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In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Kopplung von Bloch- und Zyklotron-Oszillationen in Halbleiterübergittern unter dem Einfluss eines elektrischen und magnetischen Feldes zeitaufgelöst-elektro-optisch untersucht. Hierbei hängen sowohl die Stärke der Bloch-Zyklotron-Kopplung als auch die Charakteristika der kohärenten Ladungsträgerbewegung sensitiv von der relativen Anordnung der äußeren Felder ab. Bei gekreuzter Feldanordnung wird der Kohärente Hall-Effekt beobachtet. Semiklassisch lässt sich die Ladungsträgerdynamik in diesem Fall mit der Bewegungsgleichung eines nicht getriebenen, ungedämpften Pendels beschreiben. Abhängig vom Verhältnis E/B der äußeren Feldstärken lassen sich zwei Bewegungsregime mit gegensätzlicher Feldabhängigkeit der Frequenz der Ladungsträgeroszillationen unterscheiden. Bei schiefer Feldanordnung kommt es durch die nichtlineare Kopplung der Bloch-Oszillation mit der Zyklotron-Oszillation in der Übergitterebene zu einer phasenempfindlichen Gleichrichtung der transienten Oszillationen entlang der Wachstumsrichtung, wobei man in Resonanz eine Überhöhung dieses selbstinduzierten Gleichstroms beobachtet. In Anlehnung an ein analoges Phänomen, das an Josephson-Kontakten beobachtet wird, sprechen wir hierbei vom Fiske-Effekt. Für die räumliche Auslenkung X("unendlich") entlang der Wachstumsrichtung nach Abklingen der Kohärenz kann im Rahmen einer analytischen semiklassischen Näherung ein geschlossener Ausdruck angegeben werden. Die zeitaufgelösten Experimente zur Bloch-Zyklotron-Kopplung werden an zwei GaAs/Al0,3Ga0,7As-Übergitterstrukturen mit unterschiedlicher Quantentopfbreite durchgeführt. Im Spezialfall der gekreuzten Feldanordnung wird der Kohärente Hall-Effekt anhand der Existenz zweier Bewegungsregime mit ihrem charakteristischen Frequenz- und Dephasierungsverhalten in Abhängigkeit der äußeren Felder nachgewiesen und die lineare Abhängigkeit des Magnetfeldes am Übergang zwischen den Bewegungsregimen vom elektrischen Feld gezeigt. Die gleichermaßen prognostizierte Zunahme der Intensität höherer harmonischer Moden der Ladungsträgeroszillationen in der Nähe des Übergangs wird jedoch in der elektro-optischen Respons nicht beobachtet, wenngleich die verwendeten elektro-optischen Messtechniken im Vergleich zur Terahertz-Emissionsspektroskopie zur Untersuchung des Übergangsbereichs und höher frequenter Oszillationen prinzipiell besser geeignet sein sollten. Hierbei bestehende Einschränkungen werden diskutiert. Der für den Fall der schiefen Feldanordnung vorhergesagte selbstinduzierte Gleichstrom manifestiert sich experimentell in einem resonanzartigen Verlauf des elektro-optischen Signals nach Abklingen der Oszillationen in Abhängigkeit des Magnetfeldes. Durch Vergleich mit dem analytisch hergeleiteten Ausdruck für die räumliche Auslenkung lassen sich hieraus die relevanten Dämpfungskonstanten abschätzen und durch iterative Anpassung bestimmen. Die bei schiefer Feldanordnung mittels elektro-optischer Spektroskopie gemessenen Signale weisen nach Abklingen der kohärenten Ladungsträgeroszillationen nur einen sehr schwachen Driftanteil auf. Eine schlüssige Erklärung für diese Beobachtung ergibt sich, wenn bei der Behandlung der Ladungsträgerdynamik die Impuls- und Energierelaxation des Bloch-Oszillators unterschieden werden und eine sehr kleine Energiedämpfung angenommen wird.
Based on the UrQMD transport model, the transverse momentum and the rapidity dependence of the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) radii R_L, R_O, R_S as well as the cross term R_OL at SPS energies are investigated and compared with the experimental NA49 and CERES data. The rapidity dependence of the R_L, R_O, R_S is weak while the R_OL is significantly increased at large rapidities and small transverse momenta. The HBT "life-time" issue (the phenomenon that the calculated sqrt R_O^2-R_S^2 value is larger than the correspondingly extracted experimental data) is also present at SPS energies.
The pion source as seen through HBT correlations at RHIC energies is investigated within the UrQMD approach. We find that the calculated transverse momentum, centrality, and system size dependence of the Pratt-HBT radii R_L and R_S are reasonably well in line with experimental data. The predicted R_O values in central heavy ion collisions are larger as compared to experimental data. The corresponding quantity sqrt R_O^2-R_S^2 of the pion emission source is somewhat larger than experimental estimates.
We propose to use the hadron number fluctuations in the limited momentum regions to study the evolution of initial flows in high energy nuclear collisions. In this method by a proper preparation of a collision sample the projectile and target initial flows are marked in fluctuations in the number of colliding nucleons. We discuss three limiting cases of the evolution of flows, transparency, mixing and reflection, and present for them quantitative predictions obtained within several models. Finally, we apply the method to the NA49 results on fluctuations of the negatively charged hadron multiplicity in Pb+Pb interactions at 158A GeV and conclude that the data favor a hydrodynamical model with a significant degree of mixing of the initial flows at the early stage of collisions.
We propose to use the hadron number fluctuations in the limited momentum regions to study the evolution of initial flows in high energy nuclear collisions. In this method by a proper preparation of a collision sample the projectile and target initial flows are marked in fluctuations in the number of colliding nucleons. We discuss three limiting cases of the evolution of flows, transparency, mixing and reflection, and present for them quantitative predictions obtained within several models. Finally, we apply the method to the NA49 results on fluctuations of the negatively charged hadron multiplicity in Pb+Pb interactions at 158A GeV and conclude that the data favor a hydrodynamical model with a significant degree of mixing of the initial flows at the early stage of collisions.
A new imaging method that combines high-efficiency fast-neutron detection with sub-ns time resolution is presented. This is achieved by exploiting the high neutron detection efficiency of a thick scintillator and the fast timing capability and flexibility of light-pulse detection with a dedicated image intensifier. The neutron converter is a plastic scintillator slab or, alternatively, a scintillating fibre screen. The scintillator is optically coupled to a pulse counting image intensifier which measures the 2-dimensional position coordinates and the Time-Of-Flight (TOF) of each detected neutron with an intrinsic time resolution of less than 1 ns. Large-area imaging devices with high count rate capability can be obtained by lateral segmentation of the optical readout channels.
We study the effect of neutrino trapping on the phase diagram of dense, locally neutral three-flavor quark matter within the framework of a Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. In the analysis, dynamically generated quark masses are taken into account self-consistently. The phase diagrams in the plane of temperature and quark chemical potential, as well as in the plane of temperature and lepton-number chemical potential are presented. We show that neutrino trapping favors two-flavor color superconductivity and disfavors the color-flavor-locked phase at intermediate densities of matter. At the same time, the location of the critical line separating the two-flavor color-superconducting phase and the normal phase of quark matter is little affected by the presence of neutrinos. The implications of these results for the evolution of protoneutron stars are briefly discussed. PACS numbers: 12.39.-x 12.38.Aw 26.60.+c
In this thesis, I study the phase diagram of dense, locally neutral three-flavor quark matter as a function of the strange quark mass, the quark chemical potential, and the temperature, employing a general nine-parameter ansatz for the gap matrix. At zero temperature and small values of the strange quark mass, the ground state of quark matter corresponds to the color–flavor-locked (CFL) phase. At some critical value of the strange quark mass, this is replaced by the recently proposed gapless CFL (gCFL) phase. I also find several other phases, for instance, a metallic CFL (mCFL) phase, a so-called uSC phase where all colors of up quarks are paired, as well as the standard two-flavor color-superconducting (2SC) phase and the gapless 2SC (g2SC) phase. I also study the phase diagram of dense, locally neutral three-flavor quark matter within the framework of a Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model. In the analysis, dynamically generated quark masses are taken into account self-consistently. The phase diagram in the plane of temperature and quark chemical potential is presented. The results for two qualitatively different regimes, intermediate and strong diquark coupling strength, are presented. It is shown that the role of gapless phases diminishes with increasing diquark coupling strength. In addition, I study the effect of neutrino trapping on the phase diagram of dense, locally neutral three-flavor quark matter within the same NJL model. The phase diagrams in the plane of temperature and quark chemical potential, as well as in the plane of temperature and leptonnumber chemical potential are presented. I show that neutrino trapping favors two-flavor color superconductivity and disfavors the color–flavor-locked phase at intermediate densities of matter. At the same time, the location of the critical line separating the two-flavor color-superconducting phase and the normal phase of quark matter is little affected by the presence of neutrinos. The implications of these results for the evolution of protoneutron stars are briefly discussed.
The properties of the outer crust of non-accreting cold neutron stars are studied by using modern nuclear data and theoretical mass tables updating in particular the classic work of Baym, Pethick and Sutherland. Experimental data from the atomic mass table from Audi, Wapstra, and Thibault of 2003 is used and a thorough comparison of many modern theoretical nuclear models, relativistic and non-relativistic ones, is performed for the first time. In addition, the influences of pairing and deformation are investigated. State-of-the-art theoretical nuclear mass tables are compared in order to check their differences concerning the neutron dripline, magic neutron numbers, the equation of state, and the sequence of neutron-rich nuclei up to the dripline in the outer crust of non-accreting cold neutron stars.