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Two-loop soft anomalous dimensions and NNLL resummation for heavy quark production
I present results for two-loop soft anomalous dimensions for heavy quark
production which control soft-gluon resummation at
next-to-next-to-leading-logarithm (NNLL) accuracy. I derive an explicit
expression for the exact result and study it numerically for top quark
production via e+ e- -> t tbar, and I construct a surprisingly simple but very
accurate approximation. I show that the two-loop soft anomalous dimensions with
massive quarks display a simple proportionality relation to the one-loop result
only in the limit of vanishing quark mass. I also discuss the extension of the
calculation to single top and top pair production in hadron colliders.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures; improved form of the analytical result; equation
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Impurity center in a semiconductor quantum ring in the presence of a radial electric field
The problem of an impurity electron in a quantum ring (QR) in the presence of
a radially directed strong external electric field is investigated in detail.
Both an analytical and a numerical approach to the problem are developed. The
analytical investigation focuses on the regime of a strong wire-electric field
compared to the electric field due to the impurity. An adiabatic and
quasiclassical approximation is employed. The explicit dependencies of the
binding energy of the impurity electron on the electric field strength,
parameters of the QR and position of the impurity within the QR are obtained.
Numerical calculations of the binding energy based on a finite-difference
method in two and three dimensions are performed for arbitrary strengths of the
electric field. It is shown that the binding energy of the impurity electron
exhibits a maximum as a function of the radial position of the impurity that
can be shifted arbitrarily by applying a corresponding wire-electric field. The
maximal binding energy monotonically increases with increasing electric field
strength. The inversion effect of the electric field is found to occur. An
increase of the longitudinal displacement of the impurity typically leads to a
decrease of the binding energy. Results for both low- and high-quantum rings
are derived and discussed. Suggestions for an experimentally accessible set-up
associated with the GaAs/GaAlAs QR are provided.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figure
Finite element modelling of inter-ply delamination and intra-yarn cracking in textile laminates
The aim of the current study is to demonstrate the effect of inter-ply delamination on stiffness degradation of multi-ply woven composites. Such a demonstration becomes possible due to new technique of modelling textile laminates. It is based on set of boundary value problems for unit cell of a single ply, where boundary conditions imitate interaction with the other plies. Once these problems are solved, local stress distribution and stiffness of the laminate are determined analytically as function of number of the plies and local stress/strain fields obtained in these problems. Hence, it opens the road for an efficient modelling of delamination, which is described as gradual reduction of plies in the laminate
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