scholarly journals Coulomb screening correction to the Q value of the triple-alpha process in thermal plasmas

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lai Hnin Phyu ◽  
H Moriya ◽  
W Horiuchi ◽  
K Iida ◽  
K Noda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Wave ◽  
Finite Size ◽  
Thermal Plasmas ◽  
Finite Size Effect ◽  
Debye Screening Length ◽  
Hoyle State ◽  
Q Value ◽  
Weakly Coupled ◽  
Triple Alpha ◽  
Three Body

Abstract The triple-alpha reaction is key to $^{12}$C production and is expected to occur in weakly coupled thermal plasmas as encountered in normal stars. We investigate how Coulomb screening affects the structure of a system of three alpha particles in such a plasma environment by precise three-body calculations within the Debye–Hückel approximation. A three-alpha model that has the Coulomb interaction modified in the Yukawa form is employed. Precise three-body wave functions are obtained by a superposition of correlated Gaussian basis with the aid of the stochastic variational method. The energy shifts of the Hoyle state due to the Coulomb screening are obtained as a function of the Debye screening length. The results, which automatically incorporate the finite-size effect of the Hoyle state, are consistent with the conventional result based on the Coulomb correction to the chemical potentials of ions that are regarded as point charges in a weakly coupled thermal plasma. We have given a theoretical basis to the conventional point-charge approach to the Coulomb screening problem relevant for nuclear reactions in normal stars by providing the first evaluation of the Coulomb corrections to the $Q$ value of the triple-alpha process that produces a finite-size Hoyle state.

scholarly journals Horizon radiation reaction forces

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter D. Goldberger ◽  
Ira Z. Rothstein
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Equations Of Motion ◽  
Finite Size ◽  
Radiation Reaction ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Compact Objects ◽  
Finite Size Effect ◽  
Binary Black Holes ◽  
Dissipative Effects ◽  
Reaction Forces

Abstract Using Effective Field Theory (EFT) methods, we compute the effects of horizon dissipation on the gravitational interactions of relativistic binary black hole systems. We assume that the dynamics is perturbative, i.e it admits an expansion in powers of Newton’s constant (post-Minkowskian, or PM, approximation). As applications, we compute corrections to the scattering angle in a black hole collision due to dissipative effects to leading PM order, as well as the post-Newtonian (PN) corrections to the equations of motion of binary black holes in non-relativistic orbits, which represents the leading order finite size effect in the equations of motion. The methods developed here are also applicable to the case of more general compact objects, eg. neutron stars, where the magnitude of the dissipative effects depends on non-gravitational physics (e.g, the equation of state for nuclear matter).

scholarly journals Theoretical Investigation of the Size Effect on the Oxygen Adsorption Energy of Coinage Metal Nanoparticles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir H. Hakimioun ◽  
Elisabeth M. Dietze ◽  
Bart D. Vandegehuchte ◽  
Daniel Curulla-Ferre ◽  
Lennart Joos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Size Effect ◽  
Adsorption Energy ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Finite Size ◽  
Geometry Optimization ◽  
Oxygen Adsorption ◽  
Finite Size Effect ◽  
Full Geometry Optimization ◽  
Coinage Metal

AbstractThis study evaluates the finite size effect on the oxygen adsorption energy of coinage metal (Cu, Ag and Au) cuboctahedral nanoparticles in the size range of 13 to 1415 atoms (0.7–3.5 nm in diameter). Trends in particle size effects are well described with single point calculations, in which the metal atoms are frozen in their bulk position and the oxygen atom is added in a location determined from periodic surface calculations. This is shown explicitly for Cu nanoparticles, for which full geometry optimization only leads to a constant offset between relaxed and unrelaxed adsorption energies that is independent of particle size. With increasing cluster size, the adsorption energy converges systematically to the limit of the (211) extended surface. The 55-atomic cluster is an outlier for all of the coinage metals and all three materials show similar behavior with respect to particle size. Graphic Abstract

scholarly journals Electromagnetic transition form factors of baryons in a relativistic Faddeev approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 181 ◽  
pp. 01013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinhard Alkofer ◽  
Christian S. Fischer ◽  
Hèlios Sanchis-Alepuz
Keyword(s):  
Ground State ◽  
Bound States ◽  
Body Wave ◽  
Form Factors ◽  
Wave Functions ◽  
Electromagnetic Form Factors ◽  
Transition Form ◽  
Electromagnetic Transition ◽  
Three Body ◽  
Gluon Interaction

The covariant Faddeev approach which describes baryons as relativistic three-quark bound states and is based on the Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations of QCD is briefly reviewed. All elements, including especially the baryons’ three-body-wave-functions, the quark propagators and the dressed quark-photon vertex, are calculated from a well-established approximation for the quark-gluon interaction. Selected previous results of this approach for the spectrum and elastic electromagnetic form factors of ground-state baryons and resonances are reported. The main focus of this talk is a presentation and discussion of results from a recent investigation of the electromagnetic transition form factors between ground-state octet and decuplet baryons as well as the octet-only Σ0 to Λ transition.

scholarly journals Finite-size effect of critical penetration of Pearl vortices in narrow superconducting flat rings

2019 ◽  
Vol 125 (22) ◽  
pp. 223906 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Kokubo ◽  
S. Okayasu ◽  
T. Nojima
Keyword(s):  
Size Effect ◽  
Finite Size ◽  
Finite Size Effect

A COMPLETE VARIATIONAL WAVE FUNCTION FOR THE GROUND STATE OF 3H AND 3He

1966 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 2095-2110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Banville ◽  
P. D. Kunz
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Coordinate System ◽  
Body Wave ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Minimum Energy ◽  
Equal Mass ◽  
Radial Coordinate ◽  
Orthogonal Functions ◽  
Gaussian Shape ◽  
Three Body

The three-body wave function for particles of equal mass is expanded in a systematic way by making use of a hyperspherical coordinate system. Apart from the center-of-mass coordinates, three of the variables are the usual Euler angles describing the orientation of the plane defined by the three particles. The other three variables, which describe the shape of the triangle, are represented in terms of a radial coordinate and two angular coordinates. The kinetic energy for these last three coordinates is separable and allows one to expand the three-body wave function in a complete set of orthogonal functions based upon the angular variables. The particular symmetry of the internal part of the wave function under permutations of the three particles is easily represented in terms of the set of functions for one of the angular variables. By choosing a particular set of radial functions one can then obtain the upper limit on the binding energy for the three-body system through the Rayleigh–Ritz variational procedure. The advantage of this particular coordinate system is that all but a few of the variational parameters occur linearly in the wave function, and the minimum energy can be obtained by diagonalizing a small number of the energy matrices. The method is applied to find the lower limit to a standard spin-independent potential of Gaussian shape.

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