CRC Press - Dictionary of Material Science and High Energy Physics - D Basu (2001) WW Part 2 docx

... normallycoupled to ordinary vacuum modes.standardtheory and standardmodel of parti-cle physics According to this theory, all mat-terismade upofquarks andleptons, whichinter-actbythe exchangeofgaugeparticles. ... sun’smagnetic field and changeits state from left-handed to right-handed. Be-cause only left-handed neutrinos reacts with37Cl, these newly formed right-handed neutri-nos are undetected. This effect ... solid with a filled va-lence band, an empty conduction band, and asmall energy gap between the two bands. Here,© 20 01 by CRC Press LLC possible to heat a flow and then cool it to transi-tion...

... choice of gauge.direct band gap semiconductor In a directband gap semiconductor, the conduction bandedge and valence band edge are at the center of the Brillouin zone, such as GaAs, InSb, etc.direct ... atoms. D Meson Class of fundamental particles con-structed of a charmed (anti-charmed) quark and an up or down (anti-up or anti-down) quark. Thelowest representation of these mesons are the D ± and ... assumed to be non-interacting, with popula-tion density governed only by the conservation of energy and momentum.density of modes The number of modes of the radiation field in an energy range dE....

... (atoms and molecules), dissocia-tion (molecules), and thermalization over a largenumber of degrees of freedom (molecules). Theunderstanding of radiative and non-radiative de-cays and their ... eigenstate. energy equation Describes energy intercon-versions that take place in a fluid. It is based onthe first law of thermodynamics with considera-tion only ofenergy added by heatand work doneon ... electron is added to a neutral atom toform a negative ion. Second, third, and higheraffinities are similarly defined as the additionaldecreases in energy upon the addition of succes-sively more...

... mirrorsz1 ,2 . One findszr=g1g 2 (1 − g1g 2 )(g1+ g 2 − 2g1g 2 ) 2 d 2 z1 ,2 =g 2, 1(1 − g1 ,2 )g1+ g 2 − 2g1g 2 d The linewidth of a laser is given by the convo-lution of the ... slew rate of thepotentials dE/dt. The critical slew rate Scisgiven bySc=|Vab| 2 dEdt=ω 2 dEdtwheredEdt=dEdqdqdt, and ω is the minimum energy separation at theavoided crossing.If ... rela-tivelylowdriftspeeds, i.e., thefire-hoseinstabil-ity and right-hand circularly polarized waves athigher speeds. Whistler waves can also be gen-erated. Production of these right-hand circularlypolarized...