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Thermodynamics of Four-Flavour QCD with Improved Staggered Fermions
We have calculated the pressure and energy density in four-flavour QCD using
improved fermion and gauge actions. We observe a strong reduction of finite
cut-off effects in the high temperature regime, similar to what has been noted
before for the SU(3) gauge theory. Calculations have been performed on
and 16^4 lattices for two values of the quark mass,
and 0.1. A calculation of the string tension at zero temperature yields a
critical temperature for the smaller
quark mass value.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX2e File, 11 encapsulated postscript file
Following the Guide: A Wilderness Theology of Youth Ministry
Scripture offers readers a unique characterization of wilderness spaces and provides us with a great deal of information about what to expect. This discussion traces various scriptural narratives of encounter with God in the wilderness, offering the reader a model for what a wilderness experience of God may entail, and then turns to more current conversation about wilderness youth ministry. The project traces current research of fields that are tangentially related to wilderness youth ministry including wilderness therapy, outdoor adventure education, and camp ministry, and seeks to highlight the ways that they can enhance, alter, and confirm various practices within the wilderness youth ministry model. Furthermore, it serves to offer an explanation and language to both practitioners and participants in these programs, giving them a theological and scientific backing to help interpret and facilitate participant experiences
Perturbative calculation of improvement coefficients to O(g^2a) for bilinear quark operators in lattice QCD
We calculate the O(g^2 a) mixing coefficients of bilinear quark operators in
lattice QCD using a standard perturbative evaluation of on-shell Green's
functions. Our results for the plaquette gluon action are in agreement with
those previously obtained with the Schr\"odinger functional method. The
coefficients are also calculated for a class of improved gluon actions having
six-link terms.Comment: 14 pages, REVTe
Drastic Reduction of Cutoff Effects in 2-d Lattice O(N) Models
We investigate the cutoff effects in 2-d lattice O(N) models for a variety of
lattice actions, and we identify a class of very simple actions for which the
lattice artifacts are extremely small. One action agrees with the standard
action, except that it constrains neighboring spins to a maximal relative angle
delta. We fix delta by demanding that a particular value of the step scaling
function agrees with its continuum result already on a rather coarse lattice.
Remarkably, the cutoff effects of the entire step scaling function are then
reduced to the per mille level. This also applies to the theta-vacuum effects
of the step scaling function in the 2-d O(3) model. The cutoff effects of other
physical observables including the renormalized coupling and the mass in the
isotensor channel are also reduced drastically. Another choice, the mixed
action, which combines the standard quadratic with an appropriately tuned large
quartic term, also has extremely small cutoff effects. The size of cutoff
effects is also investigated analytically in 1-d and at N = infinity in 2-d.Comment: 39 pages, 18 figure
Early contingentnegative variation of the EEG and attentional flexibility are reduced in hypotension
This study explored the question as to whether hypotension is related to decreased attentional performance and reduced cortical activation. A total of 50 females aged 19 44 years participated in the study. Attentional performance was assessed using three subtests of the Attentional and Cognitive Efficiency (ACE) battery. Contingent negative variation (CNV) as a measure of cortical activation was registered during a constant fore-period reaction time paradigm: two conditions were defined using tones as S1 (80 or 60 dB) and S2 (70 dB). The following results were obtained. Hypotensive patients performed significantly more poorly on one subtest of the ACE, which indicates a reduced speed for switching from a routine to a controlled response (quantifying attentional flexibility). They also had longer reaction times and revealed a significantly smaller amplitude of the early CNV component. In addition, a significant correlation was observed between systolic blood pressure and the amplitude of the early CNV component. The data support previous findings that hypotension can be related to lowered cortical activation and indicate that specific aspects of attentional performance might be negatively affected by hypotension
One-Loop Self Energy and Renormalization of the Speed of Light for some Anisotropic Improved Quark Actions
One-loop corrections to the fermion rest mass M_1, wave function
renormalization Z_2 and speed of light renormalization C_0 are presented for
lattice actions that combine improved glue with clover or D234 quark actions
and keep the temporal and spatial lattice spacings, a_t and a_s, distinct. We
explore a range of values for the anisotropy parameter \chi = a_s/a_t and treat
both massive and massless fermions.Comment: 45 LaTeX pages with 4 postscript figure
A quark action for very coarse lattices
We investigate a tree-level O(a^3)-accurate action, D234c, on coarse
lattices. For the improvement terms we use tadpole-improved coefficients, with
the tadpole contribution measured by the mean link in Landau gauge.
We measure the hadron spectrum for quark masses near that of the strange
quark. We find that D234c shows much better rotational invariance than the
Sheikholeslami-Wohlert action, and that mean-link tadpole improvement leads to
smaller finite-lattice-spacing errors than plaquette tadpole improvement. We
obtain accurate ratios of lattice spacings using a convenient ``Galilean
quarkonium'' method.
We explore the effects of possible O(alpha_s) changes to the improvement
coefficients, and find that the two leading coefficients can be independently
tuned: hadron masses are most sensitive to the clover coefficient, while hadron
dispersion relations are most sensitive to the third derivative coefficient
C_3. Preliminary non-perturbative tuning of these coefficients yields values
that are consistent with the expected size of perturbative corrections.Comment: 22 pages, LaTe
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