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Measurement of the fraction of t-tbar production via gluon-gluon fusion in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
We present a measurement of the ratio of t-tbar production cross section via
gluon-gluon fusion to the total t-tbar production cross section in p-pbar
collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV at the Tevatron. Using a data sample with an
integrated luminosity of 955/pb recorded by the CDF II detector at Fermilab, we
select events based on the t-tbar decay to lepton+jets. Using an artificial
neural network technique we discriminate between t-tbar events produced via
q-qbar annihilation and gluon-gluon fusion, and find
Cf=(gg->ttbar)/(pp->ttbar)<0.33 at the 68% confidence level. This result is
combined with a previous measurement to obtain the most precise measurement of
this quantity, Cf=0.07+0.15-0.07.Comment: submitted to Phys. Rev.
Measurement of Resonance Parameters of Orbitally Excited Narrow B^0 Mesons
We report a measurement of resonance parameters of the orbitally excited
(L=1) narrow B^0 mesons in decays to B^{(*)+}\pi^- using 1.7/fb of data
collected by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The mass and width
of the B^{*0}_2 state are measured to be m(B^{*0}_2) =
5740.2^{+1.7}_{-1.8}(stat.) ^{+0.9}_{-0.8}(syst.) MeV/c^2 and \Gamma(B^{*0}_2)
= 22.7^{+3.8}_{-3.2}(stat.) ^{+3.2}_{-10.2}(syst.) MeV/c^2. The mass difference
between the B^{*0}_2 and B^0_1 states is measured to be
14.9^{+2.2}_{-2.5}(stat.) ^{+1.2}_{-1.4}(syst.) MeV/c^2, resulting in a B^0_1
mass of 5725.3^{+1.6}_{-2.2}(stat.) ^{+1.4}_{-1.5}(syst.) MeV/c^2. This is
currently the most precise measurement of the masses of these states and the
first measurement of the B^{*0}_2 width.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. Submitted to Phys.Rev.Let
Search for lepton flavor violating decays of a heavy neutral particle in p-pbar collisions at root(s)=1.8 TeV
We report on a search for a high mass, narrow width particle that decays
directly to e+mu, e+tau, or mu+tau. We use approximately 110 pb^-1 of data
collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab from 1992 to 1995. No evidence
of lepton flavor violating decays is found. Limits are set on the production
and decay of sneutrinos with R-parity violating interactions.Comment: Figure 2 fixed. Reference 4 fixed. Minor changes to tex
Spectro-microscopy of single and multi-layer graphene supported by a weakly interacting substrate
We report measurements of the electronic structure and surface morphology of
exfoliated graphene on an insulating substrate using angle-resolved
photoemission and low energy electron diffraction. Our results show that
although exfoliated graphene is microscopically corrugated, the valence band
retains a massless fermionic dispersion, with a Fermi velocity of ~10^6 m/s. We
observe a close relationship between the morphology and electronic structure,
which suggests that controlling the interaction between graphene and the
supporting substrate is essential for graphene device applications.Comment: 10 pages of text, 4 JPEG figure
Modal Logics of Topological Relations
Logical formalisms for reasoning about relations between spatial regions play
a fundamental role in geographical information systems, spatial and constraint
databases, and spatial reasoning in AI. In analogy with Halpern and Shoham's
modal logic of time intervals based on the Allen relations, we introduce a
family of modal logics equipped with eight modal operators that are interpreted
by the Egenhofer-Franzosa (or RCC8) relations between regions in topological
spaces such as the real plane. We investigate the expressive power and
computational complexity of logics obtained in this way. It turns out that our
modal logics have the same expressive power as the two-variable fragment of
first-order logic, but are exponentially less succinct. The complexity ranges
from (undecidable and) recursively enumerable to highly undecidable, where the
recursively enumerable logics are obtained by considering substructures of
structures induced by topological spaces. As our undecidability results also
capture logics based on the real line, they improve upon undecidability results
for interval temporal logics by Halpern and Shoham. We also analyze modal
logics based on the five RCC5 relations, with similar results regarding the
expressive power, but weaker results regarding the complexity
Ghost Busting: PT-Symmetric Interpretation of the Lee Model
The Lee model was introduced in the 1950s as an elementary quantum field
theory in which mass, wave function, and charge renormalization could be
carried out exactly. In early studies of this model it was found that there is
a critical value of g^2, the square of the renormalized coupling constant,
above which g_0^2, the square of the unrenormalized coupling constant, is
negative. Thus, for g^2 larger than this critical value, the Hamiltonian of the
Lee model becomes non-Hermitian. It was also discovered that in this
non-Hermitian regime a new state appears whose norm is negative. This state is
called a ghost state. It has always been assumed that in this ghost regime the
Lee model is an unacceptable quantum theory because unitarity appears to be
violated. However, in this regime while the Hamiltonian is not Hermitian, it
does possess PT symmetry. It has recently been discovered that a non-Hermitian
Hamiltonian having PT symmetry may define a quantum theory that is unitary. The
proof of unitarity requires the construction of a new time-independent operator
called C. In terms of C one can define a new inner product with respect to
which the norms of the states in the Hilbert space are positive. Furthermore,
it has been shown that time evolution in such a theory is unitary. In this
paper the C operator for the Lee model in the ghost regime is constructed
exactly in the V/N-theta sector. It is then shown that the ghost state has a
positive norm and that the Lee model is an acceptable unitary quantum field
theory for all values of g^2.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figure
Current conservation in two-dimensional AC-transport
The electric current conservation in a two-dimensional quantum wire under a
time dependent field is investigated. Such a conservation is obtained as the
global density of states contribution to the emittance is balanced by the
contribution due to the internal charge response inside the sample. However
when the global partial density of states is approximately calculated using
scattering matrix only, correction terms are needed to obtain precise current
conservation. We have derived these corrections analytically using a specific
two-dimensional system. We found that when the incident energy is near the
first subband, our result reduces to the one-dimensional result. As
approaches to the -th subband with , the correction term diverges. This
explains the systematic deviation to precise current conservation observed in a
previous numerical calculation.Comment: 12 pages Latex, submitted to Phys. Rev.
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