Realistic pseudoscalar-vector chiral Lagrangian and its soliton excitations.
A reasonable low-energy chiral Lagrangian of vectors and pseudoscalars involves three a priori unknown coefficients for terms proportional to the Levi-Civita symbol epsilon/sub ..mu..//sub ..nu..//sub ..cap alpha..//sub ..beta../. We argue that these cannot, from a theoretical standpoint, be reliably determined by consideration of electromagnetic processes. Hence we use purely strong-interaction processes which enable us to determine two out of three of these. We examine the nucleon as a soliton excitation in the model and find that adjustment of the third parameter does not greatly change the, in most respects accurate, description of the nucleon obtained in a previous treatment by Meissner, Kaiser, and Weise. The paper includes a new and careful formulation of the addition of electromagnetism to the full Lagrangian.

title: LASER WELDING OF STEEL PLATES WITH UNMACHINED EDGES

title: A hamiltonian structure from gauge transformations of the Zakharov-Shabat system
abstract: We study a hamiltonian structure for nonlinear evolution equations arising from a class of gauge transformations of the Zakharov-Shabat system.

title: Beam commissioning of the PEP-II High Energy Ring
abstract: The PEP-II High Energy Ring (HER), a 9 GeV electron storage ring, has been in commissioning since spring 1997. Initial beam commissioning activities focused on systems checkout and commissioning and on determining the behaviour of the machine systems at high beam currents, This phase culminated with the accumulation of 0.75 A of stored beam-sufficient to achieve design luminosity-in January 1998 after 3.5 months of beam time. Collisions with the 3 GeV positron beam of the Low Energy Ring (LER) were achieved in Summer of 1998. At high beam currents, collective instabilities have been seen. Since then, commissioning activities for the HER have shifted in focus towards characterization of the machine and a rigorous program to understand the machine and the beam dynamics is presently underway.

title: Chandra observations of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC6503
abstract: We have observed the nearby spiral galaxy NGC6503 using Chandra. Seven discrete sources associated with the galaxy have been found, one of them coincident with its Liner-starburst nucleus. One of the sources corresponds to a ULX with Lx >~ 10e39 ergs/s. Previous ROSAT observations of the galaxy show that this source has varied by at least a factor 3 in the last 6 years. No evidence is found for strong diffuse emission in the nuclear region or the presence of a low luminosity AGN.

title: Investigating the process of star formation in young LMC star clusters
abstract: The rich star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are ideal for studying the process of star formation. Here we focus on the determination of age spreads amongst the massive stars in two young clusters, NGC1818 and NGC1805. We present colour magnitude diagrams (derived from HST data) for these clusters, and discuss the difficulties in age spread determination.

title: A new collider upgrade proposal: Increasing the pbar-p collider energy

title: Conformal field theory of a rotating dyon.
abstract: A conformal field theory representing a four-dimensional classical solution of heterotic string theory is presented. The low-energy limit of this solution has U(1) electric and magnetic charges, and also nontrivial axion and dilaton fields. The low-energy metric contains mass, NUT, and rotation parameters. We demonstrate that this solution corresponds to part of an extremal limit of the Kerr-Taub-NUT dyon solution. This limit displays interesting ``remnant'' behavior in that asymptotically far away from the dyon the angular momentum vanishes, but far down the infinite throat in the neighborhood of the horizon (described by our CFT) there is a nonzero angular velocity. A further natural generalization of the CFT to include an additional parameter is presented, but the full physical interpretation of its role in the resulting low energy solution is unclear.

title: Driven response of a trapped particle beam.
abstract: The dynamics of a metastable beam of particles injected'' into artificially excited resonance islands in the Fermilab Tevatron is studied. Evolution of the captured beam distribution is measured by an externally detectable coherent signal. Dynamical partitions observed in the control space of amplitude and tune of a focusing modulation are consistent with an equivalent mode of an ensemble of driven gravity pendula. The model's single parameter, the island tune {ital Q}{sub {ital I}} of small oscillations, is inferred as the central frequency of resonant detrapping under this weak drive.

title: Massive hadron pair production by 800 GeV/c protons on nuclear targets.
abstract: We report data on proton-nucleon collisions obtained on Fermilab experiment E711, in which high transverse momentum hadrons are produced near 90[degree] in the proton-nucleon center of mass forming high mass states, using an 800 GeV/[ital c] proton beam on targets of beryllium, aluminum, iron, and tungsten. The data presented cover the mass range from 7 to 15 GeV/[ital c][sup 2], the three dihadron charge states ++, +[minus], and [minus][minus], and parton-parton scattering angles up to cos[theta][sup *]=0.50. We present the differential mass dihadron cross section, as well as the angular and charge dependence of the measurement. The cross section as a function of the parton-parton scattering angle for the three charge states is shown to vary linearly with the value of the atomic weight. While the angular distributions are shown to be independent of the target type, a small dependence on the charge state of the distributions is observed. The data are shown to be in good agreement with extrapolations from previous measurements and phenomenological QCD calculations.

title: Energy dependence of pion inelastic scattering to the 1(+) states in 12C.
abstract: The energy dependence of cross sections for inelastic pion scattering to the /Delta/ = /Delta/ = /Delta/ = 1 transition at 15.11 MeV in /sup 12/C is found to map very closely the /Delta/ = /Delta/ = /Delta/+1 /pi/-nucleon scattering cross sections at beam energies from 50 to 295 MeV. This free /pi/-nucleon energy dependence is due to the prominent /Delta/sub 3/2,3/2/ resonance, corresponding to the first excited nucleon state, which is mirrored in the /pi/-nucleus system with little alteration.