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Collapse of Primordial Clouds
We present here studies of collapse of purely baryonic Population III objects
with masses ranging from to . A spherical Lagrangian
hydrodynamic code has been written to study the formation and evolution of the
primordial clouds, from the beginning of the recombination era () until the redshift when the collapse occurs. All the relevant processes
are included in the calculations, as well as, the expansion of the Universe. As
initial condition we take different values for the Hubble constant and for the
baryonic density parameter (considering however a purely baryonic Universe), as
well as different density perturbation spectra, in order to see their influence
on the behavior of the Population III objects evolution. We find, for example,
that the first mass that collapses is for ,
and with the mass scale . For
we obtain for the first
mass that collapses. The cooling-heating and photon drag processes have a key
role in the collapse of the clouds and in their thermal history. Our results
show, for example, that when we disregard the Compton cooling-heating, the
collapse of the objects with masses occurs earlier. On
the other hand, disregarding the photon drag process, the collapse occurs at a
higher redshift.Comment: 10 pages, MN plain TeX macros v1.6 file, 9 PS figures. Also available
at http://www.iagusp.usp.br/~oswaldo (click "OPTIONS" and then "ARTICLES").
MNRAS in pres
Collapse of Primordial Clouds II. The Role of Dark Matter
In this article we extend the study performed in our previous article on the
collapse of primordial objects. We here analyze the behavior of the physical
parameters for clouds ranging from to . We
studied the dynamical evolution of these clouds in two ways: purely baryonic
clouds and clouds with non-baryonic dark matter included. We start the
calculations at the beginning of the recombination era, following the evolution
of the structure until the collapse (that we defined as the time when the
density contrast of the baryonic matter is greater than ). We analyze the
behavior of the several physical parameters of the clouds (as, e.g., the
density contrast and the velocities of the baryonic matter and the dark matter)
as a function of time and radial position in the cloud. In this study all
physical processes that are relevant to the dynamical evolution of the
primordial clouds, as for example photon-drag (due to the cosmic background
radiation), hydrogen molecular production, besides the expansion of the
Universe, are included in the calculations. In particular we find that the
clouds, with dark matter, collapse at higher redshift when we compare the
results with the purely baryonic models. As a general result we find that the
distribution of the non-baryonic dark matter is more concentrated than the
baryonic one. It is important to stress that we do not take into account the
putative virialization of the non-baryonic dark matter, we just follow the time
and spatial evolution of the cloud solving its hydrodynamical equations. We
studied also the role of the cooling-heating processes in the purely baryonic
clouds.Comment: 8 pages, MN plain TeX macros v1.6 file, 13 PS figures. Also available
at http://www.iagusp.usp.br/~oswaldo (click "OPTIONS" and then "ARTICLES").
MNRAS in pres
A Researcher and a Practitioner's Perception of Generation 1.5 vs. International ESOL Students in College Writing Courses -Same View, Different Lens
Many might assume that English language learners who are originally from other countries, but are raised in the United States and graduate from American high schools (Generation 1.5) would fare better academically than English learners who graduate from high schools abroad and then migrate to the United States after graduation. However, as we demonstrate, this is not always the case. Through the perspectives of an ESOL teacher who interacts with students, and a quantitative researcher who measures students' performance, this paper discusses success in college-level ESOL writing courses, the influence of acculturation through living in the US, and the quality and significance of prior secondary academic preparation in the home language. The ESOL classroom teachers' years of practical experience complement and clarify the findings of researchers, and present a more accurate picture of English learners and their authentic production of written English
Generalized Totalizer Encoding for Pseudo-Boolean Constraints
Pseudo-Boolean constraints, also known as 0-1 Integer Linear Constraints, are
used to model many real-world problems. A common approach to solve these
constraints is to encode them into a SAT formula. The runtime of the SAT solver
on such formula is sensitive to the manner in which the given pseudo-Boolean
constraints are encoded. In this paper, we propose generalized Totalizer
encoding (GTE), which is an arc-consistency preserving extension of the
Totalizer encoding to pseudo-Boolean constraints. Unlike some other encodings,
the number of auxiliary variables required for GTE does not depend on the
magnitudes of the coefficients. Instead, it depends on the number of distinct
combinations of these coefficients. We show the superiority of GTE with respect
to other encodings when large pseudo-Boolean constraints have low number of
distinct coefficients. Our experimental results also show that GTE remains
competitive even when the pseudo-Boolean constraints do not have this
characteristic.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. To be published in 21st International
Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming 201
Sensitivity of low energy neutrino experiments to physics beyond the standard model
We study the sensitivity of future low energy neutrino experiments to extra
neutral gauge bosons, leptoquarks and R-parity breaking interactions. We focus
on future proposals to measure coherent neutrino-nuclei scattering and
neutrino-electron elastic scattering. We introduce a new comparative analysis
between these experiments and show that in different types of new physics it is
possible to obtain competitive bounds to those of present and future collider
experiments. For the cases of leptoquarks and R-parity breaking interactions we
found that the expected sensitivity for most of the future low energy
experimental setups is better than the current constraints.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures. A more detailed analysis of systematic errors is
done. Final version to be published in PR
Obtenção de plântulas de híbridos de dendezeiro por cultivo in vitro.
Este trabalho teve como objetivo aplicar técnicas de cultura de tecidos em diferentes híbridos de dendezeiro (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) para a conversão in vitro de embriões zigóticos em plântulas para produção de mudasviáveis para serem disponibilizadas no Estado do Pará. O experimento foi realizado na Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém-PA. A metodologia foi a aplicação de práticas assépticas de isolamento embrionário, cultura de embriões, conversão em plântulas e aclimatação destas. Dezessete híbridos foram submetidos a desinfestação e assepsia, com posterior inoculação nos meios de cultura MS, ½ MS, Y3 e ½ Y3. Os frascos inoculados foram dispostos em sala de cultivo sob fotoperíodo de 16 h luz dia-1, com intensidade luminosa de 25 μmol s-1 e temperatura de 25±3 °C. O delineamento experimental foi o inteiramente casualizado em fatorial 3 x 4. Após avaliação da germinação e crescimento dos embriões, quanto à oxidação os genótipos CN 470, nos tratamentos MS e 1/2 Y3 não apresentaram oxidação, e esta apresentou-se mais adequada para o desenvolvimento do comprimento de raiz. Quanto ao genótipo indicado para a conversão de embriões zigóticos de híbridos de dendezeiro em plântulas viáveis à aclimatização, em extrato de vermiculita e solução nutritiva, o CN 514 em meio Y3 foi o mais viável. Aos três meses foi possível a conversão de embriões de híbridos de dendezeiro até a formação de plântulas
Enhanced solar anti-neutrino flux in random magnetic fields
We discuss the impact of the recent KamLAND constraint on the solar
anti-neutrino flux on the analysis of solar neutrino data in the presence of
Majorana neutrino transition magnetic moments and solar magnetic fields. We
consider different stationary solar magnetic field models, both regular and
random, highlighting the strong enhancement in the anti-neutrino production
rates that characterize turbulent solar magnetic field models. Moreover, we
show that for such magnetic fields inside the Sun, one can constrain the
intrinsic neutrino magnetic moment down to the level of mu_nu lessthan few
times 10^-12 x mu_B irrespective of details of the underlying turbulence model.
This limit is more stringent than all current experimental sensitivities, and
similar to the most stringent bounds obtained from stellar cooling. We also
comment on the robustness of this limit and show that at most it might be
weakened by one order of magnitude, under very unlikely circumstances.Comment: 25 pages, 5 figures; final version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Persistent currents in multicomponent Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid: application to mesoscopic semiconductor ring with spin-orbit interaction
We study persistent currents in semiconductor ballistic rings with spin-orbit
Rashba interaction. We use as a working model the multicomponent
Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid which arises due to the nonparabolic dispersion
relations of electrons in the rings with rather strong spin-orbit coupling.
This approach predicts some new characteristic features of persistent currents,
which may be observed in experimental studies of semiconductor ballistic rings.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figure
Observational Constraints on Visser's Cosmological Model
Theories of gravity for which gravitons can be treated as massive particles
have presently been studied as realistic modifications of General Relativity,
and can be tested with cosmological observations. In this work, we study the
ability of a recently proposed theory with massive gravitons, the so-called
Visser theory, to explain the measurements of luminosity distance from the
Union2 compilation, the most recent Type-Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) dataset,
adopting the current ratio of the total density of non-relativistic matter to
the critical density () as a free parameter. We also combine the SNe
Ia data with constraints from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and CMB
measurements. We find that, for the allowed interval of values for ,
a model based on Visser's theory can produce an accelerated expansion period
without any dark energy component, but the combined analysis (SNe Ia + BAO +
CMB) shows that the model is disfavored when compared with CDM model.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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