The electric quadrupole coupling constant of the ground state of 37K(Iπ = 3/2+, T1/2 = 1.22 s) in a tetragonal KH2PO4 single crystal was measured to be |eqQ/h| = 2.99± 0.07 MHz using the β-ray detecting nuclear quadrupole resonance technique. The electric quadrupole moment of 37K was determined to be |Q(37K)| = 10.6 ± 0.4 efm2, where the known electric quadrupole coupling constant of stable 39K...

We report the first comprehensive calculations of 2(+) excitations with a microscopic theory applicable to over 90% of the known nuclei. The theory uses a quantal collective Hamiltonian in five dimensions. The only parameters in theory are those of the finite-range, density-dependent Gogny D1S interaction. The following properties of the lowest 2(+) excitations are calculated: excitation energy...

Changes in the nucleon shape are investigated by letting the nucleon deform under the strong interactions with another nucleon. The parameters of the axial deformations are obtained by minimizing the static energy of the two nucleon system at each internucleon distance R. It is shown that the intrinsic quadrupole moment of the interacting proton, Qp, is about 0.02fm at distances near R ∼ 1.25 f...

We report calculated substantial enhancement of the second-harmonic generation (SHG) in cuprous oxide crystals, resonantly hybridized with an appropriate organic material (DCM2:CA:PS 'solid state solvent'). The quadrupole origin of the inorganic part of the quadrupole-dipole hybrid provides inversion symmetry breaking and the organic part contributes to the oscillator strength of the hybrid. We...

We introduce a new formalism to describe the polarization signal of galaxy clusters on the whole sky. We show that a sparsely sampled, half-sky map of the cluster polarization at z approximately 1 would allow us to better characterize the very large scale density fluctuations. While the horizon length is smaller in the past, two other competing effects significantly remove the contribution of t...