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Doubly-differential cross section calculations for -shell vacancy production in lithium by fast O ion impact
Inner-shell vacancy production for the O-Li collision system at 1.5
MeV/amu is studied theoretically. The theory combines single-electron
amplitudes for each electron in the system to extract multielectron information
about the collision process. Doubly-differential cross sections obtained in
this way are then compared with the recent experimental data by LaForge et al.
[J. Phys. B 46, 031001 (2013)] yielding good resemblance, especially for low
outgoing electron energy. A careful analysis of the processes that contribute
to inner-shell vacancy production shows that the improvement of the results as
compared to single-active-electron calculations can be attributed to the
leading role of two-electron excitation-ionization processes
Data compression for the Cassini radio and plasma wave instrument
The Cassini Radio and Plasma Wave Science experiment will employ data compression to make effective use of the available data telemetry bandwidth. Some compression will be achieved by use of a lossless data compression chip and some by software in a dedicated 80C85 processor. A description of the instrument and data compression system are included in this report. Also, the selection of data compression systems and acceptability of data degradation is addressed
The Sensitivity of Auditory-Motor Representations to Subtle Changes in Auditory Feedback While Singing
Singing requires accurate control of the fundamental frequency (F0) of the voice. This study examined trained singers’ and untrained singers’ (nonsingers’) sensitivity to subtle manipulations in auditory feedback and the subsequent effect on the mapping between F0 feedback and vocal control. Participants produced the consonant-vowel /ta/ while receiving auditory feedback that was shifted up and down in frequency. Results showed that singers and nonsingers compensated to a similar degree when presented with frequency-altered feedback (FAF); however, singers’ F0 values were consistently closer to the intended pitch target. Moreover, singers initiated their compensatory responses when auditory feedback was shifted up or down 6 cents or more, compared to nonsingers who began compensating when feedback was shifted up 26 cents and down 22 cents. Additionally, examination of the first 50 ms of vocalization indicated that participants commenced subsequent vocal utterances, during FAF, near the F0 value on previous shift trials. Interestingly, nonsingers commenced F0 productions below the pitch target and increased their F0 until they matched the note. Thus, singers and nonsingers rely on an internal model to regulate voice F0, but singers’ models appear to be more sensitive in response to subtle discrepancies in auditory feedback
Model calculations of electron precipitation induced ionization patches on the nightside of Mars
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/94812/1/grl23162.pd
Ares I-X Upper Stage Simulator Compartment Pressure Comparisons During Ascent
Predictions of internal compartment pressures are necessary in the design of interstage regions, systems tunnels, and protuberance covers of launch vehicles to assess potential burst and crush loading of the structure. History has proven that unexpected differential pressure loads can lead to catastrophic failure. Pressures measured in the Upper Stage Simulator (USS) compartment of Ares I-X during flight were compared to post-flight analytical predictions using the CHCHVENT chamber-to-chamber venting analysis computer program. The measured pressures were enveloped by the analytical predictions for most of the first minute of flight but were outside of the predictions thereafter. This paper summarizes the venting system for the USS, discusses the probable reasons for the discrepancies between the measured and predicted pressures, and provides recommendations for future flight vehicles
A new approach to spherically symmetric junction surfaces and the matching of FLRW regions
We investigate timelike junctions (with surface layer) between spherically
symmetric solutions of the Einstein-field equation. In contrast to previous
investigations this is done in a coordinate system in which the junction
surface motion is absorbed in the metric, while all coordinates are continuous
at the junction surface.
The evolution equations for all relevant quantities are derived. We discuss
the no-surface layer case (boundary surface) and study the behaviour for small
surface energies. It is shown that one should expect cases in which the speed
of light is reached within a finite proper time.
We carefully discuss necessary and sufficient conditions for a possible
matching of spherically symmetric sections.
For timelike junctions between spherically symmetric space-time sections we
show explicitly that the time component of the Lanczos equation always reduces
to an identity (independently of the surface equation of state).
The results are applied to the matching of FLRW models. We discuss `vacuum
bubbles' and closed-open junctions in detail. As illustrations several
numerical integration results are presented, some of them indicate that the
junction surface can reach the speed of light within a finite time.Comment: new version - corrected boundary surface discussion, improved
presentation, and corrected reference 22 pages, many figure
Anderson impurity model at finite Coulomb interaction U: generalized Non-crossing Approximation
We present an extension of the non-crossing approximation (NCA), which is
widely used to calculate properties of Anderson impurity models in the limit of
infinite Coulomb repulsion , to the case of finite . A
self-consistent conserving pseudo-particle representation is derived by
symmetrizing the usual NCA diagrams with respect to empty and doubly occupied
local states. This requires an infinite summation of skeleton diagrams in the
generating functional thus defining the ``Symmetrized finite-U NCA'' (SUNCA).
We show that within SUNCA the low energy scale (Kondo temperature) is
correctly obtained, in contrast to other simpler approximations discussed in
the literature.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Twist-three analysis of photon electroproduction with pion
We study twist-three effects in spin, charge, and azimuthal asymmetries in
deeply virtual Compton scattering on a spin-zero target. Contributions which
are power suppressed in 1/Q generate a new azimuthal angle dependence of the
cross section which is not present in the leading twist results. On the other
hand the leading twist terms are not modified by the twist three contributions.
They may get corrected at twist four level. In the Wandzura-Wilczek
approximation these new terms in the Fourier expansion with respect to the
azimuthal angle are entirely determined by the twist-two skewed parton
distributions. We also discuss more general issues like the general form of the
angular dependence of the differential cross section, validity of factorization
at twist-three level, and a relation of skewed parton distributions to spectral
functions.Comment: 21 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures, text clarifications, an equation, a note
and references adde
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