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- Vos, M., et al.
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Determination of the energy-momentum densities of aluminium by electron momentum spectroscopy
- 1999
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Ingår i: Journal of Physics. - : Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP). - 0953-8984 .- 1361-648X. ; 11:18, s. 3645-3661
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The energy-resolved momentum densities of thin polycrystalline aluminium films have been measured using electron momentum spectroscopy (EMS), for both the valence band and the outer core levels. The spectrometer used for these measurements has energy and momentum resolutions of around 1.0 eV and 0.15 atomic units, respectively. These measurements should, in principle, describe the electronic structure of the film very quantitatively, i.e. the dispersion and the intensity can be compared directly with theoretical spectral momentum densities for both the valence band and the outer core levels. Multiple scattering is found to hamper the interpretation somewhat. The core-level intensity distribution was studied with the main purpose of setting upper bounds on these multiple-scattering effects. Using this information we wish to obtain a full understanding of the valence band spectra using different theoretical models of the spectral function. These theoretical models differ significantly and only the cumulant expansion calculation that takes the crystal lattice into account seems to describe the data reasonably well.
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- Abat, E., et al.
(författare)
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Photon reconstruction in the ATLAS Inner Detector and Liquid Argon Barrel Calorimeter at the 2004 Combined Test Beam
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Instrumentation. - : IOP Publishing. - 1748-0221. ; 6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The reconstruction of photons in the ATLAS detector is studied with data taken during the 2004 Combined Test Beam, where a full slice of the ATLAS detector was exposed to beams of particles of known energy at the CERN SPS. The results presented show significant differences in the longitudinal development of the electromagnetic shower between converted and unconverted photons as well as in the total measured energy. The potential to use the reconstructed converted photons as a means to precisely map the material of the tracker in front of the electromagnetic calorimeter is also considered. All results obtained are compared with a detailed Monte-Carlo simulation of the test-beam setup which is based on the same simulation and reconstruction tools as those used for the ATLAS detector itself.
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- Ben-Shahar, Maor, et al.
(författare)
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Off-shell color-kinematics duality for Chern-Simons
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). - : Springer Nature. - 1126-6708 .- 1029-8479. ; :8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many gauge theories possess a hidden duality between color and kinematics in their on-shell scattering amplitudes. An open problem is to formulate an off-shell realization of the duality, thus manifesting a kinematic algebra. We show that 3D Chern-Simons (CS) theory in Lorenz gauge obeys off-shell color-kinematics duality. This holds both for the gauge field and the BRST ghosts, and the duality is manifest in the Feynman rules. A kinematic algebra can be formulated through a second-order differential operator (Poisson bracket) acting on the off-shell fields, and it corresponds to 3D volume-preserving diffeomorphisms, generated by functions in Lorenz gauge. We consider several admissible double-copy constructions of CS theory with Yang-Mills theory, a higher-derivative (DF)(2) gauge theory, or CS theory itself. To obtain non-vanishing amplitudes, we deform pure CS theory by including the maximum amount of adjoint matter that respects the on-shell duality. This gives a new formulation of an N = 4 CS-matter theory, with fields of unusual statistics. We argue that the color-stripped tree amplitudes of this theory are equivalent to those of the Gaiotto-Witten N = 4 CS theory with bi-fundamental matter. We further show that the double copy of the N = 4 CS theory with itself corresponds to maximally supersymmetric N = 8 Dirac-Born-Infeld theory.
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- Li, Wenxian, 1989-, et al.
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HFSZEEMAN95 : A program for computing weak and intermediate magnetic-field- and hyperfine-induced transition rates
- 2020
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Ingår i: Computer Physics Communications. - : Elsevier BV. - 0010-4655 .- 1879-2944. ; 253
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hfszeeman95 is an updated and extended Fortran 95 version of the Hfszeeman program (Andersson and Jönsson, 2008). Given relativistic atomic state functions generated by the Grasp2018 package (Fischer et al., 2019), Hfszeeman95 together with the accompanying Matlab/GNU Octave program Mithit allows for: (1) the computation and plotting of Zeeman energy splittings of magnetic fine- and hyperfine structure substates as functions of the strength of an external magnetic field, (2) the computation of transition rates between different magnetic fine- and hyperfine structure substates in the presence of an external magnetic field and rates of hyperfine-induced transitions in the field free limit, (3) the synthesization of spectral profiles for transitions obtained from (2). With the new features, Hfszeeman95 and the accompanying Matlab/GNU Octave program Mithit are useful for the analysis of observational spectra and to resolve the complex features due to the splitting of the fine and hyperfine levels.
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- Blesneag, Stefan, et al.
(författare)
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Matter field Kahler metric in heterotic string theory from localisation
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). - 1126-6708 .- 1029-8479. ; :4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We propose an analytic method to calculate the matter field Kahler metric in heterotic compactifications on smooth Calabi-Yau three-folds with Abelian internal gauge fields. The matter field Kahler metric determines the normalisations of the N = 1 chiral superfields, which enter the computation of the physical Yukawa couplings. We first derive the general formula for this Kahler metric by a dimensional reduction of the relevant supergravity theory and find that its T-moduli dependence can be determined in general. It turns out that, due to large internal gauge flux, the remaining integrals localise around certain points on the compactification manifold and can, hence, be calculated approximately without precise knowledge of the Ricci-flat Calabi-Yau metric. In a final step, we show how this local result can be expressed in terms of the global moduli of the Calabi-Yau manifold. The method is illustrated for the family of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces embedded in P-1 x P-3 and we obtain an explicit result for the matter field Kahler metric in this case.
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- Hansen, Dennis, et al.
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Carroll expansion of general relativity
- 2022
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Ingår i: SciPost Physics. - : Stichting SciPost. - 2542-4653. ; 13:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We study the small speed of light expansion of general relativity, utilizing the modern perspective on non-Lorentzian geometry. This is an expansion around the ultra-local Car-roll limit, in which light cones close up. To this end, we first rewrite the Einstein???Hilbert action in pre-ultra-local variables, which is closely related to the 3+1 decomposition of general relativity. At leading order in the expansion, these pre-ultra-local variables yield Carroll geometry and the resulting action describes the electric Carroll limit of general relativity. We also obtain the next-to-leading order action in terms of Carroll geometry and next-to-leading order geometric fields. The leading order theory yields constraint and evolution equations, and we can solve the evolution analytically. We furthermore construct a Carroll version of Bowen???York initial data, which has associated conserved boundary linear and angular momentum charges. The notion of mass is not present at leading order and only enters at next-to-leading order. This is illustrated by considering a particular truncation of the next-to-leading order action, corresponding to the magnetic Carroll limit, where we find a solution that describes the Carroll limit of a Schwarzschild black hole. Finally, we comment on how a cosmological constant can be incorporated in our analysis.
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- Scott, Pat, 1982-
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Searches for Particle Dark Matter : Dark stars, dark galaxies, dark halos and global supersymmetric fits
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- The identity of dark matter is one of the key outstanding problems in both particle and astrophysics. In this thesis, I describe a number of complementary searches for particle dark matter. I discuss how the impact of dark matter on stars can constrain its interaction with nuclei, focussing on main sequence stars close to the Galactic Centre, and on the first stars as seen through the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. The mass and annihilation cross-section of dark matter particles can be probed with searches for gamma rays produced in astronomical targets. Dwarf galaxies and ultracompact, primordially-produced dark matter minihalos turn out to be especially promising in this respect. I illustrate how the results of these searches can be combined with constraints from accelerators and cosmology to produce a single global fit to all available data. Global fits in supersymmetry turn out to be quite technically demanding, even with the simplest predictive models and the addition of complementary data from a bevy of astronomical and terrestrial experiments; I show how genetic algorithms can help in overcoming these challenges.
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- Xu, Hao, et al.
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Mechanisms of fluorescence decays of colloidal CdSe-CdS/ZnS quantum dots unraveled by time-resolved fluorescence measurement
- 2015
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Ingår i: Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP. - : Royal Society of Chemistry. - 1463-9076 .- 1463-9084. ; 17:41, s. 27588-27595
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- By narrowing the detection bandpass and increasing the signal-to-noise ratio in measuring the time-resolved fluorescence decay spectrum of colloidal CdSe-CdS/ZnS quantum dots (QDs), we show that directly after the photoexcitation, the fluorescence decay spectrum is characterized by a single exponential decay, which represents the energy relaxation of the photogenerated exciton from its initial high-energy state to the ground exciton state. The fluorescence decay spectrum of long decay time is in the form of beta/t(2), where beta is the radiative recombination time of the ground-state exciton and t is the decay time. Our findings provide us with a direct and quantitative link between fluorescence decay measurement data and fundamental photophysics of QD exciton, thereby leading to a novel way of applying colloidal QDs to study microscopic, physical and chemical processes in many fields including biomedicine.
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- Zhu, Suyun, et al.
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HIPPIE : a new platform for ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy at the MAX IV Laboratory
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. - : International Union of Crystallography. - 1600-5775 .- 0909-0495. ; 28, s. 624-636
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- HIPPIE is a soft X-ray beamline on the 3 GeV electron storage ring of the MAX IV Laboratory, equipped with a novel ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (APXPS) instrument. The endstation is dedicated to performing in situ and operando X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy experiments in the presence of a controlled gaseous atmosphere at pressures up to 30 mbar [1 mbar = 100 Pa] as well as under ultra-high-vacuum conditions. The photon energy range is 250 to 2200 eV in planar polarization and with photon fluxes >1012 photons s-1 (500 mA ring current) at a resolving power of greater than 10000 and up to a maximum of 32000. The endstation currently provides two sample environments: a catalysis cell and an electrochemical/liquid cell. The former allows APXPS measurements of solid samples in the presence of a gaseous atmosphere (with a mixture of up to eight gases and a vapour of a liquid) and simultaneous analysis of the inlet/outlet gas composition by online mass spectrometry. The latter is a more versatile setup primarily designed for APXPS at the solid-liquid (dip-and-pull setup) or liquid-gas (liquid microjet) interfaces under full electrochemical control, and it can also be used as an open port for ad hoc-designed non-standard APXPS experiments with different sample environments. The catalysis cell can be further equipped with an IR reflection-absorption spectrometer, allowing for simultaneous APXPS and IR spectroscopy of the samples. The endstation is set up to easily accommodate further sample environments.
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- Usman, Muhammad, et al.
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Comparative study of proton and helium elastic scatterings from nitrogen in GaN
- 2021
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Ingår i: Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. - : Elsevier Ltd. - 1369-8001 .- 1873-4081. ; 121
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nitrogen determination is important in a variety of applications to characterize nitride-based compounds, or to study materials where nitrogen is unwanted. Analyzing such constituents in some materials with sufficient accuracy is always a challenge, although non-Rutherford (elastic) scattering is an applicable way to do such analysis. With this ion beam analysis technique various competing resonances are available for accurate determination of nitrogen. These involve protons and alpha particles based elastic scatterings. Here, GaN grown on sapphire is used as a base material with known concertation of nitrogen (50%) that can be used to understand the dynamics of such elastic scattering experiments. Elastic backscattering from 14N(p,p)14N and 14N(α,α)14N resonances are compared and it is observed that proton based resonances are more reliable than the alpha particle resonances to find and locate nitrogen in certain matrix, mainly due to the higher availability of discrete and well separated resonances of protons compared to the alpha particles in the energy range of a few MeV. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
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