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Calculation of isotope shifts and relativistic shifts in CI, CII, CIII and CIV
We present an accurate ab initio method of calculating isotope shifts and
relativistic shifts in atomic spectra. We test the method on neutral carbon and
three carbon ions. The relativistic shift of carbon lines may allow them to be
included in analyses of quasar absorption spectra that seek to measure possible
variations in the fine structure constant, alpha, over the lifetime of the
Universe. Carbon isotope shifts can be used to measure isotope abundances in
gas clouds: isotope abundances are potentially an important source of
systematic error in the alpha-variation studies. These abundances are also
needed to study nuclear reactions in stars and supernovae, and test models of
chemical evolution of the Universe
Fermi acceleration in time-dependent rectangular billiards due to multiple passages through resonances
We consider a slowly rotating rectangular billiard with moving boundaries and
use the canonical perturbation theory to describe the dynamics of a billiard
particle. In the process of slow evolution certain resonance conditions can be
satisfied. Correspondingly, phenomena of scattering on a resonance and capture
into a resonance happen in the system. These phenomena lead to destruction of
adiabatic invariance and to unlimited acceleration of the particle.Comment: 20 pages. Presented on School-Conference "Mathematics and Physics of
Billiard-Like Systems" (Ubatuba, 2011). Accepted to Chao
Enhancement of the electric dipole moment of the electron in PbO
The a(1) state of PbO can be used to measure the electric dipole moment of
the electron d_e. We discuss a semiempirical model for this state, which yields
an estimate of the effective electric field on the valence electrons in PbO.
Our final result is an upper limit on the measurable energy shift, which is
significantly larger than was anticipated earlier: .Comment: 4 pages, revtex4, no figures, submitted to PR
Using Molecules to Measure Nuclear Spin-Dependent Parity Violation
Nuclear spin-dependent parity violation arises from weak interactions between
electrons and nucleons, and from nuclear anapole moments. We outline a method
to measure such effects, using a Stark-interference technique to determine the
mixing between opposite-parity rotational/hyperfine levels of ground-state
molecules. The technique is applicable to nuclei over a wide range of atomic
number, in diatomic species that are theoretically tractable for
interpretation. This should provide data on anapole moments of many nuclei, and
on previously unmeasured neutral weak couplings
Constants of Geodesic Motion in Higher-Dimensional Black-Hole Spacetimes
In [arXiv:hep-th/0611083] we announced the complete integrability of geodesic
motion in the general higher-dimensional rotating black-hole spacetimes. In the
present paper we prove all the necessary steps leading to this conclusion. In
particular, we demonstrate the independence of the constants of motion and the
fact that they Poisson commute. The relation to a different set of constants of
motion constructed in [arXiv:hep-th/0612029] is also briefly discussed.Comment: 8 pages, no figure
Complete Integrability of Geodesic Motion in General Kerr-NUT-AdS Spacetimes
We explicitly exhibit n-1 constants of motion for geodesics in the general
D-dimensional Kerr-NUT-AdS rotating black hole spacetime, arising from
contractions of even powers of the 2-form obtained by contracting the geodesic
velocity with the dual of the contraction of the velocity with the
(D-2)-dimensional Killing-Yano tensor. These constants of motion are
functionally independent of each other and of the D-n+1 constants of motion
that arise from the metric and the D-n = [(D+1)/2] Killing vectors, making a
total of D independent constants of motion in all dimensions D. The Poisson
brackets of all pairs of these D constants are zero, so geodesic motion in
these spacetimes is completely integrable.Comment: 4 pages. We have now found that the geodesic motion is not just
integrable, but completely integrabl
Effect of long-term creep on microstructure of a 9% Cr heat resistant steel
The effect of long-term creep at 600°C under 137 MPa on the microstructure of a P92- type steel was investigated. The microstructure after tempering consisted of laths with an average thickness of 400 nm. Dispersion of secondary phases consists of M₂₃C₆ carbides with an average size of 85 nm located mainly on lath, block and prior austenite boundaries and MX carbonitrides with average size of 31 nm homogeniously distributed throughou
Some forgotten features of the Bose Einstein Correlations
Notwithstanding the visible maturity of the subject of Bose-Einstein
Correlations (BEC), as witnessed nowadays, we would like to bring to ones
attention two points, which apparently did not received attention they deserve:
the problem of the choice of the form of correlation function when
effects of partial coherence of the hadronizing source are to be included and
the feasibility to model effects of Bose-Einstein statistics, in particular the
BEC, by direct numerical simulations.Comment: Talk delivered by G.Wilk at the International Workshop {\it
Relativistic Nuclear Physics: from Nuclotron to LHC energies}, Kiev, June
18-22, 2007, Ukraine; misprints correcte
Difference between radiative transition rates in atoms and antiatoms
We demonstrate that CP violation results in a difference of the partial decay
rates of atoms and antiatoms. The magnitude of this difference is estimated.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
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