Regge Behaviour from an Environmentally Friendly Renormalization Group

The asymptotic behaviour of cubic field theories is investigated in the Regge limit using the techniques of environmentally friendly renormalization, environmentally friendly in the present context meaning asymmetric in its momentum dependence. In particular we consider the crossover between large and small energies at fixed momentum transfer for a model scalar theory of the type phi^2 psi. The asymptotic forms of the crossover scaling functions are exhibited for all two particle scattering processes in this channel to one loop in a renormalization group improved perturbation theory.Comment: 9 pages text, one figure, LaTeX, uses psfig.sty. Revised version submitted to Phys. Lett. B., besides minor changes a figure to illustrate the conventions and a discussion of the full crossover function have been adde

Contribuição de bactérias diazotrópicas na cultura da bananeira: perspectivas de utilização na produção integrada.

Esta pesquisa objetivou avaliar a ocorrência de bactérias diazotróficas na cultura da bananeira no Estado do Ceará (Brasil), selecionar bactérias diazotróficas endofíticas em associação com mudas da cultivar Grande Naine, avaliar produção de bananas nas cultivares Grande Naine (subgrupo Cavendish), Ambrosia, Buccaner e Calypso (subgrupo Gros Michel) em resposta à inoculação de bactéria selecionada em mudas e verificar o potencial de bactéria diazotrófica na proteção de plantas da cultivar Maçã contra o fungo Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense, causador da fusariose na bananeira. As bananeiras das cultivares Pacovan e Prata (subgrupo Prata) e Couruda (subgrupo Figo) plantadas no Ceará estavam associadas de bactérias diazotróficas relacionadas aos gêneros Burkholderia e Herbaspirillum. Em experimento com mudas micropropagadas da cultivar Grande Naine constatou-se que bactérias endofíticas do tipo Burkholderia variam em eficiência na promoção do crescimento das plantas. A inoculação do isolado de bactéria relacionada a B. cepacia AB202 em mudas resultou no aumento de produtividade das cultivares dos subgrupos Cavendish (2.900kg ha- 1) e Gros Michel (1.400kg ha-1). Na cultivar Maçã, a tecnologia permitiu reduzir a incidência de fusariose em 7,4% (113 plantas por ha). Estes resultados confirmam a influência de bactérias diazotróficas na cultura da bananeira, sugerindo a possibilidade do uso desta tecnologia por viveiristas e produtores de banana em busca da produção integrada de frutas.bitstream/CNPMA/5376/1/boletim_16.pd

Electrical and galvanomagnetic properties of AuAl2+6%Cu intermetallic compounds at low temperatures

The AuAl2 intermetallic compounds are of substantial interest in view of their application potential. The investigated intermetallics AuAl 2+6%Cu were prepared from fine powders of AuAl2 and Cu by vacuum sputtering on a glass substrate and consisted of films with a thickness of about one micrometer. The films were annealed. The temperature and field dependence of the electroresistivity, the magnetoresistivity and the Hall effect of AuAl2+6%Cu films were measured in the temperature interval from 4.2 to 100 K and at magnetic fields of up to 15 T. We demonstrate that the temperature dependence of the electroresistivity has a minimum at T = 20 K and a metallic behavior above this temperature. The magnetoresistivity is very small (less then 1%), positive at low temperatures and negative above 12 K. The Hall coefficient is positive, which corresponds to the holes in a one zone model with a charge carrier concentration of about 1.6 1020 cm-3. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd

Time-Resolved Spin Torque Switching and Enhanced Damping in Py/Cu/Py Spin-Valve Nanopillars

We report time-resolved measurements of current-induced reversal of a free magnetic layer in Py/Cu/Py elliptical nanopillars at temperatures T = 4.2 K to 160 K. Comparison of the data to Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert macrospin simulations of the free layer switching yields numerical values for the spin torque and the Gilbert damping parameters as functions of T. The damping is strongly T-dependent, which we attribute to the antiferromagnetic pinning behavior of a thin permalloy oxide layer around the perimeter of the free layer. This adventitious antiferromagnetic pinning layer can have a major impact on spin torque phenomena.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure