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Homogenous BSCCO-2212 Round Wires for Very High Field Magnets

The performance demands on modern particle accelerators generate a relentless push towards higher field magnets. In turn, advanced high field magnet development places increased demands on superconducting materials. Nb 3 Sn conductors have been used to achieve 16 T in a prototype dipole magnet and are thought to have the capability for ~18 T for accelerator magnets (primarily dipoles but also higher order multipole magnets).

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗

Extended calculations with spectroscopic accuracy: Energy levels and transition properties for the fluorine-like isoelectronic sequence with Z = 24–30

We have performed extensive multiconfiguration Dirac–Hartree–Fock calculations and second-order many-body perturbation calculations for F-like ions with Z = 24–30. Energy levels and transition rates for electric dipole (E1), electric-quadrupole (E2), electric-octupole (E3), magnetic dipole (M1), and magnetic-quadrupole (M2) transitions, as well as radiative lifetimes, are provided for the lowest 200 levels belonging to the 1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2}2p{sup 5}, 1s{sup 2}2s2p{sup 6}, 1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2}2p{sup 4}3l, 1s{sup 2}2s2p{sup 5}3l, 1s{sup 2}2p{sup 6}3l, and 1s{sup 2}2s{sup 2}2p{sup 4}4l configurations of each ion. The results from the two sets of calculations are in excellent agreement. Extensive comparisons are also made with other theoretical results and observed data from the CHIANTI and NIST databases. The present energies and wavelengths are believed to be accurate enough to aid line identifications involving the n = 3 and n = 4 configurations, for which observations are largely missing. The calculated wavelengths and transition data will be useful in the modeling and diagnostics of astrophysical and fusion plasmas.

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS↗

Local regulation of interchange turbulence in a dipole-confined plasma torus using current-collection feedback

Turbulence in plasma confined by a magnetic dipole is dominated by interchange fluctuations with complex dynamics and short spatial coherence. We report the first use of local current-collection feedback to modify, amplify, and suppress these fluctuations. The spatial extent of turbulence regulation is limited to a correlation length near the collector. Changing the gain and phase of collection results in power either extracted from or injected into the turbulence. The measured plasma response shows some agreement with calculations of the linear response of global interchange-like MHD and entropy modes to current-collection feedback.

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY↗

Equipotential transformation of multipole systems to dipole systems

The vector sum of fields produced by a set of magnetic dipoles with different magnetic moments that are both tilted from the planetary spin axis and offset from the planetary center by different amounts can be used to completely represent a planetary magnetic field in the conventional form of spherical harmonic expansion. The scalar equipotential transformation analytically results in 24 equations that may subsequently be solved for the 24 adjustable parameters in dipole systems with the predetermined main dipole. Attention is given to this method's application to the Jovian magnetic field.

Wang, W. X.↗

Effects of Magnetic and Electric Field Uniformity on Coded Aperture Imaging Quality in a Cycloidal Mass Analyzer

Cycloidal mass analyzers are unique sector mass analyzers as they exhibit perfect double focusing, making them ideal for incorporating spatial aperture coding, which can increase the throughput of a mass analyzer without affecting the resolving power. However, the focusing properties of the cycloidal mass analyzer depend on the uniformity of the electric and magnetic fields. In this paper, finite element simulation and charged particle tracing were used to investigate the effect of field uniformity on imaging performance of a cycloidal mass analyzer. For the magnetic field, we evaluate a new permanent magnet geometry by comparing it to a traditional geometry. Results indicate that creating an aperture image in a cycloidal mass spectrometer with the same FWHM as the slit requires less than 1% variation in magnetic field strength along the ion trajectories. The new magnet design, called the opposed dipole magnet, has less than 1% field variation over an area approximately 62 × 65 mm; nearly twice the area available in a traditional design of similar size and weight. This allows ion imaging across larger detector arrays without loss of resolving power. In addition, we compare the aperture imaging quality of a traditionally used cycloidal mass spectrometer electric design with a new optimized design with improved field uniformity. .

46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ↗

Gravitational radiation from magnetically funneled supernova fallback onto a magnetar

Protomagnetars spun up to millisecond rotation periods by supernova fallback are predicted to radiate gravitational waves via hydrodynamic instabilities for ∼10{sup 2} s before possibly collapsing to form a black hole. It is shown that magnetic funneling of the accretion flow (1) creates a magnetically confined polar mountain, which boosts the gravitational wave signal, and (2) 'buries' the magnetic dipole moment, delaying the propeller phase and assisting black hole formation.

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS↗

Magnetic and electric dipole moments of the H {sup 3}{Delta}{sub 1} state in ThO

The metastable H {sup 3}{Delta}{sub 1} state in the thorium monoxide (ThO) molecule is highly sensitive to the presence of a CP-violating permanent electric dipole moment of the electron (eEDM) [E. R. Meyer and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 78, 010502 (2008)]. The magnetic dipole moment {mu}{sub H} and the molecule-fixed electric dipole moment D{sub H} of this state are measured in preparation for a search for the eEDM. The small magnetic moment {mu}{sub H}=8.5(5)x10{sup -3} {mu}{sub B} displays the predicted cancellation of spin and orbital contributions in a {sup 3}{Delta}{sub 1} paramagnetic molecular state, providing a significant advantage for the suppression of magnetic field noise and related systematic effects in the eEDM search. In addition, the induced electric dipole moment is shown to be fully saturated in very modest electric fields (<10 V/cm). This feature is favorable for the suppression of many other potential systematic errors in the ThO eEDM search experiment.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗

Synthesis and luminescent properties of Tb3+ doped BaLa2ZnO5 nanoparticles

Highlights: • First combustion-synthesis report of BaLa{sub 2-x}ZnO{sub 5}:xTb{sup 3+} nanophosphors. • Lattice parameters and atomic positions have been refined. • Critical distance for non-radiative energy transfer has been calculated. • These nanophosphors are suitable candidate for solid state lighting. • Some blue to green color tunability has been found. - Abstract: Nanophosphor powders of composition BaLa{sub 2}ZnO{sub 5}:Tb{sup 3+} have been synthesized via using urea assisted solution combustion method using metal nitrates as the precursor materials. The structural, morphological and luminescent properties have been investigated by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The Rietveld analysis showed that these nanophosphors crystallize in the tetrahedral phase with the 14/mcm (140) space group. The crystallite size was determined by Scherer formula and was found to be 70 nm. The photoluminescent excitation of these nanocrystals at 278 nm yielded the characteristic emission peaks at 545 nm and 489 nm due to {sup 5}D{sub 4} → {sup 7}F{sub 5} (magnetic-dipole) and {sup 5}D{sub 4} → {sup 7}F{sub 6} (electric-dipole) transitions, respectively. The optimum activator concentration was found to be 3 mol% and the concentration quenching arising from the over-doping was attributed to the quadrupole–quadrupole interactions. The excellent luminescent profile of these nano-scaled particles suggests their auspicious applications in the solid-state lighting and display technology.

77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY↗

White emission materials from glass doped with rare Earth ions: A review

Solid State Lighting (SSL) based devices are predicted to play a crucial role in the coming years. Development of W-LED, which have an edge over traditional lighting sources due to their compact size, higher reliability, shock resistance, interesting design possibilities, higher transparency and an extremely long lifetime. Over the fifteen trivalent lanthanide ions, Dy{sup 3+} ions doped glasses are most appropriate for white light generation because of the fact that it exhibits two intense emission bands corresponds to the {sup 4}F{sub 9/2}→{sup 6}H{sub 15/2} (magnetic dipole) and {sup 4}F{sub 9/2}→{sup 6}H{sub 13/2} (electric dipole) transitions at around 480-500 nm and 580-600 nm pertaining to blue and yellow regions respectively. In this work, the developments of Dy3+ doped in several glass structures for white emitting materials application have reviewed. Properties of Dy{sup 3+} doped in glasses were discussed for use as a solid state lighting materials application.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗

Two-dimensional noncommutative atom gas with the Anandan interaction

Landau-like quantization of the Anandan system in a special electromagnetic field is studied. Unlike the cases of the Aharonov-Casher (AC) system and the He-McKellar-Wilkens (HMW) system, the torques of the system on the magnetic dipole and the electric dipole do not vanish. By constructing Heisenberg algebra, the Landau analog levels and eigenstates on commutative space, noncommutative (NC) space, and NC phase space are obtained, respectively. By using the coherent state method, some statistical properties of such free-atom gas are studied and the expressions of some thermodynamic quantities related to revolution direction are obtained. Two particular cases of temperature are discussed and the more simple expressions of the free energy on the three spaces are obtained. We give the relation between the value of {sigma} and revolution direction clearly and find Landau like levels of the Anandan system are invariant and the levels between the AC system and the HMW system are interchanged each other under Maxwell dual transformations on the three spaces. The two sets of eigenstates labeled by {sigma} can be related by a supersymmetry transformation on commutative space, but the phenomenon do not occur on NC situation. We emphasize that some results relevant to Anandan interaction are suitable for the cases of AC interaction and HMW interaction under special conditions.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗

Low-lying structure of neutron-rich Zn and Ga isotopes

Low-lying states of even-even Zn and odd-mass Ga nuclei with neutron numbers between 42 and 50 have been calculated within the framework of the SDG-pair approximation of the nuclear shell model. We employ a monopole and quadrupole pairing plus quadrupole-quadrupole interaction with optimized parameters, which are assumed to be constants for nuclei with the same proton number or neutron number. We calculate low-lying level schemes, electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole moments, and E2 and M1 transition rates. Reasonable agreement is achieved between the calculated results and experimental data. Dominant configurations in the ground states of odd-mass Ga nuclei are discussed in terms of pair correlations. The weak-coupling picture for some states of odd-mass Ga nuclei is studied.

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS↗

Magnonic Floquet Hofstadter butterfly

We introduce the magnonic Floquet Hofstadter butterfly in the two-dimensional (2D) insulating honeycomb ferromagnet using a combination of spin wave theory and quantum field theory. We show that hopping magnetic dipole moment (i.e. magnon quasiparticles) in the 2D insulating honeycomb ferromagnet accumulates the Aharonov–Casher phase when irradiated by an oscillating space- and time-dependent electric field. We study two different cases. In the first case, we consider the effects of only space-dependent electric field. In this case, we realize the magnonic Hofstadter spectrum with similar fractal structure as graphene subject to a perpendicular magnetic field, but with no spin degeneracy due to broken time-reversal symmetry by the ferromagnetic order. In addition, the magnonic Dirac points and Landau levels occur at finite energy as expected in a bosonic system. Remarkably, this discrepancy does not affect the topological invariant of the system. Consequently, the magnonic Chern number assumes odd values and the magnon Hall conductance gets quantized by odd integers. In the second case, we study the effects of both space- and time-dependent electric field. In this case, the theoretical framework is studied by the Floquet formalism. We show that the magnonic Floquet Hofstadter spectrum emerges entirely from the oscillating space- and time-dependent electric field, which is in stark contrast to electronic Floquet Hofstadter spectrum, where irradiation by circularly polarized light and a perpendicular magnetic field are applied independently. We study the deformation of the fractal structure at different laser frequencies and amplitudes, and analyze the topological phase transitions associated with gap openings in the magnonic Floquet Hofstadter butterfly.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗

Spin-rotation and NMR shielding constants in HCl

The spin-rotation and nuclear magnetic shielding constants are analysed for both nuclei in the HCl molecule. Nonrelativistic ab initio calculations at the CCSD(T) level of approximation show that it is essential to include relativistic effects to obtain spin-rotation constants consistent with accurate experimental data. Our best estimates for the spin-rotation constants of {sup 1}H{sup 35}Cl are C{sub Cl} = −53.914 kHz and C{sub H} = 42.672 kHz (for the lowest rovibrational level). For the chlorine shielding constant, the ab initio value computed including the relativistic corrections, σ(Cl) = 976.202 ppm, provides a new absolute shielding scale; for hydrogen we find σ(H) = 31.403 ppm (both at 300 K). Combining the theoretical results with our new gas-phase NMR experimental data allows us to improve the accuracy of the magnetic dipole moments of both chlorine isotopes. For the hydrogen shielding constant, including relativistic effects yields better agreement between experimental and computed values.

37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CH↗

Noniterative finite amplitude methods for E 1 and M 1 giant resonances

The finite amplitude method (FAM) is a very efficient approach for solving the fully self-consistent random-phase approximation (RPA) equations. We use FAM to rederive the RPA matrices for Skyrme functionals, calculate the electric dipole ( E 1) and the magnetic dipole ( M 1) giant resonances, and compare the results with available experimental and evaluated data. For the E 1 transitions in heavy nuclei, the calculations reproduce well the resonance energy of the photoabsorption cross sections. In the case of M 1 transitions, we show that the residual interaction does not affect the transition strength of double-magic nuclei, which suggests that the spin terms in the Skyrme force currently neglected in the present computation could improve the agreement between FAM and experimental data.

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS↗

Superthermal electrons and Bernstein waves in Jupiter's inner magnetosphere

A theoretical model for generation of banded electrostatic emissions by low density, superthermal electrons is developed for application to Jupiter's magnetosphere. The model employs a power law form for the energy dependence and a loss cone pitch angle distribution of the superthermals to drive convective instability of Bernstein modes. A direct correspondence between spectral features of the 3/2 band and resonant superthermal electrons is found. The concept of a critical flux of resonant electrons able to provide 10 e-foldings of electric field amplification yields an explicit relation in terms of the background thermal electron pressure. This result is used to construct a theoretical/empirical model of thermal electron density and temperature from 6-20 Jupiter radii in the Jovian magnetosphere which suggests that the electron temperature is less than the ion temperature which is approximately equal to 10 times the electron temperature in this region. Finally, wave ray paths are computed for propagation in the magnetic equator and in the magnetic meridional plane of a dipole magnetic field. These ray paths suggest that intense wave activity is tightly confined to a small latitudinal extent, less than + or - approximately 4 deg, about the magnetic equator.

Barbosa, D. D.↗