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Charmonium-Nucleon Dissociation Cross Sections in the Quark Model
Charmonium dissociation cross sections due to flavor-exchange
charmonium-baryon scattering are computed in the constituent quark model. We
present results for inelastic and scattering amplitudes
and cross sections into 46 final channels, including final states composed of
various combinations of , , , and . These results
are relevant to experimental searches for the deconfined phase of quark matter,
and may be useful in identifying the contribution of initial
production to the open-charm final states observed at RHIC through the
characteristic flavor ratios of certain channels. These results are also of
interest to possible charmonium-nucleon bound states.Comment: 10 pages, 5 eps figures, revte
Vortices on Hyperbolic Surfaces
It is shown that abelian Higgs vortices on a hyperbolic surface can be
constructed geometrically from holomorphic maps , where is also
a hyperbolic surface. The fields depend on and on the metrics of and
. The vortex centres are the ramification points, where the derivative of
vanishes. The magnitude of the Higgs field measures the extent to which
is locally an isometry.
Witten's construction of vortices on the hyperbolic plane is rederived, and
new examples of vortices on compact surfaces and on hyperbolic surfaces of
revolution are obtained. The interpretation of these solutions as
SO(3)-invariant, self-dual SU(2) Yang--Mills fields on is also given.Comment: Revised version: new section on four-dimensional interpretation of
hyperbolic vortices added
Revisiting Weyl's calculation of the gravitational pull in Bach's two-body solution
When the mass of one of the two bodies tends to zero, Weyl's definition of
the gravitational force in an axially symmetric, static two-body solution can
be given an invariant formulation in terms of a force four-vector. The norm of
this force is calculated for Bach's two-body solution, that is known to be in
one-to-one correspondence with Schwarzschild's original solution when one of
the two masses l, l' is made to vanish. In the limit when, say, l' goes to
zero, the norm of the force divided by l' and calculated at the position of the
vanishing mass is found to coincide with the norm of the acceleration of a test
body kept at rest in Schwarzschild's field. Both norms happen thus to grow
without limit when the test body (respectively the vanishing mass l') is kept
at rest in a position closer and closer to Schwarzschild's two-surface.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures. Text to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravit
Pre- and postbariatric subtypes and their predictive value for health-related outcomes measured three years after surgery
Background: Although bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment for severe obesity, a subgroup of patients shows insufficient postbariatric outcomes. Differences may at least in part result from heterogeneous patient profiles regarding reactive and regulative temperament, emotion dysregulation, and disinhibited eating. This study aims to subtype patients based on these aspects before and two years after bariatric surgery and tests the predictive value of identified subtypes for health-related outcomes three years after surgery
Does \u2018bigger\u2019mean \u2018better\u2019? Pitfalls and shortcuts associated with big data for social research
\u2018Big data is here to stay.\u2019 This key statement has a double value: is an assumption as well as the reason why a theoretical reflection is needed. Furthermore, Big data is something that is gaining visibility and success in social sciences even, overcoming the division between humanities and computer sciences. In this contribution some considerations on the presence and the certain persistence of Big data as a socio-technical assemblage will be outlined. Therefore, the intriguing opportunities for social research linked to such interaction between practices and technological development will be developed. However, despite a promissory rhetoric, fostered by several scholars since the birth of Big data as a labelled concept, some risks are just around the corner. The claims for the methodological power of bigger and bigger datasets, as well as increasing speed in analysis and data collection, are creating a real hype in social research. Peculiar attention is needed in order to avoid some pitfalls. These risks will be analysed for what concerns the validity of the research results \u2018obtained through Big data. After a pars distruens, this contribution will conclude with a pars construens; assuming the previous critiques, a mixed methods research design approach will be described as a general proposal with the objective of stimulating a debate on the integration of Big data in complex research projecting
Feasibility of accelerated T2 mapping for the preoperative assessment of endometrial carcinoma.
The application value of T2 mapping in evaluating endometrial carcinoma (EMC) features remains unclear. The aim of the study was to determine the quantitative T2 values in EMC using a novel accelerated T2 mapping, and evaluate them for detection, classification,and grading of EMC.
Fifty-six patients with pathologically confirmed EMC and 17 healthy volunteers were prospectively enrolled in this study. All participants underwent pelvic magnetic resonance imaging, including DWI and accelerated T2 mapping, before treatment. The T2 and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of different pathologic EMC features were extracted and compared. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was performed to analyze the diagnostic efficacy of the T2 and ADC values in distinguishing different pathological features of EMC.
The T2 values and ADC values were significantly lower in EMC than in normal endometrium (bothl p < 0.05). The T2 and ADC values were significantly different between endometrioid adenocarcinoma (EA) and non-EA (both p < 0.05) and EMC tumor grades (all p < 0.05) but not for EMC clinical types (both p > 0.05) and depth of myometrial invasion (both p > 0.05). The area under the ROC curve (AUC) was higher for T2 values than for ADC values in predicting grade 3 EA (0.939 vs. 0.764, p = 0.048). When combined T2 and ADC values, the AUC for predicting grade 3 EA showed a significant increase to 0.947 (p = 0.03) compared with those of ADC values. The T2 and ADC values were negatively correlated with the tumor grades (r = -0.706 and r = -0.537, respectively).
Quantitative T2 values demonstrate potential suitability in discriminating between EMC and normal endometrium, EA and non-EA, grade 3 EA and grade 1/2 EA. Combining T2 and ADC values performs better in predicting the histological grades of EA in comparison with ADC values alone
The puzzling case of the radio-loud QSO 3C 186: a gravitational wave recoiling black hole in a young radio source?
Context. Radio-loud AGNs with powerful relativistic jets are thought to be
associated with rapidly spinning black holes (BHs). BH spin-up may result from
a number of processes, including accretion of matter onto the BH itself, and
catastrophic events such as BH-BH mergers. Aims. We study the intriguing
properties of the powerful (L_bol ~ 10^47 erg s^-1) radio-loud quasar 3C 186.
This object shows peculiar features both in the images and in the spectra.
Methods. We utilize near-IR Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images to study the
properties of the host galaxy, and HST UV and Sloan Digital Sky Survey optical
spectra to study the kinematics of the source. Chandra X-ray data are also used
to better constrain the physical interpretation. Results. HST imaging shows
that the active nucleus is offset by 1.3 +- 0.1 arcsec (i.e. ~11 kpc) with
respect to the center of the host galaxy. Spectroscopic data show that the
broad emission lines are offset by -2140 +-390 km/s with respect to the narrow
lines. Velocity shifts are often seen in QSO spectra, in particular in
high-ionization broad emission lines. The host galaxy of the quasar displays a
distorted morphology with possible tidal features that are typical of the late
stages of a galaxy merger. Conclusions. A number of scenarios can be envisaged
to account for the observed features. While the presence of a peculiar outflow
cannot be completely ruled out, all of the observed features are consistent
with those expected if the QSO is associated with a gravitational wave (GW)
recoiling BH. Future detailed studies of this object will allow us to confirm
this type of scenario and will enable a better understanding of both the
physics of BH-BH mergers and the phenomena associated with the emission of GW
from astrophysical sources.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy &
Astrophysics. New appendix adde
A Contour Integral Representation for the Dual Five-Point Function and a Symmetry of the Genus Four Surface in R6
The invention of the "dual resonance model" N-point functions BN motivated
the development of current string theory. The simplest of these models, the
four-point function B4, is the classical Euler Beta function. Many standard
methods of complex analysis in a single variable have been applied to elucidate
the properties of the Euler Beta function, leading, for example, to analytic
continuation formulas such as the contour-integral representation obtained by
Pochhammer in 1890. Here we explore the geometry underlying the dual five-point
function B5, the simplest generalization of the Euler Beta function. Analyzing
the B5 integrand leads to a polyhedral structure for the five-crosscap surface,
embedded in RP5, that has 12 pentagonal faces and a symmetry group of order 120
in PGL(6). We find a Pochhammer-like representation for B5 that is a contour
integral along a surface of genus five. The symmetric embedding of the
five-crosscap surface in RP5 is doubly covered by a symmetric embedding of the
surface of genus four in R6 that has a polyhedral structure with 24 pentagonal
faces and a symmetry group of order 240 in O(6). The methods appear
generalizable to all N, and the resulting structures seem to be related to
associahedra in arbitrary dimensions.Comment: 43 pages and 44 figure
Surface embedding, topology and dualization for spin networks
Spin networks are graphs derived from 3nj symbols of angular momentum. The
surface embedding, the topology and dualization of these networks are
considered. Embeddings into compact surfaces include the orientable sphere S^2
and the torus T, and the not orientable projective space P^2 and Klein's bottle
K. Two families of 3nj graphs admit embeddings of minimal genus into S^2 and
P^2. Their dual 2-skeletons are shown to be triangulations of these surfaces.Comment: LaTeX 17 pages, 6 eps figures (late submission to arxiv.org
IFC (incl. Editorial board)
We present a weak gravitational lensing measurement of the external
convergence along the line of sight to the quadruply lensed quasar
HE04351223. Using deep r-band images from Subaru-Suprime-Cam we observe
galaxies down to a 3 limiting magnitude of mags resulting in
a source galaxy density of 14 galaxies / arcmin after redshift-based cuts.
Using an inpainting technique and Multi-Scale Entropy filtering algorithm, we
find that the region in close proximity to the lens has an estimated external
convergence of and is hence marginally
under-dense. We also rule out the presence of any halo with a mass greater than
(68 confidence limit). Our
results, consistent with previous studies of this lens, confirm that the
intervening mass along the line of sight to HE04351223 does not affect
significantly the cosmological results inferred from the time delay
measurements of that specific object.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, 2 table
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