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Relativistic Effects And Two-Body Currents In 2h(E⃗,E′P)N Using Out-Of-Plane Detection, Z L. Zhou, X Jiang, R Hicks, A Hotta, R Miskimen, Gerald Alvin Peterson, J Shaw Oct 2001

Relativistic Effects And Two-Body Currents In 2h(E⃗,E′P)N Using Out-Of-Plane Detection, Z L. Zhou, X Jiang, R Hicks, A Hotta, R Miskimen, Gerald Alvin Peterson, J Shaw

Gerald Alvin Peterson

Measurements of the 2H(e⃗,e′p)n reaction were performed with the out-of-plane magnetic spectrometers (OOPS) at the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator. The longitudinal-transverse, fLT and fLT′, and the transverse-transverse, fTT, interference responses at a missing momentum of 210MeV/c were simultaneously extracted in the dip region at Q2 = 0.15 (GeV/c)2. In comparison to models of deuteron electrodisintegration, the data clearly reveal strong effects of relativity and final-state interactions and the importance of two-body meson-exchange currents and isobar configurations. We demonstrate that such effects can be disentangled by extracting these responses using the novel out-of-plane technique.


Electroproduction Of The Λ(1520) Hyperon, S P. Barrow, L Dennis, S B. Mcaleer, B Asavapibhop, R S. Hicks, D Lawrence, R Miskimen, Gerald Alvin Peterson, J Shaw Aug 2001

Electroproduction Of The Λ(1520) Hyperon, S P. Barrow, L Dennis, S B. Mcaleer, B Asavapibhop, R S. Hicks, D Lawrence, R Miskimen, Gerald Alvin Peterson, J Shaw

Gerald Alvin Peterson

The reaction ep⃗e′K+Λ(1520) with Λ(1520)→p′K- was studied at electron beam energies of 4.05, 4.25, and 4.46 GeV, using the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The cosθK+, φK+, Q2, and W dependencies of Λ(1520) electroproduction are presented for the kinematic region 0.9


Measurement Of The Elastic Magnetic Form Factor Of 3he At High Momentum Transfer, I Nakagawa, J Shaw, S Churchwell, X Jiang, B Asavapibhop, M C. Berisso, P E. Bosted, K Burchesky, R S. Hicks, A Hotta, R A. Miskimen, Gerald Alvin Peterson, S E. Rock Jun 2001

Measurement Of The Elastic Magnetic Form Factor Of 3he At High Momentum Transfer, I Nakagawa, J Shaw, S Churchwell, X Jiang, B Asavapibhop, M C. Berisso, P E. Bosted, K Burchesky, R S. Hicks, A Hotta, R A. Miskimen, Gerald Alvin Peterson, S E. Rock

Gerald Alvin Peterson

New electron scattering measurements have been made that extend data on the 3He elastic magnetic form factor up to Q2 = 42.6fm-2. These new data test theoretical conjectures regarding non-nucleonic effects in the three-body system. The very small cross sections, as low as 10-40cm2/sr, required the use of a high-pressure cryogenic gas target and a detector system with excellent background rejection capability. No existing theoretical calculation satisfactorily accounts for all the available data.


Exclusive Electroproduction Of Φ Mesons At 4.2 Gev, K Lukashin, E S. Smith, B Asavapibhop, R A. Hicks, D Lawrence, R Miskimen, Gerald Alvin Peterson, J Shaw May 2001

Exclusive Electroproduction Of Φ Mesons At 4.2 Gev, K Lukashin, E S. Smith, B Asavapibhop, R A. Hicks, D Lawrence, R Miskimen, Gerald Alvin Peterson, J Shaw

Gerald Alvin Peterson

We studied the exclusive reaction ep⃗e′p′φ using the φ⃗K+K- decay mode. The data were collected using a 4.2 GeV incident electron beam and the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Our experiment covers the range in Q2 from 0.7 to 2.2 GeV2, and W from 2.0 to 2.6 GeV. Taken together with all previous data, we find a consistent picture of φ production on the proton. Our measurement shows the expected decrease of the t slope with the vector-meson formation time cΔτ below 2 fm. At 〈cΔτ〉=0.6 fm, we measure bφ=2.27±0.42 GeV-2. The cross …


Department Of Physics Newsletter: Spring 2001, Gerry Peterson, Bob Krotkov, Mary Ann Ryan, Kristine Reopell Jan 2001

Department Of Physics Newsletter: Spring 2001, Gerry Peterson, Bob Krotkov, Mary Ann Ryan, Kristine Reopell

Physics Newsletters

No abstract provided.


Worm Algorithms For Classical Statistical Models, Nikolai Prokof'ev, Boris Svistunov Jan 2001

Worm Algorithms For Classical Statistical Models, Nikolai Prokof'ev, Boris Svistunov

Physics Department Faculty Publication Series

We show that high-temperature expansions provide a basis for the novel approach to efficient Monte Carlo simulations. “Worm” algorithms utilize the idea of updating closed-path configurations (produced by high-temperature expansions) through the motion of end points of a disconnected path. An amazing result is that local, Metropolis-type schemes using this approach appear to have dynamical critical exponents close to zero (i.e., their efficiency is comparable to the best cluster methods) as proved by finite-size scaling of the autocorrelation time for various universality classes.


Single-Hole Spectral Function And Spin-Charge Separation In The T-J Model, A Mishchenko, Nikolai Prokof'ev, Boris Svistunov Jan 2001

Single-Hole Spectral Function And Spin-Charge Separation In The T-J Model, A Mishchenko, Nikolai Prokof'ev, Boris Svistunov

Physics Department Faculty Publication Series

Worm algorithm Monte Carlo simulations of the hole Green function with subsequent spectral analysis were performed for 0.1<~J/t<~0.4 on lattices with up to L×L=32×32 sites at a temperature as low as T=J/40, and present, apparently, the hole spectral function in the thermodynamic limit. Spectral analysis reveals a δ-function-sharp quasiparticle peak at the lower edge of the spectrum that is incompatible with the power-law singularity and thus rules out the possibility of spin-charge separation in this parameter range. Spectral continuum features two peaks separated by a gap ∼4÷5 t.


Calibrations And Fayyazuddin-Smith Spacetimes, Hyunji Cho, Moataz Emam, David Kastor, Jennie Traschen Jan 2001

Calibrations And Fayyazuddin-Smith Spacetimes, Hyunji Cho, Moataz Emam, David Kastor, Jennie Traschen

Physics Department Faculty Publication Series

We show that a class of spacetimes introduced by Fayyazuddin and Smith to describe intersecting M5-branes admits a generalized Kähler calibration. Equipped with this understanding, we are able to construct spacetimes corresponding to further classes of calibrated p-brane world-volume solitons. We note that these classes of spacetimes also describe the fields of p-branes wrapping certain supersymmetric cycles of Calabi-Yau manifolds.


Chiral Symmetry And The Parity-Violating Nn Pi Yukawa Coupling, Sl Zhu, Sj Puglia, Br Holstein, Mj Ramsey-Musolf Jan 2001

Chiral Symmetry And The Parity-Violating Nn Pi Yukawa Coupling, Sl Zhu, Sj Puglia, Br Holstein, Mj Ramsey-Musolf

Physics Department Faculty Publication Series

We construct the complete SU(2) parity-violating (PV) π,N,Δ interaction Lagrangian with one derivative, and calculate the chiral corrections to the PV Yukawa NNπ coupling constant hπ through O(1/Λχ3) in the leading order of heavy baryon expansion. We discuss the relationship between the renormalized hπ, the measured value of hπ, and the corresponding quantity calculated microscopically from the standard model four-quark PV interaction. We observe that the renormalized hπ depends strongly on a number of a priori unknown parameters in the PV effective Lagrangian.


Parallel Dynamics And Computational Complexity Of The Bak-Sneppen Model, Jonathan Machta, X. N. Li Jan 2001

Parallel Dynamics And Computational Complexity Of The Bak-Sneppen Model, Jonathan Machta, X. N. Li

Jonathan Machta

No abstract provided.


Critical Dynamics Of Two-Replica Cluster Algorithms, X. N. Li, Jonathan Machta Jan 2001

Critical Dynamics Of Two-Replica Cluster Algorithms, X. N. Li, Jonathan Machta

Jonathan Machta

The dynamic critical behavior of the two-replica cluster algorithm is studied. Several versions of the algorithm are applied to the two-dimensional, square lattice Ising model with a staggered field. The dynamic exponent for the full algorithm is found to be less than 0.4. It is found that odd translations of one replica with respect to the other together with global flips are essential for obtaining a small value of the dynamic exponent. Read More: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0129183101001663


Thermodynamic Formalism Of The Harmonic Measure Of Diffusion Limited Aggregates: Phase Transition And Converged, Mogens H. Jensen, Anders Levermann, Joachim Mathiesen, Benny Davidovitch, Itamar Procaccia Jan 2001

Thermodynamic Formalism Of The Harmonic Measure Of Diffusion Limited Aggregates: Phase Transition And Converged, Mogens H. Jensen, Anders Levermann, Joachim Mathiesen, Benny Davidovitch, Itamar Procaccia

Benny Davidovitch

No abstract provided.


Laplacian Growth And Diffusion Limited Aggregation: Different Universality Classes, Felipe Barra, Benny Davidovitch, Anders Leverman, Itamar Procaccia Jan 2001

Laplacian Growth And Diffusion Limited Aggregation: Different Universality Classes, Felipe Barra, Benny Davidovitch, Anders Leverman, Itamar Procaccia

Benny Davidovitch

It had been conjectured that diffusion limited aggregates and Laplacian growth patterns (with small surface tension) are in the same universality class. Using iterated conformal maps we construct a oneparameter family of fractal growth patterns with a continuously varying fractal dimension. This family can be used to bound the dimension of Laplacian growth patterns from below. The bound value is higher than the dimension of diffusion limited aggregates, showing that the two problems belong to two different universality classes.


Random Values Of The Physical Parameters, Jf Donoghue Jan 2001

Random Values Of The Physical Parameters, Jf Donoghue

Physics Department Faculty Publication Series

I briefly describe two motivations, two mechanisms and two possible tests of the hypothesis that the physical parameters of the ground state of a theory can vary in different rerions of the universe.


New Insights Concerning Dimension Eight Effects In Weak Decays, Jf Donoghue Jan 2001

New Insights Concerning Dimension Eight Effects In Weak Decays, Jf Donoghue

Physics Department Faculty Publication Series

Most past work on weak nonleptonic decays has mixed dimensional regularization in the weak operator product expansion with some form of a cutoff regularization in the evaluation of the matrix elements. Even with the usual technique of matching the two schemes, this combination misses physics at short distance which can be described by dimension eight (and higher dimension) operators. I describe some recent work with V. Cirigliano and E. Golowich which clarifies these effects and provides a numerical estimate suggesting that they are important.


Effective Interactions Are Effective Interactions, Br Holstein Jan 2001

Effective Interactions Are Effective Interactions, Br Holstein

Physics Department Faculty Publication Series

In recent years it has been realized that effective interactions—those valid over a limited range of energy-momentum—are often preferable even when more complete theories are available. We shall here present examples of such methods over a range of physical applications—from classical and quantum mechanics, to quantum gravity.


The Influence Of Dimension Eight Operators On Weak Matrix Elements, Jf Donoghue Jan 2001

The Influence Of Dimension Eight Operators On Weak Matrix Elements, Jf Donoghue

Physics Department Faculty Publication Series

I describe recent work with V. Cirigliano and E. Golowich on the effect of dimension eight operators on weak nonleptonic amplitudes. The basic mesage is that there is an inconsistency in the way that many calculations are traditionally performed. If one calculates matrix elements involving only physics below some scale μ, then one needs dimension eight operators explicitly in the weak OPE. On the other hand if one wants to use dimensional regularization throughout, then one needs all scales to be included within the matrix element, and this results in the same net effect. A numerical estimate indicates that this …


Critical Point Of A Weakly Interacting Two-Dimensional Bose Gas, N Prokof'ev, O Ruebenacker, B Svistunov Jan 2001

Critical Point Of A Weakly Interacting Two-Dimensional Bose Gas, N Prokof'ev, O Ruebenacker, B Svistunov

Physics Department Faculty Publication Series

We study the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in a weakly interacting 2D quantum Bose gas using the concept of universality and numerical simulations of the classical |ψ|4 model on a lattice. The critical density and chemical potential are given by relations nc = (mT/2πħ2)ln(ξħ2/mU) and μc = (mTU/πħ2)ln(ξμħ2/mU), where T is the temperature, m is the mass, and U is the effective interaction. The dimensionless constant ξ = 380±3 is very large and thus any quantitative analysis of the experimental data crucially depends on its value. For ξμ our result is ξμ = 13.2±0.4. We also report the study of the quasicondensate …