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Present status of coupled-channels calculations for heavy-ion subbarrier fusion reactions
The coupled-channels method has been a standard tool in analyzing heavy-ion
fusion reactions at energies around the Coulomb barrier. We investigate three
simplifications usually adopted in the coupled-channels calculations. These are
i) the exclusion of non-collective excitations, ii) the assumption of
coordinate independent coupling strengths, and iii) the harmonic oscillator
approximation for multi-phonon excitations. In connection to the last point, we
propose a novel microscopic method based on the beyond-mean-field approach in
order to take into account the anharmonic effects of collective vibrations.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures. A talk given at the 12th International
Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2015), June 21-26, Catania, Ital
Search for Rare b-hadron Decays at CDF
We report on searches for B^0_s to \mu^+ \mu^-, B^0_d to \mu^+ \mu^- decays
and b to s \mu^+\mu^- transitions in exclusive decays of B mesons.
Using 2 fb^{-1} of data collected by the CDF II detector we find upper limits
on the branching fractions B(B^0_s to \mu^+ \mu^-) < 5.8 x 10^{-8} and B(B^0_d
to \mu^+ \mu^-) < 1.8 x 10^{-8} at 95% confidence level.
Using 924 pb^{-1} of data we measure the branching fractions B(B^+ to \mu^+
\mu^- K^+) = (0.60 \pm 0.15 \pm 0.04) x 10^{-6}, B(B^0_d to \mu^+ \mu^- K^{*0})
= (0.82 \pm 0.31 \pm 0.10) x 10^{-6} and the limit B(B^0_s to \mu^+ \mu^-
phi)/B(B^0_s to J/\psi\phi) < 2.61(2.30) x 10^{-3} at 95(90)% confidence level.Comment: 3 pages, 5 figures, conference proceedings to the 2007 Europhysics
Conference on High Energy Physics (Manchester, July 2007
One-pion exchange current corrections for nuclear magnetic moments in relativistic mean field theory
The one-pion exchange current corrections to isoscalar and isovector magnetic
moments of double-closed shell nuclei plus and minus one nucleon with
and 41 have been studied in the relativistic mean field (RMF)
theory and compared with previous relativistic and non-relativistic results. It
has been found that the one-pion exchange current gives a negligible
contribution to the isoscalar magnetic moments but a significant correction to
the isovector ones. However, the one-pion exchange current doesn't improve the
description of nuclear isovector magnetic moments for the concerned nuclei.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure, 3 table
Etching-dependent reproducible memory switching in vertical SiO2 structures
Vertical structures of SiO sandwiched between a top tungsten electrode
and conducting non-metal substrate were fabricated by dry and wet etching
methods. Both structures exhibit similar voltage-controlled memory behaviors,
in which short voltage pulses (1 s) can switch the devices between high-
and low-impedance states. Through the comparison of current-voltage
characteristics in structures made by different methods, filamentary conduction
at the etched oxide edges is most consistent with the results, providing
insights into similar behaviors in metal/SiO/metal systems. High ON/OFF ratios
of over 10 were demonstrated.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures + 2 suppl. figure
Relativistic description of nuclear matrix elements in neutrinoless double- decay
Neutrinoless double- () decay is related to many
fundamental concepts in nuclear and particle physics beyond the standard model.
Currently there are many experiments searching for this weak process. An
accurate knowledge of the nuclear matrix element for the decay
is essential for determining the effective neutrino mass once this process is
eventually measured. We report the first full relativistic description of the
decay matrix element based on a state-of-the-art nuclear
structure model. We adopt the full relativistic transition operators which are
derived with the charge-changing nucleonic currents composed of the vector
coupling, axial-vector coupling, pseudoscalar coupling, and weak-magnetism
coupling terms. The wave functions for the initial and final nuclei are
determined by the multireference covariant density functional theory (MR-CDFT)
based on the point-coupling functional PC-PK1. The low-energy spectra and
electric quadrupole transitions in Nd and its daughter nucleus
Sm are well reproduced by the MR-CDFT calculations. The
decay matrix elements for both the
and decays of Nd are evaluated. The effects
of particle number projection, static and dynamic deformations, and the full
relativistic structure of the transition operators on the matrix elements are
studied in detail. The resulting decay matrix element for the
transition is , which gives the most optimistic
prediction for the next generation of experiments searching for the
decay in Nd.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures; table adde
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