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PLEASE NOTE: Contracts exclude from coverage, among other things, services or procedures that are considered investigational or cosmetic. Providers may bill members for services or procedures that are considered investigational or cosmetic. Providers are encouraged to inform members before rendering such services that the members are likely to be financially responsible for the cost of these se...

Similar to a super B-factory, a circular Higgs factory will require strong focusing systems near the interaction points and a low-emittance lattice in arcs to achieve a factory luminosity. At electron beam energy of 120 GeV, beamstrahlung effects during the collision post an additional challenge to the collider design. In particular, a large momentum acceptance at 2 percent level is necessary t...

Using a multiphase transport model ~AMPT!, which includes both initial partonic and final hadronic interactions, we study the rapidity distributions of charged particles such as protons, antiprotons, pions, and kaons in heavy ion collisions at RHIC. The theoretical results for the total charged particle multiplicity at midrapidity are consistent with those measured by the PHOBOS Collaboration i...

An expression for the single-particle thermal diffusion coefficient of a charged colloidal sphere is derived on the basis of force balance on the Brownian time scale in combination with thermodynamics. It is shown that the single-particle thermal diffusion coefficient is related to the temperature dependence of the reversible work necessary to build the colloidal particle, including the core, t...

A plasmon generated by a swift charged particle constitutes a coherent excitation about the particle track. We discuss the physics of the plasmon in conden~ed m.atter and its e~ects on ele~tr?n transport in liquid water. Criteria for the existence of the plasmon III a given substance, Its chara~teflsttcs when generated by a swift charged particle, its representation in impact parameter space, a...

1550-7998=20 The Lorentz-Dirac equation is not an unavoidable consequence of solely linear and angular momenta conservation for a point charge. It also requires an additional assumption concerning the elementary character of the charge. We here use a less restrictive elementarity assumption for a spinless charge and derive a system of conservation equations that are not properly the equation of...

Radiative corrections to the decay rate of charged fermions caused by the presence of a thermal bath of photons are calculated in the limit when temperatures are below the masses of all charged particles involved. The cancellation of finite-temperature infrared divergences in the decay rate is described in detail. Temperature-dependent radiative corrections to a two-body decay of a hypothetical...

A class of explicit symmetric multistep methods is proposed for integrating the equations of motion of charged particles in an electro-magnetic field. The magnetic forces are built into these methods in a special way that respects the Lagrangian structure of the problem. It is shown that such methods approximately preserve energy and momentum over very long times, proportional to a high power o...

A number of examples for direct measurements in nuclear astrophysics are given in order to address several important issues. First, recent results for the 16O(p,γ)17F reaction are discussed and it is shown how an improvement in reaction rate precision allows for significantly improved astrophysical predictions in connection with massive AGB stars. Second, we discuss improved experimental techni...