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Microscopic approach to the proton asymmetry in the non-mesonic weak decay of Lambda-hypernuclei
The non--mesonic weak decay of polarized -hypernuclei is studied
with a microscopic diagrammatic formalism in which one- and two-nucleon induced
decay mechanisms, and , are
considered together with (and on the same ground of) nucleon final state
interactions. We adopt a nuclear matter formalism extended to finite nuclei via
the local density approximation. Our approach adopts different
one-meson-exchange weak transition potentials, while the strong interaction
effects are accounted for by a Bonn nucleon-nucleon interaction. We also
consider the two-pion-exchange effect in the weak transition potential. Both
the two-nucleon induced decay mechanism and the final state interactions reduce
the magnitude of the asymmetry. The quantum interference terms considered in
the present microscopic approach give rise to an opposite behavior of the
asymmetry with increasing energy cuts to that observed in models describing the
nucleon final state interactions semi-classically via the intranuclear cascade
code. Our results for the asymmetry parameter in C obtained
with different potential models are consistent with the asymmetry measured at
KEK
Explicit minimal Scherk saddle towers of arbitrary even genera in
Starting from works by Scherk (1835) and by Enneper-Weierstra\ss \ (1863),
new minimal surfaces with Scherk ends were found only in 1988 by Karcher (see
\cite{Karcher1,Karcher}). In the singly periodic case, Karcher's examples of
positive genera had been unique until Traizet obtained new ones in 1996 (see
\cite{Traizet}). However, Traizet's construction is implicit and excludes {\it
towers}, namely the desingularisation of more than two concurrent planes. Then,
new explicit towers were found only in 2006 by Martin and Ramos Batista (see
\cite{Martin}), all of them with genus one. For genus two, the first such
towers were constructed in 2010 (see \cite{Valerio2}). Back to 2009, implicit
towers of arbitrary genera were found in \cite{HMM}. In our present work we
obtain {\it explicit} minimal Scherk saddle towers, for any given genus ,
Weak decays of medium and heavy Lambda-hypernuclei
We have made a new evaluation of the Lambda decay width in nuclear matter
within the Propagator Method. Through the Local Density Approximation it is
possible to obtain results in finite nuclei. We have also studied the
dependence of the widths on the N-N and Lambda-N short range correlations.
Using reasonable values for the parameters that control these correlations, as
well as realistic nuclear densities and Lambda wave functions, we reproduce,
for the first time, the experimental non-mesonic widths in a wide range of mass
numbers (from medium to heavy hypernuclei).Comment: 22 pages, including 5 figure
WISE morphological study of Wolf-Rayet nebulae
We present a morphological study of nebulae around Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars
using archival narrow-band optical and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
(WISE) infrared images. The comparison among WISE images in different bands and
optical images proves to be a very efficient procedure to identify the nebular
emission from WR nebulae, and to disentangle it from that of the ISM material
along the line of sight. In particular, WR nebulae are clearly detected in the
WISE W4 band at 22 m. Analysis of available mid-IR Spitzer spectra shows
that the emission in this band is dominated by thermal emission from dust
spatially coincident with the thin nebular shell or most likely with the
leading edge of the nebula. The WR nebulae in our sample present different
morphologies that we classified into well defined WR bubbles (bubble -type nebulae), clumpy and/or disrupted shells (clumpy/disrupted -type nebulae), and material mixed with the diffuse medium (mixed -type nebulae). The variety of morphologies presented by WR nebulae shows a
loose correlation with the central star spectral type, implying that the
nebular and stellar evolutions are not simple and may proceed according to
different sequences and time-lapses. We report the discovery of an obscured
shell around WR35 only detected in the infrared.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, plus 23 appendix figures; to appear in Astronomy
and Astrophysic
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