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Description of Four-Body Breakup Reaction with the Method of Continuum-Discretized Coupled-Channels
We present a method for smoothing discrete breakup -matrix elements
calculated by the method of continuum-discretized coupled-channels (CDCC). This
smoothing method makes it possible to apply CDCC to four-body breakup
reactions. The reliability of the smoothing method is confirmed for two cases,
Ni(, ) at 80 MeV and the transition of He. We apply
CDCC with the smoothing method to He breakup reaction at 22.5 MeV.
Multi-step breakup processes are found to be important.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, published in Progress of Theoretical Physic
Coulomb breakup effects on the elastic cross section of He+Bi scattering near Coulomb barrier energies
We accurately analyze the He+Bi scattering at 19 and 22.5 MeV
near the Coulomb barrier energy, using the continuum-discretized
coupled-channels method (CDCC) based on the ++He+Bi four-body
model.
The three-body breakup continuum of He is discretized by diagonalizing
the internal Hamiltonian of He in a space spanned by the Gaussian basis
functions.
The calculated elastic and total reaction cross sections are in good
agreement with the experimental data, while the CDCC calculation based on the
di-neutron model of He, i.e., the +He+Bi three-body
model, does not reproduce the data.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, uses REVTeX 4, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Effects of magnetism and doping on the electron-phonon coupling in BaFeAs
We calculate the effect of local magnetic moments on the electron-phonon
coupling in BaFeAs using the density functional perturbation
theory. We show that the magnetism enhances the total electron-phonon coupling
by , up to , still not enough to explain the
high critical temperature, but strong enough to have a non-negligible effect on
superconductivity, for instance, by frustrating the coupling with spin
fluctuations and inducing order parameter nodes. The enhancement comes mostly
from a renormalization of the electron-phonon matrix elements. We also
investigate, in the rigid band approximation, the effect of doping, and find
that versus doping does not mirror the behavior of the density of
states; while the latter decreases upon electron doping, the former does not,
and even increases slightly.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
A Herschel Study of 24 micron-Selected AGNs and Their Host Galaxies
We present a sample of 290 24-micron-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs)
mostly at z ~ 0.3 -- 2.5, within 5.2 square degrees distributed as 25' X 25'
fields around each of 30 galaxy clusters in the Local Cluster Substructure
Survey (LoCuSS). The sample is nearly complete to 1 mJy at 24 microns, and has
a rich multi-wavelength set of ancillary data; 162 are detected by Herschel. We
use spectral templates for AGNs, stellar populations, and infrared emission by
star forming galaxies to decompose the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of
these AGNs and their host galaxies, and estimate their star formation rates
(SFRs), AGN luminosities, and host galaxy stellar masses. The set of templates
is relatively simple: a standard Type-1 quasar template; another for the
photospheric output of the stellar population; and a far infrared star-forming
template. For the Type-2 AGN SEDs, we substitute templates including internal
obscuration, and some Type-1 objects require a warm component (T > 50 K). The
individually Herschel- detected Type-1 AGNs and a subset of 17 Type-2 ones
typically have luminosities > 10^{45} ergs/s, and supermassive black holes of ~
3 X 10^8 Msun emitting at ~ 10% of the Eddington rate. We find them in about
twice the numbers of AGN identified in SDSS data in the same fields, i.e., they
represent typical high luminosity AGN, not an infrared-selected minority. These
AGNs and their host galaxies are studied further in an accompanying paper
PhoSim-NIRCam: Photon-by-photon image simulations of the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera
Recent instrumentation projects have allocated resources to develop codes for
simulating astronomical images. Novel physics-based models are essential for
understanding telescope, instrument, and environmental systematics in
observations. A deep understanding of these systematics is especially important
in the context of weak gravitational lensing, galaxy morphology, and other
sensitive measurements. In this work, we present an adaptation of a
physics-based ab initio image simulator: The Photon Simulator (PhoSim). We
modify PhoSim for use with the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) -- the primary
imaging instrument aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This photon
Monte Carlo code replicates the observational catalog, telescope and camera
optics, detector physics, and readout modes/electronics. Importantly,
PhoSim-NIRCam simulates both geometric aberration and diffraction across the
field of view. Full field- and wavelength-dependent point spread functions are
presented. Simulated images of an extragalactic field are presented. Extensive
validation is planned during in-orbit commissioning
Macroscopic Quantum Dynamics of a Free Domain Wall in a Ferromagnet
We study macroscopic quantum dynamics of a free domain wall in a
quasi-one-dimensional ferromagnet by use of the spin-coherent-state path
integral in {\it discrete-time} formalism. Transition amplitudes between
typical states are quantitatively discussed by use of {\it stationary-action
approximation} with respect to collective degrees of freedom representing the
center position and the chirality of the domain wall. It is shown that the
chirality may be loosely said to be canonically conjugate to the center
position; the latter moves with a speed depending on the former. It is
clarified under what condition the center position can be regarded as an
effective free-particle position, which exhibits the phenomenon of wave-packet
spreading. We demonstrate, however, that in some case the non-linear character
of the spin leads to such a dramatic phenomenon of a non-spreading wave packet
as to completely invalidate the free-particle analogy. In the course of the
discussion, we also point out various difficulties associated with the
continuous-time formalism.Comment: 23 pages, REVTEX, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
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