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Hadron Spectroscopy with COMPASS at CERN
The aim of the COMPASS hadron programme is to study the light-quark hadron
spectrum, and in particular, to search for evidence of hybrids and glueballs.
COMPASS is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS and features a two-stage
spectrometer with high momentum resolution, large acceptance, particle
identification and calorimetry. A short pilot run in 2004 resulted in the
observation of a spin-exotic state with consistent with the
debated . In addition, Coulomb production at low momentum transfer
data provide a test of Chiral Perturbation Theory. During 2008 and 2009, a
world leading data set was collected with hadron beam which is currently being
analysed. The large statistics allows for a thorough decomposition of the data
into partial waves. The COMPASS hadron data span over a broad range of channels
and shed light on several different aspects of QCD.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Checklist of the Ants of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
A total of 113 species of ants is recorded by county from the state of Michigan. The list is based upon literature records and specimens in the authors\u27 collections and those of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology and the Michigan State University Department of Entomology. The list includes 3 species in Ponerinae, 44 in Myrnucinae, 6 in Dolichoderinae, and 60 in Formicinae. Ten species represent new state records. Five distribution pat- terns are evident: statewide (39 species), southern counties only (5), southern 3/4th of Lower Peninsula (10), Lower Peninsula (17), and Upper Peninsula (2). Forty species have been collected too infrequently to determine the distribution within the state
Quantum Correction to Conductivity Close to Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point in Two Dimensions
We study the temperature dependence of the conductivity due to quantum
interference processes for a two-dimensional disordered itinerant electron
system close to a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. Near the quantum
critical point, the cross-over between diffusive and ballistic regimes of
quantum interference effects occurs at a temperature , where is the parameter associated with the Landau
damping of the spin fluctuations, is the impurity scattering time, and
is the Fermi energy. For a generic choice of parameters, is
smaller than the nominal crossover scale . In the ballistic quantum
critical regime, the conductivity behaves as .Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Inefficiency and productivity growth in banking: a comparison of stochastic econometric and thick frontier methods
A comparison of alternative methods for estimating inefficiency and productivity growth in banking, showing that inefficiencies are sufficiently large to dominate scale economies and that measured technological progress has been small, or even negative, as a result of institutional events that occurred during 1977-88.Banks and banking - Costs ; Production (Economic theory)
Quantum and Fisher Information from the Husimi and Related Distributions
The two principal/immediate influences -- which we seek to interrelate here
-- upon the undertaking of this study are papers of Zyczkowski and
Slomczy\'nski (J. Phys. A 34, 6689 [2001]) and of Petz and Sudar (J. Math.
Phys. 37, 2262 [1996]). In the former work, a metric (the Monge one,
specifically) over generalized Husimi distributions was employed to define a
distance between two arbitrary density matrices. In the Petz-Sudar work
(completing a program of Chentsov), the quantum analogue of the (classically
unique) Fisher information (montone) metric of a probability simplex was
extended to define an uncountable infinitude of Riemannian (also monotone)
metrics on the set of positive definite density matrices. We pose here the
questions of what is the specific/unique Fisher information metric for the
(classically-defined) Husimi distributions and how does it relate to the
infinitude of (quantum) metrics over the density matrices of Petz and Sudar? We
find a highly proximate (small relative entropy) relationship between the
probability distribution (the quantum Jeffreys' prior) that yields quantum
universal data compression, and that which (following Clarke and Barron) gives
its classical counterpart. We also investigate the Fisher information metrics
corresponding to the escort Husimi, positive-P and certain Gaussian probability
distributions, as well as, in some sense, the discrete Wigner
pseudoprobability. The comparative noninformativity of prior probability
distributions -- recently studied by Srednicki (Phys. Rev. A 71, 052107 [2005])
-- formed by normalizing the volume elements of the various information
metrics, is also discussed in our context.Comment: 27 pages, 10 figures, slight revisions, to appear in J. Math. Phy
Planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging of OH in the exhaust of a bi-propellant thruster
Planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging of the hydroxyl radical has been performed on the flow produced by the exhaust of a subscale H2/O2 fueled bi-propellant rocket engine. Measurements were made to test the feasibility of OH (0,0) and (3,0) excitation strategies by using injection seeded XeCl and KrF excimer lasers, respectively. The flow is produced with hydrogen and oxygen reacting at a combustor chamber pressure of 5 atm which then exhausts to the ambient. The hydroxyl concentration in the exhaust flow is approximately 8 percent. Fluorescence images obtained by pumping the Q1(3) transition in the (0,0) band exhibited very high signals but also showed the effect of laser beam absorption. To obtain images when pumping the P1(8) transition in the (3,0) band it was necessary to use exceptionally fast imaging optics and unacceptably high intensifier gains. The result was single-shot images which displayed a signal-to-noise ratio of order unity or less when measured on a per pixel basis
Imaging through turbulence with a quadrature-phase optical interferometer
We present an improved technique for imaging through turbulence at visible wavelengths using a rotation shearing pupil-plane interferometer, intended for astronomical and terrestrial imaging applications. While previous astronomical rotation shearing interferometers have made only visibility modulus measurements, this interferometer makes four simultaneous measurements on each interferometric baseline, with phase differences of Ï/2 between each measurement, allowing complex visibility measurements (modulus and phase) across the entire input pupil in a single exposure. This technique offers excellent wavefront resolution, allowing operation at visible wavelengths on large apertures, is potentially immune to amplitude fluctuations (scintillation), and may offer superior calibration capabilities to other imaging techniques. The interferometer has been tested in the laboratory under weakly aberrating conditions and at Palomar Observatory under ordinary astronomical observing conditions. This research is based partly on observations obtained at the Hale Telescope
Physical properties of SrSn4 single crystals
We present detailed thermodynamic and transport measurements on single
crystals of the recently discovered binary intermetallic superconductor, SrSn4.
We find this material to be a slightly anisotropic three-dimensional,
strongly-coupled, possibly multi-band, superconductor. Hydrostatic pressure
causes a decrease in the superconducting transition temperature at the rate of
-0.068 K/kbar. Band structure calculations are consistent with experimental
data on Sommerfeld coefficient and upper superconducting critical field
anisotropy and suggest complex, multi-sheet Fermi surface formed by four bands.Comment: Figure 11 correcte
PU(2) monopoles and a conjecture of Marino, Moore, and Peradze
In this article we show that some of the recent results of Marino, Moore, and
Peradze (math.DG/9812042, hep-th/9812055) -- in particular their conjecture
that all closed, smooth four-manifolds with b_2^+ > 1 (and Seiberg-Witten
simple type) are of `superconformal simple type' -- can be understood using a
simple mathematical argument via the PU(2)-monopole cobordism of Pidstrigach
and Tyurin (dg-ga/9507004) and results of the first and third authors
(dg-ga/9712005, dg-ga/9709022).Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure. Improved exposition, typographical slips
corrected, figure and references added. Minor correction on page 2. To appear
in Mathematical Research Letter
Pretvorba elektromagnetskog vala u elektronsko-zvuÄni val u nehomogenoj plazmi
The transverse electromagnetic waves and the longitudinal electron-acoustic waves are coupled to each other by the gradients of density or temperature in a plasma. There are also other coupling factors, such as the static magnetic field or nonlinearities existing in the medium. Due to coupling of waves, excitation of one leads to the generation of the other. This results in mutual transfer of power. In the present paper, the expression for the energy flux of acoustic wave due to conversion of electromagnetic wave passing through an inhomogeneous plasma has been obtained using the W. K. B. method. It is suggested that expansion of ionized shell of hot stars and mass loss would be possibly due to the energy conversion process.PopreÄni elektromagnetski valovi i uzduĆŸni elektronsko-zvuÄni valovi vezani su meÄusobno gradijentima gustoÄe i temperature u plazmi. Djeluju i drugi vezni Äimbenici, kao statiÄko magnetsko polje ili nelinearnost plazme. Zbog povezivanja valova, uzbuda jednih stvara druge. Stoga imamo uzajamni prijenos energije. U ovom se radu, primjenom W. K. B. metode, izvodi izraz za tok energije zvuÄnog vala zbog pretvorbe elektromagnetskog vala koji prolazi nehomogenom plazmom. IzraĆŸava se moguÄnost da su ĆĄirenje ionizirane ljuske vruÄih zvijezda i gubitak mase posljedica procesa pretvorbe energije
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