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Isotope Shifts In Francium Isotopes Fr206-213 And Fr-221, R. Collister, G. Gwinner, M. Tandecki, Seth Aubin
Isotope Shifts In Francium Isotopes Fr206-213 And Fr-221, R. Collister, G. Gwinner, M. Tandecki, Seth Aubin
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We present the isotope shifts of the 7s(1/2) to 7p(1/2) transition for francium isotopes Fr206-213 with reference to Fr-221 collected from two experimental periods. The shifts are measured on a sample of atoms prepared within a magneto-optical trap by a fast sweep of radio-frequency sidebands applied to a carrier laser. King plot analysis, which includes literature values for 7s(1/2) to 7p(3/2) isotope shifts, provides a field shift constant ratio of 1.0520(10) and a difference between the specific mass shift constants of 170(100) GHz amu between the D-1 and D-2 transitions, of sufficient precision to differentiate between ab initio calculations.
Matter, Energy, And Heat Transfer In A Classical Ballistic Atom Pump, Tommy A. Byrd, Kunal K. Das, Kevin Mitchell, Seth Aubin, John B. Delos
Matter, Energy, And Heat Transfer In A Classical Ballistic Atom Pump, Tommy A. Byrd, Kunal K. Das, Kevin Mitchell, Seth Aubin, John B. Delos
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A ballistic atom pump is a system containing two reservoirs of neutral atoms or molecules and a junction connecting them containing a localized time-varying potential. Atoms move through the pump as independent particles. Under certain conditions, these pumps can create net transport of atoms from one reservoir to the other. While such systems are sometimes called “quantum pumps,” they are also models of classical chaotic transport, and their quantum behavior cannot be understood without study of the corresponding classical behavior. Here we examine classically such a pump's effect on energy and temperature in the reservoirs, in addition to net particle …
Ballistic Atom Pumps, Megan K. Ivory, Tommy A. Byrd, Andrew J. Pyle, Et Al., John B. Delos
Ballistic Atom Pumps, Megan K. Ivory, Tommy A. Byrd, Andrew J. Pyle, Et Al., John B. Delos
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We examine a classically chaotic system consisting of two reservoirs of particles connected by a channel containing oscillating potential-energy barriers. We investigate whether such a system can preferentially pump particles from one reservoir to the other, a process often called “quantum pumping.” We show how to make a “particle diode” which under specified conditions permits net particle pumping in only one direction. Then we examine systems having symmetric barriers. We find that if all initial particle energies are considered, a system with symmetric barriers cannot preferentially pump particles. However, if only finite initial energy bands are considered, the system can …
Early Results From The Qweak Experiment, D. Androic, David S. Armstrong, A. Asaturyan, Todd Averett
Early Results From The Qweak Experiment, D. Androic, David S. Armstrong, A. Asaturyan, Todd Averett
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A subset of results from the recently completed Jefferson Lab Qweak experiment are reported. This experiment, sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model, exploits the small parity-violating asymmetry in elastic ~ep scattering to provide the first determination of the proton’s weak charge Q p w. The experiment employed a 180 µA longitudinally polarized 1.16 GeV electron beam on a 35 cm long liquid hydrogen target. Scattered electrons in the angular range 6◦ < θ < 12◦ corresponding to Q2 = 0.025 GeV2 were detected in eight Cerenkov detectors arrayed symmetrically around the beam axis. The goals of the experiment were to provide a measure of Q p w to 4.2% (combined statistical and systematic error), which implies a measure of sin2 (θw) at the level of 0.3%, and to help constrain the vector weak quark charges C1u and C1d. The experimental method is described, with particular focus on the challenges associated with the world’s highest power LH2 target. The new constraints on C1u and C1d provided by the subset of the experiment’s data analyzed to date will also be shown, together with the extracted weak charge of the neutron.
Topological Analysis Of Chaotic Transport Through A Ballistic Atom Pump, Tommy A. Byrd, John B. Delos
Topological Analysis Of Chaotic Transport Through A Ballistic Atom Pump, Tommy A. Byrd, John B. Delos
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We examine a system consisting of two reservoirs of particles connected by a channel. In the channel are two oscillating repulsive potential-energy barriers. It is known that such a system can transport particles from one reservoir to the other, even when the chemical potentials in the reservoirs are equal. We use computations and the theory of chaotic transport to study this system. Chaotic transport is described by passage around or through a heteroclinic tangle. Topological properties of the tangle are described using a generalization of homotopic lobe dynamics, which is a theory that gives some properties of intermediate-time behavior from …
Photodetachment Near A Repulsive Center: Closed-Orbit Theory For The Total Cross Section, B. C. Yang, John B. Delos, M. L. Du
Photodetachment Near A Repulsive Center: Closed-Orbit Theory For The Total Cross Section, B. C. Yang, John B. Delos, M. L. Du
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The total photodetachment cross section of a negative ion near a repulsive center is studied based on the closed-orbit theory. An analytical expression, written as a product of the zero-field photodetachment cross section and a modulation function, is obtained for energy above and below threshold. The expression also incorporates the different wave sources produced by different negative ions. The present results are shown to be accurate by comparing with quantum calculations based on the exact Coulomb Green's function. We also compared the photodetachment cross section near a repulsive center with that in a homogeneous electric field and found interesting connections …
Dynamical Monodromy, C. Chen, Megan K. Ivory, Seth Aubin, John B. Delos
Dynamical Monodromy, C. Chen, Megan K. Ivory, Seth Aubin, John B. Delos
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Integrable Hamiltonian systems are said to display nontrivial monodromy if fundamental action-angle loops defined on phase-space tori change their topological structure when the system is carried around a circuit. In an earlier paper it was shown that this topological change can occur as a result of time evolution under certain rather abstract flows in phase space. In the present paper, we show that the same topological change can occur as a result of application of ordinary forces. We also show how this dynamical phenomenon could be observed experimentally in classical or in quantum systems.