Pair-Breaking Critical Current Density of Two-Band Superconductor MgB2

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Baikal neutrino telescope: Status, results, and prospects of development

The main physical results obtained with the Baikal neutrino telescope NT200 during the period 1998–2003 are reviewed: the limits for the diffuse flux of high-energy neutrinos, high-energy muons, and magnetic monopoles and the results of search for neutrinos from the center of the Earth due to annihilation of weakly interacting massive particles and from local neutrino sources. In April, 2005, the neutrino telescope NT200 was extended by introduction of three new strings, located at a distance of 100 m from the NT200 center. The new deep-water complex NT200+ has an effective volume for detecting cascades from high-energy neutrinos larger than that of NT200 by a factor of 4. At a cascade energy of 10 PeV, the effective volume of the new complex is 10⁷ m³. Further development of the Baikal neutrino experiment is related to the design and fabrication of a detector with a volume of about 1 km³. Original Russian Text ? K.V.Antipin, V.M. Ainutdinov, V.A. Balkanov, I.A. Belolaptikov, D.A. Borshchev, N.M. Budnev, R.V. Vasil’ev, R. Vishnevskii, I.A. Danil’chenko, G.V. Domogatskii, A.A. Doroshenko, A.P. D’yachok, Zh.-A.M. Dzhilkibaev, O.N. Gaponenko, K.V. Golubkov, O.A. Gress, T.I. Gress, O.I. Grishin, V.A. Zhukov, A.M. Klabukov, A.I. Klimov, A.A. Kochanov, K.V. Konishchev, A.P. Koshechkin, L.A. Kuz’michev, V.F. Kulepov, E. Middel, T. Mikokaiskii, M.B. Milenin, R.R. Mirgazov, S.P. Mikheev, E.A. Osipova, G.L. Pan’kov, L.V. Pan’kov, A.I. Panfilov, D.P. Petukhov, E.N. Pliskovskii, P.G. Pokhil, V.A. Poleshchuk, E.G. Popova, V.V. Prosin, M.I. Rozanov, V.Yu. Rubtsov, Yu.A. Semenei, B.A. Tarashchanskii, S.V. Fialkovskii, B.K. Shaibonov, A.A. Sheifler, A.V. Shirokov, K. Spiring, I.V. Yashin, 2007, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2007, Vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 597–601.     

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Physics potential and experimental challenges of the LHC luminosity upgrade

We discuss the physics potential and the experimental challenges of an upgraded LHC running at an instantaneous luminosity of 10³⁵ cm^-2s^-1. The detector R&D needed to operate ATLAS and CMS in a very high radiation environment and the expected detector performance are discussed. A few examples of the increased physics potential are given, ranging from precise measurements within the Standard Model (in particular in the Higgs sector) to the discovery reach for several New Physics processes. Received: 25 November 2003, Revised: 21 October 2004, Published online: 18 January 2005 Conveners: F. Gianotti, M.L. Mangano, T. Virdee Contributors: S. Abdullin, G. Azuelos, A. Ball, D. Barberis, A. Belyaev, P. Bloch, M. Bosman, L. Casagrande, D. Cavalli, P. Chumney, S. Cittolin, S.Dasu, A. De Roeck, N. Ellis, P. Farthouat, D. Fournier, J.-B. Hansen, I. Hinchliffe, M. Hohlfeld, M. Huhtinen, K. Jakobs, C. Joram, F. Mazzucato, G.Mikenberg, A. Miagkov, M. Moretti, S. Moretti, T. Niinikoski, A. Nikitenko, A. Nisati, F. Paige, S. Palestini, C.G. Papadopoulos, F. Piccinini, R. Pittau, G. Polesello, E. Richter-Was, P. Sharp, S.R. Slabospitsky, W.H. Smith, S. Stapnes, G. Tonelli, E. Tsesmelis, Z. Usubov, L. Vacavant, J. van der Bij, A. Watson, M. Wielers A. Nikitenko: On leave of absence from ITEP, Moscow, Russia. F. Piccinini: On leave of absence from INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Italy.     

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From Circuits to Computere. Edited by L. Solymar. (Chapman and Hall, 1974.) [Pp. 184.] £2.50. Level: Undergraduate; School; General reader.

Exciting Electrical Machines. By E. R. Laithwaite. (Pergamon, 1974.) [Pp. 68.] £0.60. Level: Undergraduate; School; General reader.

Microwave Spectroacopy of Free Radicals. By A. Carrington. (Academic Press, 1974.) [Pp. ix+264.] £4.50. Scope: Textbook; survey. Level: Post-graduate; research.

Optics. By E. Hecht and A. Zajac. (Addison-Wesley, 1974.) [Pp. viii+565.] Scope: Textbook; library. Level: General reader; undergraduate.

The Physics of Liquid Cystals. By P. G. de Gennes. (Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1974.) [Pp. xi+333.] £11.50.

Mathemtical Methods for the Physical Sciencw. By K. F. Riley. (Cambridge University Press, 1974.) [Pp. xvi+533.] Cloth £8.75; paper £3.75. Scope: Textbook. Level: Undergraduate.

Human Engineering. By John Lenihan. (Wiedenfeld and Nicholson, 1974.) [Pp. 207.] £3.00. Level: Undergraduate, School, General reader.     

Modern classical physics: optics,fluids, plasmas,elasticity, relativity,and statistical physics

Semiconductor Physics. By K. Seeger. (Springer-Verlag, Wiens New York, 1973.) [Pp. 430.] DM 60. Scope: Textbook. Level: post-graduate.

The World of Walther Nernst:The Rise and Fall of German Science. K. Mendelssohn. (Macmillan, 1973.) [Pp. viii+191.] £4.95. Scope: Library. Level: General reader.

Cosmic Rays at Ground Level. A volume dedicated to George D. Rochester in the year of his retirement. Edited by A. W. Wolfendale. (Institute of Physics, London and Bristol, 1973.) [Pp. viii+ 233.] £12 (£6 to members).

Gravitation. By C. W. Misner, K. S. Thorne and J. A. Wheeler. (W. H. Freeman, 1973.) [Pp. xix+ 1279.] £19.20 cloth; £8.60 paper. Scope: Treatise/Textbook; Library. Level: Specialist/post-graduate.

General Theory of Relativity. By C. W. Kilmister. (Pergamon Press, 1973.) [Pp. ix+ 365.] Hard cover £3.50; Flexi £2.00. Scope: Textbook. Level: Post-graduate; Undergraduate.

Plasma Astrophysics. By S. A. Kaplan and V. N. Tsytovich, translator D. ter Haar. (Pergamon, 1973.) [Pp. xiii+ 301.] £9.60. Scope: Treatise/Textbook; Library. Level: Specialist/post-graduate.     

Studying of hypernuclei with nuclotron beams

A spectrometer is created to study relativistic hypernuclei produced with beams of accelerated nuclei from the Nuclotron facility (Dubna, JINR). Test runs have been carried out and the conclusion is drawn that the properties of the facility meet the requirements of the task of searching for unknown and studying poorly known neutron-rich hypernuclei. Original Russian Text ? A.V. Averyanov, S.A. Avramenko, V.D. Aksinenko, M.Kh. Anikina, S.N. Bazylev, V.P. Balandin, Yu.A. Batusov, Yu.A. Belikov, Yu.T. Borzunov, O.V. Borodina, A.I. Golokhvastov, L.B. Golovanov, C. Granja, A.B. Ivanov, Yu.L. Ivanov, A.Yu. Isupov, Z. Kohout, A.M. Korotkova, A.G. Litvinenko, J. Lukstiņš, A.I. Malakhov, L. Majling, O. Majlingova, P.K. Manyakov, V.T. Matyushin, I.I. Migulina, G.P. Nikolaevsky, O.B. Okhrimenko, A.N. Parfenov, N.G. Parfenova, V.F. Peresedov, S.N. Plyashkevich, S. Pospišil, P.A. Rukoyatkin, I.S. Saitov, R.A. Salmin, V.M. Slepnev, I.V. Slepnev, M. Solar, B. Sopko, V. Sopko, E.A. Strokovsky, V.V. Tereshchenko, A.A. Feshchenko, T. Horazdovsky, D. Chren, Yu.A. Chencov, I.P. Yudin, 2008, published in Yadernaya Fizika, 2008, Vol. 71, No. 12, pp. 2137–2145.     

Classical oscillator with position-dependent mass in a complex domain

We study complexified Harmonic Oscillator with a position-dependent mass, termed as Complex Exotic Oscillator (CEO). The complexification induces a gauge invariance [A.V. Smilga, J. Phys. A 41 (2008) 244026, arXiv:0706.4064; A. Mostafazadeh, J. Math. Phys. 43 (2002) 205; A. Mostafazadeh, J. Math. Phys. 43 (2002) 2814; A. Mostafazadeh, J. Math. Phys. 43 (2002) 3944]. The role of PT-symmetry is discussed from the perspective of classical trajectories of CEO for real energy. Some trajectories of CEO are similar to those for the particle in a quartic potential in the complex domain [C.M. Bender, S. Boettcher, P.N. Meisinger, J. Math. Phys. 40 (1999) 2201; C.M. Bender, D.D. Holm, D. Hook, J. Phys. A 40 (2007) F793, arXiv:0705.3893].     

Book reviews

Abstract

COLLISION THEORY AND STATISTICAL THEORY OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS. by S. G. Christov. Lecture Notes in Chemistry 18, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1980. 322pp. $A21.90.

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS (METHODS AND APPLICATIONS IN CHEMISTRY) By Petr ?ársky and Miroslav Urban. Edited by G. Berthier, M. F. S. Dewar, H. Fischer, K. Fukui, H. Hartmann, H. H. Jaffe, J. Jortner, W. Kulzenigg, K. Ruedenberg, E. Scrocco, W. Zeil. Springer-Verleg, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1980     

Some Similarity Reduction Solutions to Two-Dimensional Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equation

We investigate the symmetry reduction for the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equation in conventional stream function form through Lie symmetry method and construct some similarity reduction solutions. Two special cases in [D.K. Ludlow, P.A. Clarkson, and A.P. Bassom, Stud. Appl. Math. 103 (1999) 183] and a theorem in [S.Y. Lou, M. Jia, X.Y. Tang, and F. Huang, Phys. Rev. E 75 (2007) 056318] are retrieved.     

Artificial Human Sensors: Science and Applications,by Peter Wide

Atomic and Ionic Spectra and Elementary Processes in Plasma Edited by I. I. Sobelman 1992, US$86.00 (hbk), pp. xi + 171. Nova, ISBN 1 56072 071 9. Scope: multi-author review. Level: specialist.

Benard Cells and Taylor Vortices By E. L. Koschmieder 1993, £35.00, US$64.95 (hbk), pp. x + 337. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 40204 2. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

Black Holes By J.-P. Luminet 1992, £30.00 (hbk), £10.95 (pbk), pp. xviii + 312. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 404906 3. Scope: popular review. Level: non-specialist.

The Enigmatic Electron By M. H. MacGregor 1992, £51.00, US$96.00, Dfl 145.00 (hbk), pp. xv + 207. Kluwer, ISBN 0 7923 1982 6. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Fatigue of Materials By S. Suresh 1992, £24.95, US$39.95 (pbk), pp. xvii + 617. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 43763 6. Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate.

Fractals and Chaos in Geology and Geophysics By D. L. Turcotte 1993, £17.95, US$27.95 (pbk), pp. x + 221. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 44767 4. Scope: text. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate.

Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Alloy Deposition Processes By W. Luft and Y. S. Tsup 1993, US$125.00 (hbk), pp. xiv + 327. Marcel Dekker, ISBN 0 8247 9146 0. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

Inhomogeneous Waves in Solids and Fluids By G. Caviglia and A. Morro 1992, £20.00 (hbk), pp. xii + 301. World Scientific, ISBN 981 02 0804 9. Scope: text. Level: postgraduate.

Introduction to Cosmology By J. V. Narlikar 1993, £50.00, US$79.95 (hbk), £17.95, US$29.95 (pbk), pp. xvi + 415. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 42352 X. Scope: textbook. Level: postgraduate.

An Introduction to Mathematical Cosmology By J. N. Islam 1992, 32.50 (hbk), £12.95 (pbk), pp. xii + 190, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 37760 9. Scope: textbook. Level: advanced undergraduate and postgraduate.

The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions By A. C. Hewson 1993, 50.00 (hbk), pp. ix + 436. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 36382 9. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Liquid Crystals, Applications and Uses , Vol. 3 Edited by B. Bahadur 1992, £52.00 (hbk), pp. xix + 401. World Scientific, ISBN 981 02 000 403 5. Scope: multiauthor review. Level: postgraduate.

Low-Dimensional Organic Conductors By A. Graja 1992, £23.00 (pbk), pp. ix + 306. World Scientific, ISBN 981 02 0478 7. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate.

Mathematical Games and How to Play Them By S. Vajda 1992, £17.95 (pbk), pp. x + 128. Ellis Horwood, ISBN 0 13 009275 4. Scope: text. Level: undergraduate.

Newton Versus Relativity By J. M. Rocard 1992, US$15.00 (pbk), pp. xi + 107. Vantage, ISBN 0 533 09637 5. Scope: text. Level: postgraduate.

Physics, Imagination and Reality By P. R. Wallace 1991, £43.00 (hbk), £24.00 (pbk), pp. xxii + 567, World Scientific, ISBN 9971 50 929 6. Scope: text. Level: undergraduate and general reader.

Preons, Models of Leptons, Quarks and Gauge Bosons as Composite Objects By I. A. D'Souza and C. S. Kalman 1992, £20.00 (hbk), pp xii + 108. World Scientific, ISBN 981 02 1019 1. Scope: text. Level: postgraduate.

Quantum Hall Effect By M. Stone 1992, £27.00 (pbk), pp. viii + 371. World Scientific, ISBN 981 02 0884 7. Scope: collected reprints. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Quantum Noise By C. W. Gardiner 1991, DM99.00 (hbk), pp. xviii + 364. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 53608 6. Scope: monograph. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Rare Earth Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Edited by M. J. F. Digonnet 1993, US$165.00 (hbk), pp. xv + 659. Marcel Dekker, ISBN 0 8247 8785 4. Scope: multiauthor review. Level: postgraduate and specialist.

Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories , Vol. 3 Edited by T. L. Ainsworth, C. E. Campbell, B. E. Clements and E. Krotschek 1992, US$125.00 (hbk), pp ix + 510. Plenum, ISBN 0 306 44246 9. Scope: proceedings. Level: specialist and postgraduate.

Relativity in Our Time, From Physics to Human Relations By M. Sachs 1993, £35.00 (hbk), £10.95 (pbk), pp. xii + 162. Taylor &; Francis, ISBN 0 7484 0118 0. Scope: text. Level: undergraduate and general reader.

Science in Action , Key Stage 3, Book 2 By K. Foulds, R. Gott, T. Pryke and P. Borrows 1993, £5.75 (pbk), pp. 154. Thomas Nelson, ISBN 0 17 438530 7. Scope: textbook. Level: school students.

A Scientist's Guide to Workstations and Supercomputers By R. H. Landau and P. J. Fink 1993, £34.95 (pbk), pp. xxi + 390. Wiley, ISBN 0 471 53271 1. Scope: text. Level: professional scientist.

Self-Trapped Excitons By K. S. Song and R. T. Williams 1991, DM168.00 (hbk), pp. xii + 404. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 55906 X. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

Supernovae and Stellar Wind in the Interstellar Medium By T. A. Lozinskaya 1992, £83.00, US$120.00 (hbk), pp. xi + 467. AIP, ISBN 0 88318 659 4. Scope: monograph. Level: specialist.

The Theory of Quark and Gluon Interactions By F. J. Yndurain 1993, DM128.00 (hbk), pp. xv + 319. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3 540 55803 9. Scope: text. Level: postgraduate and specialist.     

Quantum Singularity in Quasiregular Spacetimes, as Indicated by Klein-Gordon, Maxwell and Dirac Fields

Klein-Gordon, Maxwell and Dirac fields are studied in quasiregular spacetimes, those space-times containing a classical quasiregular singularity, the mildest true classical singularity [G. F. R. Ellis and B. G. Schmidt, Gen. Rel. Grav. 8, 915 (1977)]. A class of static quasiregular spacetimes possessing disclinations and dislocations [R. A. Puntigam and H. H. Soleng, Class. Quantum Grav. 14, 1129 (1997)] is shown to have field operators which are not essentially self-adjoint. This class of spacetimes includes an idealized cosmic string, i.e. a four-dimensional spacetime with a conical singularity [L. H. Ford and A. Vilenkin, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 14, 2353 (1981)] and a Gal'tsov/Letelier/Tod spacetime featuring a screw dislocation [K. P. Tod, Class. Quantum Grav. 11, 1331 (1994); D. V. Gal'tsov and P. S. Letelier, Phys. Rev. D 47, 4273 (1993)]. The definition of G. T. Horowitz and D. Marolf [Phys. Rev. D52, 5670, (1995)] for a quantum-mechanically singular spacetime is one in which the spatial-derivative operator in the Klein-Gordon equation for a massive scalar field is not essentially self-adjoint. The definition is extended here, in the case of quasiregular spacetimes, to include Maxwell and Dirac fields. It is shown that the class of static quasiregular spacetimes under consideration is quantum-mechanically singular independent of the type of field.     

Radioactivity in technological NPP waste

Concentrations of radionuclides in liquid and solid technological waste of the South-Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant were studied. It is shown that correlated variation in radionuclide content of all samples is observed. Simple relations are derived for evaluating concentrations of radionuclides from the data on the ⁶⁰Co and ¹³⁷Cs activities. Original Russian Text ? M.D. Bondar’kov, A.M. Maksimenko, I.N. Vishnevskii, V.A. Zheltonozhskii, M.V. Zheltonozhskaya, L.V. Sadovnikov, S.V. Il’ichev, V.V. Boyarishchev, 2009, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2009, Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 279–282.     

Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies,edited by Luis C. Ho

Surface Science [Vol. 1] Lectures at an International Course, Trieste, 1974. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna) [Pp. 505] £14.00; $31.00. Scope: Postgraduate course.

Simple Dielectric Liquids By T. J. Gallagher (Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press 1975) [Pp. vi+154] £6.00. Scope: Treatise/textbook. Level: Undergraduate to postgraduate.

Real Solids and Radiation By A. E. Hughes and D. Pooley (Wykeham Publications 1975) [Pp. xii+196] £3.00. Scope: General introduction. Level: Undergraduate, school.

New Uses for Ion Accelerators Editor: J. F. Ziegler (Plenum Press, 1975) [Pp. xii+482] $33.60.

Electrical Measurement Systems for Biological and Physical Scientists By L. J. Weber and D. L. McLean (Addison Wesley, 1975) [Pp. xiv+399] £8.25. Scope: Textbook. Level: undergraduate.

Temperature Measurement 1975 (Conference Series No. 26.) Edited by B. F. Billings and T. J. Quinn (The Institute of Physics 1975.) [Pp. xiv+454.] £20.00. Scope: Survey. Level: Specialist/postgraduate.

Theory and Application of the Boltzmann Equation By C. Cercignani (Scottish Academic Press x1975) [Pp. xii+415] £10.50. Scope: Textbook. Level: Undergraduate/postgraduate.

The Use of Physics Literature. Edited by H. Coblans. (Butterworths, 1976.) [Pp. vi+290.] £6.00. Scope: Survey; library (reference). Level: Specialist/post-graduate; undergraduate.

Authenticity in Art. By S. J. Fleming. (The Institute of Physics, 1975.) [Pp. 164.] £6.50. Level: Specialist/post-graduate; undergraduate; general reader.     

Exact analytical solution of a nonlinear equation arising in heat transfer

This Letter shows that the nonlinear equation arising in heat transfer recently investigated in papers [D.D. Ganji, Phys. Lett. A 355 (2006) 337; S. Abbasbandy, Phys. Lett. A 360 (2006) 109; Hafez Tari, D.D. Ganji, H. Babazadeh, Phys. Lett. A 363 (2007) 213] and [M.S.H. Chowdhury, I. Hashim, Phys. Lett. A 372 (2008) 1240] is exactly solvable, analyses the equation fully and, furthermore, gives analytic exact solution in implicit form for each value of parameters of equation.     

Spectral weighting strategies for sentences measured by a correlational method

Listeners' ability to understand speech in adverse listening conditions is partially due to the redundant nature of speech. Natural redundancies are often lost or altered when speech is filtered, such as done in AI/SII experiments. It is important to study how listeners recognize speech when the speech signal is unfiltered and the entire broadband spectrum is present. A correlational method [R. A. Lutfi, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 1333-1334 (1995); V. M. Richards and S. Zhu, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 423-424 (1994)] has been used to determine how listeners use spectral cues to perceive nonsense syllables when the full speech spectrum is present [K. A. Doherty and C. W. Turner, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 100, 3769-3773 (1996); C. W. Turner et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 1580-1585 (1998)]. The experiments in this study measured spectral-weighting strategies for more naturally occurring speech stimuli, specifically sentences, using a correlational method for normal-hearing listeners. Results indicate that listeners placed the greatest weight on spectral information within bands 2 and 5 (562-1113 and 2807-11,000 Hz), respectively. Spectral-weighting strategies for sentences were also compared to weighting strategies for nonsense syllables measured in a previous study (C. W. Turner et al., 1998). Spectral-weighting strategies for sentences were different from those reported for nonsense syllables.     

Order-disorder transition and stability of ordered state

A review of experimental data on order-disorder phase transitions is given. Information on the type and temperature of the transformation and the temperature dependence of the long-range-order parameter is systematized. The conditions of stability of structures with long- and short-range order are analyzed using a pair-interaction model. The relation between the form of the Fermi surface and the structure of the ordered state is shown.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 82–92, August, 1976.In conclusion, the author thanks N. N. Golobokov, V. M. Dement'ev, N. M. Kormin, V. M. Kushnarenko, S. V. Starenchenko, A. S. Tailashev, and D. M. Shtern f o r fruitful collaboration in the writing of the present work.