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Hard Photodisintegration of 3He
Large angle photodisintegration of two nucleons from the 3He nucleus is
studied within the framework of the hard rescattering model (HRM). In the HRM
the incoming photon is absorbed by one nucleon's valence quark that then
undergoes a hard rescattering reaction with a valence quark from the second
nucleon producing two nucleons emerging at large transverse momentum .
Parameter free cross sections for pp and pn break up channels are calculated
through the input of experimental cross sections on pp and pn elastic
scattering. The calculated cross section for pp breakup and its predicted
energy dependency are in good agreement with recent experimental data.
Predictions on spectator momentum distributions and helicity transfer are also
presented.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Teaching geography for a sustainable world: a case study of a secondary school in Spain
Geography has a major responsibility in delivering education for sustainable development (ESD),
especially because the geographical concepts of place and space are key dimensions for the
analysis and pursuit of sustainability. This paper presents the results of a research that investigated
how the teaching of geography in secondary education in Catalonia (Spain) contributes to ESD.
For the development of this research it was explored what is involved in understanding and
resolving issues about sustainable development and how geography teachers might best
conceptualize and teach in this new domain. As a result of this theoretical reflection it has been
defined a proposal or model for reorienting the geography curriculum from the basis of the ESD
paradigm, which is based and structured in four groups of criteria and recommendations as
follows: recommendations for defining competences and learning objectives; criteria for selecting
geographical contents and themes; criteria for selecting geographical areas and for the use of
scale; and finally, recommendations for choosing the most suitable teaching and learning
approach
Light-front representation of chiral dynamics in peripheral transverse densities
The nucleon's electromagnetic form factors are expressed in terms of the
transverse densities of charge and magnetization at fixed light-front time. At
peripheral transverse distances the densities are governed
by chiral dynamics and can be calculated model-independently using chiral
effective field theory (EFT). We represent the leading-order chiral EFT results
for the peripheral transverse densities as overlap integrals of chiral
light-front wave functions, describing the transition of the initial nucleon to
soft pion-nucleon intermediate states and back. The new representation (a)
explains the parametric order of the peripheral transverse densities; (b)
establishes an inequality between the spin-independent and -dependent
densities; (c) exposes the role of pion orbital angular momentum in chiral
dynamics; (d) reveals a large left-right asymmetry of the current in a
transversely polarized nucleon and suggests a simple interpretation. The
light-front representation enables a first-quantized, quantum-mechanical view
of chiral dynamics that is fully relativistic and exactly equivalent to the
second-quantized, field-theoretical formulation. It relates the charge and
magnetization densities measured in low-energy elastic scattering to the
generalized parton distributions probed in peripheral high-energy scattering
processes. The method can be applied to nucleon form factors of other
operators, e.g. the energy-momentum tensor.Comment: 28 pages, 9 figure
Chiral dynamics and peripheral transverse densities
In the partonic (or light-front) description of relativistic systems the
electromagnetic form factors are expressed in terms of frame-independent charge
and magnetization densities in transverse space. This formulation allows one to
identify the chiral components of nucleon structure as the peripheral densities
at transverse distances b = O(M_pi^{-1}) and compute them in a parametrically
controlled manner. A dispersion relation connects the large-distance behavior
of the transverse charge and magnetization densities to the spectral functions
of the Dirac and Pauli form factors near the two-pion threshold at timelike t =
4 M_pi^2. Using relativistic chiral effective field theory in the leading-order
approximation, we (a) derive the asymptotic behavior (Yukawa tail) of the
isovector transverse densities in the "chiral" region b = O(M_pi^{-1}) and the
"molecular" region b = O(M_N^2/M_pi^3); (b) perform the heavy-baryon expansion;
(c) explain the relative magnitude of the peripheral charge and magnetization
densities in a simple mechanical picture; (d) include Delta intermediate states
and study the densities in the large-N_c limit of QCD; (e) quantify the spatial
region where the chiral components are numerically dominant; (f) calculate the
chiral divergences of the b^2-weighted moments of the transverse densities
(charge and magnetic radii) and determine their spatial support. Our approach
provides a concise formulation of the spatial structure of the nucleon's chiral
component and offers new insights into basic properties of the chiral
expansion. It relates the information extracted from low-t elastic form factors
to the generalized parton distributions probed in peripheral high-energy
scattering processes.Comment: 52 pages, 13 figure
Multi-wavelength, all-solid-state, continuous wave mode locked picosecond Raman laser
We demonstrate the operation of a cascaded continuous wave (CW) mode-locked Raman oscillator. The output pulses were compressed from 28 ps at 532 nm down to 6.5 ps at 559 nm (first Stokes) and 5.5 ps at 589 nm (second Stokes). The maximum output was 2.5 W at 559 nm and 1.4 W at 589 nm with slope efficiencies up to 52%. This technique allows simple and efficient generation of short-pulse radiation to the cascaded Stokes wavelengths, extending the mode-locked operation of Raman lasers to a wider range of visible wavelengths between 500 - 650 nm based on standard inexpensive picosecond Nd:YAG oscillators
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