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    Theoretical study of transition radiation from hot electrons generated in the laser-solid interaction

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    Copyright 2003 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Physics of Plasmas, 10(7), 2994-3003, 2003 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.157638

    Magnetic Ground State of Pr0.89_{0.89}LaCe0.11_{0.11}CuO4+α−δ_{4+\alpha-\delta} with Varied Oxygen Depletion Probed by Muon Spin Relaxation

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    The magnetic ground state of an electron-doped cuprate superconductor Pr1−x_{1-x}LaCex_xCuO4+α−δ_{4+\alpha-\delta} (x=0.11,α≃0.04x=0.11, \alpha\simeq0.04) has been studied by means of muon spin rotation/relaxation (\msr) over a wide variety of oxygen depletion, 0.03≤δ≤0.120.03\le\delta\le0.12. Appearance of weak random magnetism over entire crystal volume has been revealed by a slow exponential relaxation. The absence of δ\delta-dependence for the random magnetism and the multiplet pattern of muon Knight shift at higher fields strongly suggest that the random moments are associated with excited Pr3+^{3+} ions under crystal electric field.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp

    Characterization of preplasma produced by an ultrahigh intensity laser system

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    Copyright 2004 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Physics of Plasmas, 11(8), 3721-3725, 2004 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.176077

    Advances in single crystal growth and annealing treatment of electron-doped HTSC

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    High quality electron-doped HTSC single crystals of Pr2−xCexCuO4+δ\rm Pr_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4+\delta} and Nd2−xCexCuO4+δ\rm Nd_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4+\delta} have been successfully grown by the container-free traveling solvent floating zone technique. The optimally doped Pr2−xCexCuO4+δ\rm Pr_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4+\delta} and Nd2−xCexCuO4+δ\rm Nd_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4+\delta} crystals have transition temperatures TcT_{\rm c} of 2525\,K and 23.523.5\,K, respectively, with a transition width of less than 11\,K. We found a strong dependence of the optimal growth parameters on the Ce content xx. We discuss the optimization of the post-growth annealing treatment of the samples, the doping extension of the superconducting dome for both compounds as well as the role of excess oxygen. The absolute oxygen content of the as-grown crystals is determined from thermogravimetric experiments and is found to be ≥4.0\ge 4.0. This oxygen surplus is nearly completely removed by a post-growth annealing treatment. The reduction process is reversible as demonstrated by magnetization measurements. In as-grown samples the excess oxygen resides on the apical site O(3). This apical oxygen has nearly no doping effect, but rather influences the evolution of superconductivity by inducing additional disorder in the CuO2_{2} layers. The very high crystal quality of Nd2−xCexCuO4+δ\rm Nd_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4+\delta} is particularly manifest in magnetic quantum oscillations observed on several samples at different doping levels. They provide a unique opportunity of studying the Fermi surface and its dependence on the carrier concentration in the bulk of the crystals.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J.

    Absence of magnetic field effect on static magnetic order in electron-doped superconductor Nd_{1.86}Ce_{0.14}CuO_4

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    Neutron-scattering experiments were performed to study the magnetic field effect on the electron-doped cuprate superconductor Nd_{1.86}Ce_{0.14}CuO_4, which shows the coexistence of magnetic order and superconductivity. The (1/2 3/2 0) magnetic Bragg intensity, which mainly originates from the order of both the Cu and Nd moments at low temperatures, shows no magnetic field dependence when the field is applied perpendicular to the CuO_{2} plane up to 10 T above the upper critical field. This result is significantly different from that reported for the hole-doped cuprate superconductors, in which the quasi-static magnetic order is noticeably enhanced under a magnetic field.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure

    Association of body mass index and height with risk of prostate cancer among middle-aged Japanese men

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    In a population-based prospective study of 49 850 Japanese men, body mass index and height were not significantly associated with risk of prostate cancer (311 cases), although small positive effects could not be ruled out in advanced cases (91 cases)
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