Non-Gaussian velocity distribution in star forming region is reproduced by inelastic clump collision model. We numerically calculated the evolution of inelastic hard spheres in sheared flow, which corresponds to cloud clumps in differential galactic rotation. This system fluctuates largely around equilibrium state, creating clusters with inelastic collisions and destroying them with shear motio...

Inelastic particles are used to model the behavior of granular media. On the level of individual grains, \inelastic collapse" plays an essential role for clustering in a variety of situations. On a macroscopic level, few-body dynamics can still be relevant. Orientation, form, and compactness of clusters in shear ow depend on microscopic features of the collision dynamics. Under the same externa...

The inelastic lifetimes of electrons in image-potential states at Cu(100) that are Stark shifted by the electrostatic tip-sample interaction in the scanning tunneling microscope are calculated using the many-body GW approximation. The results demonstrate that in typical tunneling conditions the image state lifetimes are significantly reduced from their field-free values. The Stark shift to high...

During (re)heating of the universe after inflation, the relativistic decay products of the inflaton field φ must lose energy and additional particles must be produced to attain a thermalised state at a temperature Treh. We estimate the rate of energy loss via elastic and inelastic scattering interactions. Elastic scattering is an inefficient energy loss mechanism so inelastic processes, althoug...

We calculate the intersubband and intrasubband many-body inelastic Coulomb scattering rates due to electron-electron interaction in two-subband semiconductor quantum wire structures. We analyze our relaxation rates in terms of contributions from interand intrasubband charge-density excitations separately. We show that the intersubband (intrasubband) charge-density excitations are primarily resp...

The results of inelastic neutron scattering provide a solution for the crystal field level scheme in PrOs4Sb12, in which the ground state in the cubic crystal field potential of T(h) symmetry is a Gamma(1) singlet. The conduction electron mass enhancement is consistent with inelastic exchange scattering, and we propose that inelastic quadrupolar, or aspherical Coulomb, scattering is responsible...

Unitarity relates the total cross section for neutrino-nucleon scattering to the neutrino-nucleon forward scattering amplitude. Assuming the validity of the perturbative expansion of the forward amplitude in the weak coupling constant, we derive a unitarity bound on the inelastic cross section. The inelastic cross section saturates this bound at a typical neutrino energy Eν ≃ 108 GeV. This impl...

The double-differential scattering cross-section for the inelastic scattering of x-ray photons from electrons is typically orders of magnitude smaller than that of elastic scattering. With samples 10-100 μm size in a diamond anvil cell at high pressure, the inelastic x-ray scattering signals from samples are obscured by scattering from the cell gasket and diamonds. One major experimental challe...

Samples of Naarmann polyacetylene, denoted as N-(CH)x, (unstretched) and polyacetylene doped with Pd have been investigated, being characterized by: (i) conductivity using the four-point method, (ii) bulk concentration of Pd using the atomic absorption method, (iii) bulk density using helium pycnometry, (iv) surface composition by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and (v) electron transport para...