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    Anomaly, Charge Quantization and Family

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    We first review the three known chiral anomalies in four dimensions and then use the anomaly free conditions to study the uniqueness of quark and lepton representations and charge quantizations in the standard model. We also extend our results to theory with an arbitrary number of color. Finally, we discuss the family problem.Comment: 7 pages, LaTex file, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Nonperturbative Methods and Lattice QCD, Guangzhou, Chin

    Gamma-Ray Burst Jet Profiles And Their Signatures

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    HETE-II and BeppoSAX have produced a sample of GRBs and XRFs with known redshifts and EpkE_{pk}. This sample provides four important empirical constraints on the nature of the source jets: Log EisoE_{iso} is approximately uniformly distributed over several orders of magnitude; the inferred prompt energy Log EγE_{\gamma} is narrowly distributed; the Amati relation holds between EisoE_{iso} and EpkE_{pk}; and the Ghirlanda relation holds between EγE_{\gamma} and EpkE_{pk}. We explore the implications of these constraints for GRB jet structure during the prompt emission phase. We infer the underlying angular profiles from the first two of the above constraints assuming all jets have the same profile and total energy, and show that such ``universal jet'' models cannot satisfy both constraints. We introduce a general and efficient method for calculating relativistic emission distributions and EpkE_{pk} distributions from jets with arbitrary (smooth) angular jet profiles. We also exhibit explicit analytical formulas for emission from top-hat jets (which are not smooth). We use these methods to exhibit EpkE_{pk} and EisoE_{iso} as a function of viewing angle, for several interesting families of GRB jet profiles. We use the same methods to calculate expected frequency distributions of EisoE_{iso} and EγE_{\gamma} for the same families of models. We then proceed to explore the behavior of universal jet models under a range of profile shapes and parameters, to map the extent to which these models can conform to the above four empirical constraints.Comment: 71 page, 33 figures. Submitted to Ap

    Likelihood Analysis of GRB Evolution with Redshift

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    We present a likelihood approach to modeling multi-dimensional GRB Epeak--fluence--redshift data that naturally incorporates instrument detection thresholds. The treatment of instrument thresholds is essential for analyzing evidence for GRB evolution. The method described here compares the data to a uniform jet model, in which the jet parameters are allowed to vary with redshift. Data from different experiments may be modeled jointly. In addition, BATSE data (for which no redshift information is available) may be incorporated by ascribing to each event a likelihood derived from the full model by integrating the probability density over the unknown redshift. The loss of redshift information is mitigated by the large number of available bursts. We discuss the implementation of the method, and validation of it using simulated data.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. Poster presented at the 4th Workshop Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, Rome,18-22 October 2004. Editors: L. Piro, L. Amati, S. Covino, and B. Gendre. Il Nuovo Cimento, in pres

    Jet Models of X-Ray Flashes

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    One third of all HETE-2--localized bursts are X-Ray Flashes (XRFs), a class of events first identified by Heise in which the fluence in the 2-30 keV energy band exceeds that in the 30-400 keV energy band. We summarize recent HETE-2 and other results on the properties of XRFs. These results show that the properties of XRFs, X-ray-rich gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and GRBs form a continuum, and thus provide evidence that all three kinds of bursts are closely related phenomena. As the most extreme burst population, XRFs provide severe constraints on burst models and unique insights into the structure of GRB jets, the GRB rate, and the nature of Type Ib/Ic supernovae. We briefly mention a number of the physical models that have been proposed to explain XRFs. We then consider two fundamentally different classes of phenomenological jet models: universal jet models, in which it is posited that all GRBs jets are identical and that differences in the observed properties of the bursts are due entirely to differences in the viewing angle; and variable-opening angle jet models, in which it is posited that GRB jets have a distribution of jet opening angles and that differences in the observed properties of the bursts are due to differences in the emissivity and spectra of jets having different opening angles. We consider three shapes for the emissivity as a function of the viewing angle theta_v from the axis of the jet: power-law, top hat (or uniform), and Gaussian (or Fisher). We then discuss the effect of relativistic beaming on each of these models. We show that observations can distinguish between these various models.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Invited review talk at the 4th Workshop Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, Rome,18-22 October 2004. Editors: L. Piro, L. Amati, S. Covino, and B. Gendre. Il Nuovo Cimento, in pres
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