Kaon production in\bar pp interactions at c.m. energies from 200 to 900 GeV

A detailed analysis ofK _s ⁰ production in \(\bar pp\) |<2.5 the average transverse momentum is found to be 0.53±0.07 GeV/c at 200 GeV and 0.62±0.08 GeV/c at 900 GeV, which is an increase with respect to data at c.m. energies below 60 GeV. TheK _s ⁰ production cross sections in inelastic collisions are 29±4 mb at 200 GeV and 63±6 mb at 900 GeV, showing an increase compared to lower energy data. The central kaon density is found to increase as a logarithmic function of energy. At 900 GeV, where statistics are sufficient to allow one to draw conclusions, the average transverse momentum is higher in events with large charged multiplicity than in events with low multiplicity.     

On the structure of the nucleon optical potential

The structure of the nucleon generalized optical potential (GOP) is investigated in the framework of Green's function (GF) theory. First an exact relation between its imaginary part and the total reaction cross section is derived. In the second part the GOP is decomposed using a kind of projection formalism which enables to couple in the continuum in successive steps. This is achieved by splitting up the one particle GF into a discrete and a continuous part and by summing up all contributions to the GOP containing a given numbern0 continuum propagators. Three expressions are extracted corresponding to different processes involving the scattering of at most two particles in the continuum in intermediate states. The remaining terms are argued to be small. Further support for retaining only the above three terms is given by evaluating the diagonal element of their imaginary part between the exact eigenstates of the GOP. This is shown to be approximately proportional to the sum of the total inelastic, charge exchange, pick-up and knockout cross sections. The corresponding matrix element of the exact potential is proportional to the total reaction cross section.     

Highly charged ions in a new era of high resolution X-ray astrophysics

X-ray astronomy and ground-based atomic physics have a long history of fruitful collaboration: Sound understanding of the underlying atomic physics is the key to reliable interpretation of the spectra from celestial sources; conversely, astronomical spectra have been used to benchmark and advance atomic physics. This interplay is about to become even more important as we enter a new era of high-resolution X-ray astrophysics with large effective collection area. Although high-resolution observations with the gratings on the Chandra and XMM-Newton observatories continue to drive new science, upcoming planned and proposed missions will open up new discovery space in the near future that is currently challenging to access: high-resolution spectroscopy on extended sources, in the Fe K band, and on short time scales. This review summarizes open questions in these areas and the design parameters for the Hitomi, XRISM, Athena, and Arcus observatories. The expected high quality of spectra taken with these observatories puts new constraints on the accuracy of atomic reference data required to take full advantage of the diagnostic potential of these spectra.     

Chern Classes of Gauss–Manin Bundles of Weight 1 Vanish

We show that the Chern character of a variation of polarized Hodge structures of weight one with nilpotent residues at dies up to torsion in the Chow ring, except in codimension 0.     

Unforgettable film music: The role of emotion in episodic long-term memory for music

Background  

Specific pieces of music can elicit strong emotions in listeners and, possibly in connection with these emotions, can be remembered even years later. However, episodic memory for emotional music compared with less emotional music has not yet been examined. We investigated whether emotional music is remembered better than less emotional music. Also, we examined the influence of musical structure on memory performance.     

Neue massenspektrometrische Methoden in der analytischen Praxis

Ohne Zusammenfassung

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New mass-spectrometric methods in practical analysis

     

Equivalence of the Metaplectic Representation with Sums of Wavelet Representations for a Class of Subgroups of the Symplectic Group

Equivalence of the metaplectic representation with a sum of affine representations is discussed for a class of subgroups of the symplectic group. The paper begins with a study of sums of wavelet transforms, and it is shown that the usual admissibility conditions for the wavelet transform apply to transforms by sums of affine representations as well. A construction of admissible vectors, bandlimited admissible vectors and frames for sums of affine representations by means of transversals is given. A class of subgroups of the symplectic group which are compact extensions affine groups are identified, and it is shown how subrepresentations of the metaplectic representation can be equivalent to affine representations. This equivalence is illuminated by several examples.