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The radiative capture process n+p-> d+gamma provides clear evidence for meson exchange currents in nuclear physics. We compute this process at low energies using a recently developed power counting for the effective field theory that…
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We present describe a new computer code that solves the radiative transfer problem on multi-resolution grids. If the cloud model is from an MHD simulation on a regular cartesian grid, criteria based for example on local density or velocity…
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A general problem arising in computer simulations is the number of material and device parameters, which have to be determined by dedicated experiments and simulation-based parameter extraction. In this study we analyze measurements of the…
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