Spin polarization of β-emitting fragments in high energy heavy ions on Be collisions

The degrees of nuclear spin polarization of ^8,12B, ⁹C, ¹²N, ¹³O, ^20,21F, ²³Mg, ²⁷Si and ³⁹Ca produced in the high energy ^12,13C, ¹⁶O, ²²Ne, ²⁴Mg, ²⁸Si and ⁴⁰Ca ions on Be collisions have been measured systematically, for the technical developments of the nuclear moment studies as well as the hyperfine interaction studies by means of β-NMR technique. The fragment momentum dependences were well reproduced by the simple kinematical model. Incident energy dependence and the mass dependence as well as the reaction angle dependences were qualitatively explained by the mixing of the near and far side collisions. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The knockout reaction of <Superscript>15</Superscript>C on a <Superscript>9</Superscript>Be target at intermediate energies

In this work, neutron knockout reactions of ¹⁵C on a ⁹Be target at energy 103 and 250 MeV/nucleon are studied. Using the Eikonal approximation of the Glauber model, total neutron removal cross sections, the stripping and diffractive cross sections as well as ¹⁴C longitudinal momentum distributions are determined in both ¹⁵C ground state and exited states of the wave function. We compared the results of our calculations with the available experimental data obtained recently. The calculated cross sections of ¹⁵C and ¹⁴C reactions, as well as the momentum distribution are in relatively good agreement with available data.     

Transition probabilities of forbidden lines in Pb I

Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock as well as semiempirical calculations of decay rates of forbidden transitions within the ground 6s ² 6p ² configuration of neutral lead are reported and compared with relativistic Hartree-Fock results as well as with available experimental data. Received: 15 July 1998 / Received in final form: 15 October 1998     

Computer simulation of high-energy proton-nucleus fragmentation cross-section

A computer simulation code is designed to imitate the mass yield fragmentation cross-section as a result of high energy P-N interaction, as well as other effective distributions influencing it. The Monte-Carlo fragmentation is discussed in the framework of an equilibrium macrocanonical statistical model. The code is used to investigate the mass yield cross-section of U²³⁸ as well as the Coulomb potential distributions of U²³⁸, Au¹⁹⁰, Ta¹⁸¹, Xe¹²⁷, Cu⁶⁴ nuclei. The comparison of predicted yield cross-section with experimental measurements exhibited tolerable agreement, furthermore, the binary fisson cross-section is formulated in terms of target and fragment mass numbers as well as the expectation values of Coulomb potential are formulated in terms of target and fragment atomic numbers,Z _t andZ _f, respectively.     

Deformation effects in the 28Si+12C and 28Si+28Si reactions

The possible occurrence of highly deformed configurations is investigated in the ⁴⁰Ca and ⁵⁶Ni di-nuclear systems as formed in the ²⁸Si + ¹²C, ²⁸Si reactions by using the properties of emitted light charged particles. Inclusive as well as exclusive data of the heavy fragments and their associated light charged particles have been collected by using the ICARE charged particle multidetector array. The data are analysed by Monte Carlo CASCADE statistical-model calculations using a consistent set of parameters with spin-dependent level densities. Significant deformation effects at high spin are observed as well as an unexpected large ⁸Be cluster emission of a binary nature.     

The electronic structure of the low lying sextet and quartet states of CrF and CrCl

The electronic structure of CrF and CrCl in X ⁶Σ⁺, ⁶Π, ⁶Δ, A⁶Σ⁺, ⁴Σ⁺, ⁴Π, and ⁴Δ states that correlate with the low lying ⁶S, ⁶D, and ⁴D states of Cr⁺ have been studied, using large atomic natural orbital (ANO) basis sets and a variety of ab initio methods, including multi-reference configuration interaction (MRCI) and coupled cluster with perturbative triples (RCCSD(T)). We include scalar relativistic effects perturbatively and also explore the consequence of correlating the 3s and 3p electrons on the transition metal. We report T _e, R _e,ω_e, as well as dipole moments, bond energies, and charge distributions and compare with the available experimental data as well as previous theoretical results.     

Spin polarized 3He: From basic research to medical applications

Polarization of ³He gas by means of optical pumping is well known since the early 1960s with first applications in fundamental physics. Some thirty years later it was discovered, that one can use hyperpolarized ³He as contrast agent for magnetic resonance imaging of the lung. The wide interest in this new method made it necessary to find ways of polarizing ³He in large quantities with high polarization degrees. A high performance polarizing facility has been developed at the University of Mainz, designed for centralized production of hyperpolarized ³He gas. We present the Mainz concept as well as some examples of numerous applications of spin polarized ³He in fundamental research and medical applications.     

The excitation function of the 13C(α, n)16O reaction and its astrophysical application

Neutron-liberating reactions as well as neutron absorbing processes play important parts in the synthesis of elements in a star and in the different phases of its life sequence. Thus the ¹³C(α, n)¹⁶O reaction is of interest for instance in connection with processes such as hydrostatic and explosive burning, as well as in the synthesis of oxygen and other light elements. A good knowledge of the energy dependence of the cross section of the alpha-carbon reaction is evidently of importance. In the present work the neutron yield from a thick ¹³C target was measured for α-particles in the energy range 0.60 to 1.15 MeV with a sensitive 4π neutron detector. Stellar temperatures between 3.5 and 9.2 × 10⁸ K are involved in this energy region. The observed neutron yield curve was used to determine astrophysical cross section factors S(E) as well as parameters for the 1.056 MeV resonance. Starting from these quantities, an expression for the mean lifetime of ¹³C nuclei interacting with helium was derived.     

Oscillator strengths for the Schumann-Runge bands of 16O18O

Oscillator strenghts were measured for the (2-0)–(15-0) Schumann-Runge bands of ¹⁶O¹⁸O. Individual rotational lines were studied at a resolution of ≈0.05Å. Band oscillator strenghts decrease with increasing rotation at a rate intermediate between those for ¹⁶O₂ and ¹⁸O₂. Our measurements are in good agreement with oscillator strenghts calculated using potential curves and dipole moments derived from ¹⁶O₂ measurements, and support conclusions that ¹⁶O¹⁸O plays only a minor role in the photodissociation of atmospheric O₂. Dipole moments deduced from our oscillator strenghts agree well with those obtained for ¹⁶O₂, ¹⁸O₂, as well as with recent ab initio and semi-empirical determinations.     

In vivo K, Na and H MR imaging using a triple resonant RF coil setup

The maintenance of a gradient of potassium and sodium ions across the cell membranes is essential for the physiological function of the mammal organism. The measurement of the spatial distribution of pathologically changing ion concentrations of ²³Na and ³⁹K with magnetic resonance imaging offers a promising approach in clinical diagnostics to measure tissue viability. Existing studies were focused mainly on ²³Na imaging as well as spectroscopy with only one post-mortem study for ³⁹K imaging. In this paper a triple resonant RF coil setup for the rat head at 9.4 T is presented for imaging of both nuclei (²³Na and ³⁹K) and the acquisition of anatomical proton images in the same experiment without moving the subject or the RF coil. In vivo MR images of ³⁹K and ²³Na in the rat brain were acquired as well as anatomical proton images in the same scanning session.     

Aspects of chiral pion-nucleon physics

The next-to-leading order chiral pion-nucleon Lagrangian contains seven finite low-energy constants. Two can be fixed from the nucleon anomalous magnetic moments and another one from the quark mass contribution to the neutron-proton mass splitting. We find a set of nine observables, which to one-loop order only depend on the remaining four dimension-two couplings. These are then determined from a best fit. We also show that their values can be understood in terms of resonance exchange related to Δ excitation as well as vector and scalar meson exchange. In particular, we discuss the role of the fictitious scalar-isoscalar meson. We also investigate the chiral expansion of the two P-wave scattering volumes P₁⁻ and P₂⁺ as well as the isovector S-wave effective range parameter b⁻. The one-loop calculation is in good agreement with the data. The difference P₁⁻ − P₂⁺ signals chiral loop effects in the πN P-waves. The calculated D- and F-wave threshold parameters compare well with the empirical values.     

Fusion cross section of the 16O + 16O collision

It is shown that the gross structure of the fusion cross section of the ¹⁶O + ¹⁶O collision is well reproduced by a simple coupled channel method including only elastic and inelastic ¹⁶O + ¹⁶O(3^?) channels, as well as the excitation functions of the elastic and total inelastic ¹⁶O + ¹⁶O(3^?) cross sections.     

Electron spin resonance of chromia-yttria solid solutions

Electron spin resonance spectra of chromia-yttria solid solutions have been studied at room temperature for Cr concentrations between 0.20 and 2.00 mol%. Isolated Cr³⁺ ions in sites with two different symmetries were observed, as well as well as Cr³⁺ ions coupled by the exchange interaction. The relative concentration of isolated to coupled Cr³⁺ ions decreases with increasing chromium concentration. The results are consistent with the assumption that the chromium ions occupy preferentially the C₂ symmetry sites. A theoretical calculation based on this model yields an effective range of the exchange interaction between Cr³⁺ ions of 0.64 nm, of the same order as that of Cr³⁺ ions in MgO.     

Microscopic and macroscopic DWBA analysis of the reactions 28Si(α, d)30P, 32S(d, α)30P and 32S(α, d)34Cl studied at Eα = 50MeV and Ed = 40MeV

The reactions ²⁸Si(α, d)³⁰P, ³²S(d, α)³⁰P and ³²S(α, d)³⁴Cl have been studied at E_α = 50 MeVand E_d = 40 MeV. The angular distributions have been analysed in terms of the single-step, zero-range DWBA with microscopic as well as macroscopic form factors. By requiring an almost identical shape in the microscopic and macroscopic radial form factors for all L-values with L ? 6 the size parameters of the Woods-Saxon well in which the transferred cluster is bound to the nucleus were determined as r₀ = 1.15 fmanda = 0.76 fm. Despite the differences between the two approaches with these parameters the shape of the microscopic angular distribution is well reproduced and the corresponding strengths agree to within 25%. The method has been applied to the three reactions and relative two-nucleon spectroscopic factors have been deduced. A comparison is made with the results of two shell-model calculations.     

Nuclear structure of194Pt

The decay of¹⁹⁴Ir has been thoroughly studied resulting in the construction of a decay scheme consisting of 26 excited states and 69 transitions. Nine new levels and 29 new transitions were added to the previously known scheme. Of these, levels at 1,893.6 and 2,053.0 keV as well as 9γ-ray transitions are new to the¹⁹⁴Pt level scheme. Preciseγ-ray energy and intensity measurements as well as quantitative coincidence measurements were performed, and the internal conversion spectrum was investigated with a Si(Li) detector. Directional correlation measurements were performed for selected cascades with the major result being the unique assignment of 0⁺ to the new level at 1,893.6 keV. The structure was interpreted within the framework of the PPQ model as well as the effective-core picture including nuclear triaxiality.     

Molecular orbital calculations on complexes with strongly Jahn-Teller unstable transition metals: The hexanitro-copper(II) and cobalt(II) ions

INDO-LCAO-MO calculations have been performed for the complex cations [T^II(NO₂)₆]^4- (T^II: Cu²⁺, Co²⁺), in order to analyse the T-N bond properties and the Jahn-Teller distortion of the TN₆ octahedra as well as the high-spin low-spin behaviour of Co²⁺. While the essential features of the electronic structure and the coordination geometry of the TN₆ polyhedra resulting from the calculations are well in line with the experimental data for nitrocomplexes A₂^IM^IIT^II(NO₂)₆, the quantitative agreement is only approximate.     

102Ru核振动到转动演化的微观研究

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Ab initio dipole polarizabilities and quadrupole moments of the lowest excited states of atomic Yb

The finite-field scalar relativistic coupled cluster and configuration interaction, as well as the spin-orbit configuration interaction, methods are employed to calculate the static dipole polarizabilities for the lowest (6s ²) ¹S, (6s6p) ^1,3^{1,3}P^o and (6s5d) ^1,3^{1,3}D excited states of atomic ytterbium. The results agree very well with existing experimental and best theoretical data and refine the set of ytterbium polarizabilities known so far. Similar techniques are used to calculate the electric quadrupole moments for the ^1,3^{1,3}P^o and ^1,3^{1,3}D states.     

Towards a theory of dissociative recombination

Current experiments in storage rings at Aarhus and Stockholm reveal that ions such as CH ₃ ⁺ , OH ₃ ⁺ , OH ₂ ⁺ and CH ₅ ⁺ recombine and fragment into three parts more often than into just two. Analysis of the possible resonances between free electron and bound electron states for the ions require a detailed examination of the correlation effects as well as the coupling to nuclear degrees of freedom. The problem is well suited for the propagator approach. An analysis of the structure of the self-energy kernel shows the presence of possible resonances with degenerate electronic states which are unstable according to the Jahn-Teller theorem and provides channels for multiple fragmentation.     

Shell structure studies in the titanium region with 52 mev deuterons

The (d,³He)-reactions on the target nuclei^48,50Ti and⁵¹V have been studied with 52 MeV deuterons. The data were analyzed by means of the DWBA which is shown to be applicable at this energy. All our results agree well with the assumption of pure (f _7/2)ⁿ proton configurations for these nuclei. The inelastic scattering of 52 MeV deuterons from the lowest 2⁺ state in⁴⁸Ti has been described in terms of the collective model as well as of the microscopic shell model. Good fits to the measured angular distributions have been obtained with reasonable values for the deformation parameters and the basic nucleon-nucleon interaction.