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SU(2) Glueballs, diquarks and mesons in dense matter
We present preliminary results from a high statistics study of 2-color QCD at
low temperature and non-zero baryon density. The simulations are carried out on
a 6^3*12 lattice and use a standard hybrid molecular dynamics algorithm for
staggered fermions for two values of quark mass. Observables include glueball
correlators evaluated via a multi-step smearing procedure as well as scalar and
vector mesons and diquarks.Comment: Poster presented at Lattice 2003 (Non zero temperature and density),
3 pages, 4 figure
Glueballs and mesons in the superfluid phase of two-color QCD
QCD with two colors undergoes a transition to a superfluid phase with diquark
condensate when the quark chemical potential equals half the pion mass. We
investigate the gluonic aspects of the transition by inspecting the behavior of
the glueball correlators evaluated via a multi-step smearing procedure for
several values of chemical potential ranging between zero and the saturation
threshold. The results are based on an analysis of 0++ glueball correlators, on
a sample of 40000 independent configurations on each parameter set. The
amplitudes of the correlators peak for \mu = m_\pi/2,indicating that the
superfluid phase transition affects the gluonic sector as well. The mass of the
fundamental state decreases in the superfluid phase, and the amplitude of the
propagators drops, suggesting a reduction of the gluon condensate, in agreement
with model calculations. The analysis of the smearing dependence of the results
helps disentangling the role of long and short distance phenomena at the
superfluid transition.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, talk presented at the XXV International Symposium
on Lattice Field Theory, July 30 - August 4, 2007, Regensburg,German
-potential: a numerical study
We report the results of recent lattice simulations aimed at computing the
and potential energies in the singlet and the octet (adjoint)
representation.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, poster presented at the 31st International
Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2013), 29 July - 3 August 2013,
Mainz, German
The Prevention of Victory: How the U.S. Government Crippled Support for the Iraq War
A history of how the beginning stages of the War in Iraq were handled so poorly, from its misleading onset to the ill-fated concept of De-Ba\u27athification and the horrors at Abu-Ghraib and how the subsequent public out lash led to the impossibility for a positive outcome
Resonant plasma excitation by single-cycle THz pulses
In this paper, an alternative perspective for the generation of millimetric high-gradient resonant plasma waves is discussed. This method is based on the plasma-wave excitation by energetic single-cycle
THz pulses whose temporal length is comparable to the plasma wavelength. The excitation regime discussed in this paper is the quasi-nonlinear regime that can be achieved when the normalized vector potential of the driving THz pulse is on the order of unity. To investigate this regime and determine the strength of the excited electric elds, a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code has been used. It has been found that by exploiting THz pulses with characteristics currently available in laboratory, longitudinal electron plasma waves with electric gradients up to hundreds MV/m can be obtained. The mm-size nature of
the resonant plasma wave can be of great utility for an acceleration scheme in which high-brightness electron bunches are injected into the wave to undergo a strong acceleration. The long-size nature of the acceleration bucket with respect to the short length of the electron bunches can be handled in a more robust manner in comparison with the case when micrometric waves are employed
On the color structure of Yang-Mills theory with static sources in a periodic box
We present an exploratory numerical study on the lattice of the color
structure of the wave functionals of the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory in the
presence of a static pair. In a spatial box with periodic boundary
conditions we discuss the fact that all states contributing to the Feynman
propagation kernel are global color singlets. We confirm this numerically by
computing the correlations of gauge-fixed Polyakov lines with color-twisted
boundary conditions in the time direction. The values of the lowest energies in
the color singlet and octet external source sectors agree within statistical
errors, confirming that both channels contribute to the lowest (global singlet)
state of the Feynman kernel. We then study the case of homogeneous boundary
conditions in the time direction for which the gauge-fixing is not needed. In
this case the lowest energies extracted in the singlet external source sector
agree with those determined with periodic boundary conditions, while in the
octet sector the correlator is compatible with being null within our
statistical errors. Therefore consistently only the singlet external source
contribution has a non-vanishing overlap with the null-field wave functional.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
Reduction of computer usage costs in predicting unsteady aerodynamic loadings caused by control surface motions: Computer program description
A digital computer program was developed to calculate unsteady loadings caused by motions of lifting surfaces with leading edge and trailing edge controls based on the subsonic kernel function approach. The pressure singularities at hinge line and side edges were extracted analytically as a preliminary step to solving the integral equation of collocation. The program calculates generalized aerodynamic forces for user supplied deflection modes. Optional intermediate output includes pressure at an array of points, and sectional generalized forces. From one to six controls on the half span can be accomodated
Molecular evidence of incipient speciation within Anopheles gambiae s.s. in West Africa
We karyotyped and identified by polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) analysis Anopheles gambiae s.s. samples collected in several African countries. The data show the existence of two non-panmictic molecular forms, named S and M, whose distribution extended from forest to savannahs, Mosquitoes of the S and M forms are homosequential standard for chromosome-2 inversions in forest areas. In dry savannahs, S is characterized mainly by inversion polymorphisms typical of Savanna and Bamako chromosomal forms, while M shows chromosome-2 arrangements typical of Mopti and/or Savanna and/or Bissau, depending on its geographical origin. Chromosome-2 inversions therefore seem to be involved in ecotypic adaptation rather than in mate-recognition systems. Strong support for the reproductive isolation of S and M in Ivory Coast comes from the observation that the kdr allele is found at high frequencies in S specimens and not at all in chromosomal identical M specimens. However, the kdr allele does not segregate with molecular forms in Benin
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