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In the presence of a minimal length, physical objects cannot collapse to an infinite density, singular, matter point. In this paper, we consider the possible final stage of the gravitational collapse of "thick" matter layers. The energy momentum tensor we choose to model these shell-like objects is a proper modification of the source for "noncommutative geometry inspired," regular black holes. By using higher momenta of Gaussian distribution to localize matter at finite distance from the origin, we obtain new solutions of the Einstein equation which smoothly interpolates between Minkowski's geometry near the center of the shell and Schwarzschild’s spacetime far away from the matter layer. The metric is curvature singularity free. Black hole type solutions exist only for "heavy" shells; that is, M >= Me, where Me is the mass of the extremal configuration. We determine the Hawking temperature and a modified area law taking into account the extended nature of the source.
poster presentation at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory LATTICE 2013:
We explore and compare three mixed action setups with Wilson twisted mass sea quarks and different valence quark actions: (1) Wilson twisted mass, (2) Wilson twisted mass + clover and (3) Wilson + clover. Our main goal is to reduce lattice discretization errors in mesonic spectral quantities, in particular to reduce twisted mass parity and isospin breaking.
Studies on the focusing performance of a Gabor lens depending on nonneutral plasma properties
(2013)
The concept of the Gabor lens goes back to an idea by Dennis Gabor, who proposed a magnetron-type trap as an effective diverging lens for electron beams (collecting lens for positive ion beams).
Electrons confined inside the lens volume by orthogonal magnetic and electric fields, create an electric space charge field that causes a radial symmetric focusing force on an ion beam passing through the lens volume.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, a new design of this lens type as well as numerical models to describe the confined plasma cloud have been developed at the Institute for Applied Physics (IAP, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt).
Thanks to an improved understanding of the plasma confinement as a function of the external fields, two lenses have successfully been tested for low beam currents and remain in operation.
In the scope of this work, the performance of a prototype Gabor lens for the transport of intense, i.e. space charge dominated ion beams, was investigated at the High Current Test Injector (HOSTI) of GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH for the first time.
To ensure an optimal focusing performance of the Gabor lens a homogeneous and stable electron confinement is required. Therefore, new non-interceptive diagnostic methods were developed to investigate the parameters and state of the confined nonneutral plasma column as a function of the external fields.
An essential part of the studies was the time-resolved diagnostic of an occurring plasma instability and the determination of the electron temperature via optical spectroscopy. The latter necessitated the detailed investigation of atomic excitation as well as the measurement of optical-emission cross sections.
A comparison of the results from both experiments i.e. the beam transport measurements at GSI and the diagnostic experiments performed at IAP concerning the plasma state, gave first indications of possible interaction processes between the nonneutral plasma and the ion beam.
As microscopic transport models usually have difficulties to deal with in-medium effects in heavy-ion collisions, we present an alternative approach that uses coarse-grained output from transport calculations with the UrQMD model to determine thermal dilepton emission rates. A four-dimensional space-time grid is set up to extract local baryon and energy densities, respectively temperature and baryon chemical potential. The lepton pair emission is then calculated for each cell of the grid using thermal equilibrium rates. In the current investigation we inlcude the medium-modified r spectral function by Eletsky et al., as well as contributions from the QGP and four-pion interactions for high collision energies. First dielectron invariant mass spectra for Au+Au collisions at 1.25 AGeV and for dimuons from In+In at 158 AGeV are shown. At 1.25 AGeV a clear enhancement of the total dilepton yield as compared to a pure transport result is observed. In the latter case, we compare our outcome with the NA60 dimuon excess data. Here a good agreement is achieved, but the yield in the low-mass tail is underestimated. In general the results show that the coarse-graining approach gives reasonable results and can cover a broad collision-energy range.
Erwärmt man Eis, so brechen die Molekülbindungen auf und bei einer kritischen Temperatur von 0°C entsteht durch einen Phasenübergang flüssiges Wasser. Dies ist wohl bekannt und das Phasendiagramm, sowie die Anomalie von Wasser ein bekanntes Hilfsmittel in Physik und Chemie. Doch was passiert, wenn man Kernmaterie erhitzt? Kann diese auch verschiedene Aggregatzustände annehmen? Physiker erwarten, dass ab einer definierten kritischen Temperatur auch die Bindungen zwischen den kleinsten Teilchen unserer Materie, den Quarks, aufbrechen und das bis dahin bestehende Hadronengas in ein Quark-Gluon-Plasma übergeht. In Experimenten auf der ganzen Welt sollen die Eigenschaften des Quark-Gluon- Plasmas und der Phasenübergang der Materie untersucht werden. Daraus möchte man ein Phasendiagramm für die hadronische Materie entwickeln (Abb. 1). In verschiedenen Experimenten werden die unterschiedlichen Stationen des Phasendiagramms abgelaufen. Die laufenden Projekte an den großen Teilchenbeschleuniger Anlagen am LHC (Large Hadron Collider) am CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Abbildung 1: Das Phasendiagramm stark wechselwirkender Materie. Aufgetragen ist die Temperatur gegen die Baryonendichte. Der braune Bereich stellt den Übergangsbereich zwischen Hadronengas und Quark-Gluon-Plasma dar [ZAM]. Recherche Nucléaire) und am RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) in Brookhaven untersuchen das Phasendiagramm bei hohen Temperaturen und geringen Dichten. An der neuen, noch im Aufbau befindlichen Beschleunigeranlage FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) soll nun, im Rahmen des CBM-Experiment (Compressed Baryonic Matter), das Phasendiagramm bei hohen baryonischen Dichten und geringeren Temperaturen untersucht werden. Dafür werden spezielle Detektorkomplexe entwickelt. Diese werden benötigt, um herauszufinden, wann ein Quark-Gluon-Plasma vorliegt. Hierbei ist die Identifizierung von Elektronen von großer Bedeutung. Beim CBM-Experiment wird zur Unterscheidung zwischen Pionen und Elektronen unter anderem ein Transition Radiation Detektor (TRD) verwendet. (Kapitel 4) Dessen Eingangsfenster besteht aus einer dünnen Mylar®-Folie, welche empfindlich auf Druckschwankungen reagiert. Dies führt zu einer Veränderung des Kammervolumens, was zu einer Variation der Gasverstärkung und des daraus gewonnenen Signals führt. Die Auswirkungen von Druckschwankungen auf das Eingangsfenster des CBM-TRDs sollen in der folgenden Arbeit anhand von Simulationen (Kapitel 5) sowie anhand von Messungen (Kapitel 6) untersucht und verglichen werden. Zunächst wird jedoch ein Überblick der Grundlagen gegeben.
Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden astrophysikalisch relevante, kernphysikalische Raten, die zum Verständnis der beobachteten Häufigkeit des langlebigen Isotopes 60Fe wichtig sind, am GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH und am Forschungsreaktor TRIGA in Mainz gemessen.
Zunächst wurde der Coulombaufbruch von 59Fe und 60Fe am GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH untersucht. Zur Produktion der radioaktiven Strahlen wurde ein 64Ni-Primärstrahl auf ein Spallationstarget geleitet. Im Fragmentseparator wurden die Isotope nach deren magnetischen Steifigkeit separiert und nur die gewünschte Spezies im LAND/R3B-Aufbau untersucht. Die Bestimmung von Impuls und Ladung der eingehenden Ionen erlaubte eine individuelle Identifikation. Der Coulombaufbruchwirkungsquerschnitt wurde mit einer Bleiprobe bestimmt. Die verschiedenen Untergrundkomponenten ergaben sich aus einer begleitenden Leermessung, sowie einer Messung mit einer Kohlenstoffprobe. Der Wirkungsquerschnitt der Reaktion Pb(60Fe,n+59Fe)Pb bei (530±5) MeV/u wurde zu σ(60Fe,n+59Fe) COULEX = (298±11stat±31syst) mb (0.1) bestimmt und für die Reaktion Pb(59Fe,n+58Fe)Pb ergab sich σ(59Fe,n+58Fe) COULEX = (410±11stat±41syst) mb. (0.2)
Außerdem konnten für beide einkommenden Strahlsorten die Wahrscheinlichkeiten für die Produktion von zwei Neutronen bestimmt werden.
Anschließend wurde der Neutroneneinfangsquerschnitt von 60Fe bei kT = 25,3 meV am Forschungsreaktor TRIGA in Mainz bestimmt. Hierfür wurde eine 60Fe Probe zunächst anhand des Anstieges der Aktivität der 60Co-Tochterkerne charakterisiert und anschließend im Reaktor bestrahlt. Die frisch erzeugte Aktivität des 61Fe wurde mit einem HPGe-Detektor nachgewiesen. Mit Hilfe der Cadmiumdifferenzmethode konnte daraus erstmals der thermische Neutroneneinfangsquerschnitt von 60Fe zu σ60Fe(n,γ) th = 0,22±0,02stat±0,02syst b. (0.3) bestimmt werden. Für das Resonanzintegral ergab sich die obere Schranke von I 60Fe(n,γ) res = 0,61 b. (0.4)
Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars are initially low and intermediate mass stars undergoing recurrent hydrogen and helium shell burning. During the advanced stage of stellar evolution AGB stars follow after the helium core burning ceased and are located in the AGB of the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram. One characteristic is their ability of element synthesis, especially carbon and nitrogen, which they eject in large amounts into the interstellar medium. But AGB stars also feature a slow-neutron capture process called s-process which forms approximately 50 % of all elements between Fe and Bi. The initial mass function emphasizes the importance of the synthesized ejecta of AGB stars since they are much more abundant than massive stars. Therefore, the abundance evolution of many elements in the universe is drastically affected by AGB stars. In order to understand chemical evolution in the universe their behavior must be known since their first appearance. In previous times less heavy elements were produced and available. Hence AGB stars with lower heavy element content, which means lower metallicity, must be investigated. They appear to behave substantially differently than stars of higher metallicity. Another issue is that AGB stars have mass-dependent characteristics from which follows a division into low-mass, massive and super AGB stars. Super AGB stars have the most open issues due to their large masses and initial mass boundaries that separate them from massive stars. Due to large spectroscopic surveys in the last years, many low metallicity stars have been analyzed. These findings make it necessary to complement those studies through stellar modeling. This work makes a step in this direction. The AGB star masses under investigation are 1M⊙, 1.65M⊙, 2M⊙, 3M⊙, 4M⊙, 5M⊙, 6M⊙ and 7M⊙ which include low-mass, massive and super AGB stars. Metallicities of Z = 6 x 10 exp-3 and Z = 1 x 10 exp-4 (for comparison, solar Z ~ 0.02) were chosen. These results are an extension of already available data, covering solar and half-solar metallicity, but without super AGB stars. Therefore physics input includes mainly well-established approaches rather than new theories. New physical approaches are included due to the low metallicity which makes the results a unique set of models. Additionally, extensive s-process network calculations lead to production factors of all included elements and isotopes. The s-process signatures of those stars were analyzed. The stellar evolution simulations presented in this work have been utilized for rate and especially sensitivity studies. One approach done was to analyze s-process branchings at 95Zr and 85Kr for stars at 3M⊙ with Z = 1 x 10 exp-2 and Z = 1 x 10 exp-3 respectively.
Spinodal crumbling
(2013)
Extending a previously developed two-phase equation of state, we simulate head-on relativistic lead-lead collisions with fluid dynamics, augmented with a finite-range term, and study the effects of the phase structure on the evolution of the baryon density. For collision energies that bring the bulk of the system into the mechanically unstable spinodal region of the phase diagram, the density irregularities are being amplified significantly. We also present results for the associated clump size distribution.