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QCD Effects in the Decays of TeV Black Holes
In models with ``large'' and/or warped extra dimensions, the
higher-dimensional Planck scale may be as low as a TeV. In that case black
holes with masses of a few TeV are expected to be produced copiously in
multi-TeV collisions, in particular at the LHC. These black holes decay through
Hawking radiation into typically O(20) Standard Model particles. Most of these
particles would be strongly interacting. Naively this would lead to a final
state containing 10 or so hadronic jets. However, it has been argued that the
density of strongly interacting particles would be so large that they
thermalize, forming a ``chromosphere'' rather than well-defined jets. In order
to investigate this, we perform a QCD simulation which includes parton-parton
scattering in addition to parton showering. We find the effects of parton
scattering to remain small for all cases we studied, leading to the conclusion
that the decays of black holes with masses within the reach of the LHC will not
lead to the formation of chromospheres.Comment: LaTeX with equation.sty (included), 26 pages, 4 figures. Added a few
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Numerical simulations of the possible origin of the two sub-parsec scale and counter-rotating stellar disks around SgrA*
We present a high resolution simulation of an idealized model to explain the
origin of the two young, counter-rotating, sub-parsec scale stellar disks
around the supermassive black hole SgrA* at the Center of the Milky Way. In our
model, the collision of a single molecular cloud with a circum-nuclear gas disk
(similar to the one observed presently) leads to multiple streams of gas
flowing towards the black hole and creating accretion disks with angular
momentum depending on the ratio of cloud and circum-nuclear disk material. The
infalling gas creates two inclined, counter-rotating sub-parsec scale accretion
disks around the supermassive black hole with the first disk forming roughly 1
Myr earlier, allowing it to fragment into stars and get dispersed before the
second, counter-rotating disk forms. Fragmentation of the second disk would
lead to the two inclined, counter-rotating stellar disks which are observed at
the Galactic Center. A similar event might be happening again right now at the
Milky Way Galactic Center. Our model predicts that the collision event
generates spiral-like filaments of gas, feeding the Galactic Center prior to
disk formation with a geometry and inflow pattern that is in agreement with the
structure of the so called mini-spiral that has been detected in the Galactic
Center.Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Ap
Empirical Methods for Modeling Landscape Change, Ecosystem Services, and Biodiversity
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
LAND-USE CHANGE AND CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN THE FORESTS OF OHIO, INDIANA, AND ILLINOIS: SENSITIVITY TO POPULATION AND MODEL CHOICE
This study develops a model of land use change in the Midwestern States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Given the emergence of spatial econometrics, three models are compared to assess the sensitivity of the estimates to alternative assumptions about the distribution of their errors. Projections of future land use change are then developed, and the results are compared across different assumptions about population growth and models. We then estimate carbon sequestration potential in the region and compare the costs of different programs across the population assumptions and the alternative models. Different assumptions about population growth and error terms do not appear to affect the carbon sequestration cost estimates.Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use,
Simulating the impact of the Smith Cloud
We investigate the future evolution of the Smith Cloud by performing
hydrodynamical simulations of the cloud impact onto the gaseous Milky Way
Galactic disk. We assume a local origin for the cloud and thus do not include a
dark matter component to stabilize it. Our main focus is the cloud's influence
on the local and global star formation rate (SFR) of the Galaxy and whether or
not it leads to an observable event in the far future. Our model assumes two
extremes for the mass of the Smith Cloud, an upper mass limit of 10
M and a lower mass limit of 10 M, compared to the
observational value of a few 10 M. In addition, we also make the
conservative assumption that the entirety of the cloud mass of the extended
Smith Cloud is concentrated within the tip of the cloud. We find that the
impact of the low-mass cloud produces no noticeable change in neither the
global SFR nor the local SFR at the cloud impact site within the galactic disk.
For the high-mass cloud we find a short-term (roughly 5 Myr) increase of the
global SFR of up to 1 M yr, which nearly doubles the normal
Milky Way SFR. This highly localized starburst should be observable.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
The Influence of Cultural and Social Capital on Post-Baccalaureate Students’ Decision to Enter and Complete Graduate School
Despite increased diversity noted in undergraduate education in recent years (Antonio, 2003), students from non-majority groups continue to be underrepresented in graduate school. Many research studies (Perna, 2000, 2004; Perna & Titus, 2005; Rowan-Kenyon, 2007; Walpole, 2003, 2007b) have used measures of cultural and social capital to increase the explanatory power of the traditional econometric framework in college choice models, but have not used these sociological variables as a primary focus. The purpose of this correlational study was to explore the influence of cultural capital and social capital on the decision of bachelor’s degree completers to enter graduate school and ultimately to degree achievement. The study is an extension of Perna’s 2004 work, which examined similar relationships of cultural and social capital variables via use of the Baccalaureate & Beyond: 93/97 study. Based on Walpole’s findings (2003), variables related to socioeconomic status (SES) were also included in my analysis.
The data used to answer the research questions were collected as part of a longitudinal study, the Baccalaureate & Beyond: 93/03. Participants in the Baccalaureate & Beyond: 93/03 study were students in the U.S. who earned a bachelor’s degree during the 1992-1993 academic year, representing a population of 1.2 million individuals (Choy, Bradburn, & Carroll, 2008). My findings revealed that measures of cultural and social capital have a significant influence on graduate school enrollment and degree completion. Among low SES students (as designated by family income) cultural and social capital variables substantially increased the likelihood of graduate degree attainment
An Investigation of Certain Aspects of Human Figure Drawings as a Measure of Sociability of the Person
For many years considerable interest has been shown in spontaneous drawing productions as related to personality study. However, little has been accomplished toward validating this measure as useful in the clinic, and even less has been done to demonstrate its usefulness with normal individuals. This study, therefore, is an attempt to determine whether or not certain aspects i.e., the manner in which the arms and hands are represented, in drawings of the human figure will objectively differentiate between social and non-social, normal individuals
IMPACTS OF INCORPORATING LAND EXCHANGES BETWEEN FORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE IN SECTOR MODELS
The forest and agriculture sectors are linked by having a portion of their land bases suitable for use in either sector. A substantial part of the southern land base is suitable for either forestry or agriculture use, with most of forestation on U.S. agriculture land in the South. We examine how land exchanges between forestry and agriculture are influenced by specific federal conservation and farm support policies, including changes in the Conservation Reserve Program. Reallocation of land is a significant part of the sectors' responses to the policies, along with intensification of timber management on existing southern forests.Agriculture, Conservation, Forest sector, Land use, Projections, Land Economics/Use,
Simple derivation of the frequency dependent complex heat capacity
This paper gives a simple derivation of the well-known expression of the
frequency dependent complex heat capacity in modulated temperature experiments.
It aims at clarified again that the generalized calorimetric susceptibility is
only due to the non-equilibrium behaviour occurring in the vicinity of
thermodynamic equilibrium of slow internal degrees of freedom of a sample when
the temperature oscillates at a well determined frequency
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