Kavli Affiliate: Mark Vagins | Summary:We propose modifying large water Čerenkov detectors by the addition of 0.2% gadolinium trichloride, which is highly soluble, newly inexpensive, and transparent in solution. Since Gd has an enormous cross section for radiative neutron capture, with $sum E_γ= 8$ MeV, this would make neutrons visible for the first time in […]
Kavli Affiliate: P. C. Joss | Summary:We explore photometric properties of hypothetical iron core white dwarfs and compute their expected colors in UBVRI Johnson broadband system. Atmospheres of iron core WDs in this paper consist of pure iron covered by a pure hydrogen layer of an arbitrary column mass. LTE model atmospheres and theoretical spectra […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kunio Inoue | Summary:The LMA solution of the solar neutrino problem has been explored with the 1,000 ton liquid scinatillator detector, KamLAND. It utilizes nuclear power reactors distributing effectively 180km from the experimental site. Comparing observed neutrino rate with the calculation of reactor operation histories, an evidence for reactor neutrino disapearance has been […]
Kavli Affiliate: Steffen Luitz | Summary:The BaBar experiment is the particle detector at the PEP-II B-factory facility at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. During the summer shutdown 2002 the BaBar Event Building and Level-3 trigger farm were upgraded from 60 Sun Ultra-5 machines and 100MBit/s Ethernet to 50 Dual-CPU 1.4GHz Pentium-III systems with Gigabit Ethernet. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Takeo Higuchi | Summary:Data logging at an upgraded KEKB accelerator or the J-PARC facility, currently under commission, requires a high density data acquisition platform with integrated data reduction CPUs. To follow market trends, we have developed a DAQ platform based on the PCI bus, a choice which permits a fast DAQ and a […]
Kavli Affiliate: P. C. Joss | Summary:We present model atmospheres and theoretical spectra for X-ray bursters. Our models include the effects of Compton scattering on free electrons. The atmospheres have compositions that are mixtures of hydrogen, helium, and iron. For our models the ratio of color temperature, $T_c$, to effective temperature, $T_eff$, is in the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kyle Shen | First 5 Authors: Jian-Qi Shen, Jian-Qi Shen, , , | Summary: By using both the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant theory and the invariant-related unitary transformation formulation, the present paper obtains the exact solutions to the time-dependent supersymmetric two-level multiphoton Jaynes-Cummings model and the Chiao-Wu model that describes the propagation of a photon […]
Kavli Affiliate: Marileen Dogterom | Summary:We present computer simulations of long thin hard spherocylinders in a narrow planar slit. We observe a transition from the isotropic to a nematic phase with quasi-long-range orientational order upon increasing the density. This phase transition is intrinsically two dimensional and of the Kosterlitz-Thouless type. The effective two-dimensional density at […]
Kavli Affiliate: Richard D. Robinson | Summary:We present a survey of coronal forbidden lines detected in Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spectra of nearby stars. Two strong coronal features, Fe XVIII 974 A and Fe XIX 1118 A, are observed in 10 of the 26 stars in our sample. Various other coronal forbidden lines, observed […]
Kavli Affiliate: Toshitake Kohno | Summary:The total homology of the loop space of the configuration space of ordered distinct n points in R^m has a structure of a Hopf algebra defined by the 4-term relations if m>2. We describe a relation of between the cohomology of this loop space and the set of finite type […]