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Long-Wavelength Excesses in Two Highly Obscured High-Mass X-Ray Binaries: IGR J16318–4848 and GX 301–2
We present evidence for excess long-wavelength emission from two high-mass X-ray binaries, IGR J16318-4848 and GX 301-2, that show enormous obscuration (N_H ≃ 10^(23)-10^(24) cm^(-2)) in their X-ray spectra. Using archival near- and mid-infrared data, we show that the spectral energy distributions of IGR J16318-4848 and GX 301-2 are substantially higher in the mid-infrared than their expected stellar emission. We successfully fit the excesses with ~1000 K blackbodies, which suggests that they are due to warm circumstellar dust that also gives rise to the X-ray absorption. However, we need further observations to constrain the detailed properties of the excesses. This discovery highlights the importance of mid-infrared observations for understanding highly obscured X-ray binaries
The Long and Short of Nuclear Effective Field Theory Expansions
Nonperturbative effective field theory calculations for NN scattering seem to
break down at rather low momenta. By examining several toy models, we clarify
how effective field theory expansions can in general be used to properly
separate long- and short-range effects. We find that one-pion exchange has a
large effect on the scattering phase shift near poles in the amplitude, but
otherwise can be treated perturbatively. Analysis of a toy model that
reproduces 1S0 NN scattering data rather well suggests that failures of
effective field theories for momenta above the pion mass can be due to
short-range physics rather than the treatment of pion exchange. We discuss the
implications this has for extending the applicability of effective field
theories.Comment: 22 pages, 9 figures, references corrected, minor modification
Low Energy Theorems For Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering
Low energy theorems are derived for the coefficients of the effective range
expansion in s-wave nucleon-nucleon scattering valid to leading order in an
expansion in which both and (where is the scattering length)
are treated as small mass scales. Comparisons with phase shift data, however,
reveal a pattern of gross violations of the theorems for all coefficients in
both the and channels. Analogous theorems are developed for the
energy dependence parameter which describes mixing.
These theorems are also violated. These failures strongly suggest that the
physical value of is too large for the chiral expansion to be valid in
this context. Comparisons of with phenomenological scales known to
arise in the two-nucleon problem support this conjecture.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; appendix added to discuss behavior in
chiral limit; minor revisions including revised figure reference to recent
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One loop renormalization for the axial Ward-Takahashi identity in Domain-wall QCD
We calculate one-loop correction to the axial Ward-Takahashi identity given
by Furman and Shamir in domain-wall QCD. It is shown perturbatively that the
renormalized axial Ward-Takahashi identity is satisfied without fine tuning and
the ``conserved'' axial current receives no renormalization, giving .
This fact will simplify the calculation of the pion decay constant in numerical
simulations since the decay constant defined by this current needs no lattice
renormalization factor.Comment: 16 pages, 3 axodraw.sty figure
Vibrational properties of phonons in random binary alloys: An augmented space recursive technique in the k-representation
We present here an augmented space recursive technique in the
k-representation which include diagonal, off-diagonal and the environmental
disorder explicitly : an analytic, translationally invariant, multiple
scattering theory for phonons in random binary alloys.We propose the augmented
space recursion (ASR) as a computationally fast and accurate technique which
will incorporate configuration fluctuations over a large local environment. We
apply the formalism to , Ni_{88}Cr_12} and
alloys which is not a random choice. Numerical results on spectral functions,
coherent structure factors, dispersion curves and disordered induced FWHM's are
presented. Finally the results are compared with the recent itinerant coherent
potential approximation (ICPA) and also with experiments.Comment: 20 pages, LaTeX, 23 figure
The Delta-Delta Intermediate State in 1S0 Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering From Effective Field Theory
We examine the role of the Delta-Delta intermediate state in low energy NN
scattering using effective field theory. Theories both with and without pions
are discussed. They are regulated with dimensional regularization and MSbar
subtraction. We find that the leading effects of the Delta-Delta state can be
absorbed by a redefinition of the contact terms in a theory with nucleons only.
It does not remove the requirement of a higher dimension operator to reproduce
data out to moderate momentum. The explicit decoupling of the Delta-Delta state
is shown for the theory without pions.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, uses harvma
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