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Microscopic study of the effect of intrinsic degrees of freedom on fusion
Fusion cross-sections are computed for the CaCa system over a
wide energy range with two microscopic approaches where the only
phenomenological input is the Skyrme energy density functional. The first
method is based on the coupled-channels formalism, using the bare
nucleus-nucleus potential calculated with the frozen Hartree-Fock technique and
the deformation parameters of vibrational states computed with the
time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) approach. The second method is based on the
density-constrained TDHF method to generate nucleus-nucleus potentials from
TDHF evolution. Both approaches incorporate the effect of couplings to internal
degrees of freedoms in different ways. The predictions are in relatively good
agreement with experimental data.Comment: 6 pages, 11 figures. Invited talk to FUSION1
Evidence of microscopic effects in fragment mass distribution in heavy ion induced fusion-fission reactions
Our measurements of variances () in mass distributions of
fission fragments from fusion-fission reactions of light projectiles (C, O and
F) on deformed thorium targets exhibit a sharp anomalous increase with energy
near the Coulomb barrier, in contrast to the smooth variation of
for the spherical bismuth target. This departure from expectation based on a
statistical description is explained in terms of microscopic effects arising
from the orientational dependence in the case of deformed thorium targets.Comment: Replaced with revised version, to appear in Phys. Lett.
Effect of Pauli repulsion and transfer on fusion
The effect of the Pauli exclusion principle on the nucleus-nucleus bare
potential is studied using a new density-constrained extension of the
Frozen-Hartree-Fock (DCFHF) technique. The resulting potentials exhibit a
repulsion at short distance. The charge product dependence of this Pauli
repulsion is investigated. Dynamical effects are then included in the potential
with the density-constrained time-dependent Hartree-Fock (DCTDHF) method. In
particular, isovector contributions to this potential are used to investigate
the role of transfer on fusion, resulting in a lowering of the inner part of
the potential for systems with positive Q-value transfer channels.Comment: Proceedings of an invited talk given at FUSION17, Hobart, Tasmania,
AU (20-24 February, 2017
Prescission neutron multiplicity and fission probability from Langevin dynamics of nuclear fission
A theoretical model of one-body nuclear friction which was developed earlier,
namely the chaos-weighted wall formula, is applied to a dynamical description
of compound nuclear decay in the framework of the Langevin equation coupled
with statistical evaporation of light particles and photons. We have used both
the usual wall formula friction and its chaos-weighted version in the Langevin
equation to calculate the fission probability and prescission neutron
multiplicity for the compound nuclei W, Pt, Pb,
Fr, Th, and Es. We have also obtained the contributions
of the presaddle and postsaddle neutrons to the total prescission multiplicity.
A detailed analysis of our results leads us to conclude that the chaos-weighted
wall formula friction can adequately describe the fission dynamics in the
presaddle region. This friction, however, turns out to be too weak to describe
the postsaddle dynamics properly. This points to the need for a suitable
explanation for the enhanced neutron emission in the postsaddle stage of
nuclear fission.Comment: RevTex, 14 pages including 5 Postscript figures, results improved by
using a different potential, conclusions remain unchanged, to appear in Phys.
Rev.
A practical guide for the study of human and murine sebaceous glands in situ
The skin of most mammals is characterised by the presence of sebaceous glands (SGs), whose predominant constituent cell population is sebocytes, that is, lipid-producing epithelial cells, which develop from the hair follicle. Besides holocrine sebum production (which contributes 90% of skin surface lipids), multiple additional SG functions have emerged. These range from antimicrobial peptide production and immunomodulation, via lipid and hormone synthesis/metabolism, to the provision of an epithelial progenitor cell reservoir. Therefore, in addition to its involvement in common skin diseases (e.g. acne vulgaris), the unfolding diversity of SG functions, both in skin health and disease, has raised interest in this integral component of the pilosebaceous unit. This practical guide provides an introduction to SG biology and to relevant SG histochemical and immunohistochemical techniques, with emphasis placed on in situ evaluation methods that can be easily employed. We propose a range of simple, established markers, which are particularly instructive when addressing specific SG research questions in the two most commonly investigated species in SG research, humans and mice. To facilitate the development of reproducible analysis techniques for the in situ evaluation of SGs, this methods review concludes by suggesting quantitative (immuno-)histomorphometric methods for standardised SG evaluation
An improved representation for evolving programs
A representation has been developed that addresses some of the issues
with other Genetic Program representations while maintaining their advantages.
This combines the easy reproduction of the linear representation with the inherita-
ble characteristics of the tree representation by using fixed-length blocks of genes
representing single program statements. This means that each block of genes will
always map to the same statement in the parent and child unless it is mutated,
irrespective of changes to the surrounding blocks. This method is compared to the
variable length gene blocks used by other representations with a clear improvement
in the similarity between parent and child. In addition, a set of list evaluation and
manipulation functions was evolved as an application of the new Genetic Program
components. These functions have the common feature that they all need to be 100%
correct to be useful. Traditional Genetic Programming problems have mainly been
optimization or approximation problems. The list results are good but do highlight
the problem of scalability in that more complex functions lead to a dramatic increase
in the required evolution time
Semantic transfer and contradictory evidence in intuitionistic fuzzy sets
The relationship between object level intuitionistic
fuzzy sets and predicate based intuitionistic fuzzy sets is
explored. Mass assignment uses a process called semantic unification
to evaluate the degree to which one set supports another,
the inverse function is semantic separation. Intuitionistic fuzzy
sets are mapped onto a mass assignment framework and the
semantic unification operator is generalised to support both
mass assignment and intuitionistic fuzzy sets, as is semantic
separation. Transfer of inconsistent and contradictory evidence
are also dealt with
How the Pauli exclusion principle affects fusion of atomic nuclei
The Pauli exclusion principle induces a repulsion between composite systems of identical fermions such as colliding atomic nuclei. Our goal is to study how heavy-ion fusion is impacted by this "Pauli repulsion." We propose a new microscopic approach, the density-constrained frozen Hartree-Fock method, to compute the bare potential including the Pauli exclusion principle exactly. Pauli repulsion is shown to be important inside the barrier radius and increases with the charge product of the nuclei. Its main effect is to reduce tunneling probability. Pauli repulsion is part of the solution to the long-standing deep sub-barrier fusion hindrance proble
Evolving Perl
A list of requirements for a genetic programming
representation is put forward and a representation
separating the genotype and phenotype
with a linear genome is presented.
The target language for the genetic program
is Perl. The mapping process, between the
genotype and phenotype, converts blocks of
four genes into program statements. This
process is context-free and therefore provides
inheritable characteristics. The representation
is tested by evolving a selection of list
evaluation and manipulation functions which
are all evolved from the same language subset,
with good results
Managing contradictory evidence
The paper draws on the theory of mass assignment
to refine the underlying semantics of intuitionistic fuzzy sets.
Inconsistency can arise from several sources and it is dealt with
in different ways. All the representations of inconsistency and
contradiction in this paper arise from considering restricting
and positive evidence lattices. In particular this paper formally
addresses the operators, intersection and conjunction in detail.
Because union and disjunction are required to compute the
values for intersection and conjunction these are also covered
as part of the analysis
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