G. Konstantinou | Searcharxiv

arXiv2025

HASPIDE-SPACE: a new concept of a radiation-resistant instrument for solar energetic particles

Galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles (SEPs) affect the performance of instruments carried on board space missions and are the source of the absorbed dose to astronauts. Particles above 100 MeV are the most penetrating. The overall particle flux impacting spacecraft increases by several orders of magnitude during the most intense SEP events and gamma-ray bursts, compared to the galactic cosmic-ray background. Unfortunately, most detectors dedicated to the monitoring of solar particles in space do not allow measurements above 200 MeV. Space agencies and the space and heliospheric weather communities are interested in improving this scenario. We propose a new, compact, low-power, and radiation-resistant instrument, intended for long-duration missions to monitor solar X-rays, electrons, and protons up to energies of tens of keV, MeV, and 600 MeV, respectively. Intense long and short gamma-ray bursts would be observed in the absence of solar activity.

hep-ex↗

arXiv2012

The nontrivial role of interfacial or film-thickness in a magnetic field at a one-electron and a one-Composite Fermion level

By developing a canonical approach that is exact, physically transparent and subtly different from standard methods, we present a systematic study with exact analytical calculations based on a Landau Level (LL) picture of the energetics of a many-electron system in an interface (or film) and in the presence of a uniform and perpendicular magnetic field, by seriously taking into account the finite thickness of the Quantum Well (QW) along the field. We find internal phase transitions (i.e. at partial LL filling) for the global magnetization and magnetic susceptibility that are not captured by other approaches, and that give rise to nontrivial corrections to the standard de Haas-van Alphen periods (but in a manner that reproduces the exact quantal deviations from the semiclassical periodicity in the limit of the full 3D space, a problem mostly discussed in astrophysical applications and which we independently solve analytically as well for comparison). Additional features upon inclusion of Zeeman splitting are also found (such as certain energy minima that originate from the interplay of QW, Zeeman and LL Physics in the full 3D problem), while a corresponding calculation in a Composite Fermion picture (with Lambda-Levels) leads to new predictions on magnetic response properties of a fully-interacting electron liquid in a finite-thickness interface; these exhibit a richer and more delicate structure than the mere monotonic reduction of gaps with thickness reported long ago, a structure possibly detectable with present day technology. Finally, by pursuing the same line of reasoning for a topologically nontrivial system (with a relativistic spectrum, spin-orbit interactions and strong coupling between thickness and planar motion) we find evidence that similar effects may be operative in the dimensionality crossover of 3D strong topological insulators to 2D topological insulator quantum wells

cond-mat.mes-hall↗