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Semileptonic decays in the light-cone QCD sum rules
Semileptonic () decays are investigated systematically in the
light-cone QCD sum rules. Special emphasis is put on the LCSR calculation on
weak form factors with an adequate chiral current correlator, which turns out
to be particularly effective to control the pollution by higher twist
components of spectator mesons. The result for each channel depends on the
distribution amplitude of the the producing meson. The leading twist
distribution amplitudes of the related heavy mesons and charmonium are worked
out by a model approach in the reasonable way. A practical scenario is
suggested to understand the behavior of weak form factors in the whole
kinematically accessible ranges. The decay widths and branching ratios are
estimated for several () decay modes of current interest.Comment: 8 pages, talk given by the first arthur at 4th International
Conference on Flavor Physics (ICFP 2007), Beijing, China, Sept 24-28, 200
Improved approach to the heavy-to-light form factors in the light-cone QCD sum
A systematic analysis shows that the main uncertainties in the form factors
are due to the twist-3 wave functions of the light mesons in the light-cone QCD
sum rules. We propose an improved approach, in which the twist-3 wave functions
doesn't make any contribution and therefore the possible pollution by them can
be avoided, to re-examine semileptonic form factors. Also, a
comparison between the previous and our results from the light-cone QCD sum
rules is made. Our method will be beneficial to the precise extracting of
from the experimental data on the processes .Comment: New version to appear in PR
Mendelian randomization analysis does not support causal associations of birth weight with hypertension risk and blood pressure in adulthood
The Form Factor in The Whole Kinematically Accessible Range
A systematic analysis is presented of the form factor in the whole range of momentum transfer , which would be useful to
analyzing the future data on decays and extracting .
With a modified QCD light cone sum rule (LCSR) approach, in which the
contributions cancel out from the twist 3 wavefunctions of meson, we
investigate in detail the behavior of at small and intermediate
and the nonperturbative quantity
is the decay constant of meson and
the strong coupling), whose numerical
result is used to study dependence of at large in
the single pole approximation. Based on these findings, a form factor model
from the best fit is formulated, which applies to the calculation on
in the whole kinematically accessible range. Also, a comparison is made with
the standard LCSR predictions.Comment: 11 pages, Latex, 1 eps figure, Final version to appear in Phys.Rev.
Dielectrophoresis of nanocolloids: a molecular dynamics study
Dielectrophoresis (DEP), the motion of polarizable particles in non-uniform
electric fields, has become an important tool for the transport, separation,
and characterization of microparticles in biomedical and nanoelectronics
research. In this article we present, to our knowledge, the first molecular
dynamics simulations of DEP of nanometer-sized colloidal particles. We
introduce a simplified model for polarizable nanoparticles, consisting of a
large charged macroion and oppositely charged microions, in an explicit
solvent. The model is then used to study DEP motion of the particle at
different combinations of temperature and electric field strength. In accord
with linear response theory, the particle drift velocities are shown to be
proportional to the DEP force. Analysis of the colloid DEP mobility shows a
clear time dependence, demonstrating the variation of friction under
non-equilibrium. The time dependence of the mobility further results in an
apparent weak variation of the DEP displacements with temperature
Twist-3 Distribute Amplitude of the Pion in QCD Sum Rules
We apply the background field method to calculate the moments of the pion
two-particles twist-3 distribution amplitude (DA) in QCD sum
rules. In this paper,we do not use the equation of motion for the quarks inside
the pion since they are not on shell and introduce a new parameter to
be determined. We get the parameter in this approach. If
assuming the expansion of in the series in Gegenbauer polynomials
, one can obtain its approximate expression which can be
determined by its first few moments.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figure
Decay of heavy-light hybrids in HQET sum rules
The decay widths of the 0^{++} and 1^{-+} heavy-light hybrids to B(D) and
pion are calculated by using the QCD sum rules. The interpolated current of the
hybrid is chosen as . In
order to simplify the calculation and avoid the ambiguity of three-point
correlation function, a two-point correlation function between the pion and
vacuum is used instead. The decay width of the is about 12(16)
MeV while the is around 0.4(1.8) MeV. We keep the leading
order of 1/M_Q expansion in our calculation for convenience.Comment: 14 pages, latex file, 4 ps figs, Published version, some numerical
results change
Visual representations by cortical somatostatin inhibitory neurons--selective but with weak and delayed responses
Somatostatin-expressing inhibitory (SOM) neurons in the sensory cortex consist mostly of Martinotti cells, which project ascending axons to layer 1. Due to their sparse distribution, the representational properties of these neurons remain largely unknown. By two-photon imaging guided cell-attached recordings, we characterized visual response and receptive field (RF) properties of SOM neurons and parvalbumin-expressing inhibitory (PV) neurons genetically labeled in the mouse primary visual cortex. In contrast to PV neurons, SOM neurons exhibit broader spikes, lower spontaneous firing rates, smaller On/Off subfields, and broader ranges of basic RF properties such as On/Off segregation, orientation and direction tunings. Notably, the level of orientation and direction selectivity is comparable to that of excitatory neurons, from weakly-tuned to highly selective, whereas PV neurons are in general unselective. Strikingly, the evoked spiking responses of SOM cells are approximately 3- to 5-fold weaker and 20-25 ms delayed compared with those of PV neurons. The onset latency of the latter is consistent with that of inhibitory input to excitatory neurons. These functional differences between SOM and PV neurons exist in both layer 2/3 and 4. Our results suggest that SOM and PV neurons engage in cortical circuits in different manners: while PV neurons provide fast, strong but untuned feedforward inhibition to excitatory neurons, likely serving as a general gain control for the processing of ascending inputs, SOM neurons with their selective but delayed and weak inhibition may provide more specific gating of later arriving intracortical excitatory inputs on the distal dendrites
Coupling between electronic and structural degrees of freedom in the triangular lattice conductor NaxCoO2
The determination by powder neutron diffraction of the ambient temperature
crystal structures of compounds in the NaxCoO2 family, for 0.3 < x <= 1.0, is
reported. The structures consist of triangular CoO2 layers with Na ions
distributed in intervening charge reservoir layers. The shapes of the CoO6
octahedra that make up the CoO2 layers are found to be critically dependent on
the electron count and on the distribution of the Na ions in the intervening
layers, where two types of Na sites are available. Correlation of the shapes of
cobalt-oxygen octahedra, the Na ion positions, and the electronic phase diagram
in NaxCoO2 is made, showing how structural and electronic degrees of freedom
can be coupled in electrically conducting triangular lattice systems.Comment: 15 pages, 1 tables, 6 figures Submitted to Physical Review
Spin-Polarized STM for a Kondo adatom
We investigate the bias dependence of the tunneling conductance between a
spin-polarized (SP) scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip and the surface
conduction states of a normal metal with a Kondo adatom. Quantum interference
between tip-host metal and tip-adatom-host metal conduction paths is studied in
the full range of the Fano parameter . The spin-polarized STM gives rise to
a splitting of the Kondo peak and asymmetry in the zero-bias anomaly depending
on the lateral tip-adatom distance. For increasing lateral distances, the Kondo
peak-splitting shows a strong suppression and the spin-polarized conductance
exhibits the standard Fano-Kondo profile.Comment: new version with improved discussion. added one figure. 12 pages
(one-column) + 5 figure
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