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The mass of charmonium in nuclear matter
The masses of charmonium states immersed in nuclear matter are calculated in
LO QCD and in QCD sum rules. While the mass shift for are found to be
less than -10 MeV, those for the and and
are found to be more than -40 MeV. We investigate the feasibility
of observing such mass shifts in the future accelerator project at GSI.Comment: 5 pages, proceeding for Hadron 200
NAPLAN scores as predictors of access to higher education in Victoria
Abstract: This paper examines the extent to which year-9 performance on the National Assessment Program—Language Arts and Numeracy (NAPLAN) predicts access to higher education as determined by subsequent achievement on year-12 Victoria Certificate of Education (VCE) exams. VCE performance is measured via three binary indicators: achieving an Australian tertiary admission rank (ATAR) above 50 ("ATAR50"), above 70 ("ATAR70"), and above 90 ("ATAR90"); and two continuous indicators: ATAR and the Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA). We find that a four-way classification of year-9 NAPLAN results explains 35% of the variance in ATAR50, 37% in ATAR70 and 26% in ATAR90; and NAPLAN scores and basic demographic indicators explain 38% of the variance in ATAR and 42% of the variance in TEA values. Examining the joint effect of year-9 NAPLAN scores and socio-economic status in predicting VCE outcomes, we find that while both are significant, NAPLAN scores have a much stronger effect. At the school level, we find that predictions of success rates based on NAPLAN scores and basic demographic indicators
Quarkonium-Hadron Interactions in Perturbative QCD
The next to leading order (NLO) quarkonium-hadron cross section is calculated
in perturbative QCD. The corresponding leading order (LO) result was performed
by Peskin more than 20 years ago using the operator product expansion (OPE). In
this work, the calculation is performed using the Bethe-Salpeter amplitude and
the factorization formula. The soft divergence appearing in the intermediate
stages of the calculations are shown to vanish after adding all possible
crossed terms, while the collinear divergences are eliminated by mass
factorization. Applying the result to the Upsilon system, one finds that there
are large higher order correction near the threshold. The relevance of the
present result to the charmonium case is also discussed.Comment: Yonsei University. to be published in PR
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