Electron traps and positive DLTS signals in VPE GaAs MESFETs

Capacitance DLTS measurements have been performed in VPE GaAs MESFETs prepared on Bridgman Cr-doped and LEC undoped semi-insulating substrates. A band of electron traps not intrinsically related to the VPE growth process and accumulating near the metal (gate) — semiconductor interface was detected in all the samples. Deeper regions into the channel were free from any detectable trap. Near pinch-off conditions, a positive capacitance signal was found to dominate the DLTS spectra only in the case of samples prepared on Cr-doped substrates. The hypothesis of this positive transient being related to changes in the occupation of surface states in the ungated surface access regions has been checked by comparing experimental and calculated dependencies of the signal amplitude on reverse gate voltage. Unexplained discrepancies, together with the absence of positive signal in MESFETs prepared on LEC undoped substrates, suggest the possibility of hole emission from hole traps within the bulk of the device.     

Alpha and deuteron induced reactions on vanadium

The stacked foil technique was used in combination with γ-ray spectroscopy to obtain excitation functions for the production of different nuclei using natural vanadium as target and 85 MeV α-particles and 46.5 MeV deuterons as projectiles. The data are compared with theoretical predictions provided by an equilibrium and pre-equilibrium reaction model. In most cases the theoretical predictions seriously under-estimated the measured cross sections.     

Determination of the atmospheric neutrino spectra with the Fréjus detector

The combined analysis of the final event set of data on neutrino interactions inside the detector, upward going stopping muons and horizontal muons recorded in the Fréjus experiment is presented. The absolute atmospheric neutrino spectra in the energy range for electron neutrinos and for muon neutrinos are determined. Based on the parameterization of Volkova for thev ^µ a spectral index of =2.66±0.05 is obtained from the ratio of horizontal muons over upward going stopping muons and from the measurement of the energy loss of horizontal muons inside the detector. The neutrino spectra are compared with various flux calculations. They do not show any evidence for neutrino oscillations in agreement with earlier analyses of the Fréjus data.Now atUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA     

Experiences in the measurement of RBC-bound IgG as markers of cell age

An immunologically mediated pathway has been largely accepted to be one of the mechanisms involved in the clearance of senescent or prematurely damaged RBC. According to this pathway, RBC removal is mediated by binding of naturally occurring IgG to clustered integral membrane proteins, followed by complement deposition. The validation of an immunoenzymatic method for the detection of RBC-bound autologous IgG is presented. The use of RBC-bound IgG as an index related to red cell age was evaluated by measuring IgG binding in RBC treated with the clustering agent ZnCl2, in density fractionated RBC and in a selected group of patients expected to have an altered RBC life span. The immunoenzymatic method for IgG detection resulted to be reproducible (CV = 3.4%). IgG binding to in vitro clustered RBC was found to be enhanced to a very great extent, about 20 times higher with respect to untreated RBC. A slight but significant increase (about 1.8-fold) in membrane-bound IgG was observed in the highest density fraction of normal RBC, which constituted 1% of the total cells. A significantly greater number of RBC-bound IgG was measured in splenectomized beta-thalassemia intermedia patients and in subjects with secondary decreases in the C3 complement fraction concentration.     

K+P elastic scattering at 32 GeV/c

Elastic scattering of 32.1 GeV/c K⁺ on protons has been measured in a bubble chamber experiment. Results are presented in the momentum transfer interval 0.06–1.40 GeV² and compared with data at different energies. An effective Regge trajectory is calculated using K⁺p elastic data from 10 to 175 GeV/c.     

Urea-, squaramide-, and sulfonamide-based anion receptors: a thermodynamic study

In this work, we compare the anion-binding capabilities of receptors 1-5, characterized by similar structures, but possessing different hydrogen-bond-donor moieties (urea, squaramide, and sulfonamide). The presence of chromophoric substituents on the receptor's skeleton allowed the determination of association constants by performing UV/Vis titrations with the investigated anions on solutions of the receptors in pure acetonitrile. Additional quantitative studies of the anion-binding properties of receptors 1-5 were performed by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). The experimental results indicated that 1 and 2 formed 1:1 hydrogen-bonded complexes with most of the anions investigated. In the case of receptors 3-5, the formation of the 1:1 adduct was observed only with anions of low basicity (i.e., chloride, bromide, iodide, and hydrogen sulfate). With more basic anions (i.e., acetate and dihydrogen phosphate), both spectrophotometric and ITC titrations accounted for the deprotonation of the sulfonamide group, involving the formation of the conjugated base of the receptor.     

Inclusive production cross sections of resonances in 32 GeV/c K+p interactions

The inclusive production of resonances is systematically studied in K⁺p interactions at 32 GeV/c. Total production cross sections are given for three baryon resonances, five vector and three 2⁺ tensor mesons. We also compare the central and fragmentation components of the total production cross sections with quark model predictions.