A note on low energy scattering for homogeneous long range potentials

We explicitly calculate the scattering matrix at energy zero for attractive, radial and homogeneous long-range potentials. This proves a conjecture by Derezinski and Skibsted.Comment: 3 page

Future Summary

We are emerging from a period of consolidation in particle physics. Its great, historic achievement was to establish the Theory of Matter. This Theory will serve as our description of ordinary matter under ordinary conditions -- allowing for an extremely liberal definition of "ordinary -- for the foreseeable future. Yet there are many indications, ranging from the numerical to the semi-mystical, that a new fertile period lies before us. We will discover compelling evidence for the unification of fundamental forces and for new quantum dimensions (low-energy supersymmetry). We will identify new forms of matter, which dominate the mass density of the Universe. We will achieve much better fundamental understanding of the behavior of matter in extreme astrophysical and cosmological environments. Lying beyond these expectations, we can identify deep questions that seem to call for ideas outside our present grasp. And there's still plenty of room for surprises.Comment: 25 pages, 13 EPS figures, LaTeX with BoxedEPS macros. Closing talk delivered at the LEPfest, CERN, October 11, 2000. Email correspondence to [email protected]

Dot patterns provide reproducible flaw areas for study of adhesive bonds

Photographic production of a small-dot pattern of known geometry on the surface of a substrate for controlled area degradation enables a study of adhesive bond strengths. These dot patterns may also be applied to force-limiting devices which must depend on the adhesive bonding strength between mating surfaces

Several comments concerning a recently proposed magnetospheric model

Magnetospheric model for dynamic plasma flows in polar magnetospher

Computer vision research at Marshall Space Flight Center

Orbital docking, inspection, and sevicing are operations which have the potential for capability enhancement as well as cost reduction for space operations by the application of computer vision technology. Research at MSFC has been a natural outgrowth of orbital docking simulations for remote manually controlled vehicles such as the Teleoperator Retrieval System and the Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV). Baseline design of the OMV dictates teleoperator control from a ground station. This necessitates a high data-rate communication network and results in several seconds of time delay. Operational costs and vehicle control difficulties could be alleviated by an autonomous or semi-autonomous control system onboard the OMV which would be based on a computer vision system having capability to recognize video images in real time. A concept under development at MSFC with these attributes is based on syntactic pattern recognition. It uses tree graphs for rapid recognition of binary images of known orbiting target vehicles. This technique and others being investigated at MSFC will be evaluated in realistic conditions by the use of MSFC orbital docking simulators. Computer vision is also being applied at MSFC as part of the supporting development for Work Package One of Space Station Freedom

On the relationship of the plasma sheet, ring current, trapping boundary and plasmapause near the magnetic equator and local midnight Progress report

Satellite-borne observation of plasma sheet, ring current, trapping boundary, and plasmapause properties near magnetic equator and local midnigh