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Nitrogen and phosphorus budgets for the central Great Barrier Reef Shelf
Shelf-scale budgets were developed for the nutrient elements nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P)
in the central Great Barrier Reef between Cape Tribulation (I 60 S} and Dunk Island (ca. 18°S).
The intent was to quantify:
I} stocks of nutrients (nitrogen (N). phosphorus (P) and silicon (Si}) naturally
occurring in central Great Barrier Reef waters;
2) natural gradients and variability in water column nutrient concentrations;
3} natural fluxes of nutrients into and out of shelf waters for comparison with
anthropogenic or anthropogenically affected nutrient sources
Dissolved and particulate nutrients in waters of the Whitsunday Island Group 1988
This report summarizes the results of hydrographic sampling of physical properties and
nutrient determinations made on water samples and water column particulate matter
collected in February. 1988 during an oceanographic survey through the Whitsunday
Island group. The survey was carried out to obtain background data on concentrations
of chlorophyll, organic and inorganic nitrogen (N). phosphorus (P), and inorganic
silicate (Si) in waters of the Whitsunday Island group. For comparative purposes,
hydrographic and nutrient data from ten stations occupied in inter-reefal and lagoonal
waters of the central and southern GBR during January. 1987 and February, 1988 are
also presented
Isospin-Violating Meson-Nucleon Vertices as an Alternate Mechanism of Charge-Symmetry Breaking
We compute isospin-violating meson-nucleon coupling constants and their
consequent charge-symmetry-breaking nucleon-nucleon potentials. The couplings
result from evaluating matrix elements of quark currents between nucleon states
in a nonrelativistic constituent quark model; the isospin violations arise from
the difference in the up and down constituent quark masses. We find, in
particular, that isospin violation in the omega-meson--nucleon vertex dominates
the class IV CSB potential obtained from these considerations. We evaluate the
resulting spin-singlet--triplet mixing angles, the quantities germane to the
difference of neutron and proton analyzing powers measured in elastic
scattering, and find them commensurate to those computed
originally using the on-shell value of the - mixing amplitude.
The use of the on-shell - mixing amplitude at has been
called into question; rather, the amplitude is zero in a wide class of models.
Our model possesses no contribution from - mixing at , and
we find that omega-meson exchange suffices to explain the measured
analyzing power difference~at~183 MeV.Comment: 20 pages, revtex, 3 uuencoded PostScript figure
Rho-omega Mixing and the Pion Electromagnetic Form-Factor
The suggestion of momentum dependence in the amplitude for rho-omega mixing
has generated concern over related implications for vector meson dominance and
the photon-rho coupling. We discuss two established representations of vector
meson dominance and show that one of these is completely consistent with such a
coupling. We then apply it to a calculation of the pion electromagnetic
form-factor. Our analysis leads to a new value for the on-shell rho-omega
mixing amplitude of (-3800 +/- 370) MeV^2.Comment: 11 pages with epsfig.sty. Publication details added to title pag
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