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Nuclear Anapole Moments and the Parity-nonconserving Nuclear Interaction
The anapole moment is a parity-odd and time-reversal-even electromagnetic
moment. Although it was conjectured shortly after the discovery of parity
nonconservation, its existence has not been confirmed until recently in heavy
nuclear systems, which are known to be the suitable laboratories because of the
many-body enhancement. By carefully identifying the nuclear-spin-dependent
atomic parity nonconserving effect, the first clear evidence was found in
cesium. In this talk, I will discuss how nuclear anapole moments are used to
constrain the parity-nonconserving nuclear force, a still less well-known
channel among weak interactions.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, uses aipproc.cls. Proceedings of the 15th
International Spin Physics Symposiu
On factorization of a subclass of 2-D digital FIR lossless matricesfor 2-D QMF bank applications
The role of one-dimensional (1-D) digital finite impulse response (FIR) lossless matrices in the design of FIR perfect reconstruction quadrature mirror filter (QMF) banks has been explored previously. Structures which can realize the complete family of FIR lossless transfer matrices, have also been developed, with QMF application in mind. For the case of 2-D QMF banks, the same concept of lossless polyphase matrix has been used to obtain perfect reconstruction. However, the problem of finding a structure to cover all 2-D FIR lossless matrices of a given degree has not been solved. Progress in this direction is reported. A structure which completely covers a well-defined subclass of 2-D digital FIR lossless matrices is obtained
Efficient reconstruction of band-limited sequences from nonuniformly decimated versions by use of polyphase filter banks
An efficient polyphase structure for the reconstruction of a band-limited sequence from a nonuniformly decimated version is developed. Theoretically, the reconstruction involves the implementation of a bank of multilevel filters, and it is shown that how all these reconstruction filters can be obtained at the cost of one Mth band low-pass filter and a constant matrix multiplier. The resulting structure is therefore more general than previous schemes. In addition, the method offers a direct means of controlling the overall reconstruction distortion T(z) by appropriate design of a low-pass prototype filter P(z). Extension of these results to multiband band-limited signals and to the case of nonconsecutive nonuniform subsampling are also summarized, along with generalizations to the multidimensional case. Design examples are included to demonstrate the theory, and the complexity of the new method is seen to be much lower than earlier ones
Classical sampling theorems in the context of multirate and polyphase digital filter bank structures
The recovery of a signal from so-called generalized samples is a problem of designing appropriate linear filters called reconstruction (or synthesis) filters. This relationship is reviewed and explored. Novel theorems for the subsampling of sequences are derived by direct use of the digital-filter-bank framework. These results are related to the theory of perfect reconstruction in maximally decimated digital-filter-bank systems. One of the theorems pertains to the subsampling of a sequence and its first few differences and its subsequent stable reconstruction at finite cost with no error. The reconstruction filters turn out to be multiplierless and of the FIR (finite impulse response) type. These ideas are extended to the case of two-dimensional signals by use of a Kronecker formalism. The subsampling of bandlimited sequences is also considered. A sequence x(n ) with a Fourier transform vanishes for |ω|⩾Lπ/M, where L and M are integers with L<M, can in principle be represented by reducing the data rate by the amount M/L. The digital polyphase framework is used as a convenient tool for the derivation as well as mechanization of the sampling theorem
Circulant and skew-circulant matrices as new normal-form realization of IIR digital filters
Normal-form fixed-point state-space realization of IIR (infinite-impulse response) filters are known to be free from both overflow oscillations and roundoff limit cycles, provided magnitude truncation arithmetic is used together with two's-complement overflow features. Two normal-form realizations are derived that utilize circulant and skew-circulant matrices as their state transition matrices. The advantage of these realizations is that the A-matrix has only N (rather than N2) distinct elements and is amenable to efficient memory-oriented implementation. The problem of scaling the internal signals in these structures is addressed, and it is shown that an approximate solution can be obtained through a numerical optimization method. Several numerical examples are included
-adic exponential sums of polynomials in one variable
The -adic exponential sum of a polynomial in one variable is studied. An
explicit arithmetic polygon in terms of the highest two exponents of the
polynomial is proved to be a lower bound of the Newton polygon of the
-function of the T-adic exponential sum. This bound gives lower bounds for
the Newton polygon of the -function of exponential sums of -power order
Schiff Screening of Relativistic Nucleon Electric-Dipole Moments by Electrons
We show, at leading-order in the multipole expansion of the electron-nucleus
interaction, that nucleon electric-dipole moments are completely shielded by
electrons so that they contribute nothing to atomic electric-dipole moments,
even when relativity in the nucleus is taken into account. It is well known
that relativistic electron motion, by contrast, leads to dipole moments that
are not screened; we discuss the reasons for the difference.Comment: 4 pages, typeset by REVTeX, submitted to PR
Parity Nonconservation in the Photodisintegration of the Deuteron at Low Energy
The parity-nonconserving asymmetry in the deuteron photodisintegration,
, is considered with the photon energy ranged up to 10
MeV above the threshold. The aim is to improve upon a schematic estimate
assuming the absence of tensor as well as spin-orbit forces in the
nucleon-nucleon interaction. The major contributions are due to the
vector-meson exchanges, and the strong suppression of the pion-exchange
contribution is confirmed. A simple argument, going beyond the observation of
an algebraic cancellation, is presented. Contributions of meson-exchange
currents are also considered, but found to be less significant.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, typeset by REVTeX (two-column format) and BIBTe
X-Ray Spectral Variability in Cygnus X-1
Spectral variability in different energy bands of X-rays from Cyg X-1 in
different states is studied with RXTE observations and time domain approaches.
In the hard tail of energy spectrum above keV, average peak aligned
shots are softer than the average steady emission and the hardness ratio
decreases when the flux increases during a shot for all states. In regard to a
soft band lower keV, the hardness in the soft state varies in an
opposite way: it peaks when the flux of the shot peaks. For the hard and
transition states, the hardness ratio in respect to a soft band during a shot
is in general lower than that of the steady component and a sharp rise is
observed at about the shot peak. For the soft state, the correlation
coefficient between the intensity and hardness ratio in the hard tail is
negative and decreases monotonically as the timescale increases from 0.01 s to
50 s, which is opposite to that in regard to a soft band. For the hard and
transition states, the correlation coefficients are in general negative and
have a trend of decrease with increasing timescale.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, accepted by Ap
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