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Light hadrons in 2+1 flavor lattice QCD
This talk will focus on recent results by the MILC collaboration from
simulations of light hadrons in 2+1 flavor lattice QCD. We have achieved high
precision results in the pseudoscalar sector, including masses and decay
constants, plus quark masses and Gasser-Leutwyler parameters from well
controlled chiral perturbation theory fits to our data. We also show
spectroscopy results for vector mesons and baryons.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the First Meeting of the APS Topical
Group on Hadronic Physics, Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, Oct. 24-26, 200
Seething Horizontal Magnetic Fields in the Quiet Solar Photosphere
The photospheric magnetic field outside of active regions and the network has
a ubiquitous and dynamic line-of-sight component that strengthens from disk
center to limb as expected for a nearly horizontal orientation. This component
shows a striking time variation with an average temporal rms near the limb of
1.7 G at ~3" resolution. In our moderate resolution observations the nearly
horizontal component has a frequency variation power law exponent of -1.4 below
1.5 mHz and is spatially patchy on scales up to ~15 arcsec. The field may be a
manifestation of changing magnetic connections between eruptions and evolution
of small magnetic flux elements in response to convective motions. It shows no
detectable latitude or longitude variations.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, submitted to ApJ letters, quality of figures
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Spectral analysis of 50 GRBs detected by HETE-2
FREGATE, the gamma-ray detector of HETE-2 is entirely dedicated to the study
of GRBs. Its main characteristic is its broad energy range, from 7 keV to 400
keV. This energy range can be further extended down to 2 keV using the data
from the WXM, the X-ray detector of HETE-2. Such a large energy range allows to
study in details the prompt emission of GRBs, determining with a high precision
their spectral parameters. Moreover, because this energy range extends at low
energies, the sample of GRBs detected by both FREGATE and WXM contains a
significant fraction of X-Ray Rich GRBs and X-Ray Flashes.
We present here the distributions of the spectral parameters mesured for the
time integrated spectra of 50 GRBs. We put emphasis on the distribution of the
low energy spectral index alpha. Because FREGATE and WXM detected all classes
of GRBs, we also discuss the connection between GRBs, X-Ray Rich GRBs and X-Ray
Flashes.Comment: 4 pages aipTEX, contribution to the 2003 GRB Conference, held at
Santa Fe,N
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