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Thermal Radiation from Nucleons and Mesons
Thermal photon emission rates due to meson-nucleon interactions have been
evaluated. An exhaustive set of reactions involving p(\bar p), n(\bar n), rho,
omega, a_1, pi and eta is seen to provide a sizeable contribution to the
emission rate from hot hadronic matter. Contributions from baryonic resonances
are found to be negligibly small
Physics Prospects at the Hadron Colliders
I start with a brief introduction to the elementary particles and their
interactions, Higgs mechanism and supersymmetry. The major physics objectives
of the Tevatron and LHC colliders are identified. The status and prospects of
the top quark, charged Higgs boson and superparticle searches are discussed in
detail, while those of the neutral Higgs boson(s) are covered in a parallel
talk by R.J.N. Phillips at this workshop.Comment: 16 pages Latex + 15 figures (available on request
Constraints on the Charged Higgs Sector from the Tevatron Collider Data on Top Quark Decay
The top quark data in the lepton plus channel offers a viable probe
for the charged Higgs boson signal. We analyse the recent Tevatron collider
data in this channel to obtain a significant limit on the mass in the
large region.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX file; 2 figures included (PS files
Using Tau Polarization to Discriminate between SUSY Models and Determine SUSY Parameters at ILC
In many SUSY models the first SUSY signal in the proposed International
Linear Collider is expected to come from the pair production of ,
followed by its decay into +LSP. We study a simple and robust method of
measuring the polarization of this in its 1-prong hadronic decay
channel,and show how it can be used to discriminate between SUSY models and to
determine SUSY parameters.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, minor corrections; version published in Phys.
Lett.
Radiative corrections to the Casimir effect for the massive scalar field
We compute the correction to the Casimir energy for the massive
model confined between a pair of parallel plates. The
calculations are made with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The
correction is shown to be sensitive to the boundary conditions, except in the
zero mass limit, in which case our results agree with those found in the
literature.Comment: 6 pages. Work presented at the XXIII Brazilian National Meeting on
Particles and Fields (Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil, 15-19 Oct 2002). Also
available at http://www.sbf1.if.usp.br/eventos/enfpc/xxiii/procs/RES142.pd
A model for the degradation of polyimides due to oxidation
Polyimides, due to their superior mechanical behavior at high temperatures,
are used in a variety of applications that include aerospace, automobile and
electronic packaging industries, as matrices for composites, as adhesives etc.
In this paper, we extend our previous model in [S. Karra, K. R. Rajagopal,
Modeling the non-linear viscoelastic response of high temperature polyimides,
Mechanics of Materials, In press, doi:10.1016/j.mechmat.2010.09.006], to
include oxidative degradation of these high temperature polyimides. Appropriate
forms for the Helmholtz potential and the rate of dissipation are chosen to
describe the degradation. The results for a specific boundary value problem,
using our model compares well with the experimental creep data for PMR-15 resin
that is aged in air.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Mechanics of Time-dependent
Material
Optical spin-transfer-torque-driven domain-wall motion in a ferromagnetic semiconductor
We demonstrate optical manipulation of the position of a domain wall in a dilute magnetic semiconductor,GaMnAsP. Two main contributions are identified. First, photocarrier spin exerts a spin-transfer torque on the magnetization via the exchange interaction. The direction of the domain-wall motion can be controlled using the helicity of the laser. Second, the domain wall is attracted to the hot spot generated by the focused laser. Unlike magnetic-field-driven domain-wall depinning, these mechanisms directly drive domain-wall motion, providing an optical tweezerlike ability to position and locally probe domain walls
Recent developments in unconventional superconductivity theory
The review of recent developments in the unconventional superconductivity
theory is given. In the fist part I consider the physical origin of the Kerr
rotation polarization of light reflected from the surface of superconducting
. Then the comparison of magneto-optical responses in
superconductors with orbital and spin spontaneous magnetization is presented.
The latter result is applied to the estimation of the magneto-optical
properties of neutral superfluids with spontaneous magnetization. The second
part is devoted to the natural optical activity or gyrotropy properties of
noncentrosymmetric metals in their normal and superconducting states. The
temperature behavior of the gyrotropy coefficient is compared with the
temperature behavior of paramagnetic susceptibility determining the noticeable
increase of the paramagnetic limiting field in noncentrosymmetric
superconductors. In the last chapter I describe the order parameter and the
symmetry of superconducting state in the itinerant ferromagnet with
orthorhombic symmetry. Finally the Josephson coupling between two adjacent
ferromagnet superconducting domains is discussed.Comment: 15 page
Towards Activity Context using Software Sensors
Service-Oriented Computing delivers the promise of configuring and
reconfiguring software systems to address user's needs in a dynamic way.
Context-aware computing promises to capture the user's needs and hence the
requirements they have on systems. The marriage of both can deliver ad-hoc
software solutions relevant to the user in the most current fashion. However,
here it is a key to gather information on the users' activity (that is what
they are doing). Traditionally any context sensing was conducted with hardware
sensors. However, software can also play the same role and in some situations
will be more useful to sense the activity of the user. Furthermore they can
make use of the fact that Service-oriented systems exchange information through
standard protocols. In this paper we discuss our proposed approach to sense the
activity of the user making use of software
Charged and Pseudoscalar Higgs production at a Muon Collider
We consider single charged Higgs () and pseudoscalar Higgs ()
production in association with a gauge boson at colliders. We find
that the tree-level t-channel and s-channel contributions to are enhanced for large values of , allowing
sizeable cross-sections whose analogies at colliders would be very
small. These processes provide attractive new ways of producing such particles
at colliders and are superior to the conventional methods in
regions of parameter space.Comment: 11 pages Latex, 5 figures, formulae added in sections 2.2 and 2.3,
extra discussion in section 2.3, references adde
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