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Light Gluinos and the Longitudinal Structure Function
The leading effect of light gluinos on the deep inelastic longitudinal
structure function is calculated. We present the explicit analitic expression
for the Wilson coefficient. After convolution with quark, gluon and gluino
distributions we found that the size of the contribution is of order a few
percent of the total . Some phenomenological implications for HERA and
LEP/LHC are given.Comment: Latex 8 pages, 4 figures available on request, preprint UCI-TR/94-
Ambivalence of the anisotropy of the vortex lattice in an anisotropic type-II superconductor
We present a geometry-based discussion of possible vortex configurations in
the mixed state of anisotropic type-II superconductors. It is shown that, if
energy considerations assign six nearest neighbors to each vortex, two distinct
modifications of the vortex lattice are possible. It is expected that certain
conditions lead to a first order phase transition from one modification of the
vortex lattice to the other upon varying the external magnetic field.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figure
Closed Abrikosov Vortices in a Superconducting Cylinder
The new type of solutions of the London equation for type-II superconductors
is obtained to describe the ring-shaped (toroidal) Abrikosov vortices. The
specific feature of these solutions is the self-consistent localization of both
the supercurrent and the magnetic field, enabling one to construct compact
magnetic structures inside a superconductor. The torus vortex contraction
caused by the vortex instability leads to the destruction of the Cooper pairing
and the formation of a normal electron stream in the vicinity of the torus
axis. The thermodynamic condition for the excitation of a small closed vortex
by a bunch of charged particles contains the fine-structure constant as a
determining parameter.Comment: LaTex using revtex, 12 pages. 5 Figures available upon request from
[email protected] Accepted for publication in Physica
Phosphorus cluster production by laser ablation
Neutral and charged phosphorus clusters of a wide size range have been produced by pulsed laser ablation (PLA) in vacuum at 532, 337, and 193 nm ablating wavelengths and investigated by time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The neutral P_n clusters are even-numbered with local abundance maxima at n = 10 and 14, while the cationic and anionic clusters are preferentially odd-numbered with (P_7)+, (P_21)+, and (P_17)- being the most abundant ions. The dominance of the magic clusters is more pronounced at 337-nm ablation that is explained by efficient direct ejection of their building blocks under these conditions. Nanocrystalline phosphorus films have been produced by PLA in ambient helium gas
Vortex loops entry into type--II superconductors
The magnetic field distribution, the magnetic flux, and the free energy of an
Abrikosov vortex loop near a flat surface of type--II superconductors are
calculated in the London approximation. The shape of such a vortex line is a
semicircle of arbitrary radius. The interaction of the vortex half--ring and an
external homogeneous magnetic field applied along the surface is studied. The
magnitude of the energy barrier against the vortex expansion into
superconductor is found. The possibilities of formation of an equilibrium
vortex line determined by the structure of the applied magnetic field by
creating the expanding vortex loops near the surface of type--II superconductor
are discussed.Comment: LaTeX file ( 22 pages & 7 figures ); the required TeX style file
"bezier.sty" is attached; accepted for publication in Physica
Identification of Boundary Conditions Using Natural Frequencies
The present investigation concerns a disc of varying thickness of whose
flexural stiffness varies with the radius according to the law , where and are constants. The problem of finding boundary
conditions for fastening this disc, which are inaccessible to direct
observation, from the natural frequencies of its axisymmetric flexural
oscillations is considered. The problem in question belongs to the class of
inverse problems and is a completely natural problem of identification of
boundary conditions. The search for the unknown conditions for fastening the
disc is equivalent to finding the span of the vectors of unknown conditions
coefficients. It is shown that this inverse problem is well posed. Two theorems
on the uniqueness and a theorem on stability of the solution of this problem
are proved, and a method for establishing the unknown conditions for fastening
the disc to the walls is indicated. An approximate formula for determining the
unknown conditions is obtained using first three natural frequencies. The
method of approximate calculation of unknown boundary conditions is explained
with the help of three examples of different cases for the fastening the disc
(rigid clamping, free support, elastic fixing).
Keywords: Boundary conditions, a disc of varying thickness,inverse problem,
Plucker condition.Comment: 19 page
On the role of the magnetic dipolar interaction in cold and ultracold collisions: Numerical and analytical results for NH() + NH()
We present a detailed analysis of the role of the magnetic dipole-dipole
interaction in cold and ultracold collisions. We focus on collisions between
magnetically trapped NH molecules, but the theory is general for any two
paramagnetic species for which the electronic spin and its space-fixed
projection are (approximately) good quantum numbers. It is shown that dipolar
spin relaxation is directly associated with magnetic-dipole induced avoided
crossings that occur between different adiabatic potential curves. For a given
collision energy and magnetic field strength, the cross-section contributions
from different scattering channels depend strongly on whether or not the
corresponding avoided crossings are energetically accessible. We find that the
crossings become lower in energy as the magnetic field decreases, so that
higher partial-wave scattering becomes increasingly important \textit{below} a
certain magnetic field strength. In addition, we derive analytical
cross-section expressions for dipolar spin relaxation based on the Born
approximation and distorted-wave Born approximation. The validity regions of
these analytical expressions are determined by comparison with the NH + NH
cross sections obtained from full coupled-channel calculations. We find that
the Born approximation is accurate over a wide range of energies and field
strengths, but breaks down at high energies and high magnetic fields. The
analytical distorted-wave Born approximation gives more accurate results in the
case of s-wave scattering, but shows some significant discrepancies for the
higher partial-wave channels. We thus conclude that the Born approximation
gives generally more meaningful results than the distorted-wave Born
approximation at the collision energies and fields considered in this work.Comment: Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. D for publication in Special Issue on Cold
Quantum Matter - Achievements and Prospects (2011
Andreev reflections in the pseudogap state of cuprate supercondcutors
We propose that, if the pseudogap state in the cuprate superconductors can be
described in terms of the phase-incoherent preformed pairs, there should exist
Andreev reflection from these pairs even above the superconducting transition
temperature, . After giving qualitative arguments for this effect, we
present more quantitative calculations based on the Bogoliubov--de Gennes
equation. Experimental observations of the effects of Andreev reflections above
---such as an enhanced tunneling conductance below the gap along the
copper oxide plane---could provide unambiguous evidence for the preformed pairs
in the pseudogap state.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Time Variations in the Scale of Grand Unification
We study the consequences of time variations in the scale of grand
unification, , when the Planck scale and the value of the unified coupling
at the Planck scale are held fixed. We show that the relation between the
variations of the low energy gauge couplings is highly model dependent. It is
even possible, in principle, that the electromagnetic coupling varies,
but the strong coupling does not (to leading approximation). We
investigate whether the interpretation of recent observations of quasar
absorption lines in terms of time variation in can be accounted for by
time variation in . Our formalism can be applied to any scenario where a
time variation in an intermediate scale induces, through threshold corrections,
time variations in the effective low scale couplings.Comment: 14 pages, revtex4; Updated observational results and improved
statistical analysis (section IV); added reference
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