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Application of hydrogenation to low-temperature cleaning of the Si(001) surface in the processes of molecular-beam epitaxy: Investigation by STM, RHEED and HRTEM
Structural properties of the clean Si(001) surface obtained as a result of
low-temperature (470--650C) pre-growth annealings of silicon wafers in a
molecular-beam epitaxy chamber have been investigated. To decrease the cleaning
temperature, a silicon surface was hydrogenated in the process of a preliminary
chemical treatment in HF and NH_4F aqueous solutions. It has been shown that
smooth surfaces composed by wide terraces separated by monoatomic steps can be
obtained by dehydrogenation at the temperatures > 600C, whereas clean surfaces
obtained at the temperatures < 600C are rough. It has been found that there
exists a dependence of structural properties of clean surfaces on the
temperature of hydrogen thermal desorption and the process of the preliminary
chemical treatment. The frequency of detachment/attachment of Si dimers from/to
the steps and effect of the Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier on ad-dimer migration
across steps have been found to be the most probable factors determining a
degree of the resultant surface roughness.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures; version accepted to J. Appl. Phy
A 3-D Track-Finding Processor for the CMS Level-1 Muon Trigger
We report on the design and test results of a prototype processor for the CMS
Level-1 trigger that performs 3-D track reconstruction and measurement from
data recorded by the cathode strip chambers of the endcap muon system. The
tracking algorithms are written in C++ using a class library we developed that
facilitates automatic conversion to Verilog. The code is synthesized into
firmware for field-programmable gate-arrays from the Xilinx Virtex-II series. A
second-generation prototype has been developed and is currently under test. It
performs regional track-finding in a 60 degree azimuthal sector and accepts 3
GB/s of input data synchronously with the 40 MHz beam crossing frequency. The
latency of the track-finding algorithms is expected to be 250 ns, including
geometrical alignment correction of incoming track segments and a final
momentum assignment based on the muon trajectory in the non-uniform magnetic
field in the CMS endcaps.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, proceedings for the conference on Computing in
High Energy and Nuclear Physics, March 24-28 2003, La Jolla, Californi
Fermionic approach to the evaluation of integrals of rational symmetric functions
We use the fermionic construction of two-matrix model partition functions to
evaluate integrals over rational symmetric functions. This approach is
complementary to the one used in the paper ``Integrals of Rational Symmetric
Functions, Two-Matrix Models and Biorthogonal Polynomials'' \cite{paper2},
where these integrals were evaluated by a direct method.Comment: 34 page
Experimental study of direct photon emission in K- --> pi- pi0 gamma decay using ISTRA+ detector
The branching ratio in the charged-pion kinetic energy region of 55 to 90 MeV
for the direct photon emission in the K- --> pi- pi0 gamma decay has been
measured using in-flight decays detected with the ISTRA+ setup operating in the
25 GeV/c negative secondary beam of the U-70 PS. The value
Br(DE)=[0.37+-0.39(stat)+-0.10(syst)]*10^(-5) obtained from the analysis of 930
completely reconstructed events is consistent with the average value of two
stopped-kaon experiments, but it differs by 2.5 standard deviations from the
average value of three in-flight-kaon experiments. The result is also compared
with recent theoretical predictions.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figure
(Super)twistors and (super)strings
The Lagrangian formulation of the D=4 bosonic string and superstring in terms
of the (super)twistors is considered. The (super)twistor form of the equations
of motion is derived and the kappa-symmetry transformation for the
supertwistors is given. It is shown that the covariant kappa-symmetry gauge
fixation results in the action quadratic in the (super)twistor variables.Comment: LaTeX, 17 page
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