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Nonlinear dynamic analysis of shells of revolution by matrix displacement method
Nonlinear dynamic analysis of shells of revolution by matrix displacement metho
Wilson-t'Hooft Loops in Finite-Temperature Non-commutative Dipole Field Theory from Dual Supergravity
We first study the temporal Wilson loop in the finite-temperature
non-commutative dipole field theory from the string/gauge correspondence. The
associated dual supergravity background is constructed from the near-horizon
geometry of near-extremal D-branes, after applying T-duality and smeared twist.
We investigate the string configuration therein and find that while the
temperature produces a maximum distance in the interquark distance
the dipole in there could produce a minimum distance . The quark
boundary pair therefore could be found only if their distance is between
and . We also show that, beyond a critical temperature the
quark pair becomes totally free due to screening by thermal bath. We next study
the spatial Wilson loop and find the confining nature in the zero temperature
3D and 4D non-supersymmetry dipole gauge theory. The string tension of the
linear confinement potential is obtained and found to be a decreasing function
of the dipole field. We also investigate the associated t'Hooft loop and
determine the corresponding monopole anti-monopole potential. The conventional
screening of magnetic charge which indicates the confinement of the electric
charge is replaced by a strong repulsive however. Finally, we show that the
dual string which is rotating along the dipole deformed will behave as a
static one without dipole field, which has no minimum distance and has larger
energy than a static one with dipole field. We discuss the phase transition
between these string solutions.Comment: Latex, 22 pages, 8 figures, add several comment
A data acquisition and handling system for the measurement of radial plasma transport rates
A system which allows the transfer of experimental data from one or more transient recorders to a digital computer, the entry of calibration data and the entry of archival data is described. The overall approach is discussed and illustrated in detail
EXIST: Mission Design Concept and Technology Program
The Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) is a proposed very large
area coded aperture telescope array, incorporating 8m^2 of pixellated Cd-Zn-Te
(CZT) detectors, to conduct a full-sky imaging and temporal hard x-ray (10-600
keV) survey each 95min orbit. With a sensitivity (5sigma, 1yr) of ~0.05mCrab
(10-150 keV), it will extend the ROSAT soft x-ray (0.5-2.5keV) and proposed
ROSITA medium x-ray (2-10 keV) surveys into the hard x-ray band and enable
identification and study of sources ~10-20X fainter than with the ~15-100keV
survey planned for the upcoming Swift mission. At ~100-600 keV, the ~1mCrab
sensitivity is 300X that achieved in the only previous (HEAO-A4, non-imaging)
all-sky survey. EXIST will address a broad range of key science objectives:
from obscured AGN and surveys for black holes on all scales, which constrain
the accretion history of the universe, to the highest sensitivity and
resolution studies of gamma-ray bursts it will conduct as the Next Generation
Gamma-Ray Burst mission. We summarize the science objectives and mission
drivers, and the results of a mission design study for implementation as a free
flyer mission, with Delta IV launch. Key issues affecting the telescope and
detector design are discussed, and a summary of some of the current design
concepts being studied in support of EXIST is presented for the wide-field but
high resolution coded aperture imaging and very large area array of imaging CZT
detectors. Overall mission design is summarized, and technology development
needs and a development program are outlined which would enable the launch of
EXIST by the end of the decade, as recommended by the NAS/NRC Decadal Survey.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. PDF file only. Presented at SPIE (Aug.
2002) and to appear in Proc. SPIE, vol. 485
Holographic Estimate of Oblique Corrections for Technicolor
We study the oblique corrections to the electroweak interaction in the
holographic model of technicolor theories. The oblique S parameter is expressed
in terms of a solution to the equations of motion for the AdS bulk gauge
fields. By analyzing the solution, we establish a rigorous proof that the S
parameter is positive and is reduced by walking. We also present the precise
numerical values for the S parameter of various technicolor models by solving
the equations numerically.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure, RevTeX 4.0: published version. references adde
Spin Chain with Magnetic Field and Spinning String in Magnetic Field Background
We analyze the fast-moving string in the magnetic Melvin field background and
find that the associated effective Lagrangian of string sigma model describes
the spin chain model with external magnetic field. The spin vector in the spin
chain has been properly deformed and is living on the deformed two-sphere or
deformed two-dimensional hyperboloid, depending on the direction around which
the string is spinning. We describe in detail the characters of spin
deformation and, in particular, see that this is a general property for a
string moving in a class of deformed background.Comment: Latex 10 pages, add a figure and a section, change titl
Non-Fermi liquids from holography
We report on a potentially new class of non-Fermi liquids in
(2+1)-dimensions. They are identified via the response functions of composite
fermionic operators in a class of strongly interacting quantum field theories
at finite density, computed using the AdS/CFT correspondence. We find strong
evidence of Fermi surfaces: gapless fermionic excitations at discrete shells in
momentum space. The spectral weight exhibits novel phenomena, including
particle-hole asymmetry, discrete scale invariance, and scaling behavior
consistent with that of a critical Fermi surface postulated by Senthil.Comment: 10 pages, 16 figures. v2: added references, corrected figures, some
minor changes. v3: figure 5 replace
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