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Geomagnetic field and altitude effects on the performance of future IACT arrays
The performance of IACT's arrays is sensitive to the altitude and geomagnetic
field (GF) of the observatory site. Both effects play important role in the
region of the sub-TeV gamma-ray measurements. We investigate the influence of
GF on detection rates and the energy thresholds for five possible locations of
the future CTA observatory using the Monte Carlo simulations. We conclude that
the detection rates of gamma rays and the energy thresholds of the arrays can
be fitted with linear functions of the altitude and the component of the GF
perpendicular to the shower axis core. These results can be directly
extrapolated for any possible localization of the CTA. In this paper we also
show the influence of both geophysical effects on the images of shower and
gamma/hadron separation.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, two-column. Contribution to ICRC 2013 proceeding
Stark effect on the exciton spectra of vertically coupled quantum dots: horizontal field orientation and non-aligned dots
We study the effect of an electric-field on an electron-hole pair in an
asymmetric system of vertically coupled self-assembled quantum dots taking into
account their non-perfect alignment. We show that the non-perfect alignment
does not qualitatively influence the exciton Stark effect for the electric
field applied in the growth direction, but can be detected by application of a
perpendicular electric field. We demonstrate that the direction of the shift
between the axes of non-aligned dots can be detected by rotation of a weak
electric field within the plane of confinement. Already for a nearly perfect
alignment the two-lowest energy bright exciton states possess antilocked
extrema as function of the orientation angle of the horizontal field which
appear when the field is parallel to the direction of the shift between the dot
centers
Neutrinos from Early-Phase, Pulsar-Driven Supernovae
Neutron stars, just after their formation, are surrounded by expanding,
dense, and very hot envelopes which radiate thermal photons. Iron nuclei can be
accelerated in the wind zones of such energetic pulsars to very high energies.
These nuclei photo-disintegrate and their products lose energy efficiently in
collisions with thermal photons and with the matter of the envelope, mainly via
pion production. When the temperature of the radiation inside the envelope of
the supernova drops below K, these pions decay before
losing energy and produce high energy neutrinos. We estimate the flux of muon
neutrinos emitted during such an early phase of the pulsar - supernova envelope
interaction. We find that a 1 km neutrino detector should be able to detect
neutrinos above 1 TeV within about one year after the explosion from a
supernova in our Galaxy. This result holds if these pulsars are able to
efficiently accelerate nuclei to energies eV, as postulated
recently by some authors for models of Galactic acceleration of the extremely
high energy cosmic rays (EHE CRs).Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, revised version submitted to Ap
Gamma-rays from binary system with energetic pulsar and Be star with aspherical wind: PSR B1259-63/SS2883
At least one massive binary system containing an energetic pulsar, PSR
B1259-63/SS2883, has been recently detected in the TeV gamma-rays by the HESS
telescopes. These gamma-rays are likely produced by particles accelerated in
the vicinity of the pulsar and/or at the pulsar wind shock, in comptonization
of soft radiation from the massive star. However, the process of gamma-ray
production in such systems can be quite complicated due to the anisotropy of
the radiation field, complex structure of the pulsar wind termination shock and
possible absorption of produced gamma-rays which might initiate leptonic
cascades. In this paper we consider in detail all these effects. We calculate
the gamma-ray light curves and spectra for different geometries of the binary
system PSR B1259-63/SS2883 and compare them with the TeV gamma-ray
observations. We conclude that the leptonic IC model, which takes into account
the complex structure of the pulsar wind shock due to the aspherical wind of
the massive star, can explain the details of the observed gamma-ray light
curve.Comment: 12 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
Electron spin and charge switching in a coupled quantum dot quantum ring system
Few-electron systems confined in a quantum dot laterally coupled to a
surrounding quantum ring in the presence of an external magnetic field are
studied by exact diagonalization. The distribution of electrons between the dot
and the ring is influenced by the relative strength of the dot and ring
confinement, the gate voltage and the magnetic field which induces transitions
of electrons between the two parts of the system. These transitions are
accompanied by changes in the periodicity of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations of
the ground-state angular momentum. The singlet-triplet splitting for a two
electron system with one electron confined in the dot and the other in the ring
exhibits piecewise linear dependence on the external field due to the
Aharonov-Bohm effect for the ring-confined electron, in contrast to smooth
oscillatory dependence of the exchange energy for laterally coupled dots in the
side-by-side geometry.Comment: to appear in PRB in August 200
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