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Purpose - The purpose of this work is to determine dependence of the separative power of the Iguassu gas centrifuge (GC) on the velocity of the rotor. Design/methodology/approach - The dependence is determined by means of computer…
Linear waves are investigated in a rotating gas under the condition of strong centrifugal acceleration of the order $10^6 g$ realized in gas centrifuges for separation of uranium isotopes. Sound waves splits into three families of the waves…
The subject of uranium isotope separation by the use of gas cenrifuges is a very active one. I present the physics of this process and some of its history.
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A general method of separating isotopes by centrifuging dissolved chemical compounds in a liquid solution is introduced. This technique can be applied to almost all elements and leads to large separation factors. The method has been…
The fusion evaporation-residue cross section for 32S+184W has been measured at beam energies of E_beam = 165, 174, 185, 196, 205, 215, 225, 236, 246,and 257 MeV using the ATLAS Fragment Mass Analyzer. The data are compared with Statistical…
In the fast rotating gas (with the velocity typical for Iguassu gas centrifuge) three families of linear waves exist with different polarizations and law of dispersion. The energy of the waves is basically concentrated at the axis of…
The proposed cyclotron gas-stopping scheme for the efficient thermalization of intense rare isotope beams is examined. Simulations expand on previous studies and expose many complications of such an apparatus arising from physical effects…
The dissipation rate due to inelastic collisions between equally charged, insulating particles in a granular gas is calculated. It is equal to the known dissipation rate for uncharged granular media multiplied by a Boltzmann-like factor,…
An upper bound is derived for $\Delta$ for a cold dilute fluid of equal amounts of two species of fermion in the unitary regime $k_f a \to \infty$ (where $k_f$ is the Fermi momentum and $a$ the scattering length, and $\Delta$ is a pairing…
We derive the exact formula for thermal-equilibrium spacing distribution of one-dimensional particle gas with repulsive potential depending on the distance r between the neighboring particles. We are focused on the power-law potentials…
The condensation energy of the homogeneous electron gas is calculated within the density functional theory for superconductors. Purely electronic considerations include the exchange energy exactly and the correlation energy on a level of…
Nuclear energy released by splitting Uranium and Thorium isotopes into two, three, four, up to eight fragments with nearly equal size are studied. We found that the energy released come from equally splitting the $^{235,238}$U and…
The resistivity as function of temperature of high temperature superconductors is very unusual and despite its importance lacks an unified theoretical explanation. It is linear with the temperature for overdoped compounds but it falls more…
We derive the exact formula for thermal-equilibrium spacing distribution of one-dimensional particle gas with repulsive potential V(r)=r^(-a) (a>0) depending on the distance r between the neighboring particles. The calculated distribution…
We derive the elastic collision rate for a harmonically-trapped Fermi gas in the extreme unitarity limit where the s-wave scattering cross section is $\sigma (k) =4\pi/k^2$, with $\hbar k$ the relative momentum. The collision rate is given…
We use an optical centrifuge to excite coherent rotational wave packets in N$_2$O, CS$_2$ and OCS molecules with rotational quantum numbers reaching up to J=465, 690 and 1186, respectively. Time-resolved rotational spectroscopy at such…
The estimation of differential energy loss for charged particles in tracker detectors is studied. The robust truncated mean method can be generalized to the linear combination of the energy deposit measurements. The optimized weights in…
We analyze the universality of the Unitary Fermi Gas in its ground state from a Wilsonian renormalization point of view and compute the effective range dependence of the Bertsch parameter $\xi$ exactly. To this end we construct an effective…
A gas-filled reverse cyclotron for the thermalisation of energetic beams is under construction at NSCL/MSU. Rare isotopes produced via projectile fragmentation after in-flight separation will be injected into the device and converted into…