We investigate the combined effect of neutron and proton superfluidities on the cooling of neutron stars whose cores consist of nucleons and electrons. We consider singlet-state pairing of protons and triplet-state pairing of neutrons in the cores of neutron stars. The critical superfluid temperatures Tc are assumed to depend on the density of matter. We study two types of neutron pairing with ...

The eigen frequencies of radial pulsations of neutron stars are calculated in a strong magnetic field. At low densities we use the magnetic BPS equation of state(EOS) similar to that obtained by Lai and Shapiro while at high densities the EOS obtained from the relativistic nuclear mean field theory is taken and extended to include strong magnetic field. It is found that magnetised neutron stars...

Nmi multilayers are used as supermirrors for neutron guides. These multilayers are submitted to neutron irradiation. In order to determine the effect of irradiation on supermirrors performances we studied Ni/'Ti multilayers irradiated with thermal neutrons. We present here the results obtained by neutron reflectivity, X-ray diffraction and EXAFS on one sample. It has been found that the supermi...

In this paper, we describe a new method for measuring surviving neutrons in neutron lifetime measurements using bottled ultracold neutrons (UCN), which provides better characterization of systematic uncertainties and enables higher precision than previous measurement techniques. An active detector that can be lowered into the trap has been used to measure the neutron distribution as a function ...

The existing experimental evidence on the vector and axial-vector coupling constants, GV and GA, for neutron β-decay exhibits two prominent problems: (i) the unitarity for the first row of the CKM matrix seems violated; (ii) one obtains different values of GA/GV according to whether one uses as input the neutron lifetime or neutron-decay correlation observables. We show that the in-medium modif...

In the inner crust of a neutron star, due to the high density and pressure, nuclei which are still present, are immersed in a neutron superfluid. One then expects that the dynamical properties of nuclei are significantly affected. In order to estimate the magnitude of the effect associated with the presence of a superfluid medium, we formulate the hydrodynamical approach to the nuclear dynamics...

This paper presents and discusses the Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) results newly obtained from pumice pieces found decades ago at the Egyptian sites of Maiyana, Sedment, Kahun, and Amarna – now in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London – which could be successfully related to several volcanic eruptions in the Mediterranean. Th...