7 research outputs found
Rare processes and coherent phenomena in crystals
We study coherent enhancement of Coulomb excitation of high energy particles
in crystals. We develop multiple scattering theory description of coherent
excitation which consistently incorporates both the specific resonant
properties of particle-crystal interactions and the final/initial state
interaction effects typical of the diffractive scattering. Possible
applications to observation of induced radiative neutrino transitions are
discussed.Comment: 8 pages, LaTe
Anharmonic vs. relaxational sound damping in glasses: I. Brillouin scattering from densified silica
This series discusses the origin of sound damping and dispersion in glasses.
In particular, we address the relative importance of anharmonicity versus
thermally activated relaxation. In this first article, Brillouin-scattering
measurements of permanently densified silica glass are presented. It is found
that in this case the results are compatible with a model in which damping and
dispersion are only produced by the anharmonic coupling of the sound waves with
thermally excited modes. The thermal relaxation time and the unrelaxed velocity
are estimated.Comment: 9 pages with 7 figures, added reference
Probing the equation of state in the AGS energy range with 3-d hydrodynamics
The effect of (i) the phase transition between a quark gluon plasma (QGP) and
a hadron gas and (ii) the number of resonance degrees of freedom in the
hadronic phase on the single inclusive distributions of 16 different types of
produced hadrons for Au+Au collisions at AGS energies is studied.
We have used an exact numerical solution of the relativistic hydrodynamical
equations without free parameters which, because of its 3-d character,
constitutes a considerable improvement over the classical Landau solution.
Using two different equations of state (eos) - one containing a phase
transition from QGP to the Hadronic Phase and two versions of a purely hadronic
eos - we find that the first one gives an overall better description of the
Au+Au experimental data at energies.
We reproduce and analyse measured meson and proton spectra and also make
predictions for anti-protons, deltas, anti-deltas and hyperons. The low m_t
enhancement in pi- spectra is explained by baryon number conservation and
strangeness equilibration.
We also find that negative kaon data are more sensitive to the eos, as well
as the K-/pi- ratio. All hyperons and deltas are sensitive to the presence of a
phase transition in the forward rapidity region. Anti-protons, Omegas and heavy
anti-baryons are sensitive in the whole rapidity range.Comment: 25 pages (.tex) and 9 figures (.ps
Microscopic calculations of the excitation spectrum of one 3He impurity in liquid 4He
We calculate the chemical potential ¿0 and the effective mass m*/m3 of one 3He impurity in liquid 4He. First a variational wave function including two- and three-particle dynamical correlations is adopted. Triplet correlations bring the computed values of ¿0 very close to the experimental results. The variational estimate of m*/m3 includes also backflow correlations between the 3He atom and the particles in the medium. Different approximations for the three-particle distribution function give almost the same values for m*/m3. The variational approach underestimates m*/m3 by ~10% at all of the considered densities. Correlated-basis perturbation theory is then used to improve the wave function to include backflow around the particles of the medium. The perturbative series built up with one-phonon states only is summed up to infinite order and gives results very close to the variational ones. All the perturbative diagrams with two independent phonons have then been summed to compute m*/m3. Their contribution depends to some extent on the form used for the three-particle distribution function. When the scaling approximation is adopted, a reasonable agreement with the experimental results is achieved