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Halogen Bonding in Nitrogen and Iodine Compounds to Form Novel Cocrystals
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Effect of Wavefunction Renormalisation in N-Flavour Qed3 at Finite Temperature
A recent study of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in N-flavour QED at
finite temperature is extended to include the effect of fermion wavefunction
renormalisation in the Schwinger-Dyson equations. The simple ``zero-frequency''
truncation previously used is found to lead to unphysical results, especially
as . A modified set of equations is proposed, whose solutions behave
in a way which is qualitatively similar to the solutions of Pennington et
al. [5-8] who have made extensive studies of the effect of wavefunction
renormalisation in this context, and who concluded that there was no critical
(at T=0) above which chiral symmetry was restored. In contrast, we find
that our modified equations predict a critical at , and an
phase diagram very similar to the earlier study neglecting wavefunction
renormalisation. The reason for the difference is traced to the different
infrared behaviour of the vacuum polarisation at and at .Comment: 17 pages + 13 figures (available upon request), Oxford preprint
OUTP-93-30P, IFUNAM preprint FT94-39, LaTe
2+1 Dimensional QED and a Novel Phase Transition
We investigate the chiral phase transition in 2+1 dimensional QED. Previous
gap equation and lattice Monte-Carlo studies of symmetry breaking have found
that symmetry breaking ceases to occur when the number of fermion flavors
exceeds a critical value. Here we focus on the order of the transition. We find
that there are no light scalar degrees of freedom present as the critical
number of flavors is approached from above (in the symmetric phase). Thus the
phase transition is not second order, rendering irrelevant the renormalization
group arguments for a fluctuation induced transition. However, the order
parameter vanishes continuously in the broken phase, so this transition is also
unlike a conventional first order phase transition.Comment: 11 pages, Late
Taxonomic revision of Garcinia section Garcinia (Clusiaceae)
Species of Garcinia sect. Garcinia are typically understorey trees in rain forest and are distributed from eastern India to Malesia. A taxonomic revision of Garcinia section Garcinia (Clusiaceae) has resulted in the recognition of 13 species, two of which have three varieties each. Several species are excluded from Garcinia section Garcinia, reported as insufficiently known, or reduced to synonymy. Five species, G. acuticosta, G. discoidea, G. exigua, G. ochracea and G. sangudsangud, and two varieties, G. diospyrifolia var. minor and G. mangostana var. borneensis, are newly described. Morphological characters that are important for sectional delimitation are terminally attached inflorescences of simple cymes, stamen bundles 4 or 4-angled, and fruits with a smooth surface. Species limits are defined on the basis of a combination of characters of the male flower (i.e. shape of stamens, presence of pistillode), type of fruit, and characters of the leaf (shape and size, venation pattern and glandular lines)
Observation of the Higgs Boson of strong interaction via Compton scattering by the nucleon
It is shown that the Quark-Level Linear Model (QLLM) leads
to a prediction for the diamagnetic term of the polarizabilities of the nucleon
which is in excellent agreement with the experimental data. The bare mass of
the meson is predicted to be MeV and the two-photon
width keV. It is argued that the
mass predicted by the QLLM corresponds to the reaction, i.e. to a -channel pole of the reaction.
Large -angle Compton scattering experiments revealing effects of the
meson in the differential cross section are discussed. Arguments are presented
that these findings may be understood as an observation of the Higgs boson of
strong interaction while being part of the constituent quark.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figure
A methodology for the capture and analysis of hybrid data: a case study of program debugging
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Effect of retardation on dynamical mass generation in two-dimensional QED at finite temperature
The effect of retardation on dynamical mass generation in is studied, in the
imaginary time formalism. The photon porarization tensor is evaluated to
leading order in 1/N (N is the number of flavours), and simple closed form
expressions are found for the fully retarded longitudinal and transverse
propagators, which have the correct limit when T goes to zero. The resulting
S-D equation for the fermion mass (at order 1/N) has an infrared divergence
associated with the contribution of the transverse photon propagator; only the
longitudinal contribution is retained, as in earlier treatments. For solutions
of constant mass, it is found that the retardation reduces the value of the
parameter r (the ratio of twice the mass to the critical temperature) from
about 10 to about 6. The gap equation is then solved allowing for the mass to
depend on frequency. It was found that the r value remained close to 6.
Possibilities for including the transverse propagator are discussed.Comment: 26 pages 8 figure
T-helper cell polarisation following severe polytrauma
Introduction
Severe polytrauma induces an immunosuppressive response and is associated with a very high incidence of nosocomial infections. Previous studies have inferred that this detrimental immune response results from polarisation of the T helper (Th) response towards an anti-inflammatory, TH2 dominated, response at the expense of a bactericidal, Th1 response [1].
Objectives
1) To define alterations in TH cell subsets following severe blunt polytrauma.
Methods
Patients presenting to the emergency department within 2 hours of severe polytrauma were eligible if intubated either at the scene or in ED. Isolated head injuries and those not expected to survive 24 hours were excluded. EDTA anti-coagulated blood was drawn at 0hr (within 2 hours of injury), at 24 and 72hrs. Samples were immediately lysed, washed, stained and analysed using a standardised human 8-colour TH 1, 2 & 17 panel [2] on an LSR II flow cytometer. A paired white cell count differential was obtained at each sampling point. Patients were followed until discharge or death. Data were analysed using non-parametric statistics, with results presented as median and IQR.
Results
15 consecutive severe polytrauma patients requiring Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission were recruited. Demographic and clinical data are outlined in Figure 1. Twelve (80%) lymphocytosis (3.3x109/L, 2.5 - 4.4x109/L) (Figyre 2A). At 72 hours leukocytes had fallen (P < 0.01, figure 2A) such that 6 (54%) of those surviving were lymphopenic (0.9x109/L, 0.6 - 1.2x109/L). Circulating CD4+ (P = 0.01; Figure 2B) and CD4+CD25+ (P < 0.05) lymphocytes increased over 72 hours. When expressed as a percentage of total circulating lymphocytes no significant change in the proportions of the TH 1, 2 & 17 subpopulations was detected (Figure 2C-E).
Conclusions
Severe polytrauma patients swiftly become lymphopenic. Although a failure to normalise this during the ICU stay correlates with higher mortality [3] our study of TH cell subtypes demonstrates no evidence of a switch to a detrimental anti-inflammatory TH2 subtype at the expense of the potentially protective bactericidal TH1 subtype
On dynamical mass generation in three dimensional supersymmetric U(1) gauge field theory
We investigate and contrast the non-perturbative infra red structure of N=1
and N=2 supersymmetric non-compact U(1) gauge field theory in three space-time
dimensions with N matter flavours. We study the Dyson-Schwinger equations in a
general gauge using superfield formalism; this ensures that supersymmetry is
kept manifest, though leads to spurious infra red divergences which we have to
avoid carefully. In the N=1 case the superfield formalism allows us to choose a
vertex which satisfies the U(1) Ward identity exactly, and we find the expected
critical behaviour in the wavefunction renormalization and strong evidence for
the existence of a gauge independent dynamically generated mass, but with no
evidence for a critical flavour number. We study the N=2 model by dimensional
reduction from four dimensional N=1 electrodynamics, and we refine the old
gauge dependence argument that there is no dynamical mass generation. We
recognize that the refinement only holds after dimensional reduction.Comment: 32 pages RevTeX; 3 axodraw figures include
Variation with mass of \boldmath{B(E3; 0_1^+ \to 3_1^-)} transition rates in even-mass xenon nuclei
transition matrix elements have been measured for
even-mass Xe nuclei using sub-barrier Coulomb excitation in inverse
kinematics. The trends in energy and
excitation strengths are well reproduced using phenomenological models based on
a strong coupling picture with a soft quadrupole mode and an increasing
occupation of the intruder orbital.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, PRC in pres
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