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Collinear-to-Spiral Spin Transformation without Changing Modulation Wavelength upon Ferroelectric Transition in Tb1-xDyxMnO3
Lattice modulation and magnetic structures in magnetoelectric compounds
Tb1-xDyxMnO3 have been studied around the ferroelectric (FE) Curie temperature
T_C by x-ray and neutron diffraction. Temperature-independent modulation
vectors through T_C are observed for the compounds with 0.50< x < 0.68. This
indicates that ferroelectricity with a polarization (P) along the c axis in the
RMnO3 series cannot be ascribed to such an incommensurate-commensurate
transition of an antiferromagnetic order as was previously anticipated. Neutron
diffraction study of a single crystal with x=0.59 shows that the FE transition
is accompanied by the transformation of the Mn-spin alignment from sinusoidal
(collinear) antiferromagnetism into a transverse spiral structure. The observed
spiral structure below T_C is expected to produce P along the c axis with the
`inverse' Dzialoshinski-Moriya interaction, which is consistent with the
observation.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
Gauge-Higgs Unification and Quark-Lepton Phenomenology in the Warped Spacetime
In the dynamical gauge-Higgs unification of electroweak interactions in the
Randall-Sundrum warped spacetime the Higgs boson mass is predicted in the range
120 GeV -- 290 GeV, provided that the spacetime structure is determined at the
Planck scale. Couplings of quarks and leptons to gauge bosons and their
Kaluza-Klein (KK) excited states are determined by the masses of quarks and
leptons. All quarks and leptons other than top quarks have very small couplings
to the KK excited states of gauge bosons. The universality of weak interactions
is slightly broken by magnitudes of , and for
-, - and -, respectively. Yukawa couplings become
substantially smaller than those in the standard model, by a factor |\cos
\onehalf \theta_W| where is the non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm phase
(the Wilson line phase) associated with dynamical electroweak symmetry
breaking.Comment: 34 pages, 7 eps files, comments and a reference adde
Antiproton Production in p+d Reaction at Subthreshold Energies
An enhancement of antiprotons produced in p+d reaction in comparison with
ones in p+p elementary reaction is investigated.
In the neighborhood of subthreshold energy the enhancement is caused by the
difference of available energies for antiproton production. The cross section
in p+d reaction, on the other hand, becomes just twice of the one in elementary
p+p reaction at the incident energy far from the threshold energy when
non-nucleonic components in deuteron target are not considered.Comment: LaTeX,7 pages with 5 eps figure
Effects of a New Triple-alpha Reaction on X-ray Bursts of a Helium Accreting Neutron Star
The effects of a new triple- reaction rate (OKK rate) on the helium
flash of a helium accreting neutron star in a binary system have been
investigated. Since the ignition points determine the properties of a
thermonuclear flash of type I X-ray bursts, we examine the cases of different
accretion rates, , of helium from to , which could cover the
observed accretion rates. We find that for the cases of low accretion rates,
nuclear burnings are ignited at the helium layers of rather low densities. As a
consequence, helium deflagration would be triggered for all cases of lower
accretion rate than . We
find that OKK rate could be barely consistent with the available observations
of the X-ray bursts on the helium accreting neutron star. However this
coincidence is found to depend on the properties of crustal heating and the
neutron star model.We suggest that OKK rate would be reduced by a factor of
for K in the range of the observational errors.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure
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