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Open Supermembranes Coupled to M-Theory Five-Branes
We consider open supermembranes in eleven dimensions in the presence of
closed M-Theory five-branes. It has been shown that, in a flat space-time, the
world-volume action is kappa invariant and preserves a fraction of the eleven
dimensional supersymmetries if the boundaries of the membranes lie on the
five-branes. We calculate the reparametrisation anomalies due to the chiral
fermions on the boundaries of the membrane and examine their cancellation
mechanism. We show that these anomalies cancel with the aid of a classical term
in the world-volume action, provided that the tensions of the five-brane and
the membrane are related to the eleven dimensional gravitational constant in a
way already noticed in M-Theory.Comment: Latex, 14 page
Electrical conductance of a 2D packing of metallic beads under thermal perturbation
Electrical conductivity measurements on a 2D packing of metallic beads have
been performed to study internal rearrangements in weakly pertubed granular
materials. Small thermal perturbations lead to large non gaussian conductance
fluctuations. These fluctuations are found to be intermittent and gathered in
bursts. The distributions of the waiting time between to peaks is found to be a
power law inside bursts. The exponent is independent of the bead network, the
intensity of the perturbation and external stress. these bursts are interpreted
as the signature of individual bead creep rather than collective vaults
reorganisations. We propose a simple model linking the exponent of the waiting
time distribution to the roughness exponent of the surface of the beads.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Measuring Bremsstrahlung Photons in 200 GeV p+p Collisions
Direct photon production is an important observable in heavy ion collisions
as photons are penetrating and therefore largely insensetive to final state
effects that lead to jet quenching. Measurements of the fragmentation component
to prompt photon yields in p+p and Au+Au collisions will provide both an
important test of pQCD predictions and of predictions for modifications of this
component in heavy ion collisions. By selecting photons associated with jets on
the near side using hadron-photon correlations, fragmentation photons can be
measured directly.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, poster presented at the 19th International
Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (QM2006
Heavy metal bioavailability and bioaccessibility in soil
This chapter considers the use of a variety of approaches to assess either the bioavailability or the bioaccessibility of metals in soil. The bioavailability of metals from soils is considered with respect to a series of single-extraction methods, including the use of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), acetic acid, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), ammonium nitrate, calcium chloride and sodium nitrate. Then, a procedure for the recovery of metals using a three-stage sequential extraction protocol is described. Two alternate approaches for assessing the environmental health risk to humans by undertaking in vitro gastrointestinal extraction (also known as the physiologically based extraction test, PBET) are considered. Finally, two acid digestion protocols that allow the pseudo-total metal content of samples to be assessed are provided. In all cases details of how the different approaches can be performed are provided, including the specific reagents required (and their preparation), details of the different extraction and acid digestion protocols to be followed and suitable analytical details to allow the measurement of metals by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) with/without a collision/reaction cell. A detailed Notes section provides experimental details to guide the reader through some of the practical aspects of the procedures. Finally, some experimental results are provided as evidence of the suitability of the approaches described including single-extraction data, using EDTA and acetic acid, for metals in CRM BCR 700. In addition, in vitro gastrointestinal extraction data are provided for metals in CRM SRM 1570A (spinach leaves). The influence of time on the intestinal fluid phase on the recovery of metals in CRM SRM 1570A (spinach leaves) and CRM INCT-TL-1 (tea leaves) is investigated, as well as the repeatability in terms of recovery of metals from soil over a 3-week period by in vitro gastrointestinal extraction
Smeared Gauge Fixing
We present a new method of gauge fixing to standard lattice Landau gauge, Max
Re Tr , in which the link configuration is recursively
smeared; these smeared links are then gauge fixed by standard extremization.
The resulting gauge transformation is simultaneously applied to the original
links. Following this preconditioning, the links are gauge fixed again as
usual. This method is free of Gribov copies, and we find that for physical
parameters ( in SU(2)), it generally results in the gauge fixed
configuration with the globally maximal trace. This method is a general
technique for finding a unique minimum to global optimization problems.Comment: 3 pages, 4 PostScript figures; Poster presented at LAT9
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