the massive
black hole. HI column densities in front of the counterjet of the order of
10^{21}(T_sp/100 K) cm^{-2} are derived, consistent with X-ray data and VLBI
scale free-free absorption. The data presented here are the result of the first
scientific project processed on the new EVN MkIV data processor.Comment: 4 pages, 3 postscript figures, Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters, in
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Implications of the Babinet Principle for Casimir Interactions
We formulate the Babinet Principle (BP) as a relation between the scattering
amplitudes for electromagnetic waves, and combine it with multiple scattering
techniques to derive new properties of Casimir forces. We show that the Casimir
force exerted by a planar conductor or dielectric on a self- complementary
perforated planar mirror is approximately half that on a uniform mirror
independent of the distance between them. The BP suggests that Casimir edge
effects are anomalously small, supporting results obtained earlier in special
cases. Finally, we illustrate how the BP can be used to estimate Casimir forces
between perforated planar mirrors
Constraints on the large-x d/u ratio from electron-nucleus scattering at x>1
Recently the ratio of neutron to proton structure functions F_2n/F_2p was
extracted from a phenomenological correlation between the strength of the
nuclear EMC effect and inclusive electron-nucleus cross section ratios at x>1.
Within conventional models of nuclear smearing, this "in-medium correction"
(IMC) extraction constrains the size of nuclear effects in the deuteron
structure functions, from which the neutron structure function F_2n is usually
extracted. The IMC data determine the resulting proton d/u quark distribution
ratio, extrapolated to x=1, to be 0.23 +- 0.09 with a 90% confidence level.
This is well below the SU(6) symmetry limit of 1/2 and significantly above the
scalar diquark dominance limit of 0.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Existence of Multiple Vortices in Supersymmetric Gauge Field Theory
Two sharp existence and uniqueness theorems are presented for solutions of
multiple vortices arising in a six-dimensional brane-world supersymmetric gauge
field theory under the general gauge symmetry group and
with Higgs scalar fields in the fundamental representation of .
Specifically, when the space of extra dimension is compact so that vortices are
hosted in a 2-torus of volume |\Om|, the existence of a unique multiple
vortex solution representing respectively prescribed vortices
arising in the species of the Higgs fields is established under the
explicitly stated necessary and sufficient condition \[ n_i<\frac{g^2v^2}{8\pi
N}|\Om|+\frac{1}{N}(1-\frac{1}{N}[\frac{g}{e}]^2)n,\quad i=1,...,N,] where
and are the U(1) electromagnetic and SU(N) chromatic coupling constants,
measures the energy scale of broken symmetry, and is
the total vortex number; when the space of extra dimension is the full plane,
the existence and uniqueness of an arbitrarily prescribed -vortex solution
of finite energy is always ensured. These vortices are governed by a system of
nonlinear elliptic equations, which may be reformulated to allow a variational
structure. Proofs of existence are then developed using the methods of calculus
of variations.Comment: 23 page
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