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Accounting for the finiteness of the Higgs-boson mass in the 3D Georgi-Glashow model
(2+1)-dimensional Georgi-Glashow model is explored in the regime when the
Higgs boson is not infinitely heavy, but its mass is rather of the same order
of magnitude as the mass of the W boson. In the weak-coupling limit, the Debye
mass of the dual photon and the expression for the monopole potential are
found. The cumulant expansion applied to the average over the Higgs field is
checked to be convergent for the known data on the monopole fugacity. These
results are further generalized to the SU(N)-case. In particular, it is found
that the requirement of convergence of the cumulant expansion establishes a
certain upper bound on the number of colours. This bound, expressed in terms of
the parameter of the weak-coupling approximation, allows the number of colours
to be large enough. Finally, the string tension and the coupling constant of
the so-called rigidity term of the confining string are found at arbitrary
number of colours.Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX2e, no figure
Higgs-inspired corrections to the RG flow in the finite-temperature 3D Georgi-Glashow model and its SU(N)-generalization
The Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) RG flow in the ensemble of monopoles
existing in the finite-temperature (2+1)D Georgi-Glashow model is explored in
the regime when the Higgs field is not infinitely heavy, but its mass is rather
of the same order of magnitude as the mass of the W-boson. The corrections to
the standard RG flow are derived to the leading order in the inverse mass of
the Higgs boson. According to the obtained RG equations, the scaling of the
free-energy density in the critical region and the value of the critical
temperature of the phase transition are found to be unaffected by the
finiteness of the Higgs-boson mass. The evolution of the Higgs mass itself is
also investigated and shown to be rather weak, that enables one to treat this
parameter as a constant. The same analysis is further performed in the
SU(N)-case at N>2, where the RG invariance is demonstrated to hold only
approximately, in a certain sense. Modulo this approximation, the critical
behaviour of the SU(N)-model turns out to be identical to that of the
SU(2)-one.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX2e, no figure
The 1000 GeV gamma rays from ms pulsars
The detection of 1000 GeV gamma-rays with the characteristic 6.1 ms periodicity of the radio pulsar PSR 1953 +29 is reported. This result, significant at the 5.4 beta level, provides the first direct evidence for the association of the 6 ms radio pulsar PSR1953+29 with the gamma-ray source 2CG065+0. Extensive observations of the 1.5 ms pulsar PSR 1937 are also reported
The 1000 GeV gamma ray emission from radio pulsars
Radio pulsars have concentrated on long observations of the Crab pulsar and showed that it emits short intense bursts and a persistent weak periodic flux at gamma-ray energies 1000 GeV. It was shown that the light curve of the persistent emission was dominated by a single peak, coincident with the position of the radio and low energy gamma-ray main pulse. The results of a more detailed analysis of the structure of this main pulse are reported following an appraisal of the timing system. It is shown that at energies 1000 GeV the duration of the main pulse is not greater than 0.4 ms, which is less than that seen at all frequencies other than radio. Flux limits for the emission of 1000 GeV gamma-rays by seven other radio pulsars are reporte
1000 GeV gamma rays from Cygnus X-3: An update
Measurements of 1000 GeV gamma-rays from Cygnus X-3 made with the University of Durham facility at Dugway, Utah in 1981/82 are reviewed. The light curve of the 4.8 hour modulated emission is updated and shows evidence significant at the 4.4 sigma level for strong emission (9% of the cosmic ray rate) at phase 0.625 and less significant (1.4 sigma level) indications of weaker emission (3% of the cosmic ray rate) at phase 0.125. The effect constituting the excess on the few nights showing the strongest emission appears to arise from the smallest Cerenkov light signals suggesting a steep gamma-ray spectrum. The 1982 data have been searched unsuccessfully for evidence of emission at phase 0.2, in coincidence with the results from the ultra-high energy (extensive Air Showers (EAS) measurements in 1979-1982. A systematic investigation of a long term variation in the strength of the peak of the 4.8 hr modulated 1000 GeV gamma-ray emission has been made. We find that in addition to the approximately 34 d variation reported by us previously, a stronger effect exists at around 19d
The 4U 0115+63: Another energetic gamma ray binary pulsar
Following the discovery of Her X-1 as a source of pulsed 1000 Gev X-rays, a search for emission from an X-ray binary containing a pulsar with similar values of period, period derivative and luminosity was successful. The sporadic X-ray binary 4U 0115-63 has been observed, with probability 2.5 x 10 to the minus 6 power ergs/s to emit 1000 GeV gamma-rays with a time averaged energy flux of 6 to 10 to the 35th power
Dynamical approach to chains of scatterers
Linear chains of quantum scatterers are studied in the process of
lengthening, which is treated and analysed as a discrete dynamical system
defined over the manifold of scattering matrices. Elementary properties of such
dynamics relate the transport through the chain to the spectral properties of
individual scatterers. For a single-scattering channel case some new light is
shed on known transport properties of disordered and noisy chains, whereas
translationally invariant case can be studied analytically in terms of a simple
deterministic dynamical map. The many-channel case was studied numerically by
examining the statistical properties of scatterers that correspond to a certain
type of transport of the chain i.e. ballistic or (partially) localised.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure
Temporal variation of cephalopods in the diet of Cape fur seals in Namibia
Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) scats were sampled over a period of eight years (1994-2001) at Atlas and Wolf Bay seal colonies in order to assess the cephalopod component of the diet of these seals and cephalopod diversity off the coast of Namibia. The temporal variation within the cephalopod component was investigated. A low diversity of cephalopods, only six species, are preyed upon, with Todarodes angolensis being the most important component both in numbers and wet weight in all years. Its lowered weight contribution during winter coincided with a greater diversity of other cephalopod species in the diet, which showed higher proportional weight contribution relative to Todarodes angolensis. Scat sampling was found to be an unreliable method of providing estimates of total prey weight consumption by seals, but was considered an acceptable method for proportional comparisons, especially given the ease of scat collection over extended periods
Effect of rejection on electrophysiologic function of canine intestinal grafts: Correlation with histopathology and na-k-ATPase activity
To investigate whether electrophysiologic changes can detect the early onset and progress of intestinal rejection, changes in in vitro electrophysiologic function, intestinal histopathology, and Na-K-ATPase activity were studied in dogs. Adult mongrel dogs of both sexes, weighing 18-24 kg, were used for auto and allo small bowel transplantation. The entire small bowels, except for short segments at the proximal and distal ends, were snitched between a pair of dogs (allograft). Animals receiving intestinal autotransplantation were used as controls. AIIograji recipients were sacrificed 3, 4, 5, 7, or 9 days after transplantation, and autograft recipients were sacrificed 3, 7, or 14 days afier transplantation. Immunosuppression was not used. Electrophysiologic measurements were done with an Ussing chamber. Histological analysis was performed blindly using whole thickness sections. Na-K-ATPase activity in the mucosal tissue, which is said to regulate the potential difference, was also measured. Potential difference, resistance, and Na-K-ATPase activity of the allografi intestine decreased with time and were significantly lower 7 and 9 days after transplantation compared to host intestine, normul intestine, and graft intestine of controls (autograft). Potential difference, resistance, and Na-K-ATPase activity of the native intestinal tissue and the autografts did not decrease with time. Detection of histologically mild rejection of the intestine, which is important for appropriate immunosup-pressive treatment in clinical cases, could not be achieved based on electrophysiology or Na-K-ATPase activity. Deterioration of electrophysiologic function during rejection correlated with the histological rejection process and Na-K-ATPase activity; however, electrophysiology my not be a reliable tool for monitoring grafrs, since it cannot detect early intestinal rejection. © 1995 Informa UK Ltd All rights reserved: reproduction in whole or part not permitted
Black Holes in Magnetic Monopoles
We study magnetically charged classical solutions of a spontaneously broken
gauge theory interacting with gravity. We show that nonsingular monopole
solutions exist only if the Higgs vacuum expectation value is less than or
equal to a critical value , which is of the order of the Planck mass.
In the limiting case the monopole becomes a black hole, with the region outside
the horizon described by the critical Reissner-Nordstrom solution. For
, we find additional solutions which are singular at , but which
have this singularity hidden within a horizon. These have nontrivial matter
fields outside the horizon, and may be interpreted as small black holes lying
within a magnetic monopole. The nature of these solutions as a function of
and of the total mass and their relation to the Reissner-Nordstrom
solutions is discussed.Comment: (28 pages
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