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The Publication Patterns of the Elite Economics Departments: 1995-2000
We examine publication patterns of the top seven U.S. economics departments from 1995 to 2000. We construct a departmental-based journal ranking on both the number of publications and the percentage of journal pages from authors affiliated with top institutions. The data show that publications are highly concentrated among a few journals: seven journals comprise more than one-fourth of aggregate research output for the sample. Nine of the eighty-seven most common publication outlets originated in the 1990s. A departmental measure of journal quality avoids the problems confronting citations data. We suggest that economists reconsider the prestige of journals based on these strikingly different results.Economics Departments; Economics; Journals
D_{sJ}(2860) as the first radial excitation of the D_{s0}^*(2317)
A coupled-channel model previously employed to describe the narrow
(2317) and broad (2400) charmed scalar mesons is generalized
so as to include all ground-state pseudoscalar-pseudoscalar and vector-vector
two-meson channels. All parameters are chosen fixed at published values, except
for the overall coupling constant, which is fine-tuned to reproduce the
(2317) mass. Thus, the radial excitations (2850) and
(2740) are predicted, both with a width of about 50 MeV. The former
state appears to correspond to the new (2860) resonance decaying to
announced by BABAR in the course of this work. Also the (2400)
resonance is roughly reproduced, though perhaps with a somewhat too low central
resonance peak.Comment: Plain LaTeX, 4 pages, 2 Postscript figures; v2: REVTeX, 4 pages,
introduction expanded, "Note added in proof" and references added, figures
with more detail and improved quality, version accepted for publication in
Physical Review Letter
Attitude control system
An attitude control system is described in which angular rate signals are generated by rate gyros mounted closely adjacent to gimbaled engines at the rear of a vehicle. Error signals representative of a commanded change in vehicle angle or attitude are obtained from a precision inertial platform located in the nose region of the vehicle. The rate gyro derived signals dominate at high frequencies where dynamic effects become significant, and platform signals dominate at low frequencies where precision signals are required for a steady vehicle attitude. The blended signals are applied in a conventional manner to control the gimbaling of vehicle engines about control axes
Constituent and current quark masses at low chiral energies
Light constituent quark masses and the corresponding dynamical quark masses
are determined by data, the Quark-Level Linear Model, and infrared
QCD. This allows to define effective nonstrange and strange current quark
masses which reproduce the experimental pion and kaon masses very accurately,
by simple additivity. Moreover, the masses of the light scalar mesons
and can be obtained straightforwardly from the
constituent quark masses. In contrast, the usual nonstrange and strange current
quark masses employed by Chiral Perturbation Theory do not allow a simple
quantitative explanation of the pion and kaon masses.Comment: 5 pages, EPL style, accepted for publication in Europhys. Let
Multichannel calculation of the very narrow and the very broad
The narrow (2317) and broad (2300-2400) charmed
scalar mesons and their radial excitations are described in a coupled-channel
quark model that also reproduces the properties of the light scalar nonet. All
two-meson channels containing ground-state pseudoscalars and vectors are
included. The parameters are chosen fixed at published values, except for the
overall coupling constant , which is fine-tuned to reproduce the
(2317) mass, and a damping constant for subthreshold
contributions. Variations of and (2300-2400) pole
postions are studied for different values. Calculated cross sections
for -wave and scattering, as well as resonance pole positions,
are given for the value of that fits the light scalars. The thus
predicted radially excited state (2850), with a width of about 50
MeV, seems to have been observed already.Comment: 3 pages, EPJ LaTeX, 2 Postscript figures, 1 table; parallel talk at
the IVth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP06),
Madrid, 5-10 June 200
Light Higgs bosons from a strongly interacting Higgs sector
The mass and the decay width of a Higgs boson in the minimal standard model
are evaluated by a variational method in the limit of strong self-coupling
interaction. The non-perturbative technique provides an interpolation scheme
between strong-coupling regime and weak-coupling limit where the standard
perturbative results are recovered. In the strong-coupling limit the physical
mass and the decay width of the Higgs boson are found to be very small as a
consequence of mass renormalization. Thus it is argued that the eventual
detection of a light Higgs boson would not rule out the existence of a strongly
interacting Higgs sector.Comment: 2 figure
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