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An example of resonance saturation at one loop
We argue that the large-Nc expansion of QCD can be used to treat a Lagrangian
of resonances in a perturbative way. As an illustration of this we compute the
L_10 coupling of the Chiral Lagrangian by integrating out resonance fields at
one loop. Given a Lagrangian and a renormalization scheme, this is how in
principle one can answer in a concrete and unambiguous manner questions such as
at what scale resonance saturation takes place.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures. Enlarged discussion, results unchanged. To be
published in Phys. Rev.
On the relation between low-energy constants and resonance saturation
Although there are phenomenological indications that the low-energy constants
in the chiral lagrangian may be understood in terms of a finite number of
hadronic resonances, it remains unclear how this follows from QCD. One of the
arguments usually given is that low-energy constants are associated with chiral
symmetry breaking, while QCD perturbation theory suggests that at high energy
chiral symmetry is unbroken, so that only low-lying resonances contribute to
the low-energy constants. We revisit this argument in the limit of large Nc,
discussing its validity in particular for the low-energy constant L8, and
conclude that QCD may be more subtle that what this argument suggests. We
illustrate our considerations in a simple Regge-like model which also applies
at finite Nc.Comment: 15 pages, one figur
Annoyance due to railway vibration at different times of the day
The time of day when vibration occurs is considered as a factor influencing the human response to vibration. The aim of the present paper is to identify the times of day during which railway vibration causes the greatest annoyance, to measure the differences between annoyance responses for different time periods and to obtain estimates of the time of day penalties. This was achieved using data from case studies comprised of face-to-face interviews and internal vibration measurements (N=755). Results indicate that vibration annoyance differs with time of day and that separate time of day weights can be applied when considering exposure–response relationships from railway
vibration in residential environments
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