119706030
Cross-shell excitations near the "island of inversion": Structure of Mg-30
Excited states in {sup 30}Mg have been populated to {approx}6{h_bar} and 5 MeV excitation energy with the {sup 14}C({sup 18}O,2p) reaction. Firm spin assignments for states with J>2{h_bar} have been made in this nucleus. The level scheme is compared to shell-model calculations using the Universal sd effective interaction and the Monte Carlo shell model method. Calculations employing a full sd model space fail to reproduce the observed levels. The results indicate that excitations across the N=20 gap are required at relatively low excitation energy to achieve a description of the data. The incorporation of the f{sub 7/2} and p{sub 3/2} orbitals into the model space gives improved results but indicate the need for further refinement of the models to reproduce the observed spectra.
118976996
One-neutron knockout in the vicinity of the N=32 sub-shell closure: Be-9(Cr-57,Cr-56+gamma)X
Gade, A. Janssens, R. V. F. Bazin, D. Brown, B. A. Campbell, C. M. Carpenter, M. P. Cook, J. M. Deacon, A. N. Dinca, D. -C. Freeman, S. J. Glasmacher, T. Horoi, M. Kay, B. P. Mantica, P. F. Mueller, W. F. Terry, J. R. Tostevin, J. A. Zhu, S.
121267185
Properties of excited states in Ge77
The nucleus $^{77}\mathrm{Ge}$ was studied through the $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}(^{13}\mathrm{C},^{12}\mathrm{C})^{77}\mathrm{Ge}$ reaction at a sub-Coulomb energy. The angular distributions of $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ rays depopulating excited states in $^{77}\mathrm{Ge}$ were measured in order to constrain spin and parity assignments. Some of these assignments are of use in connection with neutrinoless double beta decay, where the population of states near the Fermi surface of $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$ was recently explored using transfer reactions.
119983228
Renormalization of semiclassical field theories
Abstract We discuss a simple model which shares some of the essential features of the semiclassical theory of gravitation. In this model, a classical scalar field υ interacts with a quantized field φ. We describe a consistent and unambiguous renormalization scheme for the model.
122720815
THE PRINCIPLE OF LOCALITY AND QUANTUM FIELD THEORY ON (NON GLOBALLY HYPERBOLIC) CURVED SPACETIMES
In the context of a linear model (the covariant Klein Gordon equation) we review the mathematical and conceptual framework of quantum field theory on globally hyperbolic spacetimes, and address the question of what it might mean to quantize a field on a non globally hyperbolic spacetime. Our discussion centres on the notion of F-locality which we introduce and which asserts there is a net of local algebras such that every neighbourhood of every point contains a globally hyperbolic subneighbourhood of that point for which the field algebra coincides with the algebra one would obtain were one to regard the subneighbourhood as a spacetime in its own right and quantize — with some choice of time-orientation — according to the standard rules for quantum field theory on globally hyperbolic spacetimes. We show that F-locality is a property of the standard field algebra construction for globally hyperbolic spacetimes, and argue that it (or something similar) should be imposed as a condition on any field algebra construction for non globally hyperbolic spacetimes. We call a spacetime for which there exists a field algebra satisfying F-locality F-quantum compatible and argue that a spacetime which did not satisfy something similar to this condition could not arise as an approximate classical description of a state of quantum gravity and would hence be ruled out physically. We show that all F-quantum compatible spacetimes are time orientable. We also raise the issue of whether chronology violating spacetimes can be F-quantum compatible, giving a special model — a massless field theory on the “four dimensional spacelike cylinder” — which is F-quantum compatible, and a (two dimensional) model — a massless field theory on Misner space — which is not. We discuss the possible relevance of this latter result to Hawking’s recent Chronology Protection Conjecture.