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New particles in strong fields?
The recent search for new particles in the MeV mass range is reviewed. The most relevant experiments, most notably the GSI positron experiments, are described and their results are combined to restrict the properties of the hypothetical particles. The theoretical analyses of these and a large number of other experiments are presented in detail. Finally some special candidates for new particles such as the axion and localised complex vacuum excitations are discussed. The author discusses a number of ideas and suggestions which merit further investigation. With respect to the GSI experiments it is concluded that it is very unlikely that the observed e^+-e^- coincidences indicate the existence of new particles
Goldstone boson currents in a kaon condensed CFL phase
We study the stability of the kaon condensed color-flavor locked (CFL) phase
of dense quark matter with regard to the formation of a non-zero Goldstone
boson current. In the kaon condensed phase there is an electrically charged
fermion which becomes gapless near \mu_s^(1) \simeq 1.35\Delta and a neutral
fermion which becomes gapless near \mu_s^(2)\simeq 1.61\Delta. Here,
\mu_s=m_s^2/(2p_F) is the shift in the Fermi energy due to the strange quark
mass m_s and \Delta is the gap in the chiral limit. The transition to the
gapless phase is continuous at \mu_s^(1) and first order at \mu_s^(2). We find
that the magnetic screening masses are real in the regime \mu_s< \mu_s^(2), but
some screening masses are imaginary for \mu_s> \mu_s^(2). We show that there is
a very weak current instability for \mu_s>\mu_s^(1) and a more robust
instability in a small window near \mu_s^(2). We also show that in the
Goldstone boson current phase all components of the magnetic screening mass are
real. There is a range of values of \mu_s below 2\Delta in which the magnetic
gluon screening masses are imaginary but the phase is stable with respect to
electrically neutral fluctuations of the gauge field.Comment: 16 page
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The Rebound Effect in the Aviation Sector
The rebound effect, i.e., the (partial) offset of the energy efficiency improvement potential due to a reduction in marginal usage costs and the associated increase in consumer demand, has been extensively studied for residential energy demand and automobile travel. This study presents a quantitative estimate of the rebound effect for an air traffic network including the 22 busiest airports, which serve 14 of the highest O-D cities within the domestic U.S. aviation sector. To satisfy this objective, passenger flows, aircraft operations, flight delays and the resulting energy use are simulated. Our model results indicate that the average rebound effect in this network is about 19%, for the range of aircraft fuel burn reductions considered. This is the net impact of an increase in air transportation supply to satisfy the rising passenger demand, airline operational effects that further increase supply, and the mitigating effects of an increase in flight delays. Although the magnitude of the rebound effect is small, it can be significant for a sector that has comparatively few options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Binary spinning black hole Hamiltonian in canonical center-of-mass and rest-frame coordinates through higher post-Newtonian order
The recently constructed Hamiltonians for spinless binary black holes through
third post-Newtonian order and for spinning ones through formal second
post-Newtonian order, where the spins are counted of zero post-Newtonian order,
are transformed into fully canonical center-of-mass and rest-frame variables.
The mixture terms in the Hamiltonians between center-of-mass and rest-frame
variables are in accordance with the relation between the total linear momentum
and the center-of-mass velocity as demanded by global Lorentz invariance. The
various generating functions for the center-of-mass and rest-frame canonical
variables are explicitly given in terms of the single-particle canonical
variables. The no-interaction theorem does not apply because the world-line
condition of Lorentz covariant position variables is not imposed.Comment: 18 pages, no figure
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Efficient Memory-Protected Integration of Add-On Software Subsystems in Small Embedded Automotive Applications
Current innovations in the automotive industry
evolve mainly in the electronics and software domain. This leads
to an increasing integration of additional software subsystems
into already existing electronic control units (ECUs) to cope with
the raised amount and complexity of present ECUs in modern
high-end vehicles. This paper discusses different approaches
which are required to integrate such add-on software subsystems
in an isolated memory domain, and considers particularly the
special needs of small embedded systemsâincluding the limited
hardware support. Special focus is brought to the efficient detection
of malicious memory accesses, as well as the benefits of
a thereupon possible and adaptable failure-handling strategy.
All investigations are based on a developed memory-protection
framework which has been tailored to the special needs of a sample
vehicle dynamics control system. Its usage allows the combination
of. integrating additional subsystems without reducing the main
applicationâs availability
Production of Z^0 bosons with rapidity gaps: exclusive photoproduction in gamma p and p p collisions and inclusive double diffractive Z^0's
We extend the k_\perp-factorization formalism for exclusive photoproduction
of vector mesons to the production of electroweak Z^0 bosons. Predictions for
the gamma p \to Z^0 p and p p \to p p Z^0 reactions are given using an
unintegrated gluon distribution tested against deep inelastic data. We present
distributions in the Z^0 rapidity, transverse momentum of Z^0 as well as in
relative azimuthal angle between outgoing protons. The contributions of
different flavours are discussed. Absorption effects lower the cross section by
a factor of 1.5-2, depending on the Z-boson rapidity. We also discuss the
production of Z^0 bosons in central inclusive production. Here rapidity and
(x_{\Pom,1}, x_{\Pom,2}) distributions of Z^0 are calculated. The corresponding
cross section is about three orders of magnitude larger than that for the
purely exclusive process.Comment: 19 pages, 14 figs, A. Cisek is married name of A. Rybarsk
Meson current in the CFL phase
We study the stability of the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase of dense quark
matter with regard to the formation of a non-zero Goldstone boson current. We
show that an instability appears in the vicinity of the point
which marks the appearance of gapless fermion modes in the CFL phase. Here,
is the shift in chemical potential due to the strange
quark mass and is the gap in the chiral limit. We show that in the
Goldstone boson current phase all components of the magnetic screening mass are
real. In this work we do not take into account homogeneous kaon condensation.
We study the effects of an instanton induced interaction of the magnitude
required to suppress kaon condensation.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, v2: minor improvements, results unchange
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