GZK photons as ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

We calculate the flux of “GZK photons,” namely, the flux of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) consisting of photons produced by extragalactic nucleons through the resonant photoproduction of pions, the so-called GZK effect. We show that for primary nucleons, the GZK-photon fraction of the total UHECR flux is between 10⁻⁴ and 10^–2 above 10¹⁹ eV and up to the order of 0.1 above 10²⁰ eV. The GZK-photon flux depends on the assumed UHECR spectrum, the slope of the nucleon flux at the source, and the distribution of sources and intervening backgrounds. Detection of this photon flux would open the way for UHECR gamma-ray astronomy. Detection of a larger photon flux would imply the emission of photons at the source or new physics. We compare the photon fractions expected for GZK photons and the minimal fractions predicted by top-down models. We find that the photon fraction above 10¹⁹ eV is a crucial test for top-down models. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Neutrino quasielastic scattering on nuclear targets Parametrizing transverse enhancement (meson exchange currents)

We present a parametrization of the observed enhancement in the transverse electron quasielastic (QE) response function for nucleons bound in carbon as a function of the square of the four momentum transfer (Q ²) in terms of a correction to the magnetic form factors of bound nucleons. The parametrization should also be applicable to the transverse cross section in neutrino scattering. If the transverse enhancement originates from meson exchange currents (MEC), then it is theoretically expected that any enhancement in the longitudinal or axial contributions is small. We present the predictions of the “Transverse Enhancement” model (which is based on electron scattering data only) for the ν _μ , [`(n)]_m\bar{\nu}_{\mu} differential and total QE cross sections for nucleons bound in carbon. The Q ² dependence of the transverse enhancement is observed to resolve much of the long standing discrepancy in the QE total cross sections and differential distributions between low energy and high energy neutrino experiments on nuclear targets.     

Fully confined events indicative of proton decay in the Kolar Gold Fields detector

Three events have been recorded in the Kolar Gold Field experiment with tracks fully confined to the detector volume. It is shown that their characteristics are in conformity with the decay of bound nucleons and that the background due to neutrino interactions is extremely small. Based on these as well as the events reported earlier, we tentatively suggest a mean lifetime of about 7 × 10³⁰ yr for nucleons bound in iron nuclei.     

Low-energy antiproton annihilation in nuclei

The annihilation of 100 MeV antiprotons in atomic nuclei is studied in the frame of an intranuclear cascade model. It is found that the antiproton is annihilated about 1 fm inside the nucleus on the average. The energy released by the annihilation is carried by an average of 5 pions, which cascade throughout the nucleus. About 5% (10%) of the primordial pions are absorbed by the ⁴⁰Ca (¹⁰⁸Ag) target. The pions transfer around 5̃50 MeV (7̃00 MeV) to the nucleons and eject about one-fifth of the nucleons. The pion and proton cross sections are calculated. In particular, the relative transparency of the nucleus to high-energy pions (and not to pions in the Δ-resonance region) gives rise to a peculiar pion emission pattern. The time evolution of the baryon density and of the spectrum of the participant nucleons is investigated. It turns out that the cascade does not generate high energy density.     

K+ versus Λ flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

We study K⁺ and Λ flow in heavy-ion collisions at beam energies of about 2 AGeV. We present our results in both the “traditional” (i.e., in terms of the average transverse momentum in the reaction plane) as well as “modern” (i.e., in terms of coefficients of the Fourier analysis of azimuthal distributions) methods of flow analysis. We find significant differences between the K⁺ and the Λ flow: while the Λ flow is basically similar to that of nucleons, the K⁺ flow almost disappears. This difference is attributed chiefly to their different mean field potentials in dense matter. The comparisons with the experimental data, as well as theoretical results from independent calculations, indicate clearly the pivotal roles of both K⁺ and Λ medium effects. We emphasize that similar experimental data from independent collaborations are essential for the eventual verification of these medium effects.     

Nondynamical calculation of polarization observables in d+d reactions at low energies

The parametrization of polarization observables in terms of (l, s, J) matrix elements is given for²H(d, p)³H and²H(d, n)³He reactions at low energies. It is shown that transverse polarizations of outgoing nucleons are to be measured in order to obtain a complete set of cross-section, analysing powers, spin-correlation and polarization transfer experiments.     

Recoil effects in peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions at E/A=84 MeV

Azimuthal angular correlations between projectile fragments and light particles have been measured in ¹⁸O induced reactions on ^58.64Ni and ¹⁹⁷Au targets at E/A=84 MeV. Neither sequential projectile decay nor evaporation from an equilibrated target-like recoil can explain the observed correlations. The data are well described in terms of a sideways-moving source suggesting emission of midrapidity light particles from a subset of nucleons which carries a major part of the transverse recoil momentum imparted by the projectile fragment.     

Radiative strength functions for nuclei in which the number of protons is close to the magic number of Z=28

The distribution of the radiative strength in nuclei where the number of nucleons of one type is nearly magic (Z=28±1) and where there are a few valence nucleons of the other type is investigated. It is shown that the statistical approach that is based on Fermi liquid theory and which takes into account temperature and the shell structure of nuclei leads to good agreement with experimental data on radiative strength functions below the neutron binding energy in such nuclei. Only for the ⁵⁹Co and ⁶⁵Cu nuclei, which have the largest number of valence neutrons among the cobalt and copper isotopes being investigated, is the energy dependence of the radiative strength compatible with a Lorentz distribution as well.     

Abundance of Δ resonances in 58Ni + 58Ni collisions between 1 and 2 AGeV

Charged pion spectra measured in ⁵⁸Ni⁵⁸Ni collisions at 1.06, 1.45 and 1.93 AGeV are interpreted in terms of a thermal model including the decay of Δ resonances. The transverse momentum spectra of pions are well reproduced by adding the pions originating from the Δ -resonance decay to the component of thermal pions, deduced from the high transverse momentum part of the pion spectra. About 10 and 18% of the nucleons are excited to Δ states at freeze-out for beam energies of 1 and 2 AGeV, respectively.     

Real part of the optical potential for composite particles

The optical potential for a composite particle is most simply approximated by the sum of the optical potentials of the constituent nucleons. Restricting ourselves to the real parts of the potentials we use this model as a first approximation in a calculation of the potentials for d, ³He, α and ¹²C. We add corrections for (i) the energy dependence of the nucleon potentials, (ii) three-body terms, (iii) the Pauli principle. All corrections can be important and that for the Pauli principle can be very large. We obtain a good explanation of the following phenomena: (a) the deuteron potential is nearly the sum of the neutron and proton potentials, (b) the potential for ³He is about 20 % less than the sum of the potentials of the nucleons in the ³He projectile, (c) the volume integral of the potential for ³He falls at both high and low energies in the energy range 20–100 MeV, (d) shallow potentials with large radii are found for low energy (30 MeV) scattering of α-particles, (e) deeper potentials are found for higher energy α-particle scattering. We predict shallow potentials for ¹²C scattering from light targets but deeper potentials for heavier targets.     

The energy dependent nucleus-nucleus optical potential in a nuclear matter approach

We calculated the energy dependent real and imaginary part of the nucleus-nucleus optical potential in a lab. energy domain between 50MeV and 225MeV per nucleon for the systems¹²C-¹²C and⁵⁸Ni-⁵⁸Ni. In our model we assume that the energetical behaviour of the colliding nucleons inside of the two overlapping nuclei is locally that of two colliding nuclear matter systems. Therefore the effective nucleon-nucleon interaction is calculated using a Bethe-Goldstone equation that includes the Pauli blocking caused by the two Fermi spheres and takes account of the presence of the other nucleons by their mean field. Neglecting finite range effects one can calculate the real and imaginary part by a folding procedure.     

The interaction of K mesons with nuclei

The experimental data for K⁻ capture by nuclei is interpreted in terms of K⁻ nucleon scattering amplitudes in a region of negative relative kinetic energy. It is shown that constant scattering length solutions which represent the data in the region of positive relative kinetic energy up to 100 MeV do not satisfactorily describe the interaction with bound nucleons and a modified scattering length solution is proposed. Measured values of the widths of K-mesic X-ray lines which require a strongly attractive K⁻ nucleons optical potential are successfully interpreted in terms of K⁻N scattering lengths appropriate for bound nucleons. The information obtainable about relative neutron and proton density distributions in the nuclear periphery from studies of this kind is discussed. The need for more data on interaction of K⁻ in hydrogen at low kinetic energies and at rest and in other elements at rest is emphasised.     

Effective dilaton lagrangian and gluon condensate in a nucleon medium

The gluon condensate as a function of temperature and baryon density in a nucleon medium is obtained from an effective dilaton Lagrangian. It is shown that, at a normal nuclear density of nucleons, n ₀ = 0.17 fm^?3, the gluon condensate decreases by about 10%.     

Energy flux of a Gaussian beam in microwave band beyond the paraxial approximation

Through the analytic method beyond the paraxial approximation, the energy flux for the general fields of a Gaussian laser beam in microwave band (∼10⁸–10¹⁰ Hz) with different diffraction angles and longitudinal positions are derived. The results indicate a Gaussian beam (GB) has a certain number of transverse energy flux, and it would be enhanced with larger diffraction angle. In the range of beyond paraxial approximation, the transverse flux plays an important role in energy distribution, so that it cannot be ignored when the GB is highly focused. Meanwhile both transverse and longitudinal energy decay along the propagation direction, and the proportion of transverse energy far from beam axis is much more than the counterpart in paraxial area. The transverse energy as mainly characteristic of GB will be much useful for the interactions between electromagnetic field and other field.     

6.8GeV/cπ-N非弹性作用下π0介子的产生

利用联合原子核研究所24立升丙烷气泡室照片,对动量为6.8GeV/cπ^-介子与核子非弹性作用产生π⁰介子的问题进行了研究。扫描了约2700对立体照片。在宽度为29.3厘米的有效范围内得到了1275个π^--N非弹性作用事例。在936个π^--p事例和339个π^--n事例中,观察到正电子、负电子对数目分别为240和89。考虑了气泡室对γ光子的探测效率,我们得到每个事例产生的平均π⁰介子数n_(π⁰)=1.00±0.06。γ光子的平均横动量为p_⊥γ=173MeV/c。此外,着重研究了γ光子的能量分布。在γ光子全部是由π⁰介子衰变产生以及π⁰介子和π^±介子具有相同能谱的假设下,利用在相同入射粒子能量的π^--N作用中所产生的次级π^±介子能量分布变换成γ光子的能量分布;将本实验所得的γ光子能量分布和变换得到的分布进行比较,这两个分布在实验误差范围内完全符合。     

同位旋相关的核子碰撞截面的不同形式与核子的集体流

在详细比较同位旋相关的核子-核子碰撞截面的几种常用形式的基础上,利用IBUU模型, 分别对具有相同质量的⁶⁰Ca+⁶⁰Ca和⁶⁰Ni+⁶⁰Ni的中能重离子碰撞进行了模拟计算,定量地分析了碰撞过程中不同形式的同位旋相关的核子-核子碰撞截面对于核子的快度分布和集体流的影响.结果显示: 不同形式的核子碰撞截面,可以给出相差较大的核子的快度分布和横向流, 但在同一种截面形式下,对称势的变化对横向流的影响较小.这表明在新的动量相关的对称势下, 中能重离子碰撞中集体流对于截面的敏感性依然成立;同时表明,在相同的碰撞截面和对称势形式下, 当入射能量在平衡能附近时,入射粒子的中质比对核子在平面流的影响较大,反之,影响较小.     

A slow gravity compensated atom laser

We report on a slow guided atom laser beam outcoupled from a Bose–Einstein condensate of ⁸⁷Rb atoms in a hybrid trap. The acceleration of the atom laser beam can be controlled by compensating the gravitational acceleration and we reach residual accelerations as low as 0.0027 g. The outcoupling mechanism allows for the production of a constant flux of 4.5×10⁶ atoms per second and due to transverse guiding we obtain an upper limit for the mean beam width of 4.6 μm. The transverse velocity spread is only 0.2 mm/s and thus an upper limit for the beam quality parameter is M ²=2.5. We demonstrate the potential of the long interrogation times available with this atom laser beam by measuring the trap frequency in a single measurement. The small beam width together with the long evolution and interrogation time makes this atom laser beam a promising tool for continuous interferometric measurements.     

Transverse photon effect in mirror nuclei

We discuss the effect of the interactions of transverse photons with nucleons in a nucleus on the energy difference between mirror pairs of nuclei. The inclusion of this interaction energy reduces the coulomb energy anomaly by about 10% in the mirror pairs of nuclei considered. (A = 13 – 33).     

Pion-gamma angular correlations: A way to separate reaction contributions in pion-nucleus scattering

We discuss some theoretical aspects of pion-gamma angular correlation measurements following inelastic pion-nucleus scattering in the light of recent progress in understanding the reaction mechanism within the isobar-doorway model. For the simple spin sequence 0⁺ → J^P → 0⁺, it is possible to separate two basic classes of reaction contributions in a model-independent and fairly simple way, based entirely on symmetry considerations. In the limit of infinitely heavy nucleons, these two classes reduce to coupling to the usual transition density and spin density. The method is compared to the related separation of longitudinal and transverse form factors in electron scattering.