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Z_{12-I} Orbifold Compactification toward SUSY Standard Model
We explain the orbifold compactification in string models and present a
Z_{12-I} orbifold compactification toward supersymmetric standard models. We
also point out an effective R-parity from this string construction. The VEVs of
gauge singlets are chosen such that phenomenological constraints are satisfied.Comment: 13 pages with 5 figure. Talk presented at "CTP Symposium on SUSY at
LHC", Cairo, 11-14 March 200
Approximate Coulomb distortion effects in (e,e'p) reactions
In this paper we apply a well-tested approximation of electron Coulomb
distortion effects to the exclusive reaction (e,e'p) in the quasielastic
region. We compare the approximate treatment of Coulomb distortion effects to
the exact distorted wave Born approximation evaluated by means of partial wave
analysis to gauge the quality of our approximate treatment. We show that the
approximate M\"oller potential has a plane-wave-like structure and hence
permits the separation of the cross section into five terms which depend on
bilinear products of transforms of the transition four current elements. These
transforms reduce to Fourier transforms when Coulomb distortion is not present,
but become modified with the inclusion of Coulomb distortion. We investigate
the application of the approximate formalism to a model of 208Pb(e,e'p) using
Dirac-Hartree single particle wave functions for the ground state and
relativistic optical model wave functions for the continuum proton. We show
that it is still possible to extract, albeit with some approximation, the
various structure functions from the experimentally measured data even for
heavy nuclei.Comment: 32 pages, 11 figures, 19 reference
Extraction of Structure Functions from Quasielastic Electron Scattering (e,e') from Medium and Heavy Nuclei
Using a relativistic mean-field single particle knock-out model for (e,e')
reactions on nuclei, we investigate approximate treatments of Coulomb
distortion effects and the extraction of longitudinal and transverse structure
functions. We show that an effective momentum approximation (EMA) when coupled
with a focusing factor provides a good description of the transverse
contributions to the (e,e') cross sections for electron energies above 300 MeV
on 208Pb. This approximation is not as good for the longitudinal contributions
even for incident electron eneriges above 1 GeV and if one requires very
precise extraction of longitudinal and transverse structure functions in the
quasielastic region it is necessary to utilize distortion factors based on a
nuclear model and a more accurate inclusion of Coulomb distortion effects.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Cosmological constant is probably adjustable in brane worlds
In the brane world scenario, possessing the self-tuning property of the
cosmological constant, we study the probability amplitude for an initial state
of the Universe to transform to final states with some curvatures. In the Kim,
Kyae and Lee model, there exists a finite range of parameters such that the
transition amplitude to a near flat universe is exponentially dominated by the
smallness of curvature, > e^{positive number}/{Lambda-bar}^2}, i.e. is
dominated by an almost flat universe of |Lambda-bar|<epsilon.Comment: 6 pages with 2 figure
Journey of water in pine cones
Pine cones fold their scales when it rains to prevent seeds from short-distance dispersal. Given that the scales of pine cones consist of nothing but dead cells, this folding motion is evidently related to structural changes. In this study, the structural characteristics of pine cones are studied on micro-/macro-scale using various imaging instruments. Raindrops fall along the outer scales to the three layers (bract scales, fibers and innermost lignified structure) of inner pine cones. However, not all the layers but only the bract scales get wet and then, most raindrops move to the inner scales. These systems reduce the amount of water used and minimize the time spent on structural changes. The result shows that the pine cones have structural advantages that could influence the efficient motion of pine cones. This study provides new insights to understand the motion of pine cones and would be used to design a novel water transport system.119Ysciescopu
Brane gravity, massless bulk scalar and self-tuning of the cosmological constant
We show that a self-tuning mechanism of the cosmological constant could work
in 5D non-compact space-time with a symmetry in the presence of a
massless scalar field. The standard model matter fields live only on the 4D
brane. The change of vacuum energy on the brane (brane cosmological constant)
by, for instance, electroweak and QCD phase transitions, just gives rise to
dynamical shifts of the profiles of the background metric and the scalar field
in the extra dimension, keeping 4D space-time flat without any fine-tuning. To
avoid naked singularities in the bulk, the brane cosmological constant should
be negative. We introduce an additional brane-localized 4D Einstein-Hilbert
term so as to provide the observed 4D gravity with the non-compact extra
dimension. With a general form of brane-localized gravity term allowed by the
symmetries, the low energy Einstein gravity is successfully reproduced on the
brane at long distances. We show this phenomenon explicitly for the case of
vanishing bulk cosmological constant.Comment: 1+15 pages, no figure, Version to appear in PR
Adiabatic quantum pumping in an Aharonov-Bohm loop and in a Si-like nanowire: Role of interference in real space and in momentum space
We study the consequences of interference effects on the current generated by
adiabatic quantum pumping in two distinct one-dimensional (1D) lattice model.
The first model contains an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) loop within a tight-binding
chain of lattice sites. The static AB phase is shown to strongly affect
interference between the two arms of the loop, serving as an on-off switch and
regulator for the pumped current. The second model simulates pumping in
semiconductors with indirect band-gaps, by utilizing a tight-binding chain with
next-nearest-neighbor coupling. The model exhibits signatures of interference
between degenerate conduction band states with different Fermi wavevectors.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure
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