475 research outputs found
Diffraction radiation from a screen of finite conductivity
An exact solution has been found for the problem of diffraction radiation
appearing when a charged particle moves perpendicularly to a thin finite screen
having arbitrary conductivity and frequency dispersion. Expressions describing
the Diffraction and Cherenkov emission mechanisms have been obtained for the
spectral-angular forward and backward radiation densities.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Extensive infrared spectroscopic study of CuO: signatures of strong spin-phonon interaction and structural distortion
Optical properties of single-crystal monoclinic CuO in the range 70 - 6000
\cm were studied at temperatures from 7 to 300 K. Normal reflection spectra
were obtained from the (001) and (010) crystal faces thus giving for the first
time separate data for the and phonon modes excited in the
purely transverse way (TO modes). Mode parameters, including polarizations of
the modes not determined by the crystal symmetry, were extracted by the
dispersion analysis of reflectivity curves as a function of temperature.
Spectra of all the components of the optical conductivity tensor were obtained
using the Kramers-Kronig method recently extended to the case of the
low-symmetry crystals. The number of strong phonon modes is in agreement with
the factor-group analysis for the crystal structure, currently accepted for the
CuO. However, several "extra" modes of minor intensity are detected. Comparison
of frequencies of "extra" modes with the available phonon dispersion curves
points to possible "diagonal" doubling of the unit cell \{{\bf a}, {\bf b},
{\bf c}\} \{{\bf a}+{\bf c}, {\bf b}, {\bf a}-{\bf c}\} and formation of
the superlattice. The previously reported softening of the mode
( 400 \cm) with cooling at is found to be 10 % for the TO
mode. The mode is very broad at high temperatures and strongly narrows in the
AFM phase. We attribute this effect to strong resonance coupling of this mode
to optical or acoustic bi-magnons and reconstruction of the magnetic
excitations spectrum at the N\'eel point. A significant anisotropy of
is observed: it was found to be 5.9 along the {\bf b}-axis,
6.2 along the {[}101{]} chains and 7.8 the {[}10{]} chains. The
"transverse" effective charge is value is about 2 electrons.Comment: 23 pages, 14 figures, REVTeX, submitted to PR
Accelerator performance analysis of the Fermilab Muon Campus
Fermilab is dedicated to hosting world-class experiments in search of new
physics that will operate in the coming years. The Muon g-2 Experiment is one
such experiment that will determine with unprecedented precision the muon
anomalous magnetic moment, which offers an important test of the Standard
Model. We describe in this study the accelerator facility that will deliver a
muon beam to this experiment. We first present the lattice design that allows
for efficient capture, transport, and delivery of polarized muon beams. We then
numerically examine its performance by simulating pion production in the
target, muon collection by the downstream beam line optics, as well as
transport of muon polarization. We finally establish the conditions required
for the safe removal of unwanted secondary particles that minimizes
contamination of the final beam.Comment: 10 p
Silicate weathering in anoxic marine sediments
Two sediment cores retrieved at the northern slope of Sakhalin Island, Sea of Okhotsk, were analyzed for biogenic opal, organic carbon, carbonate, sulfur, major element concentrations, mineral contents, and dissolved substances including nutrients, sulfate, methane, major cations, humic substances, and total alkalinity. Down-core trends in mineral abundance suggest that plagioclase feldspars and other reactive silicate phases (olivine, pyroxene, volcanic ash) are transformed into smectite in the methanogenic sediment sections. The element ratios Na/Al, Mg/Al, and Ca/Al in the solid phase decrease with sediment depth indicating a loss of mobile cations with depth and producing a significant down-core increase in the chemical index of alteration. Pore waters separated from the sediment cores are highly enriched in dissolved magnesium, total alkalinity, humic substances, and boron. The high contents of dissolved organic carbon in the deeper methanogenic sediment sections (50–150 mg dm−3) may promote the dissolution of silicate phases through complexation of Al3+ and other structure-building cations. A non-steady state transport-reaction model was developed and applied to evaluate the down-core trends observed in the solid and dissolved phases. Dissolved Mg and total alkalinity were used to track the in-situ rates of marine silicate weathering since thermodynamic equilibrium calculations showed that these tracers are not affected by ion exchange processes with sediment surfaces. The modeling showed that silicate weathering is limited to the deeper methanogenic sediment section whereas reverse weathering was the dominant process in the overlying surface sediments. Depth-integrated rates of marine silicate weathering in methanogenic sediments derived from the model (81.4–99.2 mmol CO2 m−2 year−1) are lower than the marine weathering rates calculated from the solid phase data (198–245 mmol CO2 m−2 year−1) suggesting a decrease in marine weathering over time. The production of CO2 through reverse weathering in surface sediments (4.22–15.0 mmol CO2 m−2 year−1) is about one order of magnitude smaller than the weathering-induced CO2 consumption in the underlying sediments. The evaluation of pore water data from other continental margin sites shows that silicate weathering is a common process in methanogenic sediments. The global rate of CO2 consumption through marine silicate weathering estimated here as 5–20 Tmol CO2 year−1 is as high as the global rate of continental silicate weathering
Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant to Part-per-Million Precision
We report a measurement of the positive muon lifetime to a precision of 1.0
parts per million (ppm); it is the most precise particle lifetime ever
measured. The experiment used a time-structured, low-energy muon beam and a
segmented plastic scintillator array to record more than 2 x 10^{12} decays.
Two different stopping target configurations were employed in independent
data-taking periods. The combined results give tau_{mu^+}(MuLan) =
2196980.3(2.2) ps, more than 15 times as precise as any previous experiment.
The muon lifetime gives the most precise value for the Fermi constant:
G_F(MuLan) = 1.1663788 (7) x 10^-5 GeV^-2 (0.6 ppm). It is also used to extract
the mu^-p singlet capture rate, which determines the proton's weak induced
pseudoscalar coupling g_P.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
Diffraction radiation from a charge as radiation from a superluminal source in a vacuum
An analysis of spectral-angular characteristics of diffraction radiation, both incoherent and coherent, has been performed. It is shown that radiation processes can be inter-preted as Cherenkov radiation, which is produced by a region of dynamic polarization moving along a target edge with super-luminal velocity vS
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