Two million volt terminal tandem accelerator

Design and construction details of a horizontal 2 MV Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator built at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre are given. A terminal voltage of 2.15 MV has been achieved. Energy analysed Corona stabilized beams of protons and oxygen ions have been obtained. Experiments have been carried out to test the performance of the accelerator.     

Resonant response of orthotropic cylindrical shells

The resonant response of simply supported, thin and thick, orthotropic cylindrical shells is determined by using modal analysis, for three levels of hysteretic damping. This response is significantly changed if the larger of the elastic constants associated with normal stresses refers to the meridional, instead of the circumferential, direction. These changes may be related to changes in the relevant natural frequency. The causes of the latter are studied by considering the modal amplitudes and the contributions to the strain energy function associated with the various stress resultants.     

B-factory signals for a warped extra dimension

We study predictions for B physics in a class of warped extra dimension models recently introduced, where few ( approximately 3) TeV Kaluza-Klein masses are consistent with electroweak data due to custodial symmetry. As in the standard model (SM), flavor violations arise due to the heavy top quark leading to striking signals: (i) New physics contributions to DeltaF=2 transitions are comparable to the SM, so the success of the SM unitarity triangle fit is a "coincidence." Thus, clean extractions of unitarity angles are likely to be affected, in addition to O(1) deviation from the SM prediction in B(s) mixing. (ii) O(1) deviation from various SM predictions for B-->X(s)l(+)l(-). (iii) Large mixing-induced CP asymmetry in radiative B decays. Also, the neutron electric dipole moment is roughly 20 times larger than the current bound so that this framework has a "CP problem."     

Biophysical aspects of cyclodextrin interaction with paraoxon

Cyclodextrins are torus‐shaped polymers of glucose that can bind organophosphorous compounds such as nerve agents and pesticides. We demonstrate here that cyclodextrin can bind up to two paraoxon molecules with a K_av of 6775 M^‐1. Molecular modeling shows that the paraoxon appears to bind in polar opposite orientation and have an average binding energy of ?89 Kcals/mol. Published 2013. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.