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Simulation of Beam-Beam Effects and Tevatron Experience
Effects of electromagnetic interactions of colliding bunches in the Tevatron
had a variety of manifestations in beam dynamics presenting vast opportunities
for development of simulation models and tools. In this paper the computer code
for simulation of weak-strong beam-beam effects in hadron colliders is
described. We report the collider operational experience relevant to beam-beam
interactions, explain major effects limiting the collider performance and
compare results of observations and measurements with simulations.Comment: 23 pages, 17 figure
On the nature of ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors: GaAs:Mn, GaP:Mn
A microscopic Hamiltonian for interacting manganese impurities in diluted
magnetic semiconductors (DMS) is derived. It is shown that in p -type III-V DMS
the indirect exchange between Mn impurities has similarities with the Zener
mechanism in transition metal oxides. Here the mobile holes and localized
states near the top of the valence band play the role of unoccupied oxygen
orbitals which induce ferromagnetism. The Curie temperature estimated from the
proposed kinematic exchange agrees with recent experiments on GaAs:Mn. The
model is also applicable to the GaP:Mn system.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Europhysics Letters, June 25, 200
Minigap in a long disordered SNS junction: analytical results
We review and refine analytical results on the density of states in a long
disordered superconductor - normal-metal - superconductor junction with
transparent interfaces. Our analysis includes the behavior of the minigap near
phase differences zero and PI across the junction, as well as the density of
states at energies much larger than the minigap but much smaller than the
superconducting gap.Comment: 4 page
Neutral minima in two-Higgs doublet models
We study the neutral minima of two-Higgs doublet models, showing that these
potentials can have at least two such minima with different depths. We analyse
the phenomenology of these minima for the several types of two-Higgs doublet
potentials, where CP is explicitly broken, spontaneously broken or preserved.
We discover that it is possible to have a neutral minimum in these potentials
where the masses of the known particles have their standard values, with
another deeper minimum where those same particles acquire different masses.Comment: 20 pages, 3 figure
Coronal mass ejections as expanding force-free structures
We mode Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) as expanding force-fee magnetic
structures and find the self-similar dynamics of configurations with spatially
constant \alpha, where {\bf J} =\alpha {\bf B}, in spherical and cylindrical
geometries, expanding spheromaks and expanding Lundquist fields
correspondingly. The field structures remain force-free, under the conventional
non-relativistic assumption that the dynamical effects of the inductive
electric fields can be neglected. While keeping the internal magnetic field
structure of the stationary solutions, expansion leads to complicated internal
velocities and rotation, induced by inductive electric field. The structures
depends only on overall radius R(t) and rate of expansion \dot{R}(t) measured
at a given moment, and thus are applicable to arbitrary expansion laws. In case
of cylindrical Lundquist fields, the flux conservation requires that both axial
and radial expansion proceed with equal rates. In accordance with observations,
the model predicts that the maximum magnetic field is reached before the
spacecraft reaches the geometric center of a CME.Comment: 19 pages, 9 Figures, accepted by Solar Physic
Density Functional Study of Cubic to Rhombohedral Transition in -AlF
Under heating, -AlF undergoes a structural phase transition from
rhombohedral to cubic at temperature around 730 K. The density functional
method is used to examine the =0 energy surface in the structural parameter
space, and finds the minimum in good agreement with the observed rhombohedral
structure. The energy surface and electronic wave-functions at the minimum are
then used to calculate properties including density of states, -point
phonon modes, and the dielectric function. The dipole formed at each fluorine
ion in the low temperature phase is also calculated, and is used in a classical
electrostatic picture to examine possible antiferroelectric aspects of this
phase transition.Comment: A 6-page manuscript with 4 figures and 4 table
Exponential distribution of long heart beat intervals during atrial fibrillation and their relevance for white noise behaviour in power spectrum
The statistical properties of heart beat intervals of 130 long-term surface
electrocardiogram recordings during atrial fibrillation (AF) are investigated.
We find that the distribution of interbeat intervals exhibits a characteristic
exponential tail, which is absent during sinus rhythm, as tested in a
corresponding control study with 72 healthy persons. The rate of the
exponential decay lies in the range 3-12 Hz and shows diurnal variations. It
equals, up to statistical uncertainties, the level of the previously uncovered
white noise part in the power spectrum, which is also characteristic for AF.
The overall statistical features can be described by decomposing the intervals
into two statistically independent times, where the first one is associated
with a correlated process with 1/f noise characteristics, while the second one
belongs to an uncorrelated process and is responsible for the exponential tail.
It is suggested to use the rate of the exponential decay as a further parameter
for a better classification of AF and for the medical diagnosis. The relevance
of the findings with respect to a general understanding of AF is pointed out
Electroproduction of two light vector mesons in next-to-leading BFKL: study of systematic effects
The forward electroproduction of two light vector mesons is the first example
of a collision process between strongly interacting colorless particles for
which the amplitude can be written completely within perturbative QCD in the
Regge limit with next-to-leading accuracy. In a previous paper we have given a
numerical determination of the amplitude in the case of equal photon
virtualities by using a definite representation for the amplitude and a
definite optimization method for the perturbative series. Here we estimate the
systematic uncertainty of our previous determination, by considering a
different representation of the amplitude and different optimization methods of
the perturbative series. Moreover, we compare our result for the differential
cross section at the minimum momentum transfer with a different approach, based
on collinear kernel improvement.Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures; journal version, new figures and discussion
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Jastrow-type calculations of one-nucleon removal reactions on open - shell nuclei
Single-particle overlap functions and spectroscopic factors are calculated on
the basis of Jastrow-type one-body density matrices of open-shell nuclei
constructed by using a factor cluster expansion. The calculations use the
relationship between the overlap functions corresponding to bound states of the
-particle system and the one-body density matrix for the ground state of
the -particle system. In this work we extend our previous analyses of
reactions on closed-shell nuclei by using the resulting overlap functions for
the description of the cross sections of reactions on the open -
shell nuclei Mg, Si and S and of S
reaction. The relative role of both shell structure and short-range
correlations incorporated in the correlation approach on the spectroscopic
factors and the reaction cross sections is pointed out.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev.
New experimental data for the decays and from SND detector
The processes and have been
studied with SND detector at VEPP-2M collider in the vicinity of
resonance. The branching ratios and were obtained.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, talk given at 8th International Conference on
Hadron Spectroscopy (HADRON 99), Beijing, China, 24-28 Aug 199
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