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Vibration isolation system for the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
The Vibration Isolation System for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is studied. Included are discussions of the various concepts, design goals, concerns, and the proposed configuration for the Vibration Isolation System
Fermions in the background of the sphaleron barrier
We demonstrate the level crossing phenomenon for fermions in the background
field of the sphaleron barrier, by numerically determining the fermion
eigenvalues along the minimal energy path from one vacuum to another. We assume
that the fermions of a doublet are degenerate in mass, allowing for spherically
symmetric ans\"atze for all of the fields, when the mixing angle dependence is
neglected.Comment: 9 pages, latex, 4 figures appended as postscript files after
\end{document}. THU-93/0
Axially Symmetric Multisphalerons in Yang-Mills-Dilaton Theory
We construct sequences of axially symmetric multisphaleron solutions in SU(2)
Yang-Mills-dilaton theory. The sequences are labelled by a winding number
. For the known sequence of spherically symmetric sphaleron
solutions is obtained. The solutions within each sequence are labelled by the
number of nodes of the gauge field functions. The limiting solutions of the
sequences correspond to abelian magnetic monopoles with units of charge and
energy .Comment: 18 pages, including 7 postscript figure
Sphalerons, Antisphalerons and Vortex Rings
We present new classical solutions of Weinberg-Salam theory in the limit of
vanishing Weinberg angle. In these static axially symmetric solutions, the
Higgs field vanishes either on isolated points on the symmetry axis, or on
rings centered around the symmetry axis. The solutions represent systems of
sphalerons, antisphalerons, and vortex rings.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, minor corrections include
Electroweak Sphalerons with Spin and Charge
We show that, at finite weak mixing angle the sphaleron solution of
Weinberg-Salam theory can be endowed with angular momentum proportional to the
electric charge. Carrying baryon number 1/2 these sphalerons with spin and
charge may contribute to baryon number violating processes.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Analysis of Imperfections in Practical Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution
As quantum key distribution becomes a mature technology, it appears clearly
that some assumptions made in the security proofs cannot be justified in
practical implementations. This might open the door to possible side-channel
attacks. We examine several discrepancies between theoretical models and
experimental setups in the case of continuous-variable quantum key
distribution. We study in particular the impact of an imperfect modulation on
the security of Gaussian protocols and show that approximating the theoretical
Gaussian modulation with a discrete one is sufficient in practice. We also
address the issue of properly calibrating the detection setup, and in
particular the value of the shot noise. Finally, we consider the influence of
phase noise in the preparation stage of the protocol and argue that taking this
noise into account can improve the secret key rate because this source of noise
is not controlled by the eavesdropper.Comment: 4 figure
Teaching about Madrid: A Collaborative Agents-Based Distributed Learning Course
Interactive art courses require a huge amount of computational resources to be running on real time. These computational resources are even bigger if the course has been designed as a Virtual Environment with which students can interact. In this paper, we present an initiative that has been develop in a close collaboration between two Spanish Universities: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos with the aim of join two previous research project: a Collaborative Awareness Model for Task-Balancing-Delivery (CAMT) in clusters and the “Teaching about Madrid” course, which provides a cultural interactive background of the capital of Spain
Gravitating Sphaleron-Antisphaleron Systems
We present new classical solutions of Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs theory,
representing gravitating sphaleron-antisphaleron pair, chain and vortex ring
solutions. In these static axially symmetric solutions, the Higgs field
vanishes on isolated points on the symmetry axis, or on rings centered around
the symmetry axis. We compare these solutions to gravitating
monopole-antimonopole systems, associating monopole-antimonopole pairs with
sphalerons.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
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