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THE REACTION GAMMA-GAMMA-]PI-0-PI-0 AND CHIRAL LOOPS
PHYSICAL REVIEW D (1988)
JF Donoghue, BR Holstein and YC LIN
Two-photon production of a neutral-pion pair is uniquely predicted near threshold by the theory of chiral symmetry. The prediction vanishes ...
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WEAK NUCLEON NUCLEON MESON COUPLINGS AND NUCLEAR PARITY VIOLATION
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS (1988)
BR Holstein
After many years of careful theoretical and experimental study of nuclear parity violation, rough empirical values for weak parity violating ...
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Gauge-Invariance and Quantization
American Journal of Physics (1988)
BR Holstein
Quantizing theories such as quantum electrodynamics that contain a gauge invariance are discussed via a simple pedagogical example. Canonical and ...
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Semiclassical Treatment of the Double Well
American Journal of Physics (1988)
BR Holstein
The double well potential V(x)= 1/4 λ(x2-α2)2 is addressed using both semiclassical path integral and instanton techniques. The basic physics ...
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Semiclassical Treatment of the Periodic Potential
American Journal of Physics (1988)
BR Holstein
The use of a general periodic potential is addressed using both semiclassical path integral and instanton techniques. Identical band structure ...
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The Harmonic-Oscillator via Functional Techniques
American Journal of Physics (1988)
JF Donoghue and BR Holstein
Although functional methods are common in the research literature, they are not generally seen by students until a course in ...
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Cp Violation in K-]3-Pi
Physical Review D (1987)
JF Donoghue, BR Holstein and G Valencia
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Kobayashi-Maskawa Angles and Su(3) Breaking in Hyperon Beta-Decay
Physical Review D (1987)
JF Donoghue, BR Holstein and SW Klimt
The determination of the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element Vus from hyperon β decays has long had a hidden uncertainty due to ...
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ELECTRIC-DIPOLE MOMENTS OF NUCLEI
PHYSICS LETTERS B (1987)
JF Donoghue, BR Holstein and MJ MUSOLF
Recent calculations by Sushkov, Flambaum and Khriplovich have suggested that the existence of the possibility of kaon exchange within nuclei ...
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KL-]PI-0E+E- AS A PROBE OF CP VIOLATION
PHYSICAL REVIEW D (1987)
JF Donoghue, BR Holstein and G VALENCIA
We point out that the decay mode KL→π0e+e- is predominantly CP violating in the standard model and is expected to ...
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Weak Decays of the H-Dibaryon
Physical Review D (1986)
JF Donoghue, E Golowich and BR Holstein
We calculate decay rates and branching fractions for the postulated S=-2 H dibaryon, both for the expected ΔS=1 channels (nΛ,nΣ0,pΣ-) ...
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Gravitational Coupling at Finite Temperature
Physical Review D (1986)
JF Donoghue, BR Holstein and RW Robinett
We discuss a thermodynamic identity which helps explain why ≠ at finite temperature. In addition we complete the discussion of ...
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Chiral Symmetry, Nonleptonic Hyperon Decay, and the Feinberg-Kabir-Weinberg Theorem
Physical Review D (1986)
JF Donoghue and BR Holstein
We demonstrate that additional (kaon-pole) diagrams must be appended to the traditional commutator-plus-baryon-pole approach to nonleptonic hyperon decay. The modified ...
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CP VIOLATION IN LOW-ENERGY PPBAR REACTIONS
PHYSICS LETTERS B (1986)
JF Donoghue, BR Holstein and G VALENCIA
Asymmetry measurements are discussed in Image which can signal the presence of CP nonconservation. Theories with milliweak CP violation produce ...
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DISPERSIVE EFFECTS IN D0-DBARO MIXING
PHYSICAL REVIEW D (1986)
JF Donoghue, Eugene Golowich, BR Holstein and J TRAMPETIC
We estimate the size of dispersive effects in ΔC=2 interactions and find that they represent in fact the dominant components ...
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LOW-ENERGY WEAK-INTERACTIONS OF QUARKS
PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS (1986)
JF Donoghue, Eugene Golowich and BR Holstein
We review the progress that has been made in understanding weak interaction effects in hadrons. Our focus is on the ...
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QUANTUM-MECHANICS IN CURVED SPACE
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS (1986)
JF Donoghue and BR Holstein
The quantum mechanical wave equation for a particle in a Schwarzschild metric is derived using general relativity in the linearized ...
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THE LIFETIME OF A DEEPLY BOUND H DIBARYON AND THE ...
PHYSICS LETTERS B (1986)
JF Donoghue, Eugene Golowich and BR Holstein
The explanation of the Cygnus X-3 events which involves a strange-quark star emitting the doubly strange H dibaryon requires the ...
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Chiral Perturbation-Theory Corrections to Kl-]-Gamma-Gamma
Physics Department Faculty Publication Series (1986)
JF Donoghue, BR Holstein and YCR Lin
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Electromagnetic and Isopin Breaking Effects Decrease Epsilon'/Epsilon
Physics Department Faculty Publication Series (1986)
JF Donoghue, E Golowich, BR Holstein and J Trampetic
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Quantum Electrodynamics at Finite Temperature
Annals of Physics (1985)
JF Donoghue, BR Holstein and RW Robinett
We present a systematic examination of finite temperature effects in quantum electrodynamics at one loop order. We calculate mass, charge, ...
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Reanalysis of Higgs-Boson-Exchange Models of Cp Violation
Physical Review D (1985)
JF Donoghue and BR Holstein
We reexamine the value of ɛ'/ɛ in models where CP violation is due to the exchange of charged Higgs bosons. ...
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CHIRAL LOOPS IN PI-0,ETA-0-]GAMMA-GAMMA AND ETA-ETA' MIXING
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (1985)
JF Donoghue, BR Holstein and YCR LIN
We compute the one-loop corrections to the Wess-Zumino Lagrangean governing π0, η8→γγ. The SU(3) relation between the two decay rates ...
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CP VIOLATION 1984 - THE KM MODEL CONFRONTS EXPERIMENT
NUCLEAR PHYSICS A (1985)
BR Holstein
Using recent experimental data involving the b, t quarks and the new measurement of η+−/ηoo we show that the KM ...
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MEASUREMENT OF THE WEAK NEUTRAL CURRENT VIA NUCLEAR PARITY VIOLATION
PHYSICAL REVIEW D (1985)
JF Donoghue and BR Holstein
Present low-energy experiments which detect parity violation in nuclei are analyzed, and a consistent set of weak couplings is extracted. ...
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