185 research outputs found
Carboniferous and Permian magmatism in Scotland
Extensional tectonics to the north of the Variscan Front during the Early Carboniferous generated fault-controlled basins across the British Isles, with accompanying basaltic magmatism. In Scotland Dinantian magmatism was dominantly mildly alkaline-transitional in composition. Tournaisian activity was followed by widespread Visean eruptions largely concentrated within the Scottish Midland Valley where the lava successions, dominantly of basaltic-hawaiitic composition, attained thicknesses of up to 1000 m. Changing stress fields in the late Visean coincided with a change in the nature of the igneous activity; subsequently, wholly basic magmatism persisted into the Silesian. As sedimentary basin fills increased, sill intrusion tended to dominate over lava extrusion. In the Late Carboniferous (Stephanian) a major melting episode, producing large volumes of tholeiitic magma, gave rise to a major dyke swarm and sills across northern England and Scotland. Alkali basaltic magmatism persisted into the Permian, possibly until as late as 250 Ma in Orkney. Geochemical data suggest that the Carboniferous-Permian magmas were dominantly of asthenospheric origin, derived from variable degrees of partial melting of a heterogeneous mantle source; varying degrees of interaction with the lithosphere are indicated. Peridotite, pyroxenite and granulite-facies basic meta-igneous rocks entrained as xenoliths within the most primitive magmas provide evidence for metasomatism of the lithospheric mantle and high-pressure crystal fractionation
An Absolute Calibration of the p+d High-Energy Polarimeters
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-931478
Test of a Density-Dependent Effective Interaction Using In-Plane 28-Si(p,p')28-Si Polarization Transfer Measurements
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-931478
Evidence for Fragmentation of "Stretched" 6- Strength in 28-Si(p,p')28-Si
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-931478
Investigation of the Effective NN Interaction Through 28-Si(p,p')28-Si Polarization Transfer
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-931478
Digital Sexual Violence and Suicide Risk in a National Sample of Sexual Minority Adolescents
This paper aimed to examine the association between digital sexual violence (threat to post or nonconsensual posting of sexually explicit media) and suicidal (ideation, planning, and attempt) and non-suicidal self-harm behavior. The data for the current analysis come from an online sample of sexual minority adolescents (aged 14-17) recruited from across the United States (n=970). Multivariate logistic regressions were used to examine the association between digital sexual violence with suicide (ideation, planning, and attempt) and self-harm. In the sample, 9.1% of participants reported being threatened to have their sexually explicit media posted without their consent, while 6.5% reported their sexually explicit media had been posted without their consent. Threat to post sexually explicit media without consent was associated with higher odds of reporting suicidal ideation (odds ratio [OR]=1.88), suicide plan (OR=2.12), suicide attempt (OR=3.56), and self-harm (OR=1.96). While nonconsensual posting of sexually explicit media was associated with higher odds of reporting suicidal ideation (OR=1.82) and suicide attempt (OR=2.20). All models controlled for age, assigned sex at birth, sexual identity, and race and ethnicity. These findings underscore important considerations and future research directions. Given the associations between digital sexual violence and suicide risk among sexual minority adolescents, suicide prevention efforts with adolescents must be responsive to the needs of sexual minority adolescents and the changing landscape of sexual violence in digital spaces. Future research should examine the trajectories of digital sexual violence among adolescents and comparative analyses by demographic subgroups to better understand changes in these processes over time
A Calibration of the K600 FPP from 120 to 200 MeV
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-931478
Variational and DMRG studies of the Frustrated Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg S=1 Quantum Spin Chain
We study a frustrated antiferromagnetic isotropic Heisenberg chain
using a variational ansatz and the DMRG. At , there is a
disorder point of the second kind, marking the onset of incommensurate
correlations in the chain. At there is a Lifshitz point,
at which the excitation spectrum develops a doubly degenerate structure. These
points are the quantum remnants of the transition from antiferromagnetic to
spiral order in the classical frustrated chain. At there
is a first order phase transition from an AKLT phase to a next-nearest neighbor
generalization of the AKLT model. At the transition, the string order parameter
shows a discontinuous jump of 0.085 to 0; the correlation length and the gap
are both finite at the transition. The problem of edge states in open
frustrated chains is discussed at length.Comment: 37 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.
Tritium Beta Decay, Neutrino Mass Matrices and Interactions Beyond the Standard Model
The interference of charge-changing interactions, weaker than the V-A
Standard Model (SM) interaction and having a different Lorentz structure, with
that SM interaction, can, in principle, produce effects near the end point of
the Tritium beta decay spectrum which are of a different character from those
produced by the purely kinematic effect of neutrino mass expected in the
simplest extension of the SM. We show that the existence of more than one mass
eigenstate can lead to interference effects at the end point that are stronger
than those occurring over the entire spectrum. We discuss these effects both
for the special case of Dirac neutrinos and the more general case of Majorana
neutrinos and show that, for the present precision of the experiments, one
formula should suffice to express the interference effects in all cases.
Implications for "sterile" neutrinos are noted.Comment: 32 pages, LaTeX, 6 figures, PostScript; full discussion and changes
in notation from Phys. Lett. B440 (1998) 89, nucl-th/9807057; submitted to
Phys. Rev.
A Coincidence Measurement of D_NN' for p+p Elastic Scattering at T_p = 200 MeV
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-931478
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