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Production of Jet Pairs at Large Relative Rapidity in Hadron-Hadron Collisions as a Probe of the Perturbative Pomeron
The production of jet pairs with small transverse momentum and large relative
rapidity in high energy hadron-hadron collisions is studied. The rise of the
parton-level cross section with increasing rapidity gap is a fundamental
prediction of the BFKL `perturbative pomeron' equation of Quantum
Chromodynamics. However, at fixed collider energy it is difficult to
disentangle this effect from variations in the cross section due to the parton
distributions. It is proposed to study instead the distribution in the
azimuthal angle difference of the jets as a function of the rapidity gap. The
flattening of this distribution with increasing dijet rapidity gap is shown to
be a characteristic feature of the BFKL behaviour. Predictions for the Fermilab
proton-antiproton collider are presented.Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures, preprint DTP/94/0
BFKL Physics in Dijet Production at the LHC
The production in hadron-hadron collisions of jet pairs with large rapidity
separation and comparable modest transverse momentum is, in principle,
described by the perturbative QCD BFKL equation. The measurement of such jet
pairs appears well suited to the LHC detectors, with their ability to detect
forward jets. We present predictions for dijet cross sections and correlations
obtained using a BFKL Monte Carlo which allows kinematic and other subleading
effects to be incorporated. The enhanced phase space for gluon emission at the
LHC makes the BFKL behavior somewhat easier to observe than at the Tevatron,
although kinematic effects are still important. The production of forward jets
in association with heavy Higgs bosons via the gauge boson fusion mechanism is
also studied and compared with QCD dijet production.Comment: 13 pages including 5 figures, LaTeX, uses eps
Chromatographic identification and determination of organic acids in water
Reprinted from Analytical Chemistry, v.30, January, 1958.Bibliography: p. [44]
Localization of the relative phase via measurements
When two independently-prepared Bose-Einstein condensates are released from
their corresponding traps, the absorbtion image of the overlapping clouds
presents an interference pattern. Here we analyze a model introduced by
Javanainen and Yoo (J. Javanainen and S. M. Yoo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 161
(1996)), who considered two atomic condensates described by plane waves
propagating in opposite directions. We present an analytical argument for the
measurement-induced breaking of the relative phase symmetry in this system,
demonstrating how the phase gets localized after a large enough number of
detection events.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur
Role of carbon dioxide and ion transport in the formation of sub-embryonic fluid by the blastoderm of the Japanese quail
1. The explanted blastoderm of the Japanese quail was used to explore the role of ions and carbon dioxide in determining the rate of sub-embryonic fluid (SEF) production between 54 and 72 h of incubation.
2. Amiloride, an inhibitor of Na+/H+ exchange, at concentrations of 10-3 to 10-6 M substantially decreased the rate of SEF production when added to the albumen culture medium. N-ethylmaleimide, an inhibitor of V type H+ ATPase, also decreased this rate but only to a small extent at the highest dose applied, 10-3 M. Both inhibitors had no effect on SEF production when added to the SEF. 3. The inhibitors of cellular bicarbonate and chloride exchange, 4-acetamido-4-'isothiocyano-2, 2-'disulphonic acid (SITS) and 4,4'diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2-'disulphonic acid (DIDS), had no effect upon SEF production.
4. Ouabain, an inhibitor of Na+/K+ ATPase, decreased SEF production substantially at all concentrations added to the SEF (10-3 to 10-6 M). Three sulphonamide inhibitors of carbonic anhydrase, acetazolamide, ethoxzolamide and benzolamide, decreased SEF production when added to the SEF at concentrations of 10-3 to 10-6 M. Benzolamide was by far the most potent. Neither ouabain nor the sulphonamides altered SEF production when added to the albumen culture medium.
5. Using a cobalt precipitation method, carbonic anhydrase activity was localised to the endodermal cells of the area vasculosa. The carbonic anhydrase activity was primarily associated with the lateral plasma membranes, which together with the potent inhibitory effect of benzolamide, suggests the carbonic anhydrase of these cells is the membrane-associated form, CA IV.
6. The changes in SEF composition produced by inhibitors were consistent with the production of SEF by local osmotic gradients.
7. It is concluded that a Na+/K+ ATPase is located on the basolateral membranes of the endodermal cells of the area vasculosa , and that a sodium ion/hydrogen ion exchanger is located on their apical surfaces. Protons for this exchanger would be provided by the hydration of CO2 catalysed by the membrane-associated carbonic anhydrase. Furthermore, it is proposed that the prime function of the endodermal cells of the area vasculosa is the production of SEF
Parity Violating Measurements of Neutron Densities
Parity violating electron nucleus scattering is a clean and powerful tool for
measuring the spatial distributions of neutrons in nuclei with unprecedented
accuracy. Parity violation arises from the interference of electromagnetic and
weak neutral amplitudes, and the of the Standard Model couples primarily
to neutrons at low . The data can be interpreted with as much confidence
as electromagnetic scattering. After briefly reviewing the present theoretical
and experimental knowledge of neutron densities, we discuss possible parity
violation measurements, their theoretical interpretation, and applications. The
experiments are feasible at existing facilities. We show that theoretical
corrections are either small or well understood, which makes the interpretation
clean. The quantitative relationship to atomic parity nonconservation
observables is examined, and we show that the electron scattering asymmetries
can be directly applied to atomic PNC because the observables have
approximately the same dependence on nuclear shape.Comment: 38 pages, 7 ps figures, very minor changes, submitted to Phys. Rev.
New Effective Feynman-like Rules for the Multi-Regge QCD Asymptotics of Inclusive Multijet Production
New effective Feynman-like rules are defined for inclusive multijet cross
sections in the multi-Regge regime. The solution of the BFKL equation is used
as a starting point. The resulting rules involve conformal weight and rapidity
as a momentum and a coordinate respectively and are translation invariant in
the coordinates. We use the effective rules to calculate ultra high energy
asymptotics of inclusive multijet production. The dependence on the parton
densities occurs only in the overall normalization of the asymptotic cross
sections.Comment: 12 pages in Latex, 3 figs by epsfig, refs update
A New Unconventional Antiferromagnet, YbPt
We report the synthesis and basic properties of single crystals of a new
binary compound, YbPt. The Yb ions in this compound are fully
trivalent, and heat capacity measurements show that the crystal field scheme
involves a doublet ground state, well separated from the excited states, which
are fully occupied above 150 K. The heat capacity displays a large,
weakly first order anomaly at 2.4 K, where a cusp is observed in the magnetic
susceptibility signalling the onset of antiferromagnetic order. The entropy
associated with this order is the full Rln2 of the doublet ground state,
however the magnetic susceptibility in the ordered phase is dominated by a
large and temperature independent component below the Neel temperature. The
heat capacity in the ordered state originates with ferromagnetic spin waves,
giving evidence for the inherently local moment character of the ordered state.
The electrical resistivity is unusually large, and becomes quadratic in
temperature exactly at the Neel temperature. The absence of analogous Fermi
liquid behavior in the heat capacity and the magnetic susceptibility implies
that YbPt is a low electron density system, where the Fermi surface
is further gapped by the onset of magnetic order.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figure
Resummation of the hadronic tau decay width with the modified Borel transform method
A modified Borel transform of the Adler function is used to resum the
hadronic tau decay width ratio. In contrast to the ordinary Borel transform,
the integrand of the Borel integral is renormalization--scale invariant. We use
an ansatz which explicitly accounts for the structure of the leading infrared
renormalon. Further, we use judiciously chosen conformal transformations for
the Borel variable, in order to map sufficiently away from the origin the other
ultraviolet and infrared renormalon singularities. In addition, we apply Pade
approximants for the corresponding truncated perturbation series of the
modified Borel transform, in order to further accelerate the convergence.
Comparing the results with the presently available experimental data on the tau
hadronic decay width ratio, we obtain . These predictions
virtually agree with those of our previous resummations where we used ordinary
Borel transforms instead.Comment: 32 pages, 2 eps-figures, revtex; minor changes in the formulations; a
typo in Eq.(47) corrected; version as appearing in Phys. Rev.
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