Two anomalously weak transitions within the 2(3)S_(1)--3(3)P_(J) manifolds in 3He have been identified. Their transition strengths are measured to be 1000 times weaker than that of the strongest transition in the same group. This dramatic suppression of transition strengths is due to the dominance of the hyperfine interaction over the fine-structure interaction. An alternative selection rule ba...

We study the strong segregation limit for mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates modelled by a Gross-Pitaievskii functional. Our first main result is that in presence of a trapping potential, for different intracomponent strengths, the Thomas-Fermi limit is sufficient to determine the shape of the minimizers. Our second main result is that for asymptotically equal intracomponent strengths, one n...

A topological space has calibre ω1 (resp., calibre (ω1,ω)) if every point-countable (resp., point-finite) collection of nonempty open sets is countable. It has compact-calibre ω1 (resp., compact-calibre (ω1,ω)) if, for every family of uncountably many nonempty open sets, there is some compact set which meets uncountably many (resp., infinitely many) of them. It has CCC (resp., DCCC) if every di...

Baylis' semiempirical method has been applied for calculating interatomic potentials and oscillator strengths as a function of internuclear separation of the thallium-noble gas systems. The new potentials for the four lowest molecular states of each diatomic have been compared with the corresponding ones deduced by Cheron et al. from the measurement of continuum emission intensities on the extr...

Over the past few years, laser induced fluorescence and Fourier Transform techniques have been applied to measure radiative lifetimes and branching fractions in Hf II in order to derive oscillator strengths and transition probabilities. In the present work, we propose to compare for the first time these experimental data to computed values obtained by two different semi-empirical approaches, re...

In this paper we describe how an evidential-reasoner can be used as a component of risk assessment of engineering projects using a direct way of reasoning. Guan & Bell (1991) introduced this method by using the mass functions to express rule strengths. Mass functions are also used to express data strengths. The data and rule strengths are combined to get a mass distribution for each rule; i.e.,...

Using first-principles density-functional theory, we calculate the bond strengths between the 12 nearest neighbors in delta plutonium for both pure Pu and a Pu-3.7 at. % Ga alloy. Our results for pure Pu reveal a structure with the monoclinic space group Cm rather than face-centered cubic Fm3m, showing that the anomalously large anisotropy of delta plutonium is a consequence of greatly varying ...