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A Coupled-Channels Study of Coulomb Excitation
We study the effects of channel coupling in the excitation of
projectiles incident on heavy targets. The contribution to the excitation from
the Coulomb and the nuclear fields in peripheral collisions are considered. Our
results are compared with recent data on the excitation of the \halfm state
in projectiles. We show that the experimental results cannot be
explained, unless very unusual parameters are used.Comment: 8 pages, 2 Postscript figures available upon request, corrected
misprints in eqs. 2 and
Stream differential equations: Specification formats and solution methods
Streams, or infinite sequences, are infinite objects of a very simple type, yet they have a rich theory partly due to their ubiquity in mathematics and computer science. Stream differential equations are a coinductive method for specifying streams and stream operations, and their theory has been developed in many papers over the past two decades. In this paper we present a survey of the many results in this area. Our focus is on the classification of different formats of stream differential equations, their solution methods, and the classes of streams they can define. Moreover, we describe in detail the connection between the so-called syntactic solution method and abstract GSOS
Stream Differential Equations: Specification Formats and Solution Methods
Streams, or innite sequences, are innite objects of a very simple type, yet they
have a rich theory partly due to their ubiquity in mathematics and computer science.
Stream dierential equations are a coinductive method for specifying streams and stream
operations, and their theory has been developed in many papers over the past two decades.
In this paper we present a survey of the many results in this area. Our focus is on the
classication of dierent formats of stream dierential equations, their solution methods,
and the classes of streams they can dene. Moreover, we describe in detail the connection
between the so-called syntactic solution method and abstract GSOS
Theory of Multiphonon Excitation in Heavy-Ion Collisions
We study the effects of channel coupling in the excitation dynamics of giant
resonances in relativistic heavy ions collisions. For this purpose, we use a
semiclassical approximation to the Coupled-Channels problem and separate the
Coulomb and the nuclear parts of the coupling into their main multipole
components. In order to assess the importance of multi-step processes, we
neglect the resonance widths and solve the set of coupled equations exactly.
Finite widths are then considered. In this case, we handle the coupling of the
ground state with the dominant Giant Dipole Resonance exactly and study the
excitation of the remaining resonances within the Coupled-Channels Born
Approximation. A comparison with recent experimental data is made.Comment: 29 pages, 7 Postscript figures available upon reques
Computing Quantiles in Markov Reward Models
Probabilistic model checking mainly concentrates on techniques for reasoning
about the probabilities of certain path properties or expected values of
certain random variables. For the quantitative system analysis, however, there
is also another type of interesting performance measure, namely quantiles. A
typical quantile query takes as input a lower probability bound p and a
reachability property. The task is then to compute the minimal reward bound r
such that with probability at least p the target set will be reached before the
accumulated reward exceeds r. Quantiles are well-known from mathematical
statistics, but to the best of our knowledge they have not been addressed by
the model checking community so far.
In this paper, we study the complexity of quantile queries for until
properties in discrete-time finite-state Markov decision processes with
non-negative rewards on states. We show that qualitative quantile queries can
be evaluated in polynomial time and present an exponential algorithm for the
evaluation of quantitative quantile queries. For the special case of Markov
chains, we show that quantitative quantile queries can be evaluated in time
polynomial in the size of the chain and the maximum reward.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figure; typo in example correcte
Short-range correlations in two-nucleon knockout reactions
A theory of short-range correlations in two-nucleon removal due to elastic
breakup (diffraction dissociation) on a light target is developed. Fingerprints
of these correlations will appear in momentum distributions of back-to-back
emission of the nucleon pair. Expressions for the momentum distributions are
derived and calculations for reactions involving stable and unstable nuclear
species are performed. The signature of short-range correlations in other
reaction processes is also studied.Comment: Nuclear Physics A, in pres
Dynamical description of the breakup of one-neutron halo nuclei 11Be and 19C
We investigate the breakup of the one-neutron halo nuclei 11Be and 19C within
a dynamical model of the continuum excitation of the projectile. The time
evolution of the projectile in coordinate space is described by solving the
three-dimensional time dependent Schroedinger equation, treating the
projectile-target (both Coulomb and nuclear) interaction as a time dependent
external perturbation. The pure Coulomb breakup dominates the relative energy
spectra of the fragments in the peak region, while the nuclear breakup is
important at higher relative energies. The coherent sum of the two
contributions provides a good overall description of the experimental spectra.
Cross sections of the first order perturbation theory are derived as a limit of
our dynamical model. The dynamical effects are found to be of the order of
10-15% for the beam energies in the range of 60 - 80 MeV/nucleon. A comparison
of our results with those of a post form distorted wave Born approximation
shows that the magnitudes of the higher order effects are dependent on the
theoretical model.Comment: 15 pages, ReVTeX, 5 figures, typos corrected, accepted for
publication in Physical Review
Nuclear Astrophysics in Rare Isotope Facilities
Nuclear reactions in stars are difficult to measure directly in the
laboratory at the small astrophysical energies. In recent years indirect
methods with rare isotopes have been developed and applied to extract
low-energy astrophysical cross sections.Comment: Invited talk (parallel section) at the Int. Conf. Nucleus-Nucleus
Collisions (NN2009), Beijing, China, August 16-21, 2009. To appear in Nucl.
Phys.
Momentum Distributions of Particles from Three--Body Halo Fragmentation: Final State Interactions
Momentum distributions of particles from nuclear break-up of fast three-body
halos are calculated consistently, and applied to Li. The same two-body
interactions between the three particles are used to calculate the ground state
structure and the final state of the reaction processes. We reproduce the
available momentum distributions from Li fragmentation, together with
the size and energy of Li, with a neutron-core relative state containing
a -state admixture of 20\%-30\%. The available fragmentation data strongly
suggest an -state in Li at about 50 keV, and indicate a -state
around 500 keV.Comment: 11 pages (RevTeX), 3 Postscript figures (uuencoded postscript file
attached at the end of the LaTeX file). To be published in Phys. Rev.
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