A. S. Jaroshevich, V. A. Tkachenko, Z. D. Kvon, N. S. Kuzmin, O. A. Tkachenko, D. G. Baksheev, I. V. Marchishin, A. K. Bakarov, E. E. Rodyakina, V. A. Antonov, V. P. Popov, A. V. Latyshev
{"title":"Features of Microwave Photoconductance of Quantum Point Contact and Silicon Field-Effect Transistor","authors":"A. S. Jaroshevich, V. A. Tkachenko, Z. D. Kvon, N. S. Kuzmin, O. A. Tkachenko, D. G. Baksheev, I. V. Marchishin, A. K. Bakarov, E. E. Rodyakina, V. A. Antonov, V. P. Popov, A. V. Latyshev","doi":"10.1134/S1062873824707773","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1062873824707773","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quantum point contacts with a short (100-nm) channel in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas of GaAs/Al(Ga)As heterostructures and a short-channel <i>p</i>-type field-effect transistor in a silicon-on-insulator structure were fabricated and studied experimentally and by modeling at the Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, in order to study the response of the samples to weak irradiation by an electromagnetic field with a frequency of ~2 GHz. This response in the tunneling mode at a temperature of 4.2 K turned out to be giant and was observed against the background of features caused by impurity disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":504,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics","volume":"88 9","pages":"1505 - 1512"},"PeriodicalIF":0.48,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142434808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. V. Preobrazhenskii, I. B. Chistokhin, I. I. Ryabtsev, V. A. Haisler, A. I. Toropov
{"title":"Photon Detectors and Emitters for Quantum Communication Systems and Quantum Frequency Standards","authors":"V. V. Preobrazhenskii, I. B. Chistokhin, I. I. Ryabtsev, V. A. Haisler, A. I. Toropov","doi":"10.1134/S1062873824707724","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1062873824707724","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A brief overview is presented of results obtained at the Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics in the development of photon detectors and emitters promising for use in quantum cryptography systems, along with miniature quantum frequency standards based on the effect of coherent population trapping.</p>","PeriodicalId":504,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics","volume":"88 9","pages":"1478 - 1484"},"PeriodicalIF":0.48,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142434804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu. B. Gurov, S. A. Evseev, S. V. Rozov, V. G. Sandukovsky, B. A. Chernyshev
{"title":"Formation of Complex Particles during the Absorption of π− Mesons in a Live Silicon Target","authors":"Yu. B. Gurov, S. A. Evseev, S. V. Rozov, V. G. Sandukovsky, B. A. Chernyshev","doi":"10.1134/S1062873824707293","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1062873824707293","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Spectra of deuterons and tritons are measured upon the absorption of stopped π<sup>−</sup> mesons on a live target (an analog of a <sup>28</sup>Si target). It is shown this technique allows the identification of direct pathways for the formation of deuterons and tritons. The share of these particles in the total yields is ~30%.</p>","PeriodicalId":504,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics","volume":"88 8","pages":"1198 - 1201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.48,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142186446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. V. Titova, S. G. Kadmensky, Ya. O. Otvodenko, E. S. Petrykina
{"title":"Low-Energy Ternary Fission of Actinide Nuclei with the Emission of Nucleons and Light Nuclei","authors":"L. V. Titova, S. G. Kadmensky, Ya. O. Otvodenko, E. S. Petrykina","doi":"10.1134/S1062873824707475","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1062873824707475","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Probabilities that are close for the (<i>s</i>, <i>f</i>) and (<i>n</i><sub>th</sub>, <i>f</i>) fission reactions of the corresponding nuclei are estimated for the formation of third particles in the neck of a fissile nucleus. The probabilities are obtained using formulas for calculating the widths of spontaneous and thermal neutron-induced ternary fission of atomic nuclei with the emission of light charged particles. The formulas are based on an approach that views ternary fission as a virtual process, in combination with experimental energy distributions of α particles, hydrogen isotopes, and <sup>6</sup>He nuclei in the ternary fission of actinide nuclei. It is shown that spontaneous and induced ternary fissions of actinide nuclei with the emission of light charged particles and nucleons occurs from close configurations of the fissile nucleus. The bonding energy of the thermal neutron introduced into the fissile compound nucleus in reactions (<i>n</i><sub>th</sub>, <i>f</i>) is added to the energy of deformation the fissile nucleus but not to the kinetic energy of the third light particle.</p>","PeriodicalId":504,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics","volume":"88 8","pages":"1306 - 1311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.48,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142186463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. F. Valiev, N. I. Kalinichenko, N. A. Makarov, G. A. Feofilov
{"title":"Hardware Implementation and Testing of 4-Channel Fast Electronics for an MCP Detector","authors":"F. F. Valiev, N. I. Kalinichenko, N. A. Makarov, G. A. Feofilov","doi":"10.1134/S1062873824707505","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1062873824707505","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Time measurements using a fast beam–beam collisions monitor based on chevron assemblies of microchannel plates (MCPs) were simulated in the Quartus software environment. The measurement algorithm was based on the delayed coincidence method. Four-channel electronics for an MCP detector based on high-speed comparators and an EPM240 FPGA (ALTERA) were created. The test prototype was tested using a 4-channel nanosecond pulse generator with an adjustable delay between channels. It was determined that, using these comparators and FPGAs, the time of detection of particles by a detector can be found with an error of 100 ps, and the calculated speed of the readout circuit coincides with the measured one and is no more than 10 ns for each event for the 4-channel system.</p>","PeriodicalId":504,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics","volume":"88 8","pages":"1319 - 1326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.48,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142186465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measurement of the 9Be(d, xt) Reaction Total Cross Sections by Secondary Activation and Spectroscopy Methods","authors":"L. N. Generalov, I. A. Karpov","doi":"10.1134/S1062873824707529","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1062873824707529","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Total cross sections σ<sub><i>d</i>,<i>xt</i></sub> of reaction <sup>9</sup>Be(<i>d</i>, <i>xt</i>) are measured in the 1.5–12 МeV range of deuteron energies with an error of 8.3% using activation reaction <sup>9</sup>Be + <i>t</i> → α + <sup>8</sup>Li + 2.927 МeV (<i>T</i><sub>1/2</sub> = 0.84 s, <i>E</i><sub>β max</sub> = 13 МeV) according to B.Ya. Guzhovskii’s method on the EGP-10 electrostatic tandem accelerator at the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF). The primary target and convertor functions are combined in a beryllium layer 1 mm thick, which can be done if the layer is thicker than the sum of the paths of primary deuterons and secondary tritons. The main problem in measuring the cross sections of activation is the lack of reliable data on the mean energy of tritons produced in the considered reaction. This value is derived from measured triton energy spectra. Spectrometric differential cross sections are obtained for the first time and serve as the basis for calculating total reaction cross sections. Good agreement is shown between the total activation and spectrometric cross sections.</p>","PeriodicalId":504,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics","volume":"88 8","pages":"1332 - 1341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.48,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142186467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic Modeling of Clustering in Multimodal Fission of Heavy Nuclei","authors":"Y. V. Ivanskiy, A. V. Unzhakova","doi":"10.1134/S1062873824707414","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1062873824707414","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The authors consider the problem of describing theoretically the dynamics of nucleon clustering inside a fissile nucleus. The approach is based on the microscopic modeling of clustering as a new type of collective particle motion. The use of a dynamic clustering algorithm in the region of heavy nuclei requires effective multiparticle interaction to be developed for a distributed microscopic model. Calculations are performed for a double magic cluster that plays an important role in the formation of the second minimum of the fission barrier observed in the multimodal fission of heavy nuclei.</p>","PeriodicalId":504,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics","volume":"88 8","pages":"1267 - 1270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.48,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142186460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study of the Structure of the 9Be Nucleus in the Alpha-Cluster Model by the Method of Hyperspherical Functions","authors":"A. S. Bazhin, V. V. Samarin","doi":"10.1134/S1062873824707281","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1062873824707281","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The energy and the squared modulus of the wave function of the ground state of the <sup>9</sup>Be nucleus as a system of two alpha-clusters and an outer neutron were calculated using hyperspherical functions. A system of hyperradial equations was solved using cubic splines. The charge distribution and the root-mean-square charge radius for the <sup>9</sup>Be nucleus were calculated and were found to agree with the experimental data.</p>","PeriodicalId":504,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics","volume":"88 8","pages":"1177 - 1184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.48,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142186350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliability of Cross Sections of the Photoneutron Reactions on 51V and 59Co Nuclei in the Bremsstrahlung Beam Experiments","authors":"V. V. Varlamov, A. I. Davydov, I. A. Mostakov","doi":"10.1134/S1062873824707360","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1062873824707360","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using the experimental-theoretical method for evaluation of partial photoneutron reaction cross sections basing on objective physical criteria the reliability of data on the (γ, 1<i>n</i>) and (γ, 2<i>n</i>) reaction cross sections of <sup>51</sup>V and <sup>59</sup>Co nuclei obtained on bremsstrahlung γ-rays was investigated. It is found that partial reaction cross sections obtained by adding corrections to neutron yield cross sections σ(γ, <i>xn</i>) = σ(γ, 1<i>n</i>) + 2σ(γ, 2<i>n</i>) calculated within statistical theory do not satisfy the reliability criteria. Cross sections of the (γ, 1<i>n</i>) reaction are significantly underestimated in the considered experiments, while those of the (γ, 2<i>n</i>) reaction are overestimated, due obviously to the way information is obtained on the partial reaction cross sections by applying statistical theory corrections to the yield cross section of the σ(γ, <i>xn</i>). When describing the (γ, 1<i>n</i>) reaction cross section at photon energies below threshold <i>B</i>2<i>n</i> of the (γ, 2<i>n</i>) reaction, such corrections produce substantial systematic uncertainties in the ranges of energy where both partial reactions compete.</p>","PeriodicalId":504,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics","volume":"88 8","pages":"1211 - 1217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.48,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142186449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimation of the Number of Multiple Detections of Prompt Fission Neutrons with a Multi-Module Neutron Detector Based on the Liquid Scintillator BC-501","authors":"O. V. Sidorova, Sh. S. Zeynalov","doi":"10.1134/S1062873824707402","DOIUrl":"10.1134/S1062873824707402","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The correlation between the variations of multiplicity of prompt fission neutrons and the total kinetic energy of fission fragments was studied using a double ionization chamber in combination with a prompt fission neutron detector. An estimate was made of the systematic errors introduced by crosstalk caused by the multi-module structure of the neutron detector.</p>","PeriodicalId":504,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics","volume":"88 8","pages":"1262 - 1266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.48,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142186456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}