Large Extra Dimensions in Rare Decays

The prospect of experimental verification of the large extra dimension scenario in rare decays is discussed. The case of J/\Psi and \Upsilon to photon + missing energy is calculated in detail, and it is shown that the limit on the compactification scale M_S lies at present in the ten GeV range. In contrast to the quarkonium systems, signals in Kaon and Pion decays will be small.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX, minor stylistic changes, version to be published in JHE

Center-Vortex Solutions of the Yang-Mills Effective Action in Three and Four Dimensions

We calculate the one-loop effective action of the SU(2) Yang-Mills theory for center-vortex configurations, both in 3d and 4d. We find that in both cases there are minima of the effective action, corresponding to vortices of the transverse size approximately 4/g_3^2 and 1.7/Lambda_MS, respectively. The values of the effective actions at the minima are negative, suggesting that the Euclidian vacuum may be unstable with respect to creation of vortices.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figures, RevTeX, some discussion added, minor stylistic changes, none of the results changed, version to appear in Phys Rev.

Integral equation for spin dependent unintegrated parton distributions incorporating double ln^2(1/x) effects at low x

In this paper we derive an integral equation for the evolution of unintegrated (longitudinally) polarized quark and gluon parton distributions. The conventional CCFM framework is extended at small x in order to incorporate the QCD expectations concerning the double ln^2(1/x) resummation at low x for the integrated distributions. Complete Altarelli-Parisi splitting functions are included, that makes the formalism compatible with the LO Altarelli-Parisi evolution at large and moderately small values of x. The obtained modified polarized CCFM equation is shown to be partially diagonalized by the Fourier-Bessel transform. Results of the numerical solution for this modified CCFM equation for the non-singlet quark distributions are presented.Comment: 24 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX, some discussion added, none of the results changed, version to appear in Phys. Rev.

Remote sensing of ocean currents using ERTS imagery

Major ocean currents such as the Loop Current in the eastern Gulf of Mexico have surface manifestations which can be exploited for remote sensing. Surface chlorophyll-a concentrations, which contribute to the shift in color from blue to green in the open sea, were found to have high spatial variability; significantly lower concentrations were observed in the current. The cyclonic edge of the current is an accumulation zone which causes a peak in chlorophyll concentration. The dynamics also cause surface concentrations of algae, which have a high reflectance in the near infrared. Combining these observations gives rise to an edge effect which can show up as a bright lineation on multispectral imagery delimiting the current's boundary under certain environmental conditions. When high seas introduce bubbles, white caps, and foam, the reflectance is dominated by scattering rather than absorption. This has been detected in ERTS imagery and used for current location

Remote sensing of ocean current boundary

There are no author-identified significant results in this report

Remote sensing of ocean current boundary layer

There are no author-identified significant results in this report