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Towards a new determination of the QCD Lambda parameter from running couplings in the three-flavour theory
We review our new strategy and current status towards a high precision
computation of the Lambda parameter from three-flavour simulations in QCD. To
reach this goal we combine specific advantages of the Schr\"odinger functional
and gradient flow couplings.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures; Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium
on Lattice Field Theory; 23-28 June, 2014, Columbia University, New Yor
Kinetic Ising System in an Oscillating External Field: Stochastic Resonance and Residence-Time Distributions
Experimental, analytical, and numerical results suggest that the mechanism by
which a uniaxial single-domain ferromagnet switches after sudden field reversal
depends on the field magnitude and the system size. Here we report new results
on how these distinct decay mechanisms influence hysteresis in a
two-dimensional nearest-neighbor kinetic Ising model. We present theoretical
predictions supported by numerical simulations for the frequency dependence of
the probability distributions for the hysteresis-loop area and the
period-averaged magnetization, and for the residence-time distributions. The
latter suggest evidence of stochastic resonance for small systems in moderately
weak oscillating fields.Comment: Includes updated results for Fig.2 and minor text revisions to the
abstract and text for clarit
The -parameter in 3-flavour QCD and by the ALPHA collaboration
We present results by the ALPHA collaboration for the -parameter in
3-flavour QCD and the strong coupling constant at the electroweak scale,
, in terms of hadronic quantities computed on the CLS gauge
configurations. The first part of this proceedings contribution contains a
review of published material \cite{Brida:2016flw,DallaBrida:2016kgh} and yields
the -parameter in units of a low energy scale, . We
then discuss how to determine this scale in physical units from experimental
data for the pion and kaon decay constants. We obtain MeV which translates to
using perturbation theory to match between 3-, 4- and 5-flavour QCD.Comment: 21 pages. Collects contributions of A. Ramos, S. Sint and R. Sommer
to the 34th annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory; LaTeX
input encoding problem fixe
K- absorption in nuclei by two and three nucleons
It will be shown that the peaks in the (Lambda p) and (Lambda d) invariant
mass distributions, observed in recent FINUDA experiments and claimed to be
signals of deeply bound kaonic states, are naturally explained in terms of K-
absorption by two or three nucleons leaving the rest of the original nuclei as
spectator. For reactions on heavy nuclei, the subsequent interactions of the
particles produced in the primary absorption process with the residual nucleus
play an important role. Our analyses leads to the conclusion that at present
there is no experimental evidence of deeply bound K- state in nuclei. Although
the FINUDA experiments have been done for reasons which are not supported a
posteriori, some new physics can be extracted from the data.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. Talk presented at the International Conference on
Exotic Atoms "EXA 2008", Vienna, Austria, September 15-18, 200
Correlations in Hot Asymmetric Nuclear Matter
The single-particle spectral functions in asymmetric nuclear matter are
computed using the ladder approximation within the theory of finite temperature
Green's functions. The internal energy and the momentum distributions of
protons and neutrons are studied as a function of the density and the asymmetry
of the system. The proton states are more strongly depleted when the asymmetry
increases while the occupation of the neutron states is enhanced as compared to
the symmetric case. The self-consistent Green's function approach leads to
slightly smaller energies as compared to the Brueckner Hartree Fock approach.
This effect increases with density and thereby modifies the saturation density
and leads to smaller symmetry energies.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure
Signatures of the impact of flare ejected plasma on the photosphere of a sunspot light-bridge
We investigate the properties of a sunspot light-bridge, focusing on the
changes produced by the impact of a plasma blob ejected from a C-class flare.
We observed a sunspot in active region NOAA 12544 using spectropolarimetric
raster maps of the four Fe I lines around 15655 \AA\ with the GREGOR Infrared
Spectrograph (GRIS), narrow-band intensity images sampling the Fe I 6173 \AA\
line with the GREGOR Fabry-P\'erot Interferometer (GFPI), and intensity broad
band images in G-band and Ca II H band with the High-resolution Fast Imager
(HiFI). All these instruments are located at the GREGOR telescope at the
Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. The data cover the time before,
during, and after the flare event. The analysis is complemented with
Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI)
data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The physical parameters of the
atmosphere at differents heights were inferred using spectral-line inversion
techniques. We identify photospheric and chromospheric brightenings, heating
events, and changes in the Stokes profiles associated to the flare eruption and
the subsequent arrival of the plasma blob to the light bridge, after traveling
along an active region loop. The measurements suggest that these phenomena are
the result of reconnection events driven by the interaction of the plasma blob
with the magnetic field topology of the light bridge.Comment: Accepted for publication in A&
Magnetothermal instabilities in magnetized anisotropic plasmas
Using the transport equations for an ideal anisotropic collisionless plasma
derived from the Vlasov equation by the 16-moment method, we analyse the
influence of pressure anisotropy exhibited by collisionless magnetized plasmas
on the magnetothermal (MTI) and heat-flux-driven buoyancy (HBI) instabilities.
We calculate the dispersion relation and the growth rates for these
instabilities in the presence of a background heat flux and for configurations
with static pressure anisotropy, finding that when the frequency at which heat
conduction acts is much larger than any other frequency in the system (i.e.
weak magnetic field) the pressure anisotropy has no effect on the MTI/HBI,
provided the degree of anisotropy is small. In contrast, when this ordering of
timescales does not apply the instability criteria depend on pressure
anisotropy. Specifically, the growth time of the instabilities in the
anisotropic case can be almost one order of magnitude smaller than its
isotropic counterpart. We conclude that in plasmas where pressure anisotropy is
present the MTI/HBI are modified. However, in environments with low magnetic
fields and small anisotropy such as the ICM the results obtained from the
16-moment equations under the approximations considered are similar to those
obtained from ideal MHD.Comment: v3: 16 pages, 2 figures, fixed typos, added references and a final
note on related wor
Ion-beam mixing induced by atomic and cluster bombardment in the electronic stopping-power regime
Single crystals of magnesium oxide containing nanoprecipitates of sodium were bombarded with swift ions (∼GeV-Pb, U) or cluster beams (∼20 MeV-C60) to study the phase change induced by electronic processes at high stopping power (≳10 keV/nm). The sodium precipitates and the defect creation were characterized by optical absorption and transmission electron microscopy. The ion or cluster bombardment leads to an evolution of the Na precipitate concentration but the size distribution remains unchanged. The decrease in Na metallic concentration is attributed to mixing effects at the interfaces between Na clusters and MgO. In addition, optical-absorption measurements show a broadening of the absorption band associated with electron plasma oscillations in Na clusters. This effect is due to a decrease of the electron mean free path, which could be induced by defect creation in the metal. All these results show an influence of high electronic stopping power in materials known to be very resistant to irradiation with weak ionizing projectiles. The dependence of these effects on electronic stopping power and on various solid-state parameters is discussed
Latest results for the antikaon-nucleon optical potential
The key question of this letter is whether the K-nucleus optical potential is
deep, as it is prefered by the phenomenological fits to kaonic atoms data, or
shallow, as it comes out from unitary chiral model calculations. The current
experimental situation is reviewed.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure. Presented at the 21st European Conference on the
Few-Body problems in Physics (EFB21), Salamanca, Spain, August 29 - September
3, 201
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