1938 年12 月:核分裂的发现

 1938 年12 月的圣诞假期间,物理学家迈特纳(Lise Meitner)和弗里施(Otto Frisch)做出了惊人的发现,立即引起核物理的革命,进而促成了原子弹的制造。迈特纳和弗里施为了要解释在柏林的核化学家哈恩(OttoHahn)所做出令人费解的发现,他们领悟到的确发生了以前认为不可能的事情:一个铀原子核分裂为二。     

我国物质结构研究的大型实验平台(续)——非加速器粒子物理实验设施

在粒子加速器问世以前,科学家就利用天然放射性和宇宙红进行核物理的研究。1919年卢瑟福用放射性物质产生的α射红轰击原子核,首次实现了人工核反应。天然放射性粒子来之不难,但能量较低、强度很弱;宇宙红能量最高可达1022eV,却是"靠天吃饭",难以开展精确的实验。粒子加速器在20世纪30年代初发明后,很快成为核物理和粒子物理研究的主角。然而,随着粒子物理向高能量前沿的推进,加速器的规模成越来越大,位于瑞士和法国边境质心系1     

Phase Transitions in Neutron Stars Within Modified Quark-Meson Coupling Model

K^- condensation and quark deconfinement phase transitions in neutron stars are investigated. We use the modified quark-meson coupling model for hadronic phase and the MIT bag model for quark phase. With the equation of state （EOS） solved self-consistently, we discuss the properties of neutron stars. We find that the EOS of pure hadron matter with condensed K- phase should be ruled out by the redshift for star EX00748-676, while EOS containing unpaired quark matter phase with B1/4 being about 180 MeV could be consistent with both this observation and the best measured mass of star PSR 1913 ＋ 16. But if the recent inferred massive star among Terzan 5 with M 〉 1.68M is confirmed, all the present EOSes with condensed phase and deconfined phase would be ruled out.     

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~(*)~(*).The analyses are based on a huge data sample recorded near theγ(4S)resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB e~ e~- asymmetric-energy collider.     

Simulation Analysis of the Optimal Storage Resource Alloction for Large HENP Databases

Large High Energy and Nuclear Physics(HENP)databases are commonly stored on robotic tape systems because of cost considerations.Later,selected subsets of the data are cached into disk caches for analysis or data mining.Because of the relatively long time to mount,seek,and read a tape,it is important to minimize the number of times that data is cached into disk.Having too little disk cache will force files to be removed from disk prematurely,thus reducing the potential of their sharing with other users .Similarly,having too few tape drives will not make good use of a large disk cache,as the throughput from the tape system will form the bottleneck.Balancing the tape and disk resources is dependent on the patterns of the requests to the data.In this paper,we describe a simulation that characterizes such a system in terms of the rsources and the request patterns.We learn from the simulation which parameters affect the performance of the system the most.We also observe from the simulation that,there is a point beyond which it is not worth investing in additional resources as the benefit is too marginal.We call this point the “point-of -no-benefit“(or PNB),and show that using this concept we can more easily discover the relationship of various parameters to the performance of the system.