2015 Vol. 39, No. 1

Geometry of the effective Majorana neutrino mass in the 0νββ decay
XING Zhi-Zhong, ZHOU Ye-Ling
2015, 39(1): 011001. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/011001
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The neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay is a unique process used to identify the Majorana nature of massive neutrinos, and its rate depends on the size of the effective Majorana neutrino mass <m>ee. We put forward a novel ‘coupling-rod’ diagram to describe <m>ee in the complex plane, by which the effects of the neutrino mass ordering and CP-violating phases on <m>ee are intuitively understood. We show that this geometric language allows us to easily obtain the maximum and minimum of |<m>ee|. It remains usable even if there is a kind of new physics contributing to <m>ee, and it can also be extended to describe the effective Majorana masses <m>, <m>, <m>μμ, <m>μτ and <m>ττ which may appear in some other lepton-number violating processes.
Lepton number violation in D meson decay
DONG Hai-Rong, FENG Feng, LI Hai-Bo
2015, 39(1): 013101. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/013101
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The lepton number violation (LNV) process can be induced by introducing a fourth generation heavy Majorana neutrino, which is coupled to the charged leptons of the Standard Model (SM). There have been many previous studies on the leptonic number violating decay processes with this mechanism. We follow the trend to study the process: D → Kllπ with the same-sign dilepton final states. We restrict ourselves to certain neutrino mass regions, in which the heavy neutrino could be on-shell and the dominant contribution to the branching fraction comes from the resonance enhanced effect. Applying the narrow width approximation (NWA), we found that the upper limit for the branching fractions for D0 → K-l+l+π- are generally at the order of 10-12 to 10-9, if we take the most stringent upper limit bound currently available in the literature for the mixing matrix elements. We also provide the constraints, which is competitive compared to the LNV B decays, on the mixing matrix element |VeN|2 based on the upper limit of D0 → K- e+ e+ π- estimated from the Monte-Carlo (MC) study at BESⅢ. Although the constraints are worse than the ones from (0νββ) decay in the literature, the future experiment at the charm factory may yield more stringent constraints.
Multiquark cluster form factors in the relativistic harmonic oscillator model
WU Qing, ZHOU Li-Juan, XIANG Qian-Fei, MA Wei-Xing
2015, 39(1): 013102. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/013102
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A QCD multiquark cluster system is studied in the relativistic harmonic oscillator potential model (RHOPM), and the electromagnetic form factors of the pion, proton and deuteron in the RHOPM are predicted. The calculated theoretical results are then compared with existing experimental data, finding very good agreement between the theoretical predictions and experimental data for these three target particles. We claim that this model can be applied to study QCD hadronic properties, particularly neutron properties, and to find six-quark cluster and/or nine-quark cluster probabilities in light nuclei such as helium 3He and tritium 3H. This is a problem of particular importance and interest in quark nuclear physics.
Nuclear
Forward-backward multiplicity correlations of target fragments in nucleus-emulsion collisions at a few hundred MeV/u
ZHANG Dong-Hai, CHEN Yan-Ling, WANG Guo-Rong, LI Wang-Dong, WANG Qing, YAO Ji-Jie, ZHOU Jian-Guo, LI Rong, LI Jun-Sheng, LI Hui-Ling
2015, 39(1): 014001. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/014001
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The forward-backward multiplicity and correlations of a target evaporated fragment (black track particle) and target recoiled proton (grey track particle) emitted from 150 A MeV 4He, 290 A MeV 12C, 400 A MeV 12C, 400 A MeV 20Ne and 500 A MeV 56Fe induced different types of nuclear emulsion target interactions are investigated. It is found that the forward and backward averaged multiplicity of a grey, black and heavily ionized track particle increases with the increase of the target size. The averaged multiplicity of a forward black track particle, backward black track particle, and backward grey track particle do not depend on the projectile size and energy, but the averaged multiplicity of a forward grey track particle increases with an increase of projectile size and energy. The backward grey track particle multiplicity distribution follows an exponential decay law and the decay constant decreases with an increase of target size. The backward-forward multiplicity correlations follow linear law which is independent of the projectile size and energy, and the saturation effect is observed in some heavy target data sets.
Effect of tensor force on the density dependence of symmetryenergy within the BHF framework
WANG Pei, ZUO Wei
2015, 39(1): 014101. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/014101
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The effect of tensor force on the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy has been investigated within the framework of the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (BHF) approach. It is shown that the tensor force manifests its effect via the tensor 3SD1 channel. The density dependence of symmetry energy Esym turns out to be determined essentially by the tensor force from the π meson and ρ meson exchanges via the 3SD1 coupled channel. Increasing the strength of the tensor component due to the ρ-meson exchange tends to enhance the repulsion of the equation of state of symmetric nuclear matter and leads to the reduction of symmetry energy. The present results confirm the dominant role played by the tensor force in determining nuclear symmetry energy and its density dependence within the microscopic BHF framework.
Pre-neutron-emission mass distributions for reaction238U(n, f) up to 60 MeV
SUN Xiao-Jun, YU Cheng-Gang, WANG Ning, YANG Yong-Xu, PAN Cheng-Hua
2015, 39(1): 014102. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/014102
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The pre-neutron-emission mass distributions for reaction 238U(n, f) up to 60 MeV are systematically studied with an empirical fission potential model. The energy dependence of the peaks and valleys of the pre-neutron-emission mass distributions is described by an exponential form based on the newly measured data. The energy dependence of evaporation neutrons before scission is also considered, which plays a crucial role in the reasonable description of the mass distributions. The measured data of the pre-neutron-emission mass distributions for reaction 238U(n, f) are reasonably well reproduced up to 60 MeV. The mass distributions at unmeasured energies are also predicted using this approach.
particle and nuclear astrophysics and cosmology
Magnetized strange quark matter in a mass-density-dependent model
HOU Jia-Xun, PENG Guang-Xiong, XIA Cheng-Jun, XU Jian-Feng
2015, 39(1): 015101. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/015101
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We investigate the properties of strange quark matter (SQM) in a strong magnetic field with quark confinement by the density dependence of quark masses considering the total baryon number conservation, charge neutrality and chemical equilibrium. It is found that an additional term should appear in the pressure expression to maintain thermodynamic consistency. At fixed density, the energy density of magnetized SQM varies with the magnetic field strength. By increasing the field strength an energy minimum exists located at about 6×1019 Gauss when the density is fixed at two times the normal nuclear saturation density.
Detection Technology , Electronics and Methods
Influence of thermal and resonance neutron on fast neutron flux measurement by 239Pu fission chamber
ZENG Li-Na, WANG Qiang, SONG Ling-Li, ZHENG Chun
2015, 39(1): 016001. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/016001
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The 239Pu fission chambers are widely used to measure fission spectrum neutron flux due to a flat response to fast neutrons. However, in the meantime the resonance and thermal neutrons can cause a significant influence on the measurement if they are moderated, which could be eliminated by using 10B and Cd covers. At a column enriched uranium fast neutron critical assembly, the fission reaction rates of 239Pu are measured as 1.791× 10-16, 2.350×10-16 and 1.385× 10-15 per second for 15 mm thick 10B cover, 0.5 mm thick Cd cover, and no cover respectively, while the fission reaction rate of 239Pu is rapidly increased to 2.569× 10-14 for a 20 mm thick polythene covering fission chamber. The average 239Pu fission cross-section of thermal and resonance neutrons is calculated to be 500 b and 24.95 b with the assumption of 1/v and 1/E spectra respectively, then thermal, resonance and fast neutron flux are achieved to be 2.30× 106, 2.24× 106 and 1.04× 108 cm-2·-1.
Physical design and Monte Carlo simulations of a space radiation detector onboard the SJ-10 satellite
LIU Ya-Qing, WANG Huan-Yu, CUI Xing-Zhu, PENG Wen-Xi, FAN Rui-Rui, LIANG Xiao-Hua, GAO Ming, ZHANG Yun-Long, ZHANG Cheng-Mo, ZHANG Jia-Yu, YANG Jia-Wei, WANG Jin-Zhou, ZHANG Fei, DONG Yi-Fan, GUO Dong-Ya, ZHOU Da-Wei
2015, 39(1): 016002. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/016002
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A radiation gene box (RGB) onboard the SJ-10 satellite is a device carrying mice and drosophila cells to determine the biological effects of space radiation environment. The shielded fluxes of different radioactive sources were calculated and the linear energy transfers of γ-rays, electrons, protons and α-particles in the tissue were acquired using A-150 tissue-equivalent plastic. Then, a conceptual model of a space radiation instrument employing three semiconductor sub-detectors for deriving the charged and uncharged radiation environment of the RGB was designed. The energy depositions in the three sub-detectors were classified into 15 channels (bins) in an algorithm derived from the Monte Carlo method. The physical feasibility of the conceptual instrument was also verified by Monte Carlo simulations.
Measurement of the liquid scintillator nonlinear energy response to electron
ZHANG Fei-Hong, YU Bo-Xiang, HU Wei, YANG Ma-Sheng, CAO Guo-Fu, CAO Jun, ZHOU Li
2015, 39(1): 016003. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/016003
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Nonlinearity of the liquid scintillator energy response is a key to measuring the neutrino energy spectrum in reactor neutrino experiments such as Daya Bay and JUNO. We measured the nonlinearity of the linear alkyl benzene based liquid scintillator in the laboratory, which is used in Daya Bay and will be used in JUNO, via the Compton scattering process. By tagging the scattered gamma from the liquid scintillator sample simultaneously at seven angles, the instability of the system was largely cancelled. The accurately measured nonlinearity will improve the precision of the θ13, Δm2, and reactor neutrino spectrum measurements at Daya Bay.
Study of the dose rate effect of 180 nm nMOSFETs
HE Bao-Ping, YAO Zhi-Bin, SHENG Jiang-Kun, WANG Zu-Jun, HUANG Shao-Yan, LIU Min-Bo, XIAO Zhi-Gang
2015, 39(1): 016004. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/016004
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Radiation induced offstate leakage in the shallow trench isolation regions of SIMC 0.18 μm nMOSFETs is studied as a function of dose rate. A "true" dose rate effect (TDRE) is observed. Increased damage is observed at low dose rate (LDR) than at high dose rate (HDR) when annealing is taken into account. A new method of simulating radiation induced degradation in shallow trench isolation (STI) is presented. A comparison of radiation induced offstate leakage current in test nMOSFETs between total dose irradiation experiments and simulation results exhibits excellent agreement. The investigation results imply that the enhancement of the leakage current may be worse for the dose rate encountered in the environment of space.
Accelerator
Generating 10-40 MeV high quality monoenergetic electron beams using a 5 TW 60 fs laser at Tsinghua University
HUA Jian-Fei, YAN Li-Xin, PAI Chih-Hao, ZHANG Chao-Jie, LI Fei, WAN Yang, WU Yi-Peng, XU Xin-Lu, DU Ying-Chao, HUANG Wen-Hui, CHEN Huai-Bi, TANG Chuan-Xiang, LU Wei
2015, 39(1): 017001. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/017001
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A unique facility for laser plasma physics and advanced accelerator research has recently been built at Tsinghua University. This system is based on a Tsinghua Thomson scattering X-ray source (TTX), which combines an ultrafast TW laser with a synchronized 45 MeV high brightness linac. In our recent laser wakefield acceleration experiments, we have obtained 10-40 MeV high quality monoenergetic electron beams by running the laser at 5 TW peak power. Under certain conditions a very low relative energy spread of a few percent can be achieved. Absolute charge calibration for three different scintillating screens has also been performed using the linac system.
High accuracy amplitude and phase measurements based on a double heterodyne architecture
ZHAO Dan-Yang, WANG Guang-Wei, PAN Wei-Min, SUN Yi, QIU Feng, ZHANG Juan, MI Zheng-Hui, LIN Hai-Ying, SHA Peng, WANG Qun-Yao, XU Bo, MA Qiang
2015, 39(1): 017002. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/017002
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In the digital low level RF (LLRF) system of a circular (particle) accelerator, the RF field signal is usually down converted to a fixed intermediate frequency (IF). The ratio of IF and sampling frequency determines the processing required, and differs in various LLRF systems. It is generally desirable to design a universally compatible architecture for different IFs with no change to the sampling frequency and algorithm. A new RF detection method based on a double heterodyne architecture for wide IF range has been developed, which achieves the high accuracy requirement of modern LLRF. In this paper, the relation of IF and phase error is systematically analyzed for the first time and verified by experiments. The effects of temperature drift for 16 h IF detection are inhibited by the amplitude and phase calibrations.
Theoretical analysis of BLM system for HLS Ⅱ
CHEN Yu-Kai, LI Yu-Xiong, LI Wei-Min, HE Li-Juan
2015, 39(1): 017003. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/017003
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Hefei Light Source (HLS) is being upgraded to HLS Ⅱ. Its emittance will be much lower than before, therefore the Touschek scattering will increase significantly and become the dominant factor of beam loss. So it is necessary to build a new beam loss monitoring (BLM) system that, in contrast to the old one, is able to obtain the quantity and position information of lost electrons. This information is useful in the commissioning, troubleshooting, and beam lifetime studying for HLS Ⅱ. This paper analyzes the distribution features of different kinds of lost electrons, introduces the operation parameters of the new machine and discusses how to choose proper monitoring positions. Based on these comprehensive analyses, a new BLM system for HLS Ⅱ is proposed.
Time-resolved energy spectrum measurement of a linear induction accelerator with the magnetic analyzer
WANG Yuan, JIANG Xiao-Guo, YANG Guo-Jun, CHEN Si-Fu, ZHANG Zhuo, WEI Tao, LI Jin
2015, 39(1): 017004. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/017004
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We recently set up a time-resolved optical beam diagnostic system. Using this system, we measured the high current electron beam energy in the accelerator under construction. This paper introduces the principle of the diagnostic system, describes the setup, and shows the results. A bending beam line was designed using an existing magnetic analyzer with a 300 mm-bending radius and a 60° bending angle at hard-edge approximation. Calculations show that the magnitude of the beam energy is about 18 MeV, and the energy spread is within 2%. Our results agree well with the initial estimates deduced from the diode voltage approach.
Effects of longitudinal parasitic modes on the beam dynamics for the ADS driving linac in China
CHENG Peng, PEI Shi-Lun, WANG Jiu-Qing, LI Zhi-Hui, TANG Jing-Yu
2015, 39(1): 017005. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/017005
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For the accelerator driven subcritical system (ADS) main linac in China, two families of superconducting elliptical radio frequency (RF) cavities will be used to accelerate the proton beam from 180 MeV to 1.5 GeV. When the proton beam traverses in the RF cavity, the excited parasitic modes, like high order modes (HOMs) and same order modes (SOMs), may drive the beam to become unstable and increase the cryogenic load, thus putting a limitation on the normal operation of the accelerator. In this paper, by using a numerical code SMD based on the ROOT environment, the effects of longitudinal parasitic modes on the beam dynamics for the ADS driving linac in China have been investigated systematically, while parasitic modes which increase cryogenic loss have not been included in this paper. Some conclusions concerning the beam energy ranging from 180 MeV to 1.5 GeV have been obtained.
Beam breakup simulation study for a high energy ERL
CHEN Si, HUANG Sen-Lin, LIU Ke-Xin, CHEN Jia-Er
2015, 39(1): 017006. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/017006
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The maximum beam current that can be accelerated in an energy recovery linac (ERL) can be severely limited by the transverse multi-pass beam breakup instability (BBU), especially in future ERL light sources with multi-GeV high energy beam energy and more than 100 mA average current. In this paper, the multi-pass BBU of such a high energy ERL is studied based on the simulation of a 3-GeV ERL light source that is proposed by KEK. This work is expected to provide a reference for future high energy ERL projects.
Synchrotron radiation,applications of nuclear techniquees,etc
A user-friendly nano-CT image alignment and 3D reconstruction platform based on LabVIEW
WANG Sheng-Hao, ZHANG Kai, WANG Zhi-Li, GAO Kun, WU Zhao, ZHU Pei-Ping, WU Zi-Yu
2015, 39(1): 018001. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/018001
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X-ray computed tomography at the nanometer scale (nano-CT) offers a wide range of applications in scientific and industrial areas. Here we describe a reliable, user-friendly, and fast software package based on LabVIEW that may allow us to perform all procedures after the acquisition of raw projection images in order to obtain the inner structure of the investigated sample. A suitable image alignment process to address misalignment problems among image series due to mechanical manufacturing errors, thermal expansion, and other external factors has been considered, together with a novel fast parallel beam 3D reconstruction procedure that was developed ad hoc to perform the tomographic reconstruction. We have obtained remarkably improved reconstruction results at the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility after the image calibration, the fundamental role of this image alignment procedure was confirmed, which minimizes the unwanted blurs and additional streaking artifacts that are always present in reconstructed slices. Moreover, this nano-CT image alignment and its associated 3D reconstruction procedure are fully based on LabVIEW routines, significantly reducing the data post-processing cycle, thus making the activity of the users faster and easier during experimental runs.
Optimization of single-step tapering amplitude and energy detuning for high-gain FELs
LI He-Ting, JIA Qi-Ka
2015, 39(1): 018101. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/018101
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We put forward a method to optimize the single-step tapering amplitude of undulator strength and initial energy tuning of electron beam to maximize the saturation power of high gain free-electron lasers (FELs), based on the physics of longitudinal electron beam phase space. Using the FEL simulation code GENESIS, we numerically demonstrate the accuracy of the estimations for parameters corresponding to the linac coherent light source and the Tesla test facility.
Monte Carlo simulation of carbon ion radiotherapy for the human eye
PANG Cheng-Guo, SU You-Wu, WANG Wen-Jun, LUO Xiao-Ming, XU Jun-Ku, LI Wu-Yuan, YUAN Jiao, YAO Ze-En
2015, 39(1): 018201. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/39/1/018201
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Carbon ion is the mostly common used particle in heavy ion radiotherapy. In this paper, the carbon ion dose in tumor treatment for human eye was calculated with FLUKA code. An 80 MeV/u carbon beam was irradiated into the human eye from two directions. The first was from the lateral-forward direction, which was a typical therapeutic condition. In this case, a maximum dose was deposited in the tumor volume. In the second a beam was irradiated into eyes from the forward direction to simulate a patient gazing directly into treatment beam during therapy, which may cause a certain medical accident. This method can be used for a treatment plan in heavy ion radiotherapy.