α-decay study of 218Ac and 221Th in 40Ar+186W reaction

In this study,²¹⁸Ac and ²²¹Th nuclides were produced via the heavy-ion induced fusion evaporation reaction ⁴⁰Ar+¹⁸⁶W.Their decay properties were studied with the help of the gas-filled recoil spectrometer SHANS and a digital data acquisition system.The cross section ratio between ²²²Pa and ²¹⁸Ac was extracted experimentally,withmeasured value 0.69(9).Two new possible α decay branches to ²²¹Th are suggested.The valence neutron configurations for the daughter ²¹⁷Ra are discussed in terms of the hindrance factors.     

Decay properties of D and D_s mesons in coulomb plus power potential （CPPν）

The decay properties of the D and D s mesons are computed in a nonrelativistic phenomenological quark-antiquark potential of the type V （r） =-4 /3 α s /r＋ Ar ν with different choices of ν.Numerical method to solve the Schrdinger equation has been used to obtain the spectroscopy of qQ mesons.The numerically obtained radial solutions are employed to obtain the decay constant and leptonic decay widths.It has been observed that predictions of the ground state masses and the decay widths are consistent with other model predictions as well as with the known experimental values.     

Doubly excited 2s2p 1,3P1 resonances in photoionization of helium

The multi-configuration Dirac-Fock（MCDF） method is implemented to study doubly excited 2s2p ^1,3P₁ resonances of the helium atom and the interference between photoionization and photoexcitation autoionization processes.In order to reproduce the total photoionization sprectra,the excited energies from the ground 1s^{2 1}S₀ state to the doubly excited 2s2p ^1,3P₁ states and the relevant Auger decay rates and widths are calculated in detail.Furthermore,the interference profile determined by the so-called Fano parameters q and ρ² is also reproduced.Good agreement is found between the present results and other available theoretical and experimental results.This indeed shows a promising way to investigate the Fano resonances in photoionization of atoms within the MCDF scheme,although there are some discrepancies in the present calculations of the 2s2p ³P₁ state.     

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY AND MULTIPHONON NONRADIATIVE TRANSITION OF Er3+ IONS IN FLUORIDE GLASS

Optical absorption, emission and excitation spectra, lifetimes of ⁴S_3/2 state and ⁴F_9/2 state from 10K to 500K, and Raman spectra were measured for Er³⁺ ions in fluoride glass. The radiative transition probabilities were calculated on the basis of Judd-Ofelt theory. The nonradiative transition probabilities and the quantum efficiencies were determined by calculating the difference between the measured lifetimes and the calculated radiative transition probabilities. The temperature dependence of nonradiative transition provavility was investigated using the Huang-Rhys theory of multiphonon relaxation , in which two kinds of phonons as well as the parameter s were taken into consideration. A fairly good agreement of the theoretical calculation with the experimental results has been obtained. The value of s is estimated and the effect of s is discussed.     

Beta Decay of Neutron—Rich Nucleus ^208Hg

The β- decaying γ scheme of the neutron-rich nuclide 208Hg has been determined for the first time.The 208 Hg was produced in multi-nucleon transfer reaction taking place in the bombardment of 18O-beam on natural lead target,and the Hg-element products were sepaated with a gas-thermochromatography technique.The γ-ray single and γ-γ coincident spectra were measured.A partial 208 Hg γ scheme was proposed.Twenty-six γ rays were assigned to follow the β- decay of 208Hg.At the same time,a new level structure of the daughter nucleus 208 T1 was constructed,in which three new levels at 1.725MeV.1.652MeV,and 1.362MeV were affirmed.The experimental 208Tl level structure was compared with a shell-model calculation.     

Decay properties of D and D_s mesons in coulomb plus power potential (CPP_ν)

The decay properties of the D and D s mesons are computed in a nonrelativistic phenomenological quark-antiquark potential of the type V (r) =-4 3 α s r+ Ar ν with different choices of ν.Numerical method to solve the Schrdinger equation has been used to obtain the spectroscopy of qQ mesons.The numerically obtained radial solutions are employed to obtain the decay constant and leptonic decay widths.It has been observed that predictions of the ground state masses and the decay widths are consistent with other model predictions as well as with the known experimental values.     

Excited States in ^18Ne Studied via ^17F＋p

The elastic resonance scattering of ^17F＋p is studied in inverse kinematics via a thick-target method. The excitation function for ^17F＋p elastic scattering is obtained within the energy interval of Ec.m ≈ 0.4-1.7 MeV. The experimental excitation function is analyzed with a multilevel R-matrix code MULTI7, and the proton widths are deduced. The α decay from 6.15 MeV 1- state in 18Ne is observed, which is critical to the 14O（α, p）17F reaction as the main breakout route from CNO cycle to rp-process in supernovae and x-ray bursts.     

Nuclear fusion from Coulomb explosions of deuterated methane clusters subjected to ultraintense femtosecond laser pulses

This paper reports that Coulomb explosions taken place in the experiment of heteronuclear deuterated methane clusters ((CD₄)₂) in a gas jet subjected to intense femtosecond laser pulses (170mJ, 70fs) have led to table-top laser driven DD nuclear fusion. The clusters produced in supersonic expansion had an average size of about 5nm in radius and the laser intensity used was 3×10¹⁷W/cm².The measured maximum and average energies of deuterons produced in the laser--cluster interaction were 60 and 13.5keV, respectively. From DD collisions of energetic deuterons, a yield of 2.5(±0.4)×10⁴ fusion neutrons of 2.45MeV per shot was realized, giving rise to a neutron production efficiency of about 1.5×10⁵ per joule of incident laser pulse energy. Theoretical calculations were performed and a fairly good agreement of the calculated neutron yield with that obtained from the present experiment was found.     

Optical Transient Relaxation of an Ag—BaO Composite Thin Film with a Supercontinuum Probe

The optical transient absorption spectra of an Ag-BaO thin film have been detected at a wavelength ranging from 400nm to 1000nm using the pump supercontinuum probe technique with a resolution of 130fs.We have observed the optical ultrafast relaxation,in which the electrons near the Fermi level of Ag nanoparticles were excited to a non-equilibrium state and then returned to an equilibrium state.The decay time was exponentially fitted and varied from 0.67ps to 4ps for different components of the supercontinuum probe.The peak of an unoccupied state for silver at level X‘4 was estimated to be 1.47eV above the Fermi level.     

Structure of the Semi—decoupled π 1／2[411] Band in Odd Proton Nucleus ^169Ta

High spin states of the odd proton-nucleus ^169Ta have been populated in the reaction ^155Gd(^19F,5n) with beam energies of 97MeV,Rotational band based on d3/2 proton 1/2[411]Nilsson state has been pushed up to 39/2^ in the α=1/2 decay sequence.Its signature partner,the α=-1/2 decay sequence with four link transitions has been established and 1/2[411] band in ^169Ta was reassigned to be a semi-decoupled band.The systematics of the signature splitting in the K=1/2 bands in the rear-earth region and the accidental degeneracy conclusion given by the angular projection shell model were discussed.     

α结团模型在形变核区域的推广

将α结团模型推广至形变核,计算偶偶形变母核α衰变基态到子核基态和子核第一激发态的分支比,显示出α衰变精细结构的测量是提取核形变信息的有效手段.The cluster model of α-decay is extended to deformed nuclei. The branching ratios of α-decays from the ground state of a parent nucleus to the ground state 0~(+) of its deformed daughter nucleus and to the first excited state 2~(+) are calculated in the framework of the cluster model. The results indicate that a measurement of α spectroscopy is a feasible method to extract the information of nuclear deformation.     

Intra-acceptor hole relaxation in Be δ-doped GaAs/AlAs multiple quantum wells

This paper studies the dynamics of intra-acceptor hole relaxation in Be δ -doped GaAs/AlAs multiple quantum wells (MQW) with doping at the centre by time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy using a picosecond free electron laser for infrared experiments. Low temperature far-infrared absorption measurements clearly show three principal absorption lines due to transitions of the Be acceptor from the ground state to the first three odd-parity excited states respectively. The pump-probe experiments are performed at different temperatures and different pump pulse wavelengths. The hole relaxation time from 2p excited state to 1s ground state in MQW is found to be much shorter than that in bulk GaAs, and shown to be independent of temperature but strongly dependent on wavelength. The zone-folded acoustic phonon emission and slower decay of the wavefunctions of impurity states are suggested to account for the reduction of the 2p excited state lifetime in MQW. The wavelength dependence of the 2p lifetime is attributed to the diffusion of the Be atom δ -layer in quantum wells.     

Color Enhancement by Diffusion of Beryllium in Dark Blue Sapphire

Diffusion of beryllium was performed on dark blue sapphire from China and Australia. The samples were heated with beryllium as a dopant in a furnace at 1 600 ℃ for 42 h in air. After beryllium diffusion, samples were analyzed by UV-Vis, FTIR, and WD-XRF spectroscopy. After heat-treatment with Be as a catalyst, the irons of the ferrous state were changed to the ferric state. Therefore, reaction of Fe2+/Ti4+ IVCT was decreased. The absorption peaks at 3 309 cm-1 attributed to OH radical were disappeared completely due to carry out heat treatment. Consequently, the intensity of absorption band was decreased in the visible region. Especially, decreased absorption band in the vicinity of 570 nm was responsible for the lighter blue color. Therefore, we confirmed that the dark blue sapphires from China and Australia were changed to vivid blue.     

Analysis of a phase synchronized functional network based on the rhythm of brain activities

Rhythm of brain activities represents oscillations of postsynaptic potentials in neocortex, therefore it can serve as an indicator of the brain activity state. In order to check the connectivity of brain rhythm, this paper develops a new method of constructing functional network based on phase synchronization. Electroencephalogram (EEG) data were collected while subjects looking at a green cross in two states, performing an attention task and relaxing with eyes-open. The EEG from these two states was filtered by three band-pass filters to obtain signals of theta (4--7 Hz), alpha (8--13 Hz) and beta (14--30 Hz) bands. Mean resultant length was used to estimate strength of phase synchronization in three bands to construct networks of both states, and mean degree K and cluster coefficient C of networks were calculated as a function of threshold. The result shows higher cluster coefficient in the attention state than in the eyes-open state in all three bands, suggesting that cluster coefficient reflects brain state. In addition, an obvious fronto-parietal network is found in the attention state, which is a well-known attention network. These results indicate that attention modulates the fronto-parietal connectivity in different modes as compared with the eyes-open state. Taken together this method is an objective and important tool to study the properties of neural networks of brain rhythm.     

α Decay Properties of Even-Even Nuclei~(296-308)120 Within the Two-Potential Approach

In the present work,we predict the α decay half-lives of unknown even-even nuclei ~(296-308)120 within the two-potential approach,whose α decay energy Qa is calculated using WS3+mass model.To reduce the deviations between the predictions and experimental data due to nuclear shell effect,the analytic formula of α decay hindrance factor is introduced to the two-potential approach,whose parameters had been extracted from even-even nuclei in the region of 82 Z 126 and 152 N 184 in our previous work [Deng et al.,Chin.Phys.C 42(2018) 044102].In addition,for comparing,we use a type of α decay general formula Universal Decay Law(UDL) and a semi-empirical formula in the superheavy nucleus(SEMFLS) to calculate the half-lives of even-even nuclei ~(296-308)120.The results indicate that our predicted values and the calculated values of the above two empirical formulas are mutually confirmed.Meanwhile,we systematically study α decay chains of ~(296-308)120 and predict the decay modes for superheavy nuclei to help to identify new superheavy isotopes.     

Capacitance characteristics of metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors with a single layer of embedded nickel nanoparticles for the application of nonvolatile memory

This paper reports that metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitors with a single layer of Ni nanoparticles were successfully fabricated by using electron-beam evaporation and rapid thermal annealing for application to nonvolatile memory. Experimental scanning electron microscopy images showed that Ni nanoparticles of about 5~nm in diameter were clearly embedded in the SiO₂ layer on p-type Si (100). Capacitance--voltage measurements of the MOS capacitor show large flat-band voltage shifts of 1.8~V, which indicate the presence of charge storage in the nickel nanoparticles. In addition, the charge-retention characteristics of MOS capacitors with Ni nanoparticles were investigated by using capacitance--time measurements. The results showed that there was a decay of the capacitance embedded with Ni nanoparticles for an electron charge after 10$^{4}$~s. But only a slight decay of the capacitance originating from hole charging was observed. The present results indicate that this technique is promising for the efficient formation or insertion of metal nanoparticles inside MOS structures.     

Infrared diode laser spectroscopy of O2–N2O van der Waals complex in the ν1 symmetric stretch region of N2O

The rovibrational spectrum of O₂–N₂O van der Waals complex is measured in the v₁ symmetric stretch region of N₂O monomer using a tunable diode laser spectrometer. The complex is generated by a slit-pulsed supersonic expansion with gas mixtures of O₂, N₂O, and He. Both a- and b-type transitions are observed. The effective Hamiltonian for an open-shell complex consisting of a diatomic molecule in a ³Σ electronic state and a closed-shell partner is used to analyze the observed spectrum. Molecular constants in the vibrationally excited state are determined accurately. The band-origin of the spectrum is determined to be 1284.7504(25) cm^-1, red-shifted from that of the N₂O monomer by ～ 0.1529 cm^-1.     

Topological String in Quantum-Chromodynamical Chiral Phase Transitions

It is pointed out that if in heavy ion collision processes, the quark-gluon plasma SU(2) chiral phase transition really takes place and the phase transition is a second order. Then the topological string, i.e., the π string, will be formed. The main effect of this phenomenon is that there will be a number of pions produced by decay of the π string in the final state. The pions from the decay of the π string lead to the same effect of decreasing the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss peak in two-pion spectra which is just as that of the long-lived hadronic resonances.At relativistic heavy-ion collision and large hadron collision energies, it is expected that the factors are about α ∽ 0.7 - 0.9 and α ∽ 0.6 - 0.85, respectively.     

Self-polarization emission based on coherent combination of intracavity eigenmodes in Nd:YAG/Cr~(4+):YAG lasers

The behavior of self-polarization emission in Nd∶Y₃Al₅O₁₂(YAG)=Cr⁴⁺∶YAG lasers has been proved in some cases.However,the degree and direction of polarization were often sensitive and unstable.We experimentally observed different beam profiles versus the angle of the polarizer relative to the polarization direction of the laser.In order to explore the polarization mechanism,the dynamics of intracavity polarized eigenmodes was analyzed theoretically.Simulative results were well consistent with our experimental observations.It indicated that the linear self-polarization emission was a composite state rather than an intrinsic state.This study contributed to the improvement of the polarization stability in Nd∶YAG=Cr⁴⁺∶YAG passively Q-switched lasers.