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Letter from J. B. Barnes to B. R. Colson
Letter from J. B. Barnes to B. R. Colson. The correspondence is handwritten and four pages long with a map drawn on the back of the fourth page. It is dated 21 June 1912. A transcript of the letter is included in the item PDF
Coordinate Confusion in Conformal Cosmology
A straight-forward interpretation of standard
Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmologies is that objects move
apart due to the expansion of space, and that sufficiently distant galaxies
must be receding at velocities exceeding the speed of light. Recently, however,
it has been suggested that a simple transformation into conformal coordinates
can remove superluminal recession velocities, and hence the concept of the
expansion of space should be abandoned. This work demonstrates that such
conformal transformations do not eliminate superluminal recession velocities
for open or flat matter-only FRLW cosmologies, and all possess superluminal
expansion. Hence, the attack on the concept of the expansion of space based on
this is poorly founded. This work concludes by emphasizing that the expansion
of space is perfectly valid in the general relativistic framework, however,
asking the question of whether space really expands is a futile exercise.Comment: 5 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letter
Spin-other-orbit matrix elements for f sup 4 configurations
Data for spin orbit matrix elements for f to 4th power configuratio
High resolution Doppler lidar
A high resolution lidar system was implemented to measure winds in the lower atmosphere. The wind speed along the line of sight was determined by measuring the Doppler shift of the aerosol backscattered laser signal. The system in its present configuration is stable, and behaves as indicated by theoretical simulations. This system was built to demonstrate the capabilities of the detector system as a prototype for a spaceborne lidar. The detector system investigated consisted of a plane Fabry-Perot etalon, and a 12-ring anode detector. This system is generically similar to the Fabry-Perot interferometer developed for passive wind measurements on board the Dynamics Explorer satellite. That this detector system performs well in a lidar configuration was demonstrated
Configuration interaction matrix elements for d sup n configurations
Configuration interaction matrix elements for weak interaction
Matrix elements of the spin-spin interactions for f sup 4 configurations
Matrix elements of spin-spin interactions for F4 electron configuration
On the Symmetries of the Edgar-Ludwig Metric
The conformal Killing equations for the most general (non-plane wave)
conformally flat pure radiation field are solved to find the conformal Killing
vectors. As expected fifteen independent conformal Killing vectors exist, but
in general the metric admits no Killing or homothetic vectors. However for
certain special cases a one-dimensional group of homotheties or motions may
exist and in one very special case, overlooked by previous investigators, a
two-dimensional homethety group exists. No higher dimensional groups of motions
or homotheties are admitted by these metrics.Comment: Plain TeX, 7 pages, No figure
A comment on a paper by Carot et al
In a recent paper Carot et al. considered carefully the definition of
cylindrical symmetry as a specialisation of the case of axial symmetry. One of
their propositions states that if there is a second Killing vector, which
together with the one generating the axial symmetry, forms the basis of a
two-dimensional Lie algebra, then the two Killing vectors must commute, thus
generating an Abelian group. In this comment a similar result, valid under
considerably weaker assumptions, is recalled: any two-dimensional Lie
transformation group which contains a one-dimensional subgroup whose orbits are
circles, must be Abelian. The method used to prove this result is extended to
apply to three-dimensional Lie transformation groups. It is shown that the
existence of a one-dimensional subgroup with closed orbits restricts the
Bianchi type of the associated Lie algebra to be I (Abelian), II, III, VII_0,
VIII or IX. The relationship between the present approach and that of the
original paper is discussed.Comment: 6 pages, Te
Optical Properties of the DIRC Fused Silica Cherenkov Radiator
The DIRC is a new type of Cherenkov detector that is successfully operating
as the hadronic particle identification system for the BABAR experiment at
SLAC. The fused silica bars that serve as the DIRC's Cherenkov radiators must
transmit the light over long optical pathlengths with a large number of
internal reflections. This imposes a number of stringent and novel requirements
on the bar properties. This note summarizes a large amount of R&D that was
performed both to develop specifications and production methods and to
determine whether commercially produced bars could meet the requirements. One
of the major outcomes of this R&D work is an understanding of methods to select
radiation hard and optically uniform fused silica material. Others include
measurement of the wavelength dependency of the internal reflection
coefficient, and its sensitivity to surface contaminants, development of
radiator support methods, and selection of good optical glue.Comment: 36 pages, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods
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