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Axial Contributions at the Top Threshold
We calculate the contributions of the axial current to top quark pair
production in e+ e- annihilation at threshold. The QCD dynamics is taken into
account by solving the Lippmann-Schwinger equation for the P wave production
using the QCD potential up to two loops. We demonstrate that the dependence of
the total and differential cross section on the polarization of the e+ and e-
beams allows for an independent extraction of the axial current induced cross
section.Comment: LaTeX, 12 pages, including 5 Postscript figures using eps
Product and other fine structure in polynomial resolutions of mapping spaces
Let Map_T(K,X) denote the mapping space of continuous based functions between
two based spaces K and X. If K is a fixed finite complex, Greg Arone has
recently given an explicit model for the Goodwillie tower of the functor
sending a space X to the suspension spectrum \Sigma^\infty Map_T(K,X). Applying
a generalized homology theory h_* to this tower yields a spectral sequence, and
this will converge strongly to h_*(Map_T(K,X)) under suitable conditions, e.g.
if h_* is connective and X is at least dim K connected. Even when the
convergence is more problematic, it appears the spectral sequence can still
shed considerable light on h_*(Map_T(K,X)). Similar comments hold when a
cohomology theory is applied. In this paper we study how various important
natural constructions on mapping spaces induce extra structure on the towers.
This leads to useful interesting additional structure in the associated
spectral sequences. For example, the diagonal on Map_T(K,X) induces a
`diagonal' on the associated tower. After applying any cohomology theory with
products h^*, the resulting spectral sequence is then a spectral sequence of
differential graded algebras. The product on the E_\infty -term corresponds to
the cup product in h^*(Map_T(K,X)) in the usual way, and the product on the
E_1-term is described in terms of group theoretic transfers. We use explicit
equivariant S-duality maps to show that, when K is the sphere S^n, our
constructions at the fiber level have descriptions in terms of the
Boardman-Vogt little n-cubes spaces. We are then able to identify, in a
computationally useful way, the Goodwillie tower of the functor from spectra to
spectra sending a spectrum X to \Sigma ^\infty \Omega ^\infty X.Comment: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at
http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol2/agt-2-28.abs.htm
Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of oscillatory shape evolution for electromigration-driven islands
The shape evolution of two-dimensional islands under electromigration-driven
periphery diffusion is studied by kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations and
continuum theory. The energetics of the KMC model is adapted to the Cu(100)
surface, and the continuum model is matched to the KMC model by a suitably
parametrized choice of the orientation-dependent step stiffness and step atom
mobility. At 700 K shape oscillations predicted by continuum theory are
quantitatively verified by the KMC simulations, while at 500 K qualitative
differences between the two modeling approaches are found.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Integrating Item Accuracy and Reaction Time to Improve the Measurement of Inhibitory Control Abilities in Early Childhood
Efforts to improve children’s executive function are often hampered by the lack of measures that are optimized for use during the transition from preschool to elementary school. Whereas preschool-based measures often emphasize response accuracy, elementary school-based measures emphasize reaction time (RT)—especially for measures inhibitory control (IC) tasks that typically have a speeded component. The primary objective of this study was to test in a preschool-aged sample whether the joint use of item-level accuracy and RT data resulted in improved scoring for three IC tasks relative to scores derived from accuracy data alone. Generally, the joint use of item-level accuracy and RT data resulted in modest improvements in the measurement precision of IC abilities. Moreover, the joint use of item-level accuracy and RT helped eliminate floor and ceiling effects that occurred when accuracy data were considered alone. Results are discussed with respect to the importance of scoring IC tasks in ways that are maximally informative for program evaluation and longitudinal modeling
Trusty URIs: Verifiable, Immutable, and Permanent Digital Artifacts for Linked Data
To make digital resources on the web verifiable, immutable, and permanent, we
propose a technique to include cryptographic hash values in URIs. We call them
trusty URIs and we show how they can be used for approaches like
nanopublications to make not only specific resources but their entire reference
trees verifiable. Digital artifacts can be identified not only on the byte
level but on more abstract levels such as RDF graphs, which means that
resources keep their hash values even when presented in a different format. Our
approach sticks to the core principles of the web, namely openness and
decentralized architecture, is fully compatible with existing standards and
protocols, and can therefore be used right away. Evaluation of our reference
implementations shows that these desired properties are indeed accomplished by
our approach, and that it remains practical even for very large files.Comment: Small error corrected in the text (table data was correct) on page
13: "All average values are below 0.8s (0.03s for batch mode). Using Java in
batch mode even requires only 1ms per file.
Spiral Growth and Step Edge Barriers
The growth of spiral mounds containing a screw dislocation is compared to the
growth of wedding cakes by two-dimensional nucleation. Using phase field
simulations and homoepitaxial growth experiments on the Pt(111) surface we show
that both structures attain the same characteristic large scale shape when a
significant step edge barrier suppresses interlayer transport. The higher
vertical growth rate observed for the spiral mounds on Pt(111) reflects the
different incorporation mechanisms for atoms in the top region and can be
formally represented by an enhanced apparent step edge barrier.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, partly in colo
Morphological stability of electromigration-driven vacancy islands
The electromigration-induced shape evolution of two-dimensional vacancy
islands on a crystal surface is studied using a continuum approach. We consider
the regime where mass transport is restricted to terrace diffusion in the
interior of the island. In the limit of fast attachment/detachment kinetics a
circle translating at constant velocity is a stationary solution of the
problem. In contrast to earlier work [O. Pierre-Louis and T.L. Einstein, Phys.
Rev. B 62, 13697 (2000)] we show that the circular solution remains linearly
stable for arbitrarily large driving forces. The numerical solution of the full
nonlinear problem nevertheless reveals a fingering instability at the trailing
end of the island, which develops from finite amplitude perturbations and
eventually leads to pinch-off. Relaxing the condition of instantaneous
attachment/detachment kinetics, we obtain non-circular elongated stationary
shapes in an analytic approximation which compares favorably to the full
numerical solution.Comment: 12 page
JHK Observations of Faint Standard Stars in the Mauna Kea Near-Infrared Photometric System
JHK photometry in the Mauna Kea Observatory (MKO) near-IR system is presented
for 115 stars. Of these, 79 are UKIRT standards and 42 are LCO standards. The
average brightness is 11.5 mag, with a range of 10 to 15. The average number of
nights each star was observed is 4, and the average of the internal error of
the final results is 0.011 mag. These JHK data agree with those reported by
other groups to 0.02 mag. The measurements are used to derive transformations
between the MKO JHK photometric system and the UKIRT, LCO and 2MASS systems.
The 2MASS-MKO data scatter by 0.05 mag for redder stars: 2MASS-J includes H2O
features in dwarfs and MKO-K includes CO features in giants. Transformations
derived for stars whose spectra contain only weak features cannot give accurate
transformations for objects with strong absorption features within a filter
bandpasses. We find evidence of systematic effects at the 0.02 mag level in the
photometry of stars with J<11 and H,K<10.5. This is due to an underestimate of
the linearity correction for stars observed with the shortest exposure times;
very accurate photometry of stars approaching the saturation limits of infrared
detectors which are operated in double-read mode is difficult to obtain. Four
stars in the sample, GSPC S705-D, FS 116 (B216-b7), FS 144 (Ser-EC84) and FS 32
(Feige 108), may be variable. 84 stars in the sample have 11< J< 15 and
10.5<H,K<15, are not suspected to be variable, and have magnitudes with an
estimated error <0.027 mag; 79 of these have an error of <0.020 mag. These
represent the first published high-accuracy JHK stellar photometry in the MKO
photometric system; we recommend these objects be employed as primary standards
for that system [abridged].Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 14 pages, 5 Figure
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