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Free energy and phase transition of the matrix model on a plane wave
It has recently been observed that the weakly coupled plane-wave matrix model has a density of states which grows exponentially at high energy. This implies that the model has a phase transition. The transition appears to be of first order. However, its exact nature is sensitive to interactions. In this paper, we analyze the effect of interactions by computing the relevant parts of the effective potential for the Polyakov loop operator in the finite temperature plane-wave matrix model to three-loop order. We show that the phase transition is indeed of first order. We also compute the correction to the Hagedorn temperature to order two loops.
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Wilson Loops in N = 2 Superconformal Yang-Mills Theory
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An extremal chiral primary three-point function at two-loops in ABJ(M)
A bstractI compute the leading correction to the structure constant for the three-point function of two length-two and one length-four chiral primary operators in planar ABJ(M) theory at weak ’t Hooft coupling. The computation is reduced to four-loop propagator type Feynman integrals via a manifestly finite integration over the position of the length-four operator.
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Exact 1/4 BPS loop- : Chiral primary correlator
Abstract Correlation functions of 1 / 4 BPS Wilson loops with the infinite family of 1 / 2 BPS chiral primary operators are computed in N = 4 super-Yang–Mills theory by summing planar ladder diagrams. Leading loop corrections to the sum are shown to vanish. The correlation functions are also computed in the strong-coupling limit by examining the supergravity dual of the loop–loop correlator. The strong coupling result is found to agree with the extrapolation of the planar ladders. The result is related to known correlators of 1 / 2 BPS Wilson loops and 1 / 2 BPS chiral primaries by a simple re-scaling of the coupling constant, similar to an observation of Drukker [N. Drukker, hep-th/0605151] for the case of the 1 / 4 BPS loop vacuum expectation value.
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ABJ(M) chiral primary three-point function at two-loops
A bstractWe compute the leading correction to the structure constant for the threepoint function of three length-two chiral primary operators in planar ABJ(M) theory at weak ’t Hooft coupling.
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Manifest SO(N) invariance and S-matrices of three-dimensional N=2,4,8 SYM
An on-shell formalism for the computation of S-matrices of SYM theories in three spacetime dimensions is presented. The framework is a generalization of the spinor-helicity formalism in four dimensions. The formalism is applied to establish the manifest SO(N) covariance of the on-shell superalgebra relevant to N =2,4 and 8 SYM theories in d=3. The results are then used to argue for the SO(N) invariance of the S-matrices of these theories: a claim which is proved explicitly for the four-particle scattering amplitudes. Recursion relations relating tree amplitudes of three-dimensional SYM theories are shown to follow from their four-dimensional counterparts. The results for the four-particle amplitudes are verified by tree-level perturbative computations and a unitarity based construction of the integrand corresponding to the leading perturbative correction is also presented for the N=8 theory. For N=8 SYM, the manifest SO(8) symmetry is used to develop a map between the color-ordered amplitudes of the SYM and superconformal Chern-Simons theories, providing a direct connection between on-shell observables of D2 and M2-brane theories.
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MURA 50-MeV Electron AcceleratorGeneral Description and Review. I
General descriptions of the history, construction, and operation of the MURA 50‐MeV electron accelerator are given. In its operation, this accelerator has been used to stack large circulating currents of accelerated particles and to investigate multiturn injection, acceleration processes, resonant effects, and collective instabilities.
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Magnetic Guide Field Measurements and Corrections in the MURA 50‐MeV Electron Accelerator. VI
Methods of measurement and correction of the magnetic fields of the MURA 50‐MeV electron accelerator are described. Measurements of the vertical and horizontal field components were made and the field errors corrected. Correction coils, iron shims, and adjustment of magnet positions were used to produce fields within the required tolerances. Computer methods were used to calculate needed corrections and to evaluate the quality of the corrections achieved.
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Operating experience with the NAL 200-MeV linac.
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THE OPERATION OF THE FIRST SECTION OF THE NAL LINEAR ACCELERATOR.
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Low energy improvements to the Fermilab 400-MeV linear accelerator
Improvements in the Fermilab operating 400-MeV linear accelerator injector are required to achieve the beam intensity and emittance requirement of the Proton Driver design study. It has been determined that these requirements can be achieved by replacing the components in the linac below 10 MeV. An improved H/sup -/ ion source with an electrostatic transport to a two-section radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) accelerator, with the RFQ sections separated by a magnetic five-dimensional phase-space imaging system as used in an earlier Fermilab/SAIC PET Project, and a new 10-MeV drift-tube linac cavity have been studied. It appears possible that an H/sup -/ intensity of 4.5/spl times/10/sup 13/ ions per pulse with an improvement in beam emittance from the present system can be achieved with the proposed changes.