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A quantitative study of spin noise spectroscopy in a classical gas of K atoms
We present a general derivation of the electron spin noise power spectrum in
alkali gases as measured by optical Faraday rotation, which applies to both
classical gases at high temperatures as well as ultracold quantum gases. We
show that the spin-noise power spectrum is determined by an electron spin-spin
correlation function, and we find that measurements of the spin-noise power
spectra for a classical gas of K atoms are in good agreement with the
predicted values. Experimental and theoretical spin noise spectra are directly
and quantitatively compared in both longitudinal and transverse magnetic fields
up to the high magnetic field regime (where Zeeman energies exceed the
intrinsic hyperfine energy splitting of the K ground state)
Magnetic order in GdBiPt studied by x-ray resonant magnetic scattering
Rare earth (R) half-Heusler compounds, RBiPt, exhibit a wide spectrum of
novel ground states. Recently, GdBiPt has been proposed as a potential
antiferromagnetic topological insulator (AFTI). We have employed x-ray resonant
magnetic scattering to elucidate the microscopic details of the magnetic
structure in GdBiPt below T_N = 8.5 K. Experiments at the Gd L_2 absorption
edge show that the Gd moments order in an antiferromagnetic stacking along the
cubic diagonal [1 1 1] direction satisfying the requirement for an AFTI, where
both time-reversal symmetry and lattice translational symmetry are broken, but
their product is conserved.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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A methodology for existing system upgrade to current ASME standards and system lifetime extension
In the wake of the Chernobyl events, there has been an increase in the awareness and review of government operated reactors both internationally, and within the United States. Government reactors have recently come under increased and indepth scrutiny. Department of Energy Secretary Hodel committed to a review of the safety of non-commercial reactors and irradiation facilities within the department. The increased attention has been in the areas of accident response, PRA of the facilities, environmental impacts, and the construction and associated standards for the facilities. This paper focuses on the system qualifications to current standards. Specifically, this paper discusses a method used for upgrading an existing high pressure nuclear system to current ASME Code standards and to extend the system's lifetime. This paper reports the methods used in an attempt to qualify components of the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) located at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) to current ASME Code Section III standards
Conformal compactification and cycle-preserving symmetries of spacetimes
The cycle-preserving symmetries for the nine two-dimensional real spaces of
constant curvature are collectively obtained within a Cayley-Klein framework.
This approach affords a unified and global study of the conformal structure of
the three classical Riemannian spaces as well as of the six relativistic and
non-relativistic spacetimes (Minkowskian, de Sitter, anti-de Sitter, both
Newton-Hooke and Galilean), and gives rise to general expressions holding
simultaneously for all of them. Their metric structure and cycles (lines with
constant geodesic curvature that include geodesics and circles) are explicitly
characterized. The corresponding cyclic (Mobius-like) Lie groups together with
the differential realizations of their algebras are then deduced; this
derivation is new and much simpler than the usual ones and applies to any
homogeneous space in the Cayley-Klein family, whether flat or curved and with
any signature. Laplace and wave-type differential equations with conformal
algebra symmetry are constructed. Furthermore, the conformal groups are
realized as matrix groups acting as globally defined linear transformations in
a four-dimensional "conformal ambient space", which in turn leads to an
explicit description of the "conformal completion" or compactification of the
nine spaces.Comment: 43 pages, LaTe
TECHNIQUES FOR REARING AND RELEASING NONMIGRATORY CRANES: LESSONS FROM THE MISSISSIPPI SANDHILL CRANE PROGRAM
Captive-reared Mississippi sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis pulla) reared at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (patuxent) have been released at the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge (MSCNWR) since 1981. Of 131 birds released through December 1990, 103 were reared by foster parents. The remaining 28 were experimentally hand-reared in 1989 and 1990. After refining release procedures, parent-reared birds have integrated into the wild flock, many have survived, and some have bred. Releases of hand-reared cranes elsewhere in the 1970\u27s were largely unsuccessful. at least in part due to the lack of a lengthy acclimation period. A new hand-rearing protocol holds promise in producing release-worthy birds. The technique employs some features first used in the 1960\u27s (e.g., a costume for the human caretaker and model crane heads used to train chicks to feed). In the mid-1980\u27s, the following features were added: (1) the costumed caretaker was given a visor and feathers, (2) a taxidermic crane head or a hand puppet was held or suspended from the ceiling for use in stimulating chicks to feed, (3) a taxidermic mount of a brooding crane supplied warmth, (4) a full-sized live crane was maintained in an adjacent pen and in visual contact with neonatal young to provide an imprinting model, and (5) a small group of adult (or subadult) cranes was penned adjacent to the outdoor chick pens to provide socialization models. Recent releases of Mississippi sandhill cranes hand-reared according to this protocol and released in Mississippi have had high first-year survival rates. The now-operational technique holds promise for producing large numbers of release-worthy birds
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