322 research outputs found
Equation of state of strongly coupled Hamiltonian lattice QCD at finite density
We calculate the equation of state of strongly coupled Hamiltonian lattice
QCD at finite density by constructing a solution to the equation of motion
corresponding to an effective Hamiltonian using Wilson fermions. We find that
up to and beyond the chiral symmetry restoration density the pressure of the
quark Fermi sea can be negative indicating its mechanical instability. This
result is in qualitative agreement with continuum models and should be
verifiable by future numerical simulations.Comment: 14 pages, 2 EPS figures. Revised version - added discussion on the
equation of stat
Hamiltonian lattice QCD at finite density: equation of state in the strong coupling limit
The equation of state of Hamiltonian lattice QCD at finite density is
examined in the strong coupling limit by constructing a solution to the
equation of motion corresponding to an effective Hamiltonian describing the
ground state of the many body system. This solution exactly diagonalizes the
Hamiltonian to second order in field operators for all densities and is used to
evaluate the vacuum energy density from which we obtain the equation of state.
We find that up to and beyond the chiral symmetry restoration density the
pressure of the quark Fermi sea can be negative indicating its mechanical
instability. Our result is in qualitative agreement with continuum models and
should be verifiable by future lattice simulations of strongly coupled QCD at
finite density.Comment: 27 pages, 6 figures. Uses ReVTeX4 and BiBTeX. Revised versio
Monitoring mouse retinal degeneration with high-resolution spectral-domain optical coherence tomography
Progression of retinal degeneration in a mouse model was studied in vivo with high-resolution spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). Imaging in 3D with high depth resolution (<3 mu m), SD-OCT resolved all the major layers of the retina of control C57BL/6J mice. Images of transgenic mice having a null mutation of the rhodopsin gene revealed the anatomical consequences of retinal degeneration: thinning of the outer retina, including the outer plexiform layer (OPL), outer nuclear layer (ONL), and inner and outer segments (IS/OS). We monitored the progression of retinal degeneration in rd1 mice (C3H/HeJ) by periodically imaging the same mice from the time the pups opened their eyes on P13 to P34. SD-OCT images showed that the outer retina (OPL, ONL, IS/OS) had already thinned by 73% (100 to 27 mu m) at eye opening. The retina continued to degenerate, and by P20 the outer retina was not resolvable. The thickness of entire retina decreased from 228 mu m (control) to 152 mu m on P13 and to 98 mu m by P34, a 57% reduction with the complete loss in the outer retina. In summary, we show that SD-OCT can monitor the progression of retinal degeneration in transgenic mice.X114367sciescopu
Signals for strange quark contributions to the neutrino (antineutrino) scattering in quasi-elastic region
Strange quark contributions to the neutrino (antineutrino) scattering are
investigated on the elastic neutrino-nucleon scattering and the
neutrino-nucleus scattering for 12C target in the quasi-elastic region on the
incident energy of 500 MeV, within the framework of a relativistic single
particle model. For the neutrino-nucleus scattering, the effects of final state
interaction for the knocked-out nucleon are included by a relativistic optical
potential. In the cross sections we found some cancellations of the strange
quark contributions between the knocked-out protons and neutrons. Consequently,
the asymmetries between the incident neutrino and antineutrino which is the
ratio of neutral current to charged current, and the difference between the
asymmetries are shown to be able to yield more feasible quantities for the
strangeness effects. In order to explicitly display importance of the
cancellations, results of the exclusive reaction 16O(\nu, \nu' p) are
additionally presented for detecting the strangeness effects.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Phys. Lett.
Exchange Current Corrections to Neutrino--Nucleus Scattering
Relativistic exchange current corrections to neutrino--nucleus cross sections
are presented assuming non--vanishing strange quark form factors for the
constituent nucleons. For charged current processes the exchange current
corrections can lower the impulse approximation results by 10\% while these
corrections are found to be sensitive to both the nuclear density and the
strange quark axial form factor of the nucleon for neutral current processes.
Implications on the LSND experiment to determine this form factor are
discussed.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, revtex 3.0, full postscript version of the file
and figures available at
http://www.nikhefk.nikhef.nl/projects/Theory/preprints/preprints.html To
appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
The Decuplet Revisited in PT
The paper deals with two issues. First, we explore the quantitiative
importance of higher multiplets for properties of the decuplet in
chiral perturbation theory. In particular, it is found that the lowest order
one--loop contributions from the Roper octet to the decuplet masses and
magnetic moments are substantial. The relevance of these results to the chiral
expansion in general is discussed. The exact values of the magnetic moments
depend upon delicate cancellations involving ill--determined coupling
constants. Second, we present new relations between the magnetic moments of the
decuplet that are independent of all couplings. They are exact at the
order of the chiral expansion used in this paper.Comment: 7 pages of double column revtex, no figure
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