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The atomic electric dipole moment induced by the nuclear electric dipole moment; the magnetic moment effect
We have considered a mechanism for inducing a time-reversal violating
electric dipole moment (EDM) in atoms through the interaction of a nuclear EDM
(d_N) with the hyperfine interaction, the "magnetic moment effect". We have
derived the operator for this interaction and presented analytical formulas for
the matrix elements between atomic states. Induced EDMs in the diamagnetic
atoms 129Xe, 171Yb, 199Hg, 211Rn, and 225Ra have been calculated numerically.
From the experimental limits on the atomic EDMs of 129Xe and 199Hg, we have
placed the following constraints on the nuclear EDMs, |d_N(129Xe)|< 1.1 *
10^{-21} |e|cm and |d_N(199Hg)|< 2.8 * 10^{-24} |e|cm.Comment: 8 pages 1) Some typos are corrected. 2) A comparison of contributions
to the atomic EDM due to the nuclear EDM and the nuclear Schiff moment is
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Schiff moment of the Mercury nucleus and the proton dipole moment
We calculated the contribution of internal nucleon electric dipole moments to
the Schiff moment of Hg. The contribution of the proton electric dipole
moment was obtained via core polarization effects that were treated in the
framework of random phase approximation with effective residual forces. We
derived a new upper bound cm of the proton
electric dipole moment.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, RevTex
SUSY Phases, the Electron Electric Dipole Moment and the Muon Magnetic Moment
The electron electric dipole moment (d_e) and the muon magnetic moment
anomaly (a_{\mu}) recently observed at BNL are analyzed within the framework of
SUGRA models with CP violating phases at the GUT scale. It is seen analytically
that even if d_e were zero, there can be a large Bino mass phase (ranging from
0 to 2 \pi) with a corresponding large B soft breaking mass phase (of size ~<
0.5 with sign fixed by the experimental sign of a_{\mu}). The dependence of the
B phase on the other SUSY parameters, gaugino mass m_{1/2}, \tan \beta, A_0, is
examined. The lower bound of a_{\mu} determines the upper bound of m_{1/2}. It
is shown analytically how the existence of a non-zero Bino phase reduces this
upper bound (which would correspondingly lower the SUSY mass spectra). The
experimental upper bound on d_e determines the range of allowed phases, and the
question of whether the current bound on d_e requires any fine tuning is
investigated. At the electroweak scale, the phases have to be specified to
within a few percent. At the GUT scale, however, the B phase requires fine
tuning below the 1% level over parts of the parameter space for low m_{1/2},
and if the current experimental bound on d_e were reduced by only a factor of
3-4, fine tuning below 1% would occur at both the electroweak and GUT scale
over large regions of the parameter space. All accelerator constraints (m_h >
114 GeV, b -> s \gamma, etc.) and relic density constraints with all
stau-neutralino co-annihilation processes are included in the analysis.Comment: 22 pages, latex, 14 figure
The cultural economy moment?
This paper explores the rise of cultural economy as a key organising concept over the 2000s. While it has intellectual precursors in political economy, sociology and postmodernism, it has been work undertaken in the fields of cultural economic geography, creative industries, the culture of service industries and cultural policy where it has come to the forefront, particularly around whether we are now in a ‘creative economy’. While work undertaken in cultural studies has contributed to these developments, the development of neo-liberalism as a meta-concept in critical theory constitutes a substantive barrier to more sustained engagement between cultural studies and economics, as it rests upon a caricature of economic discourse. The paper draws upon Michel Foucault’s lectures on neo-liberalism to indicate that there are significant problems with the neo-Marxist account hat became hegemonic over the 2000s. The paper concludes by identifying areas such as the value of information, the value of networks, motivations for participation in online social networks, and the impact of business cycles on cultural sectors as areas of potentially fruitful inter-disciplinary engagement around the nature of cultural economy
The telling moment: Narrative as a discursive act.
As a work of interdisciplinary dialogue, Mary Jean Walker (2012) successfully straddles the fields of neuro- and cognitive science and social psychology in addressing key questions on the role, value and truth claims of narrative as a mode of self-understanding. However, in the context of neuroethical debate her article raises a set of parallel conceptual and epistemological concerns which confuse and conflate what it is to tell stories. I suggest that Walker’s perspective is philosophically limited in that she does not explicitly acknowledge narrative as a discursive activity. In this, Walker is not alone – the neuro- and cognitive sciences frequently make assumptions about what narrative is and what it is not. This is significant because a theory of narrative which is blind to narrative as a discursive activity risks diminishing important social contexts involved in the construction of human self-understanding and truth. One of the most striking features of the disciplinary border-crossings which have resulted in narrative gaining conceptual prominence in fields such as psychology and neuroscience is the degree to which the term narrative is left undefined, or the degree to which it is conflated with prediscursive structures of action, experience or underlying neurobiological or cognitive substrate capable of being read in the same way we read narrative texts (Bamberg, 2006). While Walker acknowledges that narrative is interpretive, selective, relational and contextual, she subordinates the very object of narration itself – social discourse – to the neuropsychological structures and processes which underlie it
Spin/orbit moment imbalance in the near-zero moment ferromagnetic semiconductor SmN
SmN is ferromagnetic below 27 K, and its net magnetic moment of 0.03 Bohr
magnetons per formula unit is one of the smallest magnetisations found in any
ferromagnetic material. The near-zero moment is a result of the nearly equal
and opposing spin and orbital moments in the 6H5/2 ground state of the Sm3+
ion, which leads finally to a nearly complete cancellation for an ion in the
SmN ferromagnetic state. Here we explore the spin alignment in this compound
with X-ray magnetic circular dichroism at the Sm L2,3 edges. The spectral
shapes are in qualitative agreement with computed spectra based on an LSDA+U
(local spin density approximation with Hubbard-U corrections) band structure,
though there remain differences in detail which we associate with the anomalous
branching ratio in rare-earth L edges. The sign of the spectra determine that
in a magnetic field the Sm 4f spin moment aligns antiparallel to the field; the
very small residual moment in ferromagnetic SmN aligns with the 4f orbital
moment and antiparallel to the spin moment. Further measurements on very thin
(1.5 nm) SmN layers embedded in GdN show the opposite alignment due to a strong
Gd-Sm exchange, suggesting that the SmN moment might be further reduced by
about 0.5 % Gd substitution
Manassas: Heat of the Moment
Before I go any further, I need to make something clear: they tried. Oh, they tried so hard. The deck was stacked against them and they gave it the old Harvard try. Heat, a weekday and more... They tried so valiantly. But they came up short. [excerpt
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