It has recently been established that the high-transition-temperature (high-Tc) superconducting state coexists with short-range charge-density-wave order and quenched disorder arising from dopants ...and strain. This complex, multiscale phase separation invites the development of theories of high-temperature superconductivity that include complexity. The nature of the spatial interplay between charge and dopant order that provides a basis for nanoscale phase separation remains a key open question, because experiments have yet to probe the unknown spatial distribution at both the nanoscale and mesoscale (between atomic and macroscopic scale). Here we report micro X-ray diffraction imaging of the spatial distribution of both short-range charge-density-wave 'puddles' (domains with only a few wavelengths) and quenched disorder in HgBa2CuO4 + y, the single-layer cuprate with the highest Tc, 95 kelvin (refs 26-28). We found that the charge-density-wave puddles, like the steam bubbles in boiling water, have a fat-tailed size distribution that is typical of self-organization near a critical point. However, the quenched disorder, which arises from oxygen interstitials, has a distribution that is contrary to the usually assumed random, uncorrelated distribution. The interstitial-oxygen-rich domains are spatially anticorrelated with the charge-density-wave domains, because higher doping does not favour the stripy charge-density-wave puddles, leading to a complex emergent geometry of the spatial landscape for superconductivity.
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Systematic measurements of the annihilation cross sections of low energy antinucleons were performed at CERN in the 80's and 90's. However the antiproton data on medium-heavy and heavy nuclear ...targets are scarce. The ASACUSA Collaboration at CERN has measured the antiproton annihilation cross section on carbon at 5.3 MeV: the value is (1.73 ± 0.25) barn. The result is compared with the antineutron experimental data and with the theoretical previsions.
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Abstract Background The epidemiology of the slightly radioactive contrast agent named Thorotrast presents a very long latency period between the injection and the development of the related ...pathologies. It is an example of the more general problem posed by a radioactive internal contaminant whose effects are not noteworthy in the short term but become dramatic in the long period. A point that is still to be explored is fluctuations (in space and time) in the localized absorption of radiation by the tissues. Methods A Monte Carlo simulation code has been developed to study over a 30-year period the daily absorption of α radiation by μm-sized portions of tissue placed at a distance of 0–100 μm from a model source, that approximates a compact thorium dioxide source in liver or spleen whose size is ≳ 20 μm . The biological depletion of the daughter nuclei of the thorium series is taken into account. The initial condition assumes chemically purified natural thorium. Results Most of the absorbed dose is concentrated in a 25-μm thick layer of tissue, adjacent to the source boundary. Fluctuations where a target region with a volume of 1 μm3 is hit by 3–5 α particles in a day or in a shorter period of time are relevant in a 1–10 μm thick layer of tissue adjacent to the source boundary, where their frequency is larger than the Poisson-law prediction.
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In multiband superconductivity, the case where the single electron hopping between different Fermi surface spots of different symmetry is forbidden by selection rules is recently attracting a large ...interest. The focus is addressed to superconductivity made of multiple condensates with different symmetry where the chemical potential crosses a 2.5 Lifshitz transition. This can now be investigated experimentally by fine-tuning of the chemical potential in the range of tens meV around a band edge using gate voltage control. We discuss here the case of a superconducting two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), at the interface between two insulating oxides confined within a slab of 5 nanometers thickness, where the electronic structure is made of subbands generated by quantum size effects. We obtain shape resonances in the superconducting gaps, characterisc gaps to Tc ratios and the BCS-BEC crossover in the upper subband for different pairing strength in the shallow Fermi surface, pointing toward the best configurations for enhanced superconductivity in 2DEG.
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I study hard collisions between unpolarized protons and antiprotons where a lepton-antilepton pair is detected in coincidence with a final proton-antiproton pair, and no more particles are ...produced, in the regime 10 GeV2 ≪
s
≪ 1000 GeV2 ,
M
> 4 GeV,
q
T
< 3 GeV/
c
. The present work is centered on azimuthal asymmetries. Because of momentum conservation, a Boer-Mulders term in the momentum distribution of a quark implies a balancing effect in the momentum distribution of some spectators. This produces azimuthal asymmetries of the final hadrons. To analyze this, I have organized a parton-level Monte Carlo generator where a standard cos(2
) -asymmetry of the dilepton distribution is produced, thanks to a soft rescattering process between an active quark coming from a hadron and a spectator antidiquark coming from the other hadron. This produces cos(2
) -asymmetries of the final hadron pair. Hadron and lepton asymmetries have the same size.
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Structural phase separation in AxFe2-ySe2 system has been studied by different experimental techniques, however, it should be important to know how the electronic uniformity is influenced, on which ...length scale the electronic phases coexist, and what is their spatial distribution. Here, we have used novel scanning photoelectron microscopy (SPEM) to study the electronic phase separation in KxFe2-ySe2, providing a direct measurement of the topological spatial distribution of the different electronic phases. The SPEM results reveal a peculiar interconnected conducting filamentary phase that is embedded in the insulating texture. The filamentary structure with a particular topological geometry could be important for the high Tc superconductivity in the presence of a phase with a large magnetic moment in AxFe2-ySe2 materials.
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Here a preliminary study is presented concerning the detection of the normally unseen Drell-Yan fragments, possible in the PANDA experiment. To work as a multi-purpose apparatus, this experiment ...will record all the particles produced in the collisions between the antiproton beam and the target, with a rather wide acceptance. So detecting Drell-Yan dileptons with or without analyzing the other fragments is just a matter of applying cutoffs in the data analysis stage. The distribution of the products of 50000 typical Drell-Yan events is here simulated using a well-known generator code (Pythia-8). The resulting distributions are inserted within the PANDA acceptance region to analyze the chances of missing some searched fragment combinations, or of confusing different sets of particles. The most interesting result is that, due to the reduced phase space, the produced states are much simpler than one could imagine: i) almost 50% of the events just consist of a dilepton plus a nucleon-antinucleon pair; ii) practically all events present a nucleon-antinucleon pair; iii) the number of light particles (photons over an infrared cutoff and pions) is pretty small. The presented simulations show that it is possible to study experimentally some, or some aspects, of the most relevant final states, with good statistics and precision.
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Light dark matter searches with positrons Battaglieri, M.; Bianconi, A.; Bisio, P. ...
The European physical journal. A, Hadrons and nuclei,
08/2021, Volume:
57, Issue:
8
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
We discuss two complementary strategies to search for light dark matter (LDM) exploiting the positron beam possibly available in the future at Jefferson Laboratory. LDM is a new compelling hypothesis ...that identifies dark matter with new sub-GeV “hidden sector” states, neutral under standard model interactions and interacting with our world through a new force. Accelerator-based searches at the intensity frontier are uniquely suited to explore it. Thanks to the high intensity and the high energy of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) beam, and relying on a novel LDM production mechanism via positron annihilation on target atomic electrons, the proposed strategies will allow us to explore new regions in the LDM parameters space, thoroughly probing the LDM hypothesis as well as more general hidden sector scenarios.
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The unpolarized and polarized Beam Charge Asymmetries (BCAs) of the
e
→
±
p
→
e
±
p
γ
process off unpolarized hydrogen are discussed. The measurement of BCAs with the CLAS12 spectrometer at the ...Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, using polarized positron and electron beams at 10.6 GeV is investigated. This experimental configuration allows to measure azimuthal and
t
-dependences of the unpolarized and polarized BCAs over a large
(
x
B
,
Q
2
)
phase space, providing a direct access to the real part of the Compton Form Factor (CFF)
H
. Additionally, these measurements confront the Bethe-Heitler dominance hypothesis and eventual effects beyond leading twist. The impact of potential positron beam data on the determination of CFFs is also investigated within a local fitting approach of experimental observables. Positron data are shown to strongly reduce correlations between CFFs and consequently improve significantly the determination of
R
e
H
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