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PBX 9502 TENSILE ANALYSIS
With the recent creation of the PX HE Core Surveillance Database, individual specimen surveillance values can be easily compared to the corresponding individual qualification values to evaluate for trends. A review of the data shows a broad scatter in measured stress-strain values. Using the available HE surveillance database, it is clear that the surveillance measurements from the two Cycle 15 charges fall within the range of qualification stress and strain values recorded previously for PBX 9502 lots and that no apparent stockpile-age related trends are evident in the tensile stress-strain data. As a result of this investigation, some changes are being made to the core surveillance specifications to minimize the effects on tensile data scatter due to temperature and humidity differences and method to method changes. These data analyses do point out the need for a comprehensive understanding of the effect of a number of variables, i.e. formulation and pressing method, density, stockpile age, lot-to-lot variations, temperature, and humidity on the mechanical property behavior of HE composite materials. Too often data have been compared without the relevant details made available to determine if the test conditions were nominally the same or different. These results also point out the critical need to establish useful stress-strain limits for qualification and surveillance testing of HEs
Effects of finite arm-length of LISA on analysis of gravitational waves from MBH binaries
Response of an interferometer becomes complicated for gravitational wave
shorter than the arm-length of the detector, as nature of wave appears
strongly. We have studied how parameter estimation for merging massive black
hole binaries are affected by this complicated effect in the case of LISA. It
is shown that three dimensional positions of some binaries might be determined
much better than the past estimations that use the long wave approximation. For
equal mass binaries this improvement is most prominent at \sim 10^5\sol.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys.Rev.
Cosmological parameters from large scale structure - geometric versus shape information
The matter power spectrum as derived from large scale structure (LSS) surveys
contains two important and distinct pieces of information: an overall smooth
shape and the imprint of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). We investigate the
separate impact of these two types of information on cosmological parameter
estimation, and show that for the simplest cosmological models, the broad-band
shape information currently contained in the SDSS DR7 halo power spectrum (HPS)
is by far superseded by geometric information derived from the baryonic
features. An immediate corollary is that contrary to popular beliefs, the upper
limit on the neutrino mass m_\nu presently derived from LSS combined with
cosmic microwave background (CMB) data does not in fact arise from the possible
small-scale power suppression due to neutrino free-streaming, if we limit the
model framework to minimal LambdaCDM+m_\nu. However, in more complicated
models, such as those extended with extra light degrees of freedom and a dark
energy equation of state parameter w differing from -1, shape information
becomes crucial for the resolution of parameter degeneracies. This conclusion
will remain true even when data from the Planck surveyor become available. In
the course of our analysis, we introduce a new dewiggling procedure that allows
us to extend consistently the use of the SDSS HPS to models with an arbitrary
sound horizon at decoupling. All the cases considered here are compatible with
the conservative 95%-bounds \sum m_\nu < 1.16 eV, N_eff = 4.8 \pm 2.0.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures; v2: references added, matches published versio
Deterministic delivery of externally cold and precisely positioned single molecular ions
We present the preparation and deterministic delivery of a selectable number
of externally cold molecular ions. A laser cooled ensemble of Mg^+ ions
subsequently confined in several linear Paul traps inter-connected via a
quadrupole guide serves as a cold bath for a single or up to a few hundred
molecular ions. Sympathetic cooling embeds the molecular ions in the
crystalline structure. MgH^+ ions, that serve as a model system for a large
variety of other possible molecular ions, are cooled down close to the Doppler
limit and are positioned with an accuracy of one micrometer. After the
production process, severely compromising the vacuum conditions, the molecular
ion is efficiently transfered into nearly background-free environment. The
transfer of a molecular ion between different traps as well as the control of
the molecular ions in the traps is demonstrated. Schemes, optimized for the
transfer of a specific number of ions, are realized and their efficiencies are
evaluated. This versatile source applicable for broad charge-to-mass ratios of
externally cold and precisely positioned molecular ions can serve as a
container-free target preparation device well suited for diffraction or
spectroscopic measurements on individual molecular ions at high repetition
rates (kHz).Comment: 11 pages, 8 figure
Magnetism, Critical Fluctuations and Susceptibility Renormalization in Pd
Some of the most popular ways to treat quantum critical materials, that is,
materials close to a magnetic instability, are based on the Landau functional.
The central quantity of such approaches is the average magnitude of spin
fluctuations, which is very difficult to measure experimentally or compute
directly from the first principles. We calculate the parameters of the Landau
functional for Pd and use these to connect the critical fluctuations beyond the
local-density approximation and the band structure.Comment: Replaced with the revised version accepted for publication.
References updated, errors corrected, other change
Dynamic Evolution of a Quasi-Spherical General Polytropic Magnetofluid with Self-Gravity
In various astrophysical contexts, we analyze self-similar behaviours of
magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) evolution of a quasi-spherical polytropic magnetized
gas under self-gravity with the specific entropy conserved along streamlines.
In particular, this MHD model analysis frees the scaling parameter in the
conventional polytropic self-similar transformation from the constraint of
with being the polytropic index and therefore
substantially generalizes earlier analysis results on polytropic gas dynamics
that has a constant specific entropy everywhere in space at all time. On the
basis of the self-similar nonlinear MHD ordinary differential equations, we
examine behaviours of the magnetosonic critical curves, the MHD shock
conditions, and various asymptotic solutions. We then construct global
semi-complete self-similar MHD solutions using a combination of analytical and
numerical means and indicate plausible astrophysical applications of these
magnetized flow solutions with or without MHD shocks.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in APS
Tomography from the Next Generation of Cosmic Shear Experiments for Viable f(R) Models
We present the cosmic shear signal predicted by two viable cosmological
models in the framework of modified-action f(R) theories. We use f(R) models
where the current accelerated expansion of the Universe is a direct consequence
of the modified gravitational Lagrangian rather than Dark Energy (DE), either
in the form of vacuum energy/cosmological constant or of a dynamical scalar
field (e.g. quintessence). We choose Starobinsky's (St) and Hu & Sawicki's (HS)
f(R) models, which are carefully designed to pass the Solar System gravity
tests. In order to further support - or rule out - f(R) theories as alternative
candidates to the DE hypothesis, we exploit the power of weak gravitational
lensing, specifically of cosmic shear. We calculate the tomographic shear
matrix as it would be measured by the upcoming ESA Cosmic Vision Euclid
satellite. We find that in the St model the cosmic shear signal is almost
completely degenerate with LCDM, but it is easily distinguishable in the HS
model. Moreover, we compute the corresponding Fisher matrix for both the St and
HS models, thus obtaining forecasts for their cosmological parameters. Finally,
we show that the Bayes factor for cosmic shear will definitely favour the HS
model over LCDM if Euclid measures a value larger than ~0.02 for the extra HS
parameter n_HS.Comment: 26 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables; tomographic and Bayesian analyses
updated and modified according to reviewer's suggestions; references update
YREC: The Yale Rotating Stellar Evolution Code
The stellar evolution code YREC is outlined with emphasis on its applications
to helio- and asteroseismology. The procedure for calculating calibrated solar
and stellar models is described. Other features of the code such as a non-local
treatment of convective core overshoot, and the implementation of a
parametrized description of turbulence in stellar models, are considered in
some detail. The code has been extensively used for other astrophysical
applications, some of which are briefly mentioned at the end of the paper.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, ApSS accepte
Pairing in two-dimensional boson-fermion mixtures
The possibilities of pairing in two-dimensional boson-fermion mixtures are
carefully analyzed. It is shown that the boson-induced attraction between two
identical fermions dominates the p-wave pairing at low density. For a given
fermion density, the pairing gap becomes maximal at a certain optimal boson
concentration. The conditions for observing pairing in current experiments are
discussedComment: 10 pages, 5 figs, revtex
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