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Lineshape of the Higgs boson in future lepton colliders
The effect of the photon emission (bremsstrahlung) in the cross section of
the process of direct production of the Higgs boson in the future high
luminosity electron and muon colliders is calculated. It was found that cross
section at the top of the Higgs boson resonance peak is reduced by factor 0.347
for the electron collider and 0.548 for the muon collider. Machine spread of
the centre of the mass energy of 4.2MeV (equal to the Higgs width) would reduce
peak cross section further, by factor 0.170 and 0.256 (QED and energy spread)
for electron and muon beams respectively. Possible uncertainties in the
resummed QED calculations are discussed. Numerical results for the lineshape
cross section including QED and many values of the machine energy spread are
provided.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures; added new reference
Specific Heat of the Dilute Ising Magnet LiHoYF
We present specific heat data on three samples of the dilute Ising magnet
\HoYLF with , 0.045 and 0.080. Previous measurements of the ac
susceptibility of an sample showed the Ho moments to remain
dynamic down to very low temperatures and the specific heat was found to have
unusually sharp features. In contrast, our measurements do not exhibit these
sharp features in the specific heat and instead show a broad feature, for all
three samples studied, which is qualitatively consistent with a spin glass
state. Integrating , however, reveals an increase in residual entropy with
lower Ho concentration, consistent with recent Monte Carlo simulations showing
a lack of spin glass transition for low x.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figurs, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
Feasibility Studies of the Diffractive Bremsstrahlung Measurement at the LHC
Feasibility studies of an observation of the exclusive diffractive
bremsstrahlung in proton-proton scattering at the LHC are reported. A
simplified approach to the photon and the scattered proton energy
reconstruction is used. The background influence is discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure
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Dynamical x-ray diffraction from an icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn quasicrystal
Primary extinction effects in diffraction from single grains of Al-Pd- Mn, and presumably many other FCI alloys, may be significant and should be corrected for prior to use of diffraction data in structural determinations. Probes based on dynamical diffraction effects, such as x-ray standing wave fluorescence, multiple beam interference, and x-ray transmission topographs, may now be used to study the bulk and surface structure of some quasicrystals. The observation of dynamical diffraction from icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn is a striking confirmation of the fact that quasicrystals can present a degree of structural perfection comparable to that found in the best periodic intermetallic crystals
Juxtaposition of Spin Freezing and Long Range Order in a Series of Geometrically Frustrated Antiferromagnetic Gadolinium Garnets
Specific heat measurements in zero magnetic field are presented on a
homologous series of geometrically frustrated, antiferromagnetic, Heisenberg
garnet systems. Measurements of Gd3Ga5O12, grown with isotopically pure Gd,
agree well with previous results on samples with naturally abundant Gd, showing
no ordering features. In contrast, samples of Gd3Te2Li3O12 and Gd3Al5O12 are
found to exhibit clear ordering transitions at 243 mK and 175 mK respectively.
The effects of low level disorder are studied through dilution of Gd3+ with
non-magnetic Y3+ in Gd3Te2Li3O12. A thorough structural characterization, using
X-ray diffraction, is performed on all of the samples studied. We discuss
possible explanations for such diverse behavior in very similar systems.Comment: Accepted for publication in Physical Review
Field induced magnetic order in the frustrated magnet Gadolinium Gallium Garnet
Gd3Ga5O12, (GGG), has an extraordinary magnetic phase diagram, where no long
range order is found down to 25 mK despite \Theta_CW \approx 2 K. However, long
range order is induced by an applied field of around 1 T. Motivated by recent
theoretical developments and the experimental results for a closely related
hyperkagome system, we have performed neutron diffraction measurements on a
single crystal sample of GGG in an applied magnetic field. The measurements
reveal that the H-T phase diagram of GGG is much more complicated than
previously assumed. The application of an external field at low T results in an
intensity change for most of the magnetic peaks which can be divided into three
distinct sets: ferromagnetic, commensurate antiferromagnetic, and
incommensurate antiferromagnetic. The ferromagnetic peaks (e.g. (112), (440)
and (220)) have intensities that increase with the field and saturate at high
field. The antiferromagnetic reflections have intensities that grow in low
fields, reach a maximum at an intermediate field (apart from the (002) peak
which shows two local maxima) and then decrease and disappear above 2 T. These
AFM peaks appear, disappear and reach maxima in different fields. We conclude
that the competition between magnetic interactions and alternative ground
states prevents GGG from ordering in zero field. It is, however, on the verge
of ordering and an applied magnetic field can be used to crystallise ordered
components. The range of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic propagation
vectors found reflects the complex frustration in GGG.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, HFM 2008 conference pape
Dimensional Evolution of Spin Correlations in the Magnetic Pyrochlore Yb2Ti2O7
The pyrochlore material Yb2Ti2O7 displays unexpected quasi-two-dimensional
(2D) magnetic correlations within a cubic lattice environment at low
temperatures, before entering an exotic disordered ground state below T=265mK.
We report neutron scattering measurements of the thermal evolution of the 2D
spin correlations in space and time. Short range three dimensional (3D) spin
correlations develop below 400 mK, accompanied by a suppression in the
quasi-elastic (QE) scattering below ~ 0.2 meV. These show a slowly fluctuating
ground state with spins correlated over short distances within a
kagome-triangular-kagome (KTK) stack along [111], which evolves to isolated
kagome spin-stars at higher temperatures. Furthermore, low-temperature specific
heat results indicate a sample dependence to the putative transition
temperature that is bounded by 265mK, which we discuss in the context of recent
mean field theoretical analysis.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure
Rf-induced transport of Cooper pairs in superconducting single electron transistors in a dissipative environment
We investigate low-temperature and low-voltage-bias charge transport in a
superconducting Al single electron transistor in a dissipating environment,
realized as on-chip high-ohmic Cr microstrips. In our samples with relatively
large charging energy values Ec > EJ, where EJ is the energy of the Josephson
coupling, two transport mechanisms were found to be dominating, both based on
discrete tunneling of individual Cooper pairs: Depending on the gate voltage
Vg, either sequential tunneling of pairs via the transistor island (in the open
state of the transistor around the points Qg = CgVg = e mod(2e), where Cg is
the gate capacitance) or their cotunneling through the transistor (for Qg away
of these points) was found to prevail in the net current. As the open states of
our transistors had been found to be unstable with respect to quasiparticle
poisoning, high-frequency gate cycling (at f ~ 1 MHz) was applied to study the
sequential tunneling mechanism. A simple model based on the master equation was
found to be in a good agreement with the experimental data.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
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