Astrophysics

Authors and titles for March 2005

[801] arXiv:nucl-ex/0503006 (cross-list from nucl-ex) [pdf, other]

Title: Trace Detection of Metastable Helium Molecules in Superfluid Helium by Laser-Induced Fluorescence

D. N. McKinsey, W. H. Lippincott, J. Nikkel, W. Rellergert

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Letters

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 95 (2005) 111101

Subjects: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Astrophysics (astro-ph); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[802] arXiv:nucl-th/0503061 (cross-list from nucl-th) [pdf, other]

Title: Extension of the CEM2k and LAQGSM Codes to Describe Photo-Nuclear Reactions

S. G. Mashnik, M. I. Baznat, K. K. Gudima, A. J. Sierk, R. E. Prael

Comments: 44 pages, LaTeX, 18 figures, extended version of the talk given at the ICRS-10/RPS2004 Int. Conf., Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, May 9-14, 2004; includes a review of relevant experimental data

Subjects: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

[803] arXiv:physics/0503029 (cross-list from physics.plasm-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Dust acoustic wave in a strongly magnetized pair-dust plasma

P. K. Shukla, M. Marklund

Comments: 6 pages, revtex4

Journal-ref: Physica Scripta T113, 36 (2004)

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[804] arXiv:physics/0503042 (cross-list from physics.flu-dyn) [pdf, other]

Title: Acoustic black holes

Vitor Cardoso

Comments: 13 pages, 9 Figures, ReVTeX4. Based on a talk delivered at the Fifth Meeting on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics (Faro, Portugal, 8-10 January 2005). Updated references and overall improvement

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[805] arXiv:physics/0503045 (cross-list from physics.ins-det) [pdf, other]

Title: Thermal Equilibrium Calorimeters -- An Introduction

Dan McCammon

Comments: 32 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables

Journal-ref: "Cryogenic Particle Detection", Christian Enss (ed.), Topics in Applied Physics 99, (Springer; Berlin 2005) pp 1-34

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[806] arXiv:physics/0503064 (cross-list from physics.space-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: The Transition from Anti-Parallel to Component Magnetic Reconnection

M. Swisdak, J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay, J. G. McIlhargey

Comments: To be published in JGR

Subjects: Space Physics (physics.space-ph); Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[807] arXiv:physics/0503086 (cross-list from physics.ins-det) [pdf, other]

Title: Semiconductor Thermistors

Dan McCammon

Comments: 25 pages, 21 figures

Journal-ref: Appl.Phys.99:35-61,2005

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[808] arXiv:physics/0503122 (cross-list from physics.optics) [pdf, other]

Title: A Millimeter-Wave Achromatic Half Wave Plate

S. Hanany, J. Hubmayr, B. R. Johnson, T. Matsumura, P. Oxley, M. Thibodeau (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota/Twin Cities)

Comments: In print - Applied Optics, 14 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[809] arXiv:physics/0503217 (cross-list from physics.flu-dyn) [pdf, other]

Title: Variational description of multi-fluid hydrodynamics: Coupling to gauge fields

Reinhard Prix

Comments: 16 pages; to appear in Phys.Rev.D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 083006

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Astrophysics (astro-ph); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)

[810] arXiv:physics/0503245 (cross-list from physics.pop-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Neutron Stars

Gordon Baym, Frederick K. Lamb

Comments: Encyclopedia of Physics 3rd ed., R.G. Lerner and G.L. Trigg, eds., Wiley-VCH, Berlin. This revision updates numbers and a reference

Subjects: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph); Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[811] arXiv:quant-ph/0503001 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Testing Gravity-Driven Collapse of the Wavefunction via Cosmogenic Neutrinos

Joy Christian (Perimeter and Oxford)

Comments: 4 pages; RevTeX4; Essentially the version published in PRL

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 95 (2005) 160403

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)