15,183 research outputs found
The KCAL VERA 22 GHz calibrator survey
We observed at 22 GHz with the VLBI array VERA a sample of 1536 sources with
correlated flux densities brighter than 200 mJy at 8 GHz. One half of target
sources has been detected. The detection limit was around 200 mJy. We derived
the correlated flux densities of 877 detected sources in three ranges of
projected baseline lengths. The objective of these observations was to
determine the suitability of given sources as phase calibrators for dual-beam
and phase-referencing observations at high frequencies. Preliminary results
indicate that the number of compact extragalactic sources at 22 GHz brighter
than a given correlated flux density level is twice less than at 8 GHz.Comment: Accepted for publication by the Astronomical Journal. 6 pages, 3
figures, 3 table. The machine readable catalogue file, kcal_cat.txt can be
extracted from the source of this submissio
From the exclusive photoproduction of heavy quarkonia at HERA to the EDDE at TeVatron and LHC
Exclusive photoproduction of heavy quarkonia at HERA is analyzed in the
framework of the Regge-eikonal approach together with the nonrelativistic bound
state formalism. Total and differential cross-sections for the process
are calculated. The model predicts
cross-sections of Exclusive Double Diffractive Events (EDDE) at TeVatron and
LHC.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, reference is adde
Collective oscillations of a trapped Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance
The frequencies of the collective oscillations of a harmonically trapped
Fermi gas interacting with large scattering lengths are calculated at zero
temperature using hydrodynamic theory. Different regimes are considered,
including the molecular Bose-Einstein condensate and the unitarity limit for
collisions. We show that the frequency of the radial compressional mode in an
elongated trap exhibits a pronounced non monotonous dependence on the
scattering length, reflecting the role of the interactions in the equation of
state.Comment: 3 pages, including 1 figur
A cesium gas strongly confined in one dimension : sideband cooling and collisional properties
We study one-dimensional sideband cooling of Cesium atoms strongly confined
in a far-detuned optical lattice. The Lamb-Dicke regime is achieved in the
lattice direction whereas the transverse confinement is much weaker. The
employed sideband cooling method, first studied by Vuletic et al.\cite{Vule98},
uses Raman transitions between Zeeman levels and produces a spin-polarized
sample. We present a detailed study of this cooling method and investigate the
role of elastic collisions in the system. We accumulate of the atoms
in the vibrational ground state of the strongly confined motion, and elastic
collisions cool the transverse motion to a temperature of K=, where is the oscillation
frequency in the strongly confined direction. The sample then approaches the
regime of a quasi-2D cold gas. We analyze the limits of this cooling method and
propose a dynamical change of the trapping potential as a mean of cooling the
atomic sample to still lower temperatures. Measurements of the rate of
thermalization between the weakly and strongly confined degrees of freedom are
compatible with the zero energy scattering resonance observed previously in
weak 3D traps. For the explored temperature range the measurements agree with
recent calculations of quasi-2D collisions\cite{Petr01}. Transparent analytical
models reproduce the expected behavior for and also for where the 2D
features are prominent.Comment: 18 pages, 12 figure
A ring trap for ultracold atoms
We propose a new kind of toroidal trap, designed for ultracold atoms. It
relies on a combination of a magnetic trap for rf-dressed atoms, which creates
a bubble-like trap, and a standing wave of light. This new trap is well suited
for investigating questions of low dimensionality in a ring potential. We study
the trap characteristics for a set of experimentally accessible parameters. A
loading procedure from a conventional magnetic trap is also proposed. The
flexible nature of this new ring trap, including an adjustable radius and
adjustable transverse oscillation frequencies, will allow the study of
superfluidity in variable geometries and dimensionalities.Comment: 4 figures, 10 pages ; the order of the sections has been changed ; to
appear in Phys. Rev.
A rigorous derivation of the stationary compressible Reynolds equation via the Navier-Stokes equations
We provide a rigorous derivation of the compressible Reynolds system as a
singular limit of the compressible (barotropic) Navier-Stokes system on a thin
domain. In particular, the existence of solutions to the Navier-Stokes system
with non-homogeneous boundary conditions is shown that may be of independent
interest. Our approach is based on new a priori bounds available for the
pressure law of hard sphere type. Finally, uniqueness for the limit problem is
established in the 1D case
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