Advantages and Limitations of Solid Layer Experiments in Muon Catalyzed Fusion

Since the discovery that muonic deuterium at energies near a few eV could travel distances of the order of 1 mm in condensed hydrogen, and in particular that muonic tritium and muonic deuterium could emerge from the surface of a solid hydrogen layer, the advantages of solid targets have enabled the study of several processes important in muon catalyzed fusion. A review of the results is presented, emphasizing the strengths and limitations of the use of solid hydrogen layer targets. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Spontaneous decay of an excited atom placed near a rectangular plate

Using the Born expansion of the Green tensor, we consider the spontaneous decay rate of an excited atom placed in the vicinity of a rectangular plate. We discuss the limitations of the commonly used simplifying assumption that the plate extends to infinity in the lateral directions and examine the effects of the atomic dipole moment orientation, atomic position, and plate boundary and thickness on the atomic decay rate. In particular, it is shown that due to the plate finite size, the spontaneous decay may be inhibited even when the atom is situated very close to the surface, and that in the boundary region, the spontaneous decay rate can be strongly modified.     

Atom waveguide and 1D optical lattice using a two-color evanescent light field around an optical micro/nano-fiber

We propose a two-color scheme of atom waveguides and one-dimensional （1D） optical lattices using evanescent wave fields of different transverse modes around an optical micro/nano-fiber. The atom guide potential can be produced when the optical fiber carries a red-detuned light with TE01 mode and a blue-detuned light with HEll mode, and the 1D optical lattice potential can be produced when the red-detuned light is transformed to the superposition of the TE01 mode and HE11 mode. The two trapping potentials can be transformed to each other for accurately controlling mode transformation for the red-detuned light. This might provide a new approach to realize flexible transition between the guiding and trapping states of atoms.     

内嵌复合物M@C60（M=Li,Na,K,Rb,Cs）的分子力学研究

利用分子力学方法计算了碱金属内嵌复合物Ｍ＠Ｃ６０中Ｍ与Ｃ６０之间的相互作用，考察了Ｍ在Ｃ６０笼内的平衡位置。研究表明Ｌｉ和Ｎａ的平衡位置偏离Ｃ６０分子的中心，Ｋ、Ｒｂ和ＣＳ的平衡位置在Ｃ６０分子的中心。平衡位置的确定取决于色散作用和排斥作用的大小。最后，讨论了碱金属原子进入笼内的可能机制。     

两等同双能级原子与q模腔场任意N∑光子共振相互作用辐射谱研究

本文建立了“q模腔场-两原子”系统的任意N^∑光子相互作用模型,利用这一模型研究了两个偶极一偶极力关联的等同双能级原子与q模腔场任意N^∑光子.共振相互作用的辐射谱.对q模腔场分别处于不同数态:即q模腔场均为真空场、q模腔场均为强场、1模为真空场(q-1)模为强场、q₀模为真空场(qq₀)模为强场、以及(q-1)模为真空场1模为强场时辐射谱的结构持征及物理特性进行了详细分析,揭示出“q模腔场-两原子”系统任意N^∑光子共振相互作用辐射谱的一般特征.现有文献报道,仅仅是本文的普遍性结果在各种不同情况下的特例.     

Elliptic dichroism in hydrogen ionization by a coherent superposition of two harmonics

The two-photon ionization of the hydrogen atom from its ground state by a two-colour electromagnetic field consisting of two odd harmonics of the same IR laser is analyzed. The influence of the state of polarization of the bichromatic field on the azimuthal angular distribution and the dependence of the elliptic dichroism on the photon frequencies are reported. Received 11 December 2002 Published online 29 April 2003 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: fritz.ehlotzky@uibk.ac.at     

Atom optics with rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

The atom optics of Bose-Einstein condensates containing a vortex of circulation one is discussed. We first analyze in detail the reflection of such a condensate falling on an atomic mirror. In a second part, we consider a rotating condensate in the case of attractive interactions. We show that for sufficiently large nonlinearity the rotational symmetry of the rotating condensate is broken. Received 16 September 2002 / Received in final form 17 November 2002 Published online 11 February 2003     

On kaonic hydrogen. Phenomenological quantum field theoretic model revisited

We argue that due to isospin and U-spin invariance of strong low-energy interactions the S-wave scattering lengths a ⁰ ₀ and a ¹ ₀ of ˉN scattering with isospin I = 0 and I = 1 satisfy the low-energy theorem a ⁰ ₀ +3a ¹ ₀ = 0 valid to leading order in chiral expansion. In the model of strong low-energy ˉN interactions at threshold (Eur. Phys. J. A 21, 11 (2004)) we revisit the contribution of the Σ(1750) resonance, which does not saturate the low-energy theorem a ⁰ ₀ +3a ¹ ₀ = 0, and replace it by the baryon background with properties of an SU(3) octet. We calculate the S-wave scattering amplitudes of K^-N and K^-d scattering at threshold. We calculate the energy level displacements of the ground states of kaonic hydrogen and deuterium. The result obtained for kaonic hydrogen agrees well with recent experimental data by the DEAR Collaboration. We analyse the cross-sections for elastic and inelastic K^-p scattering for laboratory momenta 70MeV/c < p _K < 150MeV/c of the incident K^--meson. The theoretical results agree with the available experimental data within two standard deviations.     

Application of R-matrix method to electron-H<Subscript>2</Subscript>S collisions in the low energy range

Electron-H₂S collision process is studied using the R-matrix method. Nine low-lying states of H₂S molecule are considered in the R-matrix formalism to obtain elastic integral, differential, momentum transfer and excitation cross sections for this scattering system. We have represented our target states using configuration interaction (CI) wavefunctions. We obtained adequate representation of vertical spectrum of the target states included in the scattering calculations. The cross sections are compared with the experiment and other theoretical results. We have obtained good agreement for elastic and momentum transfer cross sections with experiment for entire energy range considered. The differential cross sections are in excellent agreement with experiment in the range 3–15 eV. A prominent feature of this calculation is the detection of a shape resonance in ²B₂ symmetry which decays via dissociative electron attachment (DEA). Born correction is applied for the elastic and dipole allowed transition to account for higher partial waves excluded in the R-matrix calculation. The electron energy range is 0.025–15 eV.     

超精细能级中133CS激发态(｜62D3/2F>)原子与理想金属表面间范德瓦尔斯作用系数C3的估算

利用碱金属原子与理想金属表面间范德瓦尔斯(vdW)作用势和不可约张量方法,首次计算了133CS激发态62D3/2 (F=2,3,4,5)原子超精细结构的C3系数.数值分别对应为:17.9956 、18.0796 、18.0857 及18.1756 .为了说明其结果的准确性,还与其他作者的理论数据和相关实验数据进行了比较,结果表明本文所得到的133CS激发态62D3/2 (F=2,3,4,5)原子的C3数值是可靠的.