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The electromagnetic form factors of the proton in the timelike region
The reactions ppbar -> e+e- and e+e- -> ppbar are analyzed in the
near-threshold region. Specific emphasis is put on the role played by the
interaction in the initial- or final antinucleon-nucleon state which is taken
into account rigorously. For that purpose a recently published NNbar potential
derived within chiral effective field theory and fitted to results of a new
partial-wave analysis of ppbar scattering data is employed. Our results provide
strong support for the conjecture that the pronounced energy dependence of the
e+e- ppbar cross section, seen in pertinent experiments, is primarily due
to the ppbar interaction. Predictions for the proton electromagnetic form
factors G_E and G_M in the timelike region, close to the NNbar threshold, and
for spin-dependent observables are presented. The steep rise of the effective
form factor for energies close to the ppbar threshold is explained solely in
terms of the ppbar interaction. The corresponding experimental information is
quantitatively described by our calculation.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figure
Efficiency of Nonlinear Particle Acceleration at Cosmic Structure Shocks
We have calculated the evolution of cosmic ray (CR) modified astrophysical
shocks for a wide range of shock Mach numbers and shock speeds through
numerical simulations of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) in 1D quasi-
parallel plane shocks. The simulations include thermal leakage injection of
seed CRs, as well as pre-existing, upstream CR populations. Bohm-like diffusion
is assumed. We model shocks similar to those expected around cosmic structure
pancakes as well as other accretion shocks driven by flows with upstream gas
temperatures in the range K and shock Mach numbers spanning
. We show that CR modified shocks evolve to time-asymptotic states
by the time injected particles are accelerated to moderately relativistic
energies (p/mc \gsim 1), and that two shocks with the same Mach number, but
with different shock speeds, evolve qualitatively similarly when the results
are presented in terms of a characteristic diffusion length and diffusion time.
For these models the time asymptotic value for the CR acceleration efficiency
is controlled mainly by shock Mach number. The modeled high Mach number shocks
all evolve towards efficiencies %, regardless of the upstream CR
pressure. On the other hand, the upstream CR pressure increases the overall CR
energy in moderate strength shocks (). (abridged)Comment: 23 pages, 12 ps figures, accepted for Astrophysical Journal (Feb. 10,
2005
Spatial soliton robustness against spatially anisotropic phase perturbations
We demonstrate experimentally that spatial solitons in AlGaAs waveguides are resilient against spatially anisotropic perturbations in their phase caused by introducing a wedge in the soliton propagation path. In agreement with numerical simulations, the solitons maintained their initial beam shape and width, independent of the fraction of the soliton beam intercepted by the wedge
Spin Fluctuation and Persistent Current in a Mesoscopic Ring Coupled to a Quantum Dot
We investigate the persistent current influenced by the spin fluctuations in
a mesoscopic ring weakly coupled to a quantum dot. It is shown that the Kondo
effect gives rise to some unusual features of the persistent current in the
limit where the charge transfer between two subsystems is suppressed. Various
aspects of the crossover from a delocalized to a localized dot limit are
discussed in relation with the effect of the coherent response of the Kondo
cloud to the Aharonov-Bohm flux.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Astrophysical Fluids of Novae: High Resolution Pre-decay X-ray spectrum of V4743 Sagittarii
Eight X-ray observations of V4743 Sgr (2002), observed with Chandra and
XMM-Newton are presented. The nova turned off some time between days 301.9 and
371, and the X-ray flux subsequently decreased from day 301.9 to 526 following
an exponential decline time scale of days. We use the absorption
lines present in the SSS spectrum for diagnostic purposes, and characterize the
physics and the dynamics of the expanding atmosphere during the explosion of
the nova. The information extracted from this first stage is then used as input
for computing full photoionization models of the ejecta in V4743 Sgr. The SSS
spectrum is modeled with a simple black-body and multiplicative Gaussian lines,
which provides us of a general kinematical picture of the system, before it
decays to its faint phase (Ness et al. 2003). In the grating spectra taken
between days 180.4 and 370, we can resolve the line profiles of absorption
lines arising from H-like and He-like C, N, and O, including transitions
involving higher principal quantum numbers. Except for a few interstellar
lines, all lines are significantly blue-shifted, yielding velocities between
1000 and 6000 km/s which implies an ongoing mass loss. It is shown that
significant expansion and mass loss occur during this phase of the explosion,
at a rate . Our measurements show that the efficiency of the amount of
energy used for the motion of the ejecta, defined as the ratio between the
kinetic luminosity and the radiated luminosity , is
of the order of one.Comment: 25 pages, 9 figures. Accepted in book: Recent Advances in Fluid
Dynamics with Environmental Applications, pp.365-39
Nonlinear Transport and Current Fluctuation in an AB Ring with a Quantum Dot
Nonequilibrium steady states are explicitly constructed for a noninteracting
electron model of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring with a quantum dot (QD) with the
aid of asymptotic fields. The Fano line shapes and AB oscillations are shown to
strongly depend on the bias voltage. Current fluctuations are studied as well.Comment: 4pages, 6figure
Crossover critical behavior of Ga1-xMnxAs
The critical behavior of Ga1-xMnxAs in a close vicinity of the Curie
temperature was experimentally studied by using the thermal diffusivity
measurements. Taking into account that the inverse of the thermal diffusivity
has the same critical behavior as the specific heat, the critical exponent
{\alpha} for the samples investigated has been determined. With approaching
close to the critical temperature, the crossover from the mean-field-like to
the Ising-like critical behavior has been observed. From the crossover behavior
the values of the Ginzburg number and the exchange interaction length in
Ga1-xMnxAs with different concentrations of Mn were determined.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figure
Strongly Correlated Fractional Quantum Hall Line Junctions
We have studied a clean finite-length line junction between interacting
counterpropagating single-branch fractional-quantum-Hall edge channels. Exact
solutions for low-lying excitations and transport properties are obtained when
the two edges belong to quantum Hall systems with different filling factors and
interact via the long-range Coulomb interaction. Charging effects due to the
coupling to external edge-channel leads are fully taken into account.
Conductances and power laws in the current-voltage characteristics of tunneling
are strongly affected by inter-edge correlations.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, RevTex4, typos corrected + references added, to
appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Natural Islands for a 125 GeV Higgs in the scale-invariant NMSSM
We study whether a 125 GeV standard model-like Higgs boson can be
accommodated within the scale-invariant NMSSM in a way that is natural in all
respects, i.e., not only is the stop mass and hence its loop contribution to
Higgs mass of natural size, but we do not allow significant tuning of NMSSM
parameters as well. We pursue as much as possible an analytic approach which
gives clear insights on various ways to accommodate such a Higgs mass, while
conducting complementary numerical analyses. We consider both scenarios with
singlet-like state being heavier and lighter than SM-like Higgs. With A-terms
being small, we find for the NMSSM to be perturbative up to GUT scale, it is
not possible to get 125 GeV Higgs mass, which is true even if we tune
parameters of NMSSM. If we allow some of the couplings to become
non-perturbative below the GUT scale, then the non-tuned option implies that
the singlet self-coupling, kappa, is larger than the singlet-Higgs coupling,
lambda, which itself is order 1. This leads to a Landau pole for these
couplings close to the weak scale, in particular below ~10^4 TeV. In both the
perturbative and non-perturbative NMSSM, allowing large A_lambda, A_kappa gives
"more room" to accommodate a 125 GeV Higgs, but a tuning of these A-terms may
be needed. In our analysis we also conduct a careful study of the constraints
on the parameter space from requiring global stability of the desired vacuum
fitting a 125 GeV Higgs, which is complementary to existing literature. In
particular, as the singlet-Higgs coupling lambda increases, vacuum stability
becomes more serious of an issue.Comment: 34 pages, 4 figures, references added, minor corrections to text and
figures, version to be published in JHE
Time-Domain All-Optical Demultiplexing With A Semiconductor Directional Coupler
We report the demonstration of demultiplexing of 150 fs pulses, without pulse breakup, in an AlGaAs nonlinear directional coupler operated at photon energies below half the band gap energy of AlGaAs
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