We have measured the hyperfine splitting of the 7P_{1/2} state at the 100 ppm level in Fr isotopes (^{206g,206m,207,209,213,221}Fr) near the closed neutron shell (N=126 in ^{213}Fr). The measurements in five isotopes and a nuclear isomeric state of francium, combined with previous determinations of the 7S_{1/2} splittings, reveal the spatial distribution of the nuclear magnetization, i.e., the ...

Parity nonconservation ~PNC! in atoms, described in the standard model of the electroweak interaction by exchange of Z bosons between bound electrons and nuclear quarks, leads to nonvanishing electric-dipole matrix elements between atomic states with the same parity. The dominant part of PNC matrix elements ~arising from the vector nucleon current! is proportional to a conserved weak charge QW ...

The evaluation of short range contributions to neutrinoless double beta decay has been challenged due to critics of the ansatz of the nuclear matrix element calculations. We comment on the critics and uncertainties of these calculations and the effect on the derived limits. A Z+2 X + 2e − (1) has been proven to be one of the most sensitive tools to search for particle physics beyond the standar...

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a prominent paradigm that is considered to continue its dominance in thecomputation at deep sub-micron regime in nanotechnology. The QCA realizations of five-input Majority Voter based multilevel parity generator circuits have been introduced in recent years. However, no attention has been paid towards the QCA instantiation of the generic (n-bit) even and ...

This document provides a prospectus of research opportunities created by an intensity upgrade to the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source (HIGS) at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL). The current maximum gamma-ray intensity on target at the HIGS is more than 108 γ/s in the energy range between 9 and 12 MeV. An increase of total intensity of about two orders of magnitude will be achi...

The electromagnetic properties of low-lying nuclear states are a sensitive probe of both collective and single-particle degrees of freedom in nuclear structure. The recoil-distance technique provides a very reliable, direct and precise method for measuring lifetimes of nuclear states with lifetimes ranging from less than one to several hundred picoseconds. This method complements the powerful, ...

the present study aimed to estimate the effects of parity, calving season and year of calving on the prevalence of subclinical mastitis in holstein cows. a total of 2682 records from 869 holstein cows in a large dairy farm (azarbaijan province, iran), respecting the period from 2006 to 2009, were collected. data was analyzed using proc mixed of sas software by mivque method. subclinical mastiti...

We have examined modifications to the nuclear weak charge due to small differences between the spatial distributions of neutrons and protons in the Cs nucleus. We derive approximate formulae to estimate the value and uncertainty of this modification based only on nuclear rms neutron and proton radii. We also present results of numerical calculations taking more detailed nuclear shapes into acco...