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Parity violating pion electroproduction off the nucleon
Parity violating (PV) contributions due to interference between and
exchange are calculated for pion electroproduction off the nucleon. A
phenomenological model with effective Lagrangians is used to determine the
resulting asymmetry for the energy region between threshold and
resonance. The resonance is treated as a Rarita-Schwinger field with
phenomenological transition currents. The background contributions
are given by the usual Born terms using the pseudovector Lagrangian.
Numerical results for the asymmetry are presented.Comment: 17 pages, RevTeX, 6 figures (in separate file figs.uu), uses epsf,
accepted for publication in Z. Phys.
Recent Results of Solid-State Spectroscopy
Solid state spectroscopy continues to be an important source of information
on the mineralogical composition and physical properties of dust grains both in
space and on planetary surfaces. With only a few exceptions, artificially
produced or natural terrestrial analog materials, rather than 'real' cosmic
dust grains, are the subject of solid state astrophysics. The Jena laboratory
has provided a large number of data sets characterizing the UV, optical and
infrared properties of such cosmic dust analogs. The present paper highlights
recent developments and results achieved in this context, focussing on
'non-standard conditions' such as very low temperatures, very high temperatures
and very long wavelengths.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures. Contribution to an IAU Conference "The
Molecular Universe" held in Toledo in June 201
Controlled formation of metallic nanowires via Au nanoparticle ac trapping
Applying ac voltages, we trapped gold nanoparticles between microfabricated
electrodes under well-defined conditions. We demonstrate that the nanoparticles
can be controllably fused together to form homogeneous gold nanowires with
pre-defined diameters and conductance values. Whereas electromigration is known
to form a gap when a dc voltage is applied, this ac technique achieves the
opposite, thereby completing the toolkit for the fabrication of nanoscale
junctions.Comment: Nanotechnology 18, 235202 (2007
Dirac-Foldy term and the electromagnetic polarizability of the neutron
We reconsider the Dirac-Foldy contribution to the neutron electric
polarizability. Using a Dirac equation approach to neutron-nucleus scattering,
we review the definitions of Compton continuum (), classical
static (), and Schr\"{o}dinger () polarizabilities
and discuss in some detail their relationship. The latter is the
value of the neutron electric polarizability as obtained from an analysis using
the Schr\"{o}dinger equation. We find in particular , where is the magnitude of the magnetic moment
of a neutron of mass . However, we argue that the static polarizability
is correctly defined in the rest frame of the particle, leading to
the conclusion that twice the Dirac-Foldy contribution should be added to
to obtain the static polarizability .Comment: 11 pages, RevTeX, to appear in Physical Review
Evidence for dust evolution within the Taurus Complex from Spitzer images
We present Spitzer images of the Taurus Complex (TC) and take advantage of
the sensitivity and spatial resolution of the observations to characterize the
diffuse IR emission across the cloud. This work highlights evidence of dust
evolution within the translucent sections of the archetype reference for
studies of quiescent molecular clouds. We combine Spitzer 160 um and IRAS 100
um observations to produce a dust temperature map and a far-IR dust opacity map
at 5' resolution. The average dust temperature is about 14.5K with a dispersion
of +/-1K across the cloud. The far-IR dust opacity is a factor 2 larger than
the average value for the diffuse ISM. This opacity increase and the
attenuation of the radiation field (RF) both contribute to account for the
lower emission temperature of the large grains. The structure of the TC
significantly changes in the mid-IR images that trace emission from PAHs and
VSGs. We focus our analysis of the mid-IR emission to a range of ecliptic
latitudes where the zodiacal light residuals are small. Within this cloud area,
there are no 8 and 24 um counterparts to the brightest 160 um emission
features. Conversely, the 8 and 24 um images reveal filamentary structure that
is strikingly inconspicuous in the 160 um and extinction maps. The IR colors
vary over sub-parsec distances across this filamentary structure. We compare
the observed colors with model calculations quantifying the impact of the RF
intensity and the abundance of stochastically heated particles on the dust SED.
To match the range of observed colors, we have to invoke variations by a factor
of a few of both the interstellar RF and the abundance of PAHs and VSGs. We
conclude that within this filamentary structure a significant fraction of the
dust mass cycles in and out the small size end of the dust size distribution.Comment: 43 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
Automatic semantic and geometric enrichment of CityGML building models using HoG-based template matching
Semantically rich 3D building models give the potential for a wealth of
rich geo-spatially-enabled applications such as cultural heritage augmented reality,
urban planning, radio network planning and personal navigation. However, the majority
of existing building models lack much if any semantic detail. This work
demonstrates a novel method for automatically locating subclasses of windows and
doors, using computer vision techniques including the histogram of oriented gradient
(HoG) template matching, and automatically creating enriched CityGML content
for the matched windows and doors. Good results were achieved for class identification
with potential for further refinement of subclasses of windows and doors
and other architectural features. It is part of a wider project to bring even richer
semantic content to 3D geo-spatial building models
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