The many-particle scattering system He++ on He: Experiment and a complete unified description

Highly differential experimental results of the scattering system He++ on He at 30 keV are presented as well as a complete unified theoretical description where excitation, transfer and ionization are treated simultaneously on an ab initio level. The agreement even for highly differential cross sections is nearly complete although no explicit correlation besides Pauli correlation is included in the calculations.

Angular distribution of characteristic photons after radiative electron capture at strong central fields

We investigate the difference in the angular distribution of Ly-alpha(1) and K alpha(1) photons from hydrogenlike and heliumlike ions of uranium after radiative electron capture to the L shell. The strong anisotropy in the former case is changed to a very small one in the latter case. Our calculations support the observation. The effect takes place even in the limiting case of noninteracting electrons, being caused by the Pauli principle.

Isospin diffusion and equilibration for Sn plus Sn collisions at E/A=35 MeV

Equilibration and equilibration rates have been measured by colliding Sn nuclei with different isospin asymmetries at beam energies of E/A = 35 MeV. Using the yields of mirror nuclei of Li-7 and Be-7, we have studied the diffusion of isospin asymmetry by combining data from asymmetric Sn-112 + Sn-124 and Sn-124 + Sn-112 collisions with those from symmetric Sn-112 + Sn-112 and Sn-124 + Sn-124 collisions. We use these measurements to probe isospin equilibration in central collisions where nucleon-nucleon collisions are strongly blocked by the Pauli exclusion principle. The results are consistent with transport theoretical calculations that predict a degree of transparency in these collisions, but inconsistent with the emission of intermediate mass fragments by a single chemically equilibrated source. Comparisons with quantum molecular dynamics calculations are consistent with results obtained at higher incident energies that provide constraints on the density dependence of the symmetry energy.

中能核反应中的统计发射过程及核温度参量

在过去的几年里，利用兰州重离子加速器（HIRFL）提供的束流，以及在OUVERTURE合作研究中，利用意大利国家核物理研究院南方实验室（INFN-LNS）超导回旋提供的束流，进行了多次中能区重离子核反应实验研究工作。如，最初的46.7MeV/u ~(12)C+~(58)Ni，~(115)In，~(197)Au的实验及30MeV/u ~(40)Ar+~(58)Ni，~(64)Ni~(115)In和30MeV/u Ni轰击Ni，Au，Al在MULTICS+MEDEA：4π装置上进行的实验工作。此外，本人还从事过一些理论研究工作，包括多粒子散射形式理论和相关数学物理问题研究，量子分子动力学和量子统计模型计算。本文是从事这些核物理研究工作的积累，主要侧重于实验结果的物理内容分析，而不强调实验技术，数据处理的技巧。主要的物理内容有以下几个方面：1.对于利用双同位素产额比提取同位素核温度的方法进行研究推广，使得对于实验中碰到的仅有部分能谱可以实现很好同位素分辩的情况，即使不能得到总的同位素产额，仅仅通过一段能区的同位素产额也可提取核温度。用于具体的实验研究工作中后，对于46.7MeV/u ~(12)C+~(58)Ni，~(115)In，~(197)Au核反应过程，同一体系利用这种方法得到的同位素核温度和利用粒子非稳态布居提取的核温度一致。2.围绕核反应过程中核温度的参量的提取，对于双同位素产额比与核温度的刻度关系进行了分析研究，通过计算考虑中等质量碎片（IMF）内部激发能后的内部配分函数表明，中等质量碎片的内部激发对刻度关系有重要影响。零阶近似下区域密度近似的结果和Gemini模拟计算的结果反映了相同的情况。3.研究核反应机制，多个粒子散射的形式理论的必需的，对于两体散射，其形式理论已经比较成熟，但是对于多个粒子散射问题出现的严重的困难是多体Lippmann-Schwinger方程无唯一收敛的解。作为一种探索性的研究工作，开展了多体散射理论研究工作，发展了一些具有普遍意义的数学物理方法。在本项研究工作中，通过能基础数学中的约当引理的推广，发现一个特例：对非连接图，Lippmann-Schwingwer方程存在收敛的解，因此多体散射形式理论，有可能重新建立。由于核力和多体问题是当今核物理研究的两大难点，世界各国的科学家都在努力以图攻克它们，而且多体问题还是物理学的其它许多领域的难题，因而多体散射还是引起诸多研究学科广泛兴趣的课题。通过发展一些新的数学理论和方法，我们已得到一些有意义的结果。4.将量子分子动力学这种中高能量区域所用的理论分析方法扩展至较低能区，通过对相空间中初始位置和动量抽样增加限制条件。如结合能和实验值要求一致，平均核势，核内Pauli阻塞更强一些，在演化中能量和动量守恒等等。得到一个很稳定的初始基态。均方半径保持不弥散的时间可达1600fm/c，用于研究10.6MeV/u Ne~(20)+Al~(27)的实验分析过程中。另外，量子统计模型（QSM）主要描述中心核-核碰撞，将它和碎裂模型结合，作一些改进后，可以对核-核碰撞进行统一描述。5.在中能核反应研究中发现，核反应过程中有大量的中子，轻带电粒子以及中等质量碎片发射出来，可以将这些粒子发射机制大致分为两大类。其中一类可以归结为动力学发射过程的产物。另一类则可以归于统计发射的产物。在低能核反应中，其发射能谱的斜率的负倒数，可作为复合核的核温度。而在中能重离子核反应中，其发射能谱变得很复杂，不再具有Maxwell分布。通常的三源拟合所给出的温度参数，已不能反映物理实质。提出多阶矩分析方法用于分析中能核反应中统计发射规律及受动力学过程的影响。

非相对论重离子碰撞动力学的两体关联输运理论

论文系统地介绍和分析了当前几类描述重离子碰撞动力学过程输运理论的优点和缺点，并针对这些理论的不足作为建立我们理论模型的出发点。例如BUU（Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck）系列的输运过程，可以通过不同方法从量子多体理论依照扩展的时间相关的Hartree-Fock（ETDHF）的基本思想推导出来，并对重离子碰撞过程中有关平均场物理量给出了合理的描述。但由于推导中采用了一些半经典近似和参数化近似，破坏了平均场合碰撞项之间的动力学自洽耦合。特别是数值计算中采用了实验粒子系综平均法，从而丢失了多体关联和涨落，使其无法直接描述重离子碰撞中基本的碎块形成和多重碎裂过程。而量子分子动力学（QMD）系列的理论能够给出重离子碰撞过程中碎块形成的动力学描述，但至今无法从量子多体理论推导出有关QMD的输运方程。碰撞项是在数值计算中通过Monte Carlo抽样技术人为地加入的。那么，如何从量子多体理论出发推导出描述重离子碰撞动力学过程的，可将时间相关的平均场，多体关联进行自洽耦合描述的量子输运理论就成了本论文工作的中心目的。 基于王顺金等人建立的多体关联动力学理论，选用时间相关的相干态单粒子基矢作为新理论的工作表象，对两体关联动力学中的一体密度矩阵和两体关联函数进行轨道展开，推导出了描述非相对论重离子碰撞动力学过程的两体关联输运理论TBCTT（Two-Body Correlation Transport Theory）。TBCTT是一组包括时间相关的平均场，两体关联和Pauli原理的自洽耦合的动力学方程组。其中时间相关的相干单粒子基矢是该理论的一个关键问题。其时间演化的动力学可由多种不同的方法得到，如时间相关的Hartree-Fock方法，时间相关的变分方法等。但作为建立TBCTT工作的第一步，为了计算简便，我们采用经典的Hamilton方程来描述相干单粒子基矢中相空间参数的时间演化，然后通过与两体关联动力学的耦合而恢复TBCCT基本的量子特征。 利用TBCTT对几组轻的碰撞系统进行了数值计算和分析。计算结果表明：TBCTT可以给出重离子碰撞过程中的有关物理量时间演化过程的合理描述，得到了在不同入射道条件下与QMD模型的可比性结果。同时也在组态空间的有限截断和两体关联函数不同的等级截断下均得到了碰撞系统总动量，总能量和总粒子数的近似守恒结果，特别是能量守恒，这是一般半经典输运理论中一个重要的困难问题。另外还得到了两体关联函数不同的等级截断近似对碰撞动力学方面不同的描述。所用这些数值计算结果充分表明：TBCTT是一个有希望和有发展前途的能够描述重离子碰撞动力学的量子输运理论。最后我们对当前计算中所采用的近似和存在的问题进行了分析和讨论，提出了进一步改进和完善TBCTT的途径和方案。 我们在开始TBCTT的研究之前还对QMD进行了仔细的研究和改进。通过在平均场中引入Pauli势和对称势并利用摩擦冷却方法构造原子核基态，得到了一种改进的量子分子动力学MQMD。利用这种MQMD研究了12C+12C反应多重碎裂过程中的核结构效应，得到了与AMD和实验数据基本一致的结果。对QMD的改进和应用为开展TBCTT的研究工作创造了必要条件和准备。

Antyk i współczesność: wokół pragmatyki tekstu antycznego (1Tm 1, 17). Z badań nad tradycją antyczną na Górnym Śląsku

The article presents an interpretation of the Soli Deo honor et gloria inscription from the fronton of the metropolitan cathedral of Christ the King in Katowice. The interpretation of the text depends on whether the word soli is taken as solely attributive or also as predicative. Given both the ancient and the contemporary historical and cultural contexts the former appears more plausible.

Spatial and energetic mode dynamics of cold atomic systems

In this thesis we relate the formal description of various cold atomic systems in the energy eigenbasis, to the observable spatial mode dynamics. Herein the `spatial mode dynamics' refers to the direction of photon emission following the spontaneous emission of an excited fermion in the presence of a same species and spin ideal anisotropic Fermi sea in its internal ground state. Due to the Pauli principle, the presence of the ground state Fermi sea renders the phase space, anisotropic and only partially accessible, thereby a ecting the direction of photon emission following spontaneous emission. The spatial and energetic mode dynamics also refers to the quantum `tunneling' interaction between localised spatial modes, synonymous with double well type potentials. Here we relate the dynamics of the wavefunction in both the energetic and spatial representations. Using this approach we approximate the relationship between the spatial and energetic representations of a wavefunction spanning three spatial and energetic modes. This is extended to a process known as Spatial Adiabatic Passage, which is a technique to transport matter waves between localised spatial modes. This approach allows us to interpret the transport of matter waves as a signature of a geometric phase acquired by the one of the internal energy eigenstates of the system during the cyclical evolution. We further show that this geometric phase may be used to create spatial mode qubit and qutrit states.

Medieval Irish vision literature: a genre study

This dissertation examines medieval literary accounts of visions of the afterlife with an origin or provenance in Ireland from the perspective of genre, analysing their structural and literary characteristics both synchronically and diachronically. To this end, I have developed a new typology of medieval vision literature. I address the question in what manner the internationally attested genre of vision literature is adapted and developed in an Irish literary milieu. I explore this central research question through an interrogation of the typological unity of the key texts, both in formal arrangement and in the eschatological themes they express. My analysis of the structure and rhetoric of these narratives reveals the primary role of identity strategies, question-and-answer patterns and exhortation for their narrative cohesion and didactic function. In addition, I was able to make a formal distinction at text-level between the adaptation of the genre as an autonomous unit and the adaptation of thematic motifs as topoi. This further enabled me to nuance the distribution of characteristic features in the genre. My analysis of the spatial and temporal aspects of the eschatological journey confirms a preoccupation with personal eschatology. It reveals a close connection between the development of the aspects of graded access and trial in the genre and a growing awareness of an interim state of the soul after death. Finally, my dissertation provides new editions, translations and analyses of primary sources. My research breaks new ground in the hitherto underexplored area of genre adaptation in Ireland. In addition, it contributes significantly to our understanding of the nature of vision literature both in an Irish and a European context, and to our knowledge of the transmission of eschatological thought in the Latin West. Discusses the visions of: Laisrén, Fursa, Adomnán, Lóchán, Tnugdal, Owein and Visio Sancti Pauli Redactions VI and XI.

A note on spin-s duality

Duality is investigated for higher spin (s ≥ 2), free, massless, bosonic gauge fields. We show how the dual formulations can be derived from a common "parent", first-order action. This goes beyond most of the previous treatments where higher-spin duality was investigated at the level of the equations of motion only. In D = 4 spacetime dimensions, the dual theories turn out to be described by the same Pauli-Fierz (s = 2) or Fronsdal (s ≥ 3) action (as it is the case for spin 1). In the particular s = 2 D = 5 case, the Pauli-Fierz action and the Curtright action are shown to be related through duality. A crucial ingredient of the analysis is given by the first-order, gauge-like, reformulation of higher spin theories due to Vasiliev. © SISSA/ISAS 2003.

Probing the ultimate limits of plasmonic enhancement.

Metals support surface plasmons at optical wavelengths and have the ability to localize light to subwavelength regions. The field enhancements that occur in these regions set the ultimate limitations on a wide range of nonlinear and quantum optical phenomena. We found that the dominant limiting factor is not the resistive loss of the metal, but rather the intrinsic nonlocality of its dielectric response. A semiclassical model of the electronic response of a metal places strict bounds on the ultimate field enhancement. To demonstrate the accuracy of this model, we studied optical scattering from gold nanoparticles spaced a few angstroms from a gold film. The bounds derived from the models and experiments impose limitations on all nanophotonic systems.

Radiative lifetimes of metastable states of negative ions

We present a technique for measuring the radiative lifetimes of metastable states of negative ions that involves the use of a heavy-ion storage ring. The method has been applied to investigate the radiative decay of the np3 2P1/2 levels of Te–(n=5) and Se–(n=4) and the 3p3 2D state of Si– for which the J=3/2 and 5/2 levels were unresolved. All of these states are metastable and decay primarily by emission of E2 and M1 radiation. Multi Configuration Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations of rates for the transitions in Te– and Se– yielded lifetimes of 0.45 s and 4.7 s, respectively. The measured values agree well with these predicted values. In the case of the 2D state of Si–, however, our measurement was only able to set a lower limit on the lifetime. The upper limit of the lifetime that can be measured with our apparatus is set by how long the ions can be stored in the ring, a limit determined by the rate of collisional detachment. Our lower limit of 1 min for the lifetime of the 2D state is consistent with both the calculated lifetimes of 162 s for the 2D3/2 level and 27.3 h for the 2D5/2 level reported by O'Malley and Beck and 14.5 h and 12.5 h, respectively, from our Breit-Pauli calculations.

Effective collision strengths for transitions among the 3s(2), 3s3p and 3p(2) configurations of Fe xv

Effective collision strengths for transitions among the ten energetically lowest fine-structure levels belonging to the (1s(2)2s(2)2p(6))3s(2), 3s3p and 3p(2) configurations of Fe xv have been calculated in the electron temperature range of 10(5)-10(7) K, using the recent Dirac atomic R-matrix code of Norrington and Grant. The results are compared with the other recently available independent Breit-Pauli R-matrix calculations of Eissner et al (Eissner W, Galavis M E, Mendoza C and Zeippen C J 1999 Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 137 165) and Griffin et al (Griffin DC, Badnell N R, Pindzola M S and Shaw J A 1999 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 32 2139, 4129). Large differences are observed for many transitions over almost the entire temperature range. These differences are analysed and discussed, and the accuracy of the calculations is assessed.

Energy levels and transition probabilities for nitrogen-like Fe xx

Energies of the 700 lowest levels in Fe XX have been obtained using the multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock method. Configuration interaction method on the basis set of transformed radial orbitals with variable parameters taking into account relativistic corrections in the Breit-Pauli approximation was used to crosscheck our presented results. Transition probabilities, oscillator and line strengths are presented for electric dipole (E1), electric quadrupole (E2) and magnetic dipole (M1) transitions among these levels. The total radiative transition probabilities from each level are also provided. Results are compared with data compiled by NIST and with other theoretical work.

Inner-shell photoexcitation of Fe XV and Fe XVI

The configuration-interaction method as implemented in the computer code CIV3 is used to determine energy levels, electric dipole radiative transition wavelengths, oscillator strengths and transition probabilities for inner-shell excitation of transitions in Fe XV and Fe XVI. Specifically, transitions are considered of the type 1s(2) 2s(2) 2p(6) 3s(2) -1s(2) 2s(2) 2p(5) 3l3l' 3l" (l, l' and l" = s,p or d) in FeXV and 1s(2) 2s(2) 2p(6) 3s- 1s(2) 2s(2) 2p(5) 3l3l' (l and l' = s,p or d) in FeXVI, using the relativistic Breit-Pauli approach. An assessment of the accuracy of the derived atomic data is performed.