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Low temperature behavior of the heavy Fermion Ce3Co4Sn13
The compound Ce3Co4Sn13 is an extremely heavy cubic heavy fermion system with
a low temperature electronic specific heat of order ~4 J/mol-K2. If the
compound is nonmagnetic, it would be one of the heaviest nonmagnetic Ce-based
heavy fermions reported to date and therefore would be expected to lie
extremely close to a quantum critical point. However, a broad peak of unknown
origin is observed at 0.8 K in the specific heat and magnetic susceptibility,
suggesting the possibility of antiferromagnetic order. We present neutron
diffraction data from polycrystalline samples which do not show any sign of
magnetic scattering below 0.8 K. In addition, we present inelastic neutron
scattering data from a single crystal sample which is consistent with the 1.2 K
energy scale for Kondo spin fluctuations determined from specific heat
measurements.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to J. Mag. Mag. Mater. for ICM 200
Radiative neutron capture on a proton at BBN energies
The total cross section for radiative neutron capture on a proton, , is evaluated at big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) energies. The
electromagnetic transition amplitudes are calculated up to next-to leading
order within the framework of pionless effective field theory with dibaryon
fields. We also calculate the cross section and the photon
analyzing power for the process from the amplitudes. The
values of low energy constants that appear in the amplitudes are estimated by a
Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis using the relevant low energy experimental
data. Our result agrees well with those of other theoretical calculations
except for the cross section at some energies estimated by an
R-matrix analysis. We also study the uncertainties in our estimation of the
cross section at relevant BBN energies and find that the
estimated cross section is reliable to within 1% error.Comment: 21 pages and 12 eps figures; 6 eps figures and 2 references added,
and accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Lattice dynamics and the electron-phonon interaction in CaRuO
We present a Raman scattering study of CaRuO, in which we investigate
the temperature-dependence of the lattice dynamics and the electron-phonon
interaction below the metal-insulator transition temperature ({\it T}). Raman spectra obtained in a backscattering geometry with light polarized
in the ab-plane reveal 9 B phonon modes (140, 215, 265, 269, 292, 388,
459, 534, and 683 cm) and 9 A phonon modes (126, 192, 204, 251, 304,
322, 356, 395, and 607 cm) for the orthorhombic crystal structure
(PbcaD). With increasing temperature toward {\it T},
the observed phonon modes shift to lower energies and exhibit reduced spectral
weights, reflecting structural changes associated with the elongation of the
RuO octahedra. Interestingly, the phonons exhibit significant increases in
linewidths and asymmetries for {\it T} {\it T}. These results
indicate that there is an increase in the effective number of electrons and the
electron-phonon interaction strengths as the temperature is raised through {\it
T}, suggesting the presence of orbital fluctuations in the
temperature regime {\it T} {\it T} {\it T}.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Radiative Neutron-Proton Capture in Effective Chiral Lagrangians
We calculate the cross-section for the thermal
process in chiral perturbation theory to next-to-next-to-leading order using
heavy-fermion formalism. The exchange current correction is found to be
in amplitude and the chiral perturbation at one-loop order
gives the cross section \sigma_{th}^{np}=(334\pm 2)\ {\mbox mb} which is in
agreement with the experimental value (334.2\pm 0.5)\ {\mbox mb}. Together
with the axial charge transitions, this provides a strong support for the power
of chiral Lagrangians for nuclear physics.Comment: 9 pages, revtex, uses epsfig.sty, 2 uuencoded figure
Magnetic properties of pure and Gd doped EuO probed by NMR
An Eu NMR study in the ferromagnetic phase of pure and Gd doped EuO was
performed. A complete description of the NMR lineshape of pure EuO allowed for
the influence of doping EuO with Gd impurities to be highlighted. The presence
of a temperature dependent static magnetic inhomogeneity in Gd doped EuO was
demonstrated by studying the temperature dependence of the lineshapes. The
results suggest that the inhomogeneity in 0.6% Gd doped EuO is linked to
colossal magnetoresistance. The measurement of the spin-lattice relaxation
times as a function of temperature led to the determination of the value of the
exchange integral J as a function of Gd doping. It was found that J is
temperature independent and spatially homogeneous for all the samples and that
its value increases abruptly with increasing Gd doping.Comment: 14 pages, 10 figures, to be published in Physical Review
Dynamics of Baryons from String Theory and Vector Dominance
We consider a holographic model of QCD from string theory, a la Sakai and
Sugimoto, and study baryons. In this model, mesons are collectively realized as
a five-dimensional \ Yang-Mills field and baryons
are classically identified as solitons with a unit Pontryagin number
and electric charges. The soliton is shown to be very small in the large
't Hooft coupling limit, allowing us to introduce an effective field . Its coupling to the mesons are dictated by the soliton structure, and
consists of a direct magnetic coupling to the field strength as well
as a minimal coupling to the gauge field. Upon the dimensional
reduction, this effective action reproduces all interaction terms between
nucleons and an infinite tower of mesons in a manner consistent with the large
expansion. We further find that all electromagnetic interactions, as
inferred from the same effective action via a holographic prescription, are
mediated by an infinite tower of vector mesons, rendering the baryon
electromagnetic form factors completely vector-dominated as well. We estimate
nucleon-meson couplings and also the anomalous magnetic moments, which compare
well with nature.Comment: 65pages, 3 figures, vector mesons and axial-vector mesons are now
canonically normalized (comparisons with data and conclusions unaffected
Low-momentum Pion Enhancement Induced by Chiral Symmetry Restoration
The thermal and nonthermal pion production by sigma decay and its relation
with chiral symmetry restoration in a hot and dense matter are investigated.
The nonthermal decay into pions of sigma mesons which are popularly produced in
chiral symmetric phase leads to a low-momentum pion enhancement as a possible
signature of chiral phase transition at finite temperature and density.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figure
The Instanton Molecule Liquid and "Sticky Molasses" Above T_c
The main objective of this work is to explore the evolution in the structure
of the quark-antiquark bound states in going down in the chirally restored
phase from the so-called "zero binding points" T_zb to the QCD critical
temperature T_c at which the Nambu-Goldstone and Wigner-Weyl modes meet. In
doing this, we adopt the idea recently introduced by Shuryak and Zahed for
charmed , light-quark mesons and
gluons that at T_zb, the quark-antiquark scattering length goes through
infinity at which conformal invariance is restored, thereby transforming the
matter into a near perfect fluid behaving hydrodynamically, as found at RHIC.
We show that the binding of these states is accomplished by the combination of
(i) the color Coulomb interaction, (ii) the relativistic effects, and (iii) the
interaction induced by the instanton-anti-instanton molecules. The spin-spin
forces turned out to be small. While near T_zb all mesons are large-size
nonrelativistic objects bound by Coulomb attraction, near T_c they get much
more tightly bound, with many-body collective interactions becoming important
and making the and masses approach zero (in the chiral limit).
The wave function at the origin grows strongly with binding, and the near-local
four-Fermi interactions induced by the instanton molecules play an increasingly
more important role as the temperature moves downward toward T_c.Comment: Contribution to QM2004 proceedings, 4 page
Finite density and temperature in hybrid bag models
We introduce the chemical potential in a system of two-flavored massless
fermions in a chiral bag by imposing boundary conditions in the Euclidean time
direction. We express the fermionic mean number in terms of a functional trace
involving the Green function of the boundary value problem, which is studied
analytically. Numerical evaluations for the fermionic number are presented.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figure
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