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Heat in U.S. Prisons and Jails
This white paper addresses three important but largely neglected questions: • How will increased temperatures and heat waves caused by climate change affect prisons, jails, and their staff and inmate populations? • What can correctional departments do to prepare for greater heat and minimize the dangers it poses? • What are the legal implications of excessive heat in prisons and jails
Shell model description of the 14C dating beta decay with Brown-Rho-scaled NN interactions
We present shell model calculations for the beta-decay of the 14C ground
state to the 14N ground state, treating the states of the A=14 multiplet as two
0p holes in an 16O core. We employ low-momentum nucleon-nucleon (NN)
interactions derived from the realistic Bonn-B potential and find that the
Gamow-Teller matrix element is too large to describe the known lifetime. By
using a modified version of this potential that incorporates the effects of
Brown-Rho scaling medium modifications, we find that the GT matrix element
vanishes for a nuclear density around 85% that of nuclear matter. We find that
the splitting between the (J,T)=(1+,0) and (J,T)=(0+,1) states in 14N is
improved using the medium-modified Bonn-B potential and that the transition
strengths from excited states of 14C to the 14N ground state are compatible
with recent experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures Updated to include referee comments/suggestion
MOXE: An X-ray all-sky monitor for Soviet Spectrum-X-Gamma Mission
A Monitoring Monitoring X-Ray Equipment (MOXE) is being developed for the Soviet Spectrum-X-Gamma Mission. MOXE is an X-ray all-sky monitor based on array of pinhole cameras, to be provided via a collaboration between Goddard Space Flight Center and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The objectives are to alert other observers on Spectrum-X-Gamma and other platforms of interesting transient activity, and to synoptically monitor the X-ray sky and study long-term changes in X-ray binaries. MOXE will be sensitive to sources as faint as 2 milliCrab (5 sigma) in 1 day, and cover the 2 to 20 KeV band
The nuclear matter equation of state with consistent two- and three-body perturbative chiral interactions
We compute the energy per particle of infinite symmetric nuclear matter from
chiral N3LO (next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order) two-body potentials plus
N2LO three-body forces. The low-energy constants of the chiral three-nucleon
force that cannot be constrained by two-body observables are fitted to
reproduce the triton binding energy and the 3H-3He Gamow-Teller transition
matrix element. In this way, the saturation properties of nuclear matter are
reproduced in a parameter-free approach. The equation of state is computed up
to third order in many-body perturbation theory, with special emphasis on the
role of the third-order particle-hole diagram. The dependence of these results
on the cutoff scale and regulator function is studied. We find that the
inclusion of three-nucleon forces consistent with the applied two-nucleon
interaction leads to a reduced dependence on the choice of the regulator only
for lower values of the cutoff.Comment: 9 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, to be published in Physical Review C.
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1209.553
Rapid, Precise, and High-Sensitivity Acquisition of Paleomagnetic and Rock-Magnetic Data: Development of a Low-Noise Automatic Sample Changing System for Superconducting Rock Magnetometers
Among Earth sciences, paleomagnetism is particularly linked to the statistics of large sample sets as a matter of historical development and logistical necessity. Because the geomagnetic field varies over timescales relevant to sedimentary deposition and igneous intrusion, while the fidelity of recorded magnetization is modulated by original properties of rock units and by alteration histories, "ideal" paleomagnetic results measure remanent magnetizations of hundreds of samples at dozens of progressive demagnetization levels, accompanied by tests of magnetic composition on representative sister specimens.
We present an inexpensive, open source system for automating paleomagnetic and rock magnetic measurements. Using vacuum pick-and-place technology and a quartz-glass sample holder, the system can in one hour measure remanent magnetizations, as weak as a few pAm2, of ~30 specimens in two vertical orientations with measurement errors comparable to those of the best manual systems. The system reduces the number of manual manipulations required per specimen ~8 fold
Chiral nucleon-nucleon forces in nuclear structure calculations
Realistic nuclear potentials, derived within chiral perturbation theory, are
a major breakthrough in modern nuclear structure theory, since they provide a
direct link between nuclear physics and its underlying theory, namely the QCD.
As a matter of fact, chiral potentials are tailored on the low-energy regime of
nuclear structure physics, and chiral perturbation theory provides on the same
footing two-nucleon forces as well as many-body ones. This feature fits well
with modern advances in ab-initio methods and realistic shell-model. Here, we
will review recent nuclear structure calculations, based on realistic chiral
potentials, for both finite nuclei and infinite nuclear matter.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, plenary talk presented at "Nucleus-Nucleus 2015"
Conference, 21-26 June 2015, Catania, to be published in the "Conference
Proceedings" Series of the Italian Physical Societ
Evidence for Proportionate Partition Between the Magnetic Field and Hot Gas in Turbulent Cassiopeia A
We present a deep X-ray observation of the young Galactic supernova remnant
Cas A, acquired with the ROSAT High Resolution Imager. This high dynamic range
(232 ks) image reveals low-surface-brightness X-ray structure, which appears
qualitatively similar to corresponding radio features. We consider the
correlation between the X-ray and radio morphologies and its physical
implications. After correcting for the inhomogeneous absorption across the
remnant, we performed a point by point (4" resolution) surface brightness
comparison between the X-ray and radio images. We find a strong (r = 0.75)
log-log correlation, implying an overall relationship of . This is
consistent with proportionate partition (and possibly equipartition) between
the local magnetic field and the hot gas --- implying that Cas A's plasma is
fully turbulent and continuously amplifying the magnetic field.Comment: 8 pages with embedded bitmapped figures, Accepted by ApJ Letters
5/1/9
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