Spontaneous reheating of crystallizing lava

Crystallizing Application Configurations

©Ken (Zanqing) Zhang 2006 ii I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. iii Abstract Software applications have both static and dynamic dependencies. Static dependencies are those derived from the ...

Chaotic Reheating

We discuss the structure of parametric resonance which occurs in the process of reheating after inflation with two interacting scalar fields. It is found that, for the case of a not too large coupling constant, a quasi-homogeneous part of the second, initially subdominant scalar field may not be neglected due to its stochastic growth during inflation. This fact has strong consequences for the r...

Zero Growth Temperature of Crystallizing Polyethylene

Effects of reheating on leptogenesis

We study the evolution of a cosmological baryon asymmetry in leptogenesis when the right-handed neutrinos are produced in inflaton decays. By performing a detailed numerical study over a broad range of inflaton-neutrino couplings we show that the resulting asymmetry can be larger by two orders of magnitude or more than in thermal leptogenesis, if the reheating temperature TRH is of the same ord...

Crystallizing ideas about Parkinson's disease.

G enetic forms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are useful in helping us to understand the underlying pathophysiology of this disorder in both its rare familial forms and the more common ‘‘sporadic’’ type. Three genes are unambiguously causal in different PD families: -synuclein, parkin, and DJ-1 (reviewed in ref. 1). Two recessive mutations have been found in DJ-1, a large deletion and an L166P poi...