256 research outputs found
Photoelectron Escape Depth and Inelastic Secondaries in High Temperature Superconductors
We calculate the photoelectron escape depth in the high temperature
superconductor Bi2212 by use of electron energy-loss spectroscopy data. We find
that the escape depth is only 3 Ang. for photon energies typically used in
angle resolved photoemission measurements. We then use this to estimate the
number of inelastic secondaries, and find this to be quite small near the Fermi
energy. This implies that the large background seen near the Fermi energy in
photoemission measurements is of some other origin.Comment: 2 pages, revtex, 3 encapsulated postscript figure
Momentum dependence of the energy gap in the superconducting state of optimally doped Bi2(Sr,R)2CuOy (R=La and Eu)
The energy gap of optimally doped Bi2(Sr,R)2CuOy (R=La and Eu) was probed by
angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) using a vacuum ultraviolet
laser (photon energy 6.994 eV) or He I resonance line (21.218 eV) as photon
source. The results show that the gap around the node at sufficiently low
temperatures can be well described by a monotonic d-wave gap function for both
samples and the gap of the R=La sample is larger reflecting the higher Tc.
However, an abrupt deviation from the d-wave gap function and an opposite R
dependence for the gap size were observed around the antinode, which represent
a clear disentanglement between the antinodal pseudogap and the nodal
superconducting gap.Comment: Submitted as the proceedings of LT2
Geometric Parameterization of Absorption in Heavy Ion Collisions
We calculate the survival probability of particles in various
colliding systems using a Glauber model. An analysis of recent data has
reported a -nucleon breakup cross section of 6.20.7 mb derived
from an exponential fit to the ratio of to Drell-Yan yields as a
function of a simple, linearly-averaged mean path length through the nuclear
medium. Our calculations indicate that, due to the nature of the calculation,
this approach yields an apparent breakup cross section which is systematically
lower than the actual value.Comment: LaTex, 7 pages, 2 figure
Effect of Reducing Atmosphere on the Magnetism of Zn1-xCoxO Nanoparticles
We report the crystal structure and magnetic properties of Zn1-xCoxO
nanoparticles synthesized by heating metal acetates in organic solvent. The
nanoparticles were crystallized in wurtzite ZnO structure after annealing in
air and in a forming gas (Ar95%+H5%). The X-ray diffraction and X-ray
photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) data for different Co content show clear
evidence for the Co+2 ions in tetrahedral symmetry, indicating the substitution
of Co+2 in ZnO lattice. However samples with x=0.08 and higher cobalt content
also indicate the presence of Co metal clusters. Only those samples annealed in
the reducing atmosphere of the forming gas, and that showed the presence of
oxygen vacancies, exhibited ferromagnetism at room temperature. The air
annealed samples remained non-magnetic down to 77K. The essential ingredient in
achieving room temperature ferromagnetism in these Zn1-xCoxO nanoparticles was
found to be the presence of additional carriers generated by the presence of
the oxygen vacancies.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Nanotechnology IO
Characteristics of alpha projectile fragments emission in interaction of nuclei with emulsion
The properties of the relativistic alpha fragments produced in interactions
of 84^Kr at around 1 A GeV in nuclear emulsion are investigated. The
experimental results are compared with the similar results obtained from
various projectiles with emulsion interactions at different energies. The
total, partial nuclear cross-sections and production rates of alpha
fragmentation channels in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions and their
dependence on the mass number and initial energy of the incident projectile
nucleus are investigated. The yields of multiple alpha fragments emitted from
the interactions of projectile nuclei with the nuclei of light, medium and
heavy target groups of emulsion-detector are discussed and they indicate that
the projectile-breakup mechanism seems to be free from the target mass number.
It is found that the multiplicity distributions of alpha fragments are well
described by the Koba-Nielsen-Olesen (KNO) scaling presentation. The mean
multiplicities of the freshly produced newly created charged secondary
particles, normally known as shower and secondary particles associated with
target in the events where the emission of alpha fragments were accompanied by
heavy projectile fragments having Z value larger than 4 seem to be constant as
the alpha fragments multiplicity increases, and exhibit a behavior independent
of the alpha fragments multiplicity.Comment: 33 pages, 8 figures and 3 tables (in press
Anisotropic suppression in nuclear collisions
The nuclear overlap zone in non-central relativistic heavy ion collisions is
azimuthally very asymmetric. By varying the angle between the axes of
deformation and the transverse direction of the pair momenta, the suppression
of and will oscillate in a characteristic way. Whereas the
average suppression is mostly sensitive to the early and high density stages of
the collision, the amplitude is more sensitive to the late stages. This effect
provides additional information on the suppression mechanisms such as
direct absorption on participating nucleons, comover absorption or formation of
a quark-gluon plasma. The behavior of the average suppression and its
amplitude with centrality of the collisions is discussed for SPS, RHIC and LHC
energies with and without a phase transition.Comment: Revised and extended version, new figure
Extraction of the Electron Self-Energy from Angle Resolved Photoemission Data: Application to Bi2212
The self-energy , the fundamental function which
describes the effects of many-body interactions on an electron in a solid, is
usually difficult to obtain directly from experimental data. In this paper, we
show that by making certain reasonable assumptions, the self-energy can be
directly determined from angle resolved photoemission data. We demonstrate this
method on data for the high temperature superconductor
(Bi2212) in the normal, superconducting, and pseudogap phases.Comment: expanded version (6 pages), to be published, Phys Rev B (1 Sept 99
Leading nucleon and inelasticity in hadron-nucleus interactions
We present in this paper a calculation of the average proton-nucleus ine-
lasticity. Using an Iterative Leading Particle Model and the Glauber model, we
relate the leading particle distribution in nucleon-nucleus interactions with
the respective one in nucleon-proton collisions. To describe the leading
particle distribution in nucleon-proton collisions, we use the Regge-Mueller
formalism. To appear in Journal of Physics G.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figure
Shape resonance for the anisotropic superconducting gaps near a Lifshitz transition: the effect of electron hopping between layers
The multigap superconductivity modulated by quantum confinement effects in a
superlattice of quantum wells is presented. Our theoretical BCS approach
captures the low-energy physics of a shape resonance in the superconducting
gaps when the chemical potential is tuned near a Lifshitz transition. We focus
on the case of weak Cooper-pairing coupling channels and strong pair exchange
interaction driven by repulsive Coulomb interaction that allows to use the BCS
theory in the weak-coupling regime neglecting retardation effects like in
quantum condensates of ultracold gases. The calculated matrix element effects
in the pairing interaction are shown to yield a complex physics near the
particular quantum critical points due to Lifshitz transitions in multigap
superconductivity. Strong deviations of the ratio from the
standard BCS value as a function of the position of the chemical potential
relative to the Lifshitz transition point measured by the Lifshitz parameter
are found. The response of the condensate phase to the tuning of the Lifshitz
parameter is compared with the response of ultracold gases in the BCS-BEC
crossover tuned by an external magnetic field. The results provide the
description of the condensates in this regime where matrix element effects play
a key role.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Critical Examination of the "Field-Theoretical Approach" to the Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations in Nuclei
We demonstrate that so called "infrared divergences" which have been
discussed in some publications during several years, do not appear within the
correct treatment of analytical properties of the transition amplitudes, in
particular, of the second order pole structure of the amplitudes describing the
transition in nuclei. Explicit calculation with the help of the
Feynman diagram technique shows that the neutron-antineutron oscillations are
strongly suppressed in the deuteron, as well as in heavier nuclei, in
comparison with the oscillations in vacuum. General advantages and some
difficulties of the field theoretical methods applied in nuclear theory are
reminded for the particular example of the parity violating
capture amplitude.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures; prepared for Eur.Phys.J.
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