S U M M A R Y We develop a generic method to appraise the reliability of wavefield imaging methods and use it to validate some novel observations on the 410-km discontinuity. The core concept of the error appraisal method is to produce a simulated data set that replicates the geometry of the real data. Here we implemented two simulation methods: (1) flat layer primary P to S conversions, and (2...

Recently, Jäger andWillenbrock have shown that the Appelquist and Chanowitz bound on the scale of top-quark mass generation can formally be saturated at tree-level in a particular limit of a two-Higgs doublet model. In this note I present an alternate derivation of their result. I perform a coupled channel analysis for f f̄ → VLVL and VLVL → VLVL scattering and derive the conditions on the param...

PURPOSE To determine the influence of age on local electroretinographic responses in humans. METHODS Multifocal electroretinograms (mfERGs) were obtained from 62 normally sighted subjects ranging in age from 21 to 81 years. A stimulus array of 103 scaled hexagons was used to measure electrical signals within a retinal area approximately 46 degrees in diameter. Commonly reported mfERG methods ...

The B-meson distribution amplitude is calculated using QCD sum rules. In particular we obtain an estimate for the integral relevant to exclusive B-decays λB = 460± 110 MeV at the scale 1 GeV. A simple QCD-motivated parametrization of the distribution amplitude is suggested. ∗Unite Mixte de Recherche du CNRS (UMR 8627)

Computing the perturbation spectrum in the recently proposed Island Cosmology remains an open problem. In this paper we present a classical computation of the perturbations generated in this scenario by assuming that the NEC-violating field behaves as a classical phantom field. Using an exactly-solvable potential, we show that the model generates a scale-invariant spectrum of scalar perturbatio...

The mechanism for blob generation in a toroidal magnetized plasma is investigated using time-resolved measurements of two-dimensional structures of electron density, temperature, and plasma potential. The blobs are observed to form from a radially elongated structure that is sheared off by the E x B flow. The structure is generated by an interchange wave that increases in amplitude and extends ...

Momentum space Ward identities are derived for the amputated n-point Green’s functions in 3 + 1 dimensional non-relativistic conformal field theory. For n = 4 and 6 the implications for scattering amplitudes (i.e. on-shell amputated Green’s functions) are considered. Any scale invariant 2-to-2 scattering amplitude is also conformally invariant. However, conformal invariance imposes constraints ...