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Semileptonic decays in Lattice QCD : a feasibility study and first results
We compute the decays and with finite
masses for the and quarks. We first discuss the spectral properties of
both the meson as a function of its momentum and of the and
at rest. We compute the theoretical formulae leading to the decay
amplitudes from the three-point and two-point correlators. We then compute the
amplitudes at zero recoil of which turns out not to be
vanishing contrary to what happens in the heavy quark limit. This opens a
possibility to get a better agreement with experiment. To improve the continuum
limit we have added a set of data with smaller lattice spacing. The vanishes at zero recoil and we show a convincing signal but only
slightly more than 1 sigma from 0. In order to reach quantitatively significant
results, we plan to fully exploit smaller lattice spacings as well as another
lattice regularization.Comment: 31 pages with 15 figures ; sections 5 and 6 revised and update
Controlling integrability in a quasi-1D atom-dimer mixture
We analytically study the atom-dimer scattering problem in the
near-integrable limit when the oscillator length l_0 of the transverse
confinement is smaller than the dimer size, ~l_0^2/|a|, where a<0 is the
interatomic scattering length. The leading contributions to the atom-diatom
reflection and break-up probabilities are proportional to a^6 in the bosonic
case and to a^8 for the up-(up-down) scattering in a two-component fermionic
mixture. We show that by tuning a and l_0 one can control the "degree of
integrability" in a quasi-1D atom-dimer mixture in an extremely wide range
leaving thermodynamic quantities unchanged. We find that the relaxation to
deeply bound states in the fermionic (bosonic) case is slower (faster) than
transitions between different Bethe ansatz states. We propose a realistic
experiment for detailed studies of the crossover from integrable to
nonintegrable dynamics.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figur
Study of the scientific potential of a three 40 cm Telescopes Interferometer at Dome C
Recent site testing (see:
http://www-luan.unice.fr/Concordiastro/indexantartic.html) has shown that Dome
C in Antarctica might have a high potential for stellar interferometry if some
solutions related to the surface atmospheric layer are found. A demonstrator
interferometer could be envisioned in order to fully qualify the site and
prepare the future development of a large array.
We analyse the performances of a prototype interferometer for Dome C made
with 3 telescopes of 40 cm diameter. It assumes classical Michelson
recombination. The most recent atmospheric and environmental conditions
measured at Dome C are considered (see K. Agabi "First whole atmosphere
night-time seeing measurements at Dome C, Antarctica"). We also study the
possible science reachable with such a demonstrator. Especially we evaluate
that even such small aperture interferometer could allow the detection and low
resolution spectroscopy of the most favourable pegaside planets.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, conferences SPIE, 0rlando, 200
Gravitational effects in ultrahigh-energy string scattering
Ultrahigh-energy string scattering is investigated to clarify the relative
role of string and gravitational effects, and their possible contributions to
nonlocal behavior. Different regimes can be characterized by varying the impact
parameter at fixed energy. In the regime where momentum transfers reach the
string scale, string effects appear subdominant to higher-loop gravitational
processes, approximated via the eikonal. At smaller impact parameters,
"diffractive" or "tidal" string excitation leads to processes dominated by
highly excited strings. However, new evidence is presented that these
excitation effects do not play a direct role in black hole formation, which
corresponds to breakdown of gravitational perturbation theory and appears to
dominate at sufficiently small impact parameters. The estimated amplitudes
violate expected bounds on high-energy behavior for local theories.Comment: 19 pages, harvmac. v2: fixed typos, added refs and discussion of
longitudinal spread. v3: minor changes to agree with published versio
A comment on a paper by Carot et al
In a recent paper Carot et al. considered carefully the definition of
cylindrical symmetry as a specialisation of the case of axial symmetry. One of
their propositions states that if there is a second Killing vector, which
together with the one generating the axial symmetry, forms the basis of a
two-dimensional Lie algebra, then the two Killing vectors must commute, thus
generating an Abelian group. In this comment a similar result, valid under
considerably weaker assumptions, is recalled: any two-dimensional Lie
transformation group which contains a one-dimensional subgroup whose orbits are
circles, must be Abelian. The method used to prove this result is extended to
apply to three-dimensional Lie transformation groups. It is shown that the
existence of a one-dimensional subgroup with closed orbits restricts the
Bianchi type of the associated Lie algebra to be I (Abelian), II, III, VII_0,
VIII or IX. The relationship between the present approach and that of the
original paper is discussed.Comment: 6 pages, Te
The VLBA Calibrator Search for the BeSSeL Survey
We present the results of a survey of radio continuum sources near the
Galactic plane using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Our observations are
designed to identify compact extragalactic sources of milliarcsecond size that
can be used for parallax measurements in the Bar and Spiral Structure Legacy
Survey. We selected point sources from the NVSS and CORNISH catalogs with flux
densities above 30 mJy and within 1.5\degr of known maser targets. Of the
1529 sources observed, 199 were detected. For sources detected on 3 or more
baselines, we determined accurate positions and evaluated their quality as
potential calibrators. Most of the 1330 sources that were not detected with the
VLBA are probably of extragalactic origin.Comment: 27 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables. Table 3 is available on the homepage
of the BeSSeL survey:
http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/abrunthaler/BeSSeL/index.shtm
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