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Wear-resistant ball bearings for space applications
Ball bearings for hostile environments were developed. They consist of normal ball bearing steel parts of which the rings are coated with hard, wear-resistant, chemical vapor deposited (C.V.D) TiC. Experiments in ultrahigh vacuum, using cages of various materials with self-lubricating properties, have shown that such bearings are suitable for space applications
Impact of internal bremsstrahlung on the detection of gamma-rays from neutralinos
We present a detailed study of the effect of internal bremsstrahlung photons
in the context of the minimal supersymmetric standard models and their impact
on gamma-ray dark matter annihilation searches. We find that although this
effect has to be included for the correct evaluation of fluxes of high energy
photons from neutralino annihilation, its contribution is relevant only in
models and at energies where the lines contribution is dominant over the
secondary photons. Therefore, we find that the most optimistic supersymmetric
scenarios for dark matter detection do not change significantly when including
the internal bremsstrahlung. As an example, we review the gamma-ray dark matter
detection prospects of the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy for the MAGIC
stereoscopic system and the CTA project. Though the flux of high energy photons
is enhanced by an order of magnitude in some regions of the parameter space,
the expected fluxes are still much below the sensitivity of the instruments.Comment: 5 pages, twocolumn format, 3 figures:3 references added, accepted as
Brief Report in PR
The Dirichlet Obstruction in AdS/CFT
The obstruction for a perturbative reconstruction of the five-dimensional
bulk metric starting from the four-dimensional metric at the boundary,that is,
the Dirichlet problem, is computed in dimensions and some
comments are made on its general structure and, in particular, on its
relationship with the conformal anomaly, which we compute in dimension .Comment: 13 pages, references added (this paper supersedes hep-th/0206140, "A
Note on the Bach Tensor in AdS/CFT", which has been withdrawn
Computing the free energy of molecular solids by the Einstein molecule approach: Ices XIII and XIV, hard-dumbbells and a patchy model of proteins
The recently proposed Einstein molecule approach is extended to compute the
free energy of molecular solids. This method is a variant of the Einstein
crystal method of Frenkel and Ladd[J. Chem. Phys. 81,3188 (1984)]. In order to
show its applicability, we have computed the free energy of a hard-dumbbells
solid, of two recently discovered solid phases of water, namely, ice XIII and
ice XIV, where the interactions between water molecules are described by the
rigid non-polarizable TIP4P/2005 model potential, and of several solid phases
that are thermodynamically stable for an anisotropic patchy model with
octahedral symmetry which mimics proteins.Our calculations show that both the
Einstein crystal method and the Einstein molecule approach yield the same
results within statistical uncertainty.In addition, we have studied in detail
some subtle issues concerning the calculation of the free energy of molecular
solids. First, for solids with non-cubic symmetry, we have studied the effect
of the shape of the simulation box on the free energy. Our results show that
the equilibrium shape of the simulation box must be used to compute the free
energy in order to avoid the appearance of artificial stress in the system that
will result in an increase of the free energy. In complex solids, such as the
solid phases of water, another difficulty is related to the choice of the
reference structure. As in some cases there is not an obvious orientation of
the molecules, it is not clear how to generate the reference structure. Our
results will show that,as long as the structure is not too far from the
equilibrium structure,the calculated free energy is invariant to the reference
structure used in the free energy calculations. Finally, the strong size
dependence of the free energy of solids is also studied.Comment: 43 pages, 5 figure
Rudiments of Holography
An elementary introduction to Maldacena's AdS/CFT correspondence is given,
with some emphasis in the Fefferman-Graham construction. This is based on
lectures given by one of us (E.A.) at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.Comment: 60 pages, additional misprints corrected, references adde
Photoluminescence Stokes shift and exciton fine structure in CdTe nanocrystals
The photoluminescence spectra of spherical CdTe nanocrystals with zincblende
structure are studied by size-selective spectroscopic techniques. We observe a
resonant Stokes shift of 15 meV when the excitation laser energy is tuned to
the red side of the absorption band at 2.236 eV. The experimental data are
analyzed within a symmetry-based tight-binding theory of the exciton spectrum,
which is first shown to account for the size dependence of the fundamental gap
reported previously in the literature. The theoretical Stokes shift presented
as a function of the gap shows a good agreement with the experimental data,
indicating that the measured Stokes shift indeed arises from the electron-hole
exchange interaction.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, LaTe
Hints of the existence of Axion-Like-Particles from the gamma-ray spectra of cosmological sources
Axion Like Particles (ALPs) are predicted to couple with photons in the
presence of magnetic fields. This effect may lead to a significant change in
the observed spectra of gamma-ray sources such as AGNs. Here we carry out a
detailed study that for the first time simultaneously considers in the same
framework both the photon/axion mixing that takes place in the gamma-ray source
and that one expected to occur in the intergalactic magnetic fields. An
efficient photon/axion mixing in the source always means an attenuation in the
photon flux, whereas the mixing in the intergalactic medium may result in a
decrement and/or enhancement of the photon flux, depending on the distance of
the source and the energy considered. Interestingly, we find that decreasing
the value of the intergalactic magnetic field strength, which decreases the
probability for photon/axion mixing, could result in an increase of the
expected photon flux at Earth if the source is far enough. We also find a 30%
attenuation in the intensity spectrum of distant sources, which occurs at an
energy that only depends on the properties of the ALPs and the intensity of the
intergalactic magnetic field, and thus independent of the AGN source being
observed. Moreover, we show that this mechanism can easily explain recent
puzzles in the spectra of distant gamma-ray sources... [ABRIDGED] The
consequences that come from this work are testable with the current generation
of gamma-ray instruments, namely Fermi (formerly known as GLAST) and imaging
atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes like CANGAROO, HESS, MAGIC and VERITAS.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures. Replaced to match the published version in Phys.
Rev. D. Minor changes with respect to v
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