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Investigating 16O with the 15N(p,{\alpha})12C reaction
The 16O nucleus was investigated through the 15N(p,{\alpha})12C reaction at
excitation energies from Ex = 12 231 to 15 700 keV using proton beams from a 5
MeV Van de Graaff accelerator at beam energies of Ep = 331 to 3800 keV. Alpha
decay from resonant states in 16O was strongly observed for ten known excited
states in this region. The candidate 4-alpha cluster state at Ex = 15.1 MeV was
investigated particularly intensely in order to understand its particle decay
channels.Comment: Submitted for Proceedings of Fourth International Workshop on State
of the Art in Nuclear Cluster Physics (SOTANCP4), held from May 13 - 18, 2018
in Galveston, TX, US
Unbound states in C populated by -decay of the 16.11 MeV state
The reaction has been used to populate the state at an excitation energy of 16.11 MeV in C. -decay
to unbound states in C are identified from analysis of the decay of the
populated daughter states. Due to a new technique, -decay to the 10.8
MeV 1 state is observed for the first time, and transitions to the 9.64 MeV
(3) and 12.71 MeV (1) are confirmed. Unresolved transitions to natural
parity strength at 10 MeV and 11.5-13 MeV are also observed. For all
transitions partial widths are deducedComment: Corrected small typographical errors and added more details on data
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The Genomic Pattern of tDNA Operon Expression in E. coli
In fast-growing microorganisms, a tRNA concentration profile enriched in major isoacceptors selects for the biased usage of cognate codons. This optimizes translational rate for the least mass invested in the translational apparatus. Such translational streamlining is thought to be growth-regulated, but its genetic basis is poorly understood. First, we found in reanalysis of the E. coli tRNA profile that the degree to which it is translationally streamlined is nearly invariant with growth rate. Then, using least squares multiple regression, we partitioned tRNA isoacceptor pools to predicted tDNA operons from the E. coli K12 genome. Co-expression of tDNAs in operons explains the tRNA profile significantly better than tDNA gene dosage alone. Also, operon expression increases significantly with proximity to the origin of replication, oriC, at all growth rates. Genome location explains about 15% of expression variation in a form, at a given growth rate, that is consistent with replication-dependent gene concentration effects. Yet the change in the tRNA profile with growth rate is less than would be expected from such effects. We estimated per-copy expression rates for all tDNA operons that were consistent with independent estimates for rDNA operons. We also found that tDNA operon location, and the location dependence of expression, were significantly different in the leading and lagging strands. The operonic organization and genomic location of tDNA operons are significant factors influencing their expression. Nonrandom patterns of location and strandedness shown by tDNA operons in E. coli suggest that their genomic architecture may be under selection to satisfy physiological demand for tRNA expression at high growth rates
Decay of low-lying 12C resonances within a 3alpha cluster model
We compute energy distributions of three -particles emerging from the
decay of C resonances by means of the hyperspherical adiabatic expansion
method combined with complex scaling. The large distance continuum properties
of the wave functions are crucial and must be accurately calculated. The
substantial changes from small to large distances determine the decay
mechanisms. We illustrate by computing the energy distributions from decays of
the and -resonances in C. These states are dominated by
direct and sequential decays into the three-body continuum respectively.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the Clusters '07 conference held
in Stratford-upon-Avon in September 200
Measurement of the branching ratio for beta-delayed alpha decay of 16N
While the 12C(a,g)16O reaction plays a central role in nuclear astrophysics,
the cross section at energies relevant to hydrostatic helium burning is too
small to be directly measured in the laboratory. The beta-delayed alpha
spectrum of 16N can be used to constrain the extrapolation of the E1 component
of the S-factor; however, with this approach the resulting S-factor becomes
strongly correlated with the assumed beta-alpha branching ratio. We have
remeasured the beta-alpha branching ratio by implanting 16N ions in a segmented
Si detector and counting the number of beta-alpha decays relative to the number
of implantations. Our result, 1.49(5)e-5, represents a 24% increase compared to
the accepted value and implies an increase of 14% in the extrapolated S-factor
Three-body decays: structure, decay mechanism and fragment properties
We discuss the three-body decay mechanisms of many-body resonances. R-matrix
sequential description is compared with full Faddeev computation. The role of
the angular momentum and boson symmetries is also studied. As an illustration
we show the computed -particle energy distribution after the decay of
12C(1^+) resonance at 12.7 MeV.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the workshop "Critical Stability
of Few-Body Quantum Systems" 200
Consistent alpha-cluster description of the 12C (0^+_2) resonance
The near-threshold 12C (0^+_2) resonance provides unique possibility for fast
helium burning in stars, as predicted by Hoyle to explain the observed
abundance of elements in the Universe. Properties of this resonance are
calculated within the framework of the alpha-cluster model whose two-body and
three-body effective potentials are tuned to describe the alpha - alpha
scattering data, the energies of the 0^+_1 and 0^+_2 states, and the
0^+_1-state root-mean-square radius. The extremely small width of the 0^+_2
state, the 0_2^+ to 0_1^+ monopole transition matrix element, and transition
radius are found in remarkable agreement with the experimental data. The
0^+_2-state structure is described as a system of three alpha-particles
oscillating between the ground-state-like configuration and the elongated chain
configuration whose probability exceeds 0.9
Channeling of Positrons through Periodically Bent Crystals: on Feasibility of Crystalline Undulator and Gamma-Laser
The electromagnetic radiation generated by ultra-relativistic positrons
channelling in a crystalline undulator is discussed. The crystalline undulator
is a crystal whose planes are bent periodically with the amplitude much larger
than the interplanar spacing. Various conditions and criteria to be fulfilled
for the crystalline undulator operation are established. Different methods of
the crystal bending are described. We present the results of numeric
calculations of spectral distributions of the spontaneous radiation emitted in
the crystalline undulator and discuss the possibility to create the stimulated
emission in such a system in analogy with the free electron laser. A careful
literature survey covering the formulation of all essential ideas in this field
is given. Our investigation shows that the proposed mechanism provides an
efficient source for high energy photons, which is worth to study
experimentally.Comment: 52 pages, MikTeX, 14 figure
Experimental investigation of strong field trident production
We show by experiment that an electron impinging on an electric field that is of critical magnitude in its rest frame, may produce an electron-positron pair. Our measurements address higher-order QED, using the strong electric fields obtainable along particular crystallographic directions in single crystals. For the amorphous material our data are in good agreement with theory, whereas a discrepancy with theory on the magnitude of the trident enhancement is found in the precisely aligned case where the strong electric field acts
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