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Comparison of nuclear electric resonance and nuclear magnetic resonance in integer and fractional quantum Hall states

Electric-field-induced nuclear resonance (NER: nuclear electric resonance) involving quantum Hall states (QHSs) was studied at various filling factors by exploiting changes in nuclear spins polarized at quantum Hall breakdown. Distinct from the magnetic dipole interaction in nuclear magnetic resonance, the interaction of the electric-field gradient with the electric quadrupole moment plays the dominant role in the NER mechanism. The magnitude of the NER signal strongly depends on whether electronic states are localized or extended. This indicates that NER is sensitive to the screening capability of the electric field associated with QHSs.

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Development of combined function dipole-quadrupole PMQs magnets for NSLS-II upgrade

This paper focuses on the R&D performed for the development of permanent magnets-based dipoles-quadrupoles combined function magnets (PMQs) for the future NSLSII upgrade “complex bend” lattice (CB). This new lattice uses PMQs that provide both bending (dipole) and strong focusing (quadrupole) magnetic field on the electron beam. The permanent magnet (PM) technology is suitable for the high magnetic field strengths (0.5 T, 130 T/m) required for such combine function magnets. PM technology leads to a compact magnet design that is essential in realizing the complex bend lattice concept, as well as a passive magnet solution which does not require electrical power supply reducing power consumption by ~ 80% (from 1.7 MW to 0.3 MW for NSLS-II). Two PMQs magnets designs are under consideration: A hybrid design that use both PM and soft iron poles, and Halbach type that is a pure PM design. Both PMQs designs present challenges in achieving the specified magnetic field quality due to their higher sensitivity to errors (mechanical tolerances and PM properties). This paper presents cost-effective designs and prototypes results for hybrid and Halbach PMQs, addressing various technical challenges while meeting the field requirements of the complex bend lattice for the NSLS-II upgrade.

N'gotta, Patrick [Brookhaven]↗

Experimental M 1 response of 40 Ar as a benchmark for neutrino-nucleus scattering calculations

The excitation of atomic nuclei via magnetic dipole transitions is closely related to the inelastic neutral-current neutrino-nucleus (NC-νA) scattering process due to the similarity of the transition operators. NC-νA-scattering serves for the detection of supernova neutrinos and poses a significant source of background in modern liquid-argon based high-energy neutrino detection experiments. To enable tests of the reliability of predictions for neutrino-nucleus scattering, the magnetic dipole response of 40 Ar below 7.7 MeV was characterized in a nuclear resonance fluorescence experiment using quasimonoenergetic γ-ray beams. The linear polarization of the beams allowed for assignments of electric or magnetic character to previously known dipole excitations. A total magnetic dipole strength of $0.36$ $^{+0.04}_{–0.05}$ $μ$ $^{2}_{N}$ was identified in the energy range of the present experiment. Combined with data from previous measurements, the full magnetic dipole strength of 40 Ar below the neutron separation threshold was investigated. Due to the low background in the energy range within the bandwidth of the γ-ray beams, the previous sensitivity limit was improved. Furthermore, a large-scale nuclear shell model calculation in the sd–fp space satisfactorily agrees with the data in terms of excitation energies and strengths of the observed 1 + states.

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Near-field heat transfer between gold nanoparticle arrays

The radiative heat transfer between gold nanoparticle layers is presented using the coupled dipole method. Gold nanoparticles are modelled as effective electric and magnetic dipoles interacting via electromagnetic fluctuations. The effect of higher-order multipoles is implemented in the expression of electric polarizability to calculate the interactions at short distances. Our findings show that the near-field radiation reduces as the radius of the nanoparticles is increased. Also, the magnetic dipole contribution to the heat exchange becomes more important for larger particles. When one layer is displayed in parallel with respect to the other layer, the near-field heat transfer exhibits oscillatory-like features due to the influence of the individual nanostructures. Further details about the effect of the nanoparticles size are also discussed.

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Energy levels and radiative rates for transitions in Ga XXIV

Energy levels, transition probabilities, oscillator strengths, line strengths, and lifetimes have been calculated for Oxygen-like Gallium, Ga XXIV. The configurations 2s{sup 2}2p{sup 4}, 2s2p{sup 5}, 2p{sup 6}, 2s2p{sup 4}3 Script-Small-L , 2s{sup 2}2p{sup 3}3 Script-Small-L , and 2p{sup 5}3 Script-Small-L were used in calculations and 226 fine-structure levels were obtained. The fully relativistic GRASP code has been adopted, and results are reported for all electric dipole (E1), electric quadrupole (E2), magnetic dipole (M1), and magnetic quadrupole (M2) transitions among the lowest 226 levels of Ga XXIV, belonging to the n{<=}3 configurations. Comparisons have been made with earlier available theoretical and experimental results.

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Rare-RI ring for mass measurements at RIBF

The rare-RI (radioactive isotope) ring at the RIKEN RI Beam Factory is described. The main purpose of the rare-RI ring is to measure the mass of short-lived rare RI. In the rare-RI ring, the mass is determined by measuring the revolution time of each nucleus based on isochronous mass spectrometry. The rare-RI ring consists of six magnetic sectors, and each sector consists of four dipole magnets. To precisely optimize the isochronous conditions of the circulating particles for large acceptance, we install 10 trim coils to half of the dipole magnets. Individual injection system enables efficient injection of the produced rare RI into the ring one by one. With facilitating efficient extraction of the circulating particles, time-of-flight measurements can be performed to the each rare RI. Construction of the rare-RI ring was begun in the middle of the fiscal year 2012, and the ring is expected to be fully functional by 2015, when we can start the mass measurements for unknown masses.

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SGR 0418+5729-HOW DOES A YOUNG NEUTRON STAR SPIN DOWN TO A 9 s PERIOD WITH A DIPOLE FIELD LESS THAN 10{sup 13} G?

The period derivative bound for the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 0418+5729 establishes the magnetic dipole moment to be distinctly lower than the magnetar range, placing the source beyond the regime of isolated pulsar activity in the P-P-dot diagram and giving a characteristic age >2 x 10{sup 7} yr, much older than the 10{sup 5} yr age range of SGRs and anomalous X-ray pulsars. So the spin-down must be produced by a mechanism other than dipole radiation in vacuum. A fallback disk will spin down a neutron star with surface dipole magnetic field in the 10{sup 12} G range and initial rotation period P{sub 0} {approx} 100 ms to the 9.1 s period of SGR 0418+5729 in a few 10{sup 4} to {approx}10{sup 5} yr. The current upper limit to the period derivative gives a lower limit of {approx}10{sup 5} yr to the age that is not sensitive to the neutron star's initial conditions. The total magnetic field on the surface of SGR 0418+5729 could be significantly larger than its 10{sup 12} G dipole component.

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Magnetic Field Mapping and Integral Transfer Function Matching of the Prototype Dipoles for the NSLS-II at BNL

The National Synchrotron Light Source-II (NSLS-II) storage ring at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) will be equipped with 54 dipole magnets having a gap of 35 mm, and 6 dipoles having a gap of 90 mm. Each dipole has a field of 0.4 T and provides 6 degrees of bending for a 3 GeV electron beam. The large aperture magnets are necessary to allow the extraction of long-wavelength light from the dipole magnet to serve a growing number of users of low energy radiation. The dipoles must not only have good field homogeneity (0.015% over a 40 mm x 20 mm region), but the integral transfer functions and integral end harmonics of the two types of magnets must also be matched. The 35 mm aperture dipole has a novel design where the yoke ends are extended up to the outside dimension of the coil using magnetic steel nose pieces. This design increases the effective length of the dipole without increasing the physical length. These nose pieces can be tailored to adjust the integral transfer function as well as the homogeneity of the integrated field. One prototype of each dipole type has been fabricated to validate the designs and to study matching of the two dipoles. A Hall probe mapping system has been built with three Group 3 Hall probes mounted on a 2-D translation stage. The probes are arranged with one probe in the midplane of the magnet and the others vertically offset by {+-}10 mm. The field is mapped around a nominal 25 m radius beam trajectory. The results of measurements in the as-received magnets, and with modifications made to the nose pieces are presented.

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Bistable and Multi-Domain States of α-Fe/(PrDy)(FeCo)B Ferromagnetic Microwires

In this paper, we obtained α-Fe(50 at %)(PrDy)(FeCo)B(48 at %) microwires by extraction of a hanging drop of the (PrDy)(FeCo)B melt in the electron beam. A single microwire with a diameter of 50 μm and a length of 0.8–6 mm and with an amorphous (PrDy)(FeCo)B content of ~48% and a polycrystalline α‑Fe phase of ~52% is shown to have a rectangular narrow magnetic hysteresis loop and, accordingly, a bistable state with a switching field of ~100 Oe. Shortening the wire to ~0.6 mm leads to a sharp deviation from the loop rectangularity and a decrease in the slope of the dependence of magnetization on the field and coercive force to 20 Oe. In the near-surface layers consisting of an amorphous phase (PrDy)(FeCo)B, oriented regions of reverse magnetization are observed. The role of the magnetic dipole interaction in the formation of the magnetic hysteresis loop of chaotic ensembles of microwires with various compositions is discussed.

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Theoretical level energies and transition data for 4p{sup 6}4d{sup 5}, 4p{sup 5}4d{sup 6} and 4p{sup 6}4d{sup 4}4f configurations of W{sup 33+} ion

The ab initio quasirelativistic approach developed specifically for the calculation of spectral parameters of highly charged ions was used to derive transition data for the Nb-like tungsten ion W{sup 33+}. The configuration interaction method was applied to include electron correlation effects. The relativistic effects were taken into account in the Breit–Pauli approximation. The level energies, radiative lifetimes τ, Landé g-factors were determined for the ground configuration 4p{sup 6}4d{sup 5} and two excited configurations 4p{sup 5}4d{sup 6} and 4p{sup 6}4d{sup 4}4f. The radiative transition wavelengths λ and emission transition probabilities A for the electric dipole, electric quadrupole, electric octupole, magnetic dipole, and magnetic quadrupole transitions among the levels of these configurations were produced. The uncertainties of computed spectroscopic parameters were evaluated.

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Light(ly)-coupled dark matter in the keV range: freeze-in and constraints

Dark matter produced from thermal freeze-out is typically restricted to have masses above roughly 1 MeV. However, if the couplings are small, the freeze-in mechanism allows for production of dark matter down to keV masses. We consider dark matter coupled to a dark photon that mixes with the photon and dark matter coupled to photons through an electric or magnetic dipole moment. We discuss contributions to the freeze-in production of such dark matter particles from standard model fermion-antifermion annihilation and plasmon decay. We also derive constraints on such dark matter from the cooling of red giant stars and horizontal branch stars, carefully evaluating the thermal processes as well as the bremsstrahlung process that dominates for masses above the plasma frequency. We find that the parameters needed to obtain the observed relic abundance from freeze-in are excluded below a few tens of keV, depending on the value of the dark gauge coupling constant for the dark photon portal model, and below a few keV, depending on the reheating temperature for dark matter with an electric or magnetic dipole moment. While laboratory probes are unlikely to probe these freeze-in scenarios in general, we show that for dark matter with an electric or magnetic dipole moment and for dark matter masses above the reheating temperature, the couplings needed for freeze-in to produce the observed relic abundance can be probed partially by upcoming direct-detection experiments.

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COUPLED EVOLUTIONS OF THE STELLAR OBLIQUITY, ORBITAL DISTANCE, AND PLANET'S RADIUS DUE TO THE OHMIC DISSIPATION INDUCED IN A DIAMAGNETIC HOT JUPITER AROUND A MAGNETIC T TAURI STAR

We revisit the calculation of the ohmic dissipation in a hot Jupiter presented by Laine et al. by considering more realistic interior structures, stellar obliquity, and the resulting orbital evolution. In this simplified approach, the young hot Jupiter of one Jupiter mass is modeled as a diamagnetic sphere with a finite resistivity, orbiting across tilted stellar magnetic dipole fields in vacuum. Since the induced ohmic dissipation occurs mostly near the planet's surface, we find that the dissipation is unable to significantly expand the young hot Jupiter. Nevertheless, the planet inside a small corotation orbital radius can undergo orbital decay by the dissipation torque and finally overfill its Roche lobe during the T Tauri star phase. The stellar obliquity can evolve significantly if the magnetic dipole is parallel/antiparallel to the stellar spin. Our results are validated by the general torque-dissipation relation in the presence of the stellar obliquity. We also run the fiducial model of Laine et al. and find that the planet's radius is sustained at a nearly constant value by the ohmic heating, rather than being thermally expanded to the Roche radius as suggested by the authors.

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Electromagnetic moments of quasi-stable baryons

We address electromagnetic properties of quasi-stable baryons in the context of chiral extrapolations of lattice QCD results. For particles near their decay threshold we show that an application of a small external magnetic field changes the particle's energy in a non-analytic way. The conventional electromagnetic moments are only well-defined when the background field B satisfies |eB|/2M{sub *}<<|M{sub *}-M-m| where M{sub *} is the mass of the resonance and M, m the masses of the decay products. A direct application of this situation is the chiral extrapolation of the {Delta}(1232)-isobar electromagnetic properties. We discuss such an extrapolation of the {Delta}(1232)-isobar magnetic dipole, electric quadrupole and magnetic octupole moments by a covariant chiral effective field theory.

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SPIN EVOLUTION OF MILLISECOND MAGNETARS WITH HYPERACCRETING FALLBACK DISKS: IMPLICATIONS FOR EARLY AFTERGLOWS OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS

The shallow decay phase or plateau phase of early afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), discovered by Swift, is currently understood as being due to energy injection to a relativistic blast wave. One natural scenario for energy injection invokes a millisecond magnetar as the central engine of GRBs because the conventional model of a pulsar predicts a nearly constant magnetic-dipole-radiation luminosity within the spin-down timescale. However, we note that significant brightening occurs in some early afterglows, which apparently conflicts with the above scenario. Here we propose a new model to explain this significant brightening phenomena by considering a hyperaccreting fallback disk around a newborn millisecond magnetar. We show that for typical values of the model parameters, sufficient angular momentum of the accreted matter is transferred to the magnetar and spins it up. It is this spin-up that leads to a dramatic increase of the magnetic-dipole-radiation luminosity with time and thus significant brightening of an early afterglow. Based on this model, we carry out numerical calculations and fit well early afterglows of 12 GRBs assuming sufficiently strong fallback accretion. If the accretion is very weak, our model turns out to be the conventional energy-injection scenario of a pulsar. Therefore, our model can provide a unified explanation for the shallow decay phase, plateaus, and significant brightening of early afterglows.

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Comparison of electric dipole and magnetic loop antennas for exciting whistler modes

The excitation of low frequency whistler modes from different antennas has been investigated experimentally in a large laboratory plasma. One antenna consists of a linear electric dipole oriented across the uniform ambient magnetic field B{sub 0}. The other antenna is an elongated loop with dipole moment parallel to B{sub 0}. Both antennas are driven by the same rf generator which produces a rf burst well below the electron cyclotron frequency. The antenna currents as well as the wave magnetic fields from each antenna are measured. Both the antenna currents and the wave fields of the loop antenna exceed that of the electric dipole by two orders of magnitude. The conclusion is that loop antennas are far superior to dipole antennas for exciting large amplitude whistler modes, a result important for active wave experiments in space plasmas.

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Measurement of the radiative decay rate and energy of the metastable (2s{sup 2}2p{sub 1/2}{sup 5}3s{sub 1/2}){sub (J=0)} level in Fe xvii

Measurements at the Livermore electron beam ion trap have been performed in order to infer the energy and the radiative lifetime of the (1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2}2p{sub 1/2}{sup 5}3s{sub 1/2}){sub J=0} level in the Fe xvii spectrum. This is the longest-lived level in the neonlike iron ion, and its radiative decay produces the Fe xvii line at 1153 Å, feeding the population of the (1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2}2p{sub 3/2}{sup 5}3s{sub 1/2}){sub J=1} upper level of one of the most prominent lines in the Fe xvii L-shell X-ray spectrum, commonly dubbed 3G. In the presence of a strong (⩾ few kG) magnetic field, the (1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2}2p{sub 1/2}{sup 5}3s{sub 1/2}){sub J=0} level has a finite probability to decay directly to the (1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2}2p{sup 6}){sub J=0} neonlike ground level via the emission of an L-shell X-ray. Our measurements allow us to observe this X-ray line in the Fe xvii L-shell spectrum and from it to infer the radiative rate for the magnetic dipole decay of the (1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2}2p{sub 1/2}{sup 5}3s{sub 1/2}){sub J=0} level to the (1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2}2p{sub 3/2}{sup 5}3s{sub 1/2}){sub J=1}. Our result of (1.45±0.15)×10{sup 4} s{sup −1} is in agreement with predictions. We have also measured the wavelength of the associated X-ray line to be 16.804 ± 0.002 Å, which means that the line is displaced 1.20 ± 0.05 eV from the neighboring (2s{sup 2}2p{sub 1/2}{sup 5}3s{sub 1/2}){sub J=1}→(2s{sup 2}2p{sup 6}){sub J=0} transition, commonly labeled 3F. From our measurement, we infer 5950570 ± 710 cm{sup −1} for the energy of the (1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2}2p{sub 1/2}{sup 5}3s{sub 1/2}){sub J=0} level.

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Mergers of charged black holes: gravitational-wave events, short gamma-ray bursts, and fast radio bursts

The discoveries of GW150914, GW151226, and LVT151012 suggest that double black hole (BH–BH) mergers are common in the universe. If at least one of the two merging black holes (BHs) carries a certain amount of charge, possibly retained by a rotating magnetosphere, the inspiral of a BH–BH system would drive a global magnetic dipole normal to the orbital plane. The rapidly evolving magnetic moment during the merging process would drive a Poynting flux with an increasing wind power. The magnetospheric activities during the final phase of the merger would make a fast radio burst (FRB) if the BH charge can be as large as a factor of q-hat ∼(10{sup −9}--10{sup −8}) of the critical charge Q {sub c} of the BH. At large radii, dissipation of the Poynting flux energy in the outflow would power a short-duration high-energy transient, which would appear as a detectable short-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) if the charge can be as large as q-hat ∼(10{sup −5}--10{sup −4}). The putative short GRB coincident with GW150914 recorded by Fermi GBM may be interpreted with this model. Future joint GW/GRB/FRB searches would lead to a measurement or place a constraint on the charges carried by isolate BHs.

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Quadrupole magnet for a rapid cycling synchrotron

Rapid Cycling Synchrotrons (RCS) feature interleaved warm and cold dipole magnets; the field of the warm magnets is used to modulate the average bending field depending on the particle energy. It has been shown that RCS can be an attractive option for fast acceleration of particles, for example, muons, which decay quickly. In previous studies it was demonstrated that in principle warm dipole magnets can be designed which can provide the required ramp rates, which are equivalent to frequencies of about 1 kHz. To reduce the losses it is beneficial to employ two separate materials for the yoke; it was also shown that by employing an optimized excitation coil geometry the eddy current losses are acceptable. In this paper we show that the same principles can be applied to quadrupole magnets targeting 30 T/m with a repetition rate of 1kHz and good field quality.

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