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The Glue Around Quarks and the Interquark Potential
The quarks of quark models cannot be identified with the quarks of the QCD
Lagrangian. We review the restrictions that gauge field theories place on any
description of physical (colour) charges. A method to construct charged
particles is presented. The solutions are applied to a variety of applications.
Their Green's functions are shown to be free of infra-red divergences to all
orders in perturbation theory. The interquark potential is analysed and it is
shown that the interaction responsible for anti-screening results from the
force between two separately gauge invariant constituent quarks. A fundamental
limit on the applicability of quark models is identified.Comment: 4 pages, LaTeX, talk given at Montpellier meeting QCD9
Girls and Gangs: A Decade on From the Firmin Report and What Has Changed?
Presenting data from the first phase of a U.K.-based 5-year mixed-methods study, we restart a decade-long conversation into Girls and Gangs and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). The relationship between the two is not mutually exclusive and coupled with the recent optics surrounding youth violence and gendered violence, we discuss how the needs of women are being somewhat hindered as a result of U.K. governmental vacillation. We therefore consider the serious impact of VAWG and the concomitancy with youth violence/gangs. By drawing on contemporary feminist criminological theorizing, we aim to galvanize governmental responses to prioritize the needs of women at a time when policymakers are arguably poised to listen
Quantumness in decoherent quantum walk using measurement-induced disturbance
The classicalization of a decoherent discrete-time quantum walk on a line or
an n-cycle can be demonstrated in various ways that do not necessarily provide
a geometry-independent description. For example, the position probability
distribution becomes increasingly Gaussian, with a concomitant fall in the
standard deviation, in the former case, but not in the latter. As another
example, each step of the quantum walk on a line may be subjected to an
arbitrary phase gate, without affecting the position probability distribution,
no matter whether the walk is noiseless or noisy. This symmetry, which is
absent in the case of noiseless cyclic walk, but is restored in the presence of
sufficient noise, serves as an indicator of classicalization, but only in the
cyclic case. Here we show that the degree of quantum correlations between the
coin and position degrees of freedom, quantified by a measure based on the
disturbance induced by local measurements (Luo, Phys. Rev. A 77, 022301
(2008)), provides a suitable measure of classicalization across both type of
walks. Applying this measure to compare the two walks, we find that cyclic
quantum walks tend to classicalize faster than quantum walks on a line because
of more efficient phase randomization due to the self-interference of the two
counter-rotating waves. We model noise as acting on the coin, and given by the
squeezed generalized amplitude damping (SGAD) channel, which generalizes the
generalized amplitude damping channel.Comment: 8 pages with 8 figures, Published versio
Asymptotic Dynamics in Quantum Field Theory
A crucial element of scattering theory and the LSZ reduction formula is the
assumption that the coupling vanishes at large times. This is known not to hold
for the theories of the Standard Model and in general such asymptotic dynamics
is not well understood. We give a description of asymptotic dynamics in field
theories which incorporates the important features of weak convergence and
physical boundary conditions. Applications to theories with three and four
point interactions are presented and the results are shown to be completely
consistent with the results of perturbation theory.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figure
Absolute rigidity spectrum of protons and helium nuclei above 10 GV/c
Proton and helium nuclei differential spectra were gathered with a balloon borne magnet spectrometer. The data were fitted to the assumption that the differential flux can be represented by a power law in rigidity. In the rigidity range 10 to 25 GV/c the spectral indices were found to be -(2.74 plus or minus 0.04) for protons and -(2.71 plus or minus 0.05) for helium nuclei. A brief discussion is given by systematic errors
Observation of cosmic ray positrons from 5 to 25 GeV
The positron data gathered in conjunction with electron data published elsewhere is reported. The basic recognition scheme was to look for low mass positive particles that cause a cascade in a 7 radiation length shower counter. The mass criteria is imposed by selecting particles that were accompanied by Cherenkov light but whose rigidity was below the proton Cherenkov threshold. Thus the proton Cherenkov threshold represents an upper limit to the range of the experiment
Section on Prospects for Dark Matter Detection of the White Paper on the Status and Future of Ground-Based TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy
This is a report on the findings of the dark matter science working group for
the white paper on the status and future of TeV gamma-ray astronomy. The white
paper was commissioned by the American Physical Society, and the full white
paper can be found on astro-ph (arXiv:0810.0444). This detailed section
discusses the prospects for dark matter detection with future gamma-ray
experiments, and the complementarity of gamma-ray measurements with other
indirect, direct or accelerator-based searches. We conclude that any
comprehensive search for dark matter should include gamma-ray observations,
both to identify the dark matter particle (through the charac- teristics of the
gamma-ray spectrum) and to measure the distribution of dark matter in galactic
halos.Comment: Report from the Dark Matter Science Working group of the APS
commissioned White paper on ground-based TeV gamma ray astronomy (19 pages, 9
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A divide-down RF source generation system for the Advanced Photon Source
A divide-down rf source system has been designed and built at Argonne National Laboratory to provide harmonically-related and phase-locked rf source signals between the APS 352-MHz storage ring and booster synchrotron rf systems and the 9.77-MHz and 117-MHz positron accumulator ring rf systems. The design provides rapid switching capability back to individual rf synthesizers for each one. The system also contains a digital bucket phase shifter for injection bucket selection. Input 352-MHz rf from a master synthesizer is supplied to a VXI-based ECL divider board which produces 117-MHz and 9.77-MHz square-wave outputs. These outputs are passed through low-pass filters to produce pure signals at the required fundamental frequencies. These signals, plus signals at the same frequencies from independent synthesizers, are fed to an interface chassis where source selection is made via local/remote control of coaxial relays. This chassis also produces buffered outputs at each frequency for monitoring and synchronization of ancillary equipment
X-ray variability of AGNs in the soft and the hard X-ray bands
We investigate the X-ray variability characteristics of hard X-ray selected
AGNs (based on Swift/BAT data) in the soft X-ray band using the RXTE/ASM data.
The uncertainties involved in the individual dwell measurements of ASM are
critically examined and a method is developed to combine a large number of
dwells with appropriate error propagation to derive long duration flux
measurements (greater than 10 days). We also provide a general prescription to
estimate the errors in variability derived from rms values from unequally
spaced data. Though the derived variability for individual sources are not of
very high significance, we find that, in general, the soft X-ray variability is
higher than those in hard X-rays and the variability strengths decrease with
energy for the diverse classes of AGN. We also examine the strength of
variability as a function of the break time scale in the power density spectrum
(derived from the estimated mass and bolometric luminosity of the sources) and
find that the data are consistent with the idea of higher variability at time
scales longer than the break time scale.Comment: 17 pages, 15 Postscript figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication
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