Commercial Incentives in Academia

This paper investigates the effects of monetary rewards from commercialisation on the pattern of research. We build a simple repeated model of a researcher capable to obtain innovative ideas. We analyse how academic and market incentives affect the allocation of the researcher’s time between research and development. We argue, however, that technology transfer objectives also affect the choice of research projects. Although commercialisation incentives reduce the time spent in research, they might also induce researchers to conduct research that is more basic in nature, contrary to what the “skewing problem” would presage. Monetary rewards induce a more intensive search for (ex-post) path-breaking innovations, which are more likely to be generated through (ex-ante) basic research programs. These results are shown to hold even if development delays publication

The shape of the Δ\Delta baryon in a covariant spectator quark model

Using a covariant spectator quark model that describes the recent lattice QCD data for the $\Delta$ electromagnetic form factors and all available experimental data on $\gamma N \to \Delta$ transitions, we analyze the charge and magnetic dipole distributions of the $\Delta$ baryon and discuss its shape. We conclude that the quadrupole moment of the $\Delta$ is a good indicator of the deformation and that the $\Delta^+$ charge distribution has an oblate shape. We also calculate transverse moments and find that they do not lead to unambiguous conclusions about the underlying shape.Comment: Extended introduction, references added, other small modifications. To appear in Phys. Rev. D. 14 pages, 8 figure

Nucleon Resonance Effects in pp→ppπ0pp\to pp\pi^0 near Threshold

The role of the low lying nucleon resonances beyond the $\Delta(1232)$ in the reaction $pp\to pp\pi^0$ near threshold is shown to be numerically significant by a calculation, which takes into account the pion re-scattering contribution described by chiral perturbation theory and the short-range mechanisms that are implied by the nucleon-nucleon interaction model. The intermediate N(1440) (P$_{11}$) resonance is excited by the short-range exchange mechanisms, while the N(1535) ($S_{11}$) and N(1520) ($D_{13}$) resonances are excited by $\eta$ and $\rho$ meson exchange, respectively. The $P_{11}$ increases the calculated cross section, whereas the $S_{11}$ and $D_{13}$ resonances decrease it. The calculation takes full account of the initial and final state interactions.Comment: Revised accepted versio

Off-Mass-Shell π\piN Scattering and pp→ppπ0pp \to pp \pi^0

We adapt the off-shell $\pi$N amplitude of the Tucson-Melbourne three-body force to the half-off-shell amplitude of the pion rescattering contribution to $pp \to pp \pi^0$ near threshold. This {\em pion} rescattering contribution, together with the impulse term, provides a good description of the data when the half-off-shell amplitude is linked to the phenomenological invariant amplitudes obtained from meson factory $\pi$N scattering data.Comment: 3 pages, contributed to STORRI99, Bloomington, Indiana, September 199

Can the Σ−nn\Sigma^- nn System be Bound?

Motivated by the $\Sigma$-hypernuclear states reported in ($K^-,\pi^{\pm}$) experiments, we have explored the possibility that there exists a particle-stable $\Sigma^- nn$ bound state. For the J\"ulich \~A hyperon-nucleon, realistic-force model, our calculations yield little reason to expect a positive-parity bound state in either the $J = \frac{1}{2}$ or the $J = \frac{3}{2}$ channels.Comment: 6 pages in LaTeX, 1 Figure (appended in uuencoded tar-compressed PostScript format), College of William and Mary preprint WM-94-103, LANL preprint LA-UR-94-023

Metastable States in High Order Short-Range Spin Glasses

The mean number of metastable states in higher order short-range spin glasses is estimated analytically using a variational method introduced by Tanaka and Edwards for very large coordination numbers. For lattices with small connectivities, numerical simulations do not show any significant dependence on the relative positions of the interacting spins on the lattice, indicating thus that these systems can be described by a few macroscopic parameters. As an extremely anisotropic model we consider the low autocorrelated binary spin model and we show through numerical simulations that its landscape has an exceptionally large number of local optima

A covariant constituent-quark formalism for mesons

Using the framework of the Covariant Spectator Theory (CST) [1] we are developing a covariant model formulated in Minkowski space to study mesonic structure and spectra. Treating mesons as effective $q\bar{q}$ states, we focused in [2] on the nonrelativistic bound-state problem in momentum space with a linear confining potential. Although integrable, this kernel has singularities which are difficult to handle numerically. In [2] we reformulate it into a form in which all singularities are explicitely removed. The resulting equations are then easier to solve and yield accurate and stable solutions. In the present work, the same method is applied to the relativistic case, improving upon the results of the one-channel spectator equation (1CSE) given in [3].Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, Presented at EEF70, Workshop on Unquenched Hadron Spectroscopy: Non-Perturbative Models and Methods of QCD vs. Experimen