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A systematic phenomenological study of the asymmetry in unpolarized semi--inclusive DIS
We study the azimuthal asymmetry in unpolarized semi-inclusive
DIS, taking into account both the perturbative contribution (gluon emission and
splitting) and the non perturbative effects arising from intrinsic transverse
motion and transverse spin of quarks. In particular we explore the possibility
to extract from some information about the Boer--Mulders
function $h_1^{\perp}$, which represents a transverse--polarization asymmetry
of quarks inside an unpolarized hadron. Predictions are presented for the
HERMES, COMPASS and JLab kinematics, where is dominated by the
kinematical higher--twist contribution, and turns to be of order of few
percent. We show that a larger asymmetry in production, compared to
production, would represent a signature of the Boer--Mulders effect.Comment: 14 pages, 12 figure
Suzaku Reveals Helium-burning Products in the X-ray Emitting Planetary Nebula BD+303639
BD+303639, the brightest planetary nebula at X-ray energies, was observed
with Suzaku, an X-ray observatory launched on 2005 July 10. Using the X-ray
Imaging Spectrometer, the K-lines from C VI, O VII, and O VIII were resolved
for the first time, and C/O, N/O, and Ne/O abundance ratios determined. The C/O
and Ne/O abundance ratios exceed the solar value by a factor of at least 30 and
5, respectively. These results indicate that the X-rays are emitted mainly by
helium shell-burning products.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical
Journal Letter
Phase-ordering of conserved vectorial systems with field-dependent mobility
The dynamics of phase-separation in conserved systems with an O(N) continuous
symmetry is investigated in the presence of an order parameter dependent
mobility M(\phi)=1-a \phi^2. The model is studied analytically in the framework
of the large-N approximation and by numerical simulations of the N=2, N=3 and
N=4 cases in d=2, for both critical and off-critical quenches. We show the
existence of a new universality class for a=1 characterized by a growth law of
the typical length L(t) ~ t^{1/z} with dynamical exponent z=6 as opposed to the
usual value z=4 which is recovered for a<1.Comment: RevTeX, 8 pages, 13 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Full one-loop electroweak radiative corrections to single Higgs production in e+ e-
We present the full electroweak radiative corrections to
single Higgs production in \epemt. This takes into account the full one-loop
corrections as well as the effects of hard photon radiation. We include both
the fusion and Higgs-strahlung processes. The computation is performed with the
help of {\tt GRACE-loop} where we have implemented a generalised non-linear
gauge fixing condition. The latter includes 5 gauge parameters that can be used
for checks on our results. Besides the UV, IR finiteness and gauge parameter
independence checks it proves also powerful to test our implementation of the
5-point function. We find that for a 500GeV machine and a light Higgs of mass
150GeV, the total correction is small when the results are
expressed in terms of . The total correction decreases
slightly for higher energies. For moderate centre of mass energies the total
decreases as the Higgs mass increases, reaching -10% for
GeV and GeV. In order to quantify the genuine weak
corrections we have subtracted the universal virtual and bremsstrahlung
correction from the full . We find, for GeV, a
weak correction slowly decreasing from -2% to -4% as the energy increases from
GeV to TeV after expressing the tree-level results in
terms of Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures. Only correction is a reference to a web-pag
Decay properties of new D-mesons
We consider radiative and pionic decays of the new D_s-mesons in the
framework of a phenomenologically motivated approach. Present data on ratios of
the two kinds of decays can be described without explicit using a 4-quark
component. Most probably, the isospin violation in decays of different
D_s-mesons is not universal, and the binding potential should be different from
Coulombic. New precise measurements may provide further clarification for the
nature of the D_s excited states.Comment: 12 pages, Late
Neutral atomic carbon in the globules of the Helix
We report detection of the 609u line of neutral atomic carbon in globules of
the Helix nebula. The measurements were made towards the position of peak CO
emission. At the same position, we obtained high-quality CO(2-1) and 13CO(2-1)
spectra and a 135" x 135" map in CO(2-1). The velocity distribution of CI shows
six narrow (1 -> 2 km/sec) components which are associated with individual
globules traced in CO. The CI column densities are 0.5 -> 1.2 x 10^16/cm^2. CI
is found to be a factor of ~6 more abundant than CO. Our estimate for the mass
of the neutral envelope is an order of magnitude larger than previous
estimates. The large abundance of CI in the Helix can be understood as a result
of the gradual photoionisation of the molecular envelope by the central star's
radiation field.Comment: 5 pages, Latex, AAS macros, 3 EPS figures, to appear in Astrophysical
Journal Letter
Sound modes broadening for Fibonacci one dimensional quasicrystals
We investigate vibrational excitation broadening in one dimensional Fibonacci
model of quasicrystals (QCs). The chain is constructed from particles with two
masses following the Fibonacci inflation rule. The eigenmode spectrum depends
crucially on the mass ratio. We calculate the eigenstates and eigenfunctions.
All calculations performed self-consistently within the regular expansion over
the three wave coupling constant. The approach can be extended to three
dimensional systems. We find that in the intermediate range of mode coupling
constants, three-wave broadening for the both types of systems (1D Fibonacci
and 3D QCs) depends universally on frequency. Our general qualitative
conclusion is that for a system with a non-simple elementary cell phonon
spectrum broadening is always larger than for a system with a primitive cell
(provided all other characteristics are the same).Comment: 2o pages, 15 figure
The Stability of the Gauge Hierarchy in
It has been shown that the Dimopoulos-Wilczek (or missing-VEV) mechanism for
doublet-triplet splitting can be implemented in models,
which requires no adjoint Higgs fields. This is an advantage from the point of
view of string theory construction. Here the stability of the gauge hierarchy
is examined in detail, and it is shown that it can be guaranteed much more
simply than in . In fact a symmetry ensures the stability of the
DW form of the expectation values to all orders in GUT-scale VEVs. It is also
shown that models based on have the advantages of while permitting complete quark-lepton unification as in
.Comment: 13 pages, LaTe
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