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A fifty year record of winter glacier melt events in southern Chile, 38°–42°S
Little is known about the frequency and potential mass balance impact of winter glacier melt events. In this study, daily atmospheric temperature soundings from the Puerto Montt radiosonde (41.43°S) are used to reconstruct winter melting events at the glacier equilibrium line altitude in the 38°–42°S region of southern Chile, between 1960 and 2010. The representativeness of the radiosonde temperatures to near-surface glacier temperatures is demonstrated using meteorological records from close to the equilibrium line on two glaciers in the region over five winters. Using a degree-day model we estimate an average of 0.28 m of melt and 21 melt days in the 15 June–15 September period each year, with high inter-annual variability. The majority of melt events are associated with midlatitude migratory high pressure systems crossing Chile and northwesterly flows, that force adiabatic compression and warm advection, respectively. There are no trends in the frequency or magnitude of melt events over the period of record, but the annual frequency of winter melt days shows a significant, although rather weak and probably non-linear, relationship to late winter and early spring values of a multivariate El Niño Southern Oscillation Index (MEI)
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Virulence of Spanish Phytophthora nicotianae isolates towards Capsicum annuum germplasm and pathogenicity towards Lycopersicum esculentum
The virulence of six northwestern Spanish Phytophthora nicotianae Breda de Haan isolates towards the pepper (Capsicum annuum) cultivars commonly used for the determination of P. capsici Leonian pathotype (SCM 334, PI201234 and Yolo Wonder), was similar to that of the latter oomycete but different to that of the German reference isolate P. nicotianae 411.87. When nine local C. annuum cultivars were inoculated with a P. nicotianae isolate of well known pathogenicity, the virulence recorded was significantly different to that recorded for P. capsici. Though the average level of resistance of the northwestern Spanish Capsicum germplasm to P. nicotianae was incomplete and weaker than that recorded for the SCM 334 and PI201234 cultivars, genotypes Co 12B and Co 3.25 showed high resistance to this oomycete. None of the six northwestern Spanish P. nicotianae isolates tested were pathogenic towards Lycopersicum esculentum cv. S. Pedro, unlike P. capsici, which produced clear collar and root rot in this host
Radiation induced zero-resistance states: a dressed electronic structure effect
Recent results on magnetoresistance in a two dimensional electron gas under
crossed magnetic and microwave fields show a new class of oscillations,
suggesting a new kind of zero-resistance states. A complete understanding of
the effect is still lacking. We consider the problem from the point of view of
the electronic structure dressed by photons due to a in plane linearly
polarized ac field. The dramatic changes in the dressed electronic structure
lead to a interpretation of the new magnetoresistance oscillations as a
persistent-current like effect, induced by the radiation field.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, revtex4, changes in introduction and added
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Constraints on extra dimensions from precision molecular spectroscopy
Accurate investigations of quantum level energies in molecular systems are
shown to provide a test ground to constrain the size of compactified extra
dimensions. This is made possible by the recent progress in precision metrology
with ultrastable lasers on energy levels in neutral molecular hydrogen (H,
HD and D) and the molecular hydrogen ions (H, HD and D).
Comparisons between experiment and quantum electrodynamics calculations for
these molecular systems can be interpreted in terms of probing large extra
dimensions, under which conditions gravity will become much stronger. Molecules
are a probe of space-time geometry at typical distances where chemical bonds
are effective, i.e. at length scales of an \AA. Constraints on compactification
radii for extra dimensions are derived within the Arkani-Hamed-Dimopoulos-Dvali
framework, while constraints for curvature or brane separation are derived
within the Randall-Sundrum framework. Based on the molecular spectroscopy of
D molecules and HD ions, the compactification size for seven extra
dimensions (in connection to M-theory defined in 11 dimensions) of equal size
is shown to be limited to m. While limits on compactification
sizes of extra dimensions based on other branches of physics are compared, the
prospect of further tightening constraints from the molecular method is
discussed
Effect of Charged Scalar Loops on Photonic Decays of a Fermiophobic Higgs
Higgs bosons with very suppressed couplings to fermions ("Fermiophobic Higgs
bosons", h_f) can decay to two photons (\gamma\gamma) with a branching ratio
significantly larger than that expected for the Standard Model Higgs boson for
m_{h_f}<150 GeV. Such a particle would give a clear signal at the LHC and can
arise in the Two Higgs Doublet Model (type I) in which h_f -> \gamma\gamma is
mediated by W^+ and charged Higgs boson (H^+) loops. We show that the H^+ loops
can cause both constructive and destructive contributions with a magnitude
considerably larger than the anticipated precision in the measurement of the
photonic decay channel at future hadron and lepton colliders.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figures, clarifications added, one reference added,
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