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Isotope shifts and hyperfine structure of the laser cooling Fe I 358-nm line
We report on the measurement of the isotope shifts of the Fe~I line at 358~nm between all four
stable isotopes Fe, Fe, Fe and Fe, as well
as the hyperfine structure of that line for Fe, the only stable
isotope having a nonzero nuclear spin. This line is of primary importance for
laser cooling applications. In addition, an experimental value of the field and
specific mass shift coefficients of the transition is reported as well as the
hyperfine structure magnetic dipole coupling constant of the transition
excited state in Fe, namely
MHz. The measurements were carried out by means of laser-induced fluorescence
spectroscopy performed on an isotope-enriched iron atomic beam. All measured
frequency shifts are reported with uncertainties below the third percent level.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Emergence of heterogeneity and political organization in information exchange networks
We present a simple model of the emergence of the division of labor and the
development of a system of resource subsidy from an agent-based model of
directed resource production with variable degrees of trust between the agents.
The model has three distinct phases, corresponding to different forms of
societal organization: disconnected (independent agents), homogeneous
cooperative (collective state), and inhomogeneous cooperative (collective state
with a leader). Our results indicate that such levels of organization arise
generically as a collective effect from interacting agent dynamics, and may
have applications in a variety of systems including social insects and
microbial communities.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Quality Assurance System to monitor the teaching and learning process at the University of Aveiro (Portugal)
At the University of Aveiro (UA), in Portugal, institutional initiatives are being undertaken so that high levels of quality teaching and learning are achieved. This paper presents (a) the design of an evaluation model for quality assurance of teaching and learning and (b) the results of its application in a pilot study that ran in 2008/09 at the Departments of Electronics and Telecommunications, and Physics, of the UA. The Quality Assurance System (QAS) to monitor the process of teaching and learning at the UA emerges as extremely important, not only to regulate the teaching and learning process, following the quality assurance orientations at a national and international level, but also to reflect and share teaching practices that enhance the whole academic experience, both from students, teachers, and researchers‟ perspectives. The authors explore the design of the model and some findings of the pilot study, more specifically the identification of problematic and good practice situations identified by the students‟ survey and reports
Isotope shifts and hyperfine structure of the Fe I 372 nm resonance line
We report measurements of the isotope shifts of the Fe I resonance line at 372 nm between all four stable
isotopes Fe, Fe, Fe, and Fe, as well as the
complete hyperfine structure of that line for Fe, the only stable
isotope having a non-zero nuclear spin. The field and specific mass shift
coefficients of the transition have been derived from the data, as well as the
experimental value for the hyperfine structure magnetic dipole coupling
constant of the excited state of the transition in Fe: MHz. The measurements were done by means of Doppler-free
laser saturated-absorption spectroscopy in a Fe-Ar hollow cathode using both
natural and enriched iron samples. The measured isotope shifts and hyperfine
constants are reported with uncertainties at the percent level.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Linking educational research to institutional measures of quality enhancement: a Portuguese project
At the University of Aveiro (UA), an institutional initiative is taking place for assessing and monitoring the quality of teaching and learning in Higher Education. The Quality Assurance System (QAS) of the teaching and learning process at the UA emerges as extremely important, not only to regulate the teaching and learning process, following the quality assurance orientations at a national and international level, but also to reflect and share teaching practices that enhance the whole academic experience, both from the students, the teachers, and researchers’ perspective. The authors explore the design of the model and a research study that aims to integrate the perspectives of students and teachers, through the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data - gathered in the evaluation model, so that: (i) intervention strategies/activities can be conceptualised for coping with the identified problems; (ii) a set of guidelines can be designed for the improvement of the evaluation model and associated instruments, and (iii) the QAS model and its results can be discussed with academia in terms of strengths and weaknesses aiming to engage them in the process of monitoring. This study is an effort to conciliate the educational research carried out by members of the Laboratory for the Evaluation of Educational Quality and the institutional framework for quality assurance
Neutral Heavy Leptons and Electroweak Baryogenesis
We investigate the possibility that baryogenesis occurs during the weak phase
transition in a minimal extension of the Standard Model which contains extra
neutral leptons and conserves total lepton number. The necessary CP-violating
phases appear in the leptonic Yukawa couplings. We compute the CP-asymmetries
in both the neutral and the charged lepton fluxes reflected on the bubble wall.
Using present experimental bounds on the mixing angles and Standard Model
estimates for the parameters related to the scalar potential, we conclude that
it seems unlikely to produce the observed baryon to entropy ratio within this
type of models. We comment on the possibility that the constraints on the
mixings might be naturally relaxed due to small finite temperature effects.Comment: 21 pages (4 Figures
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