Hardware and software for the automating atomic-absorption spectrometers AAS, S115, and saturn

We describe a modified GELIOS System intended to automate the atomic-absorption spectrometers AAS, S115, SATURN, and Perkin-Elmer 503. Software is prepared in the visual environment of programming DELFI-3 and functions under the control of Windows 95. A distinguishing feature of the GELIOS System is simultaneous search for the peak and area of the absorption signal, correction of the errors of measurements, automatic digital filtration of data, control of the time of operation of hollow-cathode lamps, measurement of spectra and the statistical resource of the service life of hollow-cathode lamps, use of different methods to construct a calibrating graph, the possibility of memorizing the data of the analysis in an archived file, and a formation of the report for printing. The system contains an electrovic data directory on atomicabsorption analysis in five volumes for 67 elements of the Mendeleev system. To whom correspondence should be addressed. “University” Science and Production Center, 4, F. Skorina Ave., Minsk, 220050, Belarus. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 734–737, September–October, 1999.     

二维运动电荷的Mei对称性

把Mei对称性方法用于电磁场中带电粒子的运动，从二维运动电荷的Mei对称性出发,运用比较系数法，得到与Mei对称性相应的生成元的普遍表达式及电磁场所满足的偏微分方程组.对一特例进行了讨论. 关键词： 二维运动电荷 电磁场 Mei对称性     

电解液中带电平板与带电胶体球之间的有效相互作用

用Poisson-Boltzmann方程，计算了在具有单价离子的电解质溶液中均匀地带同号电荷的两无限大平行平板间的有效相互作用，以及用Derjaguin近似研究了边界对带电胶体球的影响.不考虑微离子相互作用时，两带电平板只有排斥作用，而且边界条件(面电荷密度)的改变对它们之间的有效相互作用影响不大.带电平板与带电胶体球之间的相互作用也有类似规律. 关键词： Poisson-Boltzmann方程 Derjaguin近似 双电层 渗透压     

Embedding of a relativistic charged particle

A charged particle following the Reissner-Weyl vacuum field-distribution shows in its interior a real singularity (the matter-tensor becomes infinite). By embedding the interior submanifoldds ²=g ₁₁·dr ²+g ₀₀·dt ² into a pseudo-Euclidean spaceE ₃:ds ²=dZ ₁ ² +dZ ₂ ² –dZ ₃ ² one finds that the embedded (r, t)-metric looks like a cone with the top liying in theZ ₁,Z ₂ plane. The general formulas of embedding the complete manifold into a pseudo-Euclidean spaceE ₆ are discussed.     

Radiation damage calculations for charged particle emission nuclear reactions

Taking the quantum tunneling and Coulomb barrier into account, the present work proposes the calculation of Primary Knock-on Atom (PKA) energy for charged particle emission reactions. The method proposed in this paper and that used in NJOY have a large difference of PKA energy for charged particle emissions. For a D+T fusion neutron-induced ⁶Li(n,t)⁴He PKA, the maximum PKA energy calculated with NJOY is 2.9 MeV, whereas 14.2 MeV is obtained with the formula proposed in the present work. The subsequent total neutron-induced Displacement per Atom (DPA) calculated with the two methods has a small difference for most isotopes of which the DPA is predominated by neutron scattering reactions, such as ⁵⁶Fe and ⁵⁸Ni. However, the difference can be important for nuclei with charged particle emission channels open at thermal energy, such as ⁶Li, ¹⁰B, and ⁵⁹Ni. Using the damage cross sections (calculated by NJOY with and without modifications) and SRIM/TRIM-2008 calculations, the relative differences on total DPA rates of the compound material 90%⁵⁶Fe-9%⁵⁸Ni-1%⁵⁹Ni are within 1% for two fast spectra, 1.5% for fusion first wall, about 5% for the heavy reflector, and 25% for a pressurized water reactor vessel.     

The ground state energy per particle for infinite particle quantum systems

We give a simple proof that the ground state energy per particle for several interacting particle systems is monotone and bounded as the number of particles increases. Some of the systems for which the proof holds are anharmonic oscillator approximations to || _d ^/4 quantum fields, many body Schrödinger operators with nearest and next to nearest neighbor couplings, and systems whose energy is given by operators which are not restricted to being differential operators.Research partially supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. MCS-77-03568     

Physics and applications of charged particle beam sources

The authors review the physics and a few applications of charged particle beam sources, most of which originate from, propagate through, or use as a target, a partially ionized plasma. The authors present the plasma phenomena and plasma conditions which are general to most of the charged particle sources, but also other approaches and the current status of the research. The authors describe the applications of charged particle beam sources using partially ionized plasmas in accelerators and ion implantation. The applications covered are those of accelerator sources and ion implantation     

Laser spectroscopy for QED tests in highly charged ions

An overview on laser spectroscopic work on highly charged ions (HCI) currently performed or in preparation at GSI is given. This includes laser spectroscopy on HCI in ion traps at the HITRAP facility and at the experimental storage ring (ESR).     

Canonical algorithms for numerical integration of charged particle motion equations

A technique for numerically integrating the equation of charged particle motion in a magnetic field is considered. It is based on the canonical transformations of the phase space in Hamiltonian mechanics. The canonical transformations make the integration process stable against counting error accumulation. The integration algorithms contain a minimum possible amount of arithmetics and can be used to design accelerators and devices of electron and ion optics.     

Optimization of accelerated charged particle beam for ADS energy production

A comparative analysis and optimization of energy efficiency for proton and ion beams in ADS systems is performed via simulation using a GEANT4 code with account for energy consumption for different accelerator types. It is demonstrated that for light nuclei, beginning from ⁷Li, with energies above 1 GeV/nucleon, ion beams are considerably (several times) more efficient than the 1–3 GeV proton beam. The possibility of achieving energy deposition equivalent to 1 GeV protons in a quasi-infinite uranium target with higher efficiency (and twice as small accelerator size) in the case of acceleration of light ions is substantiated.     

On a quadratic first integral for the charged particle orbits in the charged Kerr solution

Associated with the charged Kerr solution of the Einstein gravitational field equation there is a Killing tensor of valence two. The Killing tensor, which is related to the angular momentum of the field source, is shown to yield a quadratic first integral of the equation of the motion for charged test particles.The research reported herein has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation, grants GP-8868, GP-20023, and GU-1598; the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, grant 903-67; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, grant 44-004-001; and the Westinghouse Corporation.     

Mass-selective trapping of pulsed charged particle beams

The phase-space method is used to evaluate the mass-selective ion confinement properties of the radio-frequency (rf) quadrupole ion trap with phase-synchronized switching-on of the driving rf field for pulsed ion injection from an external source. The results are of interest for on-line investigations of both short-lived isotopes and stable highly charged ions. In particular, singly charged ions with an energy of 10 eV and a mass in the neighborhood of 100 amu, injected along the gap or through an aperture on one of the electrodes, are considered. Mass-selective storage of the injected ions is possible for any trap operation point within the stability region by allowing a field-free drift distance before ion injection. It is shown that after appropriate scaling the results apply to the trapping of any pulsed beam of charged particles.     

Electrostatic focusing of intense charged particle beams

Methods of forming solutions of the Maxwell equations for an electric field concerning the problem of focusing intensive charged particle beams are considered.     

Energy resolution of silicon charged particle detectors

It is shown that the energy resolution of silicon detectors, estimated from α-ray spectra irradiated by a reference α source (i.e., the surface resolution), is not always an indicator of detector quality. The energy resolution found from the spectra of particles that penetrate deeply into the detector material (i.e., the depth resolution) can be quite inferior to the surface resolution. It is proposed that detectors be tested in a quasimochromatic neutron flux.     

Electromagnetic energy and momentum from a charged particle

We compute the flux of the stress-energy tensor across a tube surrounding the world line of a charged particle. By slight modifications of the definition of the Coulomb energy-momentum, the resulting expression contains the radiation reaction term (proportional to the square of the four-acceleration) but not the Schott term (proportional to the derivative of the acceleration). The equation of motion for the particle derived from this expression implies a variable rest mass.     

带电粒子加速器的基本类型及其技术实现

现代粒子加速器的发展已有100年的历史。给出了粒子加速器主要类型的简单分类图表,从粒子加速器发展过程中相关概念演变和加速器技术逻辑发展的角度,概述了粒子加速器的基本类型、基本工作原理、相应的技术实现途径以及各类加速器的典型的技术特征。     

Propagator for a charged particle in a time-dependent electromagnetic field

We first show that the propagator of a charged particle in a time-dependent electromagnetic field, obtained by choosing the vector and scalar potentials to be in static symmetric gauge, is related to the propagator of a one-dimensional particle under a time-dependent perturbative force and with generalized memory. For the case of a constant magnetic field, the latter can then be evaluated exactly with the help of a gaussian integral. Our new results are in agreement with the well-known results of simpler cases.     

Low-cost speckle interferometry for measuring 3D deformation fields: Hardware and software

In the present paper the authors propose a portable and low-cost speckle interferometer for evaluating 3D deformation fields. The interferometer was designed and realized with the aim of carrying out measurements on small areas, hence it can be used to approach problems characterized by displacement field with highly localized gradients, such as the strain relief occurring in residual stress evaluation or the displacements which arise around notches or crack tips. The costs of the experimental equipment were reduced by employing laser diodes as light sources, a PZT actuator designed and calibrated by the authors and a control electronics realized on purpose. Moreover the configuration which was adopted allows further saving on optical components. The experimental results reported at the end of the paper, and obtained by a specimen subjected to 3D rigid body motions, show a high repeatability and accuracy. Furthermore the experimental results have shown that the geometry of the optical setup implies the variation of the sensitivity vectors on the inspected area, but this effect can be evaluated (analytically and/or experimentally) and taken into account in order to increase the accuracy of the measurements.