501 research outputs found
Influence of the High-Temperature Annealing on the Structure and Mechanical Properties of Vacuum–Arc Coatings from Mo/(Ti + 6 wt % Si)N
Scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive element microanalysis, X-ray structural
analysis, and microindentation were used to study the effect of the deposition conditions in a reactive
nitrogen atmosphere on the growth morphology, phase composition, structure, and microhardness of vacuum–arc multilayer coatings produced by the evaporation of cathodes from Mo and (Ti + 6 wt % Si) both
after their deposition and after high?temperature annealing. It has been established that the use of the
composite cathode of Ti and Si allows the formation of the structure state inclined to ordering to form a
two-phase compound from TiN and Ti5Si3 at high-temperature annealing. In this case the coating hard?
ness increases to a value higher than 45 GPa
Present status of IGEX dark matter search at Canfranc Underground Laboratory
One IGEX 76Ge double-beta decay detector is currently operating in the
Canfranc Underground Laboratory in a search for dark matter WIMPs, through the
Ge nuclear recoil produced by the WIMP elastic scattering. A new exclusion plot
has been derived for WIMP-nucleon spin-independent interactions. To obtain this
result, 40 days of data from the IGEX detector (energy threshold 4 keV),
recently collected, have been analyzed. These data improve the exclusion limits
derived from all the other ionization germanium detectors in the mass region
from 20 GeV to 200 GeV, where a WIMP supposedly responsible for the annual
modulation effect reported by the DAMA experiment would be located. The new
IGEX exclusion contour enters, by the first time, the DAMA region by using only
raw data, with no background discrimination, and excludes its upper left part.
It is also shown that with a moderate improvement of the detector performances,
the DAMA region could be fully explored.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, talk delivered at the 7th International Workshop
on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2001), September
2001, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy (to appear in the Conference
Proceedings, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)
Improved constraints on WIMPs from the International Germanium Experiment IGEX
One IGEX 76Ge double-beta decay detector is currently operating in the
Canfranc Underground Laboratory in a search for dark matter WIMPs, through the
Ge nuclear recoil produced by the WIMP elastic scattering. A new exclusion
plot, has been derived for WIMP-nucleon spin-independent interactions. To
obtain this result, 40 days of data from the IGEX detector (energy threshold E
\~ 4 keV), recently collected, have been analyzed. These data improve the
exclusion limits derived from all the other ionization germanium detectors in
the mass region from 20 GeV to 200 GeV, where a WIMP supposedly responsible for
the annual modulation effect reported by the DAMA experiment would be located.
The new IGEX exclusion contour enters, by the first time, the DAMA region by
using only raw data, with no background discrimination, and excludes its upper
left part. It is also shown that with a moderate improvement of the detector
performances, the DAMA region could be fully explored.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Physics Letters B (revised version
after referee's comments, some figures added
New constraints on WIMPs from the Canfranc IGEX dark matter search
The IGEX Collaboration enriched 76Ge double-beta decay detectors are
currently operating in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory with an overburden
of 2450 m.w.e. A recent upgrade has made it possible to use them in a search
for WIMPs. A new exclusion plot has been derived for WIMP-nucleon
spin-independent interaction. To obtain this result, 30 days of data from one
IGEX detector, which has an energy threshold of ~4 keV, have been considered.
These data improve the exclusion limits derived from other germanium diode
experiments in the ~50 GeV DAMA region, and show that with a moderate
improvement of the background below 10 keV, the DAMA region may be tested with
an additional 1 kg-year of exposure.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Physics Letter
Pulse Shape Discrimination in the IGEX Experiment
The IGEX experiment has been operating enriched germanium detectors in the
Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spain) in a search for the neutrinoless double
decay of 76Ge. The implementation of Pulse Shape Discrimination techniques to
reduce the radioactive background is described in detail. This analysis has
been applied to a fraction of the IGEX data, leading to a rejection of ~60 % of
their background, in the region of interest (from 2 to 2.5 MeV), down to ~0.09
c/(keV kg y).Comment: 18 pages, 10 figure
Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking by a magnetic field and multi-quark interactions
Catalysis of dynamical symmetry breaking by a constant magnetic field in
(3+1) dimensions is considered. We use the three flavour Nambu -- Jona-Lasinio
type model with 't Hooft and eight-quark interaction terms. It is shown that
the multi-quark interactions introduce new additional features to this
phenomenon: (a) the local minimum of the effective potential catalyzed by the
constant magnetic field is smoothed out with increasing strength of the field
at the characteristic scale H~10^{19} G, (b) the multi-quark forces generate
independently another local minimum associated with a larger dynamical fermion
mass. This state may exist even for multi-quark interactions with a subcritical
set of couplings, and is globally stable with respect to a further increase of
the magnetic field.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, added discussion and references, version to
appear in Phys.Lett.
Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in Spaces with Constant Negative Curvature
By using the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, we study dynamical symmetry breaking
in spaces with constant negative curvature. We show that the physical reason
for zero value of critical coupling value in these spaces is
connected with the effective reduction of dimension of spacetime in the infrared region, which takes place for any dimension . Since
the Laplace-Beltrami operator has a gap in spaces with constant negative
curvature, such an effective reduction for scalar fields is absent and there
are not problems with radiative corrections due to scalar fields. Therefore,
dynamical symmetry breaking with the effective reduction of the dimension of
spacetime for fermions in the infrared region is consistent with the
Mermin-Wagner-Coleman theorem, which forbids spontaneous symmetry breaking in
(1 + 1)-dimensional spacetime.Comment: minor text changes, added new reference
Electromagnetic superconductivity of vacuum induced by strong magnetic field
The quantum vacuum may become an electromagnetic superconductor in the
presence of a strong external magnetic field of the order of 10^{16} Tesla. The
magnetic field of the required strength (and even stronger) is expected to be
generated for a short time in ultraperipheral collisions of heavy ions at the
Large Hadron Collider. The superconducting properties of the new phase appear
as a result of a magnetic-field-assisted condensation of quark-antiquark pairs
with quantum numbers of electrically charged rho mesons. We discuss
similarities and differences between the suggested superconducting state of the
quantum vacuum, a conventional superconductivity and the Schwinger pair
creation. We argue qualitatively and quantitatively why the superconducting
state should be a natural ground state of the vacuum at the sufficiently strong
magnetic field. We demonstrate the existence of the superconducting phase using
both the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and an effective bosonic model based on the
vector meson dominance (the rho-meson electrodynamics). We discuss various
properties of the new phase such as absence of the Meissner effect, anisotropy
of superconductivity, spatial inhomogeneity of ground state, emergence of a
neutral superfluid component in the ground state and presence of new
topological vortices in the quark-antiquark condensates.Comment: 37 pages, 14 figures, to appear in Lect. Notes Phys. "Strongly
interacting matter in magnetic fields" (Springer), edited by D. Kharzeev, K.
Landsteiner, A. Schmitt, H.-U. Ye
High Precision Mass Measurements in and Families Revisited
High precision mass measurements in and families performed
in 1980-1984 at the VEPP-4 collider with OLYA and MD-1 detectors are revisited.
The corrections for the new value of the electron mass are presented. The
effect of the updated radiative corrections has been calculated for the
and mass measurements.Comment: 5 pages, 1 table, submitted to Phys. Lett.
Magnetism in Dense Quark Matter
We review the mechanisms via which an external magnetic field can affect the
ground state of cold and dense quark matter. In the absence of a magnetic
field, at asymptotically high densities, cold quark matter is in the
Color-Flavor-Locked (CFL) phase of color superconductivity characterized by
three scales: the superconducting gap, the gluon Meissner mass, and the
baryonic chemical potential. When an applied magnetic field becomes comparable
with each of these scales, new phases and/or condensates may emerge. They
include the magnetic CFL (MCFL) phase that becomes relevant for fields of the
order of the gap scale; the paramagnetic CFL, important when the field is of
the order of the Meissner mass, and a spin-one condensate associated to the
magnetic moment of the Cooper pairs, significant at fields of the order of the
chemical potential. We discuss the equation of state (EoS) of MCFL matter for a
large range of field values and consider possible applications of the magnetic
effects on dense quark matter to the astrophysics of compact stars.Comment: To appear in Lect. Notes Phys. "Strongly interacting matter in
magnetic fields" (Springer), edited by D. Kharzeev, K. Landsteiner, A.
Schmitt, H.-U. Ye
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