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A probabilistic approach to model-based adaptive control for damping of interarea oscillations
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Deciphering Deconfinement in Correlations of Conserved Charges
Diagonal and off-diagonal flavor and conserved charge susceptibilities reveal
the prevalent degrees of freedom of heated strongly interacting matter. Results
obtained from lattice simulations are compared with various model estimates in
an effort to weed down various possible pictures of a quark gluon plasma. We
argue that the vanishing of the off-diagonal quark flavor susceptibilities and
its derivatives with respect to chemical potential, at temperatures above
1.5Tc, can only be understood in a picture of a gas or liquid composed of
quasi-particles which carry the same quantum numbers as quarks and antiquarks.
A potential new observable, blind to neutral and non-strange particles, is
introduced and related via isospin symmetry to the ratio of susceptibilities of
baryonic strangeness to strangeness generated in the excited matter created at
RHIC.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, LATEX, To appear in the proceedings of the
International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Los Angeles, CA, Mar
26-31, 200
A unified smith predictor approach for power system damping control design using remote signals
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New Materials of Construction for Heat Engines in High Temperature Service
The demand for materials that will withstand the high stresses in rapidly rotating parts of the gas turbines and jet propulsion engines for their efficient operation at a high gas temperature has resulted in the development of several ceramic materials for such applications.The study of their properties at elevated temperatures has provided encouraging data for the design of gas turbine blades. The ceramic materials retain their strength at elevated temp- eratures and many of them resist oxidation; they are, however, more susceptible to failure from thermal shock than the metallic alloys. Various compositions have recen-tly been studied to improve their resistance to thermal shoc
Elastic energy loss and longitudinal straggling of a hard jet
The elastic energy loss encountered by jets produced in deep-inelastic
scattering (DIS) off a large nucleus is studied in the collinear limit. In
close analogy to the case of (non-radiative) transverse momentum broadening,
which is dependent on the medium transport coefficient , a class of
medium enhanced higher twist operators which contribute to the non-radiative
loss of the forward light-cone momentum of the jet () are identified and
the leading correction in the limit of asymptotically high is isolated.
Based on these operator products, a new transport coefficient is
motivated which quantifies the energy loss per unit length encountered by the
hard jet. These operator products are then computed, explicitly, in the case of
a similar hard jet traversing a deconfined quark-gluon-plasma (QGP) in the
hard-thermal-loop (HTL) approximation. This is followed by an evaluation of
sub-leading contributions which are suppressed by the light-cone momentum
, which yields the longitudinal "straggling" i.e., a slight change in
light cone momentum due to the Brownian propagation through a medium with a
fluctuating color field.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, Revtex
Theoretical spectroscopic studies of the atomic transitions and lifetimes of low-lying states in Ti IV
The astrophysically important electric quadrupole (E2) and magnetic dipole
(M1) transitions for the low-lying states of triply ionized titanium (Ti IV)
are calculated very accurately using a state-of-art all-order many-body theory
called Coupled Cluster (CC) theory in the relativistic frame-work. Different
many-body correlations of the CC theory has been estimated by studying the core
and valence electron excitations to the unoccupied states. The calculated
excitation energies of different states are in very good agreement with the
measurements. Also we compare our calculated electric dipole (E1) transition
amplitudes of few transitions with recent many-body calculations by different
groups. We have also carried out the calculations for the lifetimes of the
low-lying states of Ti IV. A long lifetime is found for the first excited
3d state, which suggested that Ti IV may be one of the useful
candidates for many important studies. Most of the results reported here are
not available in the literature, to the best of our knowledge.Comment: 15 pages submitted to J. Phys.
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