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Perturbation of a lattice spectral band by a nearby resonance
A soluble model of weakly coupled "molecular" and "nuclear" Hamiltonians is
studied in order to exhibit explicitly the mechanism leading to the enhancement
of fusion probability in case of a narrow near-threshold nuclear resonance. We,
further, consider molecular cells of this type being arranged in lattice
structures. It is shown that if the real part of the narrow nuclear resonance
lies within the molecular band generated by the intercellular interaction, an
enhancement, proportional to the inverse width of the nuclear resonance, is to
be expected.Comment: RevTeX, 2 figures within the file. In May 2000 the title changed and
some minor corrections have been don
Fusion reactions in molecules via nuclear threshold resonances
It is widely accepted that in molecular systems the nuclear interaction plays
a negligible role, because of the strong Coulomb repulsion of the nuclei at
small distances. We are going to show that this is not always true. The
existence of an extended nuclear resonance may lead to considerably enhanced
nuclear reaction rates in appropriately prepared molecules. Especially we point
out that p+p+ ^{16}O, i.e., the constituents of water, can form a ^{18}Ne(1^-)
threshold resonance which decays under energy release into ^{17}F and a proton.Comment: RevTeX, 9.4 Kb; Published version of the pape
Binding of eta_c meson with light nucleus
Binding energy of eta_c with ^4 He has been calculated on the basis of Yukawa
type potential. Final Rank Approximation (FRA) has been used for microscopical
treatment of the initial 5-body problem. The results are compared with the
results of the folding model and variational calculations.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Quark distributions in QCD sum rules: unexpected features and paradoxes
Some very unusual features of the hadron structure functions, obtained in the
generalized QCD sum rules, like the surprisingly strong difference between
longitudinally and transversally polarized mesons structure functions
and the strong suppression of the gluon sea in longitudinally polarized
mesons are discussed. Also the problem of exact zero contribution of gluon
condensates to pion and longitudinally polarized meson quark
distributions is discussed.Comment: 9 pages, 5 fig
Positive and negative-parity flavor-octet baryons in coupled QCD sum rules
We apply the method of the QCD sum rule, in which positive- and
negative-parity baryons couple with each other, to the flavor-octet hyperons
and investigate the parity splittings. We also reexamine the nucleon in the
method, which was studied in our previous paper, by carefully choosing the
Borel weight. Both in the nucleon and hyperon channels the obtained sum rules
turn out to have a very good Borel stability and also have a Borel window, an
energy region in which the OPE converges and the pole contribution dominates
over the continuum contribution. The predicted masses of the positive- and
negative-parity baryons reproduce the experimental ones fairly well in the
and channels, if we assign the and the
to the parity partners of the and the ,
respectively. This implies that the is not the party partner of
the and may be a flavor-singlet or exotic state. In the
channel, the sum rule predicts the mass of the negative-parity state to be
about 1.8 GeV, which leads to two possibilities; one is that the observed state
with the closest mass, , is the parity partner and the other is that
the parity partner is not yet found but exists around 1.8 GeV.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
Nuclear fusion induced by X-rays in a crystal
The nuclei that constitute a crystalline lattice, oscillate relative to each
other with a very low energy that is not sufficient to penetrate through the
Coulomb barriers separating them. An additional energy, which is needed to
tunnel through the barrier and fuse, can be supplied by external
electromagnetic waves (X-rays or the synchrotron radiation). Exposing to the
X-rays the solid compound LiD (lithium-deuteride) for the duration of 111
hours, we have detected 88 events of the nuclear fusion d+Li6 ---> Be8*. Our
theoretical estimate agrees with what we observed. One of possible applications
of the phenomenon we found, could be the measurements of the rates of various
nuclear reactions (not necessarily fusion) at extremely low energies
inaccessible in accelerator experiments.Comment: 27 pages, 12 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. C on 28 October 201
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