Violation of the Ikeda sum rule and the self-consistency in the renormalized quasiparticle random phase approximation and the nuclear double-beta decay

The effect of the inclusion of ground state correlations into the QRPA equation of motion for the two-neutrino double beta ($\beta\beta_{2\nu}$) decay is carefully analyzed. The resulting model, called renormalized QRPA (RQRPA), does not collapse near the physical value of the nuclear force strength in the particle-particle channel, as happens with the ordinary QRPA. Still, the $\beta\beta_{2\nu}$ transition amplitude is only slightly less sensitive on this parameter in the RQRPA than that in the plain QRPA. It is argued that this fact reveals once more that the characteristic behaviour of the $\beta\beta_{2\nu}$ transition amplitude within the QRPA is not an artifact of the model, but a consequence of the partial restoration of the spin-isospin $SU(4)$ symmetry. It is shown that the price paid for bypassing the collapse in the RQRPA is the violation of the Ikeda sum rule.Comment: 16 pages, latex, 3 postscript figure

On the effective action of the vacuum photon splitting in Lorentz-violating QED

We consider one-loop radiative corrections from Lorentz- and CPT- violating extended QED to address the specific problem of finding explicitly an effective action describing amplitude of photon triple splitting. We show that it is not possible to find a nonzero photon triple splitting effective action, at least by using the derivative expansion method (at zero external momenta), up to leading order in the Lorentz- and CPT- violating parameter.Comment: 4 pages, version to appear in EP

Os estudos sobre Goa no âmbito do Oceano Índico

Durante décadas, Goa era um assunto esquecido ou marginal nos estudos que procuraram rever a história colonial e mapear os desenvolvimentos da descolonização europeia. Mas, na transição para o século XXI, Goa tornou-se o objecto de estudo de vários projectos de investigação e é temática cada vez mais conhecida. Por quê? E o que se tem concluído de diversos estudos sobre esse pequeno mas intrigante estado? A minha contribuição pretende oferecer uma visão do estado da arte relativa aos estudos sobre Goa, sublinhando as principais conclusões e o interesse dessas mesmas conclusões para os estudos sobre as dinâmicas sociopolíticas e culturais do Oceano Índico. Em segundo lugar, e dada a existência de várias línguas oficiais em Goa (konkani, marata e inglês), qual o lugar da herança cultural portuguesa e qual é o actual enquadramento dos estudos da literatura goesa em língua portuguesa

Self Consistent and Renormalized particle-particle RPA in a Schematic Model

The dynamical effects of ground state correlations for excitation energies and transition strengths near the superfluid phase transition are studied in the soluble two level pairing model, in the context of the particle-particle self consistent Random Phase Approximation (SCRPA). Exact results are well reproduced across the transition region, beyond the collapse of the standard particle-particle Random Phase Approximation. The effects of two-body correlation in the SCRPA are displayed explicitly.Comment: 11 pages, revtex, 3ps figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.