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- Adcox, K, et al.
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PHENIX detector overview
- 2003
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Ingår i: Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment. - 0167-5087. ; 499:2-3, s. 469-479
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The PHENIX detector is designed to perform a broad study of A-A, p-A, and p-p collisions to investigate nuclear matter under extreme conditions. A wide variety of probes, sensitive to all timescales, are used to study systematic variations with species and energy as well as to measure the spin structure of the nucleon. Designing for the needs of the heavy-ion and polarized-proton programs has produced a detector with unparalleled capabilities. PHENIX measures electron and muon pairs, photons, and hadrons with excellent energy and momentum resolution. The detector consists of a large number of subsystems that are discussed in other papers in this volume. The overall design parameters of the detector are presented. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Ban, Shufang, et al.
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Density dependencies of interaction strengths and their influences on nuclear matter and neutron stars in relativistic mean field theory
- 2004
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Ingår i: Physical Review C. Nuclear Physics. - 0556-2813 .- 1089-490X. ; 69:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The density dependencies of various effective interaction strengths in the relativistic mean field are studied and carefully compared for nuclear matter and neutron stars. The influences of different density dependencies are presented and discussed on mean field potentials, saturation properties for nuclear matter, equations of state, maximum masses, and corresponding radii for neutron stars. Though the interaction strengths and the potentials given by various interactions are quite different in nuclear matter, the differences of saturation properties are subtle, except for NL2 and TM2, which are mainly used for light nuclei, while the properties by various interactions for pure neutron matter are quite different. To get an equation of state for neutron matter without any ambiguity, it is necessary to constrain the effective interactions either by microscopic many-body calculations for the neutron matter data or the data of nuclei with extreme isospin. For neutron stars, the interaction with large interaction strengths give strong potentials and large Oppenheimer-Volkoff (OV) mass limits. The density-dependent interactions DD-ME1 and TW-99 favor a large neutron population due to their weak rho-meson field at high densities. The OV mass limits calculated from different equations of state are 2.02-2.81M, and the corresponding radii are 10.78-13.27 km. After the inclusion of the hyperons, the corresponding values become 1.52-2.06M and 10.24-11.38 km.
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- Ban, Shufang, et al.
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Nuclear symmetry energy for A=48 isobars in relativistic mean field theory
- 2004
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Ingår i: Gaoneng wuli yu he wuli. - 0254-3052. ; 28, s. 66-68
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recently it was found that the nuclear symmetry energy can be directly associated with the mean level density and an iso-vector potential. In this paper, the nuclear symmetry energy is studied within the relativistic mean field (RMF) theory. The potential of the RMF theory can be separated into an isovector and isoscalar components. The nuclear binding energies in A = 48 isobaric chain calculated from RMF theory with or without the isovector terms for effective interactions PK1, NLSH, NL3, and TM1 have been used to analyze the nuclear symmetry energy in detail, i.e., mean level spacing epsilon and the effective isovector potential strength K.
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- Feldstein, Y. I., et al.
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Structure of the auroral precipitation region in the dawn sector : relationship to convection reversal boundaries and field-aligned currents
- 2001
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Ingår i: Annales Geophysicae. - : Copernicus GmbH. - 0992-7689 .- 1432-0576. ; 19:5, s. 495-519
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Simultaneous DMSP F7 and Viking satellite measurements of the dawnside high-latitude auroral energy electron and ion precipitation show that the region of the low and middle altitude auroral precipitation consists of three characteristic plasma regimes. The recommendation of the IAGA Working Group IIF/III4 at the IAGA Assembly in Boulder, July 1995 to decouple the nomenclature of ionospheric populations from magnetospheric population is used for their notation. The most equatorial regime is the Diffuse Auroral Zone (DAZ) of diffuse spatially unstructured precipitating electrons. It is generated by the plasma injection to the inner magnetosphere in the nightside and the subsequent drift plasma to the dawnside around the Earth. Precipitating par tides have a hard spectrum with typical energies of electrons and ions of more than 3 keV. In the DAZ, the ion pitch-angle distribution is anisotropic. with the peak near 90 degrees. The next part is the Auroral Oval (AO), a structured electron regime which closely resembles the poleward portion of the nightside auroral oval. The typical electron energy is several keV, and the ion energy is up to 10 keV. Ion distributions are predominantly isotropic. In some cases, this plasma regime may be absent in the prenoon sector. Poleward of the Auroral Oval, there is the Soft Small Scale Luminosity (SSSL) regime. It is caused by structured electron and ion precipitation with typical electron energy of about 0.3 keV and ion energy of about 1 keV. The connection of these low-altitude regimes with plasma domains of the distant magnetosphere is discussed. For mapping of the plasma regimes to the equatorial plane of the magnetosphere, the empirical model by Tsyganenko (1995) and the conceptual model by Alexeev et al. (1996) are used. The DAZ is mapped along the magnetic field lines to the Remnant Layer (RL), which is located in the outer radiation belt region: the zone of structured electrons and isotropic ion precipitation (AO) is mapped to the dawn periphery of the Central Plasma Sheet (CPS); the soft small scale structured precipitation (SSSL) is mapped to the outer magnetosphere close to the magnetopause, i.e. the Low Latitude Boundary Layer (LLBL). In the near-noon sector, earthward fluxes of soft electrons, which cause the Diffuse Red Aurora (DRA), are observed. The ion energies decrease with increasing latitude, The plasma spectra of the DRA regime are analogous to the spectra of the Plasma Mantle (PM). In the dawn sector, the large-scale field-aligned currents flow into the ionosphere at the SSSL latitudes (Region 1) and flow out at the AO or DAZ latitudes (Region 2). In the dawn and dusk sectors, the large-scale Region 1 and Region 2 FAC generation occurs in different plasma domains of the distant magnetosphere. The dawn and dusk FAC connection to the traditional Region 1 and Region 2 has only formal character, as FAC generating in various magnetospheric plasma domains integrate in the same region (Region 1 or Region 2). In the SSSL, there is anti-sunward convection in the DAZ and the AO, there is the sunward convection. At PM latitudes, the convection is controlled by the azimuthal IMF component (By) It is suggested to extend the notation of the plasma pattern boundaries, as proposed by Newell et al. (1996), for the nightside sector of the auroral oval to the dawn sector.
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- Zhu, Bin, et al.
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LiF-MgF2 composite electrolyte for advanced ceramic fuel cells : structure, electrical properties and applications
- 2002
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Ingår i: Solid State Ionics. - 0167-2738 .- 1872-7689. ; 148:04-mar, s. 583-589
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The two-phase composite, LiF-MgF2, has been discovered to have high ionic conductivity within a wide composition range, e.g., 10(-2)-10(-1) S cm(-1) at 600-800 degreesC, which is several orders of magnitude higher than that of pure LiF or MgF2. In addition, the activation energy of the composite is much lower than that of the pure phases. The remarkable conductivity enhancement as well as the low activation energy is attributed to the composite effect, i.e., the conduction takes place mainly in the interfacial region between LiF and MgF2 grains. The agreements of conductivity derived from two different methods, impedance spectra and fuel cell characterisation, in combination of the ESR results, show a possibility that proton (plus hydride ion) conduction dominates the electrical conduction in the LiF-MgF2 system under the H-2/air fuel cell environments.
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