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Determination of the cosmic-ray-induced neutron flux and ambient dose equivalent at flight altitude
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volumen 630There is interest in modeling the atmosphere in the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly in order to obtain information about the cosmic-ray induced neutron spectrum and angular distribution as functions of altitude. In this work we use the Monte Carlo codes MCNPX and Geant4 to determine the cosmic-ray-induced neutron flux in the atmosphere produced by the cosmic ray protons incident on the top of the atmosphere and to estimate the ambient dose equivalent rate as function of altitude. The results present a reasonable conformity to other codes (QARM and EXPACS) based on other parameterizations
Organic carbon partitioning during spring phytoplankton blooms in the Ross Sea polynya and the Sargasso Sea
In this study we evaluate the partitioning of organic carbon between the particulate and dissolved pools during spring phytoplankton blooms in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, and the Sargasso Sea. As part of a multidisciplinary project in the Ross Sea polynya we investigated the dynamics of the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool and the role it played in the carbon cycle during the 1994 spring phytoplankton bloom. Phytoplankton biomass during the bloom was dominated by an Antarctic Phaeocystis sp. We determined primary productivity (PP; via H14CO3, incubations), particulate organic carbon (POC), bacterial productivity (BP; via [3H]thymidine incorporation), and DOC during two occupations of 76°30âČS from 175°W to 168°E. Results from this bloom are compared to blooms observed in the Sargasso Sea in the vicinity of the Bermuda Atlantic TimeâSeries Study station (BATS). We present data that demonstrate clear differences in the production, biolability, and accumulation of DOC between the two ocean regions. Despite fourâ to fivefold greater PP in the Ross Sea, almost an order of magnitude less DOC (mmol mâ2) accumulated during the Ross Sea bloom compared to the Sargasso Sea blooms. In the Ross Sea 89% (Ë1 mol C mâ2) of the total organic carbon (TOC) that accumulated during the bloom was partitioned as POC, with the remaining 11% (Ë0.1 mol C mâ2) partitioned as DOC. In contrast, a mean of 86% (0.7.5â1.0 mol mâ2) of TOC accumulated as DOC during the 1992, 1993, and 1995 blooms in the Sargasso Sea, with as little as 14% (0.08â0.29 mol C mâ2) accumulating as POC. Although a relatively small portion of the fixed carbon was produced as DOC in the Ross Sea, the bacterial carbon demand indicated that a qualitatively more labile carbon was produced in the Ross Sea compared to the Sargasso Sea. There are fundamental differences in organic carbon partitioning between the two systems that may be controlled by plankton community structure and foodâweb dynamics
Comparison of exact and approximate cross-sections in relativistic Coulomb excitation
We present a new method of obtaining time-dependent matrix elements of the
electromagnetic pulse produced by a highly-relativistic projectile. These
matrix elements are used in a coupled-channel calculation to predict the
cross-sections for population of 1- and 2-phonon states of the giant dipole
resonance. Comparisons are made with the predictions of the long-wavelength and
Born approximations.Comment: 26 pages, LaTex2
Anharmonicities of giant dipole excitations
The role of anharmonic effects on the excitation of the double giant dipole
resonance is investigated in a simple macroscopic model.Perturbation theory is
used to find energies and wave functions of the anharmonic ascillator.The cross
sections for the electromagnetic excitation of the one- and two-phonon giant
dipole resonances in energetic heavy-ion collisions are then evaluated through
a semiclassical coupled-channel calculation.It is argued that the variations of
the strength of the anharmonic potential should be combined with appropriate
changes in the oscillator frequency,in order to keep the giant dipole resonance
energy consistent with the experimental value.When this is taken into
account,the effects of anharmonicities on the double giant dipole resonance
excitation probabilities are small and cannot account for the well-known
discrepancy between theory and experiment
The mean energy, strength and width of triple giant dipole resonances
We investigate the mean energy, strength and width of the triple giant dipole
resonance using sum rules.Comment: 12 page
Momentum distribution of a trapped Fermi gas with large scattering length
Using a scattering length parametrization of the BCS-BEC crossover as well as
the local density approximation for the density profile, we calculate the
momentum distribution of a harmonically trapped atomic Fermi gas at zero
temperature. Various interaction regimes are considered, including the BCS
phase, the unitarity limit and the molecular regime. We show that the relevant
parameter which characterizes the crossover is given by the dimensionless
combination , where is the number of atoms, is the
scattering length and is the oscillator length. The width of the
momentum distribution is shown to depend in a crucial way on the value and sign
of this parameter. Our predictions can be relevant for experiments on ultracold
atomic Fermi gases near a Feshbach resonance.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. A. Added reference
Unitary Fermi gas, epsilon expansion, and nonrelativistic conformal field theories
We review theoretical aspects of unitary Fermi gas (UFG), which has been
realized in ultracold atom experiments. We first introduce the epsilon
expansion technique based on a systematic expansion in terms of the
dimensionality of space. We apply this technique to compute the thermodynamic
quantities, the quasiparticle spectrum, and the critical temperature of UFG. We
then discuss consequences of the scale and conformal invariance of UFG. We
prove a correspondence between primary operators in nonrelativistic conformal
field theories and energy eigenstates in a harmonic potential. We use this
correspondence to compute energies of fermions at unitarity in a harmonic
potential. The scale and conformal invariance together with the general
coordinate invariance constrains the properties of UFG. We show the vanishing
bulk viscosities of UFG and derive the low-energy effective Lagrangian for the
superfluid UFG. Finally we propose other systems exhibiting the nonrelativistic
scaling and conformal symmetries that can be in principle realized in ultracold
atom experiments.Comment: 44 pages, 15 figures, contribution to Lecture Notes in Physics
"BCS-BEC crossover and the Unitary Fermi Gas" edited by W. Zwerge
Glueball production in radiative J/psi, Upsilon decays
Using a bound-state model of weakly bound gluons for glueballs made of two
gluons and a natural generalization of the perturbative QCD formalism for
exclusive hadronic processes, we present results for glueball production in
radiative J/psi, Upsilon decays into several possible glueball states,
including L \not= 0 ones. We perform a detailed phenomenological analysis,
presenting results for the more favored experimental candidates and for decay
angular distributions.Comment: RevTeX4, 26 pages, 11 eps figure
Dynamics of a Dirac Fermion in the presence of spin noncommutativity
Recently, it has been proposed a spacetime noncommutativity that involves
spin degrees of freedom, here called "spin noncommutativity". One of the
motivations for such a construction is that it preserves Lorentz invariance,
which is deformed or simply broken in other approaches to spacetime
noncommutativity. In this work, we gain further insight in the physical aspects
of the spin noncommutativity. The noncommutative Dirac equation is derived from
an action principle, and it is found to lead to the conservation of a modified
current, which involves the background electromagnetic field. Finally, we study
the Landau problem in the presence of spin noncommutativity. For this scenario
of a constant magnetic field, we are able to derive a simple Hermitean
non-commutative correction to the Hamiltonian operator, and show that the
degeneracy of the excited states is lifted by the noncommutativity at the
second order or perturbation theory.Comment: 18 pages, revtex
Signatures of Superfluidity in Dilute Fermi Gases near a Feshbach Resonance
We present a brief account of the most salient properties of vortices in
dilute atomic Fermi superfluids near a Feshbach resonance.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, and jltp.cls. Several typos and a couple of
inaccuracies have been correcte
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