Kavli Affiliate: Edmund Bertschinger | Summary:We present light curves of a sample of "transient" sources observed with the All-Sky Monitor (ASM) of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The light curves extend over 3.5 years. They are presented in three groups: six neutron-star systems, eight black-hole-candidate systems, and an additional diverse set of six objects […]
Kavli Affiliate: Edmund Bertschinger | Summary:X 1908+075 is an optically unidentified and highly absorbed X-ray source that appears in early surveys such as Uhuru, OSO-7, Ariel V, HEAO-1, and the EXOSAT Galactic Plane Survey. These surveys measured a source intensity in the range of 2-12 mCrab at 2-10 keV, and the position was localized to […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mikhail Shapiro | Summary:Let C(X) be the algebra generated by the curvature 2-forms of the standard hermitian line bundles over the complex homogeneous manifold X=G/B. We calculate the Hilbert polynomial of C(X) and give its presentation as a quotient of a polynomial ring. In particular, we show the dimension of C(X) is equal […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kunio Inoue | Summary:A search for day-night variations in the solar neutrino flux resulting from neutrino oscillations has been carried out using the 504 day sample of solar neutrino data obtained at Super-Kamiokande. The absence of a significant day-night variation has set an absolute flux independent exclusion region in the two neutrino oscillation […]
Kavli Affiliate: Sander Tans | Summary:Carbon nanotubes provide a unique system to study one-dimensional quantization phenomena. Scanning tunneling microscopy is used to observe the electronic wave functions that correspond to quantized energy levels in short metallic carbon nanotubes. Discrete electron waves are apparent from periodic oscillations in the differential conductance as a function of the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Richard Partridge | Summary:This paper summarizes a variety of recent results on heavy quark production and decay. Considerable progress has been made by CDF and D0 in measuring top quark production and decay properties. The top quark mass been measured with an uncertainty that is less than 3%, a relative precision that is […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yukari Ito | Summary:Let $G$ be a nontrivial finite subgroup of $SL_n(C)$. Suppose that the quotient singularity $C^n/G$ has a crepant resolution $Ď€colon Xto C^n/G$ (i.e. $K_X = shfO_X$). There is a slightly imprecise conjecture, called the McKay correspondence, stating that there is a relation between the Grothendieck group (or (co)homology group) of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Akerib | Summary:We are conducting an experiment to search for WIMPs, or weakly-interacting massive particles, in the galactic halo using terrestrial detectors. This generic class of hypothetical particles, whose properties are similar to those predicted by extensions of the standard model of particle physics, could comprise the cold component of non-baryonic dark […]
Kavli Affiliate: Stavros Katsanevas | Summary:SUSYGEN is a Monte Carlo program designed for computing distributions and generating events for MSSM sparticle production in e+ e- collisions. The Supersymmetric (SUSY) mass spectrum may either be supplied by the user, or can alternatively be calculated in two different models of SUSY Breaking: gravity mediated supersymmetry breaking (SUGRA), […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yukari Ito | Summary:This is the final draft, containing very minor proof-reading corrections. Let G in SL(n,C) be a finite subgroup and fie: Y -> X = C^n/G any resolution of singularities of the quotient space. We prove that crepant exceptional prime divisors of Y correspond one-to-one with “junior” conjugacy classes of G. […]