We study the weak interaction rates involving Goldstone bosons in the Color Flavor Locked (CFL) quark matter. Neutrino mean free path and the rate of energy loss due to neutrino emission in a thermal plasma of CFL pions and kaons is calculated. We find in addition to neutrino scattering off thermal mesons, novel Cherenkov like processes wherein mesons are either emitted or absorbed contribute t...

Abstract: The so-called Iranian revolutionary youth’s aspirations for martyrdom are not based merely on Islamist doctrines or Islamic ideologies. They readily place all fallen combatants in a ‘martyrdom box’, linking them to sacrality and claiming they feel martyrs via martyrs’ ghostly whispers. Through ethnographic journeys Iran, Lebanon Iraq, I unpack how craft the box’ communicate with argue...

WASTE NOT William Edwards Deming, the first child of William Albert Deming and Pluma Irene Edwards, was born on 14 October 1900 in Sioux City, Iowa. His father worked mainly in freelance legal work and his mother gave music lessons on their grand Kimball piano. As a child, Deming grew up in meagre conditions. He and his family lived for years in a tarpaper shack. As a boy he worked at a hotel f...

In the nineteenth century it was not uncommon for doctors to die from infectious diseases, but the death of five young physicians in Greenock--one third of the medical profession in a medium-sized Scottish town--from epidemic typhus, during four consecutive months in 1864-65, was an unusual event. This paper describes the lives and backgrounds of these five doctors, whose deaths in the line of ...

We derive the effective Lagrangian for the low-energy massive meson excitations of the color-flavor-locking (CFL) phase of QCD with 3 flavors of light quarks. We compute the decay constants, the maximum velocities, and the masses of the mesons at large baryon chemical potential µ. The decay constants are linear in µ. The meson maximum velocities are close to that of sound. The meson masses in t...

T his issue brings the 14th in the ‘‘Heroes and Martyrs of Quality and Safety’’ series. More are to come. With a new editor of this journal on board, it is a good moment to define the content of the series. It is about people—present and past—who have found an opportunity to improve health, their efforts to carry out the needed improvements and to measure the results. These people are patient c...

Departament de Física, ETSEIB, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 2 LETIAM, EA7357, IUT Orsay, Université Paris Sud, rue Noetzlin, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France 3 Institut Laue Langevin, 71 avenue des Martyrs CS 20156 38042 GRENOBLE CEDEX 9, France 4 Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, CAMMAT, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, 4 avenue ...

Wu Li,1 L. Lindsay,2 D. A. Broido,3 Derek A. Stewart,4 and Natalio Mingo1 1LITEN, CEA-Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France 2Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA 3Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA 4Cornell Nanoscale Facility, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA (Received 29 August 2012; published 29 ...

Laboratoire de Physico-chimie de la Matière Condensée, Institut Gehrardt, UMR 5617, Université Montpellier II, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de l’Observatoire de Grenoble, Observatoire de Grenoble, BP 53, 38041Grenoble cedex 9, France Institut de Microélectronique, Electromagnétisme et Photonique, ENSERG, 23 av. des Martyrs, BP 257, 38016 ...