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Possibility of antimagnetic rotation in odd-A Cd isotopes
The classical particle plus rotor model for antimagnetic rotation (AMR) has been used to investigate the possibility of observation of AMR in the high spin levels of $^{105,\,107,\,109}$Cd. The calculated I($\omega$) plot and B(E2) values have been compared with the available experimental data.
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Heat partition in damped reactions.
The effect of driving force on the division of excitation energy between the asymmetric colliding partners in deep inelastic heavy-ion collisions is studied in the nucleon-exchange model. For this purpose an event-by-event analysis using Monte Carlo simulation technique is performed. It is seen that the fraction of the total excitation energy carried by the projectile-like fragment is sensitive to the mass drift. The model is also applied to analyze the correlation between fragment mass and excitation energy for a given total energy loss and significant correlation is found. The reactions induced by {sup 56}Fe at 9 MeV/nucleon and {sup 74}Ge at 8.5 MeV/nucleon on {sup 165}Ho are considered in our analysis and the calculated correlations are in good agreement with the results obtained from the kinematic coincidence experiments.
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Absence of M2 Retardation in $^{35}Cl$: Evidence for Stronger Isospin-Mixing Effects in A=35 Mirror Nuclei
The lifetime of the 3163 keV, 7/2$^-$ isomeric state in $^{35}Cl$ that decays by a stretched M2 transition to the $3/2^+$ ground state, has been re-measured using the Doppler Shift Attenuation Method, by gating on the 1185 keV transition which directly feeds this state. This eliminates the uncertainties in the measurement arising from the direct feedings from the continuum. A mean life of 0.6$^{+0.5}_{-0.2}$ ps has been obtained from the present work. This is considerably smaller than the adopted value 45.3(6) ps. Implication of this major reduction in the lifetime has been pointed out.
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High voltage characteristic of large area cathode pad chambers for muon spectrometer of ALICE
AbstractLarge area Cathode Pad Chambers (CPC) with inner and outer radii of 23.7 cm and 117 cm respectively have been fabricated and tested for 2nd Tracking station of Muon Spectrometer of ALICE.The active area of this detector has a radiation length of less than 2 % and the frames are fabricated with Peek GF-30. The anode wire plane consists of 474 anode wires of which 53 % have lengths greater than 1 meter. The separation between the wire plane and the grounded cathode plane is 2.5 mm. The high voltage behaviour of the chamber have been tested under two situations.
With no support below the wires to reduce sagging of long wires.With a G10 strip-support whose dimension is 950 mm × 2 mm × 2.4 mm.
 The High Voltage (HV) tests show that a better stability is achieved when the strip support is implemented. Therefore this solution has been adopted for operation in ALICE.
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Effect of trajectory fluctuations on nucleon drift and diffusion in deep inelastic heavy ion collisions.
The role of trajectory fluctuations on the first and second moments obtained in the mean trajectory approximation for the proton and neutron distributions of the projectile-like fragments produced in deep inelastic heavy ion collisions has been studied in the framework of stochastic transfer of single nucleons. At each instant of time the neutron and proton numbers of the colliding nuclei are considered to be given by dynamically evolving Gaussian distributions generating trajectory fluctuations. The first moments calculated in this method differ considerably from those obtained in the mean trajectory approximation for the systems with strong gradient in the driving force around the point of injection. The second moments, however, do not change appreciably for all the systems studied.
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Mechanical prototype of tracking chamber in station 2 in dimuon spectrometer of ALICE
To explore the physics of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision, a large ion collider experiment (ALICE) [1] is proposed to carry out at large hadron collider (LHC). Forward muon spectrometer (FMS) [2] is included in ALICE to look for the signals of quark gluon plasma (QGP) using dileptonic decay of heavy quarkonia (J=ψ , γ) produced in the collision as a probe. The production of these states will be suppressed in a deconfined medium of QGP which can be estimated from the invariant mass spectrum of dimuonic decay channel. The spectrometer is designed to track down the flight path of the dimuons with the help of five tracking stations from which the opening angle of the pair can be known by reconstruction and extrapolation of their tracks. The momenta of the pairs can be obtained from the deviation of the tracks in a dipole magnetic field. The invariant mass of the pair can be determined from the opening angle and momenta of dimuon pairs. Each of the five tracking stations is equipped with two planes of cathode pad chamber each divided into four quadrants to detect the position of the dimuon passing through them and reconstruct their tracks from their positions. The tracking chambers are designed following the basic feature of a position sensitive multi-wire proportional counter (MWPC) where an anode wire plane is interposed between two cathode planes and a high electric field is maintained near the anode with respect to the cathodes. The chambers are capable of providing X, Y position readout of an event from the charge distribution induced over the cathode planes equipped with pad matrices due to the avalanche produced in the gaseous medium. However, the mechanical design of the large chamber (diameter 2 m) for the second tracking station is a challenging task as it concerns good surface planarity to achieve position resolution better than 100 μm (necessary to meet mass resolution about 100 MeV) as well as minimum usage of material to keep radiation length low (2–3% of X0) in order to minimise the energy loss and scattering of the incident lepton. The calculation was carried out at IPN, Orsay to simulate a full scale quadrant with different design parameters and materials to study its mechanical characteristics [3,4]. In the simulation, various options in material and design aspects were studied to seek an optimum design for the chamber to enhance its mechanical
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Measurements of radiation near an atomic spectral line from the interaction of a 30 GeV electron beam and a long plasma.
Emissions produced or initiated by a 30-GeV electron beam propagating through a approximately 1-m long heat pipe oven containing neutral and partially ionized vapor have been measured near atomic spectral lines in a beam-plasma wakefield experiment. The Cerenkov spatial profile has been studied as a function of oven temperature and pressure, observation wavelength, and ionizing laser intensity and delay. The Cerenkov peak angle is affected by the creation of plasma, and estimates of neutral and plasma density have been extracted. Increases in visible background radiation, consistent with increased plasma recombination emissions due to dissipation of wakefields, were simultaneously measured.
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A reconstruction of modified holographic Ricci dark energy in $f(R,T)$ gravity
In this paper, we consider a recently proposed model of Dark Energy (DE) know as Modified Holographic Ricci DE (MHRDE) (which is function of the Hubble parameter and its first derivative with respect to the cosmic time $t$) in the light of the $f(R,T)$ model of modified gravity, considering the particular model $f(R,T) = \mu R + \nu T$, with $\mu$ and $\nu$ constants. The equation of state (EoS) parameter $\omega_{\Lambda}$ approaches but never reaches the value -1, implying a quintessence-like behavior of the model. The deceleration parameter $q$ passes from decelerated to accelerated phase at a redshift of $z\approx 0.2$, showing also a small dependence from the values of the parameters considered. Thanks to the statefinder diagnostic analysis, we observed that the $\Lambda$CDM phase for the considered model is attainable. We observed that the fractional energy densities for DE and DM $\Omega_{\Lambda}$ and $\Omega_m$ have, respectively, an increasing and a decreasing pattern with the evolution of the universe, indicating an evolution from matter to DE dominated universe. Finally, studying the squared speed of the sound $v_s^2$ for our model, we found that is classically stable.
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Stochastic Cooling of Bunched Beams
Numerical simulation studies are presented for transverse and longitudinal stochastic cooling of bunched particle beams. Radio frequency buckets of various shapes (e.g. rectangular, parabolic well, single sinusoidal waveform) are used to investigate the enhancement of phase space cooling by nonlinearities of synchrotron motion. The connection between the notions of Landau damping for instabilities and mixing for stochastic cooling are discussed. In particular, the need for synchrotron frequency spread for both Landau damping and good mixing is seen to be comparable for bunched beams.
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The generalized second law of thermodynamics in f(R) gravity for various choices of scale factor
The present study is aimed at investigating the validity of the generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics in f(R) gravity. Choosing f(R)=R+ξRμ+ζR−ν with ξ,μ,ζ, ν > 0 (following the study of Nojiri and Odintsov in 2003), we have computed the time derivatives of total entropy for various choices of scale factor pertaining to emergent, intermediate, and logamediate scenarios of the universe. We have taken into account the radii of Hubble, apparent, particle, and event horizons while computing the time derivatives of entropy under various situations being considered. After analyzing through the plots of time derivative of total entropy against cosmic time, it is observed that the derivative always stays at positive level. This indicates the validity of GSL of thermodynamics in the f(R) gravity irrespective of the choices of scale factor and enveloping horizon.
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Progress on plasma lens experiment at the final focus test beam
The Plasma Lens Collaboration proposed and has been approved to perform the Plasma Lens Experiment at the Final Focus Test Beam (SLAC E-150bis). The experiment is a revised and simplified proposition which reflects the pertinent scientific and technological advances since an earlier proposal (1) was submitted. The goals of the experiment are to study plasma focusing of high energy, high density particle beams: to investigate plasma beamsstrahlung suppression: and to develop technologies for plasma lens applications in present and future linear colliders.