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Effects of impurities on Tamm-like lanthanide-metal surface states
The effects of isolated residual-gas adsorbates on the local electronic
structure of the Dy(0001) surface were spatially mapped by scanning tunneling
microscopy and spectroscopy at 12 K. Less than 15 A away from an adsorbate, a
strong reduction of the intensity and a significant increase of the width of
the majority component of the surface state due to impurity scattering were
observed, with essentially no change of the minority component; this reflects a
high lateral localization of the Tamm-like surface state. Furthermore, an
adsorbate-induced state was found that behaves metastable.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted as Brief Report for Physical Review
Airframe noise of the DC-9-31
Airframe noise measurements are reported for the DC-9-31 aircraft flown at several speeds and with a number of flap, landing gear, and slat extension configurations. The data are corrected for wind effects, atmospheric attenuation, and spherical divergence, and are normalized to a 1 meter acoustic range. The sound pressure levels are found to vary approximately as the fifth power of flight velocity. Both lift and drag dipoles exist as a significant part of the airframe noise. The sideline data imply that a significant side-force dipole exists only for the flap- and gear-down configurations; for others, the data imply the existence of only the lift and drag dipoles. The data are compared with airframe noise predictions using the drag element and the data analysis methods. Although some of the predictions are good, further work is needed to refine the methods, particularly for the flap- and gear-down configurations
Microscopic approach to the proton asymmetry in the non-mesonic weak decay of Lambda-hypernuclei
The non--mesonic weak decay of polarized -hypernuclei is studied
with a microscopic diagrammatic formalism in which one- and two-nucleon induced
decay mechanisms, and , are
considered together with (and on the same ground of) nucleon final state
interactions. We adopt a nuclear matter formalism extended to finite nuclei via
the local density approximation. Our approach adopts different
one-meson-exchange weak transition potentials, while the strong interaction
effects are accounted for by a Bonn nucleon-nucleon interaction. We also
consider the two-pion-exchange effect in the weak transition potential. Both
the two-nucleon induced decay mechanism and the final state interactions reduce
the magnitude of the asymmetry. The quantum interference terms considered in
the present microscopic approach give rise to an opposite behavior of the
asymmetry with increasing energy cuts to that observed in models describing the
nucleon final state interactions semi-classically via the intranuclear cascade
code. Our results for the asymmetry parameter in C obtained
with different potential models are consistent with the asymmetry measured at
KEK
On the Existence of Dynamics of Wheeler-Feynman Electromagnetism
We study the equations of Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics which is an
action-at-a-distance theory about world-lines of charges that interact through
their corresponding advanced and retarded Li\'enard-Wiechert field terms. The
equations are non-linear, neutral, and involve time-like advanced as well as
retarded arguments of unbounded delay. Using a reformulation in terms of
Maxwell-Lorentz electrodynamics without self-interaction, which we have
introduced in a preceding work, we are able to establish the existence of
conditional solutions. These are solutions that solve the Wheeler-Feynman
equations on any finite time interval with prescribed continuations outside of
this interval. As a byproduct we also prove existence and uniqueness of
solutions to the Synge equations on the time half-line for a given history of
charge trajectories.Comment: 45 pages, introduction revised, typos corrected, explanations adde
Maxwell-Lorentz Dynamics of Rigid Charges
We establish global existence and uniqueness of the dynamics of classical
electromagnetism with extended, rigid charges and fields which need not to be
square integrable. We consider also a modified theory of electromagnetism where
no self-fields occur. That theory and our results are crucial for approaching
the as yet unsolved problem of the general existence of dynamics of Wheeler
Feynman electromagnetism, which we shall address in the follow up paper.Comment: 32 pages, revised Introduction, typos correcte
The Non-Mesonic Weak Decay of Double-Lambda Hypernuclei: A Microscopic Approach
The non--mesonic weak decay of double-- hypernuclei is studied
within a microscopic diagrammatic approach. Besides the nucleon--induced
mechanism, , widely studied in single-- hypernuclei,
additional hyperon--induced mechanisms, ,
and , are
accessible in double-- hypernuclei and are investigated here. As in
previous works on single-- hypernuclei, we adopt a nuclear matter
formalism extended to finite nuclei via the local density approximation and a
one--meson exchange weak transition potential (including the ground state
pseudoscalar and vector octets mesons) supplemented by correlated and
uncorrelated two--pion--exchange contributions. The weak decay rates are
evaluated for hypernuclei in the region of the experimentally accessible light
hypernuclei Be and B. Our
predictions are compared with a few previous evaluations. The rate for the
decay is dominated by --, -- and
--exchange and turns out to be about 2.5\% of the free decay
rate, , while the total rate for the and decays, dominated by
--exchange, amounts to about 0.25\% of . The
experimental measurement of these decays would be essential for the beginning
of a systematic study of the non--mesonic decay of strangeness
hypernuclei. This field of research could also shed light on the possible
existence and nature of the --dibaryon.Comment: 17 pages, 2 figure
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