Latest measurements of beauty quark production at HERA

The latest results of beauty quark production measurements at HERA are presented. New measurements have been obtained both in the photoproduction and the deep inelastic scattering regimes. The results were compared with the NLO QCD calculations.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures. Talk presented at the 31st International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP02), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 24-31, 200

An Asymptotic Comparison of Two Time-homogeneous PAM Models

Both Wick-Ito-Skorokhod and Stratonovich interpretations of the parabolic Anderson model (PAM) lead to solutions that are real analytic as functions of the noise intensity e, and, in the limit e->0, the difference between the two solutions is of order e^2 and is non-random.Comment: 12 page

Spectral analysis of electron transfer kinetics II

Electron transfer processes in Debye solvents are studied using a spectral analysis method recently proposed. Spectral structure of a nonadiabatic two-state diffusion equation is investigated to reveal various kinetic regimes characterized by a broad range of physical parameters; electronic coupling, energy bias, reorganization energy, and solvent relaxation rate. Within this unified framework, several kinetic behaviors of the electron transfer kinetics, including adiabatic Rabi oscillation, crossover from the nonadiabatic to adiabatic limits, transition from the incoherent to coherent kinetic limits, and dynamic bath effect, are demonstrated and compared with results from previous theoretical models. Dynamics of the electron transfer system is also calculated with the spectral analysis method. It is pointed out that in the large reorganization energy case the nonadiabatic diffusion equation exhibits a non-physical behavior, yielding a negative eigenvalue.Comment: submitted for a publication in Journal of Chemical Physic

A one-dimensional tunable magnetic metamaterial

We present experimental data on a one-dimensional superconducting metamaterial that is tunable over a broad frequency band. The basic building block of this magnetic thin-film medium is a single-junction (rf-) superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). Due to the nonlinear inductance of such an element, its resonance frequency is tunable in situ by applying a dc magnetic field. We demonstrate that this results in tunable effective parameters of our metamaterial consisting of 54 SQUIDs. In order to obtain the effective magnetic permeability from the measured data, we employ a technique that uses only the complex transmission coefficient S21