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Improving jet distributions with effective field theory
We obtain perturbative expressions for jet distributions using soft-collinear
effective theory (SCET). By matching SCET onto QCD at high energy, tree level
matrix elements and higher order virtual corrections can be reproduced in SCET.
The resulting operators are then evolved to lower scales, with additional
operators being populated by required threshold matchings in the effective
theory. We show that the renormalization group evolution and threshold
matchings reproduce the Sudakov factors and splitting functions of QCD, and
that the effective theory naturally combines QCD matrix elements and parton
showers. The effective theory calculation is systematically improvable and any
higher order perturbative effects can be included by a well defined procedure.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure; typos corrected and notation updated to match
hep-ph/060729
A Toolkit of Engineered Recombinational Balancers in C. elegans
Dejima and colleagues report using CRISPR/Cas9 to generate a new collection of greatly improved balancer chromosomes in the standard laboratory nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, using methods previously reported by the same laboratory, expanding the set of C. elegans balancers to cover nearly 90% of coding genes
Effects of low energy electron irradiation on formation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in single-crystal diamond
Exposure to beams of low energy electrons (2 to 30 keV) in a scanning
electron microscope locally induces formation of NV-centers without thermal
annealing in diamonds that have been implanted with nitrogen ions. We find that
non-thermal, electron beam induced NV-formation is about four times less
efficient than thermal annealing. But NV-center formation in a consecutive
thermal annealing step (800C) following exposure to low energy electrons
increases by a factor of up to 1.8 compared to thermal annealing alone. These
observations point to reconstruction of nitrogen-vacancy complexes induced by
electronic excitations from low energy electrons as an NV-center formation
mechanism and identify local electronic excitations as a means for spatially
controlled room-temperature NV-center formation
Temporal Correlations and Persistence in the Kinetic Ising Model: the Role of Temperature
We study the statistical properties of the sum , that is the difference of time spent positive or negative by the
spin , located at a given site of a -dimensional Ising model
evolving under Glauber dynamics from a random initial configuration. We
investigate the distribution of and the first-passage statistics
(persistence) of this quantity. We discuss successively the three regimes of
high temperature (), criticality (), and low temperature
(). We discuss in particular the question of the temperature
dependence of the persistence exponent , as well as that of the
spectrum of exponents , in the low temperature phase. The
probability that the temporal mean was always larger than the
equilibrium magnetization is found to decay as . This
yields a numerical determination of the persistence exponent in the
whole low temperature phase, in two dimensions, and above the roughening
transition, in the low-temperature phase of the three-dimensional Ising model.Comment: 21 pages, 11 PostScript figures included (1 color figure
Hybrid simulations of lateral diffusion in fluctuating membranes
In this paper we introduce a novel method to simulate lateral diffusion of
inclusions in a fluctuating membrane. The regarded systems are governed by two
dynamic processes: the height fluctuations of the membrane and the diffusion of
the inclusion along the membrane. While membrane fluctuations can be expressed
in terms of a dynamic equation which follows from the Helfrich Hamiltonian, the
dynamics of the diffusing particle is described by a Langevin or Smoluchowski
equation. In the latter equations, the curvature of the surface needs to be
accounted for, which makes particle diffusion a function of membrane
fluctuations. In our scheme these coupled dynamic equations, the membrane
equation and the Langevin equation for the particle, are numerically integrated
to simulate diffusion in a membrane. The simulations are used to study the
ratio of the diffusion coefficient projected on a flat plane and the
intramembrane diffusion coefficient for the case of free diffusion. We compare
our results with recent analytical results that employ a preaveraging
approximation and analyze the validity of this approximation. A detailed
simulation study of the relevant correlation functions reveals a surprisingly
large range where the approximation is applicable.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Analyzing Powers and Spin Correlation Coefficients for p+d Elastic Scattering at 135 and 200 MeV
The proton and deuteron analyzing powers and 10 of the possible 12 spin
correlation coefficients have been measured for p+d elastic scattering at
proton bombarding energies of 135 and 200 MeV. The results are compared with
Faddeev calculations using two different NN potentials. The qualitative
features of the extensive data set on the spin dependence in p+d elastic
scattering over a wide range of angles presented here are remarkably well
explained by two-nucleon force predictions without inclusion of a three-nucleon
force. The remaining discrepancies are, in general, not alleviated when
theoretical three-nucleon forces are included in the calculations.Comment: 43 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication by Phys. Rev.
Accurate Noise Projection for Reduced Stochastic Epidemic Models
We consider a stochastic Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered (SEIR)
epidemiological model. Through the use of a normal form coordinate transform,
we are able to analytically derive the stochastic center manifold along with
the associated, reduced set of stochastic evolution equations. The
transformation correctly projects both the dynamics and the noise onto the
center manifold. Therefore, the solution of this reduced stochastic dynamical
system yields excellent agreement, both in amplitude and phase, with the
solution of the original stochastic system for a temporal scale that is orders
of magnitude longer than the typical relaxation time. This new method allows
for improved time series prediction of the number of infectious cases when
modeling the spread of disease in a population. Numerical solutions of the
fluctuations of the SEIR model are considered in the infinite population limit
using a Langevin equation approach, as well as in a finite population simulated
as a Markov process.Comment: 38 pages, 10 figures, new title, Final revision to appear in Chao
Discovery of a Jet-Like Structure at the High Redshift QSO CXOMP J084128.3+131107
The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) has discovered a jet-like
structure associated with a newly recognized QSO at redshift z=1.866. The
system was 9.4 arcmin off-axis during an observation of 3C 207. Although
significantly distorted by the mirror PSF, we use both a raytrace and a nearby
bright point source to show that the X-ray image must arise from some
combination of point and extended sources, or else from a minimum of three
distinct point sources. We favor the former situation, as three unrelated
sources would have a small probability of occurring by chance in such a close
alignment. We show that interpretation as a jet emitting X-rays via inverse
Compton (IC) scattering on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is plausible.
This would be a surprising and unique discovery of a radio-quiet QSO with an
X-ray jet, since we have obtained upper limits of 100 microJy on the QSO
emission at 8.46 GHz, and limits of 200 microJy for emission from the putative
jet.Comment: 12 pages including 4 figures. Accepted for publication by ApJ Letter
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