We calculate the photon emission rate from a general atomic system in the mass-proportional CSL model. For an isolated charged particle emitting kilovolt gamma rays, our results agree with those obtained by Fu. For a neutral atomic system, photon emission is strongly suppressed for photon wavelengths much larger than the atomic radius. However, for kilovolt gamma rays, Fu’s result is modified b...

Spectroscopic studies of Planetary Nebulae (PNe) and H ii regions have driven much development in atomic physics. In the last few years the combination of a generation of powerful observatories, the development of ever more sophisticated spectral modeling codes, and large efforts on mass production of high quality atomic data have led to important progress in our understanding of the atomic spe...

We calculate the photon emission rate from a general atomic system in the mass-proportional CSL model. For an isolated charged particle emitting kilovolt gamma rays, our results agree with those obtained by Fu. For a neutral atomic system, photon emission is strongly suppressed for photon wavelengths much larger than the atomic radius. However, for kilovolt gamma rays, Fu’s result is modified b...

We present a simple numerical procedure for calculating the irrotational hydrodynamic flow around a spherical solute in superfluid helium. The results for alkali cations are compared to recent many-body variational Monte Carlo (VMC) calculations. The helium contribution to the effective masses calculated by the VMC and hydrodynamic methods are 12.9(4.6) versus 9.4 u for Li+, 48.2(5.6) versus 52...

The present paper studies the escape mechanism in collinear three point mass systems with small-range-repulsive/large-range-attractive pairwise-interaction. Specifically, we focus on systems with non-negative total energy. We show that on the zero energy level set, most of the orbits lead to binary escape configurations and the set of initial conditions leading to escape configurations where al...

We have developed the analog of a double-pan balance for determining the masses of single molecular ions from the ratio of their two cyclotron frequencies. By confining two different ions on the same magnetron orbit in a Penning trap, we balance out many sources of noise and error (such as fluctuations of the magnetic field). To minimize the systematic error associated with the Coulomb interact...

Ultraminiaturized mass spectrometers are highly sought-after tools, with numerous applications in areas such as environmental protection, exploration, and drug development. We realize atomic scale mass sensing using doubly clamped suspended carbon nanotube nanomechanical resonators, in which their single-electron transistor properties allows self-detection of the nanotube vibration. We use the ...

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) combined with Mass Spectrometry (MS) can provide the ability to map and correlate the molecular and physical properties of samples [1, 2] at sub-micron resolutions. Our group has demonstrated such a platform using heated AFM probes [3] for the thermal desorption (TD) of molecules. Current heating techniques typically result in a minimum desorption crater diameter o...