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Phonon-mediated anisotropic superconductivity in the Y and Lu nickel borocarbides
We present scanning tunneling spectroscopy and microscopy measurements at low
temperatures in the borocarbide materials RNi2B2C (R=Y, Lu). The characteristic
strong coupling structure due to the pairing interaction is unambiguously
resolved in the superconducting density of states. It is located at the
superconducting gap plus the energy corresponding to a phonon mode identified
in previous neutron scattering experiments. These measurements also show that
this mode is coupled to the electrons through a highly anisotropic
electron-phonon interaction originated by a nesting feature of the Fermi
surface. Our experiments, from which we can extract a large electron-phonon
coupling parameter lambda (between 0.5 and 0.8), demonstrate that this
anisotropic electron-phonon coupling has an essential contribution to the
pairing interaction. The tunneling spectra show an anisotropic s-wave
superconducting gap function.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Tunneling spectroscopy in the magnetic superconductor TmNi2B2C
We present new measurements about the tunneling conductance in the
borocarbide superconductor TmNiBC. The results show a very good
agreement with weak coupling BCS theory, without any lifetime broadening
parameter, over the whole sample surface. We detect no particular change of the
tunneling spectroscopy below 1.5K, when both the antiferromagnetic (AF) phase
and the superconducting order coexist.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev. B, Rapid Communication
Atomic X-ray Spectroscopy of Accreting Black Holes
Current astrophysical research suggests that the most persistently luminous
objects in the Universe are powered by the flow of matter through accretion
disks onto black holes. Accretion disk systems are observed to emit copious
radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, each energy band providing
access to rather distinct regimes of physical conditions and geometric scale.
X-ray emission probes the innermost regions of the accretion disk, where
relativistic effects prevail. While this has been known for decades, it also
has been acknowledged that inferring physical conditions in the relativistic
regime from the behavior of the X-ray continuum is problematic and not
satisfactorily constraining. With the discovery in the 1990s of iron X-ray
lines bearing signatures of relativistic distortion came the hope that such
emission would more firmly constrain models of disk accretion near black holes,
as well as provide observational criteria by which to test general relativity
in the strong field limit. Here we provide an introduction to this phenomenon.
While the presentation is intended to be primarily tutorial in nature, we aim
also to acquaint the reader with trends in current research. To achieve these
ends, we present the basic applications of general relativity that pertain to
X-ray spectroscopic observations of black hole accretion disk systems, focusing
on the Schwarzschild and Kerr solutions to the Einstein field equations. To
this we add treatments of the fundamental concepts associated with the
theoretical and modeling aspects of accretion disks, as well as relevant topics
from observational and theoretical X-ray spectroscopy.Comment: 63 pages, 21 figures, Einstein Centennial Review Article, Canadian
Journal of Physics, in pres
Long-range Angular Correlations On The Near And Away Side In P-pb Collisions At √snn=5.02 Tev
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High-spin structure in the transitional nucleus 131Xe:Competitive neutron and proton alignment in the vicinity of the N = 82 shell closure
International audienceThe transitional nucleus Xe131 is investigated after multinucleon transfer in the Xe136+Pb208 and Xe136+U238 reactions employing the high-resolution Advanced γ-Tracking Array (AGATA) coupled to the magnetic spectrometer PRISMA at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy, and as an elusive reaction product in the fusion-evaporation reaction Sn124(B11,p3n)Xe131 employing the High-efficiency Observatory for γ-Ray Unique Spectroscopy (HORUS) γ-ray array coupled to a double-sided silicon strip detector at the University of Cologne, Germany. The level scheme of Xe131 is extended to 5 MeV. A pronounced backbending is observed at ℏω≈0.4MeV along the negative-parity one-quasiparticle νh11/2(α=−1/2) band. The results are compared to the high-spin systematics of the Z=54 isotopes and the N=77 isotones. Large-scale shell-model calculations employing the PQM130, SN100PN, GCN50:82, SN100-KTH, and a realistic effective interaction reproduce the experimental findings and provide guidance to elucidate the structure of the high-spin states. Further calculations in Xe129−132 provide insight into the changing nuclear structure along the Xe chain towards the N=82 shell closure. Proton occupancy in the π0h11/2 orbital is found to be decisive for the description of the observed backbending phenomenon
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Atributos polarimétricos de imagem radar na inferência de parâmetros morfológicos de macrófitas
O propósito deste trabalho é ajustar um modelo de regressão múltipla em função de atributos de imagens de radar polarimétrico, para estimativa da variável morfológica "volume da haste" de macrófitas encontradas na planície de inundação da Amazônia, no Lago Grande de Monte Alegre (Pará - Brasil). Com esta estimativa, pretende-se avaliar o potencial dos dados polarimétricos do sensor ALOS/PALSAR, destacando a importância da informação de fase das imagens de radar. Para este estudo, foram coletados dados de campo em época próxima à aquisição do dado de radar. Variáveis morfológicas, como altura e diâmetro da haste emergente, de três espécies de macrófitas foram medidas em campo e usadas para derivar o "volume da haste", o qual foi modelado usando atributos da imagem de radar. Dois atributos da decomposição de Freeman-Durden, dois de Touzi e um de Pope apresentaram melhor desempenho na modelagem. Apesar do modelo não ter obtido um elevado coeficiente de determinação (44%), ele apresentou boa capacidade preditiva, já que todos os elementos de validação caíram dentro do intervalo de predição de 95% de confiança. Dentre as cinco variáveis independentes do modelo, quatro foram geradas a partir da informação de fase das imagens, o que reforça a importância dessa informação