135 research outputs found
Gluon Condensates, Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Pion Wave Function
We consider here chiral symmetry breaking in quantum chromodynamics arising
from gluon condensates in vacuum. Through coherent states of gluons simulating
a mean field type of approximation, we show that the off-shell gluon
condensates of vacuum generate a mass-like contribution for the quarks, giving
rise to chiral symmetry breaking. We next note that spontaneous breaking of
global chiral symmetry links the four component quark field operator to the
pion wave function. This in turn yields many hadronic properties in the light
quark sector in agreement with experiments, leading to the conclusion that low
energy hadron properties are primarily driven by the vacuum structure of
quantum chromodynamics.Comment: 25 pages, IP/BBSR/92-76, revte
A Variational Approach to Bound States in Quantum Field Theory
We consider here in a toy model an approach to bound state problem in a
nonperturbative manner using equal time algebra for the interacting field
operators. Potential is replaced by offshell bosonic quanta inside the bound
state of nonrelativistic particles. The bosonic dressing is determined through
energy minimisation, and mass renormalisation is carried out in a
nonperturbative manner. Since the interaction is through a scalar field, it
does not include spin effects. The model however nicely incorporates an
intuitive picture of hadronic bound states in which the gluon fields dress the
quarks providing the binding between them and also simulate the gluonic content
of hadrons in deep inelastic collisions.Comment: latex, revtex, 22 page
Generation of entangled states and error protection from adiabatic avoided level crossings
We consider the environment-affected dynamics of self-interacting
particles living in one-dimensional double wells. Two topics are dealt with.
First, we consider the production of entangled states of two-level systems. We
show that by adiabatically varying the well biases we may dynamically generate
maximally entangled states, starting from initially unentangled product states.
Entanglement degradation due to a common type of environmental influence is
then computed by solving a master equation. However, we also demonstrate that
entanglement production is unaffected if the system-environment coupling is of
the type that induces ``motional narrowing''. As our second but related topic,
we construct a different master equation that seamlessly merges error
protection/detection dynamics for quantum information with the environmental
couplings responsible for producing the errors in the first place. Adiabatic
avoided crossing schemes are used in both topics.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures. Minor changes. To appear in Phys. Rev.
On the Observability of "Invisible" / "Nearly Invisible" Charginos
It is shown that if the charginos decay into very soft leptons or hadrons +
due to degeneracy/ near- degeneracy with the LSP or the sneutrino,
the observability of the recently proposed signal via the single photon (+ soft
particles) + channel crucially depends on the magnitude of the \SNU
mass due to destructive interferences in the matrix element squared. If the
\SNU's and, consequently, left-sleptons are relatively light, the size of the
signal, previously computed in the limit \MSNU \to \infty only, is
drastically reduced. We present the formula for the signal cross section in a
model independent way and discuss the observability of the signal at LEP 192
and NLC energies.Comment: 27 pages, Late
Birthing practices of traditional birth attendants in South Asia in the context of training programmes
Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) training has been an important component of public health policy interventions to improve maternal and child health in developing countries since the 1970s. More recently, since the 1990s, the TBA training strategy has been increasingly seen as irrelevant, ineffective or, on the whole, a failure due to evidence that the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in developing countries had not reduced. Although, worldwide data show that, by choice or out of necessity, 47 percent of births in the developing world are assisted by TBAs and/or family members, funding for TBA training has been reduced and moved to providing skilled birth attendants for all births. Any shift in policy needs to be supported by appropriate evidence on TBA roles in providing maternal and infant health care service and effectiveness of the training programmes. This article reviews literature on the characteristics and role of TBAs in South Asia with an emphasis on India. The aim was to assess the contribution of TBAs in providing maternal and infant health care service at different stages of pregnancy and after-delivery and birthing practices adopted in home births. The review of role revealed that apart from TBAs, there are various other people in the community also involved in making decisions about the welfare and health of the birthing mother and new born baby. However, TBAs have changing, localised but nonetheless significant roles in delivery, postnatal and infant care in India. Certain traditional birthing practices such as bathing babies immediately after birth, not weighing babies after birth and not feeding with colostrum are adopted in home births as well as health institutions in India. There is therefore a thin precarious balance between the application of biomedical and traditional knowledge. Customary rituals and perceptions essentially affect practices in home and institutional births and hence training of TBAs need to be implemented in conjunction with community awareness programmes
Virtual LSPs at e+ e- Colliders
Currently popular search strategies for supersymmetric particles may be
significantly affected due to relatively light sneutrinos which decay
dominantly into invisible channels. In certain cases the second lightest
neutralino may also decay invisibly leading to two extra carriers of missing
energy (in addition to the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP)) -- the
virtual LSPs (VLSPs). It is shown that if the sneutrino masses happen to be in
the small but experimentally allowed range ~ 45 - 55 GeV, these particles
together with neutralino pairs may contribute significantly to the missing
energy in the process e+ e- ---> \gamma + missing energy at LEP-2 energies as
an enhancement over the Standard Model or the conventional MSSM predictions. It
is further shown that a much larger region of the parameter space can be
scanned at a high luminosity e+ e- collider at 500 GeV like the proposed NLC
machine. Moreover this process can play a complementary role to direct chargino
searches at LEP-2 and NLC which may fail due to a near mass degeneracy of the
chargino and the sneutrino. Formulae for the cross sections taking into account
full mixings of the charginos and the neutralinos are derived. The signal
remains observable even in the context of more restricted models based on N=1
SUGRA with common scalar and gaugino masses. The effect of soft photon
brehmsstrahlung on the signal is also discussed briefly.Comment: 51 pages, LaTeX plus 13 postscript figures included using epsfig in
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A black hole x-ray binary at âŒ100 Hz : multiwavelength timing of MAXI J1820+070 with HiPERCAM and NICER
We report on simultaneous sub-second optical and X-ray timing observations of the low mass X-ray binary black hole candidate MAXI J1820+070. The bright 2018 outburst rise allowed simultaneous photometry in five optical bands (ugrizs) with HiPERCAM/GTC (Optical) at frame rates over 100 Hz, together with NICER/ISS observations (X-rays). Intense (factor of two) red flaring activity in the optical is seen over a broad range of timescales down to ⌠10 ms. Cross-correlating the bands reveals a prominent anti-correlation on timescales of ⌠seconds, and a narrow sub-second correlation at a lag of â +165 ms (optical lagging X-rays). This lag increases with optical wavelength, and is approximately constant over Fourier frequencies of ⌠0.3â10 Hz. These features are consistent with an origin in the inner accretion flow and jet base within ⌠5000 Gravitational radii. An additional ⌠+5 s lag feature may be ascribable to disc reprocessing. MAXI J1820+070 is the third black hole transient to display a clear ⌠0.1 s optical lag, which may be common feature in such objects. The sub-second lag variation with wavelength is novel, and may allow constraints on internal shock jet stratification models
The upcoming epidemic of heart failure in South Asia
Currently, South Asia accounts for a quarter of the world population, yet it already claims â60% of the global burden of heart disease. Besides the epidemics of type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease already faced by South Asian countries, recent studies suggest that South Asians may also be at an increased risk of heart failure (HF), and that it presents at earlier ages than in most other racial/ethnic groups. Although a frequently underrecognized threat, an eventual HF epidemic in the densely populated South Asian nations could have dramatic health, social and economic consequences, and urgent interventions are needed to flatten the curve of HF in South Asia. In this review, we discuss recent studies portraying these trends, and describe the mechanisms that may explain an increased risk of premature HF in South Asians compared with other groups, with a special focus on highly relevant features in South Asian populations including premature coronary heart disease, early type 2 diabetes mellitus, ubiquitous abdominal obesity, exposure to the worldâs highest levels of air pollution, highly prevalent pretransition forms of HF such as rheumatic heart disease, and underdevelopment of healthcare systems. Other rising lifestyle-related risk factors such as use of tobacco products, hypertension, and general obesity are also discussed. We evaluate the prognosis of HF in South Asian countries and the implications of an anticipated HF epidemic. Finally, we discuss proposed interventions aimed at curbing these adverse trends, management approaches that can improve the prognosis of prevalent HF in South Asian countries, and research gaps in this important field
Baryogenesis in Models with a Low Quantum Gravity Scale
We make generic remarks about baryogenesis in models where the scale of
quantum gravity is much below the Planck scale. These correspond to M-theory
vacua with a large volume for the internal space. Baryogenesis is a challenge,
particularly for M_s \lappeq 10^5 GeV, because there is an upper bound on the
reheat temperature of the Universe, and because certain baryon number violating
operators must be suppressed. We discuss these constraints for different values
of , and illustrate with a toy model the possibility of using horizontal
family symmetries to circumvent them.Comment: 15 pages, latex, one figure. References adde
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