2,002 research outputs found
Motion and gravitational radiation of a binary system consisting of an oscillating and rotating coplanar dusty disk and a point-like object
A binary system composed of an oscillating and rotating coplanar dusty disk
and a point mass is considered. The conservative dynamics is treated on the
Newtonian level. The effects of gravitational radiation reaction and wave
emission are studied to leading quadrupole order. The related waveforms are
given. The dynamical evolution of the system is determined semi-analytically
exploiting the Hamiltonian equations of motion which comprise the effects both
of the Newtonian tidal interaction and the radiation reaction on the motion of
the binary system in elliptic orbits. Tidal resonance effects between orbital
and oscillatory motions are considered in the presence of radiation damping.Comment: 26 pages, 8 figure
Scalar Dark Matter From Theory Space
The scalar dark matter candidate in a prototypical theory space little Higgs
model is investigated. We review all details of the model pertinent to dark
matter. We perform a thermal relic density calculation including couplings to
the gauge and Higgs sectors of the model. We find two regions of parameter
space that give acceptable dark matter abundances. The first region has a dark
matter candidate with a mass of order 100 GeV, the second region has a heavy
candidate with a mass greater than about 500 GeV$. The dark matter candidate in
either region is an admixture of an SU(2) triplet and an SU(2) singlet, thereby
constituting a WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle).Comment: 18 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in PR
Arachidonic acid, arachidonic/eicosapentaenoic acid ratio, stearidonic acid and eicosanoids are involved in dietary-induced albinism in Senegal sole (Solea senegalensis)
Senegal sole larvae were fed live prey enriched with different amounts of arachidonic acid (ARA, 20:4n-6) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5n-3) to re-evaluate the effect of these two fatty acids on flatfish pigmentation. Echium oil, a plant derived oil rich in gamma-linolenic acid (GLA, 18:3n-6) and stearidonic acid (SDA, 18:4n-3) was also used as a component of one of the enrichment emulsions. Although ARA content did not have any effect on growth there was a clear influence on pigmentation that correlated clearly with prostaglandin production. Inclusion of Echium oil, on the contrary, exerted a positive effect on pigmentation rate even though dietary ARA levels were as high as in the other emulsions. The relationships between dietary ARA levels and dietary ARA/EPA ratio, prostaglandin production and pigmentation are discussed
Effect of intersubband scattering on weak localization in 2D systems
The theory of weak localization is generalized for multilevel 2D systems
taking into account intersubband scattering. It is shown that weak intersubband
scattering which is negligible in a classical transport, affects strongly the
weak-localization correction to conductivity. The anomalous magnetoresistance
is calculated in the whole range of classically low magnetic fields. This
correction to conductivity is shown to depend strongly on the ratios of
occupied level concentrations. It is demonstrated that at relatively low
population of the excited subband, it is necessary to use the present theory
because the high-field limit asimptotics is shown to be achieved only in
classical magnetic fields.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures. Accepted to Phys. Rev. B 6
Dirac Equation Studies in the Tunnelling Energy Zone
We investigate the tunnelling zone V0 < E < V0+m for a one-dimensional
potential within the Dirac equation. We find the appearance of superluminal
transit times akin to the Hartman effect.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Application of time-dependent density functional theory to optical activity
As part of a general study of the time-dependent local density approximation
(TDLDA), we here report calculations of optical activity of chiral molecules.
The theory automatically satisfies sum rules and the Kramers-Kronig relation
between circular dichroism and optical rotatory power. We find that the theory
describes the measured circular dichroism of the lowest states in methyloxirane
with an accuracy of about a factor of two. In the chiral fullerene C_76 the
TDLDA provides a consistent description of the optical absorption spectrum, the
circular dichroism spectrum, and the optical rotatory power, except for an
overall shift of the theoretical spectrum.Comment: 17 pages and 13 PostScript figure
Neutralino-Nucleon Cross Section and Charge and Colour Breaking Constraints
We compute the neutralino-nucleon cross section in several supersymmetric
scenarios, taking into account all kind of constraints. In particular, the
constraints that the absence of dangerous charge and colour breaking minima
imposes on the parameter space are studied in detail. In addition, the most
recent experimental constraints, such as the lower bound on the Higgs mass, the
branching ratio, and the muon are considered. The
astrophysical bounds on the dark matter density are also imposed on the
theoretical computation of the relic neutralino density, assuming thermal
production. This computation is relevant for the theoretical analysis of the
direct detection of dark matter in current experiments. We consider first the
supergravity scenario with universal soft terms and GUT scale. In this scenario
the charge and colour breaking constraints turn out to be quite important, and
\tan\beta\lsim 20 is forbidden. Larger values of can also be
forbidden, depending on the value of the trilinear parameter . Finally, we
study supergravity scenarios with an intermediate scale, and also with
non-universal scalar and gaugino masses where the cross section can be very
large.Comment: Final version to appear in JHE
Potential Scattering in Dirac Field Theory
We develop the potential scattering of a spinor within the context of
perturbation field theory. As an application, we reproduce, up to second order
in the potential, the diffusion results for a potential barrier of quantum
mechanics. An immediate consequence is a simple generalization to arbitrary
potential forms, a feature not possible in quantum mechanics.Comment: 7 page
- …