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Production of exotic charmonium in interactions at hadronic colliders
In this paper we investigate the Exotic Charmonium (EC) production in interactions present in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and
nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies as
well as for the proposed energies of the Future Circular Collider (FCC). Our
results demonstrate that the experimental study of these processes is feasible
and can be used to constrain the theoretical decay widths and shed some light
on the configuration of the considered multiquark states.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. v2: Revised version published in
Physical Review
Dynamical reentrance and geometry imposed quantization effects in Nb-AlOx-Nb Josephson junction arrays
In this paper, we report on different phenomena related to the magnetic
properties of artificially prepared highly ordered (periodic) two-dimensional
Josephson junction arrays (2D-JJA) of both shunted and unshunted Nb-AlOx-Nb
tunnel junctions. By employing mutual-inductance measurements and using a
high-sensitive bridge, we have thoroughly investigated (both experimentally and
theoretically) the temperature and magnetic field dependence of complex AC
susceptibility of 2D-JJA. We also demonstrate the use of the scanning SQUID
microscope for imaging the local flux distribution within our unshunted arrays
String-like brane splitting in the context of gravity
In this work, the influence of the boundary term is analyzed in a
string-like thick brane scenario in the gravity context . For that,
three models of are proposed, i.e., , and , where , and
are parameters that control the deviation from the usual
teleparallelism. The first relevant result obtained was the appearance of a
super-located tower in the core for energy density. Furthermore, the greater
the influence of the boundary term, the new maximums and minimums appear in the
energy density. All this indicates the emergence of capable structures from
split to the brane. The second relevant result was obtained by analyzing the
gravitational perturbations, where the effective potential presents the
supersymmetric form of quantum mechanics, leading to well-localized massless
modes.Comment: 18 pages, 7 captioned figure
Comparação dos níveis de ácido cianídrico (HCN) entre etnovariedades de mandiocas bravas e mansas.
Disponível também on-line. Publicado também no Anais do XII Congresso Brasileiro da Mandioca, Paranavaí, 2007
A Hamiltonian approach for explosive percolation
We introduce a cluster growth process that provides a clear connection
between equilibrium statistical mechanics and an explosive percolation model
similar to the one recently proposed by Achlioptas et al. [Science 323, 1453
(2009)]. We show that the following two ingredients are essential for obtaining
an abrupt (first-order) transition in the fraction of the system occupied by
the largest cluster: (i) the size of all growing clusters should be kept
approximately the same, and (ii) the inclusion of merging bonds (i.e., bonds
connecting vertices in different clusters) should dominate with respect to the
redundant bonds (i.e., bonds connecting vertices in the same cluster).
Moreover, in the extreme limit where only merging bonds are present, a complete
enumeration scheme based on tree-like graphs can be used to obtain an exact
solution of our model that displays a first-order transition. Finally, the
proposed mechanism can be viewed as a generalization of standard percolation
that discloses an entirely new family of models with potential application in
growth and fragmentation processes of real network systems.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Universal reduction of pressure between charged surfaces by long-wavelength surface charge modulation
We predict theoretically that long-wavelength surface charge modulations
universally reduce the pressure between the charged surfaces with counterions
compared with the case of uniformly charged surfaces with the same average
surface charge density. The physical origin of this effect is the fact that
surface charge modulations always lead to enhanced counterion localization near
the surfaces, and hence, fewer charges at the midplane. We confirm the last
prediction with Monte Carlo simulations.Comment: 8 pages 1 figure, Europhys. Lett., in pres
Morphological transition between diffusion-limited and ballistic aggregation growth patterns
In this work, the transition between diffusion-limited and ballistic
aggregation models was revisited using a model in which biased random walks
simulate the particle trajectories. The bias is controlled by a parameter
, which assumes the value (1) for ballistic
(diffusion-limited) aggregation model. Patterns growing from a single seed were
considered. In order to simulate large clusters, a new efficient algorithm was
developed. For , the patterns are fractal on the small length
scales, but homogeneous on the large ones. We evaluated the mean density of
particles in the region defined by a circle of radius centered
at the initial seed. As a function of , reaches the asymptotic
value following a power law
with a universal exponent , independent of . The
asymptotic value has the behavior , where . The characteristic crossover length that determines the transition
from DLA- to BA-like scaling regimes is given by ,
where , while the cluster mass at the crossover follows a power
law , where . We deduce the
scaling relations \beta=\n u\gamma and between these
exponents.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figure
Vacuum polarization on the spinning circle
Vacuum polarization of a massive scalar field in the background of a
two-dimensional version of a spinning cosmic string is investigated. It is
shown that when the `radius of the universe' is such that spacetime is globally
hyperbolic the vacuum fluctuations are well behaved, diverging though on the
`chronology horizon'. Naive use of the formulae when spacetime is nonglobally
hyperbolic leads to unphysical results. It is also pointed out that the set of
normal modes used previously in the literature to address the problem gives
rise to two-point functions which do not have a Hadamard form, and therefore
are not physically acceptable. Such normal modes correspond to a locally (but
not globally) Minkowski time, which appears to be at first sight a natural
choice of time to implement quantization.Comment: 3 pages, no figures, REVTeX4, published versio
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