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Nuclear structure with radioactive muonic atoms
2018
Muonic atoms have been used to extract the most accurate nuclear charge radii based on the detection of X-rays from the muonic cascades. Most stable and a few unstable isotopes have been investigated with muonic atom spectroscopy techniques. A new research project recently started at the Paul Scherrer Institut aims to extend the highresolution muonic atom spectroscopy for the precise determination of nuclear charge radii and other nuclear structure properties of radioactive isotopes. The challenge to combine the high-energy muon beam with small quantity of stopping mass is being addressed by developing the concept of stopping the muon in a high-density, a high-pressure hydrogen cell and sub…
Dynamics of anisotropic superparamagnetic particles in a precessing magnetic field.
2013
A bifurcation diagram for anisotropic magnetic particles in a precessing magnetic field is analyzed. It is found that a synchronous regime in the case of a prolate particle exists for all precession angles of the magnetic field if the frequency of field rotation is below some critical value. An oblate particle has a synchronous regime in a limited range of precession angle. To understand the flow of suspensions of these particles in precessing fields, it is essential to take into account the differing dynamics of prolate and oblate particles.
Model-independent determination of dissociation energies: method and applications
2003
A number of methods are available for the purpose of extracting dissociation energies of polyatomic particles. Many of these techniques relate the rate of disintegration at a known excitation energy to the value of the dissociation energy. However, such a determination is susceptible to systematic uncertainties, mainly due to the unknown thermal properties of the particles and the potential existence of 'dark' channels, such as radiative cooling. These problems can be avoided with a recently developed procedure, which applies energy-dependent reactions of the decay products as an uncalibrated thermometer. Thus, it allows a direct measurement of dissociation energies, without any assumption …
Bending of ferrofluid droplet in rotating magnetic field
1999
Abstract This paper presents results concerning 2D ferrofluid droplet motion at high values of magnetic field and frequencies above a critical one with respect to droplet ability to follow field rotation. The boundary element method is used to solve 2D equations of a magnetic field and Stokes flow problems. If the viscosity of the ferrofluid is larger than that of the surrounding fluid, droplet exhibits bending, forming “S-shape”. Fluid flow inside the droplet is analyzed and the main stages of periodical rotation of a droplet are reported.
The X-ray luminosity of solar-mass stars in the intermediate age open cluster NGC 752
2008
AIMS. While observational evidence shows that most of the decline in a star's X-ray activity occurs between the age of the Hyades (~8 x 10^8 yrs) and that of the Sun, very little is known about the evolution of stellar activity between these ages. To gain information on the typical level of coronal activity at a star's intermediate age, we studied the X-ray emission from stars in the 1.9 Gyr old open cluster NGC 752. METHODS. We analysed a ~140 ks Chandra observation of NGC 752 and a ~50 ks XMM-Newton observation of the same cluster. We detected 262 X-ray sources in the Chandra data and 145 sources in the XMM-Newton observation. Around 90% of the catalogued cluster members within Chandra's …
High-precision ab initio calculations of the spectrum of Lr$^+$
2019
The planned measurement of optical resonances in singly-ionised lawrencium (Z = 103) requires accurate theoretical predictions to narrow the search window. We present high-precision, ab initio calculations of the electronic spectra of Lr$^+$ and its lighter homologue lutetium (Z = 71). We have employed the state-of-the-art relativistic Fock space coupled cluster approach and the AMBiT CI+MBPT code to calculate atomic energy levels, g-factors, and transition amplitudes and branching-ratios. Our calculations are in close agreement with experimentally measured energy levels and transition strengths for the homologue Lu$^+$ , and are well-converged for Lr$^+$ , where we expect a similar level o…
Electrons on a spherical surface: Physical properties and hollow spherical clusters
2012
We discuss the physical properties of a noninteracting electron gas constrained to a spherical surface. In particular we consider its chemical potentials, its ionization potential, and its electric static polarizability. All these properties are discussed analytically as functions of the number $N$ of electrons. The trends obtained with increasing $N$ are compared with those of the corresponding properties experimentally measured or theoretically evaluated for quasispherical hollow atomic and molecular clusters. Most of the properties investigated display similar trends, characterized by a prominence of shell effects. This leads to the definition of a scale-invariant distribution of magic n…
Intracluster Medium reheating by relativistic jets
2011
Galactic jets are powerful energy sources reheating the intra-cluster medium in galaxy clusters. Their crucial role in the cosmic puzzle, motivated by observations, has been established by a great number of numerical simulations missing the relativistic nature of these jets. We present the first relativistic simulations of the very long term evolution of realistic galactic jets. Unexpectedly, our results show no buoyant bubbles, but large cocoon regions compatible with the observed X-ray cavities. The reheating is more efficient and faster than in previous scenarios, and it is produced by the shock wave driven by the jet, that survives for several hundreds of Myrs. Therefore, the X-ray cavi…
29SiH4 and 30SiH4: Dipole moment parameters of the dyad from Stark effect observations with laser sidebands
1990
Abstract The linear Stark effect within the ν 2 ν 4 dyad of 29SiH4 and 30SiH4 has been investigated by applying the infrared sideband technique at microwave modulation frequencies. Two vibration-induced dipole moment parameters have been measured for each isotopomer on natural abundance samples.
An eclipsing millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster Terzan 5
1990
WE HAVE discovered an eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster Terzan 5. This, the second known eclipsing binary pulsar after PSR1957 + 20, has a pulse period of 11.56 ms and a very short orbital period of 1.8 hours. In contrast to PSR1957 + 20, where the eclipses occupy about 10 per cent of the orbital period1, the eclipse duration in this pulsar is very variable and never less than one-third of the orbital period. The pulsar is in a circular orbit of radius 0.11 light seconds, which implies a minimum companion mass of 0.089 solar masses, about four times the companion mass of PSR1957 + 20. Timing observations suggest an identification of the pulsar with a variable conti…