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The process of $e^+e^-$ production in the superposition of a Coulomb and a strong laser field is considered. The pair production rate integrated over the momentum and summed over the spin projections of one of the particles is derived…

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The anisotropy of angular distributions of emitted nucleons and light charged particles for the asymmetric reaction system, $^{40}$Ar+$^{197}$Au, at b=6fm and $E_{beam}$=35, 50 and 100MeV/u, are investigated by using the Improved Quantum…

Understanding tunneling from an atomically sharp tip to a metallic surface requires to account for interactions on a nanoscopic scale. Inelastic tunneling of electrons generates emission of photons, whose energies intuitively should be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 F. Xu , C. Holmqvist , W. Belzig

Using the strong electromagnetic fields in peripheral heavy ion collisions gives rise to a number of interesting possibilities of applications in both photon-photon and photon-hadron physics. We look at the theoretical foundations of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kai Hencken

Electron-positron pair production in low-energy collisions of heavy nuclei is considered beyond the monopole approximation. The calculation method is based on the numerical solving of the time-dependent Dirac equation with the full…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 I. A. Maltsev , V. M. Shabaev , R. V. Popov , Y. S. Kozhedub , G. Plunien , X. Ma , Th. Stöhlker

We have discovered a novel feature in the plasmon excitations for a pair of Coulomb-coupled non- concentric spherical two-dimensional electron gases (S2DEGs). Our results show that the plasmon excitations for such pairs depend on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Antonios Balassis , Danhong Huang

A theoretical investigation of the radiative capture of an electron into a bound state of heavy, hydrogen-like ion is presented. Special attention is paid to the question of how the linear polarization of the emitted radiation is affected…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Surzhykov , A. N. Artemyev , V. A. Yerokhin

In the collision of two heavy ions, the strong repulsion coming from the Coulomb field is enough to produce $e^+e^-$ pair(s) from vacuum fluctuations. The energy is provided by the kinetic energy of the ions and the Coulomb interaction at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-20 T. Settlemyre , H. Zheng , A. Bonasera

The effect of an intense external linear polarized radiation field on the angular distributions and polarization states of the photons emitted during the radiative recombination is investigated. It is predicted, on symmetry grounds, and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Saverio Bivona , Giovanni Bonanno , Riccardo Burlon , Claudio Leone

Intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions can produce a spin polarization of the projectile-like species. Spin polarization has been observed for both nucleon removal and nucleon pickup processes. Qualitative agreement with measured spin…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 D. E. Groh , J. S. Pinter , P. F. Mantica , T. J. Mertzimekis , A. E. Stuchbery , D. T. Khoa

Coulomb repulsion between two moving electrons loses its spherical symmetry due to relativistic effects. In presence of a uniform positive ion background this asymmetry uncovers an angular dependent attraction potential in the direction of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Raissi

A new method for calculations of electron-positron pair-creation probabilities in low-energy heavy-ion collisions is developed. The approach is based on the propagation of all one-electron states via the numerical solving of the…

The coherent photons induced by relativistic heavy ions are highly linearly polarized, in close analogy to the linear polarization of gluons in a large nucleus. We proposed to measure the photon polarization through azimuthal asymmetries in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Ya-jin Zhou

Results are presented for simulations of electron-positron pair production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions leading to electron capture and positron ejection. We apply a two-center relativistic continuum distorted-wave model to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 R. J. S. Lee , J. V. Mullan , J. F. McCann , D. S. F. Crothers

Some recent theoretical results on coherent electromagnetic processes in ultrarelativistic heavy ion reactions are surveyed.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-12 A. J. Baltz

The polarization of direct photons produced in an ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collision reflects the momentum anisotropy of the quark-gluon plasma created in the collision. This paper presents a general framework, based on the photon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-19 Gordon Baym , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Michael Strickland

The presence of $\alpha$-clustered structure in the light nuclei produces different exotic shapes in nuclear structure studies at low energies. Recent phenomenological studies suggest that collision of heavy nuclei with $\alpha$-clustered…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-02 Pingal Dasgupta , Rupa Chatterjee , Guo-Liang Ma

A generalization of the recently discovered cooperative internal conversion process is investigated theoretically. In the cooperative internal conversion process by proton exchange investigated the coupling of bound-free electron and proton…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-19 Péter Kálmán , Tamás Keszthelyi

Coulomb interaction among electrons is found to have profound effects on the electronic properties of anisotropic quantum dots in a perpendicular external magnetic field, and in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Siranush Avetisyan , Pekka Pietiläinen , Tapash Chakraborty

We investigate heavy-ion multinucleon transfer reactions using the coupled-channels formalism. We first use the semi-classical approximation and show that a direct coupling between the entrance and the pair transfer channels improves a fit…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-11-25 Guillaume Scamps , Kouichi Hagino