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Coulomb scattering of quantum dipoles in QED
We calculate the total scattering cross-section of a dynamical quantum
electrically neutral dipole in QED of the infinitely heavy charge and of the
infinitely heavy dipole in the leading order in electromagnetic coupling
constant.Comment: 7 pages, no figure
Quantified HI Morphology VII: star-formation and tidal influence on local dwarf HI morphology
Scale-invariant morphology parameters applied to atomic hydrogen maps (HI) of
galaxies can be used to quantify the effects of tidal interaction or
star-formation on the ISM. Here we apply these parameters, Concentration,
Asymmetry, Smoothness, Gini, M20, and the GM parameter, to two public surveys
of nearby dwarf galaxies, the VLA-ANGST and LITTLE-THINGS survey, to explore
whether tidal interaction or the ongoing or past star-formation is a dominant
force shaping the HI disk of these dwarfs.
Previously, HI morphological criteria were identified for ongoing
spiral-spiral interactions. When we apply these to the Irregular dwarf
population, they either select almost all or none of the population. We find
that only the Asymmetry-based criteria can be used to identify very isolated
dwarfs (i.e., these have a low tidal indication). Otherwise, there is little or
no relation between the level of tidal interaction and the HI morphology. We
compare the HI morphology to three star-formation rates based on either Halpha,
FUV or the resolved stellar population, probing different star-formation
time-scales.
The HI morphology parameters that trace the inequality of the distribution,
the Gini, GM, and M20 parameters, correlate weakly with all these
star-formation rates. This is in line with the picture that local physics
dominates the ISM appearance and not tidal effects. Finally, we compare the
SDSS measures of star-formation and stellar mass to the HI morphological
parameters for all four HI surveys. In the two lower-resolution HI surveys
(12"), there is no relation between star-formation measures and HI morphology.
The morphology of the two high-resolution HI surveys (6"), the Asymmetry,
Smoothness, Gini, M20, and GM, do show a link to the total star-formation, but
a weak one.Comment: 26 figures, 4 tables, two appendices. Third appendix (HI maps of all
galaxies) omitted. Accepted by MNRA
Increase with energy of parton transverse momenta in the fragmentation region in DIS and related phenomena
The dipole and the DGLAP approximations are combined with the
factorization theorem to demonstrate the fundamental property of pQCD: smaller
is the size of the colorless quark-gluon configurations in the fragmentation
region, more rapid is the increase of its interaction with the target as a
function of energy. First, we show that the transverse momenta of the
quark(antiquark) within the pair, produced in the fragmentation
region by the strongly virtual photon, increase with the decrease of x for
fixed . As practical consequence of these effects we show that the cross
sections of DIS and DVCS. We predict that the ratio of DVCS to DIS amplitudes
should very slowly approach one from above at very large collision energies.
Second, we study a closely related phenomenon of the increase of the transverse
momenta with the energy of the characteristic transverse momenta of the
gluon/quark configurations responsible for the transition to the black disk
regime. We discuss the impact of this phenomenona on the slowing of the
dependence on the initial energy of the coherence length. We demonstrate that a
rapid projectile has the biconcave shape, which is different from the
expectations of the preQCD parton model where a fast hadron has a pancake
shape. We show that the increase of the transverse momenta leads to a new
expression for the total cross section of a DIS scattering at very large
energies, relevant to LHeC and LHC. We discuss the impact of the discovered
phenomena on the hard processes in pp collisions, and on the dominance
ofdifferent phases of chiral and conformal symmetries in the central and
peripheral pp, pA, and AA collisions.Comment: 37 pages, 6 figures, uses file pdfsync.sty some typos and
misspellings are eliminate
Quantified Morphology of HI Disks in the Universe
he upcoming new perspective of the high redshift Universe in the 21 cm line
of atomic hydrogen opens possibilities to explore topics of spiral disk
evolution, hitherto reserved for the optical regime. The growth of spiral gas
disks over Cosmic time can be explored with the new generation of radio
telescopes, notably the SKA, and its precursors, as accurately as with the
Hubble Space Telescope for stellar disks. Since the atomic hydrogen gas is the
building block of these disks, it should trace their formation accurately.
Morphology of HI disks can now equally be quantified over Cosmic time. In
studies of HST deep fields, the optical or UV morphology of high-redshift
galaxy disks have been characterized using a few quantities: concentration (C),
asymmetry (A), smoothness (S), second-order-moment (M20), the GINI coefficient
(G), and Ellipticity (E). We have applied these parameters across wavelengths
and compared them to the HI morphology over the THINGS sample. NGC 3184, an
unperturbed disk, and NGC 5194, the canonical 3:1 interaction, serve as
examples for quantified morphology. We find that morphology parameters
determined in HI are as good or better a tracer of interaction compared to
those in any other wavelength, notably in Asymmetry, Gini and M20. This opens
the possibility of using them in the parameterization pipeline for SKA
precursor catalogues to select interacting or harassed galaxies from their HI
morphology. Asymmetry, Gini and M20 may be redefined for use on data-cubes
rather than HI column density image.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, proceeding of the conference "Panoramic Radio
Astronomy: Wide-field 1-2 GHz research on galaxy evolution", June 02 - 05
2009, Groningen, update after small edit
Large distance behaviour of light cone operator product in perturbative and nonperturbative QCD regimes
We evaluate the coordinate space dependence of the matrix elements of the
commutator of the electromagnetic and gluon currents in the vicinity of the
light-cone but at large distances within the parton model, DGLAP, the
resummation approaches to the small x behaviour of DIS processes, and for the
Unitarity Bound. We find that an increase of the commutator with relative
distance as is the generic property of QCD
at small but fixed space-time interval in perturbative and
nonperturbative QCD regimes. We explain that the factor follows within the
dipole model (QCD factorization theorem) from the properties of Lorents
transformation. The increase of disappeares at central impact parameters
if cross section of DIS may achieve the Unitarity Limit. We argue that such
long range forces are hardly consistent with thermodynamic equilibrium while a
Unitarity Limit may signal equilibration. Possible implications of this new
long range interaction are briefly discussed.Comment: 23 page
Quantified HI Morphology II : Lopsidedness and Interaction in WHISP Column Density Maps
Lopsidedness of the gaseous disk of spiral galaxies is a common phenomenon in
disk morphology, profile and kinematics. Simultaneously, the asymmetry of a
galaxy's stellar disk, in combination with other morphological parameters, has
seen extensive use as an indication of recent merger or interaction in galaxy
samples. Quantified morphology of stellar spiral disks is one avenue to
determine the merger rate over much of the age of the Universe. In this paper,
we measure the quantitative morphology parameters for the HI column density
maps from the Westerbork observations of neutral Hydrogen in Irregular and
SPiral galaxies (WHISP). These are Concentration, Asymmetry, Smoothness, Gini,
M20, and one addition of our own, the Gini parameter of the second order moment
(GM). Our aim is to determine if lopsided or interacting disks can be
identified with these parameters. Our sample of 141 HI maps have all previous
classifications on their lopsidedness and interaction. We find that the
Asymmetry, M20, and our new GM parameter correlate only weakly with the
previous morphological lopsidedness quantification. These three parameters may
be used to compute a probability that an HI disk is morphologically lopsided
but not unequivocally to determine it. However, we do find that that the
question whether or not an HI disk is interacting can be settled well using
morphological parameters. Parameter cuts from the literature do not translate
from ultraviolet to HI directly but new selection criteria using combinations
of Asymmetry and M20 or Concentration and M20, work very well. We suggest that
future all-sky HI surveys may use these parameters of the column density maps
to determine the merger fraction and hence rate in the local Universe with a
high degree of accuracy.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, accepted by MNRAS, appendix not
include
Nonfactorization in Hadronic Two-body Cabibbo-favored decays of D^0 and D^+
With the inclusion of nonfactorized amplitudes in a scheme with , we
have studied Cabibbo-favored decays of and into two-body hadronic
states involving two isospins in the final state. We have shown that it is
possible to understand the measured branching ratios and determined the sizes
and signs of nonfactorized amplitudes required.Comment: 15 pages, Late
On the behaviour of single scale hard small processes in QCD near the black disc limit
We argue that at sufficiently small Bjorken where pQCD amplitude rapidly
increases with energy and violates probability conservation the shadowing
effects in the single-scale small hard QCD processes can be described by an
effective quantum field theory of interacting quasiparticles. The
quasiparticles are the perturbative QCD ladders. We find, within the WKB
approximation, that the smallness of the QCD coupling constant ensures the
hierarchy among many-quasiparticle interactions evaluated within physical
vacuum and in particular, the dominance in the Lagrangian of the triple
quasiparticle interaction. It is explained that the effective field theory
considered near the perturbative QCD vacuum contains a tachyon relevant for the
divergency of the perturbative QCD series at sufficiently small . We solve
the equations of motion of the effective field theory within the WKB
approximation and find the physical vacuum and the transitions between the
false (perturbative) and physical vacua. Classical solutions which dominate
transitions between the false and physical vacua are kinks that cannot be
decomposed into perturbative series over the powers of . These kinks
lead to color inflation and the Bose-Einstein condensation of quasiparticles.
The account of the quantum fluctuations around the WKB solution reveals the
appearance of the "massless" particles-- "phonons". It is explained that
"phonons" are relevant for the black disc behaviour of small processes,
leading to a Froissart rise of the cross-section. The condensation of the
ladders produces a color network occupying a "macroscopic" longitudinal volume.
We discuss briefly the possible detection of new QCD effects.Comment: 24 pages, 1 Figure. References added, and several misprints
eliminate
An Exploration of the Tully-Fisher Relation for Extreme Late-Type Spiral Galaxies
This paper explores the adherence of 47 extreme late-type galaxies to the B-
and V-band Tully-Fisher relations defined by a sample of local calibrators. In
both bands we find the mean luminosity at a given line width for extreme
late-type spirals to lie below that predicted by standard Tully-Fisher
relations. While many of the extreme late-type spirals do follow the
Tully-Fisher relation to within our observational uncertainties, most of these
galaxies lie below the normal, linear Tully-Fisher relation, and some are
underluminous by more than 2 sigma (i.e. >1.16 magnitudes in V). This suggests
a possible downward curvature of the Tully-Fisher relation for some of the
smallest and faintest rotationally supported disk galaxies. This may be a
consequence of the increasing prevalence of dark matter in these systems. We
find the deviation from the Tully-Fisher relation to increase with decreasing
luminosity and decreasing optical linear size in our sample, implying that the
physically smallest and faintest spirals may be a structurally and
kinematically distinct class of objects.Comment: 32 pages, 13 figures; to appear in the November A
Model Independent Extraction of Without Heavy Quark Symmetry
A new method to extract is proposed based on a sum--rule for
semileptonic decays of the meson. The method relies on much weaker
assumptions than previous approaches which are based on heavy--quark symmetry.
This sum--rule only relies on the assumption that the virtual
pair content of the meson can be neglected. The extraction of the CKM
matrix element also requires that the sum--rule saturates in the kinematically
accessible region.Comment: 10 pages revtex3 manuscript. No figures, U. of MD PP #94--086. With
our apologies, some innocuous errors corrected and some references added that
had been brought to our attentio
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