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The influences of the galactic cosmic ray on the atmospheric ozone
The relationship between the yearly variations of cosmic ray intensity and ozone in the atmosphere, and the ozone disturbance initiated by the Forbush decrease of 1965-1976 is analyzed. The data on cosmic ray intensity were selected from the records of the super neutron monitor at Deep River station and the ionization chamber at Beijing station. Ozone data were taken from Resolute (Canada), Bismark (N. Dakota, USA), Kagoshima (Japan), and Kodaikanal (India). The statistical results show that ozone is prominently modulated and disturbed by the 11 year variation and the Forbush decrease in the galactic cosmic ray
Medium effects in the production and decay of vector mesons in pion-nucleus reactions
The -, - and -resonance production and their dileptonic
decay in reactions at 1.1 - 1.7 GeV/c are calculated within the
intranuclear cascade (INC) approach. The invariant mass distribution of the
dilepton pair for each resonance can be decomposed in two components which
correspond to their decay 'inside' the target nucleus and in the vacuum,
respectively. The first components are strongly distorted by the nuclear medium
due to resonance-nucleon scattering and a possible mass shift at finite baryon
density. These medium modifications are compared to background sources in the
dilepton spectrum from bremsstrahlung as well as the Dalitz decays of
and mesons produced in the reaction. Detailed predictions for
reactions at 1.3 and 1.7 GeV/c are made within several momentum bins
for the lepton pair.Comment: 29 pages, LaTeX, including 12 postscript figures, UGI-97-07, Nucl.
Phys. A., in pres
Probing the interactions of charmed mesons with nuclei in induced reactions
We study the perspectives of resonant and nonresonant charmed meson
production in reactions within the Multiple Scattering Monte
Carlo (MSMC) approach. We calculate the production of the resonances
and on various nuclei, their propagation
and decay to in the medium and
vacuum, respectively. The modifications of the open charm vector mesons in the
nuclear medium are found to be rather moderate or even small such that dilepton
spectroscopy will require an invariant mass resolution of a few MeV.
Furthermore, the elastic and inelastic interactions of the open charm mesons in
the medium are taken into account, which can be related to -, - or
-quark exchange with nucleons. It is found that by studying the
ratio for low momenta in the laboratory ( GeV/c) as a function of
target mass stringent constraints on the -quark exchange cross section
can be obtained. On the other hand, the ratios
as well as and at low momenta as a function
of will permit to fix independently the strength of the -quark exchange
reaction in scattering.Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX, including 9 postscript figures, submitted to Eur.
Phys. J.
Nuclear transparency in quasielastic A(e,e'p): intranuclear cascade versus eikonal approximation
The problem of nuclear propagation through the nuclear medium in quasielastic
A(e,e'p) reactions is discussed in the kinematic range 1<Q^2<7 (GeV/c)^2. The
coefficient of nuclear transparency is calculated for each Q^2 in the framework
of the intranuclear cascade model (INC) and of the eikonal approximation (EA).
The predictions of both models are in good agreement with each other and with
experimental data recently obtained at SLAC, BATES and TJNAF. The EA gives an
explanation of the Q^2 behaviour of the transparency coefficient as a kinematic
effect related to the superposition of contributions from each target shell.Comment: RevTeX, 23 pages, 11 figures separately, submitted to Phys. Rev.
On gauge-invariant Green function in 2+1 dimensional QED
Both the gauge-invariant fermion Green function and gauge-dependent
conventional Green function in dimensional QED are studied in the large
limit. In temporal gauge, the infra-red divergence of gauge-dependent
Green function is found to be regulariable, the anomalous dimension is found to
be . This anomalous dimension was argued to be
the same as that of gauge-invariant Green function. However, in Coulomb gauge,
the infra-red divergence of the gauge-dependent Green function is found to be
un-regulariable, anomalous dimension is even not defined, but the infra-red
divergence is shown to be cancelled in any gauge-invariant physical quantities.
The gauge-invariant Green function is also studied directly in Lorentz
covariant gauge and the anomalous dimension is found to be the same as that
calculated in temporal gauge.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Density dependence of resonance broadening and shadowing effects in nuclear photoabsorption
Medium effects as a function of the mass number are studied in the total
photonuclear cross section from the -resonance region up to the region
where shadowing effects are known to exist. A consistent picture is obtained by
simply assuming a density dependence of the different mechanisms of resonance
broadening and shadowing. The -mass shift is found to increase with
.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures available from the author
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