920 research outputs found
A new Skyrme interaction with improved spin-isospin properties
A correct determination of the spin-isospin properties of the nuclear
effective interaction should lead, among other improvements, to an accurate
description of the Gamow-Teller Resonance (GTR). These nuclear excitations
impact on a variety of physical processes: from the response in charge-exchange
reactions of nuclei naturally present in the Earth, to the description of the
stellar nucleosynthesis, and of the pre-supernova explosion core-collapse
evolution of massive stars in the Universe. A reliable description of the GTR
provides also stringent tests for neutrinoless double- decay
calculations. We present a new Skyrme interaction as accurate as previous
forces in the description of finite nuclei and of uniform matter properties
around saturation density, and that account well for the GTR in Ca,
Zr and Pb, the Isobaric Analog Resonance and the Spin Dipole
Resonance in Zr and Pb.Comment: Predictions on the IAR and SDR and comparison with the SGII
interaction for the GTRs where adde
Enhanced material defect imaging with a radio-frequency atomic magnetometer
Imaging of structural defects in a material can be realized with a radio-frequency atomic magnetometer by monitoring the material’s response to a radio-frequency excitation field. We demonstrate two measurement configurations that enable the increase of the amplitude and phase contrast in images that represent a structural defect in electrically conductive and magnetically permeable samples. Both concepts involve the elimination of the excitation field component, orthogonal to the sample surface, from the atomic magnetometer signal. The first method relies on the implementation of a set of coils that directly compensates the excitation field component in the magnetometer signal. The second takes advantage of the fact that the radio-frequency magnetometer is not sensitive to the magnetic field oscillating along one of its axes. Results from simple modelling confirm the experimental observation and are discussed in detail
Inductive imaging of the concealed defects with radio-frequency atomic magnetometers
We explore the capabilities of the radio-frequency atomic magnetometers in the non-destructive detection of concealed defects. We present results from the systematic magnetic inductive measurement of various defect types in an electrically conductive object at different rf field frequencies (0.4–12 kHz) that indicate the presence of an optimum operational frequency of the sensor. The optimum in the frequency dependence of the amplitude/phase contrast for defects under a 0.5–1.5 mm conductive barrier was observed within the 1–2 kHz frequency range. The experiments are performed in the self-compensated configuration that automatically removes the background signal created by the rf field producing object response
Generation of atomic spin orientation with a linearly polarized beam in room-temperature alkali-metal vapor
Traditionally, atomic spin orientation is achieved by the transfer of angular momentum from polarized light to an atomic system. We demonstrate the mechanism of orientation generation in room-temperature caesium vapors that combines three elements: optical pumping, nonlinear spin dynamics, and spin-exchange collisions. Through the variation of the spin-exchange relaxation rate, the transition between an aligned and an oriented atomic sample is presented. The observation is performed by monitoring the atomic radio-frequency spectra. The measurement configuration discussed paves the way to simple and robust radio-frequency atomic magnetometers that are based on a single low-power laser diode that approach the performance of multilaser pump-probe systems
Global Analysis of Nucleon Strange Form Factors at Low
We perform a global analysis of all recent experimental data from elastic
parity-violating electron scattering at low . The values of the electric
and magnetic strange form factors of the nucleon are determined at
GeV/ to be and .Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur
Energy distribution and cooling of a single atom in an optical tweezer
We investigate experimentally the energy distribution of a single rubidium
atom trapped in a strongly focused dipole trap under various cooling regimes.
Using two different methods to measure the mean energy of the atom, we show
that the energy distribution of the radiatively cooled atom is close to
thermal. We then demonstrate how to reduce the energy of the single atom, first
by adiabatic cooling, and then by truncating the Boltzmann distribution of the
single atom. This provides a non-deterministic way to prepare atoms at low
microKelvin temperatures, close to the ground state of the trapping potential.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, published in PR
Carrier thermal escape in families of InAs/InP self-assembled quantum dots
We investigate the thermal quenching of the multimodal photoluminescence from
InAs/InP (001) self-assembled quantum dots. The temperature evolution of the
photoluminescence spectra of two samples is followed from 10 K to 300 K. We
develop a coupled rate-equation model that includes the effect of carrier
thermal escape from a quantum dot to the wetting layer and to the InP matrix,
followed by transport, recapture or non-radiative recombination. Our model
reproduces the temperature dependence of the emission of each family of quantum
dots with a single set of parameters. We find that the main escape mechanism of
the carriers confined in the quantum dots is through thermal emission to the
wetting layer. The activation energy for this process is found to be close to
one-half the energy difference between that of a given family of quantum dots
and that of the wetting layer as measured by photoluminescence excitation
experiments. This indicates that electron and holes exit the InAs quantum dots
as correlated pairs
Applicability of a Representation for the Martin's Real-Part Formula in Model-Independent Analyses
Using a novel representation for the Martin's real-part formula without the
full scaling property, an almost model-independent description of the
proton-proton differential cross section data at high energies (19.4 GeV - 62.5
GeV) is obtained. In the impact parameter and eikonal frameworks, the extracted
inelastic overlap function presents a peripheral effect (tail) above 2 fm and
the extracted opacity function is characterized by a zero (change of sign) in
the momentum transfer space, confirming results from previous model-independent
analyses. Analytical parametrization for these empirical results are introduced
and discussed. The importance of investigations on the inverse problems in
high-energy elastic hadron scattering is stressed and the relevance of the
proposed representation is commented. A short critical review on the use of
Martin's formula is also presented.Comment: Two comments and one reference added at the end of Subsec. 3.3; 23
pages, 9 figures; to be published in Int. J. Mod. Phys.
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