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Potential energy surfaces of actinide and transfermium nuclei from multi-dimensional constraint covariant density functional theories
Multi-dimensional constrained covariant density functional theories were developed recently. In these theories, all shape degrees of freedom β λμ deformations with even μ are allowed, e.g., β 20 , β 22 , β 30 , β 32 , β 40 , β 42 , β 44 , and so on and the CDFT functional can be one of the following four forms: the meson exchange or point-coupling nucleon interactions combined with the non-linear or density-dependent couplings. In this contribution, some applications of these theories are presented. The potential energy surfaces of actinide nuclei in the ( β 20 , β 22 , β 30 ) deformation space are investigated. It is found that besides the octupole deformation, the triaxiality also plays an important role upon the second fission barriers. The non-axial reflection-asymmetric β 32 shape in some transfermium nuclei with N = 150, namely 246 Cm, 248 Cf, 250 Fm, and 252 No are studied.
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PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF H2+ BEAM GENERATED BY A 2.45 GHZ PERMANENT MAGNET ECR ION SOURCE AT PKU
To obtain high-yield H2 ion beam, experimental and theoretical study was carried out on the 2.45 GHz Peking University permanent magnet electron cyclotron resonance ion source (PKU PMECRIS). With PMECR II [1], studies on the size of discharge chamber and the operation pressure were carried out to increase H2 ion fraction. Beam analysis results prove that the H2 can reach 47.7% with suitable operation parameters. More details will be presented in this paper. INTRODUCTION The creation of molecular ion H2 is an essential process in hydrogen gas plasma. For proton ion source, H2 ions are undesirable in the final extract beam. But recently, the demand to build an ion source to generate high current hydrogen molecular ion H2 beam has been growing rapidly. For example, H2 ion can be used as a pilot beam of the intense deuteron beam during the commissioning of linear accelerators to minimize the activation of components.[2][3] Also it is an effective way to improve the output current of cyclotrons by accelerating H2 and stripping it into H at the exit of accelerator, instead of accelerating H beam directly.[4][5] R. F. King et al. proposed a one-dimensional plasma model for a volume arc source, which is expected to produce 140 mA of ion beam with H2 species ratio around 73% in theory, but it wasn’t realized.[6] N. Joshi et al. developed a volume type ion source at Frankfurt University, and about 91% H2 was extracted with current intensity of 2.84 mA.[7] Obviously, the fraction of H2 is definitely high, but the current is not enough for some applications. With a 2.45 GHz permanent magnet ECR ion source PMECR II [1][8][9] (Fig. 1), the fraction and current intensity of molecular ion H2 were improved at PKU. Theoretical study indicates that, to optimize the production of H2, it is helpful to increase the electron temperature in the source and avoid attachment with neutral H2 which lead to fast destruction of H2.[6] In our PMECRIS, these were achieved by changing the size of discharge chamber and operation pressure in the source. The experimental results will be presented.
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Nonaxial-octupole Y-32 correlations in N=150 isotones from multidimensional constrained covariant density functional theories
The nonaxial reflection-asymmetric beta(32) shape in some transfermium nuclei with N = 150, namely, Cm-246, Cf-248, Fm-250, and No-252, are investigated with multidimensional constrained covariant density functional theories. By using the density-dependent point-coupling covariant density functional theory with the parameter set DD-PC1 in the particle-hole channel, it is found that, for the ground states of Cf-248 and Fm-250, the nonaxial octupole deformation parameter beta(32) > 0.03 and the energy gain due to the beta(32) distortion is larger than 300 keV. In Cm-246 and No-252, shallow beta(32) minima are found. The occurrence of the nonaxial octupole beta(32) correlations is mainly from a pair of neutron orbitals, [734]9/2 (nu j(15/2)) and [622]5/2 (nu g(9/2)), which are close to the neutron Fermi surface, and a pair of proton orbitals, [521]3/2 (pi f(7/2)) and [633]7/2 (pi i(13/2)), which are close to the proton Fermi surface. The dependence of the nonaxial octupole effects on the form of the energy density functional and on the parameter set is also studied.
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NUMERICAL METHODS TO THE SPACE CHARGE COMPENSATION (SCC) EFFECT OF THE LEBT BEAM
Numerical simulation as well as experimental researches on space charge compensation for high intensity, low energy ion beam has been done at Peking University (PKU). In this paper we will describe the simulation model proposed at PKU and use it on the PKU ECR single-charged ion source. It consists of a new concept of equivalent density and more consideration of physical process. A series of arithmetical equations is gained through theoretical derivation. Although no numerical solutions have been carried out from our computation, it is foreseeable that the final result will be achieved soon.
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Microscopic self-consistent study of neon halos with resonant contributions
Recent reaction measurements have been interpreted as evidence of a halo structure in the exotic neutron-rich isotopes Ne-29,Ne-31. While theoretical studies of Ne-31 generally agree on its halo nature, they differ significantly in their predictions of its properties and underlying cause (e.g., that Ne-31 has an inverted ordering of p-f orbitals). We have made a systematic theoretical analysis of possible Neon halo signatures - the first using a fully microscopic, relativistic mean field approach that properly treats positive energy orbitals (such as the valence neutron in Ne-31) self-consistently with bound levels, as well as the pairing effect that keeps the nucleus loosely bound with negative Fermi energy. Our model is the analytical continuation of the coupling constant (ACCC) method based on a relativistic mean field (RMF) theory with Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) pairing approximation. We calculate neutron- and matter-radii, one-neutron separation energies, p- and f-orbital energies and occupation probabilities, and neutron densities for single-particle resonant orbitals in Ne27-31. We analyze these results for evidence of neutron halo formation in Ne-29,Ne-31. Our model predicts a p-orbit in halo structure for Ne-31, based on a radius increase from Ne-30 that is 7-8 times larger than the increase from Ne-29 to Ne-30, as well as a decrease in the neutron separation energy by a factor of similar to 10 compared to that of Ne27-30. In contrast to some other studies, our inclusion of resonances yields an inverted ordering of p and f orbitals for spherical and slightly deformed nuclei. Furthermore, we find no evidence of an s-orbit in halo in Ne-29 as recently claimed in the literature. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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Study of the Energy Modulated Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source for the Coupled RFQ-SFRFQ Cavity
The coupled RFQ and SFRFQ cavity has been manufactured and tested recently. According to the beam dynamic design, the input He beam within 120° phase width is designed for the cavity to achieve over 98% transmission efficiency. An energy modulated electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source was proposed and simulated. To achieve the 1% energy modulation on the 30keV direct current (DC) beam, two simplified RF power feeding structures for beam bunching were studied. The simulations show positive results as well as the bunched beam is achieved by the energy modulated ECR ion source.
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Description and comparison of algorithms for correcting anisotropic magnification in cryo-EM images.
Single particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) allows for structures of proteins and protein complexes to be determined from images of non-crystalline specimens. Cryo-EM data analysis requires electron microscope images of randomly oriented ice-embedded protein particles to be rotated and translated to allow for coherent averaging when calculating three-dimensional (3D) structures. Rotation of 2D images is usually done with the assumption that the magnification of the electron microscope is the same in all directions. However, due to electron optical aberrations, this condition is not met with some electron microscopes when used with the settings necessary for cryo-EM with a direct detector device (DDD) camera. Correction of images by linear interpolation in real space has allowed high-resolution structures to be calculated from cryo-EM images for symmetric particles. Here we describe and compare a simple real space method, a simple Fourier space method, and a somewhat more sophisticated Fourier space method to correct images for a measured anisotropy in magnification. Further, anisotropic magnification causes contrast transfer function (CTF) parameters estimated from image power spectra to have an apparent systematic astigmatism. To address this problem we develop an approach to adjust CTF parameters measured from distorted images so that they can be used with corrected images. The effect of anisotropic magnification on CTF parameters provides a simple way of detecting magnification anisotropy in cryo-EM datasets.
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Vertices, vortices & interacting surface operators
A bstractWe show that the vortex moduli space in non-abelian supersymmetric $ \mathcal{N} = \left( {{2},{2}} \right) $ gauge theories on the two dimensional plane with adjoint and anti-fundamental matter can be described as an holomorphic submanifold of the instanton moduli space in four dimensions. The vortex partition functions for these theories are computed via equivariant localization. We show that these coincide with the field theory limit of the topological vertex on the strip with boundary conditions corresponding to column diagrams. Moreover, we resum the field theory limit of the vertex partition functions in terms of generalized hypergeometric functions formulating their AGT dual description as interacting surface operators of simple type. Analogously we resum the topological open string amplitudes in terms of q-deformed generalized hypergeometric functions proving that they satisfy appropriate finite difference equations.
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Putting non Point-like Behavior of Fundamental Particles to Test
We review the experimental limits on those hypothetical interactions where the fundamental particles could exhibit non point-like behavior. In particular we have focused on the QED reaction measuring the differential cross sections for the process $ \EEGG $ at energies around 91 GeV and 209 GeV with data collected from the L3 detector from 1991 to 2001. With a global fit L3 set lower limits at $ 95 % $ CL on a contact interaction energy scale parameter $\Lambda > 1.6 $ TeV, which restricts the characteristic QED size of the interaction region to $ R_{e} < 1.2 \times 10^{-17} $ cm. All the interaction regions are found to be smaller than the Compton wavelength of the fundamental particles. This constraint we use to estimate a lower limit on the internal density of particle-like structure with the de Sitter vacuum core. Some applications of obtained limits to the string and quantum gravity scales are also discussed.
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Limits on sizes of fundamental particles and on gravitational mass of a scalar
We review the experimental limits on mass of excited fundamental particles and contact interaction energy scale parameters Λ for QCD, QED and electroweak reactions. In particular we have focused on the QED reaction measuring the differential cross-sections for the process e+e−→γγ(γ) at the energies from 91 GeV to 202 GeV using the data collected with the L3 detector from 1991 to 1999. With a global fit we set lower limits at 95% CL on Λ>1687 GeV, which restricts the characteristic QED size of the interaction region to Re<1.17×10−17 cm. All the interaction regions are found to be smaller than the Compton wavelength of the fundamental particles. This constraint is used to estimate a lower limit on the size of a fundamental particle related to gravitational interaction, applying the model of self-gravitating particle-like structure with the de Sitter vacuum core. It gives rτ⩾2.3×10−17 cm and re⩾1.5×10−18 cm, if leptons get masses at the electroweak scale, and rτ⩾3.3×10−27 cm,re⩾4.9×10−26 cm, as the most stri...
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Beam optimization of helium injector for coupled RFQ-SFRFQ linac
Abstract The coupled RFQ–SFRFQ (CRS) cavity designed in Peking University is a new type linac that coupled radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) and separated function radio frequency quadrupole (SFRFQ) structure into a single cavity. An upgraded helium injector for the CRS cavity consisting of a 2.45 GHz permanent magnet electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source and a 1.16 m low energy beam transport (LEBT) has been constructed and tested. The beam conditions of the injector were carefully optimized to satisfy the requirements of the CRS linac, the corresponding control system and a two-dimension scanner code CRSv1.0 were developed for optimizing the beam transmission from LEBT section to the entrance of the CRS cavity. The beam transmission efficiency has reached to approximately 87.5% as well as the optimized operating parameters were obtained by means of the scanner code.