98 research outputs found
Theory of traveling filaments in bistable semiconductor structures
We present a generic nonlinear model for current filamentation in
semiconductor structures with S-shaped current-voltage characteristics. The
model accounts for Joule self-heating of a current density filament. It is
shown that the self-heating leads to a bifurcation from static to traveling
filament. Filaments start to travel when increase of the lattice temperature
has negative impact on the cathode-anode transport. Since the impact ionization
rate decreases with temperature, this occurs for a wide class of semiconductor
systems whose bistability is due to the avalanche impact ionization. We develop
an analytical theory of traveling filaments which reveals the mechanism of
filament motion, find the condition for bifurcation to traveling filament, and
determine the filament velocity.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
Experimental study of direct photon emission in K- --> pi- pi0 gamma decay using ISTRA+ detector
The branching ratio in the charged-pion kinetic energy region of 55 to 90 MeV
for the direct photon emission in the K- --> pi- pi0 gamma decay has been
measured using in-flight decays detected with the ISTRA+ setup operating in the
25 GeV/c negative secondary beam of the U-70 PS. The value
Br(DE)=[0.37+-0.39(stat)+-0.10(syst)]*10^(-5) obtained from the analysis of 930
completely reconstructed events is consistent with the average value of two
stopped-kaon experiments, but it differs by 2.5 standard deviations from the
average value of three in-flight-kaon experiments. The result is also compared
with recent theoretical predictions.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figure
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