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An analysis of cosmological perturbations in hydrodynamical and field representations
Density fluctuations of fluids with negative pressure exhibit decreasing time
behaviour in the long wavelength limit, but are strongly unstable in the small
wavelength limit when a hydrodynamical approach is used. On the other hand, the
corresponding gravitational waves are well behaved. We verify that the
instabilities present in density fluctuations are due essentially to the
hydrodynamical representation; if we turn to a field representation that lead
to the same background behaviour, the instabilities are no more present. In the
long wavelength limit, both approachs give the same results. We show also that
this inequivalence between background and perturbative level is a feature of
negative pressure fluid. When the fluid has positive pressure, the
hydrodynamical representation leads to the same behaviour as the field
representation both at the background and perturbative levels.Comment: Latex file, 18 page
Quantum Stephani exact cosmological solutions and the selection of time variable
We study perfect fluid Stephani quantum cosmological model. In the present
work the Schutz's variational formalism which recovers the notion of time is
applied. This gives rise to Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the scale factor. We
use the eigenfunctions in order to construct wave packets for each case. We
study the time-dependent behavior of the expectation value of the scale factor,
using many-worlds and deBroglie-Bohm interpretations of quantum mechanics.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figure
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DESIGN OF BEAM TRANSFER LINES FOR THE NSLS II
The NSLS-II light source which is a proposed facility to be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory utilizes two synchrotron accelerator rings: the booster and the Storage ring (SR). Designing the NSLS-11 injector we considered two options for the booster layout, where the rings either (a) share the same tunnel, but placed at different horizontal planes or (b) booster is located in a separate building. The booster which accepts beam from the linac, accelerates the electron beam to an energy of 3.0 GeV and the beam is extracted to the Booster to Storage Ring (BtS) transport line which transports the beam and injects it into the SR ring. The design procedure for each of the two options of the BtS line and other details about the optics and the magnetic elements of the line are presented in this paper
An Einstein-Hilbert Action for Axi-Dilaton Gravity in 4-Dimensions
We examine the axi-dilatonic sector of low energy string theory and
demonstrate how the gravitational interactions involving the axion and dilaton
fields may be derived from a geometrical action principle involving the
curvature scalar associated with a non-Riemannian connection. In this geometry
the antisymmetric tensor 3-form field determines the torsion of the connection
on the frame bundle while the gradient of the metric is determined by the
dilaton field. By expressing the theory in terms of the Levi-Civita connection
associated with the metric in the ``Einstein frame'' we confirm that the field
equations derived from the non-Riemannian Einstein-Hilbert action coincide with
the axi-dilaton sector of the low energy effective action derived from string
theory.Comment: 6 pages Plain Tex (No Figures), Letter to Editor Classical and
Quantum Gravit
Black Holes with Weyl Charge and Non-Riemannian Waves
A simple modification to Einstein's theory of gravity in terms of a
non-Riemannian connection is examined. A new tensor-variational approach yields
field equations that possess a covariance similar to the gauge covariance of
electromagnetism. These equations are shown to possess solutions analogous to
those found in the Einstein-Maxwell system. In particular one finds
gravi-electric and gravi-magnetic charges contributing to a spherically
symmetric static Reissner-Nordstr\"om metric. Such Weyl ``charges'' provide a
source for the non-Riemannian torsion and metric gradient fields instead of the
electromagnetic field. The theory suggests that matter may be endowed with
gravitational charges that couple to gravity in a manner analogous to
electromagnetic couplings in an electromagnetic field. The nature of
gravitational coupling to spinor matter in this theory is also investigated and
a solution exhibiting a plane-symmetric gravitational metric wave coupled via
non-Riemannian waves to a propagating spinor field is presented.Comment: 18 pages Plain Tex (No Figures), Classical and Quantum Gravit
CMB observations in LTB universes: Part I: Matching peak positions in the CMB spectrum
Acoustic peaks in the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background in
spherically symmetric inhomogeneous cosmological models are studied. At the
photon-baryon decoupling epoch, the universe may be assumed to be dominated by
non-relativistic matter, and thus we may treat radiation as a test field in the
universe filled with dust which is described by the Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi
(LTB) solution. First, we give an LTB model whose distance-redshift relation
agrees with that of the concordance CDM model in the whole redshift
domain and which is well approximated by the Einstein-de Sitter universe at and
before decoupling. We determine the decoupling epoch in this LTB universe by
Gamow's criterion and then calculate the positions of acoustic peaks. Thus
obtained results are not consistent with the WMAP data. However, we find that
one can fit the peak positions by appropriately modifying the LTB model,
namely, by allowing the deviation of the distance-redshift relation from that
of the concordance CDM model at where no observational data are
available at present. Thus there is still a possibility of explaining the
apparent accelerated expansion of the universe by inhomogeneity without
resorting to dark energy if we abandon the Copernican principle. Even if we do
not take this extreme attitude, it also suggests that local, isotropic
inhomogeneities around us may seriously affect the determination of the density
contents of the universe unless the possible existence of such inhomogeneities
is properly taken into account.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figure
Simple Dynamics on the Brane
We apply methods of dynamical systems to study the behaviour of the
Randall-Sundrum models. We determine evolutionary paths for all possible
initial conditions in a 2-dimensional phase space and we investigate the set of
accelerated models. The simplicity of our formulation in comparison to some
earlier studies is expressed in the following: our dynamical system is a
2-dimensional Hamiltonian system, and what is more advantageous, it is free
from the degeneracy of critical points so that the system is structurally
stable. The phase plane analysis of Randall-Sundrum models with isotropic
Friedmann geometry clearly shows that qualitatively we deal with the same types
of evolution as in general relativity, although quantitatively there are
important differences.Comment: an improved version, 34 pages, 9 eps figure
New Constraints from High Redshift Supernovae and Lensing Statistics upon Scalar Field Cosmologies
We explore the implications of gravitationally lensed QSOs and high-redshift
SNe Ia observations for spatially flat cosmological models in which a
classically evolving scalar field currently dominates the energy density of the
Universe. We consider two representative scalar field potentials that give rise
to effective decaying (``quintessence'') models:
pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons () and an inverse
power-law potential (). We show that a
large region of parameter space is consistent with current data if . On the other hand, a higher lower bound for the matter density
parameter suggested by large-scale galaxy flows, ,
considerably reduces the allowed parameter space, forcing the scalar field
behavior to approach that of a cosmological constant.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PR
Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data
This study was supported by a grant from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Health Technology Assessment programme (reference No 13/03/25, to ARM
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