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THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE AT FINITE TEMPERATURE
GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION (1985)
JF Donoghue, BR Holstein and RW ROBINETT
We demonstrate that the equivalence principle is violated by radiative corrections to the gravitational and inertial masses at finite temperature. ...
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Forced Harmonic-Oscillator - A Path Integral Approach
American Journal of Physics (1985)
BR Holstein
The problem of the harmonic oscillator driven by an external force is explored using path integral techniques. The qualitative features ...
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Gravitational Twins Revisited
The Physics Teacher (1985)
BR Holstein
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Possible Weak Interaction Experiments with Polarized He-3
Physics Department Faculty Publication Series (1985)
BR Holstein
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Semileptonic Hyperon Decay - A Problem for Chiral Perturbation-Theory
Physics Letters B (1985)
JF Donoghue and BR Holstein
We study the recently computed mk2lnm2k corrections to hyperton beta decay found in chiral perturbation theory. The inclusion of these ...
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Renormalization of the Energy-Momentum Tensor And the Validity of the ...
Physical Review D (1984)
JF Donoghue, BR Holstein and RW Robinett
Using the techniques of finite-temperature field theory we renormalize the electromagnetic and gravitational couplings of an electron which is immersed ...
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DIRECT QUARK-MODEL CALCULATION OF WEAK NONLEPTONIC MATRIX-ELEMENTS
PHYSICAL REVIEW D (1984)
JF Donoghue and BR Holstein
It is shown how wave-packet techniques developed by Donoghue and Johnson may be utilized to calculate parity-violating nonleptonic hyperon decay ...
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DISPERSIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO K0-KBAR0 MIXING AND CP VIOLATION
PHYSICAL REVIEW D (1984)
JF Donoghue and BR Holstein
We consider the role of dispersive contributions in the analysis of the KL-KS system. These long-distance pieces can be present ...
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KAON DECAYS AND A DETERMINATION OF THE SCALE OF CHIRAL ...
PHYSICAL REVIEW D (1984)
JF Donoghue, Eugene Golowich and BR Holstein
Using effective chiral Lagrangians, we consider the occurrence of quadratic terms in the ΔI=1/2 K→3π matrix element. The inclusion of ...
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LIMIT ON 2ND CLASS POLAR VECTOR COUPLINGS IN SEMILEPTONIC WEAK-INTERACTIONS
PHYSICAL REVIEW C (1984)
BR Holstein
Although a great deal of experimental work has succeeded in limiting a possible second class axial coupling to about ten ...
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LONG-DISTANCE CHIRAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KL-KS MASS DIFFERENCE
PHYSICS LETTERS B (1984)
JF Donoghue, Eugene Golowich and BR Holstein
We use chiral symmetry to calculate the very long distance contributions to the KL–KS mass difference. We determine that the ...
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NUCLEAR PARITY VIOLATION 1984 - AN OPTIMISTS PERSPECTIVE
AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (1984)
BR Holstein
The present theoretical understanding of nuclear parity nonconservation is assesssed. Using the quark model to calculate weak couplings and empirical ...
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SEMICLASSICAL TREATMENT OF ABOVE-BARRIER SCATTERING
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS (1984)
BR Holstein
We show how the semiclassical approach to barrier penetration based on path integral methods may be generalized to handle the ...
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TEMPERATURE MEASURED BY A UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED OBSERVER
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS (1984)
JF Donoghue and BR Holstein
By use of elementary quantum‐mechanical arguments we demonstrate how an observer with uniform acceleration a perceives himself as immersed in ...
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Predicting the Proton Mass from Pi-Pi-Scattering Data
Physical Review Letters (1984)
JF Donoghue, E Golowich and BR Holstein
We relate experimental information on ππ scattering to tree-level effective chiral Lagrangians. The result is of a form similar to ...
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Renormalization and Radiative-Corrections at Finite Temperature
Physical Review D (1983)
JF Donoghue and BR Holstein
We discuss the renormalization prescription for fermions at finite temperature and describe the procedure for calculating radiative corrections. Novel features ...
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ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION OF T NONINVARIANCE IN NUCLEAR BETA-DECAY
PHYSICAL REVIEW C (1983)
BR Holstein
We calculate the simulation of T-violating correlations induced by final state electromagnetic interactions in nuclear beta decay. RADIOACTIVITY Nuclear beta ...
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THE EXTENDED GALILEAN TRANSFORMATION AND THE PATH INTEGRAL
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS (1983)
BR Holstein
We demonstrate how the behavior of the Schrödinger equation under the transformation, x′=x+ξ(t), t′=t, can be easily discerned within the ...
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WAVEFUNCTION RENORMALIZATION AND NUCLEAR PARITY NONCONSERVATION
PHYSICS LETTERS B (1983)
JF Donoghue and BR Holstein
It is argued that a recent calculation, which envisions a major role for a parity violating wave function renormalization term, ...
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Bound-States, Virtual States, and Non-Exponential Decay via Path-Integrals
American Journal of Physics (1983)
BR Holstein
Using path integral techniques we demonstrate how three quantum-mechanical phenomena-alpha decay, nonexponential decay, and resonant scattering-can be treated. This procedure ...
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BARRIER PENETRATION VIA PATH-INTEGRALS
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS (1982)
BR Holstein and AR SWIFT
Path integral methods are applied to the problem of barrier penetration. By an excursion into complex time it is shown ...
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BARYON MATRIX-ELEMENTS OF THE PARITY-VIOLATING WEAK HAMILTONIAN
PHYSICAL REVIEW D (1982)
Eugene Golowich and BR Holstein
Expressions are derived for baryon matrix elements of the parity-violating weak Hamiltonian away from the limit of SU(3) invariance. Their ...
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EVIDENCE FOR SU(3) BREAKING IN CABIBBO-TYPE FITS OF SEMI-LEPTONIC ...
PHYSICAL REVIEW D (1982)
JF Donoghue and BR Holstein
We analyze recent precision experiments involving semileptonic hyperon decay and demonstrate that there exists definite evidence for SU(3) breaking. The ...
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FLEXIBLE STRING IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS (1982)
BR Holstein and AR SWIFT
The relativistic transformation laws for force imply that a moving string, no matter how flexible, may exert a force perpendicular ...
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HIGGS-BOSON-EXCHANGE MODELS OF CP VIOLATION AND K-]2PI
PHYSICAL REVIEW D (1982)
JF Donoghue, JS HAGELIN and BR Holstein
Work by Deshpande and Sanda, which appears to invalidate Higgs-boson-exchange models of CP noninvariance, is buttressed by (i) use of ...
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