32,476 research outputs found
-Particle Spectrum in the Reaction p+B
Using a simple phenomenological parametrization of the reaction amplitude we
calculated -particle spectrum in the reaction p+B at the resonance proton energy 675 KeV. The parametrization
includes Breit-Wigner factor with an energy dependent width for intermediate
state and the Coulomb and the centrifugal factors in -particle
emission vertexes. The shape of the spectrum consists of a well defined peak
corresponding to emission of the primary and a flat shoulder going
down to very low energy. We found that below 1.5 MeV there are 17.5% of
's and below 1 MeV there are 11% of them.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
String vacua with flux from freely-acting obifolds
A precise correspondence between freely-acting orbifolds (Scherk-Schwarz
compactifications) and string vacua with NSNS flux turned on is established
using T-duality.
We focus our attention to a certain non-compact Z_2 heterotic freely-acting
orbifold with N=2 supersymmetry (SUSY). The geometric properties of the T-dual
background are studied. As expected, the space is non-Kahler with the most
generic torsion compatible with SUSY. All equations of motion are satisfied,
except the Bianchi identity for the NSNS field, that is satisfied only at
leading order in derivatives, i.e. without the curvature term. We point out
that this is due to unknown corrections to the standard heterotic T-duality
rules.Comment: 13 pages, no figures; v2: references added and rearranged, version to
appear in JHE
ROSAT HRI Observations of the Crab Pulsar: An Improved Temperature upper limit for PSR 0531+21
ROSAT HRI observations have been used to determine an upper limit of the Crab
pulsar surface temperature from the off-pulse count rate. For a neutron star
mass of 1.4 \Mo and a radius of 10 km as well as the standard distance and
interstellar column density, the redshifted temperature upper limit is\/
K . This is the lowest temperature
upper limit obtained for the Crab pulsar so far. Slightly different values for
are computed for the various neutron star models available in the
literature, reflecting the difference in the equation of state.Comment: 5 pages, uuencoded postscript, to be published in the Proceedings of
the NATO Advanced Study Insitute on "Lives of the Neutron Stars", ed. A.
Alpar, U. Kiziloglu and J. van Paradijs ( Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1995 )
Generalized Conformal Symmetry in D-Brane Matrix Models
We study in detail the extension of the generalized conformal symmetry
proposed previously for D-particles to the case of supersymmetric Yang-Mills
matrix models of Dp-branes for arbitrary p. It is demonstrated that such a
symmetry indeed exists both in the Yang-Mills theory and in the corresponding
supergravity backgrounds produced by Dp-branes. On the Yang-Mills side, we
derive the field-dependent special conformal transformations for the collective
coordinates of Dp-branes in the one-loop approximation, and show that they
coincide with the transformations on the supergravity side. These
transformations are powerful in restricting the forms of the effective actions
of probe D-branes in the fixed backgrounds of source D-branes. Furthermore, our
formalism enables us to extend the concept of (generalized) conformal symmetry
to arbitrary configurations of D-branes, which can still be used to restrict
the dynamics of D-branes. For such general configurations, however, it cannot
be endowed a simple classical space-time interpretation at least in the static
gauge adopted in the present formulation of D-branes.Comment: 26 pages, no figure
String and M-theory Deformations of Manifolds with Special Holonomy
The R^4-type corrections to ten and eleven dimensional supergravity required
by string and M-theory imply corrections to supersymmetric supergravity
compactifications on manifolds of special holonomy, which deform the metric
away from the original holonomy. Nevertheless, in many such cases, including
Calabi-Yau compactifications of string theory and G_2-compactifications of
M-theory, it has been shown that the deformation preserves supersymmetry
because of associated corrections to the supersymmetry transformation rules,
Here, we consider Spin(7) compactifications in string theory and M-theory, and
a class of non-compact SU(5) backgrounds in M-theory. Supersymmetry survives in
all these cases too, despite the fact that the original special holonomy is
perturbed into general holonomy in each case.Comment: Improved discussion of SU(5) holonomy backgrounds. Other minor typos
corrected. Latex with JHEP3.cls, 42 page
Compactifications of Heterotic Theory on Non-Kahler Complex Manifolds: I
We study new compactifications of the SO(32) heterotic string theory on
compact complex non-Kahler manifolds. These manifolds have many interesting
features like fewer moduli, torsional constraints, vanishing Euler character
and vanishing first Chern class, which make the four-dimensional theory
phenomenologically attractive. We take a particular compact example studied
earlier and determine various geometrical properties of it. In particular we
calculate the warp factor and study the sigma model description of strings
propagating on these backgrounds. The anomaly cancellation condition and
enhanced gauge symmetry are shown to arise naturally in this framework, if one
considers the effect of singularities carefully.
We then give a detailed mathematical analysis of these manifolds and
construct a large class of them. The existence of a holomorphic (3,0) form is
important for the construction. We clarify some of the topological properties
of these manifolds and evaluate the Betti numbers. We also determine the
superpotential and argue that the radial modulus of these manifolds can
actually be stabilized.Comment: 75 pages, Harvmac, no figures; v2: Some new results added, typos
corrected and references updated. Final version to appear in JHE
String theories as the adiabatic limit of Yang-Mills theory
We consider Yang-Mills theory with a matrix gauge group on a direct
product manifold , where is a two-dimensional
Lorentzian manifold and is a two-dimensional open disc with the boundary
. The Euler-Lagrange equations for the metric on
yield constraint equations for the Yang-Mills energy-momentum tensor. We show
that in the adiabatic limit, when the metric on is scaled down, the
Yang-Mills equations plus constraints on the energy-momentum tensor become the
equations describing strings with a worldsheet moving in the based
loop group , where is the boundary of
. By choosing and putting to zero all parameters in besides , we get a string moving in . In
arXiv:1506.02175 it was described how one can obtain the Green-Schwarz
superstring action from Yang-Mills theory on while
shrinks to a point. Here we also consider Yang-Mills theory on a
three-dimensional manifold and show that in the limit when
the radius of tends to zero, the Yang-Mills action functional
supplemented by a Wess-Zumino-type term becomes the Green-Schwarz superstring
action.Comment: 11 pages, v3: clarifying remarks added, new section on embedding of
the Green-Schwarz superstring into d=3 Yang-Mills theory include
Stability of flux compactifications and the pattern of supersymmetry breaking
We extend the KKLT approach to moduli stabilization by including the dilaton
and the complex structure moduli into the effective supergravity theory.
Decoupling of the dilaton is neither always possible nor necessary for the
existence of stable minima with zero (or positive) cosmological constant. The
pattern of supersymmetry breaking can be much richer than in the decoupling
scenario of KKLT.Comment: References adde
Online Popularity and Topical Interests through the Lens of Instagram
Online socio-technical systems can be studied as proxy of the real world to
investigate human behavior and social interactions at scale. Here we focus on
Instagram, a media-sharing online platform whose popularity has been rising up
to gathering hundred millions users. Instagram exhibits a mixture of features
including social structure, social tagging and media sharing. The network of
social interactions among users models various dynamics including
follower/followee relations and users' communication by means of
posts/comments. Users can upload and tag media such as photos and pictures, and
they can "like" and comment each piece of information on the platform. In this
work we investigate three major aspects on our Instagram dataset: (i) the
structural characteristics of its network of heterogeneous interactions, to
unveil the emergence of self organization and topically-induced community
structure; (ii) the dynamics of content production and consumption, to
understand how global trends and popular users emerge; (iii) the behavior of
users labeling media with tags, to determine how they devote their attention
and to explore the variety of their topical interests. Our analysis provides
clues to understand human behavior dynamics on socio-technical systems,
specifically users and content popularity, the mechanisms of users'
interactions in online environments and how collective trends emerge from
individuals' topical interests.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures, Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 201
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