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This article presents an introduction to optical pumping, atomic polarization and the Hanle effect in weakly magnetized stellar atmospheres. Although the physical processes and the theoretical framework described here are of interest for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Javier Trujillo-Bueno

The influence of the strong laser-driven vacuum on a propagating electromagnetic probe wave has been studied in detail. We investigate two scenarios comprising a focused probe laser beam passing through a region of vacuum polarised by an…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-30 B. King , A. Di Piazza , C. H. Keitel

General properties of the differential cross section and of the polarization observables are derived for the $e^++e^-\to N+\bar N$ reaction, in presence of two--photon exchange. Polarization effects are investigated for longitudinally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. I. Gakh , E. Tomasi-Gustafsson

With an eye on dust particles immersed into an ionized gas, we study the effect of a negative charge on the scattering of light by a dielectric particle with a strong transverse optical phonon resonance in the dielectric constant. Surplus…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. L. Heinisch , F. X. Bronold , H. Fehske

Photovoltaic effect of neutral atoms using inhomogeneous light in double-trap opened system is studied theoretically. Using asymmetric external driving field to replacing original asymmetric chemical potential of atoms, we create…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Wenxi Lai , Jinyan Niu , Yu-Quan Ma , W. M. Liu

Polarization observables for the reaction $\bar p+p\to e^++e^-$ are given in terms of three independent complex amplitudes, in presence of two photon exchange. General expressions for the differential cross section and the polarization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 G. I. Gakh , E. Tomasi--Gustafsson

The optical Faraday effect describes the rotation of linear polarization upon propagation through a medium in the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field. The effect arises from a different phase delay between the right and left handed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-09 Colin Greenshields , Robert L. Stamps , Sonja Franke-Arnold

Kinetics of polarized photoluminescence of the negatively charged InP quantum dots in weak magnetic field is studied experimentally. Effect of both the nuclear spin fluctuations and the dynamical nuclear polarization on the electron spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Ignatiev , S. Yu. Verbin , I. Ya. Gerlovin , W. Maruyama , B. Pal , Y. Masumoto

Parity-violating electron-scattering provides a largely model independent way of measuring neutron densities in nuclei that has important implications for the structure of nuclei and neutron stars. In this paper we calculate radiative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 Brendan T. Reed , C. J. Horowitz

We estimate the ratios of bare astrophysical S-factors at zero incident energy for proton and deuteron induced reactions in a model which assumes a compound nucleus formation probability plus a statistical decay. The obtained ratios agree…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sachie Kimura , Aldo Bonasera

The effects of the Dirac sea of the nucleons are investigated within a covariant model of the hadronic interaction. We extend the usual Mean Field Approximation and present a procedure to deal with divergences which are proportional to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-18 R. M. Aguirre

We explore the influence of elliptical polarization on the (non)sequential two-photon double ionization of atomic helium with ultrashort extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light fields using time-dependent full ab-initio simulations. The energy and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Stefan Donsa , Iva Brezinova , Hongcheng Ni , Johannes Feist , Joachim Burgdörfer

The phenomenon of quantum vacuum polarization in the presence of a gravitational field is well understood and is expected to have a physical reality, but studies of its back-reaction on the dynamics of spacetime are practically non-existent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-08 Raúl Carballo-Rubio

We discuss the experimental techniques used to date for measuring the changes in polarization state of a laser produced by a strong transverse magnetic field acting in a vacuum. We point out the likely artifacts that can arise in such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-10-10 Christopher C. Davis , Joseph Harris , Robert W. Gammon , Igor I. Smolyaninov , Kyuman Cho

The process of $\nu \bar{\nu}$ radiation due to interaction of electrons with phonons in the crust of a cooling neutron star is studied with the consistent account of an electromagnetic coupling between electrons in the medium. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 L. B. Leinson

The cross sections for the deep sub-barrier fusion reaction of light nuclei are calculated within the theoretical framework of the selective resonant tunneling model. In this model, assumption of a complex square-well nuclear potential is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Vinay Singh , Debasis Atta , Md. A. Khan , D. N. Basu

A polarized, internal electron target gradually polarizes a proton beam in a storage ring. Here, we derive the spin-transfer cross section for $\vec e\,(p,\vec p\, )e$\ scattering. A recent measurement of the polarizing effect of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 C. J. Horowitz , H. O. Meyer

Laser-based searches of the yet unobserved vacuum birefringence might be sensitive for very light hypothetical particles carrying a tiny fraction of the electron charge. We show that, with the help of contemporary techniques, polarimetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-11 Selym Villalba-Chávez , Sebastian Meuren , Carsten Müller

The problem of estimating non-resonant astrophysical S-factors and thermonuclear reaction rates, based on measured nuclear cross sections, is of major interest for nuclear energy generation, neutrino physics, and element synthesis. Many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Christian Iliadis , Kevin Anderson , Alain Coc , Frank Timmes , Sumner Starrfield

Under quite generic assumptions the general expression is derived for the probability of circularly polarized photon emission from the longitudinally polarized electron and for the probability of pair creation of longitudinally polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov