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Magnetization screening from gluonic currents and scaling law violation in the ratio of magnetic form factors for neutron and proton
The ratio exhibits a decrease for four-momentum transfer
Q^2 increasing beyond 1 GeV^2 indicating different spatial distributions for
charge and for magnetization inside the proton. One-gluon exchange currents can
explain this behaviour. The SU(6) breaking induced by gluonic currents predicts
furthermore that the ratio of neutron to proton magnetic form factors
falls with increasing Q^2. We find that the
experimental data are consistent with our expectations of an almost linear
decrease of the ratio with increasing Q^2,
supporting the statement that the spatial distributions of magnetization are
different for protons and for neutrons.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Isoscalar short-range current in the deuteron induced by an intermediate dibaryon
A new model for short-range isoscalar currents in the deuteron and in the NN
system is developed; it is based on the generation of an intermediate dibaryon
which is the basic ingredient for the medium- and short-range NN interaction
which was proposed recently by the present authors.This new current model can
very well describe the experimental data for the three basic deuteron
observables of isoscalar magnetic type, viz. the magnetic moment, the circular
polarization of the photon in the process at thermal neutron
energies and the structure function B up to Q=60 fm.Comment: LaTex, 22 pages with 8 figure
Effect of gluon-exchange pair-currents on the ratio G(E(P))/G(M(P))
The effect of one-gluon-exchange (OGE) pair-currents on the ratio for the proton is investigated within a nonrelativistic
constituent quark model (CQM) starting from nucleon wave
functions, but with relativistic corrections. We found that the OGE
pair-currents are important to reproduce well the ratio .
With the assumption that the OGE pair-currents are the driving mechanism for
the violation of the scaling law we give a prediction for the ratio of the neutron.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
A dressed bag model study of the final-state interaction in photoproduction processes off the deuteron
The impact of the short-range interaction on the pion
photoproduction processes off the deuteron in the -resonance region is
studied in the framework of recently proposed dressed-bag model. A common
dressing procedure for bare three- and six-quark states is used to describe
both the pion decay widths of baryon resonances and the effective (or
) interaction at short ranges related to the inner dressed-bag
states. It is shown that the effect of short-range interaction for
the forward-angle photoproduction off the deuteron cannot be
neglected. The prospects for further development of the model to describe the
short-range (or ) correlations in the lightest nuclei are
discussed
Modeling of GERDA Phase II data
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Gran Sasso underground
laboratory (LNGS) of INFN is searching for neutrinoless double-beta
() decay of Ge. The technological challenge of GERDA is
to operate in a "background-free" regime in the region of interest (ROI) after
analysis cuts for the full 100kgyr target exposure of the
experiment. A careful modeling and decomposition of the full-range energy
spectrum is essential to predict the shape and composition of events in the ROI
around for the search, to extract a precise
measurement of the half-life of the double-beta decay mode with neutrinos
() and in order to identify the location of residual
impurities. The latter will permit future experiments to build strategies in
order to further lower the background and achieve even better sensitivities. In
this article the background decomposition prior to analysis cuts is presented
for GERDA Phase II. The background model fit yields a flat spectrum in the ROI
with a background index (BI) of cts/(kgkeVyr) for the enriched BEGe data set and
cts/(kgkeVyr) for the
enriched coaxial data set. These values are similar to the one of Gerda Phase I
despite a much larger number of detectors and hence radioactive hardware
components
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Modeling of GERDA Phase II data
The GERmanium Detector Array (Gerda) experiment at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS) of INFN is searching for neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay of 76Ge. The technological challenge of Gerda is to operate in a “background-free” regime in the region of interest (ROI) after analysis cuts for the full 100 kg·yr target exposure of the experiment. A careful modeling and decomposition of the full-range energy spectrum is essential to predict the shape and composition of events in the ROI around Qββ for the 0νββ search, to extract a precise measurement of the half-life of the double-beta decay mode with neutrinos (2νββ) and in order to identify the location of residual impurities. The latter will permit future experiments to build strategies in order to further lower the background and achieve even better sensitivities. In this article the background decomposition prior to analysis cuts is presented for Gerda Phase II. The background model fit yields a flat spectrum in the ROI with a background index (BI) of 16.04+0.78−0.85⋅10−3 cts/(keV·kg·yr) for the enriched BEGe data set and 14.68+0.47−0.52⋅10−3 cts/(keV·kg·yr) for the enriched coaxial data set. These values are similar to the one of Phase I despite a much larger number of detectors and hence radioactive hardware components
The neutron and its role in cosmology and particle physics
Experiments with cold and ultracold neutrons have reached a level of
precision such that problems far beyond the scale of the present Standard Model
of particle physics become accessible to experimental investigation. Due to the
close links between particle physics and cosmology, these studies also permit a
deep look into the very first instances of our universe. First addressed in
this article, both in theory and experiment, is the problem of baryogenesis ...
The question how baryogenesis could have happened is open to experimental
tests, and it turns out that this problem can be curbed by the very stringent
limits on an electric dipole moment of the neutron, a quantity that also has
deep implications for particle physics. Then we discuss the recent spectacular
observation of neutron quantization in the earth's gravitational field and of
resonance transitions between such gravitational energy states. These
measurements, together with new evaluations of neutron scattering data, set new
constraints on deviations from Newton's gravitational law at the picometer
scale. Such deviations are predicted in modern theories with extra-dimensions
that propose unification of the Planck scale with the scale of the Standard
Model ... Another main topic is the weak-interaction parameters in various
fields of physics and astrophysics that must all be derived from measured
neutron decay data. Up to now, about 10 different neutron decay observables
have been measured, much more than needed in the electroweak Standard Model.
This allows various precise tests for new physics beyond the Standard Model,
competing with or surpassing similar tests at high-energy. The review ends with
a discussion of neutron and nuclear data required in the synthesis of the
elements during the "first three minutes" and later on in stellar
nucleosynthesis.Comment: 91 pages, 30 figures, accepted by Reviews of Modern Physic
Gamma cascades in gadolinium isotopes
The compound nucleus model is employed to calculate the decay after neutron capture by the gadolinium isotopes Gd and Gd. The respective cascades are analyzed for possible use in rare-event searches like decay as neutron-veto for neutron energies in the range from 0.1 keV to 10 MeV