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A New Approach to Flavor Symmetry and an Extended Naturalness Principle
A class of non-supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model is proposed in
which there is a multiplicity of light scalar doublets in a multiplet of a
non-abelian family group with the Standard Model Higgs doublet. Anthropic
tuning makes the latter light, and consequently the other scalar doublets
remain light because of the family symmetry. The family symmetry greatly
constrains the pattern of FCNC and proton decay operators coming from
scalar-exchange. Such models show that useful constraints on model-building can
come from an extended naturalness principle when the electroweak scale is
anthropically tuned.Comment: 31 pages, 3 figure
Bond-order wave phase, spin solitons and thermodynamics of a frustrated linear spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet
The linear spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet with exchanges ,
between first and second neighbors has a bond-order wave (BOW) phase that
starts at the fluid-dimer transition at and is particularly
simple at . The BOW phase has a doubly degenerate singlet ground
state, broken inversion symmetry and a finite energy gap to the lowest
triplet state.
The interval has large and small finite size
corrections. Exact solutions are presented up to spins with either
periodic or open boundary conditions and for thermodynamics up to . The
elementary excitations of the BOW phase with large are topological
spin-1/2 solitons that separate BOWs with opposite phase in a regular array of
spins. The molar spin susceptibility is exponentially small for and increases nearly linearly with to a broad maximum. ,
spin chains approximate the magnetic properties of the BOW phase of
Hubbard-type models and provide a starting point for modeling alkali-TCNQ
salts.Comment: 10 pages, 12 figure
Random Isotropic Structures and Possible Glass Transitions in Diblock Copolymer Melts
We study the microstructural glass transitions in diblock-copolymer melts
using a thermodynamic replica approach. Our approach performs an expansion in
terms of the natural smallness parameter -- the inverse of the scaled degree of
polymerization, which allows us to systematically study the approach to
mean-field behavior as the degree of polymerization increases. We find that in
the limit of infinite long polymer chains, both the onset of glassiness and the
vitrification transition (Kauzmann temperature) collapse to the mean-field
spinodal, suggesting that the spinodal can be regarded as the mean-field
signature for glass transitions in this class of systems. We also study the
order-disorder transitions (ODT) within the same theoretical framework; in
particular, we include the leading-order fluctuation corrections due to the
cubic interaction in the coarse-grained Hamiltonian, which has been ignored in
previous works on the ODT in block copolymers. We find that the cubic term
stabilizes both the ordered (body-centered-cubic) phase and the glassy state
relative to the disordered phase. While in melts of symmetric copolymers the
glass transition always occurs after the order-disorder transition (below the
ODT temperature), for asymmetric copolymers, it is possible that the glass
transition precedes the ordering transition.Comment: An error corrected in the referenc
Nucleon-Nucleon Bremsstrahlung emission of massive Axion
We consider the problem of axion production by bremsstrahlung emission in a
nuclear medium. The usual assumption of a massless axion is replaced by more
general hypotheses, so that we can describe the emission process for axions
with mass up to a few MeV. We point out that in certain physical situations the
contribution from non-zero mass is non-negligible. In particular, in the
mechanism for the production of Gamma Ray Bursts via emission of heavy axions
the axion mass m_a ~ 1MeV is comparable with the temperature of the nuclear
medium and thus can not be disregarded. Looking at our results we find, in
fact, a fairly considerable reduction of the axion luminosity in that
mechanism.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure
Behavior of X-Ray Dust Scattering and Implications for X-Ray Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts
The afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have commonly been assumed to be
due to shocks sweeping up the circum-stellar medium. However, most GRBs have
been found in dense star-forming regions where a significant fraction of the
prompt X-ray emission can be scattered by dust grains. Here we revisit the
behavior of dust scattering of X-rays in GRBs. We find that the features of
some X-ray afterglows from minutes to days after the gamma-ray triggers are
consistent with the scattering of prompt X-ray emission from GRBs off host dust
grains. This implies that some of the observed X-ray afterglows (especially
those without sharp rising and decaying flares) could be understood with a
dust-scattering--driven emission model.Comment: ApJ, in pres
Analysis of the strong coupling constant and the decay width of with QCD sum rules
In this article, we calculate the form factors and the coupling constant of
the vertex using the three-point QCD sum rules. We
consider the contributions of the vacuum condensates up to dimension in the
operator product expansion(OPE). And all possible off-shell cases are
considered, , and , resulting in three different form
factors. Then we fit the form factors into analytical functions and extrapolate
them into time-like regions, which giving the coupling constant for the
process. Our analysis indicates that the coupling constant for this vertex is
. The results of this work are very useful
in the other phenomenological analysis. As an application, we calculate the
coupling constant for the decay channel and
analyze the width of this decay with the assumption of the vector meson
dominance of the intermediate . Our final result about the decay
width of this decay channel is .Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1501.03088 by other author
Review: The Powers of the Universe by Brian Swimme
This essay presents a review on Brian Swimme’s 3-DVD set of lecture series in the interdisciplinary field of philosophy, cosmology and consciousness. In the eleven 45-minute episodes of a systematic 9-hour immersive program, a set of 12 intercorrelated cosmological powers is proposed on the basis of modern scientific theory. A positive and life-affirming vision of human potential is attained together with a new level of ecological responsibility and relatedness. The interwoven cosmological paradigm compromises with two ancient eastern wisdoms
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