66 research outputs found
An analysis of aircraft accidents involving fires
All U. S. Air Carrier accidents between 1963 and 1974 were studied to assess the extent of total personnel and aircraft damage which occurred in accidents and in accidents involving fire. Published accident reports and NTSB investigators' factual backup files were the primary sources of data. Although it was frequently not possible to assess the relative extent of fire-caused damage versus impact damage using the available data, the study established upper and lower bounds for deaths and damage due specifically to fire. In 12 years there were 122 accidents which involved airframe fires. Eighty-seven percent of the fires occurred after impact, and fuel leakage from ruptured tanks or severed lines was the most frequently cited cause. A cost analysis was performed for 300 serious accidents, including 92 serious accidents which involved fire. Personal injury costs were outside the scope of the cost analysis, but data on personnel injury judgements as well as settlements received from the CAB are included for reference
Dispersion representations and anomalous singularities of the triangle diagram
We discuss dispersion representations for the triangle diagram
, the single dispersion representation in and the
double dispersion representation in and , with special emphasis
on the appearance of the anomalous singularities and the anomalous cuts in
these representations. For the double dispersion representation in and
, the appearance of the anomalous cut in the region is
demonstrated, and a new derivation of the anomalous double spectral density is
given. We point out that the double spectral representation is particularly
suitable for applications in the region of and/or above the
two-particle thresholds. The dispersion representations for the triangle
diagram in the nonrelativistic limit are studied and compared with the triangle
diagram of the nonrelativistic field theory.Comment: 10 pages, revtex, added a reference, version to be published in Phys.
Rev.
Quark--antiquark states and their radiative transitions in terms of the spectral integral equation. {\Huge III.} Light mesons
We continue the investigation of mesons in terms of the spectral integral
equation initiated before [hep-ph/0510410, hep-ph/0511005] for the
and systems: in this paper we consider the light-quark ()
mesons with masses GeV. The calculations have been performed for the
mesons lying on linear trajectories in the -planes, where is the
radial quantum number. Our consideration relates to the states with
one component in the flavor space, with the quark and antiquark masses equal to
each other, such as , , ,
, , , , ,
, , , ,
, at . We obtained the wave functions
and mass values of mesons lying on these trajectories. The corresponding
trajectories are linear, in agreement with data. We have calculated the
two-photon decays , ,
, , and radiative transitions ,
, that agree qualitatively with the experiment. On this
basis, we extract the singular part of the interaction amplitude, which
corresponds to the so-called "confinement interaction". The description of the
data requires the presence of the strong -channel singularities for both
scalar and vector exchanges.Comment: 48 pages, 24 figure
Charmed quark component of the photon wave function
We determine the c-anti-c component of the photon wave function on the basis
of (i) the data on the transitions e+ e- -> J/psi(3096), psi(3686), psi(4040),
psi(4415), (ii) partial widths of the two-photon decays eta_{c0}(2979),
chi_{c0}(3415), chi_{c2}(3556) -> gamma-gamma, and (iii) wave functions of the
charmonium states obtained by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the
c-anti-c system. Using the obtained c-anti-c component of the photon wave
function we calculate the gamma-gamma decay partial widths for radial
excitation 2S state, eta_{c0}(3594) -> gamma-gamma, and 2P states
chi_{c0}(3849), chi_{c2}(3950) -> gamma-gamma.Comment: 20 pages, 8 figure
Quark--antiquark states and their radiative transitions in terms of the spectral integral equation. {\Huge II.} Charmonia
In the precedent paper of the authors (hep-ph/0510410), the states
were treated in the framework of the spectral integral equation, together with
simultaneous calculations of radiative decays of the considered bottomonia. In
the present paper, such a study is carried out for the charmonium
states. We reconstruct the interaction in the -sector on the basis of
data for the charmonium levels with , , ,
, , and radiative transitions
, , ,
and , ,
. The levels and their wave functions
are calculated for the radial excitations with . Also, we determine the
component of the photon wave function using the annihilation
data: , , , , , and perform the calculations of the partial widths of
the two-photon decays for the states: , ,
, and states:
, , . We discuss the status of the recently observed states
X(3872) and Y(3941): according to our results, the X(3872) can be either
or , while Y(3941) is .Comment: 24 pages, 9 figure
The rho -> gamma pi and omega -> gamma pi decays in quark-model approach and estimation of coupling for pion emission by quark
In the framework of the relativistic and gauge invariant spectral integral
technique, we calculate radiative decays rho(770)-> gamma pi(140) and
omega(780)-> gamma pi(140) supposing all mesons (pi, rho and omega) to be
quark-antiquark states. The q anti-q wave functions found for mesons and photon
lead to a reasonably good description of data ( keV,
keV,
keV) that makes it possible
to estimate the coupling for the bremsstrahlung emission of pion by quarks
. We have found two values for the pion
bremsstrahlung coupling: (Solution I) and
(Solution II). Within SU(6)-symmetry for
nucleons, Solution I gives us for pi NN coupling the value that is in qualitative agreement with the pi N
scattering data, . For excited states, we have
estimated the partial widths in Solution I as follows: keV, keV, keV. The large uncertainties emphasise the necessity to carry out
measurements of the meson radiative processes in the region of large masses.Comment: 23 pages in IOP forma
Heuristic Models of Two-Fermion Relativistic Systems with Field-Type Interaction
We use the chain of simple heuristic expedients to obtain perturbative and
exactly solvable relativistic spectra for a family of two-fermionic bound
systems with Coulomb-like interaction. In the case of electromagnetic
interaction the spectrum coincides up to the second order in a coupling
constant with that following from the quantum electrodynamics. Discrepancy
occurs only for S-states which is the well-known difficulty in the bound-state
problem. The confinement interaction is considered too.
PACS number(s): 03.65.Pm, 03.65.Ge, 12.39.PnComment: 16 pages, LaTeX 2.0
Poincare' invariance and the heavy-quark potential
We derive and discuss the constraints induced by Poincare' invariance on the
form of the heavy-quark potential up to order 1/m^2. We present two
derivations: one uses general arguments directly based on the Poincare' algebra
and the other follows from an explicit calculation on the expression of the
potential in terms of Wilson loops. We confirm relations from the literature,
but also clarify the origin of a long-standing false statement pointed out
recently.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figure
Quark-antiquark potential with retardation and radiative contributions and the heavy quarkonium mass spectra
The charmonium and bottomonium mass spectra are calculated with the
systematic account of all relativistic corrections of order v^2/c^2 and the
one-loop radiative corrections. Special attention is paid to the contribution
of the retardation effects to the spin-independent part of the quark-antiquark
potential, and a general approach to accounting for retardation effects in the
long-range (confining) part of the potential is presented. A good fit to
available experimental data on the mass spectra is obtained.Comment: 20 pages, revtex, 2 Postscript figure
Analytic calculation of field-strength correlators
Field correlators are expressed using background field formalism through the
gluelump Green's functions. The latter are obtained in the path integral and
Hamiltonian formalism. As a result behaviour of field correlators is obtained
at small and large distances both for perturbative and nonperturbative parts.
The latter decay exponentially at large distances and are finite at x=0, in
agreement with OPE and lattice data.Comment: 28 pages, no figures; new material added, misprints correcte
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