940 research outputs found
New analytic running coupling in QCD: higher loop levels
The properties of the new analytic running coupling are investigated at the
higher loop levels. The expression for this invariant charge, independent of
the normalization point, is obtained by invoking the asymptotic freedom
condition. It is shown that at any loop level the relevant function has
the universal behaviors at small and large values of the invariant charge. Due
to this feature the new analytic running coupling possesses the universal
asymptotics both in the ultraviolet and infrared regions irrespective of the
loop level. The consistency of the model considered with the general definition
of the QCD invariant charge is shown.Comment: LaTeX 2.09, 12 pages with 5 EPS figures, uses mpla1.sty; enlarged
version is accepted for publication in Mod. Phys. Lett.
Anomalous wave reflection from the interface of two strongly nonlinear granular media
Granular materials exhibit a strongly nonlinear behaviour affecting the
propagation of information in the medium. Dynamically self-organized strongly
nonlinear solitary waves are the main information carriers in granular chains.
Here we report the first experimental observation of the dramatic change of
reflectivity from the interface of two granular media triggered by a noncontact
magnetically induced initial precompression. It may be appropriate to name this
phenomenon the "acoustic diode" effect. Based on numerical simulations, we
explain this effect by the high gradient of particle velocity near the
interface.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
Transport of the repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well trap: interaction impact and relation to Josephson effect
Two aspects of the transport of the repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)
in a double-well trap are inspected: impact of the interatomic interaction and
analogy to the Josephson effect. The analysis employs a numerical solution of
3D time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a total order parameter
covering all the trap. The population transfer is driven by a time-dependent
shift of a barrier separating the left and right wells. Sharp and soft profiles
of the barrier velocity are tested. Evolution of the relevant characteristics,
involving phase differences and currents, is inspected. It is shown that the
repulsive interaction substantially supports the transfer making it possible i)
in a wide velocity interval and ii) three orders of magnitude faster than in
the ideal BEC. The transport can be approximately treated as the d.c. Josephson
effect. A dual origin of the critical barrier velocity (break of adiabatic
following and d.c.-a.c. transition) is discussed. Following the calculations,
robustness of the transport (d.c.) crucially depends on the interaction and
barrier velocity profile. Only soft profiles which minimize undesirable dipole
oscillations are acceptable.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, accepted by Laser Physis. arXiv admin note: text
overlap with arXiv:1312.2750 The replaced version has a few corrections and
additional reference
Analytic invariant charge and the lattice static quark-antiquark potential
A recently developed model for the QCD analytic invariant charge is compared
with quenched lattice simulation data on the static quark-antiquark potential.
By employing this strong running coupling one is able to obtain the confining
quark-antiquark potential in the framework of the one-gluon exchange model. To
achieve this objective a technique for evaluating the integrals of a required
form is developed. Special attention is paid here to removing the divergences
encountered the calculations. All this enables one to examine the asymptotic
behavior of the potential at both small and large distances with high accuracy.
An explicit expression for the quark-antiquark potential, which interpolates
between these asymptotics, and satisfies the concavity condition, is proposed.
The derived potential coincides with the perturbative results at small
distances, and it is in a good agreement with the lattice data in the
nonperturbative physically-relevant region. An estimation of the parameter
is obtained for the case of pure gluodynamics. It is found to
be consistent with all the previous estimations of in the
framework of approach in hand.Comment: LaTeX2e, 10 pages with 3 EPS figure
Orbital Magnetic Dipole Mode in Deformed Clusters: A Fully Microscopic Analysis
The orbital M1 collective mode predicted for deformed clusters in a schematic
model is studied in a self-consistent random-phase-approximation approach which
fully exploits the shell structure of the clusters. The microscopic mechanism
of the excitation is clarified and the close correlation with E2 mode
established. The study shows that the M1 strength of the mode is fragmented
over a large energy interval. In spite of that, the fraction remaining at low
energy, well below the overwhelming dipole plasmon resonance, is comparable to
the strength predicted in the schematic model. The importance of this result in
view of future experiments is stressed.Comment: 10 pages, 3 Postscript figures, uses revte
TDDFT with Skyrme Forces: Effect of Time-Odd Densities on Electric Giant Resonances
Time-odd densities and their effect on electric giant resonances are
investigated within the self-consistent separable random-phase-approximation
(SRPA) model for various Skyrme forces (SkT6, SkO, SkM*, SIII, SGII, SLy4,
SLy6, SkI3). Time-odd densities restore Galilean invariance of the Skyrme
functional, violated by the effective-mass and spin-orbital terms. In even-even
nuclei these densities do not contribute to the ground state but can affect the
dynamics. As a particular case, we explore the role of the current density in
description of isovector E1 and isoscalar E2 giant resonances in a chain of Nd
spherical and deformed isotopes with A=134-158. Relation of the current to the
effective masses and relevant parameters of the Skyrme functional is analyzed.
It is shown that current contribution to E1 and E2 resonances is generally
essential and fully determined by the values and signs of the isovector and
isoscalar effective-mass parameters of the force. The contribution is the same
for all the isotope chain, i.e. for both standard and exotic nuclei.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, will be published in Proceed. of 14th Nuclear
Physics Workshop (Kazimierez, Poland, September, 2007) Comment: latex error
in openning Fig. 2 was correcte
Extended analytic QCD model with perturbative QCD behavior at high momenta
In contrast to perturbative QCD, the analytic QCD models have running
coupling whose analytic properties correctly mirror those of spacelike
observables. The discontinuity (spectral) function of such running coupling is
expected to agree with the perturbative case at large timelike momenta;
however, at low timelike momenta it is not known. In the latter regime, we
parametrize the unknown behavior of the spectral function as a sum of (two)
delta functions; while the onset of the perturbative behavior of the spectral
function is set to be 1.0-1.5 GeV. This is in close analogy with the "minimal
hadronic ansatz" used in the literature for modeling spectral functions of
correlators. For the running coupling itself, we impose the condition that it
basically merges with the perturbative coupling at high spacelike momenta. In
addition, we require that the well-measured nonstrange semihadronic (V+A) tau
decay ratio value be reproduced by the model. We thus obtain a QCD framework
which is basically indistinguishable from perturbative QCD at high momenta (Q >
1 GeV), and at low momenta it respects the basic analyticity properties of
spacelike observables as dictated by the general principles of the local
quantum field theories.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures; in v2 Sec.IV is extended after Eq.(48) and
refs.[51-52] added; v2 published in Phys.Rev.D85,114043(2012
Role of the rho meson in the description of pion electroproduction experiments at JLab
We study the p(e,e' pi+)n reaction in the framework of an effective
Lagrangian approach including nucleon, pi and rho meson degrees of freedom and
show the importance of the rho-meson t-pole contribution to sigmaT, the
transverse part of cross section. We test two different field representations
of the rho meson, vector and tensor, and find that the tensor representation of
the rho meson is more reliable in the description of the existing data. In
particular, we show that the rho-meson t-pole contribution, including the
interference with an effective non-local contact term, sufficiently improves
the description of the recent JLab data at invariant mass W less 2.2 GeV and Q2
less 2.5 GeV2/c2. A ``soft'' variant of the strong piNN and rhoNN form factors
is also found to be compatible with these data. On the basis of the successful
description of both the sigmaL and sigmaT parts of the cross section we discuss
the importance of taking into account the sigmaT data when extracting the
charge pion form factor Fpi from sigmaL.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
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