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Possible dibaryons in the quark cluster model
In the framework of RGM, the binding energy of one channel
() and are studied in the
chiral SU(3) quark cluster model. It is shown that the binding energies of the
systems are a few tens of MeV. The behavior of the chiral field is also
investigated by comparing the results with those in the SU(2) and the extended
SU(2) chiral quark models. It is found that the symmetry property of the
system makes the contribution of the relative kinetic energy
operator between two clusters attractive. This is very beneficial for forming
the bound dibaryon. Meanwhile the chiral-quark field coupling also plays a very
important role on binding. The S-wave phase shifts and the corresponding
scattering lengths of the systems are also given.Comment: LeTex with 2 ps figure
Magnetic rotations in 198Pb and 199Pb within covariant density functional theory
Well-known examples of shears bands in the nuclei 198Pb and 199Pb are
investigated within tilted axis cranking relativistic mean-field theory. Energy
spectra, the relation between spin and rotational frequency, deformation
parameters and reduced and transition probabilities are calculated.
The results are in good agreement with available data and with calculations
based on the phenomenological pairing plus-quadrupole-quadrupole tilted-axis
cranking model. It is shown that covariant density functional theory provides a
successful microscopic and fully self-consistent description of magnetic
rotation in the Pb region showing the characteristic properties as the shears
mechanism and relatively large B(M1) transitions decreasing with increasing
spin.Comment: 22 pages, 8 figure
Far apart yet close: social media on acculturation among international students in the UK
This paper investigates international students’ acculturation, an important aspect for universities to consider when they try to develop a positive loyal customer relationship with international students. The paper presents the influences of social media usage on international students’ acculturation process in both psychological and behavioural aspects, and whether international students’ acculturation predicts students’ academic achievement, perceived value and university loyalty. Self-identification is examined for its moderating effect between social media usage and Chinese international students’ acculturation. This study collected samples from Chinese international students studying in UK universities. The results find that Chinese international students’ psychological acculturation to the host culture has no significant relationship with their academic achievement, but their strong self-identification can help with their host culture acculturation. This study makes contributions in current acculturation research and managerial practice for universities which target international markets
Multipole polarizability of a graded spherical particle
We have studied the multipole polarizability of a graded spherical particle
in a nonuniform electric field, in which the conductivity can vary radially
inside the particle. The main objective of this work is to access the effects
of multipole interactions at small interparticle separations, which can be
important in non-dilute suspensions of functionally graded materials. The
nonuniform electric field arises either from that applied on the particle or
from the local field of all other particles. We developed a differential
effective multipole moment approximation (DEMMA) to compute the multipole
moment of a graded spherical particle in a nonuniform external field. Moreover,
we compare the DEMMA results with the exact results of the power-law graded
profile and the agreement is excellent. The extension to anisotropic DEMMA will
be studied in an Appendix.Comment: LaTeX format, 2 eps figures, submitted for publication
Top Quark Rare Decays via Loop-Induced FCNC Interactions in Extended Mirror Fermion Model
Flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) interactions for a top quark
decays into with represents a neutral gauge or Higgs boson, and a
up- or charm-quark are highly suppressed in the Standard Model (SM) due to the
Glashow-Iliopoulos-Miami mechanism. Whilst current limits on the branching
ratios of these processes have been established at the order of from
the Large Hadron Collider experiments, SM predictions are at least nine orders
of magnitude below. In this work, we study some of these FCNC processes in the
context of an extended mirror fermion model, originally proposed to implement
the electroweak scale seesaw mechanism for non-sterile right-handed neutrinos.
We show that one can probe the process for a wide range of parameter
space with branching ratios varying from to , comparable
with various new physics models including the general two Higgs doublet model
with or without flavor violations at tree level, minimal supersymmetric
standard model with or without -parity, and extra dimension model.Comment: 30 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables and 1 appendix. Version to appear in
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Stability of Discrete Solitons in the Presence of Parametric Driving
In this brief report, we consider parametrically driven bright solitons in
the vicinity of the anti-continuum limit. We illustrate the mechanism through
which these solitons become unstable due to the collision of the phase mode
with the continuous spectrum, or eigenvelues bifurcating thereof. We show how
this mechanism typically leads to complete destruction of the bright solitary
wave.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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