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Is charm the key to understanding diffraction in DIS ?
This talk concerns the production of open charm in diffractive deep inelastic
scattering. This has been calculated recently in the context of the
semi-classical approach to diffraction. A comparison is made to approaches in
which the diffractive exchange is modelled by the exchange of two gluons in the
-channel. Two phenomenological test of the underlying partonic process are
discussed.Comment: 6 pages, latex, 5 figures. Talk given at the diffractive working
group of DIS '97, Chicago Il. The required AIP style files are provide
Psychological Predictors of Mortality Awareness: Time Perspective, Contentment With Age and Paternal Antipathy and Neglect
Much research has focused upon the association between mortality awareness and mental ill-health. In this study we attempt to explore positive as well as negative psychological concomitants of mortality awareness. 170 participants were recruited in an online questionnaire study, measuring seven independent variables - marginalisation, childhood adversity, rebelliousness, time perspective, attitudes toward age and stage of life, health attitudes and demographics - and five dependent variables, specifically mortality legacy, mortality fearfulness, mortality acceptance, mortality disempowerment and mortality disengagement. Several significant bivariate associations were found. Follow-up regression analysis observed combined effects of variables accounting for 28% of variance in mortality legacy, 27% for mortality fearfulness, 13% for mortality acceptance, 42% for mortality disempowerment and 25% for mortality disengagement. Time perspective, contentment with age, and paternal antipathy and neglect were the most notable independent predictors. It was concluded that attitudes towards health, stage of life and childhood experiences significantly predict mortality awareness
Next-to-leading order evolution of generalized parton distributions for HERA and HERMES
The QCD evolution of both unpolarized and polarized generalized parton
distributions (GPDs) to next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy is presented, in
both the DGLAP and ERBL regions, for two appropriately symmetrized input
distributions based on conventional parton density functions. To illustrate the
relative size of the NLO corrections a comparison is made with leading order
evolution of the same distributions. For the first time, NLO results are given
for both small and large values of the skewedness parameter, ,
i.e. for all of the kinematic range relevant to HERA and HERMES.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, latex, uses revtex style files, published
version + corrections of erratum edited in. references update
Further analysis of the BFKL equation with momentum cutoffs
In this paper we investigate the effect of introducing transverse momentum
cutoffs on the BFKL equation. We present solutions in moment space for various
models of the BFKL kernel for different combinations of these cutoffs. We
improve on previous calculations by using the full BFKL kernel (rather than
simplified analytic approximations). The significance of the next-to-leading or
``higher twist'' terms in the kernel are assessed. We find that, while these
terms are negligible in the absence of cutoffs, introducing an infra-red cutoff
markedly enhances their significance.Comment: 27 pages, latex, 6 figure
Diffractive Photoproduction of at HERA
Predictions for the diffractive photoproduction of the -family at
HERA energies, within the framework of the analysis by Frankfurt, Koepf and
Strikman, are presented. Two novel effects lead to a significant enhancement of
the original calculation: the non-diagonal (or skewed) kinematics, calculated
to leading-log() accuracy, and the large magnitude of the real part of the
amplitude. The resultant cross sections are found to agree fairly well with
recent preliminary data from ZEUS and H1. A strong correlation between the mass
of the diffractively produced state and the energy dependence of the cross
section is found. In particular, a considerably stronger rise in energy is
predicted than that found in -production.Comment: 13 pages, latex2e, 5 figures, 5 tables. Revised version corrects a
bug in the original code, the effect is to reduce the normalization by about
40%. Figures 3-5 updated. Minor modifications and clarifications included in
the text in response to referees report. Qualitative conclusions remain
unchange
Learning physics in context: a study of student learning about electricity and magnetism
This paper re-centres the discussion of student learning in physics to focus
on context. In order to do so, a theoretically-motivated understanding of
context is developed. Given a well-defined notion of context, data from a novel
university class in electricity and magnetism are analyzed to demonstrate the
central and inextricable role of context in student learning. This work sits
within a broader effort to create and analyze environments which support
student learning in the sciencesComment: 36 pages, 4 Figure
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