GÓMEZ CAMACHO , Joaquín José

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The motion of neutral particles with magnetic moments in an inhomogeneous magnetic field is described in a semiclassical framework. The concept of coherent internal states is used in the formulation of the semiclassical approximation from the full quantum-mechanical expression. The classical trajectories are defined only for certain spin...

Background: The population and decay of two-nucleon resonances offer exciting new opportunities to explore dripline phenomena. A proper understanding of these systems requires a solid description of the three-body (core+N +N) continuum. The identification of a state with resonant character from the background of nonresonant continuum states in...

The behaviour of the threshold anomaly for non-central potentials, which account for collective excitations in heavy-ion collisions, is investigated. It is shown that the non-central potentials should exhibit an energy dependence at energies in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier. This energy dependence is, however, different from that of the...

In this work, we present an extension of the Continuum-Discretized Coupled-Channel formalism to include the effects of absorption and excitation of the core through its interaction with the removed particle in the description of nuclear breakup reactions. This extension is performed via the inclusion of a complex energy-dependent interaction...

The current status of the reaction theory of nuclear collisions involving weakly-bound exotic nuclei is presented. The problem is addressed within the Continuum Discretized Coupled Channel (CDCC) framework, recalling its foundations and applications, as well as its connection with the Faddeev formalism. Recent developments and improvements of...

ata for scattering of 6He from 197Au, 208Pb, and 209Bi targets at low energies were consistently analyzed by use of the continuum-discretized coupled-channels method and the dineutron model of the projectile. A very good description of the experimental data was obtained with the strength of the dipole couplings reduced by 50%. We find that the...

The scattering of electrons by molecules is considered. The structure of the molecule is described in terms of the vibron model, which is an algebraic approach to the description of rotational and vibrational molecular excitations. The dynamics of electron-molecule collision is discussed in terms of coupled-channel calculations, where we assume...

The bound states of a Morse potential are described in terms of a basis of states that are characterized for being eigenstates of the Morse variable. These states are strongly localized in configuration space; thus they are called configuration localized Morse (CLM) wave functions. These are shown to provide a powerful tool to calculate...

The scattering of low-energy electrons by polar molecules is considered. The excitation to the rotational states in the sudden approximation and the effect of the Coulomb dipole force to all orders are taken into account. Analytic expressions for the scattering amplitudes are obtained. These are valid for arbitrarily large dipole moments of the...

The problem of describing resonances when the continuum is represented by a discrete set of normalizable states is addressed. In particular, here the description of resonances in a transformed harmonic oscillator basis is presented. A method to disentangle the resonances from the nonresonant continuum is proposed. The Ginocchio...

The problem of calculating Franck-Condon overlap integrals in molecular transitions between vibrational states in different electronic configurations is addressed. An exact and easily applicable analytical expression is obtained when the vibrational states can be approximated by eigenstates of Morse potentials with different strengths and...

We carry out a simple analysis of (n+3)-dimensional gravity in the context of recent work on 'large' supplementary dimensions and deduce a formula for the expected compactification radius for the n additional dimensions in the universe, as a function of the Planck and the electro-weak scales. We argue that the correspondingly modified...

A recent article by Dussel, Sofia, and Tonina studies the relation between Galilei invariance and dipole energy weighted sum rule (EWSR). The authors find that the pairing interaction, which is neither Galilei nor Lorentz invariant, produces big changes in the EWSR and in effective masses of the nucleons. They argue that these effects of the...

A study of the elemental concentrations of sediments of the rivers Tinto and Odiel, in Huelva, Spain, has been performed using PIXE. Thirteen samples have been collected, seven in the Tinto and six in the Odiel. Concentrations of 19 elements have been determined in each of them. The analysis of the data illustrates the environmental impact of...

A novel method to extract the B(E1) strength of a weakly bound nucleus from experimental Coulomb dissociation data is proposed. The method makes use of continuum discretized coupled channels (CDCC) calculations, in which both nuclear and Coulomb forces are taken into account to all orders. This is a crucial advantage with respect to the...