The effects of sample preparation methods on the variability of the electrospray ionization response for model drug compounds

A post-column infusion system was developed in order to analyze suppression of electrospray ionization (ESI) tandem mass spectrometry response in the presence of endogenous plasma interferences. By enabling direct detection of these interfering components, this experimental system was used to analyze the ability of several common extraction procedures to remove endogenous plasma components that cause changes in the ESI response of model drug substances. Methyl-t-butyl ether (MTBE) liquid-liquid, Oasis and Empore solid-phase, and acetonitrile (ACN) protein precipitation sample preparation methods were tested using the post-column infusion system. In all cases, ACN protein precipitation samples showed the greatest amount of ESI response suppression while liquid-liquid extracts demonstrated the least. In addition, the three test compounds, phenacetin, caffeine, and a representative Merck compound, demonstrated that ESI response suppression is compound dependent. Suppression was greatest with caffeine, the most polar analyte, and the smallest for the Merck compound, the least polar analyte. Copyright 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Dense monoenergetic proton beams from chirped laser-plasma interaction

Interaction of a frequency-chirped laser pulse with single protons and a hydrogen gas target is studied analytically and by means of particle-in-cell simulations, respectively. The feasibility of generating ultraintense (10(7) particles per bunch) and phase-space collimated beams of protons (energy spread of about 1%) is demonstrated. Phase synchronization of the protons and the laser field, guaranteed by the appropriate chirping of the laser pulse, allows the particles to gain sufficient kinetic energy (around 250 MeV) required for such applications as hadron cancer therapy, from state-of-the-art laser systems of intensities of the order of 10(21) W/cm(2).     

Plasma jets driven by ultraintense-laser interaction with thin foils

Experimental evidence of plasma jets ejected from the rear side of thin solid targets irradiated by ultraintense (>10(19) W cm(-2)) laser pulses is presented. The jets, detected by transverse interferometric measurements with high spatial and temporal resolutions, show collimated expansion lasting for several hundreds of picoseconds and have substantially steep density gradients at their periphery. The role played by radiation pressure of the laser in the jet formation process is highlighted analytically and by extensive two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations.     

关于单位园周上阶梯函数的性质

Ｔ．Ｓｈｅｉｌ－Ｓｍａｌｌ［１］讨论了阶梯函数的Ｆｏｕｒｉｅｒ级数。本文对［１］中所涉及到一些阶梯函数的性质进行了详细讨论，并给出了详细证明。     

极限方程有奇性的一类六阶椭圆型方程混合边值问题解的渐近式

该文研究极限方程在部分边界上为退缩椭圆型(椭圆-抛物)的一类六阶椭圆型方程混合边值问题的奇摄动,在适当的假设下,应用改进了的多重尺度法,求得其解包括边界层和套层在内除了半圆域的两个角点外,在整个半圆域中有任意阶的一致有效的渐近展开式.     

Laser acceleration of ion bunches at the front surface of overdense plasmas

The acceleration of ions in the interaction of high intensity laser pulses with overdense plasmas is investigated with particle-in-cell simulations. For circular polarization of the laser pulses, high-density ion bunches moving into the plasma are generated at the laser-plasma interaction surface. A simple analytical model accounts for the numerical observations and provides scaling laws for the ion bunch energy and generation time as a function of pulse intensity and plasma density.     

Preparation and characterization of MgB2 superconductor

The MgB₂ superconductor, synthesized using solid-state and liquid-phase sintering methods, have been characterized for various properties. The upper critical field, irreversibility line and critical current density have been determined using magnetization data. The current-voltage characteristics recorded under an applied magnetic field revealed the existence of vortex glass transition. The surface analysis using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy shows that MgB₂ is sensitive to atmospheric degradation.     

增加光子奇偶q相干态的高阶压缩效应

通过数值计算研究了增加光子奇q相干态a_q^+m|α>_q^o和增加光子偶q相干态a_q^+m|α>_q^e的高阶压缩效应.结果表明:当q较小时,态a_q^+m|α>_q^o和a_q^+m|α>_q^e都能呈现出强烈的奇次方阶压缩效应,但无偶次方阶压缩效应,而且奇次方阶压缩随m的增大而增强.当m=0时a_q^+m|α>_q^o和a_q^+m|α>_q^e为光场振幅偶次幂的最小测不准态,但当m≠0时它们不是光场振幅偶次幂的最小测不准态.     

Observation of magnetized soliton remnants in the wake of intense laser pulse propagation through plasmas

Slowly evolving, regularly spaced patterns have been observed in proton projection images of plasma channels drilled by intense (?101? W?cm?2) short (～1 ps) laser pulses propagating in an ionized gas jet. The nature and geometry of the electromagnetic fields generating such patterns have been inferred by simulating the laser-plasma interaction and the following plasma evolution with a two-dimensional particle-in-cell code and the probe proton deflections by particle tracing. The analysis suggests the formation of rows of magnetized soliton remnants, with a quasistatic magnetic field associated with vortexlike electron currents resembling those of magnetic vortices.