QCD string model formulated in the framework of the Field Correlator Method (FCM) in QCD is employed to calculate the masses of Σc, Ξc and recently observed at Tevatron Σb, Ξb baryons and their orbital excitations. The auxiliary field formalism allows one to write a simple local form of the effective Hamiltonian for the three quark system, which comprises both confinement and relativistic effec...

Distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) are an excellent source of energy, minerals, and bypass protein for ruminants and are used in monogastric rations as well. With the remarkable growth of the US fuel ethanol industry in the past decade, large quantities of distillers grains are now being produced. Flow of DDGS is often restricted by caking and bridging during its storage and transport...

The radiative decay ΣQ → ΛQγ can have both magnetic dipole (M1) and electric quadrupole (E2) components. In the heavy quark limit MQ → ∞ the transition arises from the spin of the light degrees of freedom changing from sl = 1 to sl = 0 and hence the E2 contribution vanishes. We compute the leading contribution to the E2 strength in chiral perturbation theory and find that the amplitude is enhan...

Fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) is a type of composite material used to provide resistance corrosion when incorporated into piles. However, there gap in knowledge terms the behaviour FRP piles under axial or lateral loading soils. Thus, aim this experimental study assess factors that influence FRPs and load sandy soil. CFRP (carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer) GFRP (glass-fibre-reinforced were test...

The gauche conformation of the 1,2-difluoroethane motif is known to involve stabilising hyperconjugative interactions between donor (bonding, σC-H) and acceptor (antibonding, σ*C-F) orbitals. This model rationalises the generic conformational preference of F-Cβ-Cα-X systems (φFCCX ≈ 60°), where X is an electron deficient substituent containing a Period 2 atom. Little is known about the correspo...

We study the strong interactions of the L = 1 orbitally excited baryons with one heavy quark in the framework of the Heavy Hadron Chiral Perturbation Theory. The most general interaction Lagrangian describing the couplings of these states among themselves and with the ground state heavy baryons contains 46 unknown couplings. We derive sum rules analogous to the AdlerWeisberger sum rule which co...

The production mechanism of multiquark exotic hadrons in high energy multiproduction processes lies the structure relevant as well some important aspects scattering, such multi-parton interactions, underlying events, etc. At mass pole around 2900 MeV, a family open charm tetraquarks, Tcss and Tcs¯s, are observed B decay. They also suitable for study to obtain more information on their structure...

We consider two stochastic processes, the Gribov process and the general epidemic process, that describe the spreading of an infectious disease. In contrast to the usually assumed case of short-range infections that lead, at the critical point, to directed and isotropic percolation respectively, we consider long-range infections with a probability distribution decaying in d dimensions with the ...