336 research outputs found
6D Muon Ionization Cooling with an Inverse Cyclotron
A large admittance sector cyclotron filled with LiH wedges surrounded by
helium or hydrogen gas is explored. Muons are cooled as they spiral
adiabatically into a central swarm. As momentum approaches zero, the momentum
spread also approaches zero. Long bunch trains coalesce. Energy loss is used to
inject the muons into the outer rim of the cyclotron. The density of material
in the cyclotron decreases adiabatically with radius. The sector cyclotron
magnetic fields are transformed into an azimuthally symmetric magnetic bottle
in the center. Helium gas is used to inhibit muonium formation by positive
muons. Deuterium gas is used to allow captured negative muons to escape via the
muon catalyzed fusion process. The presence of ionized gas in the center may
automatically neutralize space charge. When a bunch train has coalesced into a
central swarm, it is ejected axially with an electric kicker pulse.Comment: Five pages. LaTeX, three postscript figure files. To appear in the
AIP Conference Proceedings for COOL05: International Workshop on Beam
Cooling, Galena, IL, 18-23 Sept. 200
Stimulated Raman spin coherence and spin-flip induced hole burning in charged GaAs quantum dots
High-resolution spectral hole burning (SHB) in coherent nondegenerate
differential transmission spectroscopy discloses spin-trion dynamics in an
ensemble of negatively charged quantum dots. In the Voigt geometry, stimulated
Raman spin coherence gives rise to Stokes and anti-Stokes sidebands on top of
the trion spectral hole. The prominent feature of an extremely narrow spike at
zero detuning arises from spin population pulsation dynamics. These SHB
features confirm coherent electron spin dynamics in charged dots, and the
linewidths reveal spin spectral diffusion processes.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Magnetotunneling Between Two-dimensional Electron Gases in InAs-AlSb-GaSb Heterostructures
We have observed that the tunneling magnetoconductance between
two-dimensional (2D) electron gases formed at nominally identical InAs-AlSb
interfaces most often exhibits two sets of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations with
almost the same frequency. This result is explained quantitatively with a model
of the conductance in which the 2D gases have different densities and can
tunnel between Landau levels with different quantum indices. When the epitaxial
growth conditions of the interfaces are optimized, the zero-bias
magnetoconductance shows a single set of oscillations, thus proving that the
asymmetry between the two electron gases can be eliminated.Comment: RevTeX format including 4 figures; submit for publicatio
Internal transitions of quasi-2D charged magneto-excitons in the presence of purposely introduced weak lateral potential energy variations
Optically detected resonance spectroscopy has been used to investigate
effects of weak random lateral potential energy fluctuations on internal
transitions of charged magneto-excitons (trions) in quasi two-dimensional
GaAs/AlGaAs quantum-well (QW) structures. Resonant changes in the ensemble
photoluminescence induced by far-infrared radiation were studied as a function
of magnetic field for samples having: 1) no growth interrupts (short range
well-width fluctuations), and 2) intentional growth interrupts (long range
monolayer well-width differences). Only bound-to-continuum internal transitions
of the negatively charged trion are observed for samples of type 1. In
contrast, a feature on the high field (low energy) side of electron cyclotron
resonance is seen for samples of type 2 with well widths of 14.1 and 8.4 nm.
This feature is attributed to a bound-to-bound transition of the spin-triplet
with non-zero oscillator strength resulting from breaking of translational
symmetry.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physical Review
The Frequency of Mid-Infrared Excess Sources in Galactic Surveys
We have identified 230 Tycho-2 Spectral Catalog stars that exhibit 8 micron
mid-infrared extraphotospheric excesses in the MidCourse Space Experiment (MSX)
and Spitzer Space Telescope Galactic Legacy MidPlane Survey Extraordinaire
(GLIMPSE) surveys. Of these, 183 are either OB stars earlier than B8 in which
the excess plausibly arises from a thermal bremsstrahlung component or evolved
stars in which the excess may be explained by an atmospheric dust component.
The remaining 47 stars have spectral classifications B8 or later and appear to
be main sequence or late pre-main-sequence objects harboring circumstellar
disks. Six of the 47 stars exhibit multiple signatures characteristic of
pre-main-sequence circumstellar disks, including emission lines, near-infrared
K-band excesses, and X-ray emission. Approximately one-third of the remaining
41 sources have emission lines suggesting relative youth. Of the 25 GLIMPSE
stars with SST data at >24 microns, 20 also show an excess at 24 microns. Three
additional objects have 24 micron upper limits consistent with possible
excesses, and two objects have photospheric measurements at 24 microns. Six MSX
sources had a measurement at wavelengths >8 microns. We modeled the excesses in
26 stars having two or more measurements in excess of the expected photospheres
as single-component blackbodies. We determine probable disk temperatures and
fractional infrared luminosities in the range 191 < T < 787 and 3.9x10^-4 <
L_IR/L_* < 2.7x10^-1. We estimate a lower limit on the fraction of Tycho-2
Spectral Catalog main-sequence stars having mid-IR, but not near-IR, excesses
to be 1.0+-0.3%.Comment: Accepted to Ap
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