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Universal Behavior in Excited Heavy-Light and Light-Light Mesons
A common pattern of large orbital and radial excitations in heavy-light and
light-light mesons is demonstrated. Within a general potential model the Regge
slopes of the light degrees of freedom for these mesons are shown to be in the
ratio of two. The possibility of ``tower'' degeneracy occurs only with pure
scalar confinement.Comment: Latex, 10 pages, 2 figures placed using epsf.sty. Z-compressed
postscript version available at
http://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1996/madph-96-970.ps.Z or at
ftp://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1996/madph-96-970.ps.
Sexual coloration and sperm performance in the Australian painted dragon lizard, Ctenophorus pictus
Theory predicts trade-offs between pre- and post-copulatory sexually selected traits. This relationship may be mediated by the degree to which males are able to monopolize access to females, as this will place an upper limit on the strength of post-copulatory selection. Furthermore, traits that aid in mate monopolization may be costly to maintain and may limit investment in post-copulatory traits, such as sperm performance. Australian painted dragons are polymorphic for the presence or absence of a yellow gular patch (\u27bibs\u27), which may aid them to monopolize access to females. Previous work has shown that there are physiological costs of carrying this bib (greater loss of body condition in the wild). Here, we show that male painted dragons use this bright yellow bib as both an inter- and intrasexual signal, and we assess whether this signal is traded off against sperm performance within the same individuals. We found no relationship between aspects of bib colour and sperm swimming velocity or percentage of motile sperm and suggest that the bib polymorphism may be maintained by complex interactions between physiological or life-history traits including other sperm or ejaculate traits and environmental influences
Three-dimensional reconstruction of porous polymer films from FIB-SEM nanotomography data using random forests
Combined focused ion beam and scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM) tomography is a well-established technique for high resolution imaging and reconstruction of the microstructure of a wide range of materials. Segmentation of FIB-SEM data is complicated due to a number of factors; the most prominent is that for porous materials, the scanning electron microscope image slices contain information not only from the planar cross-section of the material but also from underlying, exposed subsurface pores. In this work, we develop a segmentation method for FIB-SEM data from ethyl cellulose porous films made from ethyl cellulose and hydroxypropyl cellulose (EC/HPC) polymer blends. These materials are used for coating pharmaceutical oral dosage forms (tablets or pellets) to control drug release. We study three samples of ethyl cellulose and hydroxypropyl cellulose with different volume fractions where the hydroxypropyl cellulose phase has been leached out, resulting in a porous material. The data are segmented using scale-space features and a random forest classifier. We demonstrate good agreement with manual segmentations. The method enables quantitative characterization and subsequent optimization of material structure for controlled release applications. Although the methodology is demonstrated on porous polymer films, it is applicable to other soft porous materials imaged by FIB-SEM. We make the data and software used publicly available to facilitate further development of FIB-SEM segmentation methods. Lay Description For imaging of very fine structures in materials, the resolution limits of, e.g. X-ray computed tomography quickly become a bottleneck. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) provides a way out, but it is essentially a two-dimensional imaging technique. One manner in which to extend it to three dimensions is to use a focused ion beam (FIB) combined with a scanning electron microscopy and acquire tomography data. In FIB-SEM tomography, ions are used to perform serial sectioning and the electron beam is used to image the cross section surface. This is a well-established method for a wide range of materials. However, image analysis of FIB-SEM data is complicated for a variety of reasons, in particular for porous media. In this work, we analyse FIB-SEM data from ethyl cellulose porous films made from ethyl cellulose and hydroxypropyl cellulose (EC/HPC) polymer blends. These films are used as coatings for controlled drug release. The aim is to perform image segmentation, i.e. to identify which parts of the image data constitute the pores and the solid, respectively. Manual segmentation, i.e. when a trained operator manually identifies areas constituting pores and solid, is too time-consuming to do in full for our very large data sets. However, by performing manual segmentation on a set of small, random regions of the data, we can train a machine learning algorithm to perform automatic segmentation on the entire data sets. The method yields good agreement with the manual segmentations and yields porosities of the entire data sets in very good agreement with expected values. The method facilitates understanding and quantitative characterization of the geometrical structure of the materials, and ultimately understanding of how to tailor the drug release
The anomalous threshold, confinement, and an essential singularity in the heavy-light form factor
The analytic behavior of the heavy-light meson form factor is investigated
using several relativistic examples including unconfined, weakly confined, and
strongly confined mesons. It is observed that confinement erases the anomalous
threshold singularity and also induces an essential singularity at the normal
annihilation threshold. In the weak confinement limit, the "would be" anomalous
threshold contribution is identical to that of the real singularity on its
space-like side.Comment: Latex 2.09 with epsf.sty. 24 pages of text and 8 postscript figures.
Postscript version of complete paper will also be available soon at
http://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1997/madph-97-983 or at
ftp://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1997/madph-97-98
In Search of the Vortex Loop Blowout Transition for a type-II Superconductor in a Finite Magnetic Field
The 3D uniformly frustrated XY model is simulated to search for a predicted
"vortex loop blowout" transition within the vortex line liquid phase of a
strongly type-II superconductor in an applied magnetic field. Results are shown
to strongly depend on the precise scheme used to trace out vortex line paths.
While we find evidence for a transverse vortex path percolation transition, no
signal of this transition is found in the specific heat.Comment: 11 pages, 17 figure
A unitary model for meson-nucleon scattering
In an effective Lagrangian model employing the K-matrix approximation we
extract nucleon resonance parameters. To this end we analyze simultaneously all
available data for reactions involving the final states , ,
and in the energy range GeV. The background contributions are generated consistently from the
relevant Feynman amplitudes, thus significantly reducing the number of free
parameters.Comment: Revised version. 60 pages, 17 figures. Two figures and a short
discussion (\pi N \to \eta N, K \Lambda amplitudes) added, typos and minor
errors in the citations correcte
The P_33(1232) resonance contribution into the amplitudes M_{1+}^{3/2},E_{1+}^{3/2},S_{1+}^{3/2} from an analysis of the p(e,e'p)\pi^0 data at Q^2 = 2.8, 3.2, and 4 (GeV/c)^2 within dispersion relation approach
Within the fixed-t dispersion relation approach we have analysed the TJNAF
and DESY data on the exclusive p(e,e'p)\pi^0 reaction in order to find the
P_{33}(1232) resonance contribution into the multipole amplitudes
M_{1+}^{3/2},E_{1+}^{3/2},S_{1+}^{3/2}. As an input for the resonance and
nonresonance contributions into these amplitudes the earlier obtained solutions
of the integral equations which follow from dispersion relations are used. The
obtained values of the ratio E2/M1 for the \gamma^* N \to P_{33}(1232)
transition are: 0.039\pm 0.029, 0.121\pm 0.032, 0.04\pm 0.031 for Q^2= 2.8,
3.2, and 4 (GeV/c)^2, respectively. The comparison with the data at low Q^2
shows that there is no evidence for the presence of the visible pQCD
contribution into the transition \gamma N \to P_{33}(1232) at Q^2=3-4 GeV^2.
The ratio S_{1+}^{3/2}/M_{1+}^{3/2} for the resonance parts of multipoles is:
-0.049\pm 0.029, -0.099\pm 0.041, -0.085\pm 0.021 for Q^2= 2.8, 3.2, and 4
(GeV/c)^2, respectively. Our results for the transverse form factor G_T(Q^2) of
the \gamma^* N \to P_{33}(1232) transition are lower than the values obtained
from the inclusive data. With increasing Q^2, Q^4G_T(Q^2) decreases, so there
is no evidence for the presence of the pQCD contribution here too
Analytic Quantization of the QCD String
We perform an analytic semi-classical quantization of the straight QCD string
with one end fixed and a massless quark on the other, in the limits of orbital
and radial dominant motion. We compare our results to the exact numerical
semi-classical quantization. We observe that the numerical semi-classical
quantization agrees well with our exact numerical canonical quantization.Comment: RevTeX, 10 pages, 9 figure
Instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter equation: utmost analytic approach
The Bethe-Salpeter formalism in the instantaneous approximation for the
interaction kernel entering into the Bethe-Salpeter equation represents a
reasonable framework for the description of bound states within relativistic
quantum field theory. In contrast to its further simplifications (like, for
instance, the so-called reduced Salpeter equation), it allows also the
consideration of bound states composed of "light" constituents. Every
eigenvalue equation with solutions in some linear space may be (approximately)
solved by conversion into an equivalent matrix eigenvalue problem. We
demonstrate that the matrices arising in these representations of the
instantaneous Bethe-Salpeter equation may be found, at least for a wide class
of interactions, in an entirely algebraic manner. The advantages of having the
involved matrices explicitly, i.e., not "contaminated" by errors induced by
numerical computations, at one's disposal are obvious: problems like, for
instance, questions of the stability of eigenvalues may be analyzed more
rigorously; furthermore, for small matrix sizes the eigenvalues may even be
calculated analytically.Comment: LaTeX, 23 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Skipping orbits and enhanced resistivity in large-diameter InAs/GaSb antidot lattices
We investigated the magnetotransport properties of high-mobility InAs/GaSb
antidot lattices. In addition to the usual commensurability features at low
magnetic field we found a broad maximum of classical origin around 2.5 T. The
latter can be ascribed to a class of rosetta type orbits encircling a single
antidot. This is shown by both a simple transport calculation based on a
classical Kubo formula and an analysis of the Poincare surface of section at
different magnetic field values. At low temperatures we observe weak
1/B-periodic oscillations superimposed on the classical maximum.Comment: 4 pages, 4 Postscript figures, REVTeX, submitted to Phys Rev
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