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Relativistic Modification of the Gamow Factor
In processes involving Coulomb-type initial- and final-state interactions,
the Gamow factor has been traditionally used to take into account these
additional interactions. The Gamow factor needs to be modified when the
magnitude of the effective coupling constant increases or when the velocity
increases. For the production of a pair of particles under their mutual
Coulomb-type interaction, we obtain the modification of the Gamow factor in
terms of the overlap of the Feynman amplitude with the relativistic wave
function of the two particles. As a first example, we study the modification of
the Gamow factor for the production of two bosons. The modification is
substantial when the coupling constant is large.Comment: 13 pages, in LaTe
Interference effects in f-deformed fields
We show how the introduction of an algeabric field deformation affects the
interference phenomena. We also give a physical interpretation of the developed
theory.Comment: 6 pages, Latex file, no figures, accepted by Physica Script
Driven interfaces in disordered media: determination of universality classes from experimental data
While there have been important theoretical advances in understanding the
universality classes of interfaces moving in porous media, the developed tools
cannot be directly applied to experiments. Here we introduce a method that can
identify the universality class from snapshots of the interface profile. We
test the method on discrete models whose universality class is well known, and
use it to identify the universality class of interfaces obtained in experiments
on fluid flow in porous media.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Projections of Discovery Potentials from Expected Background
Background with certain uncertainties are usually known in searches of novel
phenomena prior to the experiments are conducted at their design stage. We
quantitatively study the projected sensitivities in terms of discovery
potentials. These are essential for the optimizations of the experimental
specifications as well as of the cost-effectiveness in various investment.
Sensitivities in counting analysis are derived with complete Poisson statistics
and its continuous approximation, and are compared with those using maximum
likelihood analysis in which additional measurables are included as signatures.
The roles and effects due to uncertainties in the background estimates are
studied. Two expected features to establish positive effects are verified and
quantified: (i) In counting-only experiments, the required signal strength can
be derived with complete Poisson analysis, and the continuous approximation
would underestimate the results. (ii) Incorporating continuous variables as
additional constraints would reduce the required signal strength relative to
that of counting-only analysis. The formulations are applied to the case on the
experimental searches of neutrinoless double beta decay in which both ambient
and two-neutrino background are considered.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figure
Clock synchronization with dispersion cancellation
The dispersion cancellation feature of pulses which are entangled in
frequency is employed to synchronize clocks of distant parties. The proposed
protocol is insensitive to the pulse distortion caused by transit through a
dispersive medium. Since there is cancellation to all orders, also the effects
of slowly fluctuating dispersive media are compensated. The experimental setup
can be realized with currently available technology, at least for a proof of
principle.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Dissociation rates of J/psi's with comoving mesons - thermal vs. nonequilibrium scenario
We study J/psi dissociation processes in hadronic environments. The validity
of a thermal meson gas ansatz is tested by confronting it with an alternative,
nonequilibrium scenario. Heavy ion collisions are simulated in the framework of
the microscopic transport model UrQMD, taking into account the production of
charmonium states through hard parton-parton interactions and subsequent
rescattering with hadrons. The thermal gas and microscopic transport scenarios
are shown to be very dissimilar. Estimates of J/psi survival probabilities
based on thermal models of comover interactions in heavy ion collisions are
therefore not reliable.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Lens Galaxy Properties of SBS1520+530: Insights from Keck Spectroscopy and AO Imaging
We report on an investigation of the SBS 1520+530 gravitational lens system
and its environment using archival HST imaging, Keck spectroscopic data, and
Keck adaptive-optics imaging. The AO imaging has allowed us to fix the lens
galaxy properties with a high degree of precision when performing the lens
modeling, and the data indicate that the lens has an elliptical morphology and
perhaps a disk. The new spectroscopic data suggest that previous determinations
of the lens redshift may be incorrect, and we report an updated, though
inconclusive, value z_lens = 0.761. We have also spectroscopically confirmed
the existence of several galaxy groups at approximately the redshift of the
lens system. We create new models of the lens system that explicitly account
for the environment of the lens, and we also include improved constraints on
the lensing galaxy from our adaptive-optics imaging. Lens models created with
these new data can be well-fit with a steeper than isothermal mass slope (alpha
= 2.29, with the density proportional to r^-alpha) if H_0 is fixed at 72
km/s/Mpc; isothermal models require H_0 ~ 50 km/s/Mpc. The steepened profile
may indicate that the lens is in a transient perturbed state caused by
interactions with a nearby galaxy.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Ap
Universality and Phase Diagram around Half-filled Landau Level
Gated GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures were used to determine the low-temperature
behavior of the two-dimensional electron gas near filling factor nu=1/2 in the
disorder-magnetic-field plane. We identify a line on which sigma_{xy} is
temperature independent, has value sigma_{xy}=0.5 (e^{2}/h), and a distinct
line on which rho_{xy}=2 (h/e^{2}). The phase boundaries between the Hall
insulator and the principal quantum Hall liquids at nu=1 and 1/3 show
levitation of the delocalized states of the first Landau levels for electrons
and composite fermions. Finally, the data suggest that there is no true
metallic phase around nu=1/2.Comment: 7 pages (Revtex), 5 figure
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