Pion Compton Scattering in Perturbative QCD

Pion Compton scattering is studied in perturbative QCD for real and space--like initial photons. Different methods for the convolution of the hard amplitude with the pion wave--functions, which have in the past led to conflicting results, are compared.Comment: 9 Pages (18 Figs available through ordinary mail) Late

The Bible as One Story: Images as the Holy Spirit\u27s Device for Making Scripture God\u27s Word Written

(Excerpt) My approach to scripture, you probably have guessed, is not that of someone trained by the biblical scholarship critical fellowship. I studied under them as you all did, too. I managed not to think too much about them, because I didn\u27t think much of them. When I was in seminary a number of us got together and wrote a series of four-line doggerel verses on the result of biblical criticism as we were receiving it when applied to the scriptures. I can only remember one of those stanzas: Of wilderness wanderings, there\u27d not be so many; of Abraham\u27s stories, we dare say, not any. The words of our Lord would no longer be dark, and they\u27d all be contained in six verses of Mark

e+ e- Cross Section and Exclusion of Massless Electroweak Gauginos

Measurements of the total hadronic cross section in e+e- annihilation are shown to be capable of severely limiting the possibility that gauginos have negligible tree level masses. A combined analysis of 1997 and earlier LEP data, considering simultaneously conventional SUSY signatures and purely hadronic final states, should achieve a 95% cl sensitivity to the case that the SU(2) and U(1) gauginos are massless. If integrated luminosity targets are achieved, it should also be possible to exclude the case that the wino or wino and gluino are light while the bino is heavy, except possibly for a small region of mu, tan beta. The analysis applies whether or not R-parity is conserved, and can also be used to reduce the model-dependence of conventional SUSY searches.Comment: Updated with references to new experimental limits and more detailed discussion of mixed final states. 14 pages text; 3 fig

The Bible and the Liturgical Movement: Scripture as a Voice in the Church, Not a Book Faxed to It

(Excerpt) I want to begin by telling you my own personal connection with the liturgical movement. It happened way back when I was twenty-one years old and entered seminary in 1946. Those were the bad old days when you went through high school, college, seminary, ordination, and under after that. Actually, we are recognizing they were in some ways the good old days, too, because we got a lot of service out of some of those types who started early and who maybe even learned something along the way

Tidal Disruption Flares as the Source of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays

The optical spectral energy distributions of two tidal disruption flares identified by van Velzen et al. (2011) in archival SDSS data, are found to be well-fit by a thin-accretion-disk model. Furthermore, the inferred Supermassive Black Hole mass values agree well with the SMBH masses estimated from the host galaxy properties. Integrating the model SEDs to include shorter wavelength contributions provides an estimate of the bolometric luminosities of the accretion disks. The resultant bolometric luminosities are well in excess of the minimum required for accelerating UHECR protons. In combination with the recent observational estimate of the TDF rate (van Velzen and Farrar, these Proceedings), the results presented here strengthen the case that transient jets formed in tidal disruption events may be responsible for accelerating all or most UHECRs.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, invited talk at the ESA Workshop on TIdal Disruption Events and AGN Outbursts, Madrid, June 25-27, 201