112 research outputs found
Higgs inflation and suppression of axion isocurvature perturbation
We point out that cosmological constraint from the axion isocurvature
perturbation is relaxed if the Higgs field obtains a large field value during
inflation in the DFSZ axion model. This scenario is consistent with the Higgs
inflation model, in which two Higgs doublets have non-minimal couplings and
play a role of inflaton.Comment: 5 pages; added reference
Nuclear coalescence from correlation functions
We derive a simple formula relating the cross section for light cluster
production (defined via a coalescence factor) to the two-proton correlation
function measured in heavy-ion collisions. The formula generalises earlier
coalescence-correlation relations found by Scheibl & Heinz and by Mrowczynski
for Gaussian source models. It motivates joint experimental analyses of Hanbury
Brown-Twiss (HBT) and cluster yield measurements in existing and future data
sets.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures. v2: some clarifications. A missing (2\pi)^3
normalization factor, relating diff cross sec to density matrix traces, is
corrected in Secs.II.A and II.B. It does not affect any of the result
Gravitational waves from bubble dynamics: Beyond the Envelope
We study gravitational-wave production from bubble dynamics (bubble
collisions and sound waves) during a cosmic first-order phase transition with
an analytic approach. We first propose modeling the system with the thin-wall
approximation but without the envelope approximation often adopted in the
literature, in order to take bubble propagation after collisions into account.
The bubble walls in our setup are considered as modeling the scalar field
configuration and/or the bulk motion of the fluid. We next write down analytic
expressions for the gravitational-wave spectrum, and evaluate them with
numerical methods. It is found that, in the long-lasting limit of the collided
bubble walls, the spectrum grows from to in low
frequencies, showing a significant enhancement compared to the one with the
envelope approximation. It is also found that the spectrum saturates in the
same limit, indicating a decrease in the correlation of the energy-momentum
tensor at late times. We also discuss the implications of our results to
gravitational-wave production both from bubble collisions (scalar dynamics) and
sound waves (fluid dynamics).Comment: 94 pages, 39 figures, JCAP published versio
and production in collisions and the cosmic-ray flux ratio
Secondary astrophysical production of and cosmic rays is
considered. Inclusive , , and production cross sections in
collisions at large are parametrised using recent experimental
data at LHC energies. The astrophysical production rate ratio
is calculated for an input cosmic ray proton flux
consistent with local measurements. At GeV the cosmic ray flux
ratio measured by AMS02 falls below the production rate
ratio by about 50\%, while at high energy GeV the measured flux
ratio coincides with the production rate ratio of the secondary source.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figure
A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF HEDGES AND BOOSTERS IN ENGLISH ACADEMIC ARTICLES
The present study examined research articles from eight academic disciplines to measure the frequencies and functions of hedges and boosters. The quantitative results showed that hedges exceeded boosters, with philosophy articles showing a significant use of hedges and boosters. The natural science papers were underrepresented in the number of hedges and boosters. Moreover, the results indicated that the choices the writers make seem to be constrained by the discourse norms and rhetorical styles of each discipline and reflect the nature of different disciplinary characteristics. The humanities and social sciences are basically more interpretative and less abstract, a style that requires more hedges and boosters and opts for subjectivity, whereas natural sciences are typically more fact-oriented and more impersonal, which is accompanied by fewer hedges and boosters and opts for objectivity. This was confirmed by a further analysis that showed that the relative incidence of hedges of the possibility/ probability category in adjectives and adverbs was the highest in humanities and the lowest in natural sciences. Moreover, the relative incidence of hedges of the tentative cognition category in nouns and verbs was the highest in humanities and social sciences and the lowest in natural sciences.
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