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    The influences of the galactic cosmic ray on the atmospheric ozone

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    The relationship between the yearly variations of cosmic ray intensity and ozone in the atmosphere, and the ozone disturbance initiated by the Forbush decrease of 1965-1976 is analyzed. The data on cosmic ray intensity were selected from the records of the super neutron monitor at Deep River station and the ionization chamber at Beijing station. Ozone data were taken from Resolute (Canada), Bismark (N. Dakota, USA), Kagoshima (Japan), and Kodaikanal (India). The statistical results show that ozone is prominently modulated and disturbed by the 11 year variation and the Forbush decrease in the galactic cosmic ray

    Medium effects in the production and decay of vector mesons in pion-nucleus reactions

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    The ω\omega-, ρ\rho- and ϕ\phi-resonance production and their dileptonic decay in πA\pi^- A reactions at 1.1 - 1.7 GeV/c are calculated within the intranuclear cascade (INC) approach. The invariant mass distribution of the dilepton pair for each resonance can be decomposed in two components which correspond to their decay 'inside' the target nucleus and in the vacuum, respectively. The first components are strongly distorted by the nuclear medium due to resonance-nucleon scattering and a possible mass shift at finite baryon density. These medium modifications are compared to background sources in the dilepton spectrum from πN\pi N bremsstrahlung as well as the Dalitz decays of ω\omega and η\eta mesons produced in the reaction. Detailed predictions for πPb\pi^- Pb reactions at 1.3 and 1.7 GeV/c are made within several momentum bins for the lepton pair.Comment: 29 pages, LaTeX, including 12 postscript figures, UGI-97-07, Nucl. Phys. A., in pres

    Probing the interactions of charmed mesons with nuclei in pˉ\bar p induced reactions

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    We study the perspectives of resonant and nonresonant charmed meson production in pˉ+A\bar{p} + A reactions within the Multiple Scattering Monte Carlo (MSMC) approach. We calculate the production of the resonances Ψ(3770),Ψ(4040)\Psi(3770), \Psi(4040) and Ψ(4160)\Psi(4160) on various nuclei, their propagation and decay to D,Dˉ,D,Dˉ,Ds,DˉsD, \bar{D}, D^*, \bar{D}^*, D_s, \bar{D}_s in the medium and vacuum, respectively. The modifications of the open charm vector mesons in the nuclear medium are found to be rather moderate or even small such that dilepton spectroscopy will require an invariant mass resolution of a few MeV. Furthermore, the elastic and inelastic interactions of the open charm mesons in the medium are taken into account, which can be related to (u,d)(u,d)-, ss- or cc-quark exchange with nucleons. It is found that by studying the D/DˉD/\bar{D} ratio for low momenta in the laboratory (22.2\leq 2-2.2 GeV/c) as a function of target mass AA stringent constraints on the cc-quark exchange cross section can be obtained. On the other hand, the ratios Ds/Ds+D^-_s/D^+_s as well as D/DsD/D^-_s and D/Ds+D/D^+_s at low momenta as a function of AA will permit to fix independently the strength of the ss-quark exchange reaction in DsND^-_s N scattering.Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX, including 9 postscript figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J.

    Nuclear transparency in quasielastic A(e,e'p): intranuclear cascade versus eikonal approximation

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    The problem of nuclear propagation through the nuclear medium in quasielastic A(e,e'p) reactions is discussed in the kinematic range 1<Q^2<7 (GeV/c)^2. The coefficient of nuclear transparency is calculated for each Q^2 in the framework of the intranuclear cascade model (INC) and of the eikonal approximation (EA). The predictions of both models are in good agreement with each other and with experimental data recently obtained at SLAC, BATES and TJNAF. The EA gives an explanation of the Q^2 behaviour of the transparency coefficient as a kinematic effect related to the superposition of contributions from each target shell.Comment: RevTeX, 23 pages, 11 figures separately, submitted to Phys. Rev.

    On gauge-invariant Green function in 2+1 dimensional QED

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    Both the gauge-invariant fermion Green function and gauge-dependent conventional Green function in 2+1 2+1 dimensional QED are studied in the large N N limit. In temporal gauge, the infra-red divergence of gauge-dependent Green function is found to be regulariable, the anomalous dimension is found to be η=643π2N \eta= \frac{64}{3 \pi^{2} N} . This anomalous dimension was argued to be the same as that of gauge-invariant Green function. However, in Coulomb gauge, the infra-red divergence of the gauge-dependent Green function is found to be un-regulariable, anomalous dimension is even not defined, but the infra-red divergence is shown to be cancelled in any gauge-invariant physical quantities. The gauge-invariant Green function is also studied directly in Lorentz covariant gauge and the anomalous dimension is found to be the same as that calculated in temporal gauge.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.

    Density dependence of resonance broadening and shadowing effects in nuclear photoabsorption

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    Medium effects as a function of the mass number AA are studied in the total photonuclear cross section from the Δ\Delta-resonance region up to the region where shadowing effects are known to exist. A consistent picture is obtained by simply assuming a density dependence of the different mechanisms of resonance broadening and shadowing. The Δ\Delta-mass shift is found to increase with AA.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures available from the author
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