118399148
Light cone QCD sum rules for the semileptonic decay Lambda(b) -> p l anti-nu
The exclusive semileptonic heavy baryon decay \Lambda_b\to p l\bar\nu is investigated using light-cone sum rule method in both full QCD and HQET. The form factors describing the decay are calculated and used to predict the decay width and differential distribution. The total decay width obtained from full QCD is in agreement with the previous theoretical predictions while the HQET result are typically one order smaller. Both results are consistent with the experimental upper limit and can be compared to the refined experimental data in the future.
121216453
Heavy quark effective theory sum rules for higher excited charmed mesons: With a view on D(sJ)(2632)
Mass of the excited (1{sup -},2{sup -}) (2{sup -},3{sup -}) and (2{sup +},3{sup +}) cs states is calculated to the 1/m{sub Q} order within the framework of the heavy quark effective theory using QCD sum rule method. The obtained kinetic energy is comparable to the c-quark mass, thus results in large 1/m{sub Q} correction for the c-quark case. With the sum rules for the chromomagnetic interaction term, the mass splitting for the three doublets is presented. Based on the predicted mass spectrum the exotic D{sub sJ}(2632) state, if really exists, is unlikely to be a conventional orbitally higher excited cs state, although the experimental center lies within the range for the mass of the 1{sup -} meson.
111215607
Experiments and simulation of high current operation at CEBAF
The superconducting rf, cw electron accelerator at CEBAF has achieved the design energy of 4 GeV using 5-pass recirculation through a pair of 400 MeV linacs. Stable beam current of 35 {mu}A has been delivered to the Experimental Hall C. The total beam current that has been recirculated so far is 248 {mu}A. Measurements of the performance of the rf control system have been made in both pulsed and cw mode, and a numerical model has been developed which describes the beam-cavity interaction, includes a realistic representation of low level controls, klystron characteristics and microphonic noise. Experimental data and simulation results on transient beam loading, klystron saturation, a new technique for cavity phasing, and heavy beam loading tests are described; in conclusion, an outlook on full current operation is presented.
17541739
Threshold error rates for the toric and surface codes
The surface code scheme for quantum computation features a 2d array of nearest-neighbor coupled qubits yet claims a threshold error rate approaching 1% (NJoP 9:199, 2007). This result was obtained for the toric code, from which the surface code is derived, and surpasses all other known codes restricted to 2d nearest-neighbor architectures by several orders of magnitude. We describe in detail an error correction procedure for the toric and surface codes, which is based on polynomial-time graph matching techniques and is efficiently implementable as the classical feed-forward processing step in a real quantum computer. By direct simulation of this error correction scheme, we determine the threshold error rates for the two codes (differing only in their boundary conditions) for both ideal and non-ideal syndrome extraction scenarios. We verify that the toric code has an asymptotic threshold of p = 15.5% under ideal syndrome extraction, and p = 7.8 10^-3 for the non-ideal case, in agreement with prior work. Simulations of the surface code indicate that the threshold is close to that of the toric code.
53867504
On the soliton solutions of the two-dimensional Toda lattice
The two-dimensional Toda lattice (2DTL) is a well-known (2+1)-dimensional integrable system that admits a large class of line-soliton solutions. We classify these soliton solutions by exploiting the structure of the Casoratian expression for its tau function. In general, these solutions consist of unequal numbers of 'incoming' and 'outgoing' line solitons. We classify the incoming and outgoing line solitons based on asymptotic analysis of the tau function of the 2DTL as the discrete variable tends to infinity. We also identify various subclasses of solutions and characterize some of them in terms of the amplitudes and directions of the interacting solitons. As a special case, we obtain the reduction in the soliton solutions of the one-dimensional Toda lattice. Throughout, we point out the similarities with—and the differences from—the corresponding results for the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation.
119256536
Polarization switching demonstration using crossed-planar undulators in a seeded free-electron laser
Polarization switching of light sources is required over a wide spectral range to investigate the symmetry of matter. In this paper, we report the first experimental demonstration of the crossed-planar undulators technique at a seeded free-electron laser, which holds great promise for the full control and fast switching of the polarization of short-wavelength radiation. In the experiment, the polarization state of the coherent radiation at the secondharmonic of the seed laser is switched successfully. The experimental results confirm the theory and pave the way for applying the crossed-planar undulators technique for seeded x-ray free-electron lasers.
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Structural development of mercaptophenol self-assembled monolayers and the overlying mineral phase during templated CaCO3 crystallization from a transient amorphous film.
Formation of biomineral structures is increasingly attributed to directed growth of a mineral phase from an amorphous precursor on an organic matrix. While many in vitro studies have used calcite formation on organothiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) as a model system to investigate this process, they have generally focused on the stability of amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) or maximizing control over the order of the final mineral phase. Little is known about the early stages of mineral formation, particularly the structural evolution of the SAM and mineral. Here we use near-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (NEXAFS), photoemission spectroscopy (PES), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to address this gap in knowledge by examining the changes in order and bonding of mercaptophenol (MP) SAMs on Au(111) during the initial stages of mineral formation as well as the mechanism of ACC to calcite transformation during template-directed crystallization. We demonstrate that formation of ACC on the MP SAMs brings about a profound change in the morphology of the monolayers: although the as-prepared MP SAMs are composed of monomers with well-defined orientations, precipitation of the amorphous mineral phase results in substantial structural disorder within the monolayers. Significantly, a preferential face of nucleation is observed for crystallization of calcite from ACC on the SAM surfaces despite this static disorder.