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Gamma-rays from cascades in close massive binaries containing energetic pulsars
Some massive binaries should contain energetic pulsars which inject
relativistic leptons from their inner magnetospheres and/or pulsar wind
regions. If the binary system is compact enough, then these leptons can
initiate inverse Compton (IC) pair cascades in the anisotropic
radiation field of a massive star. -rays can be produced in the IC
cascade during its development in a pulsar wind region and above a shock in a
massive star wind region where the propagation of leptons is determined by the
structure of a magnetic field around the massive star. For a binary system with
specific parametres, we calculate phase dependent spectra and fluxes of
-rays escaping as a function of the inclination angle of the system and
for different assumptions on injection conditions of the primary leptons (their
initial spectra and location of the shock inside the binary). We conclude that
the features of -ray emission from such massive binaries containing
energetic pulsars should allow to obtain important information on the
acceleration of particles by the pulsars, and on interactions of a compact
object with the massive star wind. Predicted -ray light curves and
spectra in the GeV and TeV energy ranges from such binary systems within our
Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds should be observed by future AGILE and GLAST
satellites and low threshold Cherenkov telescopes such as MAGIC, HESS, VERITAS
or CANGAROO III.Comment: 17 pages, 14 figures, MNRAS, accepte
Experiments on wave turbulence : the evolution and growth of second sound acoustic turbulence in superfluid 4He confirm self-similarity.
We report our experiments on the formation of second sound acoustic turbulence in superfluid 4He. The initial growth in spectral amplitude follows power laws that steepen rapidly with increasing harmonic number n, corresponding to a propagating front in frequency space. The lower growth exponents agree well with analytic predictions and numerical modeling. The observed increase in the formation delay with n validates the concept of selfsimilarity in the growth of wave turbulence
Causality Violations in Cascade Models of Nuclear Collisions
Transport models have successfully described many aspects of intermediate
energy heavy-ion collision dynamics. As the energies increase in these models
to the ultrarelativistic regime, Lorentz covariance and causality are not
strictly respected. The standard argument is that such effects are not
important to final results; but they have not been seriously considered at high
energies. We point out how and why these happen, how serious of a problem they
may be and suggest ways of reducing or eliminating the undesirable effects.Comment: RevTeX, 23 pages, 9 (uuencoded) figures; to appear in Phys. Rev
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