Inspired by recent photoelectron spectroscopy experiments on hydroxide solutions, we have examined the conditions necessary for enhanced (and, in the case of solutions, detectable) inter-Coulombic decay (ICD)--Auger emission from an atomic site other than that originally excited. We present general guidelines, based on energetic and spatial overlap of molecular orbitals, for this enhancement of...

The effect of impurities on the surface and interfacial melting of ice is investigated in the context of the Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek theory by calculating van der Waals and Coulombic interactions within interfacial solution films. At high temperatures, the classical solute effect dominates the melting behavior. However, depending on the amount of impurity, as temperature decreases the ...

Carrier distributions associated with point charges in silicon are calculated via the quantum perturbation method and used to determine Coulombic interactions between charged defects in the presence of carrier screening. The resulting interactions are used in kinetic lattice Monte Carlo simulations of defect-mediated diffusion to study dopant redistribution and associated variations in carrier ...

We calculate the O(s) gluon Bremsstrahlung corrections to the inclusive decay b ! ss, involving the full operator basis ^ O 1 { ^ O 8. Connrming and extending earlier calculations of Ali and Greub, we give formulas for the total decay width as well as the perturbative photon spectrum, regarding the former as a necessary part of the forthcoming complete NLO analysis. We explore in detail the ren...

New physics effects on the B 0 − ¯ B 0 mixing and B-decay amplitudes are discussed. By a combined analysis, the models of new physics can be partially distinguished. It is emphasized that the extraction of unitarity angles β and γ through rare decay K → πν˜ν and charged B decay B ± → DK ± respectively is not likely to be affected by new physics. Such an observation could be used to distinguish ...

We review how a certain effective chiral Lagrangian approach to ππ scattering, πK scattering and η → ηππ decay provides evidence for the existence of light scalars σ(550) and κ(900) as well as describing the f0(980) and the a0(980). An attempt to fit these into a nonet suggests that their structure is closer to a dual quark–dual antiquark than to a quark–antiquark. A possible mechanism to expla...

The main goal of this talk is to review a new method’ for predicting, from QCD, the weak matrix elements that are needed to describe the semileptonic decays; B -+ DePe,,B + D’ec, and Ab + A,eti,. The method also relates B + pe& semileptonic decay to D + pZuc semileptonic decay. Since these are exclusive decays involving hadronic states nonperturbative strong interaction physics plays a role. Th...