Experimentelle Untersuchungen am Elektroneneinfang des Mangan 54 und Zink 65

The electron capture decay of Mn 54 and Zn 65 was investigated using Na I(Tl)-detectors. Spectroscopic-coincidence techniques were employed to examine theK-electron capture rates of Mn 54 and Zn 65, the branching ratio and positron rate of Zn 65. The experimental results are:P _k ω _k (Mn)=0.2492±0.0017,P _k ω _k (Zn)=0.3927±0.0026,EC ^* /EC ⁰(Zn)=53.2±1.0/46.8±1.0,γ/β ⁺=35.1±1.7,K ⁰/β ⁺=27.7±1.5. Thus electron capture to the excited state of Cu 65 occurs to the extent of 52.4±1.0% while electron capture and positron decay to the ground state were found to be associated with 46.1±1.0% and 1.49±0.05% of the disintegrations. These data partly disagree significantly from measurements of other authors. Using the fluorescence yieldsω _k (Cr)=0.279 andω _k (Cu)=0.4425, deduced from other measurements, values ofL+M/K of electron capture to the excited state could be derived:L+M/K(Mn 54)=0.120±0.015 andL+M/K(Zn 65)=0.127±0.015. These ratios agree with the calculations ofBahcall. The half-lives of Mn 54 and Zn 65 have been determined to beT _1/2(Mn 54)=312±5d,T _1/2(Zn 65)=243±4d The energy of the Zn 65-γ-rays was measured with a Ge(Li)-counter:E ^γ=1115.5±0.5 keV.     

Oxidation of Pt(110)

Using scanning tunneling microscopy and temperature programmed desorption we investigate the Pt(110) surface under strongly oxidizing conditions involving either high-pressure O2 or atomic oxygen exposure. At low temperatures, only disordered Pt oxide structures are observed. After annealing ordered surface oxide islands are observed to coexist with a highly stable reconstructed (12x2)-O chemisorption structure. From density functional theory calculations a model for the surface oxide phase is revealed. The phase is found to be metastable, and its presence is explained in terms of stabilizing defects in the chemisorption layer and reduced Pt mobility.     

Two-step reaction on a strained, nanoscale segmented surface

By means of scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory calculations we demonstrate that on the Rh(110)-(10 x 2)-O surface, a prototypical multiphase surface of an oxidized transition metal model catalyst, water formation upon H2 exposure is a two-step reaction, with each step requiring special active sites. The 1st step initiates at (2 x 1)p2mg-O defect islands in the (10 x 2) structure and propagates across the surface as a reaction front, removing half of the adsorbed oxygen. The oxygen decorated Rh ridges of the (10 x 2) structure lose their tensile strain upon this reduction step, whereby nanoscale patches of clean Rh become exposed and act as special reaction sites in the 2nd reaction step, which therefore initiates homogeneously over the entire surface.     

Measurement of the absolute hohlraum-wall albedo under ignition foot drive conditions

We present measurements of the absolute albedos of hohlraums made from gold or from high-Z mixtures. The measurements are performed over the range of radiation temperatures (70-100 eV) expected during the foot of an indirect-drive temporally shaped ignition laser pulse, where accurate knowledge of the wall albedo (i.e., soft x-ray wall reemission) is most critical for determining capsule radiation symmetry. We find that the gold albedo agrees well with calculations using the supertransition array opacity model, potentially providing additional margin for inertial confinement fusion ignition.     

Effective Field Theory for Fermi Systems in a Large N Expansion

A system of fermions with short-range interactions at finite density is studied using the framework of effective field theory. The effective action formalism for fermions with auxiliary fields leads to a loop expansion in which particle-hole bubbles are resummed to all orders. For spin-independent interactions, the loop expansion is equivalent to a systematic expansion in 1/N, where N is the spin-isospin degeneracy g. Numerical results at next-to-leading order are presented and the connection to the Bose limit of this system is elucidated.     

Double Z-pinch hohlraum drive with excellent temperature balance for symmetric inertial confinement fusion capsule implosions

A double Z pinch driving a cylindrical secondary hohlraum from each end has been developed which can indirectly drive intertial confinement fusion capsule implosions with time-averaged radiation fields uniform to 2%-4%. 2D time-dependent view factor and 2D radiation hydrodynamic simulations using the measured primary hohlraum temperatures show that capsule convergence ratios of at least 10 with average distortions from sphericity of /r200 MJ.     

12C(alpha,gamma)16O: the key reaction in stellar nucleosynthesis

The angular distributions of gamma rays from the 12C(alpha,gamma)16O reaction have been measured at 20 energy points in the energy range E(cm) = 0.95 to 2.8 MeV. The sensitivity of the present experiment compared to previous direct investigations was raised by 1-2 orders of magnitude, by using an array of highly efficient ( 100%) Ge detectors shielded actively with BGOs, as well as high beam currents of up to 500 microA that were provided by the Stuttgart Dynamitron accelerator. The S(E1) and S(E2) factors deduced from the gamma angular distributions have been extrapolated to the range of helium burning temperatures applying the R-matrix method, which yielded S(300)(E1) = (76+/-20) keV b and S(300)(E2) = (85+/-30) keV b.