Seismic Prospecting by the Method of Reflected Waves from a Historical Standpoint

Relationship is established between some periods in the history of seismic prospecting and the changes in the understanding of its physical and geological foundations. Particular attention is given to the influence of the technological progress in seismic data processing on the change in the understanding of the structure and composition of a medium. Bibliography: 46 titles.     

Synthesis and deborination of polyhalo-substituted <Emphasis Type="Italic">ortho</Emphasis>-carboranes

Tetraiodo-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane and 9-bromo-8,10,12-triiodo-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane were synthesized by oxidative iodination of 1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane and 9-bromo-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane, respectively, in AcOH using a mixture of nitric and sulfuric acid as an oxidant of iodine. The intermediates in the ortho-carborane iodination were identified. By the action of elemental bromine on 9-iodo-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane in the presence of aluminum chloride catalyst 9-iodo-8,10,12-tribromo-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane was obtained. Deborination of the synthesized substances with an alcohol solution of KOH led to formation of 1,5,6,10-tetraiodo-5-bromo-1,6,10-triiodo- and 5-iodo-1,6,10-tribromo-7,8-dicarbaundecaborates methylammonium salts.     

Low-Noise Sis Receivers for New Radio-Astronomy Projects

Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics - We have developed, manufactured, and tested a waveguide mixer in the range 211–275 GHz on the basis of the...     

On Some Factorizations of Semi-Metric Cones and Quality Estimates of Heuristic Metrics in Data Analysis Problems

Doklady Mathematics - An approach is proposed to consider heuristic metrics introduced and used in data analysis problems. In the approach, the entire information on pairwise distances expressed by...     

Penetration isotherms of binary mobile phases for liquid chromatography

Penetration isotherms ψ of eight binary solvent systems used as mobile phases in liquid chromatography are calculated. Dependences of penetrability coefficients of binary mixtures on the volume fraction of the more active solvent are described using modified polynomial functions, in which some empirical coefficients are changed for penetrability coefficients of pure solvents.     

Spectroscopy and femtosecond dynamics of the ring opening reaction of 1,3-cyclohexadiene

The early stages of the ring opening reaction of 1,3-cyclohexadiene to form its isomer 1,3,5-hexatriene, upon excitation to the ultrashort-lived 1 1B2 state, were explored. A series of one-color two-photon ionization/photoelectron spectra reveal a prominent vibrational progression with a frequency of 1350 cm(-1), which is interpreted in a dynamical picture as resulting from the ultrafast wave packet dynamics associated with the ring opening reaction. Photoionization in two-color three-photon and one-color four-photon ionization schemes show an ionization pathway via the same ultrashort-lived 1 1B2 state, and in addition, a series of Rydberg states with quantum defects of 0.93, 0.76, and 0.15, respectively. Using those Rydberg states as probes for the reaction dynamics in a time-resolved pump-probe experiment provides a direct observation of the elusive 2 1A1 state that has been implicated as an intermediate step between the initially excited 1 1B2 state and the ground electronic state. The rise and decay times for the 2 1A1 state were found to be 55 and 84 fs, respectively.     

Cross-polarisation method for improvement of 14N NQR signal detectability

This is a study of the cross-polarization effects in the case of 14N quadrupolar spin-system with a long spin-lattice relaxation time. Two important benefits of the cross-polarization technique were demonstrated for PETN: (i) a polarization transfer resulting in increased NQR single shot signal response and (ii) a dynamic reduction in recovery time of the NQR system allowing scan repetition on a much shorter timescale. It was proved that this technique can reduce the optimal waiting time between pulse sequences up to 60 times through a significant reduction of the relaxation time of the quadrupolar spin-system. All experiments were carried out at room temperature using spin-locking multi-pulse sequences and small external magnetic field.     

Phenomenological model of the diffusion of impurity atoms in ultrathin silicon layers with a nonuniform distribution of temperatures

The influence of fluxes of intrinsic nonequilibrium semiconductor defects on impurity diffusion in a nonuniform temperature field is considered in the framework of the phenomenological theory of irreversible processes. The mass transfer coefficient defined as the ratio of the concentrations of nonequilibrium and equilibrium defects is introduced to take the excessive concentration of nonequilibrium defects into account. The introduction of this coefficient into equations for matter and heat fluxes makes it possible to express the parameters of the process of thermal diffusion (the diffusion coefficient and the heat of transport) as a time-dependent function of the excessive concentration of intrinsic nonequilibrium semiconductor defects.     

Positron injector for LEPTA

The low energy positron injector for the Low Energy Particle Toroidal Accumulator (LEPTA) accumulator was assembled at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR). Key elements of the injector have been tested. The cryogenic source of slow positrons was tested with a test isotope ²²Na of the initial activity of 0.8 MBk. A continuous slow positron beam intensity of 5.8 × 10³ particle per second with an average energy of 1.2 eV and a spectrum width of 1 eV has been obtained. The achieved moderator efficiency is about 1%. The accumulation process in the positron trap was investigated with electron flux. The lifetime of the electrons in the trap, τ_life ≥ 80 s and capture efficiency ɛ ∼ 0.4, were obtained. The maximum number of accumulated particles was N _exper = 2 × 10⁸ at the initial flux of 5 × 10⁶ electrons s⁻¹. The text was submitted by the authors in English.