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Municipal Solid Waste Flow Control in the Post-Carbone World
Garbage will always ultimately be the government\u27s problem. Evolving environmental standards and state and federal policies will continue to require reasoned responses from local governments and municipal solid waste flow control is a vital cog in many jurisdictions\u27 solid waste management solutions. Without flow control of some form, governments\u27 ability to plan and provide for the most environmentally sound and economically acceptable solutions will wane, leaving the public vulnerable to the vagaries of a private market that does not have a duty to protect the public health and safety. The Carbone decision has blunted one of the local governments chief weapons-legislative flow control-and it appears Congress will not supply an adequate answer for many solid waste systems. More than ever, alternatives to legislative flow control will be needed to enable municipalities to fulfill their solid waste duties, to comply with federal and state mandates, and to provide workable, environmentally-sound, long-term solid waste programs serving the interests of the public health and safety. Local governments must act soon by examining these options and deciding which will best serve the public
Gluon Correlators in the Kogan-Kovner Model
The Lorentz-invariant gluon correlation functions, corresponding to scalar
and pseudo-scalar glueballs, are calculated for Kogan's and Kovner's
variational ansatz for the pure SU(N) Yang-Mills wavefunctional.
One expects that only one dynamical mass scale should be present in QCD; the
ansatz generates the expected scale for both glueballs, as well as an
additional scale for the scalar glueball. The additional mass scale must
therefore vanish, or be close to the expected one. This is shown to constrain
the nature of the phase transition in the Kogan-Kovner ansatz.Comment: 9 pages, no figure
Implementation of a Gauss convoluted Pandel PDF for track reconstruction in Neutrino Telescopes
A probability distribution function is presented which provides a realistic
description of the detection of scattered photons. The resulting probabilities
can be described analytically by means of a superposition of several special
functions. These exact expressions can be evaluated numerically only for small
distances and limited time residuals, due to computer accuracy limitations. In
this report we provide approximations for the exact expressions in different
regions of the distance-time residual space, defined by the detector geometry
and the space-time scale of an event. These approximations can be evaluated
numerically with a relative error with respect to the exact expression at the
boundaries of less than 0.001.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures Revision 1 : extended content 12 pages, 4 figures
Accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physic
Generalized Solutions for Quantum Mechanical Oscillator on K\"{a}hler Conifold
We study the possible generalized boundary conditions and the corresponding
solutions for the quantum mechanical oscillator model on K\"{a}hler conifold.
We perform it by self-adjoint extension of the the initial domain of the
effective radial Hamiltonian. Remarkable effect of this generalized boundary
condition is that at certain boundary condition the orbital angular momentum
degeneracy is restored! We also recover the known spectrum in our formulation,
which of course correspond to some other boundary condition.Comment: 7 pages, latex, no figur
The effect of hydrogen sulphide on ammonium bisulphite when used as an oxygen scavenger in aqueous solutions
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Transverse momentum distribution with radial flow in relativistic diffusion model
Large transverse momentum distributions of identified particles observed at
RHIC are analyzed by a relativistic stochastic model in the three dimensional
(non-Euclidean) rapidity space. A distribution function obtained from the model
is Gaussian-like in radial rapidity. It can well describe observed transverse
momentum distributions. Estimation of radial flow is made from the
analysis of distributions for in Au + Au Collisions.
Temperatures are estimated from observed large distributions under the
assumption that the distribution function approaches to the Maxwell-Boltzmann
distribution in the lower momentum limit. Power-law behavior of large
distribution is also derived from the model.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures and 6 table
Analytical Galaxy Profiles for Photometric and Lensing Analysis
This article introduces a family of analytical functions of the form x^{\nu}
K_{\nu}(x), where K_{\nu} is the incomplete Bessel function of the third kind.
This family of functions can describe the density profile, projected and
integrated light profiles and the gravitational potentials of galaxies. For the
proper choice of parameters, these functions accurately approximate Sersic
functions over a range of indices and are good fits to galaxy light profiles.
With an additional parameter corresponding to a galaxy core radius, these
functions can fit galaxy like M87 over a factor of 100,000 in radius. Unlike
Sersic profiles, these functions have simple analytical 2-dimensional and
3-dimensional Fourier transforms, so they are easily convolved with spatially
varying point spread function and are well suited for photometric and lensing
analysis. We use these functions to estimate the effects of seeing on lensing
measurements and show that high S/N measurements, even when the PSF is larger
than the galaxy effective radius, should be able to recover accurate estimates
of lensing distortions by weighting light in the outer isophotes that are less
effected by seeing
Uniform WKB approximation of Coulomb wave functions for arbitrary partial wave
Coulomb wave functions are difficult to compute numerically for extremely low
energies, even with direct numerical integration. Hence, it is more convenient
to use asymptotic formulas in this region. It is the object of this paper to
derive analytical asymptotic formulas valid for arbitrary energies and partial
waves. Moreover, it is possible to extend these formulas for complex values of
parameters.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Magnetic expansion of Nekrasov theory: the SU(2) pure gauge theory
It is recently claimed by Nekrasov and Shatashvili that the
gauge theories in the background with
are related to the quantization of certain algebraic integrable systems. We
study the special case of SU(2) pure gauge theory, the corresponding integrable
model is the A Toda model, which reduces to the sine-Gordon quantum
mechanics problem. The quantum effects can be expressed as the WKB series
written analytically in terms of hypergeometric functions. We obtain the
magnetic and dyonic expansions of the Nekrasov theory by studying the property
of hypergeometric functions in the magnetic and dyonic regions on the moduli
space. We also discuss the relation between the electric-magnetic duality of
gauge theory and the action-action duality of the integrable system.Comment: 17 pages, submitted to PRD; v2, typos corrected, references added;
v3, published versio
Impedance of a sphere oscillating in an elastic medium with and without slip
The dynamic impedance of a sphere oscillating in an elastic medium is
considered. Oestreicher's formula for the impedance of a sphere bonded to the
surrounding medium can be expressed simply in terms of three lumped impedances
associated with the displaced mass and the longitudinal and transverse waves.
If the surface of the sphere slips while the normal velocity remains
continuous, the impedance formula is modified by adjusting the definition of
the transverse impedance to include the interfacial impedance.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure
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