The Photon Polarization Parameter of 2H（n, γ）3H reaction with Inclusion of the Electric Quadrupole Contribution

We use effective field theory （EFT） for the calculation of neutron-deuteron radiative capture at very low energies. We present here the use of EFT to calculate a low-energy photo-nuclear observable in three-body systems, the photon polarization parameter and and fore-aft asymmetry at thermal neutron energies up to next-to-next to leading order （N2 LO）, with inclasion of the electric quadrupole contribution. The photon polarization parameter in total is found to be Rc = -0.421±0.003 and is in good agreement with the other modern theoretical calculations based on modern nucleon-nucleon potentials. In comparison with our previous work, a satisfactory agreement with the available experimental data is found by inclusion of the electric quadrupole contribution.     

M_(αβ) X-ray production cross sections of Pb and B iby 9–40 keV electron impact

The experimental data of Mαβ X-ray production cross sections for Pb and Bi by 9–40 keV electron impact have been given. Thin films with thick carbon substrates are used in the experiment. The effects of target structure on the Mαβ X-ray production cross sections are corrected by using the Monte Carlo method. The corrected experimental data are compared with calculated cross sections in terms of the distorted-wave Born approximation(DWBA) theory. The measured Mαβ X-ray production cross sections for Pb and Bi are lower than the DWBA calculations. The atomic relaxation parameters used in comparing the DWBA values with experimental results affect the degree of difference.     

Parity Violating Electron Scattering in the Relativistic Eikonal Approximation

The parity violating electron scattering is investigated in the relativistic Eikonal approximation. The parity violating asymmetry parameters for many isotopes are calculated. In calculations the proton and neutron densities are obtained from the relativistic mean-field theory. We take Ni isotopes as examples to analyse the behaviour of the parity violating asymmetry parameters. The results show that the parity violating asymmetry parameter is sensitive to the difference between the proton and neutron densities. The amplitude of the parity violating asymmetry parameter increases with the distance between the minima of proton and neutron form factors. Our results are useful for future parity violating electron scattering experiments. By comparing our results with experimental data one can test the validity of the relativistic mean-field theory in calculating the neutron densities of nuclei.     

A proposed U.S./China theoretical/experimental collaborative effort on baryon resonance extraction

In this paper we discuss the reasons for our work towards establishing a new collaboration between Jefferson Lab （JLab） and the Institute of High Energy Physics （IHEP） in Beijing. We seek to combine experimentalists and theorists into a dedicated group focused on better understanding the current and future data from JLab and from the Beijing Electron Positron Collider （BEPC）. Recent JLab results on the extraction of single- and double-polarization observables in both the lπ- and 2π-channel show their high sensitivity to small production amplitudes and therefore their importance for the extraction of resonance parameters. The Beijing Electron Spectrometer （BES） at the BEPC has collected high statistics data on J/ψ production. Its decay into baryon-antibaryon channels offers a unique and complementary way of probing nucleon resonances. The CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer, CLAS, has access to N＊ form factors at high Q2 which is advantageous for the study of dynamical properties of nucleon resonances, while the low-background BES results will be able to provide guidance for the search for less-dominant excited states at JLab. Moreover, with the recently approved experimental proposal Nucleon Resonance Studies with CLAS12 and the high-quality data streaming from BES-Ⅲand CLAS, the time has come for forging a new Trans-Pacific collaboration of theorists and experimentalists on NSTAR physics.     

Instantaneous coherent polarization and coherent polarimetric spectra

The statistics of polarization in electromagnetic waves or target vector has been studied deeply, generally using Stokes parameters. Unfortunately, all the data-processing includes the assumption that the sampling data are independent of time, without a consideration of the time coherence of the polarization data, such as instantaneous Stokes parameters. In this paper, the definitions of the instantaneous coherent polarization function and polarimetric spectrum are presented for the first time, which shows the coherences of the instantaneous Stokes parameters in both time and frequency domain, even in spatial coherence. The new formula of definition can be extended to spatial propagation coherence, both in free space or any linear medium.     

Fano Resonance in Landau Fermi and Luttinger Liquids

With a two-channel model, we study the influence of temperature, external voltage and magnetic flux on the line shape of the Fano resonance, and show that in the Luttinger liquid case, the background transmittance and the asymmetric parameter depend strongly on the temperature and external voltage, while for the Landau Fermi liquid case they are nearly independent of these parameters in the low energy region. Moreover, we demonstrate that the asymmetric parameter changes periodically with an external magnetic flux, which is consistent with the recent experimental data.     

Isoscaling behavior studied by HIPSE model

The isoscaling behavior in the reaction system of 58,64Ni + 9Be has been studied by using the heavy-ion phase-space exploration(HIPSE) model. The extracted isoscaling parameters α and β for both heavy and light fragments for HIPSE model calculations are in good agreement with recent experimental data. The investigation shows that the parameters in the HIPSE model have some effect on the isoscaling parameter. The isoscaling parameters for hot and cold fragments have been extracted.     

Theoretical Study on Equation of State of Porous Mo and Sn

We present a first-principles scheme to investigate the equation of state （EOS） of porous materials, based on our recently developed modified mean-field potential approach. By taking the effect of the structural parameters on the free energy into account, we calculate the total energy of materials with initial different densities and then study the EOS of porous Mo and Sn as a prototype. The calculated results are in good agreement with the experimental data available, which demonstrates that our scheme is suitable for investigating EOS of porous materials over a wide r~nge of porosities and pressures.     

Fragment emission and critical behavior in light and heavy charged systems

We study the emission of fragments in central collisions of light and heavily charged systems of^4+Ar+^45 Sc and^s4Kr+^197 Au,respectively,using the Quantum Molecular Dynamics(QMD)model as the primary model.The fragments are identified using an energy based clusterization algorithm,i.e.,the Simulated Annealing Clusterization Algorithm(SACA).The charge distributions of intermediate mass fragments[3≤Zf≤12]are fitted with power-law(∝Zf^-τ)and exp on ential(∝e^-λZf)fits in order to extract the parametersτandλ,whose minimum values are also sometimes linked with the onset of fragmentation or the critical point for a liquid-gas phase transition.Other parameters such as the normalized second moment,<γ2>,average size of the second largest cluster,phase separation parameter(Sp),bimodal parameter(P),information entropy(H),and Zipfs law are also analyzed to find the exact energy of the onset of fragmentation.Our detailed analysis predicts that an energy point exists between 20-23.1 MeV/nucleon,which is very close to the experimentally observed value of 23.9 MeV/nucleon for the^40Ar+^45Sc reaction.We also find that the critical energy deduced using Zipfs law is higher than those predicted from other critical exponents.Moreover,no minimum is found for t values of the highly charged system of^84Kr+^197Au,in agreement with experimental findings and various theoretical calculations.We observe that the QMD+SACA model calculations are in agreement with the experimental observations.This agreement supports our results regarding the energy point of the liquid-gas phase transition and the onset of fragmentation.     

Isoscaling Behavior in ^48,40Ca＋^9Be Collisions at Intermediate Energy Investigated by the HIPSE Model

The fragment production cross sections for 140 Me V/nucleon ^48,40 Ca^＋9 Be reactions are calculated by the heavyion phase space exploration （HIPSE） model. Isoscaling behavior is observed. The isoscaling parameters a and β for both heavy and light fragments from the HIPSE model calculations are in good agreement with the experimental data. It is shown that the potential parameters in the HIPSE model have very little effect on the isoscaling parameters. The effect of the excitation energy and evaporation on the isoscaling behavior is also discussed.     

Numerical study of the scaling of the maximum kinetic energy per unit length for imploding Z-pinch liner

Numerical computation based on a zero-dimensional thin-plasma-shell model has been carried out to study the scaling of the maximum kinetic energy per unit length, the current amplitude and the compression ratio for the imploding Z-pinch liner driven by peaked current pulses. A dimensionless scaling constant of 0.9 with an error less than 10% is extracted at the optimal choice of the current and liner parameters. Deviation of the chosen experimental parameter from the optimal exerts a minor influence on the kinetic energy for wider-shaped and slower-decaying pulses, but the influence becomes significant for narrower-shaped and faster-decaying pulses. The computation is in reasonable agreement with experimental data from the Z, Saturn, Blackjack 5 and Qiangguang-I liners.     

Mαβ X-ray production cross sections of Pb and Bi by 9-40 keV electron impactMαβ X-ray production cross sections of Pb and Bi by 9-40 keV electron impact

The experimental data of Ma/3 X-ray production cross sections for Pb and Bi by 9-40 keV electron impact have been given. Thin films with thick carbon substrates are used in the experiment. The effects of target structure on the Ma/3 X-ray production cross sections are corrected by using the Monte Carlo method. The corrected experimental data are compared with calculated cross sections in terms of the distorted-wave Born approximation （DWBA） theory. The measured Ma/3 X-ray production cross sections for Pb and Bi are lower than the DWBA calculations. The atomic relaxation parameters used in comparing the DWBA values with experimental results affect the degree of difference.     

Stabilised bright solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates in an expulsive parabolic and complex potential

The exact solitonic solutions of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr?dinger equation, which describes the dynamics of bright soliton in Bose—Einstein condensates with the time-dependent interaction in an expulsive parabolic and complex potential, are obtained by Darboux transformation. The results show that one can compress a bright soliton into an assumed peak of matter wave density by adusting the experimental parameter of the ratio of axial oscillation to radial oscillation or feeding parameter. Especially,when parameters satisfy the relation λ=2γ, the soliton is stable with time evolution without changing its shape and amplitude.     

Theoretical Investigation on Excitation,Ionization and Capture in H（1s, 2s） ＋ H（1s, 2s） Collisions

Cross sections of electron-loss in H（1s）＋ H（1s） collisions and total collisional destruction of H（2s） in H（1s） 4- H（2s） collisions are calculatted by four-body classical-trajectory Monte Caylo （CTMC） method and compared with previous theoretical and experimental data over the energy range of 4-100 keV. For the former a good agreement is obtained within different four-body CTMC calculations, and for the incident energy Ep 〉 10 keV, comparison with the experimental data shows a better agreement than the results calculated by the impact parameter approx- imation. For the latter, our theory predicts the correct experimental behaviour, and the discrepancies between our results and experimental ones are less than 30%. Based on the successive comparison with experiments, the cross sections for excitation to H（2p）, single- and double-ionization and H- formation in H（2s）＋H（2s） collisions are calculated in the energy range of 4-100 keV for the first time, and compared with those in H（1s）＋H（1s） and H（1s）＋U（2s） collisions.     

Impacts of operational parameters on nonlinear polarization rotation-based passively mode-locked fiber laser

The operational parameters including the polarization controlling and the pump power in a nonlinear polarization rotation-based passively mode-locked fiber laser are studied in this paper.The carrier rate equations of the activated erbium-doped fiber are first employed together with the nonlinear Shro¨dinger equations to reveal the relation between the operational parameters and the output state of the passively mode-locked fiber laser.The numerical and experimental results demonstrate that the output state of the mode-locked laser varies with the polarization controlling and the pump power.The periodicity of the polarization controlling is observed.With given pump power,there exists a set of polarization controlling under which the ultra-short pulse can be generated.With given polarization controlling,the mode-locked state can be maintained generally except for some particular values of pump power.Three shapes of the output optical spectra from the fiber cavity can be identified when the pump power changes.The results in this paper provide a comprehensive insight into the operation of the nonlinear polarization rotation-based passively mode-locked fiber laser.     

Λ_b~0-baryon production in pp collisions in the general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme,and comparison with CMS and LHCb data

We calculate the next-to-leading-order cross section for the inclusive production ofΛ_(b )baryons in pp collisions in the general-mass variable-flavor-number scheme.We use realistic evolved non-perturbative fragmentation functions obtained from fits to B-meson production in e~+e~-annihilation and compare our results for transversemomentum and rapidity distributions with recent experimental data from the CMS and the LHCb collaborations at the CERN LHC.We find satisfactory agreement in general,with some indication for the need to modify the available fragmentation functions at larger values of the scale variable.     

A differential evolution approach for parameter extraction of solar cell from current-voltage characteristics

This letter presents an approach based on differential evolution （DE） algorithm for determining the solar cell model parameters from current-voltage （I - V） characteristics. The validity of this approach has been confirmed with experimental and simulated I - V data. It was demonstrated that the I - V curve derived from the parameters extracted by the DE approach is in good agreement with the experimental or simulated I - V data. A low objective function value as well as a high parameter precision can be obtained by the DE algorithm.     

Generation of Schrodinger cat state of a single trapped cold ion

The fidelity of the generated Schrdinger Cat state(SCS) of a single trapped ion in the Lamb-Dicke approximation is discussed.The results show that the fidelity significantly decreases with the values of Lamb-Dicke parameter η and coherent state amplitude α increasing.For η = 0.20 and α = 3,the typical values of experimental parameters,the fidelity is rather low(30%).A scheme for generating the SCS is proposed without making the Lamb-Dike approximation in laser-ion interaction,and the fidelity of the generated SCS is about 99% for the typical values of experimental Lamb-Dicke parameters.     

Different operation states of soliton pulses in an erbium-doped fibre ring laser

We report on the experimental observation of soliton pulses in an erbium doped fibre ring laser. The passive mode-locking is achieved using the nonlinear polarization rotation technique. By adjusting the pump power and the intracavity polarization controllers, a normal soliton, a stable 8th harmonic mode-locked pulse and a noise-like pulse have been observed in our laser. The experimental results revealed that the noise-like pulse is not suitable for the optical telecommunication, and in order to obtain the stable harmonic mode-locked soliton, a strong unstable CW laser field is necessary to mediate global soliton interaction. The formation mechanism of the harmonic mode-locked pulse has also been analysed.