Pulsar PSR B0656+14, the Monogem Ring, and the Origin of the `Knee' in the Primary Cosmic Ray Spectrum

The Monogem ring is a bright, diffuse, 25-degree-diameter supernova remnant easily visible in soft X-ray images of the sky. Projected within the ring is a young radio pulsar, PSR B0656+14. An association between the remnant and pulsar has been considered, but was seemingly ruled out by the direction and magnitude of the pulsar proper motion and by a distance estimate that placed the pulsar twice as far from Earth as the remnant. Here we show that in fact the pulsar was born very close to the center of the expanding remnant, both in distance and projection. The inferred pulsar and remnant ages are in good agreement. The conclusion that the pulsar and remnant were born in the same supernova explosion is nearly inescapable. The remnant distance and age are in remarkable concordance with the predictions of a model for the primary cosmic ray energy spectrum in which the `knee' feature is produced by a single dominant source.Comment: 4 pages, to appear in the Astrophys. J. Lett. Full size color figure can be found at http://www.thorsett.org/researc

QCD corrections to the production of ttˉγt\bar{t}\gamma at the ILC

A precise calculation of the top quark pair production associated with a hard photon is essential for testing the electroweak property of the top quark in the Standard Model (SM). We investigate the one-loop QCD corrections to the process $e^{+}e^{-} \to t\bar{t}\gamma$ at the International Linear Collider (ILC), and find that the $K$-factor can be as large as 1.238 (1.105, 1.060) for a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=500 (800, 1500)$ GeV. The transverse momentum distributions of the top quark and photon are respectively shown at leading order (LO) and next-to-leading order(NLO). Due to the asymmetric rapidity distribution of the top (anti-top) quark, we also study the top quark forward-backward asymmetry ($A^{t}_{FB}$) in $t\bar{t}\gamma$ production at NLO, which is found to be 45.82 (55.25, 55.89)% for $\sqrt{s}=500 (800, 1500)$ GeV.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, version acceptd by Phys. Lett.

Measurement of air shower cores to study the cosmic ray composition in the knee energy region

Since 1996, a hybrid experiment consisting of an emulsion chamber and a burst detector array and the Tibet-II air shower array has been operated at Yangbajing (4300 m above sea level) in Tibet. This experiment can detect air-shower cores, called burst events, accompanied by air showers in excess of about 100 TeV. Using the burst event data observed by this experiment, we discuss the primary cosmic ray composition around the knee in comparison with the Monte Carlo simulations. In this paper, we show that all the features of burst events are wholly compatible with the heavy enriched composition in the knee energy region.Comment: 20 pages, 21 figures, to appear in Physical Review

Alien Registration- Legage, Newton (Rockland, Knox County)

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Alien Registration- Legage, Newton (Rockland, Knox County)

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