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Realistic Neutrino Opacities for Supernova Simulations With Correlations and Weak Magnetism
Advances in neutrino transport allow realistic neutrino interactions to be
incorporated into supernova simulations. We add tensor couplings to
relativistic RPA calculations of neutrino opacities. Our results reproduce
free-space neutrino-nucleon cross sections at low density, including weak
magnetism and recoil corrections. In addition, our opacities are
thermodynamically consistent with relativistic mean field equations of state.
We find antineutrino mean free paths that are considerably larger then those
for neutrinos. This difference depends little on density. In a supernova, this
difference could lead to an average energy of that is larger than
that for by an amount that is comparable to the energy difference
between and Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, submitted to PRC, minor changes to figs. (9,10
Quenching and Tomography from RHIC to LHC
We compare fully perturbative and fully nonperturbative pictures of high-pT
energy loss calculations to the first results from LHC. While over-suppressed
compared to published ALICE data, parameter-free pQCD predictions based on the
WHDG energy loss model constrained to RHIC data simultaneously describe well
the preliminary CMS hadron suppression, ATLAS charged hadron v2, and ALICE D
meson suppression; we also provide for future reference WHDG predictions for B
meson RAA. However, energy loss calculations based on AdS/CFT also
qualitatively describe well the RHIC pion and non-photonic electron suppression
and LHC charged hadron suppression. We propose the double ratio of charm to
bottom quark RAA will qualitatively distinguish between these two energy loss
pictures.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings for Quark Matter 201
Surface Effects of Flame Spreading over Igniting Composite Solid Propellants Constituents
Flame spreading over surface of igniting composite solid propellant constituent
Regularization of identity based solution in string field theory
We demonstrate that an Erler-Schnabl type solution in cubic string field
theory can be naturally interpreted as a gauge invariant regularization of an
identity based solution. We consider a solution which interpolates between an
identity based solution and ordinary Erler-Schnabl one. Two gauge invariant
quantities, the classical action and the closed string tadpole, are evaluated
for finite value of the gauge parameter. It is explicitly checked that both of
them are independent of the gauge parameter.Comment: 9 pages, minor typos corrected and references adde
Field-Effect Transistor on SrTiO3 with sputtered Al2O3 Gate Insulator
A field-effect transistor that employs a perovskite-type SrTiO3 single
crystal as the semiconducting channel is revealed to function as n-type
accumulation-mode device with characteristics similar to that of organic FET's.
The device was fabricated at room temperature by sputter-deposition of
amorphous Al2O3 films as a gate insulator on the SrTiO3 substrate. The
field-effect(FE) mobility is 0.1cm2/Vs and on-off ratio exceeds 100 at room
temperature. The temperature dependence of the FE mobility down to 2K shows a
thermal-activation-type behavior with an activation energy of 0.6eV
Nuclear medium modifications of the NN interaction via quasielastic () and () scattering
Within the relativistic PWIA, spin observables have been recalculated for
quasielastic () and () reactions on a Ca
target. The incident proton energy ranges from 135 to 300 MeV while the
transferred momentum is kept fixed at 1.97 fm^{-1}. In the present
calculations, new Horowitz-Love--Franey relativistic NN amplitudes have been
generated in order to yield improved and more quantitative spin observable
values than before. The sensitivities of the various spin observables to the NN
interaction parameters, such as (1) the presence of the surrounding nuclear
medium, (2) a pseudoscalar versus a pseudovector interaction term, and (3)
exchange effects, point to spin observables which should preferably be measured
at certain laboratory proton energies, in order to test current nuclear models.
This study also shows that nuclear medium effects become more important at
lower proton energies ( 200 MeV). A comparison to the limited available
data indicates that the relativistic parametrization of the NN scattering
amplitudes in terms of only the five Fermi invariants (the SVPAT form) is
questionable.Comment: 10 pages, 6 Postscript figures, uses psfig.sty and article.sty,
submitted to Phys. Rev.
Relativistic analysis of the 208Pb(e,e'p)207Tl reaction at high momentum
The recent 208Pb(e,e'p)207Tl data from NIKHEF-K at high missing momentum
(p_m>300 MeV/c) are compared to theoretical results obtained with a fully
relativistic formalism previously applied to analyze data on the low missing
momentum (p_m < 300 MeV/c) region. The same relativistic optical potential and
mean field wave functions are used in the two p_m-regions. The spectroscopic
factors of the various shells are extracted from the analysis of the low-p_m
data and then used in the high-p_m region. In contrast to previous analyses
using a nonrelativistic mean field formalism, we do not find a substantial
deviation from the mean field predictions other than that of the spectroscopic
factors, which appear to be consistent with both low- and high-p_m data. We
find that the difference between results of relativistic and nonrelativistic
formalisms is enhanced in the p_m<0 region that will be interesting to explore
experimentally.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX+Revtex, included 3 postscript figures. To appear in
the Physical Review C (Rapid Communications
Hamiltonian Derivations of the Generalized Jarzynski Equalities under Feedback Control
In the presence of feedback control by "Maxwell's demon," the second law of
thermodynamics and the nonequilibrium equalities such as the Jarzynski equality
need to be generalized. In this paper, we derive the generalized Jarzynski
equalities for classical Hamiltonian dynamics based on the Liouville's theorem,
which is the same approach as the original proof of the Jarzynski equality
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2690 (1997)]. The obtained equalities lead to the
generalizations of the second law of thermodynamics for the Hamiltonian systems
in the presence of feedback control.Comment: Proceedings of "STATPHYS - Kolkata VII", November 26-30, 2010,
Kolkata, Indi
Comment on Counting Black Hole Microstates Using String Dualities
We discuss a previous attempt at a microscopic counting of the entropy of
asymptotically flat non-extremal black-holes. This method used string dualities
to relate 4 and 5 dimensional black holes to the BTZ black hole. We show how
the dualities can be justified in a certain limit, equivalent to a near horizon
limit, but the resulting spacetime is no longer asymptotically flat.Comment: 10 pages, harvmac. v(2) typo correcte
The more often you see an object, the easier it becomes to track it
Is it easier to track objects that you have seen repeatedly? We compared repeated blocks, where identities were the same from trial to trial, to unrepeated blocks, where identities varied. People were better in tracking objects that they saw repeatedly. We tested four hypotheses to explain this repetition benefit. First, perhaps the repeated condition benefits from consistent mapping of identities to target and distractor roles. However, the repetition benefit persisted even when both the repeated and the unrepeated conditions used consistent mapping. Second, repetition might improve the ability to recover targets that have been lost, or swapped with distractors. However, we observed a larger repetition benefit for color-color conjunctions, which do not benefit from such error recovery processes, than for unique features, which do. Furthermore, a repetition benefit was observed even in the absence of distractors. Third, perhaps repetition frees up resources by reducing memory load. However, increasing memory load by masking identities during the motion phase reduced the repetition benefit. The fourth hypothesis is that repetition facilitates identity tracking, which in turn improves location tracking. This hypothesis is consistent with all our results. Thus, our data suggest that identity and location tracking share a common resource
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