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Magnetic dipole hyperfine structure in muonic atoms
Abstract The nuclear finite-size effect in the M1 hyperfine structure of muonic atoms of 93 Nb and 139 La has been studied experimentally. Systematic differences of the finite-size effect between nuclei in which the spin and the orbital angular momentum of the odd proton are parallel or anti-parallel are discussed.
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MUONIC ATOMS. I. DYNAMIC HYPERFINE STRUCTURE IN THE SPECTRA OF DEFORMED NUCLEI.
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Relation between the kinematic and dynamic moments of inertia in superdeformed nuclei.
The relation between the kinematic and dynamic moments of inertia, {ital scrJ}{sup (1)} and {ital scrJ}{sup (2)}, was analyzed for the normally deformed and superdeformed rotational bands. According to the {ital ab} expression for rotational spectrum, {ital E}({ital I})={ital a}( {radical}1+{ital bI}({ital I}+1) {minus}1), the ratio {ital R}= {radical}({ital scrJ}{sup (1)}){sup 3}/{ital scrJ}{sup (2)} should be {ital I} independent. Extensive analyses for the normally deformed rotational bands in the rare-earth and actinide nuclei show that the {ital R}'s do remain {ital I} independent. The same relation holds well for the superdeformed bands observed in the {ital A}{similar to}190 region, and seems also to hold for those in the {ital A}{similar to}150 region, if spin assignments are made correctly. The {ital I} independence of {ital R} provides an additional support to the spin assignments.
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Double beta decay‐an experimental review
In this review, a brief discussion on the experimental objectives and theoretical conceptions of the neutrinos was introduced. Two different types of experimental methods and their results were presented and discussed.
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A streamer chamber used in a search for double beta decay
Abstract A 53 cm dia., 8 cm deep helium-filled streamer chamber is described. At a field strength of 6.2 kV/cm, streamers extend over the entire space between the plates of the chamber and the particle track is shown by bright, narrow regions in the streamers. The mechanism of electrical breakdown in this mode of operation and other modes was investigated. The streamer theory of Raether correctly predicts breakdown-time and dead-space. Penning effect by impurities in the chamber gas appears to influence discharge development significantly at the low field strengths used in track-projecting chambers but not at the high field strengths used in streamer chambers.
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Yrast-yrare interaction strength.
An accurate particle-number-conserving calculation shows that in a single-{ital j} ({ital j}=13/2) model the yrast-yrare interaction {ital V} is always strong and no periodic oscillation of {ital V} with Fermi energy {lambda} is obtained. However, in a two-{ital j} model or realistic nuclei sharp backcrossings do occur for appropriate single-particle level distribution and oscillation of {ital V} with increasing {lambda} is found. The occupation-number distribution for the high-{ital j} shell plays a key role in understanding the backcrossing properties.
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Trapping effects on inflation
We develop a Lagrangian approach based on the influence functional method so as to derive self-consistently the Langevin equation for the inflaton field in the presence of trapping points along the inflaton trajectory. The Langevin equation exhibits the backreaction and the fluctuation-dissipation relation of the trapping. The fluctuation is induced by a multiplicative colored noise that can be identified as the the particle number density fluctuations and the dissipation is a new effect that may play a role in the trapping with a strong coupling. In the weak coupling regime, we calculate the power spectrum of the noise-driven inflaton fluctuations for a single trapping point and studied its variation with the trapping location. We also consider a case with closely spaced trapping points and find that the resulting power spectrum is blue.
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Possible constraints on the duration of inflationary expansion from quantum stress tensor fluctuations
We discuss the effect of quantum stress tensor fluctuations in de Sitter spacetime upon the expansion of a congruence of timelike geodesics. We treat a model in which the expansion fluctuations begin on a given hypersurface in de Sitter spacetime, and find that this effect tends to grow, in contrast to the situation in flat spacetime. This growth potentially leads to observable consequences in inflationary cosmology in the form of density perturbations which depend upon the duration of the inflationary period. In the context of our model, the effect may be used to place upper bounds on this duration.
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Fluctuations of the Hawking flux
The fluctuations of the flux radiated by an evaporating black hole will be discussed. Two approaches to this problem will be adopted. In the first, the squared flux operator is defined by normal ordering. In this case, both the mean flux and the mean squared flux are well defined local quantites. It is shown that the flux undergoes large fluctuations on a time scale of the order of the black hole's mass. Thus the semiclassical theory of gravity, in which a classical gravitational field is coupled to the expectation value of the stress tensor, breaks down below this time scale. In the second approach, one does not attempt to give meaning to the squared flux as a local quantity, but only as a time-averaged quantity. In both approaches, the mean squared mass minus the square of the mean mass grows linearly in time, but four times as fast in the second approach as in the first.
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Nonequilibrium backreaction on a moving charge and mirror in quantum fields
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Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations of a Conformal Field and Inflationary Cosmology
We discuss the additional perturbation introduced during inflation by quantum stress tensor fluctuations of a conformally invariant field such as the photon. We consider both a kinematical model, which deals only with the expansion fluctuations of geodesics, and a dynamical model which treats the coupling of the stress tensor fluctuations to a scalar inflaton. In neither model do we find any growth at late times, in accordance with a theorem due to Weinberg. What we find instead is a correction which becomes larger the earlier one starts inflation. This correction is non-Gaussian and highly scale dependent, so the absence of such effects from the observed power spectra may imply a constraint on the total duration of inflation. We discuss different views about the validity of perturbation theory at very early times during which currently observable modes are trans-Planckian.