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NIEL Dose Dependence for Solar Cells Irradiated with Electrons and Protons
The investigation of solar cells degradation and the prediction of its
end-of-life performance is of primary importance in the preparation of a space
mission. In the present work, we investigate the reduction of solar-cells'
maximum power resulting from irradiations with electrons and protons. Both GaAs
single junction and GaInP/GaAs/Ge triple junction solar cells were studied. The
results obtained indicate how i) the dominant radiation damaging mechanism is
due to atomic displacements, ii) the relative maximum power degradation is
almost independent of the type of incoming particle, i.e., iii) to a first
approximation, the fitted semi-empirical function expressing the decrease of
maximum power depends only on the absorbed NIEL dose, and iv) the actual
displacement threshold energy value (Ed=21 eV) accounts for annealing
treatments, mostly due to self-annealing induced effects. Thus, for a given
type of solar cell, a unique maximum power degradation curve can be determined
as a function of the absorbed NIEL dose. The latter expression allows one to
predict the performance of those solar cells in space radiation environment.Comment: To appear on the Proceedings of the 13th ICATPP Conference on
Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics and Detectors for Physics
Applications, Villa Olmo (Como, Italy), 23--27 October, 2013, to be published
by World Scientific (Singapore
Production of QED pairs at small impact parameter in relativistic heavy ion collisions
The STAR collaboration at RHIC is measuring the production of
electron-positron pairs at small impact parameters, larger than but already
close to the range, where the ions interact strongly with each other. We
calculate the total cross section, as well as, differential distributions of
the pair production process with the electromagnetic excitation of both ions in
a semiclassical approach and within a lowest order QED calculation. We compare
the distribution of electron and positron with the one coming from the cross
section calculation without restriction on impact parameter. Finally we give an
outlook of possible results at the LHC.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figure
Hadron collider limits on anomalous couplings
A next-to-leading log calculation of the reactions and
is presented including a tri-boson
gauge coupling from non-Standard Model contributions. Two approaches are made
for comparison. The first approach considers the tri-boson coupling
as being uniquely fixed by tree level unitarity at high energies to its
Standard Model form and, consequently, suppresses the non-Standard Model
contributions with form factors. The second approach is to ignore such
considerations and calculate the contributions to non-Standard Model tri-boson
gauge couplings without such suppressions. It is found that at Tevatron
energies, the two approaches do not differ much in quantitative results, while
at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies the two approaches give significantly
different predictions for production rates. At the Tevatron and LHC, however,
the sensitivity limits on the anomalous coupling of are too weak to
usefully constrain parameters in effective Lagrangian models.Comment: Revtex 23 pages + 8 figures, UIOWA-94-1
Experimental Monte Carlo Quantum Process Certification
Experimental implementations of quantum information processing have now
reached a level of sophistication where quantum process tomography is
impractical. The number of experimental settings as well as the computational
cost of the data post-processing now translates to days of effort to
characterize even experiments with as few as 8 qubits. Recently a more
practical approach to determine the fidelity of an experimental quantum process
has been proposed, where the experimental data is compared directly to an ideal
process using Monte Carlo sampling. Here we present an experimental
implementation of this scheme in a circuit quantum electrodynamics setup to
determine the fidelity of two qubit gates, such as the cphase and the cnot
gate, and three qubit gates, such as the Toffoli gate and two sequential cphase
gates
Effective-range approach and scaling laws for electromagnetic strength in neutron-halo nuclei
We study low-lying multipole strength in neutron-halo nuclei. The strength
depends only on a few low-energy constants: the neutron separation energy, the
asymptotic normalization coefficient of the bound state wave function, and the
scattering length that contains the information on the interaction in the
continuum. The shape of the transition probability shows a characteristic
dependence on few scaling parameters and the angular momenta. The total E1
strength is related to the root-mean-square radius of the neutron wave function
in the ground state and shows corresponding scaling properties. We apply our
approach to the E1 strength distribution of 11Be.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure (modified), additional table, extended discussion
of example, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
Using Sideband Transitions for Two-Qubit Operations in Superconducting Circuits
We demonstrate time resolved driving of two-photon blue sideband transitions
between superconducting qubits and a transmission line resonator. Using the
sidebands, we implement a pulse sequence that first entangles one qubit with
the resonator, and subsequently distributes the entanglement between two
qubits. We show generation of 75% fidelity Bell states by this method. The full
density matrix of the two qubit system is extracted using joint measurement and
quantum state tomography, and shows close agreement with numerical simulation.
The scheme is potentially extendable to a scalable universal gate for quantum
computation.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, version with high resolution figures available at
http://qudev.ethz.ch/content/science/PubsPapers.htm
Cavity QED with separate photon storage and qubit readout modes
We present the realization of a cavity quantum electrodynamics setup in which
photons of strongly different lifetimes are engineered in different harmonic
modes of the same cavity. We achieve this in a superconducting transmission
line resonator with superconducting qubits coupled to the different modes. One
cavity mode is strongly coupled to a detection line for qubit state readout,
while a second long lifetime mode is used for photon storage and coherent
quantum operations. We demonstrate sideband based measurement of photon
coherence, generation of n photon Fock states and the scaling of the sideband
Rabi frequency with the square root of n using a scheme that may be extended to
realize sideband based two-qubit logic gates.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, version with high resolution figures available at
http://qudev.ethz.ch/content/science/PubsPapers.htm
and couplings in collision with polarized beams
The potential of e mode of linear collider to probe
and vertices is investigated through the Z boson
production from the procees . Considering the longitudinal and
transverse polarization states of the Z boson and incoming polarized beams we
find the 95% C.L. limits on the form factors , ,
and with integrated luminosity 500
and 0.5, 1, 1.5 TeV energies. It is shown that the polarization can
improve sensitivities by factors 2-3 depending on the energy.Comment: 12 pages, 8 EPS figure
Probing Trilinear Gauge Boson Interactions via Single Electroweak Gauge Boson Production at the LHC
We analyze the potential of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to study
anomalous trilinear vector-boson interactions W^+ W^- \gamma and W^+ W^- Z
through the single production of electroweak gauge bosons via the weak boson
fusion processes q q -> q q W (-> \ell^\pm \nu) and q q -> q q Z(-> \ell^+
\ell^-) with \ell = e or \mu. After a careful study of the standard model
backgrounds, we show that the single production of electroweak bosons at the
LHC can provide stringent tests on deviations of these vertices from the
standard model prediction. In particular, we show that single gauge boson
production exhibits a sensitivity to the couplings \Delta \kappa_{Z,\gamma}
similar to that attainable from the analysis of electroweak boson pair
production.Comment: 20 pages, 6 figure
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