E. Gerlic

Bio: E. Gerlic is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nucleon & Charged particle. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 93 publications receiving 1770 citations.

Final results of the EDELWEISS-I dark matter search with cryogenic heat-and-ionization Ge detectors

Abstract: The final results of the EDELWEISS-I dark matter search using cryogenic heat-and-ionization Ge detectors are presented. The final data sample corresponds to an increase by a factor 5 in exposure relative to the previously published results. A recoil energy threshold of 13 keV or better was achieved with three 320 g detectors working simultaneously over four months of stable operation. Limits on the spin-independent cross section for the scattering of a weakly interacting massive particle on a nucleon are derived from an accumulated fiducial exposure of 62 kg d.

Dynamical effects and intermediate mass fragment production in peripheral and semicentral collisions of Xe+Sn at 50 MeV/nucleon

Abstract: Experimental data obtained with the 4{pi} multidetector system INDRA are used to study the light charged particle (LCP, Z{le}2) and intermediate mass fragment (IMF, Z{ge}3) production in peripheral and semicentral collisions of Xe and Sn at 50 MeV/nucleon. It is found that a sizable fraction of the detected LCP`s and IMF`s originates from the midvelocity region. These fragments can be seen to come either from a prompt (preequilibrium) mechanism or from a slower but dynamically influenced emission process. The relative magnitude of the dynamically influenced emission relative to the isotropic statistical evaporation is presented as a function of the transverse energy of light particles, used as an impact parameter selector. The results are compared to dynamical models with which a good agreement is obtained. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}

Evidence for spinodal decomposition in nuclear multifragmentation.

Abstract: Multifragmentation of a ``fused system\'\' was observed for central collisions between 32 MeV/nucleon 129Xe and natSn. Most of the resulting charged products were well identified thanks to the high performances of the INDRA 4pi array. Experimental higher-order charge correlations for fragments show a weak but non ambiguous enhancement of events with nearly equal-sized fragments. Supported by dynamical calculations in which spinodal decomposition is simulated, this observed enhancement is interpreted as a ``fossil\'\' signal of spinodal instabilities in finite nuclear systems.

General relativistic boson stars

Abstract: There is accumulating evidence that (fundamental) scalar fields may exist in nature. The gravitational collapse of such a boson cloud would lead to a boson star (BS) as a new type of a compact object. As with white dwarfs and neutron stars, a limiting mass exists similarly, below which a BS is stable against complete gravitational collapse to a black hole. According to the form of the self-interaction of the basic constituents and spacetime symmetry, we can distinguish mini-, axidilaton, soliton, charged, oscillating and rotating BSs. Their compactness prevents a Newtonian approximation; however, modifications of general relativity, as in the case of Jordan?Brans?Dicke theory as a low-energy limit of strings, would provide them with gravitational memory. In general, a BS is a compact, completely regular configuration with structured layers due to the anisotropy of scalar matter, an exponentially decreasing 'halo', a critical mass inversely proportional to the constituent mass, an effective radius and a large particle number. Due to the Heisenberg principle, a completely stable branch exists, and as a coherent state, it allows for rotating solutions with quantized angular momentum. In this review, we concentrate on the fascinating possibilities of detecting the various subtypes of (excited) BSs: possible signals include gravitational redshift and (micro-)lensing, emission of gravitational waves, or, in the case of a giant BS, its dark matter contribution to the rotation curves of galactic halos.