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The Effects of Quantum Entropy on the Bag Constant
The effects of quantum entropy on the bag constant are studied at low
temperatures and small chemical potentials. The inclusion of the quantum
entropy of the quarks in the equation of state provides the hadronic bag with
an additional heat which causes a decrease in the effective latent heat inside
the bag. We have considered two types of baryonic bags, and
. In both cases we have found that the bag constant without the
quantum entropy almost does not change with the temperature and the quark
chemical potential. The contribution from the quantum entropy to the equation
of state clearly decreases the value of the bag constant.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures (two parts each
Effective Two Higgs Doublets in Nonminimal Supersymmetric Models
The Higgs sectors of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model have two
doublets in the minimal version (MSSM), and two doublets plus a singlet in two
others: with (UMSSM) and without (NMSSM) an extra U(1)'. A very concise
comparison of these three models is possible if we assume that the singlet has
a somewhat larger breaking scale compared to the electroweak scale. In that
case, the UMSSM and the NMSSM become effectively two-Higgs-doublet models
(THDM), like the MSSM. As expected, the mass of the lightest CP-even neutral
Higgs boson has an upper bound in each case. We find that in the NMSSM, this
bound exceeds not very much that of the MSSM, unless tan(beta) is near one.
However, the upper bound in the UMSSM may be substantially enhanced.Comment: 8 pages, 1 table, 3 figure
Measuring Black Hole Spin using X-ray Reflection Spectroscopy
I review the current status of X-ray reflection (a.k.a. broad iron line)
based black hole spin measurements. This is a powerful technique that allows us
to measure robust black hole spins across the mass range, from the stellar-mass
black holes in X-ray binaries to the supermassive black holes in active
galactic nuclei. After describing the basic assumptions of this approach, I lay
out the detailed methodology focusing on "best practices" that have been found
necessary to obtain robust results. Reflecting my own biases, this review is
slanted towards a discussion of supermassive black hole (SMBH) spin in active
galactic nuclei (AGN). Pulling together all of the available XMM-Newton and
Suzaku results from the literature that satisfy objective quality control
criteria, it is clear that a large fraction of SMBHs are rapidly-spinning,
although there are tentative hints of a more slowly spinning population at high
(M>5*10^7Msun) and low (M<2*10^6Msun) mass. I also engage in a brief review of
the spins of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries. In general,
reflection-based and continuum-fitting based spin measures are in agreement,
although there remain two objects (GROJ1655-40 and 4U1543-475) for which that
is not true. I end this review by discussing the exciting frontier of
relativistic reverberation, particularly the discovery of broad iron line
reverberation in XMM-Newton data for the Seyfert galaxies NGC4151, NGC7314 and
MCG-5-23-16. As well as confirming the basic paradigm of relativistic disk
reflection, this detection of reverberation demonstrates that future large-area
X-ray observatories such as LOFT will make tremendous progress in studies of
strong gravity using relativistic reverberation in AGN.Comment: 19 pages. To appear in proceedings of the ISSI-Bern workshop on "The
Physics of Accretion onto Black Holes" (8-12 Oct 2012). Revised version adds
a missing source to Table 1 and Fig.6 (IRAS13224-3809) and corrects the
referencing of the discovery of soft lags in 1H0707-495 (which were in fact
first reported in Fabian et al. 2009
Tilt Grain-Boundary Effects in S- and D-Wave Superconductors
We calculate the s- and d-wave superconductor order parameter in the vicinity
of a tilt grain boundary. We do this self-consistently within the Bogoliubov de
Gennes equations, using a realistic microscopic model of the grain boundary. We
present the first self-consistent calculations of supercurrent flows in such
boundaries, obtaining the current-phase characteristics of grain boundaries in
both s-wave and d-wave superconductors
Thin accretion disc with a corona in a central magnetic field
We study the steady-state structure of an accretion disc with a corona
surrounding a central, rotating, magnetized star. We assume that the
magneto-rotational instability is the dominant mechanism of angular momentum
transport inside the disc and is responsible for producing magnetic tubes above
the disc. In our model, a fraction of the dissipated energy inside the disc is
transported to the corona via these magnetic tubes. This energy exchange from
the disc to the corona which depends on the disc physical properties is
modified because of the magnetic interaction between the stellar magnetic field
and the accretion disc. According to our fully analytical solutions for such a
system, the existence of a corona not only increases the surface density but
reduces the temperature of the accretion disc. Also, the presence of a corona
enhances the ratio of gas pressure to the total pressure. Our solutions show
that when the strength of the magnetic field of the central neutron star is
large or the star is rotating fast enough, profiles of the physical variables
of the disc significantly modify due to the existence of a corona.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space Scienc
Isospin breaking in the vector current of the nucleon
Extraction of the nucleon's strange form factors from experimental data
requires a quantitative understanding of the unavoidable contamination from
isospin violation. A number of authors have addressed this issue during the
past decade, and their work is reviewed here. The predictions from early models
are largely consistent with recent results that rely as much as possible on
input from QCD symmetries and related experimental data. The resulting bounds
on isospin violation are sufficiently precise to be of value to on-going
experimental and theoretical studies of the nucleon's strange form factors.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Presented at the International Workshop "From
Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and more...", Milos, Greece, 16-20 May
2006. Version 2 is only to update Refs. [21] and [25
Long distance regularization in chiral perturbation theory with decuplet
We investigate the use of long distance regularization in SU(3) baryon chiral
perturbation theory with decuplet fields. The one-loop decuplet contributions
to the octet baryon masses, axial couplings, S-wave nonleptonic hyperon decays
and magnetic moments are evaluated in a chirally consistent fashion by
employing a cutoff to implement long distance regularization. The convergence
of the chiral expansions of these quantities is improved compared to the
dimensionally regularized version which indicates that the propagation of
Goldstone bosons over distances smaller than a typical hadronic size, which is
beyond the regime of chiral perturbation theory but included by dimensional
regularization, is removed by use of a cutoff.Comment: 31 page
Effects of genuine dimension-six Higgs operators
We systematically discuss the consequences of genuine dimension-six Higgs
operators. These operators are not subject to stringent constraints from
electroweak precision data. However, they can modify the couplings of the Higgs
boson to electroweak gauge bosons and, in particular, the Higgs
self-interactions. We study the sensitivity to which those couplings can be
probed at future \ee linear colliders in the sub-TeV and in the multi-TeV
range. We find that for GeV with a luminosity of 1 ab the
anomalous and couplings may be probed to about the 0.01 level, and
the anomalous coupling to about the 0.1 level.Comment: 21 pages, 17 figures; typos corrected and references adde
Current Status of Simulations
As the title suggests, the purpose of this chapter is to review the current
status of numerical simulations of black hole accretion disks. This chapter
focuses exclusively on global simulations of the accretion process within a few
tens of gravitational radii of the black hole. Most of the simulations
discussed are performed using general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)
schemes, although some mention is made of Newtonian radiation MHD simulations
and smoothed particle hydrodynamics. The goal is to convey some of the exciting
work that has been going on in the past few years and provide some speculation
on future directions.Comment: 15 pages, 14 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the ISSI-Bern
workshop on "The Physics of Accretion onto Black Holes" (8-12 October 2012
The Momentum Dependence of the Mixing Amplitude in a Hadronic Model
We calculate the momentum dependence of the mixing amplitude in
a purely hadronic model. The basic assumption of the model is that the mixing
amplitude is generated by loops and thus driven entirely by the
neutron-proton mass difference. The value of the amplitude at the
-meson point is expressed in terms of only the and the
coupling constants. Using values for these couplings constrained by
empirical two-nucleon data we obtain a value for the mixing amplitude in
agreement with experiment. Extending these results to the spacelike region, we
find a contribution to the NN interaction that is strongly
suppressed and opposite in sign relative to the conventional contribution
obtained from using the constant on-shell value for the mixing amplitude.Comment: 11 pages, SCRI-12219
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