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Electronically excited atoms or molecules may deexcite by emission of a secondary electron through an Auger-Meitner decay. This deexcitation process is typically considered to be exponential in time. This is strictly speaking, however, only…

In this paper the time evolution of a two-level atom in the presence of medium-assisted thermal field is explored through which, the formula of decay rate of an excited atom is generalized in two aspects. The obtained formula applies for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Gonouiezadeh Razieh , Hassan Safari

Light new particles can be emitted in decays of excited nuclear states. Experiments analyzing such transitions and incorporating high-resolution detectors can be sensitive to new MeV-scale physics at a level competitive with upcoming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-31 Jonathan Kozaczuk

General relativity is applied to the strong interaction; the nexus between the two being arrived at by constructing a line element having the Yukawa form, which is used to describe geometrically the classical dynamics of a particle moving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Vu B Ho

A kinetic theory is developed to describe radiating electrons whose motion is governed by the Lorentz-Dirac equation. This gives rise to a generalized Vlasov equation coupled to an equation for the evolution of the physical submanifold of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Noble , J. Gratus , D. A. Burton , D. A. Jaroszynski

In this review the basic interaction mechanisms of charged and neutral particles are presented. The ionization energy loss of charged particles is fundamental to most particle detectors and is therefore described in more detail. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Grupen

The radiative decay of the massive neutrino $\nu_i \rightarrow \nu_j \gamma$ is investigated in the framework of the Standard Model in external electromagnetic fields of various configurations: constant crossed field, constant uniform…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Gvozdev , N. V. Mikheev , L. A. Vassilevskaya

This paper presents a realistic model that describes radiation-matter interactions. This is achieved by a generalization of first quantization, where the Maxwell equations are interpreted as the electromagnetic component of the Schroedinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard A. Pakula

We establish the time decay rates of the solutions to the Cauchy problem for the two-species Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system near Maxwellians via a refined pure energy method. The negative Sobolev norms are shown to be preserved along time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Yanjin Wang

We derive the second-order post-Minkowskian solution for the small-deflection motion of test particles in the external field of the Kerr-Newman black hole via an iterative method. The analytical results are exhibited in the coordinate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Bo Yang , Chunhua Jiang , Wenbin Lin

Meta-stable dark sector particles decaying into electrons or photons may non-trivially change the Hubble rate, lead to entropy injection into the thermal bath of Standard Model particles and may also photodisintegrate light nuclei formed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-28 Marco Hufnagel , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Sebastian Wild

We study the process of neutrino decay to electron and $W$-boson in the external magnetic field using the semiclassical "worldline instanton" approach. Being interested only in the leading exponential factor, we make calculations in a toy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-02 Petr Satunin

A general approach to analyze the electrodynamics of nuclear matter in bulk is presented using the relativistic Thomas-Fermi equation generalizing to the case of $N \simeq (m_{\rm Planck}/m_n)^3$ nucleons of mass $m_n$ the approach well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Remo Ruffini , Michael Rotondo , She-Sheng Xue

A quantum mechanical method of calculation of bremsstrahlung spectra in alpha-decay of heavy nuclei with taking into account an angle between directions of the alpha-particle motion and the photon emission is presented. Dependence between…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-07-24 Sergei P. Maydanyuk , Sergei V. Belchikov

Original abstract: Consider the worldline of a charged particle in a static spacetime. Contraction of the time-translation Killing field with the retarded electromagnetic energy-momentum tensor gives a conserved electromagnetic energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Stephen Parrott

In practically all known till now methods of nuclear chronometry there were usually taken into account the life-times of only fundamental states of $\alpha$-radioactive nuclei. But in the processes of nuclear synthesis in stars and under…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 V. S. Olkhovsky , M. E. Dolinska

The skeleton conception of elementary particles is considered in the paper. Conventional particle dynamics is formulated in an unaccomplished form, which is adequate only in the continuous space-time geometry. The conventional differential…

General Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Yuri A. Rylov

In the present paper an example of entanglement between two different kinds of interacting particles, photons and electrons is analysed. The initial-value problem of the Schroedinger equation is solved non-perturbatively for the system of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Sandor Varro

The existing calculations of the nuclear matrix elements of the neutrinoless double $\beta$-decay differ by about a factor three. This uncertainty prevents quantitative interpretation of the results of experiments searching for this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. M. Bilenky , J. A. Grifols

At the present moment, there is an unresolved problem in the physics of cosmic rays. The problem concerns the origin of the ultrahigh energy cosmic rays. One of the possible mechanisms of the particle's birth with such energy is bound to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-05 M. A. Misyura