403 research outputs found
O<sub>2</sub> photoabsorption in the 40 950–41 300 cm<sup>−1</sup> region: New Herzberg bands, new absorption lines, and improved spectroscopic data
The technique of cavity ring‐down (CRD) spectroscopy is particularly useful for measuring absorptions of very weak optical transitions. We have in this manner investigated the 40 950–41 300 cm−1 region in O2, where only absorption in the O2(A 3Σ+u–X 3Σ−g) 11‐0 band had been previously identified. Five new bands have been discovered in this range—the A′ 3Δu–X 3Σ−g 12‐0 and 13‐0 bands, the c 1Σ−u–X 3Σ−g 17‐0 and 18‐0 bands, and the A 3Σ+u−X 3Σ−g 12‐0 band. The origins of the F1 and F2 components of the latter lie only 7 cm−1 below the lowest dissociation limit, and 15 lines have been identified. No F3 levels were observed; apparently all are above the dissociation limit. The high instrumental sensitivity of the CRD technique has allowed observation of weak lines of the A–X 11‐0 band, and 12 of the 13 branches have been identified and their intensities measured. A very low upper limit has been set on the intensity of the thirteenth branch, Q13. We find 107 unidentified lines in the region, the stronger ones (19) lying in the vicinity of lines of the A–X 11‐0 band. The weaker ones (88) are spread throughout the spectral region, up to and even beyond the O2dissociation limit, and probably have their origin in transitions to very weakly bound O2 states, which may have atmospheric significance. These weaker lines have intensities that are typically 1%–5% of the strong A–X 11‐0 band lines
Final State Charge Exchange Interactions in the Reaction
The reaction is analyzed in a model which explicitly includes
final state interactions due to the coupling of the proton and neutron emission
channels. We find that the effects of the final state interactions due to
charge exchange reactions are important to get a good description of the
symmetry properties of the recently measured Mainz spectral functions. We
discuss the possible role the off-shell effects may play for the correct
interpretation of spectral functions at large positive missing momenta.Comment: 9 pages Revtex, 4 figure
The off-shell electromagnetic form factors of pions and kaons in chiral perturbation theory
The off-shell electromagnetic vertex of a (pseudo-) scalar particle contains,
in general, two form factors F and G which depend, in addition to the squared
momentum transfer, on the invariant masses associated with the initial and
final legs of the vertex. Chiral perturbation theory to one loop is used to
calculate the off-shell form factors of pions and kaons. The formalism of
Gasser and Leutwyler, which was previously used to calculate the on-shell limit
of the form factor F, is extended to accommodate the most general form for
off-shell Green's functions in the pseudoscalar meson sector. We find that
chiral symmetry predicts that the form factors F of the charged pions and kaons
go off-shell in the same way, i.e., the off-shell slope at the real photon
point is given by the same new phenomenological constant .
Furthermore, it is shown that at order the form factor F of the
does not show any off-shell dependence. The form factors G are all related to
the form factors F in the correct fashion as required by the Ward-Takahashi
identity. Numerical results for different off-shell kinematics are presented.Comment: TRIUMF preprint TRI-PP-94-4, 25 pages in LaTeX + 10 figures
(uufile'd, compressed PostScript file appended at end, hardcopy available
from authors
Final report of comprehensive testing program for concrete at elevated temperatures
The objective of this program was to define the variations in physical (thermal) and mechanical (strength) properties of limestone aggregate concrete and lightweight insulating concrete exposed to elevated temperatures that could occur as a result of a postulated large sodium spill in a lined LMFBR equipment cell. To meet this objective, five test series were conducted: (1) unconfined compression, (2) shear, (3) rebar bond, (4) sustained loading (creep), and (5) thermal properties. Mechanical property results are presented for concretes subjected to temperature up to 621{sup 0}C (1150{sup 0}F)
Antiproton-nucleus electromagnetic annihilation as a way to access the proton timelike form factors
Contrary to the reaction pbar + p --> e+ e- with a high momentum incident
antiproton on a free target proton at rest, in which the invariant mass M of
the (e+ e-) pair is necessarily much larger than the (pbar p) mass, in the
reaction pbar + d --> n e+ e- the value of M can take values near or below the
(pbar p) mass. In the antiproton-deuteron electromagnetic annihilation, this
allows to access the proton electromagnetic form factors in the time-like
region of q^2 near the (pbar p) threshold. We estimate the cross section
dsigma(pbar +d --> e+ e- n)/dM for an antiproton beam momentum of 1.5 GeV/c. We
find that near the (pbar p) threshold this cross section is about 1 pb/MeV. The
case of heavy nuclei target is also discussed. Elements of experimental
feasibility are presented for the process pbar + d --> n e+ e- in the context
of the Panda project.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figures. submitted to EPJ
Robust Entanglement in Atomic Systems via Lambda-Type Processes
It is shown that the system of two three-level atoms in
configuration in a cavity can evolve to a long-lived maximum entangled state if
the Stokes photons vanish from the cavity by means of either leakage or
damping. The difference in evolution picture corresponding to the general model
and effective model with two-photon process in two-level system is discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Electromagnetic form factors of the bound nucleon
We calculate electromagnetic form factors of the proton bound in specified
orbits for several closed shell nuclei. The quark structure of the nucleon and
the shell structure of the finite nuclei are given by the QMC model. We find
that orbital electromagnetic form factors of the bound nucleon deviate
significantly from those of the free nucleon.Comment: 12 pages including 4 ps figure
Electromagnetic form factor of the pion in the space- and time-like regions within the front-form dynamics
The pion electromagnetic form factor is calculated in the space- and
time-like regions from -10 up to 10 , within a
front-form model. The dressed photon vertex where a photon decays in a
quark-antiquark pair is depicted generalizing the vector meson dominance
ansatz, by means of the vector meson vertex functions. An important feature of
our model is the description of the on-mass-shell vertex functions in the
valence sector, for the pion and the vector mesons, through the front-form wave
functions obtained within a realistic quark model. The theoretical results show
an excellent agreement with the data in the space-like region, while in the
time-like region the description is quite encouraging.Comment: 9 pages + 4 figures. To appear in Phys. Lett.
A Gauge Invariant Unitary Theory for Pion Photoproduction
A covariant, unitary and gauge invariant theory for pion photoproduction on a
single nucleon is presented. To achieve gauge invariance at the operator level
one needs to include both the and thresholds. The final
amplitude can be written in terms of a distorted wave in the final
channel provided one includes additional diagrams to the standard Born term in
which the photon is coupled to the final state pion and nucleon. These
additional diagrams are required in order to satisfy gauge invariance.Comment: 4 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure as a separate uuencoded compressed tar fil
Canonical Formulation of the Light-Front Gluodynamics and Quantization of the Non-Abelian Plane Waves
Without a gauge fixing, canonical variables for the light-front SU(2)
gluodynamics are determined. The Gauss law is written in terms of the canonical
variables. The system is qualified as a generalized dynamical system with first
class constraints. Abeliazation is a specific feature of the formulation (most
of the canonical variables transform nontrivially only under the action of an
Abelian subgroup of the gauge transformations). At finite volume, a discrete
spectrum of the light-front Hamiltonian is obtained in the sector of
vanishing . We obtain, therefore, a quantized form of the classical
solutions previously known as non-Abelian plane waves. Then, considering the
infinite volume limit, we find that the presence of the mass gap depends on the
way the infinite volume limit is taken, which may suggest the presence of
different ``phases'' of the infinite volume theory. We also check that the
formulation obtained is in accord with the standard perturbation theory if the
latter is taken in the covariant gauges.Comment: REVTEX, 18 pages, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
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