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Commentary: new developments in single photon detection in the short wavelength infrared regime
General moments of the inverse real Wishart distribution and orthogonal Weingarten functions
Let be a random positive definite symmetric matrix distributed according
to a real Wishart distribution and let be its inverse
matrix. We compute general moments explicitly. To do so, we employ the orthogonal Weingarten
function, which was recently introduced in the study for Haar-distributed
orthogonal matrices. As applications, we give formulas for moments of traces of
a Wishart matrix and its inverse.Comment: 29 pages. The last version differs from the published version, but it
includes Appendi
Low Timing Jitter Detector for Gigahertz Quantum Key Distribution
A superconducting single-photon detector based on a niobium nitride nanowire
is demonstrated in an optical-fibre-based quantum key distribution test bed
operating at a clock rate of 3.3 GHz and a transmission wavelength of 850 nm.
The low jitter of the detector leads to significant reduction in the estimated
quantum bit error rate and a resultant improvement in the secrecy efficiency
compared to previous estimates made by use of silicon single-photon avalanche
detectors.Comment: 11 pages, including 2 figure
Decoupling heavy particles simultaneously
The renormalization group is extended to cases where several heavy particles
are decoupled at the same time. This involves large logarithms which are
scale-invariant and so cannot be eliminated by a change of renormalization
scheme. A set of scale-invariant running couplings, one for each heavy
particle, is constructed without reference to intermediate thresholds. The
entire heavy-quark correction to the axial charge of the weak neutral current
is derived to next-to-leading order, and checked in leading order by evaluating
diagrams explicitly. The mechanism for cancelling contributions from the top
and bottom quarks in the equal-mass limit is surprisingly non-trivial.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. Talk presented at the "QCD Down Under" Workshop,
Barossa Valley and Adelaide, Australia, 10-19 March 2004, with ref 8 now
linked to hep-ph/050727
The WHAM Northern Sky Survey and the Nature of the Warm Ionized Medium in the Galaxy
The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) has completed a velocity-resolved map of
diffuse H-alpha emission of the entire northern sky, providing the first
comprehensive picture of both the distribution and kinematics of diffuse
ionized gas in the Galaxy. WHAM continues to advance our understanding of the
physical conditions of the warm ionized medium through observations of other
optical emission lines throughout the Galactic disk and halo. We discuss some
highlights from the survey, including an optical window into the inner Galaxy
and the relationship between HI and HII in the diffuse ISM.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures. To be published in "How does the Galaxy work?",
eds. E.J. Alfaro, E. Perez & J. Franco, Kluwer, held 23-27 June 2003 in
Granada, Spain. Higher resolution version available at
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~madsen/prof/pubs.htm
Exponentiation of the Drell-Yan cross section near partonic threshold in the DIS and MSbar schemes
It has been observed that in the DIS scheme the refactorization of the
Drell-Yan cross section leading to exponentiation of threshold logarithms can
also be used to organize a class of constant terms, most of which arise from
the ratio of the timelike Sudakov form factor to its spacelike counterpart. We
extend this exponentiation to include all constant terms, and demonstrate how a
similar organization may be achieved in the MSbar scheme. We study the
relevance of these exponentiations in a two-loop analysis.Comment: 20 pages, JHEP style, no figure
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Development of the thermal denitration in-storage-can step in the CEUSP process
A thermal denitration in-the-storage-can process has been developed for use in the Consolidated Edison Uranium Solidification Program Facility. This process is being used to convert approx.1000 kg of highly fissile and radioactive uranium to a solid form for safe long-term storage. The material being solidified also contains approx.300 kg of cadmium and approx.40 kg of gadolinium which had been combined with the uranium to provide criticality safety. The unique thermal denitration process was found to be extremely susceptible to entrainment of solids by splattering, foaming, or expulsion actions. The process connection nozzle, through which the feed solution and purging air are supplied and the emerging off-gases are discharged, and the off-gas handling system were modified extensively to permit operation without development of nozzle or line pluggage due to accumulation of solid deposits. A process study was made to determine the effects of feed components and process variables on the tendency of the reacting mixture to splatter, foam, or be expelled. Because of the equipment modifications and the selection of appropriate processing conditions, the feed material is being denitrated without significant problems
The effect of spring burning on competitive ranking of prairie species
A common explanation for the changes in species abundance following a fire is a shift in competitive ranking. However, experimental tests have been inconsistent and generally do not support this explanation. I examined the competitive ability of an abundant C 4 grass, Andropogon gerardii , and a C 3 forb, Ratibida pinnata , in a prairie remnant in northern Ohio, USA, for each of three years following a spring burn in 1996. While the abiotic environment directly influenced both species similarly, relative competitive abilities in terms of growth changed markedly: in 1996 Andropogon was less inhibited by neighbors; in 1997 both Andropogon and Ratibida had similar competitive abilities; and in 1998 Ratibida was less inhibited by neighbors. This shift in competitive response ranking paralleled the changes in relative abundance for the two species. In contrast, the effect of neighbors on survival changed markedly over time but did not differ among the two species. Thus, fire may influence species abundance through changing species competitive response ranking, at least in terms of growth.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72362/1/3236873.pd
Initial-State Interactions in the Unpolarized Drell-Yan Process
We show that initial-state interactions contribute to the
distribution in unpolarized Drell-Yan lepton pair production and , without suppression. The asymmetry is expressed as a
product of chiral-odd distributions , where the quark-transversity function
is the transverse momentum dependent, light-cone
momentum distribution of transversely polarized quarks in an {\it unpolarized}
proton. We compute this (naive) -odd and chiral-odd distribution function
and the resulting asymmetry explicitly in a quark-scalar diquark
model for the proton with initial-state gluon interaction. In this model the
function equals the -odd (chiral-even) Sivers
effect function . This suggests that the
single-spin asymmetries in the SIDIS and the Drell-Yan process are closely
related to the asymmetry of the unpolarized Drell-Yan process,
since all can arise from the same underlying mechanism. This provides new
insight regarding the role of quark and gluon orbital angular momentum as well
as that of initial- and final-state gluon exchange interactions in hard QCD
processes.Comment: 22 pages, 6 figure
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