Black holes in scalar-tensor gravity

Hawking has proven that black holes which are stationary as the end point of gravitational collapse in Brans-Dicke theory (without a potential) are no different than in general relativity. We extend this proof to the much more general class of scalar-tensor and f(R) gravity theories, without assuming any symmetries apart from stationarity.     

Beam profile monitor for annihilation cross section measurements of antiprotons at 100 keV

The ASACUSA (the Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons) collaboration is planning to measure the cross sections of antiproton annihilations at kinetic energy 100 keV on targets of various mass numbers (C,?Ni, Sn, and Pt) using the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) of CERN. No previous measurement exists in this region where the A-dependence of the cross section is expected to deviate from the A $^{\frac{2}{3}}$ (Batty et al, Nucl Phys A 689:721, 2001) as reported by the Obelix collaboration. A beam profile monitor based on secondary electron emission with a grid of electrode pads fabricated on an FR4-type glass-epoxy circuit board was developed for this measurement. The advantage of this kind of detector is that it is simple, lightweight, and low cost. It was used to measure the spatial profile of 100-ns-long beam pulses containing > 6 × 10⁴ antiprotons with an active area of 40?mm?× 40 mm and a spatial resolution of 4 mm.     

X-ray excited optical luminescence of Ce-doped BaAl2O4

The luminescence properties of Ce³⁺ in BaAl₂O₄ are reported. The results of simultaneous measurements of XEOL and XAS in the X-ray energy range that includes the Ba L_II,III-edges and Ce L_III edge are shown. The XEOL yield increases as the energy of the photons increases. The radioluminescence spectra, taken from 200 to 1100 nm, showed broad emission bands corresponding to 5d¹→²F_5/2, ²F_7/2 transitions of Ce³⁺ when incorporated into two nonequivalent Ba sites. The lifetime of the light emission was also measured using the single bunch operation mode at the Brazilian National Synchrotron Laboratory (LNLS), and BaAl₂O₄:Ce³⁺ showed single exponential decay time component of about 44.3 ns.     

Universal Behaviour of Extreme Value Statistics for Selected Observables of Dynamical Systems

The main results of the extreme value theory developed for the investigation of the observables of dynamical systems rely, up to now, on the block maxima approach. In this framework, extremes are identified with the block maxima of the time series of the chosen observable, in the limit of infinitely long blocks. It has been proved that, assuming suitable mixing conditions for the underlying dynamical systems, the extremes of a specific class of observables are distributed according to the so called Generalised Extreme Value (GEV) distribution. Direct calculations show that in the case of quasi-periodic dynamics the block maxima are not distributed according to the GEV distribution. In this paper we show that considering the exceedances over a given threshold instead of the block-maxima approach it is possible to obtain a Generalised Pareto Distribution also for extremes computed in systems which do not satisfy mixing conditions. Requiring that the invariant measure locally scales with a well defined exponent—the local dimension—, we show that the limiting distribution for the exceedances of the observables previously studied with the block maxima approach is a Generalised Pareto distribution where the parameters depend only on the local dimensions and the values of the threshold but not on the number of observations considered. We also provide connections with the results obtained with the block maxima approach. In order to provide further support to our findings, we present the results of numerical experiments carried out considering the well-known Chirikov standard map.     

Thermal degradation kinetics of carotenoids: Acrocomia aculeata oil in the context of nutraceutical food and bioprocess technology

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - In the present study, the kinetics of β-carotene and β-cryptoxanthin degradation were investigated in edible oil mechanically extracted from...     

Acylmethanesulfonamides as new acylating agents for primary amines

A new, simple and efficient procedure for the preparation of secondary amides through internal condensation of acylmethanesulfonamides ammonium salts is described. The selective acylation of mixed primary-secondary amines could be an attractive application of the new method.     

The homology of cyclic and irregular dihedral coverings branched over homology spheres

Supported by Comité Conjunto Hispano-Norteamericano and by NSF Grant #8120790     

A very efficent column for the separation of 60 volatile organochlorine priority pollutants and for other environmental problems

Summary The complete separation of the sixty volatile organochlorine (VOC) priority pollutants has been achieved by coupling two different liquid-modified adsorption chromatography columns. Two temperature programs were used to obtain the complete separation in a relatively short analysis time. Detection was by FID alone     

2-Phenylphthalimidine derivatives. A probable formation mechanism of adducts from 3-benzylidenephthalide and aniline

3-Benzyl-3-hydroxy-2-phenylphthalimidine ( 1 ) and 3-anilino-3-benzyl-2-phenylphthalimidine ( 2 ), the unusual adduct, are obtained from the title compounds. 3-Alkoxy-3-benzyl-2-phenylphthalimidines 3 are synthesized. The behaviour of 1 , 3-benzylidene-2-phenylphthalimidines ( 4 and 5 ), 3-(α-bromobenzylidene)-2-phenylphthalimidines ( 6 and 7 ) with respect to bases and the preparation of the open tautomer 13 of 1 and its hydrochloride are described. A hypothetical mechanism about the formation of 1 and 2 is suggested.