The Effect of Decreasing Reflection Coefficient of Ion Acoustic Waves Using an Altemative Electric Field

An effect has been found, allowing one to vary smoothly the reflection coefficient of the ion acoustic wave from a negatively charged grid.     

The formation of negatively charged particles in thermoemission plasmas

The results of measuring the charges of the magnesium oxide particles formed near a block of metallic magnesium burning in air are presented. It has been found that, apart from positively charged magnesium oxide particles, there are negatively charged particles in the thermoemission plasma of the burning products. It has been shown that within the framework of the model of neutralizing charges, the oxide particles can acquire unlike charges in the thermoemission plasma. The calculations agree with the experimental data.     

Formation of dust-acoustic shock waves in a strongly coupled cryogenic dusty plasma

The nonlinear propagation of ultra-low-frequency dust-acoustic (DA) waves in a strongly coupled cryogenic dusty plasma has been investigated, by using the Boltzmann distributed electrons and ions, as well as modified hydrodynamic equations for strongly coupled charged dust grains. The reductive perturbation technique is used to derive the Burger equation. It is shown that strong correlations among negatively charged dust particles acts like a dissipation, which is responsible for the formation of the DA shock waves. The latter are associated with the negative potential, i.e. with the compression of negatively charged cryogenic dust particle density. It is also found that the effective dust-temperature, which arises from electrostatic interactions among negatively charged dust particles, significantly affects the height of the DA shock structures. New laboratory experiments at cryogenic temperature should be conducted to verify our theoretical prediction.     

Effect of Structural Inhomogeneity and Nonreciprocal Effects in the Interaction of Macroparticles on the Dynamic Properties of a Dusty Plasma Monolayer

JETP Letters - The dynamic properties of a quasi-two-dimensional dusty plasma structure consisting of negatively charged dust particles have been studied. The interaction between the particles is...     

Bipolar charging of dust particles under ultraviolet radiation

The photoemission charging of dust particles under ultraviolet radiation from a xenon lamp has been investigated. The velocities of yttrium dust particles with a work function of 3.3 eV and their charges have been determined experimentally; the latter are about 400–500 and about 100 elementary charges per micron of radius for the positively and negatively charged fractions, respectively. The dust particle charging and the dust cloud evolution in a photoemission cell after exposure to an ultraviolet radiation source under the applied voltage have been simulated numerically. The photoemission charging of dust particles has been calculated on the basis of nonlocal and local charging models. Only unipolar particle charging is shown to take place in a system of polydisperse dust particles with the same photoemission efficiency. It has been established that bipolar charging is possible in the case of monodisperse particles with different quantum efficiencies. Polydispersity in this case facilitates the appearance of oppositely charged particles in a photoemission plasma.     

Influence of incoherent scattering on stochastic deflection of high-energy negative particle beams in bent crystals

An investigation on stochastic deflection of high-energy negatively charged particles in a bent crystal was carried out. On the basis of analytical calculation and numerical simulation it was shown that there is a maximum angle at which most of the beam is deflected. The existence of a maximum, which is taken in the correspondence of the optimal radius of curvature, is a novelty with respect to the case of positively charged particles, for which the deflection angle can be freely increased by increasing the crystal length. This difference has to be ascribed to the stronger contribution of incoherent scattering affecting the dynamics of negative particles that move closer to atomic nuclei and electrons. We therefore identified the ideal parameters for the exploitation of axial confinement for negatively charged particle beam manipulation in future high-energy accelerators, e.g., ILC or muon colliders.     

Neutron yield when fast deuterium ions collide with strongly charged tritium-saturated dust particles

The ultrahigh charging of dust particles in a plasma under exposure to an electron beam with an energy up to 25 keV and the formation of a flux of fast ions coming from the plasma and accelerating in the strong field of negatively charged particles are considered. Particles containing tritium or deuterium atoms are considered as targets. The calculated rates of thermonuclear fusion reactions in strongly charged particles under exposure to accelerated plasma ions are presented. The neutron generation rate in reactions with accelerated deuterium and tritium ions has been calculated for these targets. The neutron yield has been calculated when varying the plasma-forming gas pressure, the plasma density, the target diameter, and the beam electron current density. Deuterium and tritium-containing particles are shown to be the most promising plasmaforming gas–target material pair for the creation of a compact gas-discharge neutron source based on the ultrahigh charging of dust particles by beam electrons with an energy up to 25 keV.     

An Electroacoustic Investigation of Concentrated Aqueous Suspensions of Calcium Pyrophosphate

The zeta potential of concentrated suspensions of calcium pyrophosphate were investigated using electroacoustics. The particles were negatively charged over the entire pH range studied. It proved impossible to reduce the pH of the suspension below 1.8, but the iso electric point could be estimated to occur at approximately pH 1. Two commercially available dispersants (one cationic and one anionic) were then added in small increments to the suspension in order to follow the change in zeta potential as the dispersants adsorbed onto the particles. From the shape of the curve it was possible to estimate the optimum adsorbed amount of dispersant required to fully coat the particles. The cationic dispersant adsorbed strongly and the optimum dosage was estimated at 2.5 ml of active polymer/kg of powder. Anionic dispersants are known to adsorb onto negatively charged ceramic oxide particles, but the anionic dispersant used in this study did not adsorb onto the negatively charged calcium pyrophosphate particles.     

Investigation of electrostatic charge distribution within the reactor wall fouling and bulk regions of a gas–solid fluidized bed

The distribution of charge within the wall fouling region and bulk of a fluidized bed reactor was investigated. Experiments were conducted in a 0.1 m in diameter carbon steel fluidization column under atmospheric conditions. Polyethylene particles were fluidized with extra dry air at 1.5 the minimum fluidization velocity (bubbling flow regime) for 1 h. Using an online Faraday cup measurement technique, the net charge-to-mass ratio (q/m), as well as the size distribution of all particles adhered to the column wall and those in the bulk of the bed was determined. The wall particles were found to be predominantly negatively charged while those which did not adhere to the wall were predominantly positively charged. The charge distribution within each region was then investigated by a custom made charged particle separator that separated the particles according to their charge magnitude and polarity. It was determined that although the net charge of the wall layer particles was negative, a significant amount of positively charged particles existed within each sample and therefore the entire wall particle layer. This suggests that the wall layer was formed through layering between positively and negatively charged particles. Particles in the bulk of the bed also consisted of bipolarly charged particles.     

The scattering of hydrogen from a cesiated tungsten surface

The reflection of protons from a partially cesiated tungsten surface is studied in the energy domain between 100 and 2000 eV and in the angular domain between 75° and 85° with respect to the surface normal. The study is performed by measuring the angular and energy distribution of the scattered negative ions. The reflection can take place along two paths. One path is reflection from the cesium surface layer, the other one is reflection from the tungsten substrate. A dependence of the final charge state on the path is observed. It is inferred that this phenomenon is due to incomplete neutralization of the protons scattered from the cesium layer. The energy loss of the reflected ions cannot be accounted for by using only the binary collision model. Also the electronic stopping of the atoms by the metal electrons is shown to be an important energy loss mechanism. Total conversion measurements of H⁺ to H^- combined with the measurements of the negatively charged fraction of the scattered particles, as reported in the proceeding paper, yield the particle reflection coefficient as a function of the angle of incidence. These reflection coefficients show that for angles of incidence less than 75° already more than 50% of the particles do not reflect from the surface. Total conversion efficiency measurements with H^- ions as primary ions show that the influence of the initial charge state on the total conversion is very small.     

Radiation field of a dipole situated near an interface of two media

The electromagnetic-field distributions and angular and total radiation intensities of a point electric dipole situated near a semibounded plasmalike medium are obtained for specular diffuse, and random reflection of plasma charged particles from the interface. It is shown that the dipole's radiation field is completely determined by the Fresnel coefficient. of electromagnetic-wave reflection from a plasma half-space with allowance for mechanism of interaction of plasma-system charged particles with the boundary surface. The frequency spectra of the dipole's radiation intensity are studied in detail in a cold-plasma approximation.Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 35, No. 6/7, pp. 540–567, June–July, 1992.     

掺杂ZnSe/BeTe Ⅱ型量子阱结构中带电激子的磁场效应

报道了n型掺杂ZnSe/BeTe/ZnSe Ⅱ型量子阱(type-Ⅱ QW)在极低温 (5—10 K)条件下的各种光学性质. 磁场中(Farada配置)ZnSe层的反射光谱展示了一个典型的负的带电激子(X^-)的跃迁特征. 对于空间间接光致发光(spacially indirect PL)光谱,它的主发光峰显示了一个反玻尔兹曼分布的非对称性,并且在磁场中(Voigt配置)它的峰值能量随磁场的增加而降低. 这些实验结果显示了该掺杂样品的空间间接PL是来自Ⅱ型QW结构所特有的带电激子的跃迁. 关键词： 光致发光 二维电子气 带电激子 Ⅱ型量子阱     

Dragging of inertial frames in the composed black-hole-particle system and the weak cosmic censorship conjecture

The European Physical Journal C - The ionization loss spectra of high-energy negatively charged particles which move in the planar channeling mode in a silicon crystal are studied with the use of...     

Growth of nuclear spin precession frequency of antiprotons (negative hyperons) under deceleration in matter with polarized nuclei

The Coulomb interaction leads to an increase of the real part of the amplitude of scattering of negatively charged particles (antiprotons, hyperons) by nuclei. In consequence, when antiprotons (negative hyperons) are decelerated in a medium with polarized nuclei, their effective energy of interaction with the medium and the nuclear spin precession frequency in a pseudomagnetic field grow as the particles decelerate. As a result, spin rotation of negatively charged particles becomes observable despite their rapid deceleration. This provides information about the spin-dependent part of the amplitude of coherent elastic zero-angle scattering in the range of low energies, where scattering experiments are practically impossible to perform.     

Quantitative theory of channeling particle diffusion in transverse energy in the presence of nuclear scattering and direct evaluation of dechanneling length

A refined equation for channeling particle diffusion in transverse energy taking into consideration large-angle scattering by nuclei is suggested. This equation is reduced to the Sturm–Liouville problem, allowing one to reveal both the origin and the limitations of the dechanneling length notion. The values of the latter are evaluated for both positively and negatively charged particles of various energies. New features of the dechanneling dynamics of positively charged particles are also revealed. First, it is demonstrated that the dechanneling length notion is completely inapplicable for their nuclear dechanneling process. Second, the effective electron dechanneling length of positively charged particle varies more than twice converging to a constant asymptotic value only at the depth exceeding the latter.     

Emission of radiation by charged particles reflected from solid surfaces

It is predicted that charged particles reflected from solid surfaces could emit radiation due to the change in their direction of motion upon reflection. The theoretical spectrum of this radiation is obtained for specular reflection. The general concept of ‘transition radiation’ is reconsidered to include this new effect which is found to dominate for low-energy, non-penetrating electrons and for high-energy electrons at grazing incidence.     

The Transmission of a Sampling Orifice for Charged and Excited Particles in the Molecular Flow Range

The transmission of a circular orifice in the molecular flow range is calculated for the case that the particular state of particles flowing through the orifice is affected by wall collisions. The deactivation of metastable atoms and the neutralisation of charged particles at the orifice tube wall is taken into account. The results give a detailed illustration of the fate of particles passing an extraction orifice, namely the fraction of particles passing without wall collision, the fraction passing after one and after multiple wall reflections as a function of the characteristic dimensions of the orifice and the reflection coefficient.     

负电性纳米银的制备及性质研究

制备了一种表面带负电的胶态纳米银,用透射电镜,吸收光谱,SERS谱对该纳米银进行了研究,发现纳米银的粒径分布均匀,平均粒径为11nm,吸收峰为422nm,常温下放置7个月仍具有较强的SERS活性,当阴离子型分子吲哚丁酸,阳离子型分子碱性品红,亚甲兰及中性分子邻菲罗邻分别吸附在其上时,观察到阳离子型分子碱性品红和亚甲兰及中性分子邻菲罗邻的SERS谱,而阴离子型分子吲哚丁酸则无SERS谱出现。     

Metastable state of three-component two-temperature plasma and fireball problem

It has been shown that like-charged particles inside electroneutral plasma can be attracted to each other, in contrast with non-electroneutral plasma considered in the literature, where such particles electrostatically repulse when they have any distance between them. We have calculated an analytical formula for the free energy of electroneutral three-component two-temperature plasma, from the basis of the Poisson–Boltzmann electrostatic equation. It is shown that free energy has a local minimum when the temperature of electrons exceeds 2000 K, when the quantity of electrons is less than 20% of the total quantity of negatively charged particles, when the temperature of ions is 300 K and when the distance between ions is several Debye radii. Plasma of a specified structure, temperature and density can mimic a fireball substance, in contrast with, for example, two-component isothermal plasma which has no minimum free energy at any interparticle distance.     

Charging energy and stability of charged metallic particles

The stability of a charged metallic particle is investigated within the classical theory. The minimal number of atoms for which a charged spherical particle is stable against the spheroidal deformation, which relaxes the energy cost due to the Coulomb repulsion between extra charges, is derived. It is suggested that, for negatively charged particles, an extra electron virtually bound to particle is emitted before the fragmentation due to the Coulomb repulsion between extra charges will occur.