642 research outputs found
A Gettysburg Streetscape, North Washington Street in 1925
This paper explores life in Gettysburg on North Washington Street in 1925. It was the final project for Dr. Michael Birkner\u27s Spring 2017 Historical Methods class
Retrofitting Crude Oil Refinery Heat Exchanger Networks to Minimise Fouling While Maximising Heat Recovery
The use of fouling factors in heat exchanger design and the lack of appreciation of fouling in traditional pinch approach has often resulted badly designed crude preheat networks that are expensive to maintain. The development of thermal and pressure drop models for crude oil fouling has allowed its effects to be quantified, so that techno-economic analyses can be performed and various design options compared. Application of these fouling models is carried out on two levels: on the assessment of adding extra area to individual exchangers, and the design of a complete network using the Modified Temperature Field Plot. Application to a refinery case study showed that both at the exchanger and network levels, designing for maximum heat recovery using traditional pinch approach results in the least efficient heat recovery over a time period when fouling occurs
The Perturbative Pole Mass in QCD
It is widely believed that the pole mass of a quark is infrared-finite and
gauge-independent to all orders in perturbation theory. This seems not to have
been proved in the literature. A proof is provided here.Comment: 12 pages REVTeX with 2 figures; archiving published version with note
and references added. If you thought this was proven long ago see
http://www-theory.fnal.gov/people/ask/TeX/mPole
Effective Monopole Potential for SU(2) Lattice Gluodynamics in Spatial Maximal Abelian Gauge
We investigate the dual superconductor hypothesis in finite-temperature SU(2)
lattice gluodynamics in the Spatial Maximal Abelian gauge. This gauge is more
physical than the ordinary Maximal Abelian gauge due to absence of
non-localities in temporal direction. We show numerically that in the Spatial
Maximal Abelian gauge the probability distribution of the abelian monopole
field is consistent with the dual superconductor mechanism of confinement: the
abelian condensate vanishes in the deconfinement phase and is not zero in the
confinement phase.Comment: LaTeX2e, 8 pages with 3 EPS figures, uses epsf.st
Perturbative Expansion around the Gaussian Effective Action: The Background Field Method
We develop a systematic method of the perturbative expansion around the
Gaussian effective action based on the background field method. We show, by
applying the method to the quantum mechanical anharmonic oscillator problem,
that even the first non-trivial correction terms greatly improve the Gaussian
approximation.Comment: 16 pages, 3 eps figures, uses RevTeX and epsf. Errors in Table 1 are
corrected and new references are adde
Negative-Energy Spinors and the Fock Space of Lattice Fermions at Finite Chemical Potential
Recently it was suggested that the problem of species doubling with
Kogut-Susskind lattice fermions entails, at finite chemical potential, a
confusion of particles with antiparticles. What happens instead is that the
familiar correspondence of positive-energy spinors to particles, and of
negative-energy spinors to antiparticles, ceases to hold for the Kogut-Susskind
time derivative. To show this we highlight the role of the spinorial ``energy''
in the Osterwalder-Schrader reconstruction of the Fock space of non-interacting
lattice fermions at zero temperature and nonzero chemical potential. We
consider Kogut-Susskind fermions and, for comparison, fermions with an
asymmetric one-step time derivative.Comment: 14p
The Color--Flavor Transformation of induced QCD
The Zirnbauer's color-flavor transformation is applied to the
lattice gauge model, in which the gauge theory is induced by a heavy chiral
scalar field sitting on lattice sites. The flavor degrees of freedom can
encompass several `generations' of the auxiliary field, and for each
generation, remaining indices are associated with the elementary plaquettes
touching the lattice site. The effective, color-flavor transformed theory is
expressed in terms of gauge singlet matrix fields carried by lattice links. The
effective action is analyzed for a hypercubic lattice in arbitrary dimension.
We investigate the corresponding d=2 and d=3 dual lattices. The saddle points
equations of the model in the large- limit are discussed.Comment: 24 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys.
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