Physics

Authors and titles for July 2014

[501] arXiv:1407.6377 [pdf, other]

Title: Advanced LIGO Two-Stage Twelve-Axis Vibration Isolation and Positioning Platform. Part 1: Design and Production Overview

Fabrice Matichard, Brian Lantz, Kenneth Mason, Richard Mittleman, Benjamin Abbott, Samuel Abbott, Eric Allwine, Samuel Barnum, Jeremy Birch, Sebastien Biscans, Daniel Clark, Dennis Coyne, Dan DeBra, Ryan DeRosa, Stephany Foley, Peter Fritschel, Joseph A Giaime, Corey Gray, Gregory Grabeel, Joe Hanson, Michael Hillard, Jeffrey Kissel, Christopher Kucharczyk, Adrien Le Roux, Vincent Lhuillier, Myron Macinnis, Brian OReilly, David Ottaway, Hugo Paris, Michael Puma, Hugh Radkins, Celine Ramet, Mitchell Robinson, Laurent Ruet, Pradeep Sareen, Daivid Shoemaker, Andy Stein, Jeremy Thomas, Michael Vargas, Jimmy Warner

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[502] arXiv:1407.6391 [pdf, other]

Title: Effusive Atomic Oven Nozzle Design Using an Aligned Microcapillary Array

Ruwan Senaratne, Shankari V. Rajagopal, Zachary A. Geiger, Kurt M. Fujiwara, Vyacheslav Lebedev, David M. Weld

Comments: 4 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)

[503] arXiv:1407.6392 [pdf, other]

Title: Convective Ripening and Initiation of Rainfall

Michael Wilkinson

Comments: 6 pages, no figures

Subjects: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[504] arXiv:1407.6398 [pdf, other]

Title: Tunable axial potentials for atom chip waveguides

James A. Stickney, Brian Kasch, Eric Imhof, Bethany R. Kroese, Jonathon A.R. Crow, Spencer E. Olson, Matthew B. Squires

Comments: 9 Pages, 7 Figues

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 96, 053606 (2017)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[505] arXiv:1407.6419 [pdf, other]

Title: Accelerating Structure design and fabrication For KIPT and PAL XFEL

Mi Hou, Xiang He, Shilun Pei

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[506] arXiv:1407.6420 [pdf, other]

Title: Development of high-power and ultra-high-vacuum waveguide coupler working at C/X band

Xiang He, Fengli Zhao, Xiangjian Wang

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[507] arXiv:1407.6435 [pdf, other]

Title: Different sensing mechanisms in single wire and mat carbon nanotubes chemical sensors

P.L. Neumann, V.I. Obreczán, G. Dobrik, K. Kertész, E. Horváth, I.E. Lukács, L.P. Biró, Z.E. Horváth

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures,Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing 2014

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[508] arXiv:1407.6442 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring the Learning from Two-Stage Collaborative Group Exams

Joss Ives

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, submitted to the proceedings of the 2014 Physics Education Research Conferenc

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[509] arXiv:1407.6446 [pdf, other]

Title: Analytical Estimate of Phase Mixing Time of Longitudinal Akhiezer - Polovin Wave

Arghya Mukherjee, Sudip Sengupta

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[510] arXiv:1407.6467 [pdf, other]

Title: Proton Acceleration in Underdense Plasma by Ultraintense Laguerre-Gaussian Laser Pulse

Xiaomei Zhang, Baifei Shen, Lingang Zhang, Jiancai Xu, Xiaofeng Wang, Wenpeng Wang, Longqiong Yi, Yin Shi

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[511] arXiv:1407.6472 [pdf, other]

Title: Understanding deviations from ray optics at curved interfaces

Pia Adam, Jakob Kreismann, Martina Hentschel

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[512] arXiv:1407.6491 [pdf, other]

Title: First results with a microcavity plasma panel detector

R. Ball (1), M. Ben-Moshe (3), Y. Benhammou (3), R. Bensimon (3), J. W. Chapman (1), M. Davies (3), E. Etzion (3), C. Ferretti (1), P. S. Friedman (4), D. S. Levin (1), Y. Silver (3), R. L. Varner (2), C. Weaverdyck (1), B. Zhou (1), ((1) University of Michigan, Department of Physics, Ann Arbor, Michigan (2) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Physics Division, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (3) Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv, Israel. (4) Integrated Sensors, LLC, Ottawa Hills, Ohio)

Comments: Submitted to NIM

Journal-ref: Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A (2015), pp. 56-59

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[513] arXiv:1407.6500 [pdf, other]

Title: Electron-ion merged-beam experiments at heavy-ion storage rings

Stefan Schippers

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the 23 Conference on Applications of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI), 25-30 May 2014, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[514] arXiv:1407.6512 [pdf, other]

Title: Hydromagnetic quasi-geostrophic modes in rapidly rotating planetary cores

Elisabeth Canet, Chris Finlay, Alexandre Fournier

Journal-ref: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 229, April 2014, Pages 1-15, ISSN 0031-9201

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[515] arXiv:1407.6516 [pdf, other]

Title: Neganov-Luke amplified cryogenic light detectors for the background discrimination in neutrinoless double beta decay search with TeO$_{2}$ bolometers

M. Willers, F. v. Feilitzsch, A. Giuliani, A. Gütlein, A. Münster, J.-C. Lanfranchi, L. Oberauer, W. Potzel, S. Roth, S. Schönert, M. v. Sivers, S. Wawoczny, A. Zöller

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, revision for submission to JINST

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[516] arXiv:1407.6586 [pdf, other]

Title: A Review of High School Level Astronomy Student Research Projects over the last two decades

Michael T. Fitzgerald, Robert Hollow, Luisa M. Rebull, Lena Danaia, David H. McKinnon

Comments: Accepted for Publication in PASA. 26 pages

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[517] arXiv:1407.6589 [pdf, other]

Title: Truncation strategy for the series expressions in the advanced ENZ-theory of diffraction integrals

Sven van Haver, Augustus J. E. M. Janssen

Comments: 67 pages, 20 figures

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[518] arXiv:1407.6601 [pdf, other]

Title: Fast Neutron Detection with a Segmented Spectrometer

T. J. Langford, C. D. Bass, E. J. Beise, H. Breuer, D. K. Erwin, C. R. Heimbach, J. S. Nico

Comments: 15 pages, 9 figures, published in NIM A

Journal-ref: NIM A 771 (2015) 78-87

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[519] arXiv:1407.6613 [pdf, other]

Title: Angle-resolved time delay in photoemission

Jonas Wätzel, Andrey Moskalenko, Yaroslav Pavlyukh, Jamal Berakdar

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, submitted to J. Phys. B. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1310.2023

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[520] arXiv:1407.6618 [pdf, other]

Title: Is Bayes theorem applicable to all quantum states?

H. Razmi, J. Allahyari

Comments: 6 pages, Accepted for publication in Iranian Journal of Science and Technology A

Journal-ref: Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions A: Science, Vol. 41, Sept. 2017

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[521] arXiv:1407.6619 [pdf, other]

Title: Conservative relativity principle: Logical ground and analysis of relevant experiments

Alexander Kholmetskii, Tolga Yarman, Oleg Missevitch

Comments: Accepted to European Physical Journal Plus

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[522] arXiv:1407.6620 [pdf, other]

Title: Probe effects on time decays of coherent anti-Stokes Raman signals of isolated transitions

Michele Marrocco

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[523] arXiv:1407.6621 [pdf, other]

Title: Reaction-Diffusion Processes on Interconnected Scale-Free Networks

Antonios Garas

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 92, 020801 (2015)

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)

[524] arXiv:1407.6623 [pdf, other]

Title: Resonance effects in photoemission time delays

M. Sabbar, S. Heuser, R. Boge, M. Lucchini, T. Carette, E. Lindroth, L. Gallmann, C. Cirelli, U. Keller

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[525] arXiv:1407.6624 [pdf, other]

Title: Vanishing Dimensions in Four Dimensional Cosmology with Nonminimal Derivative Coupling of Scalar Field

Agus Suroso, Freddy P. Zen

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[526] arXiv:1407.6626 [pdf, other]

Title: Special relativity as classical kinematics of a particle with the upper bound on its speed. Part II. The general Lorentz transforrmation and the generalized velocity composition theorem

Alex Granik

Comments: 10 pages

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[527] arXiv:1407.6627 [pdf, other]

Title: Photoelectric effect induced by blackbody radiation: a theoretical analysis of a potential heat energy harvesting mechanism

Germano D'Abramo

Comments: 18 pages, 11 figures. Minor typos corrected. This is the most updated version of the original submission. Presented at the SSE Symposium on Advanced Energy Concepts Challenging the Second Law of Thermodynamics held on January 22, 2022

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)

[528] arXiv:1407.6633 [pdf, other]

Title: Kinematic dynamo induced by helical waves

Xing Wei

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)

[529] arXiv:1407.6635 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling radio communication blackout and blackout mitigation in hypersonic vehicles

Madhusudhan Kundrapu, John Loverich, Kristian Beckwith, Peter Stoltz, Alexey Shashurin, Michael Keidar

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[530] arXiv:1407.6656 [pdf, other]

Title: Fano collective resonance as complex mode in a two dimensional planar metasurface of plasmonic nanoparticles

Salvatore Campione, Domenico de Ceglia, Caner Guclu, Maria A. Vincenti, Michael Scalora, Filippo Capolino

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[531] arXiv:1407.6657 [pdf, other]

Title: Coalescence of bubbles and drops in an outer fluid

Joseph D. Paulsen, Rémi Carmigniani, Anerudh Kannan, Justin C. Burton, Sidney R. Nagel

Journal-ref: Nat. Commun. 5, 3182 (2014)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)

[532] arXiv:1407.6681 [pdf, other]

Title: Multicoloured Random Graphs: The Random Dynamics Program

Sam Tarzi

Comments: This is intended as the third of 3 documents

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[533] arXiv:1407.6688 [pdf, other]

Title: Dielectric laser acceleration of electrons in the vicinity of single and double grating structures - theory and simulations

John Breuer, Joshua McNeur, Peter Hommelhoff

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)

[534] arXiv:1407.6693 [pdf, other]

Title: Geometrical origins of contractility in disordered actomyosin networks

Martin Lenz

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, 5-page supplement

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. X 4, 041002 (2014)

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)

[535] arXiv:1407.6694 [pdf, other]

Title: Equivalence of two independent calculations of the higher order guiding center Lagrangian

F.I. Parra, I. Calvo, J.W. Burby, J. Squire, H. Qin

Comments: 6 pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Plasmas 21, 104506 (2014)

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[536] arXiv:1407.6704 [pdf, other]

Title: PIBM: Particulate immersed boundary method for fluid-particle interaction problems

Hao Zhang, F. Xavier Trias, Assensi Oliva, Dongmin Yang, Yuanqiang Tan, Shi Shu, Yong Sheng

Comments: 30 Pages, 15 figures

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[537] arXiv:1407.6720 [pdf, other]

Title: The use of Slater-type spinor orbitals in algebraic solution of two-center Dirac equation

A. Bagci, P. E. Hoggan

Comments: Number of pages is 10 with 3 tables and 1 figure

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 94, 013302 (2016)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[538] arXiv:1407.6724 [pdf, other]

Title: Toward polarized antiprotons: Machine development for spin-filtering experiments

C. Weidemann, F. Rathmann, H.J. Stein, B. Lorentz, Z. Bagdasarian, L. Barion, S. Barsov, U. Bechstedt, S. Bertelli, D. Chiladze, G. Ciullo, M. Contalbrigo, S. Dymov, R. Engels, M. Gaisser, R. Gebel, P. Goslawski, K. Grigoriev, G. Guidoboni, A. Kacharava, V. Kamerdzhiev, A. Khoukaz, A. Kulikov, A. Lehrach, P. Lenisa, N. Lomidze, G. Macharashvili, R. Maier, S. Martin, D. Mchedlishvili, H.O. Meyer, S. Merzliakov, M. Mielke, M. Mikirtychiants, S. Mikirtychiants, A. Nass, N.N. Nikolaev, D. Oellers, M. Papenbrock, A. Pesce, D. Prasuhn, M. Retzlaff, R. Schleichert, D. Schröer, H. Seyfarth, H. Soltner, M. Statera, E. Steffens, H. Stockhorst, H. Ströher, M. Tabidze, G. Tagliente, P. Thörngren Engblom, S. Trusov, Yu. Valdau, A. Vasiliev, P. Wüstner

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 18, 020101 (2015)

Subjects: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[539] arXiv:1407.6741 [pdf, other]

Title: Ultrahigh Resolution Spectroscopy Across the Visible to Infrared Spectrum Using Multi-Mode Interference in a Compact Tapered Fiber

Noel H. Wan, Fan Meng, Ren-Jye Shiue, Edward H. Chen, Tim Schröder, Dirk Englund

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[540] arXiv:1407.6749 [pdf, other]

Title: Modeling Multi-phase Flow using Fluctuating Hydrodynamics

Anuj Chaudhri, John B. Bell, Alejandro L. Garcia, Aleksandar Donev

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[541] arXiv:1407.6760 [pdf, other]

Title: Collapse and revival of electromagnetic cascades in focused intense laser pulses

A.A. Mironov, N.B. Narozhny, A.M. Fedotov

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[542] arXiv:1407.6770 [pdf, other]

Title: Diplomacy and science in the context of World War II: Arthur Compton's 1941 trip to Brazil

Olival Freire Junior, Indianara Silva

Journal-ref: Revista Brasileira de Historia, 34(67), 181-201, 2014

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[543] arXiv:1407.6773 [pdf, other]

Title: Petawatt laser absorption bounded

Matthew C. Levy, Scott C. Wilks, Max Tabak, Stephen B. Libby, Matthew G. Baring

Journal-ref: Nat. Commun. 5:4149 (2014)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[544] arXiv:1407.6786 [pdf, other]

Title: Transverse spin and momentum in two-wave interference

Aleksandr Y. Bekshaev, Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Franco Nori

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures, Supplementary Information, to appear in Phys. Rev. X

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. X 5, 011039 (2015)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[545] arXiv:1407.6797 [pdf, other]

Title: Circular birefringence in crystal optics

Richard J. Potton

Comments: 15 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[546] arXiv:1407.6809 [pdf, other]

Title: The influence of vacuum polarization on the Sherman function during elastic electron-nucleus scattering

D.H. Jakubassa-Amundsen

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures (including subfigures a,b)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[547] arXiv:1407.6821 [pdf, other]

Title: Seeding optimization for instantaneous volumetric velocimetry. Application to a jet in crossflow

Tristan Cambonie, Jean-Luc Aider

Comments: 35 pages, 19 figures, postprint version of an already published article

Journal-ref: Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Volume 56, May 2014, Pages 99 to 112

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Optics (physics.optics)

[548] arXiv:1407.6855 [pdf, other]

Title: Energy transfers in dynamos with small magnetic Prandtl numbers

Rohit Kumar, Mahendra K. Verma, Ravi Samtaney

Comments: 20 pages, 16 figures

Journal-ref: Journal of Turbulence, Vol. 16, 1114-1134 (2015)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[549] arXiv:1407.6856 [pdf, other]

Title: Patterned Rydberg excitation and ionisation with a spatial light modulator

R. M. W. van Bijnen, C. Ravensbergen, D. J. Bakker, G. J. Dijk, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, E. J. D. Vredenbregt

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: New J. Phys. 17 (2015) 023045

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[550] arXiv:1407.6865 [pdf, other]

Title: A critique of recent semi-classical spin-half quantum plasma theories

Govind S. Krishnaswami, Rajaram Nityananda, Abhijit Sen, Anantanarayanan Thyagaraja

Comments: 11 pages, To appear in Contributions to Plasma Physics. Minor correction on page 3 to electron spin magnetic moment

Journal-ref: Contrib. Plasma Phys. 55, No. 1, 3 - 11 (2015)

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)