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Observation of blue-shifted ultralong-range Cs Rydberg molecules
We observe ultralong-range blue-shifted Cs molecular states near
Rydberg states in an optical dipole trap, where .
The accidental near degeneracy of and Rydberg states for in
Cs, due to the small fractional quantum defect, leads to non-adiabatic
coupling among these states, producing potential wells above the
thresholds. Two important consequences of admixing high angular momentum states
with states are the formation of large permanent dipole moments, Debye, and accessibility of these states via two-photon association.
The observed states are in excellent agreement with theory. Both projections of
the total angular momentum on the internuclear axis are visible in the
experiment
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Quantum Chromodynamics Resolution of the ATOMKI Anomaly in Nuclear Transitions
Recent observations of the angular correlation spectra in the decays and have
been suggested as due to the creation and subsequent decay to an
electron-positron pair of a new light particle with a mass of MeV. In
this work, we present a calculation of the invariant mass spectrum
of the electromagnetic transition of an excited state of helium and estimate
the differential and total width of the decay. We investigate the possibility
that the source of the signal is an pair created by a new
electromagnetic decay of caused by a proposed 12-quark hidden-color
Fock state in the nuclear wavefunction, the "hexadiquark.'' We
find that we can fit the shape of the signal with the QCD Fock state at
excitation energy MeV and a Gaussian form factor for
the electromagnetic decay. We address the physical issues with the fit
parameters using properties of the hexadiquark state. In light of this work, we
emphasize the need for independent experimental confirmation or refutation of
the ATOMKI results as well as further experiments to detect the proposed new
excitation of .Comment: Condensed version, 8 pages, 3 figures, comments welcom
Dynamic Penetration Studies in Crushed Rock under Atmospheric and Vacuum Conditions
A device was constructed to study dynamic penetration in crushed rock both in air and a
high-vacuum (10^(-5) mm Hg) condition. The apparatus is designed to drop cylindrical, metal
rods, pointed on one end, into cohesion-less crushed rock material. Dynamic penetration is
studied as a function of several particle sizes and mixtures of these particle sizes. Other
factors considered are the density of packing, probe dimensions, vacuum pressure, and vacuum
degassing rates. Experimental results show that the density of packing of the crushed rock
particles is the dominant factor affecting the dynan1ic penetration. The maximum penetration occurs in air in the crushed rock with low-density packing. The 1ninimum penetration
occurs in air in densely packed material. Dynamic penetration in vacuum for the low-density
and high-density packing lies between the results of penetration in air for the same
packing conditions. At vacuum pressures above approximately 0.1 mm Hg, all penetration values approach the air penetration measurements
Hyperspherical Description of the Degenerate Fermi Gas: S-wave Interactions
We present a unique theoretical description of the physics of the spherically
trapped -atom degenerate Fermi gas (DFG) at zero temperature based on an
ordinary Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a microscopic, two body interaction
potential. With a careful choice of coordinates and a variational wavefunction,
the many body Schr\"{o}dinger equation can be accurately described by a
\emph{linear}, one dimensional effective Schr\"{o}dinger equation in a single
collective coordinate, the rms radius of the gas. Comparisons of the energy,
rms radius and peak density of ground state energy are made to those predicted
by Hartree-Fock (HF). Also the lowest radial excitation frequency (the
breathing mode frequency) agrees with a sum rule calculation, but deviates from
a HF prediction
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