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Few-body decay and recombination in nuclear astrophysics
Three-body continuum problems are investigated for light nuclei of
astrophysical relevance. We focus on three-body decays of resonances or
recombination via resonances or the continuum background. The concepts of
widths, decay mechanisms and dynamic evolution are discussed. We also discuss
results for the triple decay in connection with resonances and
density and temperature dependence rates of recombination into light nuclei
from -particles and neutrons.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures. Proceedings of the 21st European Few Body
Conference held in Salamanca (Spain) in August-September 201
Diisopropylamide and TMP turbo-grignard reagents : a structural rationale for their contrasting reactivities
A neutral dimeric molecule in crystal form, the diisopropylamido turbo-Grignard reagent "(iPr2N)MgCl⋅LiCl" (see structure; blue N, red O, green Mg, yellow Cl, black C) separates into several charged ate species in dynamic exchange with each other in THF solution as determined by a combination of EXSY and DOSY NMR studies
Momentum distributions of -particles from decaying low-lying C-resonances
The complex scaled hyperspherical adiabatic expansion method is used to
compute momentum and energy distributions of the three -particles
emerging from the decay of low-lying C-resonances. The large distance
continuum properties of the wave functions are crucial and must be accurately
calculated. We discuss separately decays of natural parity states: two ,
one , three , one , two , one , and one of each of
unnatural parity, , , , . The lowest natural parity state
of each decays predominantly sequentially via the Be ground
state whereas other states including unnatural parity states predominantly
decay directly to the continuum. We present Dalitz plots and systematic
detailed momentum correlations of the emerging -particles.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review
Effect of deformation on two-neutrino double beta decay matrix elements
We study the effect of deformation on the two-neutrino double beta decay for
ground state to ground state transitions in all the nuclei whose half-lives
have been measured. Our theoretical framework is a deformed QRPA based in
Woods-Saxon or Hartree-Fock mean fields. We are able to reproduce at the same
time the main characteristics of the two single beta branches, as well as the
double beta matrix elements. We find a suppression of the double beta matrix
element with respect to the spherical case when the parent and daughter nuclei
have different deformations
Direct and sequential radiative three-body reaction rates at low temperatures
We investigate the low-temperature reaction rates for radiative capture
processes of three particles. We compare direct and sequential capture
mechanisms and rates using realistic phenomenological parametrizations of the
corresponding photodissociation cross sections.Energy conservation prohibits
sequential capture for energies smaller than that of the intermediate two-body
structure. A finite width or a finite temperature allows this capture
mechanism. We study generic effects of positions and widths of two- and
three-body resonances for very low temperatures. We focus on nuclear reactions
relevant for astrophysics, and we illustrate with realistic estimates for the
-- and -- radiative capture
processes. The direct capture mechanism leads to reaction rates which for
temperatures smaller than 0.1 GK can be several orders of magnitude larger than
those of the NACRE compilation.Comment: To be published in European Physical Journal
Three-body decays: structure, decay mechanism and fragment properties
We discuss the three-body decay mechanisms of many-body resonances. R-matrix
sequential description is compared with full Faddeev computation. The role of
the angular momentum and boson symmetries is also studied. As an illustration
we show the computed -particle energy distribution after the decay of
12C(1^+) resonance at 12.7 MeV.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the workshop "Critical Stability
of Few-Body Quantum Systems" 200
-Classical orthogonal polynomials: A general difference calculus approach
It is well known that the classical families of orthogonal polynomials are
characterized as eigenfunctions of a second order linear
differential/difference operator. In this paper we present a study of classical
orthogonal polynomials in a more general context by using the differential (or
difference) calculus and Operator Theory. In such a way we obtain a unified
representation of them. Furthermore, some well known results related to the
Rodrigues operator are deduced. A more general characterization Theorem that
the one given in [1] and [2] for the q-polynomials of the q-Askey and Hahn
Tableaux, respectively, is established. Finally, the families of Askey-Wilson
polynomials, q-Racah polynomials, Al-Salam & Carlitz I and II, and q-Meixner
are considered.
[1] R. Alvarez-Nodarse. On characterization of classical polynomials. J.
Comput. Appl. Math., 196:320{337, 2006. [2] M. Alfaro and R. Alvarez-Nodarse. A
characterization of the classical orthogonal discrete and q-polynomials. J.
Comput. Appl. Math., 2006. In press.Comment: 18 page
Nuclear shape dependence of Gamow-Teller distributions in neutron-deficient Pb isotopes
We study Gamow-Teller strength distributions in the neutron-deficient even
isotopes (184-194)Pb in a search for signatures of deformation. The microscopic
formalism used is based on a deformed quasiparticle random phase approximation
(QRPA) approach, which involves a self-consistent quasiparticle deformed Skyrme
Hartree-Fock (HF) basis and residual spin-isospin forces in both the
particle-hole and particle-particle channels. By analyzing the sensitivity of
the Gamow-Teller strength distributions to the various ingredients in the
formalism, we conclude that the beta-decay of these isotopes could be a useful
tool to look for fingerprints of nuclear deformation.Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures. To be published in Physical Review
Agronomic, economic and ecological aspects of the papaya (Carica papaya) production in Tabasco, Mexico
The cultivation of papaya is important in the tropic because it provides source of income to the farmer within a short time. Statistical data were obtained from farmers located in the Chontalpa, Rios and Centro-Sierra regions; the size of the survey was 67 farmers. The study shows the results of the farmers’ problem in a drastic reduction of their productivity because of the virosis and low prices in commercialization. The farmers were classified into three levels of technology, “low”, “middle” and “high”. The first one covers 88% of the farmers in seasonal conditions in contrast with the high technology that concentrates 4.5% in irrigation conditions. According to the technology used, the fertilizer shows more yields. Economically, the high technology had an internal tax return of 0.43 in comparison with the low technology of 0.25, which means that the investment is recovered with different yields. However, the use of high technology makes the system more competitive. Key words
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