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Lessons from Hadron Phenomenology
Meson spectra can be well approximated by a specific form of a nonlinear
Regge trajectory which is consistent with a finite number of bound states. This
may have important consequencies for experiment, and may be a hint for the
theory.Comment: talk presented by MB at the Light-Cone Meeting in Heidelberg, June
2000. To appear in the proceedings, requires elsart.cls. 4 page
Design of two-dimensional sharp-edged-throat supersonic nozzle with boundary-layer correction
Computer program accounts for effective nozzle geometry changes due to boundary layer displacement thickness. Program input and output are discussed
Buneman instability in a magnetized current-carrying plasma with velocity shear
Buneman instability is often driven in magnetic reconnection. Understanding
how velocity shear in the beams driving the Buneman instability affects the
growth and saturation of waves is relevant to turbulence, heating, and
diffusion in magnetic reconnection. Using a Mathieu-equation analysis for weak
cosine velocity shear together with Vlasov simulations, the effects of shear on
the kinetic Buneman instability are studied in a plasma consisting of strongly
magnetized electrons and cold unmagnetized ions. In the linearly unstable
phase, shear enhances the coupling between oblique waves and the sheared
electron beam, resulting in a wider range of unstable eigenmodes with common
lower growth rates. The wave couplings generate new features of the electric
fields in space, which can persist into the nonlinear phase when electron holes
form. Lower hybrid instabilities simultaneously occur at
with a much lower growth
rate, and are not affected by the velocity shear.Comment: Accepted by Physics of Plasm
Quenching of the beam-plasma instability by 3-D spectra of large scale density fluctuations
A model is presented to explain the highly variable yet low level of Langmuir waves measured in situ by spacecraft when electron beams associated with Type III solar bursts are passing by; the low level of excited waves allows the propagation of such streams from the Sun to well past 1 AU without catastrophic energy losses. The model is based, first, on the existence of large scale density fluctuations that are able to efficiently diffuse small k beam unstable Langmuir waves in phase space, and, second, on the presence of a significantly isotropic nonthermal tail in the distribution function of the background electron population, which is capable of stabilizing larger k modes. The strength of the model lies in its ability to predict various levels of Langmuir waves depending on the parameters. This feature is consistent with the high variability actually observed in the measurements
Anomalous Parallel Field Negative Magnetoresistance in Ultrathin Films Near the Superconductor-Insulator Transition
A parallel field negative magnetoresistance has been found in
quench-condensed ultrathin films of amorphous bismuth in the immediate vicinity
of the thickness-tuned superconductor-insulator transition. The effect appears
to be a signature of quantum fluctuations of the order parameter associated
with the quantum critical point.Comment: Revised content includes revised argument and new figures 3 and 4.
Totals: 4 pages, 4 figure
Valence Quark Distribution in A=3 Nuclei
We calculate the quark distribution function for 3He/3H in a relativistic
quark model of nuclear structure which adequately reproduces the nucleon
approximation, nuclear binding energies, and nuclear sizes for small nuclei.
The results show a clear distortion from the quark distribution function for
individual nucleons (EMC effect) arising dominantly from a combination of
recoil and quark tunneling effects. Antisymmetrization (Pauli) effects are
found to be small due to limited spatial overlaps. We compare our predictions
with a published parameterization of the nuclear valence quark distributions
and find significant agreement.Comment: 18pp., revtex4, 4 fig
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