2677382
Phase Structure of Compact QED from the Sine-Gordon/Massive Thirring Duality
We discuss a phase structure of compact QED in four dimensions by considering the theory as a perturbed topological model. In this scenario we use the singular configuration with an appropriate regularization, and so obtain the results similar to the lattice gauge theory due to the effect of topological objects. In this paper we calculate the thermal pressure of the topological model by the use of a one-dimensional Coulomb gas approximation, which leads to a phase structure of full compact QED. Furthermore the critical-line equation is explicitly evaluated. We also discuss relations between the monopole condensation in compact QED in four dimensions and the chiral symmetry restoration in the massive Thirring model in two dimensions.
119327427
Hidden Yangian symmetry in sigma model on squashed sphere
We discuss a hidden symmetry of a two-dimensional sigma model on a squashed S3. The SU(2) current can be improved so that it can be regarded as a flat connection. Then we can obtain an infinite number of conserved non-local charges and show the Yangian algebra by directly checking the Serre relations. This symmetry is also deduced from the coset structure of the squashed sphere. The same argument is applicable to the warped AdS3 spaces by the double Wick rotations.
15711173
Non-relativistic string and D-branes on AdS5 × S5 from semiclassical approximation
We show that non-relativistic actions of string and D-branes on AdS5???S5 can be reproduced as a semiclassical approximation of the string and D-brane actions around static 1/2 BPS configurations. This is contrastive to the Penrose limit. For example, the pp-wave string can be recaptured as a semiclassical approximation around a 1/2 BPS particle rotating at the velocity of light. We argue that small deformation of a straight Wilson line would give a composite operator in the gauge-theory side that corresponds to a semiclassical state of the non-relativistic string, according to the semiclassical interpretation.
2088281
A tunneling picture of dual giant Wilson loop
We further discuss a rotating dual giant Wilson loop (D3-brane) solution constructed in Lorentzian AdS by Drukker et al. The solution is shown to be composed of a dual giant Wilson loop and a dual giant graviton by minutely examining its shape. Hence it may be supposed that the dual gauge-theory operator should be a k-th symmetric Wilson loop with insertions of dual giant graviton operators. To give a convincing argument for this observation, the classical action of the solution should be evaluated in Euclidean signature. For this purpose we perform a Wick rotation to the Lorentzian solution by following the tunneling prescription and obtain Euclidean solutions attaching to a circle or a straight line on the AdS boundary. The classical action contains a logarithmic divergence which is proportional to the R-charge. It is consistent with the correlation function of the dual giant graviton operators. Because of ambiguities concerning regularization, finite terms of the action do not lead to conclusive evidence. However we may expect that the ambiguities would cancel by subtracting the action of the D3-brane with a straight-line boundary from that with a circular boundary. It is really shown that the difference is consistent with the expectation value of the k-th symmetric Wilson loop. Although our analysis does not specify the unique dual gauge-theory operator, we discuss possible candidates implied by the D3-brane computation.
18362159
Partition function and open/closed string duality in type IIA string theory on a pp-wave
Abstract We discuss partition functions of N =(4,4) type IIA string theory on the pp-wave background. This theory is shown to be modular invariant. The boundary states are constructed and possible D-brane instantons are classified. Then we calculate cylinder amplitudes in both closed and open string descriptions and check the open/closed string duality. Furthermore we consider general properties of modular invariant partition functions in the case of pp-waves.
119324390
Hybrid classical integrable structure of squashed sigma models - a short summary
We give a short summary of our recent works on the classical integrable structure of two-dimensional non-linear sigma models defined on squashed three-dimensional spheres. There are two descriptions to describe the classical dynamics, 1) the rational description and 2) the trigonometric description. It is possible to construct two different types of Lax pairs depending on the descriptions, and the classical integrability is shown by computing classical r/s-matrices satisfying the extended Yang-Baxter equation in both descriptions. In the former the system is described as an integrable system of rational type. On the other hand, in the latter it is described as trigonometric type. There exists a non-local map between the two descriptions and those are equivalent. This is a non-local generalization of the left-right duality in principal chiral models.
120768754
Nonlinear dynamics with sextupoles in low-emittance light source storage rings
Abstract An analysis is made of the nonlinear particle motions arising from sextupoles in low-emittance light source rings. By employing the single-resonance approximation to the Hamiltonian expanded into harmonics, boundaries of the stable motion brought about by 1st- and 3rd-order resonances are calculated analytically. These are used together with the second-order tune shifts with amplitude as guidelines of the analysis and of the optimization of sextupoles to improve the dynamic aperture. The application is made to two typical lattices of the light source rings, the Chasman-Green and the triple-bend achromat lattice, to pursue the lattice dependence of the nonlinear characteristics. Apart from the cases where the stability is determined by the lowest-order resonances, studies using particle tracking indicate that the motion is very often driven by higher-order resonances for which further considerations are required. Two approaches are discussed in this context. One is to interpret the phenomena as a combined effect of the lowest-order resonances, which is verified numerically by a fictitious tracking. Another is the perturbative method. The theory developed by Poincare and von Zeipel is used to analyze the horizontal dynamics, which is worked up to 4th order in amplitude. Examples that satisfactorily reproduce the phase-space structure are shown, although it is also found that perturbations of many of the sextupoles required for these low-emittance rings are even higher than 4th order.
35267162
E1 strength of the subthreshold 3/2+ state in 15O studied by Coulomb excitation
Abstract The radiative width of the 3/2 + state at 6.793 MeV in 15 O has been experimentally determined to be Γ γ =0.95 +0.60 −0.95  eV by intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation. Our result independently supports the recent studies which point to a minor contribution of this state to the astrophysical rate of the 14 N(p, γ ) 15 O reaction in the CNO-cycle hydrogen burning in massive stars.
118539918
A new vector-tensor theory and higher-dimensional cosmology
A new vector-tensor model of classical gravity, which contains coupling between the field strength of the vector field and the curvature tensors in six dimensions, is proposed. Cosmological solutions of the scale factors in this model with the compactified space are obtained. The generalization of the model is also considered.
15470225
Analysis of the phase structure of thermal QED/QCD through the HTL improved ladder Dyson-Schwinger equation: On the gauge dependence of the solution
We solved with a numerical procedure the HTL improved ladder DS equation for the retarded fermion self-energy function $\Sigma_R$ to study the spontaneous generation of fermion mass in thermal QCD/QED, and studied the gauge-dependence of the solution within a general covariant gauge where the gauge parameter $\xi$ is any constant number. 
With the numerical solutions thus obtained, we found the followings; i) The fermion wave function renormalization function $A(P)$ always deviates largely from unity even at the momentum where the mass is defined, thus the corresponding solutions explicitly contradict with the Ward-Takahashi identity. ii) As a result, the obtained solutions strongly depend on the choice of gauge parameters: the critical temperatures and the critical coupling constants significantly change gauge by gauge. In all gauges we studied in the present analysis, we could not find any solution, having a possibility to be consistent with the Ward-Takahashi identity. Thus we are forced to investigate the procedure to find a gauge which enables us to get a solution being consistent with the Ward-Takahashi identity, otherwise we can not obtain any physically sensible conclusions through the analysis of the point-vertex ladder DS equation no matter how the gauge propagator gets improved.
124527547
Measurement of the spin and magnetic moment of ²³Al
Author(s) Ozawa, A.; Matsuta, K.; Nagatomo, T.; Mihara, M.; Yamada, K.; Yamaguchi, T.; Momota, S.; Izumikawa, T.; Sumikama, T.; Nakashima, Y.; Fujiwara, H.; Kumashiro, S.; Matsumiya, R.; Ota, M.; Shinojima, D.; Tanaka, H.; Yasuno, T.; Nakajima, S.; Suzuki, T.; Yoshida, K.; Muranaka, K.; Maemura, T.; Chiba, A.; Utsuno, Y.; Fukuda, M.; Tanaka, K.; Tanihata, I.; Nojiri, Y.; Minamisono, T.; Alonso, J.R.; Krebs, G.F.; Symons, T.J.M.