Measuring D0-D0 mixing in D→f0(980) K and more

We investigate the D⁰-D⁰ mixing through the doubly Cabibbo suppressed (DCS) channel D0→f₀(980)K^*0 and its charge conjugate channel, in which the K^*0 meson is reconstructed in both K⁺π^－ and K_Sπ⁰ final state. Although the decay D⁰→f₀(980)K^* has a small branching ratio, the final state mesons are relatively easy to identify. The f₀(980) meson can be replaced by the S-wave π⁺π^－ state, or a longitudinally polarized vector meson ρ⁰. All mixing parameters, including the mass difference and decay width difference, can be extracted by studying the time-dependent decay width of these channels. We show that the method is valid in all regions for mixing parameters and it does not depend on the strong phase difference.     

Production of charmonium(like) states in e+e－ interactions

We present a search for new charmonium like states in e⁺e^－ annihilation using the initial-state radiation and the process e⁺e^－J/ψD^(*)D^(*). The analyses are based on a huge data sample recorded near the Υ(4s) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB e⁺e^－ asymmetric-energy collider.     

A simulation study on the measurement of D0-D0 mixing parameter y at BESⅢ

We established a method on measuring the D⁰-D⁰ mixing parameter y for BESⅢ experiment at the BEPCⅡ e⁺e^－ collider. In this method, the doubly tagged π(3770) →D⁰-D⁰ events, with one D decays to CP-eigenstates and the other D decays semileptonically, are used to reconstruct the signals. Since this analysis requires good e/π separation, a likelihood approach, which combines the dE/dx, time of flight and the electromagnetic shower detectors information, is used for particle identification. We estimate the sensitivity of the measurement of y to be 0.007 based on a 20fb^-1 fully simulated MC sample.     

Excess 3H in the volcanic lakes: evidence for natural nuclear fusion

The excess ³H (tritium) have been observed in the volcanic lakes Nemrut (Turkey), Laacher (Germany) and Pavin (France). The ⁴He and ³He concentrations in Lakes Nemrut, Laacher, and Pavin were determined to be 25 and 190, 10 and 50, and 70 and 500 times larger than the atmospheric saturation value respectively. The isotopic ratio of the helium excess, ³He_ex/⁴He_ex, in Lakes Nemrut, Laacher and Pavin was (1.032±0.006)×10^－5, (7.42±0.03)×10^－6 and (9.09±0.01)×10^－6 respectively. The ³He/⁴He ratio of helium isotopes in the lake can help us to identify the origin of gas fluxes from the interior of the Earth. The ³He/⁴He ratios in the Lakes Nemrut, Laacher and Pavin clearly indicate that a large amount of helium isotopes were released to the lakes from mantle source. The excess ³H at the bottom of Lakes Nemrut, Laacher and Pavin have a good correlation with mantle ³He. We consider that the excess ³H might be also released from mantle source and both ³H and ³He might be produced by nuclear fusion (d-d reaction) in an environment rich in H atoms and (U+Th) at high temperature and high pressure condition in deep Earth.     

Magnetic moment measurements of mirror nuclei 12B and 12N

The spin polarized β-emitting mirror nuclei ¹²B(I^π=1⁺,T_1/2=20.18 ms) and ¹²N(I^π=1⁺,T_1/2=11 ms) are produced by the low nuclear reactions ¹¹B(d, p) ¹²B and ¹⁰B(³He,n) ¹²N and by selecting the projectile energy and the recoil angle. Their magnetic moments are measured by the β-NMR technique. The magnetic moments obtained after Knight shift correction are μ(¹²B)=1.001(17) μ_N and μ(¹²N)=0.4571(1) μ_N. The calculation using the existing shell model could not reproduce the measured magnetic moments for ¹²B and ¹²N simultaneously.     

A Bragg curve detector and its application in AMS measurements for medium-weight nuclides

The schematic layout and principle of a Bragg curve detector were showed in this paper. A Bragg curve detector was systemically modified and its performance was improved. The total energy resolution of the detector is 0.9% for alpha particle at energy of 5.48 MeV from ²⁴¹Am source, and the Bragg Peak resolution is 1.6%. Measurement of medium-weight nuclides by using the Bragg curve detector were carried at CIAE-AMS system. series of ³⁶Cl and ⁴¹Ca standard samples were measured. The results showed that this Bragg curve detector could clearly identify isobars ³⁶Cl-³⁶S and ⁴¹Ca-⁴¹K. The results also showed that the ΔZ/Z of 1/47, corresponding to Bragg Peak resolution is 2.1% at ion atomic number of about 16. The Bragg curve detector can be successfully used for AMS measurement.     

Recent progress in AMS measurement of 182Hf at the CIAE

In order to improve the accuracy of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) measurement for ¹⁸²Hf/¹⁸⁰Hf, a series of measurements have been taken in the AMS laboratory at the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE). The major ones include the instantaneous monitoring of ¹⁸⁰HfF₅^- current, testing the stability of transmission, the alternate measurements of an unknown sample and standard, and the origin identification and minimization of background ¹⁸²W. The experimental details and the improvement in the measurement accuracy, as well as some useful suggestions for better satisfying the requirements of certain practical applications, are presented in this paper.     

Charm mixing from BABAR

We present recent results from BABAR experiment for D⁰－D⁰ mixing measurements. Mixing parameters can be measured in different ways using different D⁰ decay modes, here we discuss the most sensitive analyses such as D⁰→K⁺π^－ where we had the first evidence of charm mixing, the measurement of the ratio of lifetimes of the decays D0→K⁺K^－ and D⁰→π⁺π^－ relative to D⁰→K^－π⁺, the time dependent Dalitz plot analysis of D⁰→K⁺π^－π⁰. New limits on CP-violating time-integrated asymmetries in D0→K⁺K^－ and D0→π⁺π^－ are also discussed. The analyses presented are based on 384 fb^－1 data collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory.     

Gamma decay of the lowly excited states of 189Re

¹⁸⁹W activities were produced via the ¹⁹²Os(n, α) reaction using irradiation of isotopically enriched ¹⁹²Os metallic powder of ~100 mg/cm² with 14 MeV neutrons. The X-γ and γ-γ coincidence measurements were made so as to obtain γ rays from ¹⁸⁹W decay and its coincidence relations. A new simple decay scheme of ¹⁸⁹W including three γ rays of 210.2, 229.6 and 260.2 keV is proposed. Two new levels of ¹⁸⁹Re at 470.4 and 489.8 keV are assigned.     

Propagation of Helmholtz-Gauss beams in weak turbulent atmosphere

Based on the Rytov approximation of light propagation in weak turbulent atmosphere,the closed-form expressions of field and average irradiance of each one of the four fundamental families of Helmholtz-Gauss (HzG)beams:cosine-Gauss beams,stationary Mathieu-Gauss beams,stationary parabolic-Gauss beams,and Bessel-Gauss beams,which are propagating in weak turbulent atmosphere,are obtained.The results show that the field and average irradiance can be written as the product of four factors:complex amplitude depending on the z-coordinate only,a Ganssian beam.a factor of complex phase perturbation induced by atmospheric turbulence,and a complex scaled version of the transverse shape of the non-diffracting beam.The effect of weak atmospheric turbulence on irradiance distribution of the HzG beam can be ignored.     

Investigation on characteristics of self-organization in Mach-Zehnder erbium-doped fiber laser cavity

The characteristics of coherent coupling in Mach-Zehnder erbium-doped fiber laser cavity are experimentally studied. By virtue of a seemly controlling of length difference between two interferometric arms, the obtained comb-like spectrum of interferometer resonator with a period of 0.06 nm commendably agrees with the theory of self-organization coherence. The coherent output exits from the output mirror of a fiber Bragg grating with 4.5% reflectivity. A high coherent combining efficiency of 94% is obtained. Investigation on characteristics of the leak power opens out self-organization mechanism in Mach-Zehnder composite cavity.     

Signal generation in an isotropic medium in scanning electron acoustic microscope

Based on the research in Ref. [5][Materials Science and Engineering, 1989; A122： 57 63], an improved model of heat source is set up, the different modes of Lamb wave in an isotropic sample generated by a chopped electron beam at frequency f are obtained with integral transform and normal function expansion method, and the output signal of PZT coupled at the back surface of the sample is found out. The generation mechanism of SEAM （Scanning Electron Acoustic Microscopy） signal is discussed. It shows that the SEAM is a near field imaging technique with high spatial resolution and its best lateral spatial resolution is about 2√2α （α is the radius of the focused electron beam）. Some of experimental results of SEAM images are presented in the paper and it shows that the spatial resolution of SEAM is better than 0.5 μm and smaller than the thermal diffusion length of the sample. Therefore the character of near field imaging in SEAM is also proved experimentally.     

A subspace fitting algorithm of acoustic vector sensor array and corresponding matrix pre-filter design

In order to ease the pass-band response distortion of the matrix pre-filter,a simple approach for designing matrix spatial filter is proposed,which minimizes the sum of the k maximal distortion norm（k is the number of the constraint points）within the pass-band,while constraining the filter response within the stop-band.Considering the costly amount of calculation of the high-resolution methods,an algorithm with small amount of calculation based on matrix pre-filtering and subspace fitting using acoustic vector array（MF-VSSF）is proposed.Through joint processing of signal subspace of both pressure and particle velocity,the pre-filtering matrix and the signal subspace is decreased to M-dimensional（M is the number of array-element）,hence reduces the time-consumption of the matrix pre-filter design and DOA searching.Simulation results show that,the method offers the same performance as MUSIC with pre-filtering,but has much lesser amount of calculation.Moreover,the designed prefilter can efficiently suppress the interference in the stop-band and improve the estimation and resolution performance of successive DOA estimators.     

Experimental study on SC RF cavities by using China large grain niobium for ILC

Large grain niobium has the potential of simplifying the production sequence and consequently reducing the cost of the superconducting RF cavities for ILC.To investigate the feasibility of fabrication and the possibility to achieve high gradient by large grain cavities,two 1.3 GHz cavities were made of China large grain niobium and a series of vertical tests were carried out following several different surfaces treatment procedures.Two cavities have both reached the high gradient of more than 43 MV/m repeatedly and the maximum accelerating field of 47.9 MV/m has been achieved by China large grain niobium.This paper introduces the features of the fabrication and surface treatments on the large grain cavities and presents the preliminary results of the research.     

The effect of nature of polyions and treatment after deposition on wetting characteristics of polyelectrolyte multilayers

The sequential adsorption of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes (PE) occurs to be a powerful tool for obtaining various materials of precisely defined properties. The interfacial features of PE multilayer films are governed by the choice of polycation/polyanion pairs and the conditions of film formation. Additionally, the long time exposure to the conditions different than that encountered during formation usually affects polyelectrolyte multilayer structure.The wettability of heterogeneous surfaces produced by ‘layer-by-layer’ (LbL) adsorption of polyelectrolytes was investigated in this work. We focused on the influence of film treatment after deposition on wetting properties of obtained multilayers. The effect of the nature of the first layer was also studied. Apart from simple arrangements: (polyallylamine hydrochloride)/(polysodium 4-styrenesulfonate) (PAH/PSS) and (poly-l-lysine hydrobromide)/(poly-l-glutamic acid sodium salt) (PLL/PGA) more complicated structures were considered having as a first layer two types of polyethylene imines (PEI) of different molecular weight.Wetting properties of such polyelectrolyte films were determined experimentally by contact angle measurements using technique of direct image analysis of the shape of sessile drop.     

High efficiency filtering using two-dimensional photonic crystal coupled cavity structures

Transmission spectra of coupled cavity structures (CCSs) in two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals (PCs) are investigated using a coupled mode theory, and an optical filter based on CCS is proposed. The performance of the filter is investigated using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, and the results show that within a very short coupling distance of about 3λ, where λ is the wavelength of signal in vacuum, the incident signals with different frequencies are separated into different channels with a contrast ratio of 20 dB. The advantages of this kind of filter are small size and easily tunable operation frequencies.     

Ultranarrow bandwidth tunable atomic filter via quantum interference-induced polarization rotation in Rb vapor

We report the experimental demonstration of an ultranarrow bandwidth atomic filter by optically induced polarization rotation in multilevel electromagnetically induced transparency systems in hot Rb vapor. With a coupling intensity of 2.3 W/cm^2, the filter shows a peak transmission of 33.2% and a bandwidth of 10 MHz. By altering the coupling frequency, a broad tuning range of several Doppler linewidths of the D1 line transitions of STRb atoms can be obtained. The presented atomic filter has useful features of ultranarrow bandwidth, and the operating frequency can be tuned resonance with the atomic transition. Such narrowband tunable atomic filter can be used as an efficient noise rejection tool in classical and quantum optical applications.     

Electron density measurement of laser-induced epoxy fiber reinforced polymer plasma北大核心CSCD

Interferograms of laser-induced epoxy fiber reinforced polymer plasmas are obtained through aMach-Zehnder interferometry system. An improved digital double-exposure Fourier method is applied to extractinitial wrapped phases from interferograms, and then an improved phase unwrapping algorithm based on a maskand a branch-cut method is proposed to solve the problem of phase unwrapping. After the inverse Abel transfor-mation of the unwrapped phase, spatial distributions of the electron density of laser-induced epoxy fiber rein-forced polymer plasma at various delays are acquired. Results show that the measured electron density of theplasma is mainly distributed on the order of 10^18 cm^3. The experiment also indicates that the total amount oflaser plasma electrons changes slightly within the recorded time and the change of the electron density is approx-imately inversely proportional to the change of the plasma volume.     

Influence of purity of HfO2 on reflectance of ultraviolet multilayer

The impurities in two kinds of HfO2 materials and in their corresponding single layer thin films were determined through glow discharge mass spectrum technology and secondary ion mass spectrometry(SIMS) equipment respectively.It was found that ZrO2 was the main impurity in the two kinds of HfO2 either in the original HfO2 materials or in the electron beam deposited films.In addition,the difference of Zr content in the two kinds of HfO2 single laver films was much laxger than that of the other impurities such as Ti and Fe.which showed that it was just ZrO2 that made the difference between the optical performance of the film products including the two kinds of HfO2.With these two kinds of HfO2 and the same kind of SiO2.we deposited HfO2/SiO2 multilayer reflective coatings at the wavelength of 266 nm.Experimental results showed that the reflectances of these two mirrors were about 99.85% and 99.15% respectively,which agreed well with the designed results what were based on the optical constants obtained from the corresponding single layer thin films.