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Reionization by Hard Photons: I. X-rays from the First Star Clusters
Observations of the Ly-alpha forest at z~3 reveal an average metallicity
Z~0.01 Z_solar. The high-redshift supernovae that polluted the IGM also
accelerated relativistic electrons. Since the energy density of the CMB scales
as (1+z)^4, at high redshift these electrons cool via inverse Compton
scattering. Thus, the first star clusters emit X-rays. Unlike stellar UV
ionizing photons, these X-rays can escape easily from their host galaxies. This
has a number of important physical consequences: (i) Due to their large mean
free path, these X-rays can quickly establish a universal ionizing background
and partially reionize the universe in a gradual, homogeneous fashion. If
X-rays formed the dominant ionizing background, the universe would have more
closely resembled a single-phase medium, rather than a two-phase medium. (ii)
X-rays can reheat the universe to higher temperatures than possible with UV
radiation. (iii) X-rays counter the tendency of UV radiation to
photo-dissociate H2, an important coolant in the early universe, by promoting
gas phase H2 formation. The X-ray production efficiency is calibrated to local
observations of starburst galaxies, which imply that ~10% of the supernova
energy is converted to X-rays. While direct detection of sources in X-ray
emission is difficult, the presence of relativistic electrons at high redshift
and thus a minimal level of X-ray emission may be inferred by synchrotron
emission observations with the Square Kilometer Array. These sources may
constitute a significant fraction of the unresolved hard X-ray background, and
can account for both the shape and amplitude of the gamma-ray background. This
paper discusses the existence and observability of high-redshift X-ray sources,
while a companion paper models the detailed reionization physics and chemistry.Comment: Final version accepted by ApJ. 32 pages, 3 figure
Polarization enhancement in ,He)n reaction: Nuclear teleportation
I show that an experimental technique used in nuclear physics may be
successfully applied to quantum teleportation (QT) of spin states of massive
matter. A new non-local physical effect the `quantum-teleportation-effect' is
discovered for the nuclear polarization measurement. Enhancement of the neutron
polarization is expected in the proposed experiment for QT that discriminates
{\it only} one of the Bell states.Comment: 3 pages, accepted for publication in J. Phys.
K*{\Lambda}(1116) photoproduction and nucleon resonances
In this presentation, we report our recent studies on the
photoproduction off the proton target, using the tree-level Born approximation,
via the effective Lagrangian approach. In addition, we include the nine (three-
or four-star confirmed) nucleon resonances below the threshold
MeV, to interpret the discrepancy between the
experiment and previous theoretical studies, in the vicinity of the threshold
region. From the numerical studies, we observe that the and
play an important role for the cross-section enhancement near
the . It also turns out that, in order to reproduce the
data, we have the vector coupling constants
and
.Comment: 2 pages, 2 figures, talk given at International Conference on the
structure of baryons, BARYONS'10, Dec. 7-11, 2010, Osaka, Japa
Determination of the CP Phase with Possibility of New Physics
We propose a new method to extract the CP violating weak phase in
the CKM paradigm of the Standard Model, using
and decays, where are final states
such as , , , {\it etc.} We also study the
experimental feasibility of our new method. With possibility of new phases in
the CKM matrix, we re-examine some of the previously proposed methods to
determine , and find that it would be in principle possible to identify
and a new phase angle separately.Comment: 4 pages, LaTeX; Using two-column style file (ltwol.sty); To be
published in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on B
Physics and CP Violation, Ise-Shima, Japan, February 18 - 23, 200
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