Transverse interferometry of a hydrogen-filled capillary discharge waveguide

Transverse interferometric measurements are presented of the plasma channel formed in a hydrogen-filled capillary discharge waveguide recently used to generate 1 GeV electrons in a laser-driven plasma accelerator for the first time. The measurements were found to be in good agreement with nonlocal thermal equilibrium simulations, but showed significant differences with the results of a quasistatic model developed by Bobrova et al. [Phys. Rev. E. 65, 016407 (2001)]. The measurements are used to determine scaling laws for the axial electron density and matched spot size of the plasma channel, enabling optimization of the channel to specific applications.     

Anomalous scaling in epitaxial growth on vicinal surfaces: meandering and mounding instabilities in a linear growth equation with spatiotemporally correlated noise

We have undertaken an extensive analytical and kinetic Monte Carlo study of the (2+1) dimensional discrete growth model on a vicinal surface. A non-local, phenomenological continuum equation describing surface growth in unstable systems with anomalous scaling is presented. The roughness produced by unstable growth is first studied considering various effects in surface diffusion processes (corresponding to temperature, flux, diffusion anisotropy). We found that the thermally activated roughness is well-described by a generalized Lai–Das Sarma–Villain model with non linear growth continuum equation and uncorrelated noise. The corresponding critical exponents are computed analytically for the first time and show a continuous variation in agreement with simulation results of a solid-on-solid model. However, the roughness related to the meandering instability is found, unexpectedly, to be well described by a linear continuum equation with spatiotemporally correlated noise.     

高效液相色谱法测定水体中的氯虫酰胺残留量

采用Kromasil C18不锈钢柱(250mm×4.6mm i.d..5μm),以甲醇-水混合溶剂(65:35,V/V)为流动相,流速1.0mL/min,光电二极管阵列检测器,检测波长236nm和柱温35C,建立了不同水体中氯虫酰胺残留的高效液相色谱分析方法.氯虫酰胺水样直接用二氯甲烷进行液-液分配萃取.在0.10-10mg/L的浓度范围内,氯虫酰胺峰面积(y)与质量浓度(x)呈现良好的相关性,其线性回归方程为y=2170.4x 2641.7,r2=0.9991.井水和池塘水中添加质量浓度为0.01-1.00mg/L时,其平均回收率分别为94.70%-100.37%和89.14%-100.22%,变异系数分别为0.81%-5.11%和1.81%-5.30%,水样中的氯虫酰胺最低检测质量浓度(LOQ)为7.5×10-3mg/L,方法快速、灵敏度高、重现性好,具有较好的准确度和精密度,可用于环境中水样和土壤样中氯虫酰胺的残留检测分析.     

Haptoglobin subtype determination by isoelectric focusing in agarose gel: application to paternity testing and presentation of a new alpha 2-variant

Haptoglobin subtyping of a Danish population sample (n = 2184) by a modified isoelectric focusing/immunoblotting method, using agarose gel and visualization by an alkaline phosphatase conjugated antibody, is presented. The allele frequencies were: Hp*1F 0.151; Hp*1S 0.241; Hp*2FS 0.565; Hp*2SS 0.040; Hp*2FF 0.002; Hp J*0.0002. Based on these data the theoretical change of exclusion of nonfathers in paternity cases was calculated to be 35%. Examination of 51 families with 120 children and of 648 mother/child pairs showed no exceptions from Mendelian inheritance. The results obtained by application of Hp subtyping to 405 paternity cases are given and the reliability of the method is discussed. A new alpha 2-variant occurring in the father and in two of three siblings of a Danish family is presented.     

Markoff triples and quasifuchsian groups

We study the global behaviour of trees of Markoff triples overthe complex numbers. We relate this to the space of type-preservingrepresentations of the punctured torus group into SL(2,C). Inparticular, we explore which Markoff triples correspond to quasifuchsianrepresentations. We derive a variation of McShane's identityfor quasifuchsian groups. In the case of non-discrete representations,we attempt to relate the asymptotic behaviour of Markoff triplesto the realisability of laminations in hyperbolic 3-space. Wealso consider how some of these issues might be related formore general surfaces. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification:57M50.     

Single-shot Thomson scattering on argon plasmas created by the Microwave Plasma Torch; evidence for a new plasma class

To determine the fine-structure size of plasmas created by a Microwave Plasma Torch (MPT), single-shot Thomson scattering (TS) measurements were performed. The aim was to find a solution for the long-standing discrepancy between experiments and Global Plasma Models (GPMs). Since these GPMs are based on the assumption that (ambipolar) diffusion is the main loss process for charged particles, the diffusion length and thus the fine-structure size should be known with high precision before an appropriate theory-experiment comparison can be carried out. In order to avoid the effect of blurring, which is created during the accumulation of multi-shot TS signals and which obscures the fine-structures, single-shot measurements are indispensable to determine the diffusion length.