Nonminimally coupled topological-defect boson stars: Static solutions

We consider spherically symmetric static composite structures consisting of a boson star and a global monopole, minimally or non-minimally coupled to the general relativistic gravitational field. In the non-minimally coupled case, Marunovic and Murkovic have shown that these objects, so-called boson D-stars, can be sufficiently gravitationally compact so as to potentially mimic black holes. Here, we present the results of an extensive numerical parameter space survey which reveals additional new and unexpected phenomenology in the model. In particular, focusing on families of boson D-stars which are parameterized by the central amplitude of the boson field, we find configurations for both the minimally and non-minimally coupled cases that contain one or more shells of bosonic matter located far from the origin. In parameter space, each shell spontaneously appears as one tunes through some critical central amplitude of the boson field. In some cases the shells apparently materialize at spatial infinity: in these instances their areal radii are observed to obey a universal scaling law in the vicinity of the critical amplitude. We derive this law from the equations of motion and the asymptotic behavior of the fields.Comment: 17 pages, 24 figure

Alternative strategies for aggregating prices in the CPI

Consumer price indexes ; Prices

Event Generation from Effective Field Theory

A procedure is developed for using Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) to generate fully exclusive events, which can then be compared to data from collider experiments. We show that SCET smoothly interpolates between QCD for hard emissions, and the parton shower for soft emissions, while resumming all large logarithms. In SCET, logarithms are resummed using the renormalization group, instead of classical Sudakov factors, so subleading logarithms can be resummed as well. In addition, all loop effects of QCD can be reproduced in SCET, which allows the effective theory to incorporate next-to-leading and higher-order effects. We also show through SCET that in the soft/collinear limit, successive branchings factorize, a fact which is essential to parton showers, and that the splitting functions of QCD are reproduced. Finally, combining these results, we present a example of an algorithm that incorporates the SCET results into an event generator which is systematically improvable.Comment: 42 pages, 3 figure

Quality Improvement in Health Care: A Framework for Price and Output Measurement

The durability of health care treatment, the substantial technical change in health care treatment, and the prevalence of third-party payment interact to create substantial difficulty in measuring the price and output of health care. This paper provides a framework for analyzing the demand for health care taking into account these difficulties. It then suggests how this framework might be used to improve measurement of health care prices and output.

Quality Uncertainty and Grain Merchandising Risk: Vomitoxin in Spring Wheat

Marketing, Risk and Uncertainty,