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The negative-pion multiplicity is measured for central collisions of 40Ar with KCl at eight energies from 0.36 to 1.8 GeV/nucleon and for 4He on KCl and 40Ar on BaI2 at 977 and 772 MeV/nucleon, respectively. A systematic discrepancy with a cascade-model calculation which fits proton- and pion-nucleus cross sections but omits potential-energy effects is used to derive the energy going into bulk compression of the system. A value of the incompressibility constant of K=240 MeV is extracted in a parabolic form of the nuclear-matter equation of state.
The elastic alpha scattering to backward angles has been studied for 40,42,44,48Ca between 40.7 and 72.3 MeV. The cross sections for 40Ca are larger than those for the higher isotopes up to the highest energies. They show backward increases that disappear above 50 MeV. The enhancement factor for 40Ca over 42,44Ca varies smoothly with energy. 48Ca does also show a backward cross-section enhancement over 42,44Ca. alpha -cluster rotational bands in the 44Ti compound state, four-nucleon correlations in 40Ca, and the l-dependent optical model are discussed as approaches to understand the anomaly. The rotator model appears to agree qualitatively with the experimental data. It involves rotational bands extending at least up to J=16 in 44Ti.
Proton emission in relativistic nuclear collisions is examined for events of low and high multiplicity, corresponding to large and small impact parameters. Peripheral reactions exhibit distributions of protons in agreement with spectator-participant decay modes. Central collisions of equal-size nuclei are dominated by the formation and decay of a fireball system. Central collisions of light projectiles with heavy targets exhibit an enhancement in sideward emission which is predicted by recent hydrodynamical calculations.
Angular distributions for elastic and inelastic transitions in 20Ne + 16O scattering have been measured at E(20Ne)=50 MeV. For the 0+, 2+, and 4+ members of the 20Ne ground-state rotational band, the angular distributions exhibit pronounced backward peaking characteristic of an alpha -cluster exchange mechanism. The analysis of the ground-state transition in the first-order elastic transfer model yields no satisfactory fit although microscopic cluster form factors and full recoil corrections are employed. A coupled channels calculation for the 0+, 2+, and 4+ transitions reveals very strong coupling effects, indicating that the coherent superposition of first-order optical model and distorted-wave Born-approximation amplitudes may not be an adequate model for these reactions. NUCLEAR REACTIONS 16O(20Ne, 16O) and 16O(20Ne, 20Ne), elastic and inelastic transfer; E=50MeV; measured sigma (Ef , theta ); optical model + DWBA, and CCBA analyses.
Ultrarelativistische Schwerionenkollisionen bieten die Möglichkeit stark wechselwirkende Materie unter hohe Energiedichten zu versetzen und auf diese Weise ihre Eigenschaften zu untersuchen. Werden in den Reaktionen ausreichend große Temperaturen und Baryondichten erreicht, so erwartet man einen Phasenübergang von der hadronischen zu der partonischen Phase, dem Quark Gluon-Plasma. Das QGP ist ein Materiezustand, in dem die Quarks nicht mehr wie in der gewöhnlichen Materie in Hadronen gebunden sind, sondern als quasi-freie Teilchen neben den Gluonen vorliegen. Eines der Hauptziele der Schwerionenphysik besteht darin, solch ein theoretisch vorhergesagtes QGP experimentell zu erzeugen und den damit verbundenen Phasenübergang zu untersuchen. Die Produktion von seltsamen Teilchen stellt dabei eine grundlegende Observable dar, durch die Rückschlüsse auf den Reaktionsverlauf einer Schwerionenkollision gezogen werden können. In dieser Arbeit wurde die Produktion der neutralen Kaonen in Pb+Pb Reaktionen bei verschiedenen Energien untersucht. Die neutralen Kaonen können über die schwach zerfallenden K0S gemessen werden und stellen gemeinsam mit den geladenen Kaonen die in einer Schwerionenkollision am häufgsten erzeugten seltsamen Teilchen dar. Die Messungen der Pb+Pb Reaktionen wurden mit Hilfe des NA49 Experiments am Europäischen Zentrum für Teilchenphysik, dem CERN, durchgeführt. Bei diesem Experiment handelt es sich um ein magnetisches Spektrometer, das sich durch seine große Akzeptanz für geladene Hadronen auszeichnet und den Anforderungen hoher Teilchenmultiplizitäten, die insbesondere in zentralen Pb+Pb Reaktionen bei der maximalen SPS-Strahlenergie von 158A GeV auftreten, genügt. Im Rahmen des NA49 Energie-Scan Programmes wurden Schwerionenkollisionen neben einer Strahlenergie von 158A GeV auch bei 20A, 30A, 40A und 80A GeV gemessen. Die Vielzahl an experimentellen Daten ermöglicht ein detailliertes Studium der Energieabhängigkeit der hadronischen Endzustandsverteilung hochrelativistischer Schwerionenkollisionen. Die in der vorliegenden Arbeit untersuchten neutralen Teilchen K0S können anhand ihrer charakteristischen V0-Zerfallstopologie, welche sich bei ihrem schwachen Zerfall in ein Pi+Pi- - Paar ergibt, identifiziert werden. Durch die gemessenen Zerfallsprodukte wurde in der Analyse die invariante Masse der V0-Teilchen in differentiellen Phasenraum-Bins rekonstruiert. Mittels geeigneter QualitÄatskriterien konnte dabei der Untergrund aus zufälligen Kombinationen von primären Spuren, falschen Kombinationen mit sekundären Spuren, sowie Lambda s und Antilambda s von der K0S-Analyse weitgehend unterdrückt werden. Um auf die dadurch verursachten Verluste wahrer K0S, genauso wie auf jene Verluste, die aufgrund der geometrischen Akzeptanz des Detektors und weiterer Ineffizienzen auftreten, korrigieren zu können, wurde das Embedding herangezogen. Mit Hilfe dieses Verfahrens konnten die Korrekturfaktoren für die verschiedenen Phasenraumbereiche ermittelt und auf die jeweiligen Rohsignale angewendet werden. Der systematische Fehler der korrigierten Teilchenspektren konnte durch eine Vielzahl systematischer Studien abgeschätzt werden. Dabei wurde ein grundlegender Fehler aufgedeckt, dessen Ursprung in der GSI Methode liegt. Da die GSI Methode bereits in der Datenrekonstruktion, auf der diese Analyse beruht, Verwendung findet und in Folge dessen eine Behebung dieses Fehlers im Rahmen dieser Diplomarbeit nicht möglich war, wurde für die Ermittlung der Endergebnisse stattdessen die Birmingham Methode verwendet. Es wurden die korrigierten transversalen Massenspektren sowie die Transversalimpuls-Spektren der K0S bei Midrapidity für die drei untersuchten Strahlenergien von 30A, 40A, und 158A GeV präsentiert. Des Weiteren wurden die Rapiditätsspektren für die verschiedenen Energien gezeigt, aus denen wiederum die entsprechende totale Multiplizität <K0S> ermittelt werden konnte. Deren Energieabhängigkeit sowie die des inversen Steigungsparameters T wurden diskutiert und mit den Ergebnissen der geladenen Kaonen verglichen. Die gemessenen K0S-Rapiditätsspektren und totalen Multiplizitäten lagen zwar bei allen untersuchten Energien systematisch niedriger als die entsprechend gemittelten der geladenen Kaonen, haben jedoch, genauso wie der inverse Steigungs- parameter T, eine qualitativ ähnliche Energieabhängigkeit aufgezeigt. Weiterhin wurde das K0 S-Rapiditätsspektrum für 158A GeV mit denen anderer K0S-Analysen verglichen. Dabei konnte eine ähnliche Abweichung wie im Vergleich zu den geladenen Kaonen festgestellt werden. Abschließend wurde noch die Energieabhängigkeit des Verhältnisses von Kaonen zu Pionen in dem Energiebereich von AGS bis hin zu RHIC untersucht. Dabei konnte eine ausgeprägte Struktur in der Energieabhängigkeit des <Ki>/Pi-Verhältnisses beobachtet werden, welche als ein Indiz für einen Phasenübergang zu einem Quark Gluon-Plasma angesehen werden kann.
Electron tomography was used to investigate membrane proteins in a variety of contexts. A high-angle tilt holder, suitable for electron tomography was designed, constructed and characterised. 2D crystals of membrane proteins, NhaA and YidC, were examined as a resolution test, and a method established for determining planarity of crystals. A model for specific gold binding to NhaA crystals was also presented. ATP synthase, a membrane protein complex in mitochondria, were imaged in a frozen hydrated state. They were found to form ribbons of dimers at highly curved regions of the membrane. Dimers from bovine heart and rat liver were excised from the tomographic volumes and averaged. Based on the location of the dimers in the mitochondrion, a model was established whereby ATP synthase, a molecular motor driven by the proton motive force, benefits from the high curvature that it induces in the membrane. Whole yeast mitochondria, imaged by electron cryo-tomography, also contained long ribbons of dimeric ATP synthase. Multiple copies of an unknown membrane protein complex were visualised by electron cryo-tomography, excised and averaged. A general method for the identification of unknown proteins was presented to deal with this inevitable issue, as native tissues and organelles are imaged, and the structures of complexes determined in situ.
The time dependent Hartree-Fock approximation is used to study the dynamical formation of long-lived superheavy nuclear complexes. The effects of long-range Coulomb polarization are treated in terms of a classical quadrupole polarization model. Our calculations show the existence of "resonantlike" structures over a narrow range of bombarding energies near the Coulomb barrier. Calculations of 238U + 238U are presented and the consequences of these results for supercritical positron emission are discussed. NUCLEAR REACTIONS 238U + 238U collisions as a function of bombarding energy, in the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation. Superheavy molecules and strongly damped collisions.
The phenomenon of magnetism has been known to humankind for at least over 2500 years and many useful applications of magnetism have been developed since then, starting from the compass to modern information storage and processing devices. While technological applications are an important part of the continuing interest in magnetic materials, their fundamental properties are still being studied, leading to new physical insights at the forefront of physics. The magnetism of magnetic materials is a pure quantum effect due to the electrons that carry an intrinsic spin of 1/2. The physics of interacting quantum spins in magnetic insulators is the main subject of this thesis.We focus here on a theoretical description of the antiferromagnetic insulator Cs2CuCl4. This material is highly interesting because it is a nearly ideal realization of the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on an anisotropic triangular lattice, where the Cu(2+) ions carry a spin of 1/2 and the spins interact via exchange couplings. Due to the geometric frustration of the triangular lattice, there exists a spin-liquid phase with fractional excitations (spinons) at finite temperatures in Cs2CuCl4. This spin-liquid phase is characterized by strong short-range spin correlations without long-range order. From an experimental point of view, Cs2CuCl4 is also very interesting because the exchange couplings are relatively weak leading to a saturation field of only B_c=8.5 T. All relevant parts of the phase diagram are therefore experimentally accessible. A recurring theme in this thesis will be the use of bosonic or fermionic representations of the spin operators which each offer in different situations suitable starting points for an approximate treatment of the spin interactions. The methods which we develop in this thesis are not restricted to Cs2CuCl4 but can also be applied to other materials that can be described by the spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on a triangular lattice; one important example is the material class Cs2Cu(Cl{4-x}Br{x}) where chlorine is partially substituted by bromine which changes the strength of the exchange couplings and the degree of frustration.
Our first topic is the finite-temperature spin-liquid phase in Cs2CuCl4. We study this regime by using a Majorana fermion representation of the spin-1/2 operators motivated by theoretical and experimental evidence for fermionic excitations in this spin-liquid phase. Within a mean-field theory for the Majorana fermions, we determine the magnetic field dependence of the critical temperature for the crossover from spin-liquid to paramagnetic behavior and we calculate the specific heat and magnetic susceptibility in zero magnetic field. We find that the Majorana fermions can only propagate in one dimension along the direction of the strongest exchange coupling; this reduction of the effective dimensionality of excitations is known as dimensional reduction.
The second topic is the behavior of ultrasound propagation and attenuation in the spin-liquid phase of Cs2CuCl4, where we consider longitudinal sound waves along the direction of the strongest exchange coupling. Due to the dimensional reduction of the excitations in the spin-liquid phase, we expect that we can describe the ultrasound physics by a one-dimensional Heisenberg model coupled to the lattice degrees of freedom via the exchange-striction mechanism. For this one-dimensional problem we use the Jordan-Wigner transformation to map the spin-1/2 operators to spinless fermions. We treat the fermions within the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation and we calculate the change of the sound velocity and attenuation as a function of magnetic field using a perturbative expansion in the spin-phonon couplings. We compare our theoretical results with experimental data from ultrasound experiments, where we find good agreement between theory and experiment.
Our final topic is the behavior of Cs2CuCl4 in high magnetic fields larger than the saturation field B_c=8.5 T. At zero temperature, Cs2CuCl4 is then fully magnetized and the ground state is therefore a ferromagnet where the excitations have an energy gap. The elementary excitations of this ferromagnetic state are spin-flips (magnons) which behave as hard-core bosons. At finite temperatures there will be thermally excited magnons that interact via the hard-core interaction and via additional exchange interactions. We describe the thermodynamic properties of Cs2CuCl4 at finite temperatures and calculate experimentally observable quantities, e.g., magnetic susceptibility and specific heat. Our approach is based on a mapping of the spin-1/2 operators to hard-core bosons, where we treat the hard-core interaction by the self-consistent ladder approximation and the exchange interactions by the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. We find that our theoretical results for the specific heat are in good agreement with the available experimental data.
I discuss the physics of non-Abelian plasmas which are locally anisotropic in momentum space. Such momentum-space anisotropies are generated by the rapid longitudinal expansion of the matter created in the first 1 fm/c of an ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision. In contrast to locally isotropic plasmas anisotropic plasmas have a spectrum of soft unstable modes which are characterized by exponential growth of transverse chromo-magnetic/-electric fields at short times. This instability is the QCD analogue of the Weibel instability of QED. Parametrically the chromo-Weibel instability provides the fastest method for generation of soft background fields and dominates the short-time dynamics of the system. The existence of the chromo-Weibel instability has been proven using diagrammatic methods, transport theory, and numerical solution of classical Yang-Mills fields. I review the results obtained from each of these methods and discuss the numerical techniques which are being used to determine the late-time behavior of plasmas subject to a chromo-Weibel instability.