By (a) using an expression for the lattice potential of QCD in terms of a continuum running coupling and (b) globally parameterizing this coupling to interpolate between 2(or higher-) loop QCD in the UV and the flux tube prediction in the IR, we can perfectly fit lattice data for the potential down to one lattice spacing and at the same time extract the running coupling to high precision. This ...

X- and Q-band pulsed EPR spectroscopy was applied to study the interaction of the QA site semiquinone (SQA) with nitrogens from the local protein environment in natural abundance (14)N and in (15)N uniformly labeled photosynthetic reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The hyperfine and nuclear quadrupole tensors for His-M219 Nδ and Ala-M260 peptide nitrogen (Np) were estimated through si...

A theoretical density-functional study has been carried out to analyze the exchange coupling in the chains of CuGeO3 using discrete models. The results show a good agreement with the experimental exchange coupling constant ~J! together with a strong dependence of J with the Cu-O-Cu angle. The calculation of the J values for a distorted model indicates a larger degree of dimerization than those ...

The current status of measurements of the strong coupling constant from different reactions is reviewed. Including new results presented at the 1996 ICHEP conference, a global average αs(MZ) = 0.118± 0.003 is obtained. Plenary talk given at the XXVIII International Conference on High Energy Physics Warsaw, July 25–31, 1996.

We show that in 3-3-1 models there exist a natural relation among the SU(3)L coupling constant g, the electroweak mixing angle θW , the mass of the W , and one of the vacuum expectation values, which implies that those models can be realized at low energy scales and, in particular, even at the electroweak scale. So that, being that symmetries realized in Nature, new physics may be really just a...

The current status of the QCD coupling constant S and experimental and theoretical studies of hadronic jets are reviewed.

SUSY effects on various flavor changing neutral current processes are discussed in the minimal supergravity model and the SU(5) grand unified theory with righthanded neutrino supermultiplets. In particular, in the latter case the neutrino Yukawa coupling constants can be a source of the flavor mixing in the right-handeddown-type-squark sector. It is shown that due to this mixing the time-depend...

The Standard Model [1] contains one neutral scalar Higgs boson, which is a remnant of the mechanism that breaks the SU(2) × U(1) symmetry and generates the W and Z boson masses. The Higgs couples to quarks and leptons of mass m f with a strength gm f /2M W. Its coupling to W and Z bosons is of strength g, where g is the coupling constant of the SU(2) gauge theory. The branching ratio of the Hig...

Density functional theory methods(DFT) and natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis were used to investigate the effects of isomerism and side chain mutation at a microscopic level on the stability, binding energy and NMR/NQR tensors of structural isomers, L- methionylasparagine (Met-Asn) and L- asparagylmethionine (Asn-Met) in the gas phase. The results represented that the isomerism and side chain...