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Remark on the open string pair production enhancement
Recent studies by one of the present authors along with his collaborators in
[1-4] show that there exist the so-called open string pair production for a
possible simplest system of two Dp branes, placed parallel at a separation and
with each carrying different electric flux, in Type II superstring theories.
Further this pair production can be greatly enhanced when a magnetic flux,
sharing no common field strength index with the electric one, is added,
implying then . Given this, one may wonder if further enhancement can
be achieved by adding more magnetic flux(es) in a similar fashion. In this
paper, we explore this possibility. It turns out that adding more such magnetic
flux diminishes rather than enhances the pair production rate. This actually
implies that the largest enhancement occurs at when the same realistic
electric and magnetic fluxes are applied for all . Curiously one of D3
branes may be our own world and if so, the enhancement gives a possible
opportunity to detect the pair production, therefore to test the underlying
string theories.Comment: 14 pages, 0 figure
On 1/4 BPS ((F, D1), (NS5, D5)) bound states of type IIB string theory
We construct two new SL(2,Z) invariant vacua of type IIB string theory which
are bound states of strings with 5-branes, written as ((F, D1),
(NS5, D5)) and preserve 1/4 of the full space-time supersymmetries. For the
first case, the strings live inside the 5-brane world-volume and in the second
case the strings are perpendicular to the 5-brane world-volume. In the first
case, naively one would expect an attractive interaction between the strings
and the 5-branes due to attractive force between F and D5 and also between D1
and NS5. We find that 1/4 BPS bound state exists only when the vacuum moduli
satisfy certain condition which is found to be consistent with the no-force
condition between the branes. No such complication arises for the second case.
The tension formulae and the various other descendant states which can be
obtained by the application of T-duality for both these bound states are
discussed.Comment: 22 pages, 1 table, minor changes and one reference added, the version
to appear in JHE
Fast Monte Carlo Simulation for Patient-specific CT/CBCT Imaging Dose Calculation
Recently, X-ray imaging dose from computed tomography (CT) or cone beam CT
(CBCT) scans has become a serious concern. Patient-specific imaging dose
calculation has been proposed for the purpose of dose management. While Monte
Carlo (MC) dose calculation can be quite accurate for this purpose, it suffers
from low computational efficiency. In response to this problem, we have
successfully developed a MC dose calculation package, gCTD, on GPU architecture
under the NVIDIA CUDA platform for fast and accurate estimation of the x-ray
imaging dose received by a patient during a CT or CBCT scan. Techniques have
been developed particularly for the GPU architecture to achieve high
computational efficiency. Dose calculations using CBCT scanning geometry in a
homogeneous water phantom and a heterogeneous Zubal head phantom have shown
good agreement between gCTD and EGSnrc, indicating the accuracy of our code. In
terms of improved efficiency, it is found that gCTD attains a speed-up of ~400
times in the homogeneous water phantom and ~76.6 times in the Zubal phantom
compared to EGSnrc. As for absolute computation time, imaging dose calculation
for the Zubal phantom can be accomplished in ~17 sec with the average relative
standard deviation of 0.4%. Though our gCTD code has been developed and tested
in the context of CBCT scans, with simple modification of geometry it can be
used for assessing imaging dose in CT scans as well.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures, and 1 tabl
Ultrasonic tracking of a sinking ball in a vibrated dense granular suspension
Observing and understanding the movement of an intruder through opaque dense
suspensions such as quicksand remains a practical and conceptual challenge.
Here we use an ultrasonic probe to investigate the dynamics of a steel ball
sinking in a 3D dense glass bead packing saturated by water. We show that the
frictional model developed for dry granular media can be used to describe the
ball motion induced by horizontal vibration. From this rheology we infer the
static friction coefficient and effective viscosity that decrease when
increasing the vibration intensity. Our main finding is that the
vibration-induced reduction of the yield stress and increase of the sinking
depth are presumably due to induced slipping at the grain contacts but without
visible plastic rearrangements of grains, in contrast to dry granular packings.
To explain these results, we propose a mechanism of acoustic lubrication that
reduces the inter-particle friction and leads to a decrease of the yield
stress. This scenario is different from the mechanism of liquefaction usually
invoked in loosely packed quicksands where the vibration-induced compaction
increases the pore pressure and decreases the confining pressure on the solid
skeleton, thus reducing the granular resistance to external load.Comment: 9 pages and 5 figures, plus the supplemental information (1 page, 2
movies, 1 figure
Effect of Statistical Fluctuation in Monte Carlo Based Photon Beam Dose Calculation on Gamma Index Evaluation
The gamma-index test has been commonly adopted to quantify the degree of
agreement between a reference dose distribution and an evaluation dose
distribution. Monte Carlo (MC) simulation has been widely used for the
radiotherapy dose calculation for both clinical and research purposes. The goal
of this work is to investigate both theoretically and experimentally the impact
of the MC statistical fluctuation on the gamma-index test when the fluctuation
exists in the reference, the evaluation, or both dose distributions. To the
first order approximation, we theoretically demonstrated in a simplified model
that the statistical fluctuation tends to overestimate gamma-index values when
existing in the reference dose distribution and underestimate gamma-index
values when existing in the evaluation dose distribution given the original
gamma-index is relatively large for the statistical fluctuation. Our numerical
experiments using clinical photon radiation therapy cases have shown that 1)
when performing a gamma-index test between an MC reference dose and a non-MC
evaluation dose, the average gamma-index is overestimated and the passing rate
decreases with the increase of the noise level in the reference dose; 2) when
performing a gamma-index test between a non-MC reference dose and an MC
evaluation dose, the average gamma-index is underestimated when they are within
the clinically relevant range and the passing rate increases with the increase
of the noise level in the evaluation dose; 3) when performing a gamma-index
test between an MC reference dose and an MC evaluation dose, the passing rate
is overestimated due to the noise in the evaluation dose and underestimated due
to the noise in the reference dose. We conclude that the gamma-index test
should be used with caution when comparing dose distributions computed with
Monte Carlo simulation
PHENIX Measurement of High- Hadron-hadron and Photon-hadron Azimuthal Correlations
High- hadron-hadron correlations have been measured with the PHENIX
experiment in \Cu and \pp collisions at GeV. A
comparison of the jet widths and yields between the two colliding systems
allows us to study the medium effect on jets. We also present a first
measurement of direct photon-hadron correlations in \Au and \pp collisions.
We find that the near-side yields are consistent with zero in both systems. By
comparing the jet yields on the away side, we observe a suggestion of the
expected suppression of hadrons associated with photons in \Au collisions.Comment: 5 pages, proceeding for parallel talk on Quark Matter 200
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