Two- and three-dimensional analysis of bose-einstein correlations inπ +/K+p interactions at 250 GeV/c

The NA22 data onπ ^? π ^? correlations are analyzed in terms of a number of two- and three-dimensional parametrizations (Gaussian space-time, Goldhaber, Bowler string-like, Bertsch hydrodynamical, Kopylov-Podgoretskii, etc.). Contrary to the results obtained for e⁺e^? andµp collisions, the Goldhaber parametrization, as well as string-like models, fail in describing the hadron-hadron data. Better fits are obtained in the framework of surface-emitting fireball-like models, both when including and excluding hydrodynamical expansion of nuclear matter. Our results indicate that pion radiation occurs at earlier stages of matter evolution than in nuclear collisions.     

The effect of crack wake characteristics on fatigue crack closure: Part I—a crack wake removal study

In this first paper of a two-paper series the effect of successive crack wake removal on the closure load level and the load-CMOD behavior is studied using the Rigid-Insert Crack Closure Model (RICC). This study indicates that under the conditions that closure starts at the crack tip (e.g., a uniform K-increasing crack wake) a gradual crack wake removal up to distances very close to the tip, does not have any effect on the closure load level, while the load-CMOD behavior may change significantly. However, a continuous decrease may occur in the contact load level as a result of a gradual removal of a K-decreasing crack wake. The predicted behaviors are experimentally verified for two different alloys.     

FFT solution of the Robbins problem

An FFT method is described for the solution of Poisson's equationover a rectangular region with Robbins boundary conditions oneither one or two sides of the region, together with suitableconditions on the rest of the boundary. In contrast to earlierapplications of the FFT technique, the equations for the Fourierharmonic amplitudes do not decouple into simpler independentsystems and an effective iterative scheme is developed for thesolution of these equations. A theoretical convergence analysisis shown generally to support the results obtained from practicalcomputation. For the test problems considered the method isfound to take between 3 and 4 times the execution time for problemssoluble directly by the FFT technique.     

Descriptive Complexity and Reflective Properties of Combinatorial Configurations

We study the Ramsey theoretic properties of combinatorial configurationswhich are generated by infinite binary strings which are randomin the sense of Kolmogorov-Chaitin.     

The dynamics of desorption induced by atomic hydrogen: HD/Cu(111)

Recent observations of a direct reaction between adsorbates and hydrogen atoms incident from the gas phase are interpreted in terms of an Eley-Rideal reaction. A detailed comparison of the experimental data for the HD/Cu(111) system with quantum mechanical model calculations corroborates such an interpretation. The peculiar isotope effect observed can be understood from the different dynamical implications of appropriately rescaled potential energy surfaces. The width of the measured time-of-flight spectrum is explained from the overlapping contributions of the populated vibrational levels. The angular distributions are rationalized by contributions both from ‘indirect’ events, where the incident atoms make several bounces in the surface well prior to reaction, and ‘direct’ reactive events.     

Numerical convergence study of the orthogonalized multi-channels approach to three-body Coulomb scattering below breakup threshold

The three-body Coulomb problem for nuclear clusters is solved numerically for a model below three-body breakup threshold. An orthogonalized multi-channels method is employed. The method allows to check for convergence by considering the norm square of the closed-channels part of the wave function. The numerical results show that convergence can well be achieved on present-day computers.     

A decomposition result for a class of polling models

Boxma and Groenendijk have shown that the workload in polling models decomposes into two independent variables. This paper demonstrates a different type of decomposition that has an explicit multi-dimensional form. This decomposition does not apply to all polling models, but does, for example, apply to models with constant switch-over times and either exhaustive or gated service disciplines. For such models, we show that the population of customers present in the system (represented by a vector indicating the number of customers at each queue) at key time points breaks into two independent subpopulations: (1) the population of customers present in the related model with zero switch-over times; (2) another population, which is particularly easy to analyze. This result has a number of theoretical and applied implications.