11 research outputs found
Collective behaviour of partons could be a source of energetic hadrons
We discuss the idea that collective behaviour of the quarks/partons, which
has been intensely discussed for the last 40 years in relativistic
hadron-nuclear and nuclear-nuclear interactions and confirmed by new data
coming from the ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, can lead to energetic
particle production. Created from hadronization of the quark/parton (or
quarks/partons), energetic particles could get the energy of grouped partons
from coherent interactions. Therefore, we think that in the centre of some
massive stars, a medium with high density, close to Quantum Chromodynamic one
could be a source of the super high-energy cosmic rays.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure
Interaction effects and phase relaxation in disordered systems
This paper is intended to demonstrate that there is no need to revise the
existing theory of the transport properties of disordered conductors in the
so-called weak localization regime. In particular, we demonstrate explicitly
that recent attempts to justify theoretically that the dephasing rate
(extracted from the magnetoresistance) remains finite at zero temperature are
based on the profoundly incorrect calculation. This demonstration is based on a
straightforward evaluation of the effect of the electron-electron interaction
on the weak localization correction to the conductivity of disordered metals.
Using well-controlled perturbation theory with the inverse conductance as
the small parameter, we show that this effect consists of two contributions.
First contribution comes from the processes with energy transfer smaller than
the temperature. This contribution is responsible for setting the energy scale
for the magnetoresistance. The second contribution originates from the virtual
processes with energy transfer larger than the temperature. It is shown that
the latter processes have nothing to do with the dephasing, but rather manifest
the second order (in ) correction to the conductance. This correction is
calculated for the first time. The paper also contains a brief review of the
existing experiments on the dephasing of electrons in disordered conductors and
an extended qualitative discussion of the quantum corrections to the
conductivity and to the density of electronic states in the weak localization
regime.Comment: 34 pages, 13 .eps figure
Superconductivity at 5.4 K in -BiPd
We investigate bulk superconductivity in a high-quality single crystal of
BiPd (-BiPd, space group; I4/mmm) at temperatures less than 5.4
K by exploring its electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, and
specific heat. The temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity shows
convex-upward behaviors at temperatures greater than 40-50 K, which can be
explained by a parallel-resistor model. In addition, we demonstrate that this
material is a multiple-band/multiple-gap superconductor based on the
temperature dependences of the specific heat and the upper critical field.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure