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Anomalous quartic couplings in collisions at the LHeC and the FCC-he
We conducted a study on measuring production and on the sensitivity
limits at Confidence Level on thirteen anomalous couplings obtained by
dimension-8 operators which are related to the anomalous quartic
couplings. We consider the main reaction with the sub-process at
the Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) and the Future Circular
Collider-hadron electron (FCC-he). For the LHeC, energies of the beams
are taken to be and 140 GeV and the energy of the beams is taken
to be TeV. For the FCC-he, energies of the beams are taken to
be and 140 GeV and the energy of the beams is taken to be TeV, respectively. It is interesting to notice that the LHeC and the FCC-he
will lead to model-independent limits on the anomalous quartic
couplings which are one order of magnitude stringent than the CMS Collaboration
limits, in addition to being competitive with other limits reported in the
literature.Comment: 28 pages, 10 Figures and 13 Table
Opposite polarity field with convective downflow and its relation to magnetic spines in a sunspot penumbra
We discuss NICOLE inversions of Fe I 630.15 nm and 630.25 nm Stokes spectra
from a sunspot penumbra recorded with the CRISP imaging spectropolarimeter on
the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope at a spatial resolution close to 0.15". We
report on narrow radially extended lanes of opposite polarity field, located at
the boundaries between areas of relatively horizontal magnetic field (the
intra-spines) and much more vertical field (the spines). These lanes harbor
convective downflows of about 1 km/s. The locations of these downflows close to
the spines agree with predictions from the convective gap model (the "gappy
penumbra") proposed six years ago, and more recent 3D MHD simulations. We also
confirm the existence of strong convective flows throughout the entire
penumbra, showing the expected correlation between temperature and vertical
velocity, and having vertical RMS velocities of about 1.2 km/s.Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A (06-March-2013). Minor corrections
made in this version
On the stability of Hamiltonian relative equilibria with non-trivial isotropy
We consider Hamiltonian systems with symmetry, and relative equilibria with
isotropy subgroup of positive dimension. The stability of such relative
equilibria has been studied by Ortega and Ratiu and by Lerman and Singer. In
both papers the authors give sufficient conditions for stability which require
first determining a splitting of a subspace of the Lie algebra of the symmetry
group, with different splittings giving different criteria. In this note we
remove this splitting construction and so provide a more general and more
easily computed criterion for stability. The result is also extended to apply
to systems whose momentum map is not coadjoint equivariant
Doping and temperature dependence of Mn 3d states in A-site ordered manganites
We present a systematic study of the electronic structure in A-site ordered
manganites as function of doping and temperature. The energy dependencies
observed with soft x-ray resonant diffraction (SXRD) at the Mn L_{2,3} edges
are compared with structural investigations using neutron powder diffraction as
well as with cluster calculations. The crystal structures obtained with neutron
powder diffraction reflect the various orbital and charge ordered phases and
show an increase of the Mn-O-Mn bond angle as function of doping and
temperature. Cluster calculations show that the observed spectral changes in
SXRD as a function of doping are more pronounced than expected from an increase
in bandwitdh due to the increase in Mn-O-Mn bond angle, and are best described
by holes that are distributed at the neighbouring oxygen ions. These holes are
not directly added to the Mn 3d shell, but centered at the Mn site. In
contrast, the spectral changes in SXRD as function of temperature are best
described by an increase of magnetic correlations. This demonstrates the strong
correlations between orbitals and magnetic moments of the 3d states
Reanalysis of the FEROS observations of HIP 11952
Aims. We reanalyze FEROS observations of the star HIP 11952 to reassess the
existence of the proposed planetary system. Methods. The radial velocity of the
spectra were measured by cross-correlating the observed spectrum with a
synthetic template. We also analyzed a large dataset of FEROS and HARPS
archival data of the calibrator HD 10700 spanning over more than five years. We
compared the barycentric velocities computed by the FEROS and HARPS pipelines.
Results. The barycentric correction of the FEROS-DRS pipeline was found to be
inaccurate and to introduce an artificial one-year period with a semi-amplitude
of 62 m/s. Thus the reanalysis of the FEROS data does not support the existence
of planets around HIP 11952.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures, 1 tabl
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