A Gated TIMS FTICR MS Instrument to Decipher Isomeric Content of Complex Organic Mixtures.

Modern research faces increasingly complex materials with a constant need for new analytical strategies that can provide deeper levels of chemical insight. Ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry (MS), particularly Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR) MS, has provided a robust analytical foundation. However, MS alone offers limited structural information.

Parity-violating nucleon-nucleon force in the 1/N(c) expansion.

Several experimental investigations have observed parity violation (PV) in nuclear systems-a consequence of the weak force between quarks. We apply the 1/N(c) expansion of QCD to the P-violating T-conserving component of the nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential. We show there are two leading-order operators, both of which affect p[over →]p scattering at order N(c).

Quark forces from hadronic spectroscopy.

We consider the implications of the most general two-body quark-quark interaction Hamiltonian for the spin-flavor structure of the negative parity L = 1 excited baryons. Assuming the most general two-body quark interaction Hamiltonian, we derive two correlations among the masses and mixing angles of these states, which constrain the mixing angles, and can be used to test for the presence of three-body quark interactions. We find that the pure gluon-exchange model is disfavored by data, independently of any assumptions about hadronic wave functions.

Masses of the 70(-) baryons in large N(c) QCD.

The masses of the negative parity 70-plet baryons are analyzed in large N(c) QCD to order 1/N(c) and to first order in SU(3) symmetry breaking. The existing experimental data are well reproduced and 20 new observables are predicted. The leading order SU(6) spin-flavor symmetry breaking is small and, as it occurs in the quark model, the subleading in 1/N(c) hyperfine interaction is the dominant source of the breaking.

An exact analytical solution of a three-component model for competitive coexistence.

A three-component competition system is modeled as a reaction-diffusion process. An exact analytical solution has been found that indicates that in certain situations the classical results on extinction and coexistence of Lotka-Volterra-type equations are no longer valid. Cases with one or both predators diffuse are analyzed, and the stability question is discussed.