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Proton-3He elastic scattering at low energies and the "A_y Puzzle"
The Kohn variational principle and the hyperspherical harmonic technique are
applied to study p-3He elastic scattering at low energies. Preliminary results
obtained using several interaction models are reported. The calculations are
compared to a recent phase shift analysis performed at the Triangle University
Nuclear Laboratory and to the available experimental data. Using a
three-nucleon interaction derived from chiral perturbation theory at N2LO, we
have found a noticeable reduction of the discrepancy observed for the A_y
observable.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the 19th
International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Bonn, 200
Electromagnetic transitions for A=3 nuclear systems
Recent advances in the study of pd radiative capture in a wide range of
center-of-mass energy below and above deuteron breakup threshold are presented
and discussed.Comment: Invited lead talk at the 19th European Conference on Few-Body
Problems in Physics, Groningen, The Netherlands, 8/23 - 8/27 2004, 5 pages, 4
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Chiral effective field theory predictions for muon capture on deuteron and 3He
The muon-capture reactions 2H(\mu^-,\nu_\mu)nn and 3He(\mu^-,\nu_\mu)3H are
studied with nuclear strong-interaction potentials and charge-changing weak
currents, derived in chiral effective field theory. The low-energy constants
(LEC's) c_D and c_E, present in the three-nucleon potential and (c_D)
axial-vector current, are constrained to reproduce the A=3 binding energies and
the triton Gamow-Teller matrix element. The vector weak current is related to
the isovector component of the electromagnetic current via the
conserved-vector-current constraint, and the two LEC's entering the contact
terms in the latter are constrained to reproduce the A=3 magnetic moments. The
muon capture rates on deuteron and 3He are predicted to be 399(3) sec^{-1} and
1494 (21) sec^{-1}, respectively, where the spread accounts for the cutoff
sensitivity as well as uncertainties in the LEC's and electroweak radiative
corrections. By comparing the calculated and precisely measured rates on 3He, a
value for the induced pseudoscalar form factor is obtained in good agreement
with the chiral perturbation theory prediction.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, revisited version accepted for publication on
Phys. Rev. Let
Electromagnetic structure of A=2 and 3 nuclei and the nuclear current operator
Different models for conserved two- and three-body electromagnetic currents
are constructed from two- and three-nucleon interactions, using either
meson-exchange mechanisms or minimal substitution in the momentum dependence of
these interactions. The connection between these two different schemes is
elucidated. A number of low-energy electronuclear observables, including (i)
radiative capture at thermal neutron energies and deuteron
photodisintegration at low energies, (ii) and radiative capture
reactions, and (iii) isoscalar and isovector magnetic form factors of H and
He, are calculated in order to make a comparative study of these models for
the current operator. The realistic Argonne two-nucleon and Urbana IX
or Tucson-Melbourne three-nucleon interactions are taken as a case study. For
=3 processes, the bound and continuum wave functions, both below and above
deuteron breakup threshold, are obtained with the correlated
hyperspherical-harmonics method. Three-body currents give small but significant
contributions to some of the polarization observables in the
H()He process and the H()H cross section at
thermal neutron energies. It is shown that the use of a current which did not
exactly satisfy current conservation with the two- and three-nucleon
interactions in the Hamiltonian was responsible for some of the discrepancies
reported in previous studies between the experimental and theoretical
polarization observables in radiative capture.Comment: 48 pages, 25 figures, 4 tables, revtex4. Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Electrodisintegration of He below and above deuteron breakup threshold
Recent advances in the study of electrodisintegration of 3He are presented
and discussed. The pair-correlated hyperspherical harmonics method is used to
calculate the initial and final state wave functions, with a realistic
Hamiltonian consisting of the Argonne v18 two-nucleon and Urbana IX
three-nucleon interactions. The model for the nuclear current and charge
operators retains one- and many-body contributions. Particular attention is
made in the construction of the two-body current operators arising from the
momentum-dependent part of the two-nucleon interaction. Three-body current
operators are also included so that the full current operator is strictly
conserved. The present model for the nuclear current operator is tested
comparing theoretical predictions and experimental data of pd radiative capture
cross section and spin observables.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J.
Weak proton capture on 3He
The astrophysical S-factor for the proton weak capture on 3He is calculated
with correlated-hyperspherical-harmonics bound and continuum wave functions
corresponding to realistic Hamiltonians consisting of the Argonne v14 or
Argonne v18 two-nucleon and Urbana-VIII or Urbana-IX three-nucleon
interactions. The nuclear weak charge and current operators have vector and
axial-vector components, that include one- and many-body terms. All possible
multipole transitions connecting any of the p 3He S- and P-wave channels to the
4He bound state are considered. The S-factor at a p 3He center-of-mass energy
of 10 keV, close to the Gamow-peak energy, is predicted to be 10.1 10^{-20} keV
b with the AV18/UIX Hamiltonian, a factor of about 4.5 larger than the value
adopted in the standard solar model. The P-wave transitions are found to be
important, contributing about 40 % of the calculated S-factor. The energy
dependence is rather weak: the AV18/UIX zero-energy S-factor is 9.64 10^{-20}
keV b, only 5 % smaller than the 10 keV result quoted above. The model
dependence is also found to be weak: the zero-energy S-factor is calculated to
be 10.2 10^{-20} keV b with the older AV14/UVIII model, only 6 % larger than
the AV18/UIX result. Our best estimate for the S-factor at 10 keV is therefore
(10.1 \pm 0.6) 10^{-20} keV b, when the theoretical uncertainty due to the
model dependence is included. This value for the calculated S-factor is not as
large as determined in fits to the Super-Kamiokande data in which the hep flux
normalization is free. However, the precise calculation of the S-factor and the
consequent absolute prediction for the hep neutrino flux will allow much
greater discrimination among proposed solar neutrino oscillation solutions.Comment: 54 pages RevTex file, 6 PostScript figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Isospin mixing in the nucleon and 4He and the nucleon strange electric form factor
In order to isolate the contribution of the nucleon strange electric form
factor to the parity-violating asymmetry measured in 4He(\vec e,e')4He
experiments, it is crucial to have a reliable estimate of the magnitude of
isospin-symmetry-breaking (ISB) corrections in both the nucleon and 4He. We
examine this issue in the present letter. Isospin admixtures in the nucleon are
determined in chiral perturbation theory, while those in 4He are derived from
nuclear interactions, including explicit ISB terms. A careful analysis of the
model dependence in the resulting predictions for the nucleon and nuclear ISB
contributions to the asymmetry is carried out. We conclude that, at the low
momentum transfers of interest in recent measurements reported by the HAPPEX
collaboration at Jefferson Lab, these contributions are of comparable magnitude
to those associated with strangeness components in the nucleon electric form
factor.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, revtex
Theoretical Estimation of CO2 Compression and Transport Costs for an Hypothetical Carbon and Capture & Storage Requalification of the Saline Joniche Power Plant Project
SEI S.p.a. presented a project to build a 1320 MW coal-fired power plant in Saline Joniche, on the Southern tip of Calabria Region, Italy, in 2008. A gross early evaluation about the possibility to add CCS (CO2 Capture & Storage) was performed too. The project generated widespread opposition among environmental associations, citizens and local institutions in that period, against the coal use to produce energy, as a consequence of its GHG clima-alterating impact. Moreover the CCS (also named Carbon Capture & Storage or more recently CCUS: Carbon Capture-Usage-Storage) technology was at that time still an unknown and “mysterious” solution for the GHG avoiding to the atmosphere.  The present study concerns the sizing of the compression and transportation system of the CCS section, included in the project presented at the time by SEI Spa; the sizing of the compression station and the pipeline connecting the plant to the possible Fosca01 offshore injection site previously studied as a possible storage solution, as part of a coarse screening of CO2 storage sites in the Calabria Region. This study takes into account the costs of construction, operation and maintenance (O&M) of both the compression plant and the sound pipeline, considering the gross static storage capacity of the Fosca01 reservoir as a whole as previously evaluated
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