Crystallization in the Thin and Ultrathin Films of Poly(ethylene-vinyl acetate) and Linear Low-Density Polyethylene
The crystallization of poly(ethylene−vinyl acetate) and linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) films spun-cast from the polymer/toluene solutions with as-cast thickness from 460 to 10 nm was studied. The lamellar thickness was measured using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and found to increase from 14 to 21 nm for films thinner than 100 nm. The morphology of LLDPE measured by scanning probe microscopy (SPM) showed an edge-on lamellae for the films thicker than 30 nm and flat-on lamellae for the films thinner than 15 nm. A pseudo-“shish-kebab” tiny crystal structure was observed in between the larger lamellae. Crystallinity was confirmed using attenuated total reflectance−Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy. The shear modulation force microscopy technique (SMFM) was used to measure the melting point, Tm, which was found to decrease for films thinner than 100 nm. The rate of decrease was a function of the annealing pr...

title: Localizing particles showering in a Spaghetti Calorimeter
abstract: We report on the performance of a fine-grained 13-ton compensating lead/scintillating-fiber calorimeter, and in particular on its capability of localizing the particles that produce showers in it. The RMS position resolution was found to be 1.7 mm for electromagnetic showers and 5.1 mm for hadronic showers at 80 GeV, averaged over a tower with an effective radius of 39 mm. Pion-pion separation through analysis of the energy deposit pattern was achieved in more than 95% of the cases for distances down to 8 cm at 80 GeV. Because of the good lateral position resolution, detailed information on the longitudinal shower development could be obtained, with the help of tracking information, when single particles entered the (longitudinally unsegmented) detector at a small angle with respect to the fiber axis. This information made it possible to eliminate the effects of light attenuation in the fibers on the hadronic energy resolution and allowed e/π separation at the 10−4 level.

title: Dipole and spin-dipole resonances in charge-exchange reactions on 12C.
abstract: The [sup 12]C([ital n],[ital p])[sup 12]B reaction was studied using the white neutron source at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility/Weapon Neutron Research Center with a continuous incident neutron energy from 60 to 260 MeV. Double differential cross sections were measured in the angular range 11[degree][le][theta][sub lab][le]37[degree]. Using the neutron time-of-flight facility at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, we also studied the [sup 12]C([ital p],[ital n])[sup 12]N reaction at [ital E][sub [ital p]]=186 MeV and the [sup 12]C([ital [rvec p]],[ital [rvec n]])[sup 12]N reaction at [ital E][sub [ital [rvec p]]]=160 and 186 MeV. Double differential cross sections were measured between [theta][sub lab]=0[degree] and [theta][sub lab]=50[degree] in 5[degree] steps. Spin observables [ital D][sub [ital N][ital N]], [ital A][sub [ital Y]], and [ital P] were measured at [theta][sub lab]=5[degree],9[degree],13[degree] with [ital E][sub [ital [rvec p]]]=160 MeV and [theta][sub lab]=15[degree],20[degree] with [ital E][sub [ital [rvec p]]]=186 MeV. Angular distributions of differential cross section and spin observables for low-lying transitions in the residual nuclei are compared with disorted-wave impulse approximation (DWIA) calculations. A multipole decomposition analysis was performed to study the giant dipole and giant spin-dipole resonances. The contributions of the quasifree reaction in the giant resonance region was subtracted. The empirical results ofmore » energy distributions for dipole ([Delta][ital L]=1) transition are compared with DWIA calculations using nuclear structure information obtained with a conventional shell model and also with a random phase approximation.« less

title: Experimental determination of the Hamiltonian for synchrotron motion with rf phase modulation.
abstract: Synchrotron motion with rf phase modulation was studied experimentally. Poincare maps in the resonant precessing frame were obtained from the experimental data and compared with the tori of the resonant Hamiltonian. Our experimental data revealed island structure in longitudinal phase space. Experimental results for synchrotron motion excited by phase modulation at the third harmonic of the synchrotron frequency are also reported.

title: Single-bunch instability estimates for the 1-nm APS storage ring upgrade with a smaller vacuum chamber
abstract: We recently studied a lattice achieving 1 -nm emittance at the APS storage ring . The successful design required very strong sextupoles in order to tune the machine to the desired positive chromaticity. A preliminary design of such magnets indicated saturation in the poles unless the vacuum chamber gets smaller by a factor of two compared to the existing APS chamber. Since the resistive wall impedance scales as 1/b3, where b is the radius of the chamber, we questioned how much current we can store in a single bunch at the 1-nm storage ring. In order to answer this question quantitatively, we calculated all wake potentials of impedance elements of the existing APS storage ring with the transverse dimension properly scaled but with the longitudinal dimension kept unchanged. With the newly calculated impedance of a smaller chamber, we estimated the single- bunch current limit. It turned out that the ring with a smaller chamber would not diminish the single-bunch current limit substantially. We present both wake potentials of 1-nm and the existing rings followed by the simulation results carried out for determining the accumulation limit to the ring.

title: Projectile fragmentation reactions of Ar-40 at 57 MeV/nucleon
abstract: The projectile fragmentation reactions of Ar-40 at 57 MeV/nucleon on Be-9 and Ta-181 targets have been studied by the Radioactive Ion Beam Line in Lanzhou (RIBLL) at the Heavy-Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL). The momentum distributions of fragments have been measured and the competition between different mechanisms are observed. The production cross sections have been obtained and compared with the empirical parametrization of fragmentation cross section (EPAX), abrasion-ablation (AA), and heavy-ion phase space exploration (HIPSE) models, and the target dependence of fragment cross sections has also been discussed

title: Alternative Kondo breakdown mechanism: Orbital-selective orthogonal metal transition
abstract: In a recent paper of Nandkishore, Metlitski, and Senthil , a concept of orthogonal metal has been introduced to reinterpret the disordered state of slave-spin representation in the Hubbard model as an exotic gapped metallic state. We extend this concept to study the corresponding quantum phase transition in the extended Anderson lattice model. It is found that the disordered state of slave spins in this model is an orbital-selective orthogonal metal, a generalization of the concept of the orthogonal metal in the Hubbard model. The quantum critical behaviors are multiscale and dominated by a z = 3 and z = 2 critical modes in the high-and low-temperature regime, respectively. Such behaviors are obviously in contrast to the naive expectation in the Hubbard model. The result provides alternative Kondo breakdown mechanism for heavy fermion compounds underlying the physics of the orbital-selective orthogonalmetal in the disordered state, which is different from the conventional Kondo breakdown mechanism with the fractionalized Fermi-liquid picture. This work is expected to be useful in understanding the quantum criticality happening in some heavy fermion materials and other related strongly correlated systems.

title: The beam energy measurement system for the Beijing electron-positron collider
abstract: The beam energy measurement system (BEMS) for the upgraded Beijing electron-positron collider BEPC-II is described. The system is based on measuring the energies of Compton back-scattered photons. The relative systematic uncertainty of the electron and positron beam energy determination is estimated as 2 ⋅ 10 − 5 .

title: Clarifying Forecasts of Dark Energy Constraints from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
abstract: The measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) from a galaxy redshift survey provides one of the most promising methods for probing dark energy. In this paper, we clarify the assumptions that go into the forecasts of dark energy constraints from BAO. We show that assuming a constant nP0.2/G (z) (where P0.2 is the real space galaxy power spectrum at k = 0.2 h/Mpc and redshift z) gives a good approximation of the observed galaxy number density expected from a realistic flux-limited galaxy redshift survey. We find that assuming nP0.2/G (z) = 10 gives very similar dark energy constraints to assuming nP0.2 = 3, but the latter corresponds to a galaxy number density larger by ∼ 70% at z = 2. We show how the Figure-of-Merit (FoM) for constraining dark energy depends on the assumed galaxy number density, redshift accuracy, redshift range, survey area, and the systematic errors due to calibration and uncertainties in the theory of nonlinear evolution and galaxy biasing. We find that an additive systematic noise of up to 0.4− 0.5% per ∆z = 0.1 redshift slice does not lead to significant decrease in the BAO FoM.

title: Development of multi-gap resistive plate chambers with low-resistive silicate glass electrodes for operation at high particle fluxes and large transported charges
abstract: Using electrodes made of semi-conductive glass is an innovative way of improving the rate capability of resistive plate chambers. To address this issue, we developed 6- and 10-gap counters with low-resistive silicate glass electrodes (bulk resistivity ∼10 10  Ω cm) suited for time-of-flight (TOF) applications at high rates and high transported charges. Measurements were performed at GSI-Darmstadt under uniform an irradiation by secondary particles stemming from proton reactions at 2.5 GeV/A. For the 10-gap MRPC, time resolutions below 90 ps and efficiencies larger than 90% were obtained at counting rates up to 25 kHz/cm 2 . When the particle flux increases every 5 kHz/cm 2 , the efficiency decreases by 1% and the time resolution deteriorates by 4 ps. A tolerable decrease of the material conductivity was also observed for a total transported charge of 1 C/cm 2 .

title: Robust constraints on dark energy and gravity from galaxy clustering data
abstract: Galaxy clustering data provide a powerful probe of dark energy. We examine how the constraints on the scaled expansion history of the Universe, xh(z) =H(z)s (with s denoting the sound horizon at the drag epoch), and the scaled angular diameter distance, xd(z) =DA(z)/s, depend on the methods used to analyse the galaxy clustering data. We find that using the observed galaxy power spectrum, Pobsg(k), xh(z) and xd(z) are measured more accurately and are significantly less correlated with each other, compared to using only the information from the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in Pobsg(k). Using the {xh(z), xd(z)} from Pobsg(k) gives a Dark Energy Task Force (DETF) dark energy figure of merit (FoM) approximately a factor of 2 larger than using the {xh(z), xd(z)} from BAO only; this provides a robust conservative method to go beyond BAO only in extracting dark energy information from galaxy clustering data. 
 
 
 
We find that a Stage IV galaxy redshift survey, with 0.7 < z < 2 over 15 000 (deg)2, can measure with high precision [where fg(z) and G(z) are the linear growth rate and factor of large-scale structure, respectively, and is the dimensionless normalization of Pobsg(k)], when redshift-space distortion information is included. The measurement of provides a powerful test of gravity, and significantly boosts the dark energy FoM when general relativity is assumed.