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astro-ph2000★ 4 cited

An Extremely Red Nucleus in an Absorbed QSO at z=0.65

Masayuki Akiyama, Kouji Ohta

The results of K-band-imaging observations of a candidate of an absorbed QSO at z=0.653, AX J131831+3341, are presented. The B-K color of the object is 4.85 mag, which is much redd…

astro-ph2000★ 5 cited

Deep-Imaging Observations of a Candidate of an Absorbed QSO at z=0.653, AX J131831+3341

M. Akiyama, K. Ohta, N. Tamura +12

The results of deep-imaging observations of a candidate of an absorbed QSO at z=0.653, AX J131831+3341, are presented. AX J131831+3341 was found during the course of optical follow…

cond-mat.soft2000

Dielectric and Dilatometric Studies of Glass Transitions in Thin Polymer Films

Koji Fukao, Yoshihisa Miyamoto

Dielectric relaxation and thermal expansion spectroscopy were made for thin polystyrene films in order to measure the temperature corresponding to the peak in the loss compon…

hep-ph2000★ 19 cited

Optimized Perturbation Theory at Finite Temperature--- Two-Loop Analysis---

S. Chiku

We study the optimized perturbation theory (OPT) at finite temperature, which is a self-consistent resummation method. Firstly, we generalize the idea of the OPT to optimize the co…

hep-th2000★ 90 cited

One-Dimensional String Theory with Vortices as Upside-Down Matrix Oscillator

Dmitri Boulatov, Vladimir Kazakov

We study matrix quantum mechanics at a finite temperature equivalent to one dimensional compactified string theory with vortex (winding) excitations. It is explicitly demonstrated…

hep-ph2000★ 125 cited

Radiative decay of a massive particle and the non-thermal process in primordial nucleosynthesis

M. Kawasaki, K. Kohri, Takeo Moroi

We consider the effects on big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) of the radiative decay of a long-lived massive particle. If high-energy photons are emitted after the BBN epoch ($t \sim 1…

hep-th2000★ 4 cited

Nonlinear Realization of Partially Broken N=2 AdS Supersymmetry in Two and Three Dimensions

Masayuki Sano, Tsuneo Uematsu

We investigate the nonlinear realization of partially broken =2 global supersymmetry in the D=2 and 3 anti de-Sitter (AdS) space. We particularly study Nambu-Goldstone degrees o…

hep-ph2000

Can we distinguish SUSY breaking terms between weakly and strongly coupled heterotic string theories ?

Tatsuo Kobayashi

We study soft SUSY breaking terms in heterotic M-theory. We show that both weakly and strongly coupled heterotic string models lead to the same relations of soft SUSY breaking term…

cond-mat.stat-mech2000★ 24 cited

Loop algorithm for Heisenberg models with biquadratic interaction and phase transitions in two dimensions

Kenji Harada, Naoki Kawashima

We present a new algorithm for quantum Monte Carlo simulation based on global updating with loops. While various theoretical predictions are confirmed in one dimension, we find, fo…

hep-th2000★ 10 cited

Behavior of Cosmological Perturbations in the Brane-World Mode

Hideo Kodama

In this paper we present a gauge-invariant formalism for perturbations of the brane-world model developed by the author, A. Ishibashi and O. Seto recently, and analyze the behavior…

astro-ph2000★ 10 cited

Discovery of a 9-s X-Ray Pulsar, AX J0049-732, in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Masaru Ueno, Jun Yokogawa, Kensuke Imanishi +1

We report the ASCA discovery of a new X-ray pulsar, AX J0049-732, in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The pulse shape is sinusoidal with a barycentric period of 9.1320 +/- 0.0004…

astro-ph2000★ 59 cited

ASCA Discovery of Diffuse 6.4 keV Emission Near the Sgr C Complex: A New X-ray Reflection Nebula

H. Murakami, K. Koyama, M. Tsujimoto +2

We present an ASCA discovery of diffuse hard X-ray emission from the Sgr C complex with its peak in the vicinity of the molecular cloud core. The X-ray spectrum is characterized by…

hep-th2000★ 18 cited

Descent Relation of Tachyon Condensation from Boundary String Field Theory

Sanefumi Moriyama, Shin Nakamura

We analyze how lower-dimensional bosonic D-branes further decay, using the boundary string field theory. Especially we find that the effective tachyon potential of the lower-dimens…

hep-th2000★ 17 cited

Gravitational waves in cosmological models of Hořava-Witten theory

Osamu Seto, Hideo Kodama

We study the behavior of gravitational waves and their backreaction on the background in cosmological solutions of the five-dimensional Hořava-Witten theory. As a dynamical backgro…

astro-ph2000★ 60 cited

Evidence for a source size of less than 2000 AU in Quasar 2237+0305

Atsunori Yonehara

Recently, OGLE team have reported clear quasar microlensing signal in Q2237+0305. We have analyzed the microlens event of ``image C'' by using their finely and densely sampled ligh…

nucl-ex2000★ 18 cited

Thin Ice Target for O(p,p') experiment

T. Kawabata, H. Akimune, H. Fujimura +26

A windowless and self-supporting ice target is described. An ice sheet with a thickness of 29.7 mg/cm cooled by liquid nitrogen was placed at the target position of a magnetic…

gr-qc2000★ 82 cited

The First Search for Gravitational Waves from Inspiraling Compact Binaries using TAMA300 data

Hideyuki Tagoshi, Nobuyuki Kanda, Takahiro Tanaka +2

We analyzed 6 hours of data from the TAMA300 detector by matched filtering, searching for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries. We incorporated a two-step hierarch…

astro-ph2000★ 14 cited

Possible direct method to determine the radius of a star from the spectrum of gravitational wave signals II : Spectra for various cases

Motoyuki Saijo, Takashi Nakamura

We compute the spectrum and the waveform of gravitational waves generated by the inspiral of a disk or a spherical like dust body into a Kerr black hole. We investigate the effect…

quant-ph2000★ 86 cited

General Forms of a N-fold Supersymmetric Family

Hideaki Aoyama, Masatoshi Sato, Toshiaki Tanaka

We report general forms of one family of the N-fold supersymmetry in one-dimensional quantum mechanics. The N-fold supersymmetry is characterized by the supercharges which are N-th…

nucl-ex2000★ 258 cited

Centrality Dependence of Charged Particle Multiplicity in Au-Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=130 GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, K. Adcox

We present results for the charged-particle multiplicity distribution at mid-rapidity in Au - Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=130 GeV measured with the PHENIX detector at RHIC. For the…

hep-th2000★ 2 cited

Low-energy propagation modes on string network

Naoki Sasakura

We study low-energy propagation modes on string network lattice. Specifically, we consider an infinite two-dimensional regular hexagonal string network and analyze the low frequenc…

hep-th2000★ 3 cited

Deconfining Phase Transition in QCD_4 and QED_4 at Finite Temperature

Kentaroh Yoshida

We investigate the deconfining phase transition in QCD_4 and QED_4 at finite temperature using a perturbative deformation of topological quantum field theory (TQFT). A modified max…

gr-qc2000★ 39 cited

The Isotropy of Compact Universes

John D. Barrow, Hideo Kodama

We discuss the problem of the stability of the isotropy of the universe in the space of ever-expanding spatially homogeneous universes with a compact spatial topology. The anisotro…

cond-mat.soft2000★ 158 cited

Slow dynamics near glass transitions in thin polymer films

Koji Fukao, Yoshihisa Miyamoto

The -process (segmental motion) of thin polystyrene films supported on glass substrate has been investigated in a wider frequency range from 10 Hz to 10 Hz using diel…