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Multiquark Systems in a Constituent Quark Model with Chiral Dynamics
We discuss the stability of multiquark systems within the recent model of
Glozman et al. where the chromomagnetic hyperfine interaction is replaced by
pseudoscalar-meson exchange. We find that such an interaction binds a heavy
tetraquark system ( and by GeV.
This is at variance with results of previous models where is
unstable.Comment: 6 pages, Plain Latex, Contribution to the Workshop''Quark Confinement
and the Hadron Spectrum II'', Como, Italy, June 26--29, 1996, to appear in
the Proceedings, ed. Nora Brambilla, World Scientifi
Heavy-Flavour Pentaquarks in a Chiral Constituent Quark Model
Within the chiral constituent quark model of Glozman and Riska, we discuss
the stability of heavy pentaquarks, i.e. hadrons containing four light quarks
and a heavy antiquark. The spin-dependent part of the Hamiltonian is dominated
by the short-range part of the Goldstone-boson-exchange interaction. We find
that these systems are not bound, having an energy above the lowest
dissociation threshold into a baryon and a meson.Comment: 10 pages + table
On a three-body confinement force in hadron spectroscopy
Recently it has been argued that a three-body colour confinement interaction
can affect the stability condition of a three-quark system and the spectrum of
a tetraquark described by any constituent quark model. Here we discuss the role
of a three-body colour confinement interaction in a simple quark model and
present some of its implications for the spectra of baryons, tetraquarks and
six-quark systems.Comment: 19 pages (RevTeX), addition of new material regarding the NN
interaction, more accurate discussion of the baryonic case, accepted for
publication in Phys. Rev.
Guidelines for the design of haptic widgets
Haptic feedback has been shown to improve user performance in Graphical User Interface (GUI) targeting tasks in a number of studies. These studies have typically focused on interactions with individual targets, and it is unclear whether the performance increases reported will generalise to the more realistic situation where multiple targets are presented simultaneously. This paper addresses this issue in two ways. Firstly two empirical studies dealing with groups of haptically augmented widgets are presented. These reveal that haptic augmentations of complex widgets can reduce performance, although carefully designed feedback can result in performance improvements. The results of these studies are then used in conjunction with the previous literature to generate general design guidelines for the creation of haptic widgets
New approach to He charge distribution
We present a study of the He charge distribution based on realistic
nucleonic wave functions and incorporation of the nucleon's quark substructure.
The central depression of the proton point density seen in modern four-body
calculations is too small by itself to lead to a correct description of the
charge distribution. We utilize six-quark structures calculated in the
Chromodielectric Model for N-N interactions, and we find a swelling of the
proton charge distribution as the internucleon distance decreases. These charge
distributions are combined with the He wave function using the Independent
Pair Approximation and two-body distributions generated from Green's Function
Monte Carlo calculations. We obtain a reasonably good fit to the experimental
charge distribution without including meson exchange currents.Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures (Figures 1 and 2 doesn't exist as
postscript files : they are only available on request
On passion and moral behavior in achievement settings: The mediating role of pride
The Dualistic Model of Passion (Vallerand et al., 2003) distinguishes two types of passion: harmonious passion (HP) and obsessive passion (OP) that predict adaptive and less adaptive outcomes, respectively. In the present research, we were interested in understanding the role of passion in the adoption of moral behavior in achievement settings. It was predicted that the two facets of pride (authentic and hubristic; Tracy & Robins, 2007) would mediate the passion-moral behavior relationship. Specifically, because people who are passionate about a given activity are highly involved in it, it was postulated that they should typically do well and thus experience high levels of pride when engaged in the activity. However, it was also hypothesized that while both types of passion should be conducive to authentic pride, only OP should lead to hubristic pride. Finally, in line with past research on pride (Carver, Sinclair, & Johnson, 2010; Tracy et al., 2009), only hubristic pride was expected to negatively predict moral behavior, while authentic pride was expected to positively predict moral behavior. Results of two studies conducted with paintball players (N=163, Study 1) and athletes (N=296, Study 2) supported the proposed model. Future research directions are discussed in light of the Dualistic Model of Passion
Skyrme density functional description of the double magic Ni nucleus
We calculate the single particle spectrum of the double magic nucleus
Ni in a Hartree-Fock approach using the Skyrme density-dependent
effective interaction containing central, spin-orbit and tensor parts. We show
that the tensor part has an important effect on the spin-orbit splitting of the
proton orbit which may explain the survival of magicity so far from the
stability valley. We confirm the inversion of the and levels at
the neutron number 48 in the Ni isotopic chain expected from previous Monte
Carlo shell model calculations and supported by experimental observation.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, typos corrected. arXiv admin note: text overlap
with arXiv:nucl-th/070206
Electronic structure of wet DNA.
The electronic properties of a Z-DNA crystal synthesized in the laboratory are investigated by means of density-functional theory Car-Parrinello calculations. The electronic structure has a gap of only 1.28 eV. This separates a manifold of 12 occupied states which came from the pi guanine orbitals from the lowest empty states in which the electron is transferred to the Na+ from PO-4 groups and water molecules. We have evaluated the anisotropic optical conductivity. At low frequency the conductivity is dominated by the pi-->Na+ transitions. Our calculation demonstrates that the cost of introducing electron holes in wet DNA strands could be lower than previously anticipated
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