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Accurate nucleon electromagnetic form factors from dispersively improved chiral effective field theory
We present a theoretical parametrization of the nucleon electromagnetic form
factors (FFs) based on a combination of chiral effective field theory and
dispersion analysis. The isovector spectral functions on the two-pion cut are
computed using elastic unitarity, chiral pion-nucleon amplitudes, and timelike
pion FF data. Higher-mass isovector and isoscalar t-channel states are
described by effective poles, whose strength is fixed by sum rules (charges,
radii). Excellent agreement with the spacelike proton and neutron FF data is
achieved up to Q^2 \sim 1 GeV^2. Our parametrization provides proper
analyticity and theoretical uncertainty estimates and can be used for low-Q^2
FF studies and proton radius extraction.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 table
Polarized antiquark flavor asymmetry: Pauli blocking vs. the pion cloud
The flavor asymmetry of the unpolarized antiquark distributions in the
proton, dbar(x) - ubar(x) > 0, can qualitatively be explained either by Pauli
blocking by the valence quarks, or as an effect of the pion cloud of the
nucleon. In contrast, predictions for the polarized asymmetry Delta_ubar(x) -
Delta_dbar(x) based on rho meson contributions disagree even in sign with the
Pauli blocking picture. We show that in the meson cloud picture a large
positive Delta_ubar(x) - Delta_dbar(x) is obtained from pi-N - sigma-N
interference-type contributions, as suggested by chiral symmetry. This effect
restores the equivalence of the 'quark' and 'meson' descriptions also in the
polarized case.Comment: 4 pages, revtex, 3 eps figure
Optical Properties of Quantum-Dot-Doped Liquid Scintillators
Semiconductor nanoparticles (quantum dots) were studied in the context of
liquid scintillator development for upcoming neutrino experiments. The unique
optical and chemical properties of quantum dots are particularly promising for
the use in neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. Liquid scintillators for
large scale neutrino detectors have to meet specific requirements which are
reviewed, highlighting the peculiarities of quantum-dot-doping. In this paper,
we report results on laboratory-scale measurements of the attenuation length
and the fluorescence properties of three commercial quantum dot samples. The
results include absorbance and emission stability measurements, improvement in
transparency due to filtering of the quantum dot samples, precipitation tests
to isolate the quantum dots from solution and energy transfer studies with
quantum dots and the fluorophore PPO.Comment: version 2, minor text update
Weak Localization and Transport Gap in Graphene Antidot Lattices
We fabricated and measured antidot lattices in single layer graphene with
lattice periods down to 90 nm. In large-period lattices, a well-defined quantum
Hall effect is observed. Going to smaller antidot spacings the quantum Hall
effect gradually disappears, following a geometric size effect. Lattices with
narrow constrictions between the antidots behave as networks of nanoribbons,
showing a high-resistance state and a transport gap of a few mV around the
Dirac point. We observe pronounced weak localization in the magnetoresistance,
indicating strong intervalley scattering at the antidot edges. The area of
phase-coherent paths is bounded by the unit cell size at low temperatures, so
each unit cell of the lattice acts as a ballistic cavity.Comment: some revisions, to appear in New Journal of Physics, Special Issue
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Ground state energy of a homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate beyond Bogoliubov
The standard calculations of the ground-state energy of a homogeneous Bose
gas rely on approximations which are physically reasonable but difficult to
control. Lieb and Yngvason [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2504 (1998)] have proved
rigorously that the commonly accepted leading order term of the ground state
energy is correct in the zero-density-limit. Here, strong indications are given
that also the next to leading term is correct. It is shown that the first terms
obtained in a perturbative treatment provide contributions which are lost in
the Bogoliubov approach.Comment: 6 pages, accepted for publication in Europhys. Lett.
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Automated NLO QCD Corrections with WHIZARD
We briefly discuss the current status of NLO QCD automation in the Monte
Carlo event generator WHIZARD. The functionality is presented for the explicit
study of off-shell top quark production with associated backgrounds at a lepton
collider.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the European
Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics 2015 (EPS-HEP 2015),
Vienna, Austria, 22nd to 29th of July 201
Matching NLO QCD Corrections in WHIZARD with the POWHEG scheme
Building on the new automatic subtraction of NLO amplitudes in WHIZARD, we
present our implementation of the POWHEG scheme to match radiative corrections
consistently with the parton shower. We apply this general framework to two
linear collider processes, and
.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the European
Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics 2015 (EPS-HEP 2015),
Vienna, Austria, 22nd to 29th of July 201
Magnetic Fields Recorded by Chondrules Formed in Nebular Shocks
Recent laboratory efforts (Fu et al., 2014) have constrained the remanent
magnetizations of chondrules and the magnetic field strengths at which the
chondrules were exposed to as they cooled below their Curie points. An
outstanding question is whether the inferred paleofields represent the
background magnetic field of the solar nebula or were unique to the
chondrule-forming environment. We investigate the amplification of the magnetic
field above background values for two proposed chondrule formation mechanisms,
large-scale nebular shocks and planetary bow shocks. Behind large-scale shocks,
the magnetic field parallel to the shock front is amplified by factors , regardless of the magnetic diffusivity. Therefore, chondrules melted in
these shocks probably recorded an amplified magnetic field. Behind planetary
bow shocks, the field amplification is sensitive to the magnetic diffusivity.
We compute the gas properties behind a bow shock around a 3000 km-radius
planetary embryo, with and without atmospheres, using hydrodynamics models. We
calculate the ionization state of the hot, shocked gas, including thermionic
emission from dust, and thermal ionization of gas-phase potassium atoms, and
the magnetic diffusivity due to Ohmic dissipation and ambipolar diffusion. We
find that the diffusivity is sufficiently large that magnetic fields have
already relaxed to background values in the shock downstream where chondrules
acquire magnetizations, and that these locations are sufficiently far from the
planetary embryos that chondrules should not have recorded a significant
putative dynamo field generated on these bodies. We conclude that, if melted in
planetary bow shocks, chondrules probably recorded the background nebular
field.Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
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