Electroexcitation of nucleon resonances

In these lectures the status of electromagnetic excitation of nucleon resonances is reviewed and some of the open problems of the structure and spectroscopy of light-quark baryons are discussed. The basic formalism for describing electromagnetic processes is introduced but not derived.Lecture given at the 8th Summer School on Intermediate-Energy Physics: Hadron Dynamics at Low and Intermediate Energies, Prague, July 10–14, 1995.     

Asymptotic behavior of -semigroups in Banach spaces

We present optimal estimates for the asymptotic behavior of
strongly continuous semigroups in terms of growth abscissas of the resolvent function of the generator . In particular we give Ljapunov's classical stability condition a definite form for (infinite dimensional) abstract Cauchy problems: The abscissa of boundedness of equals the growth bound of the classical solutions of .

     

The Lewis basicity of the [Pt3(μ-CO)3(PR3)3] clusters and the X-ray crystal structure of [{ZnI2}{Pt3(μ-CO)3(PPh(i-Pr)2)3}]

The cluster compounds [Pt₃(μ-CO)₃(PR₃)₃] act as Lewis bases towards the metal halides of Group XI, MX, Group XII, MX₂, and Group XIII, MX₃, to form cluster compounds of the composition [{MX_n}{Pt₃(μ-CO)₃(PR₃)₃}]. The X-ray crystal structure, NMR and IR data are given for the compound [{ZnI}{Pt₃(μ-CO)₃(PPh(i-Pr)₂)₃}].     

Effects of <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis>-Carnitine on Sucrose-Induced Hyperlipidaemia

Summary. L-Carnitine, L-(−)-β-hydroxy-γ-trimethylaminobutyrate, plays an important role as a factor necessary for the transport of long-chain fatty acids into the mitochondria. In order to investigate the influence of L-carnitine on hyperlipidaemias, the experimental model of the sucrose-induced hypertriglyceridaemia of the rat was used. In these experiments L-carnitine in the dose of 11 mg per day and 100 g body weight (over the period of 1 week) was able to antagonize the sucrose-induced hypertriglyceridaemia and the increase of serum free fatty acid level in female rats of the Wistar strain. Carnitine administration did not change the activities of lipogenic enzymes and fatty acid synthesis in the liver. However, L-carnitine increases the rate of hepatic fatty acid oxidation. Our results indicate a hypotriglyceridemic and free fatty acid lowering effect of L-carnitine, and suggest the use of this compound in the therapy of hyperlipidaemias.     

RADICAL INTERMEDIATES IN THE FLUORESCEIN-AND EOSIN-PHOTOSENSITIZED AUTOXIDATION OF l-TYROSINE*

Abstract The Primary reactions of the cosin-and fluorescein-photosensitized autoxidation of L-tyrosine were studied in aqueous media (pH = 8.6) by the flash-photolysis technique. The dye molecules were quantitatively converted to their triplet states in a single flash. The triplet dye molecules were found to react with tyrosine or oxygen. Ground state or radical dye molecules were formed in these reactions. Some 40 per cent of the triplet-tyrosine reactions yielded radicals, in triplet dye-oxygen reactions the corresponding yield was less than 10 per cent. The ground state dye was regenerated from the semireduced dye in reactions with oxygen and from the semioxidized dye in reactions with tyrosine. In the absence of oxygen the radicals formed in the photoinduced electron-transfer between the triplet dye and tyrosine recombined to a large extent.     

Molecular structure and conformation of gaseous bromoacetyl chloride and bromoacetyl bromide as determined by electron diffraction

Bromoacetyl chloride and bromoacetyl bromide are studied by gas phase electron diffraction at nozzle-tip temperatures of 70°C and 77°C, respectively. Both compounds exist as mixtures of anti and gauche conformers. The mole fraction anti, with uncertainties estimated at 2σ, was found to be 0.474(0.080) for bromoacetyl chloride and 0.615(0.069) for bromoacetyl bromide. The results for the distance (r_a)and angle (∠α) parameters, with parenthesized uncertainties of 2σ including estimated uncertainty in the electron wave length and correlation effects are as follows: (1) bromoacetyl chloride, r(C-H) = 1.086(0.062) Å, r(CO) = 1.188(0.009) Å, r(C-C) = 1.519(0.018) Å, r(C-Cl) = 1.789(0.011) Å, r(C-Br) = 1.935(0.012) Å, ∠C-CO = 127.6(1.3)°, ∠C-C-Cl = 111.3(1.1)°, ∠C-C-Br = 111.0(1.5)°, ∠H-C-H = 109.5°(assumed), $\text{}\text{?}$/o (gauche torsion angle relative to 0° for the anti form) = 110.0°(assumed); (2) bromoacetyl bromide, r(C-H) =1.110(0.088) Å, r(C=O) = 1.175(0.013) Å, r(C-C) = 1.513(0.020) Å, r(CO-Br) = 1.987(0.020) Å, r(CH₂-Br) = 1.915(0.020) Å, ∠C-CO = 129.4(1.7)°, ∠CH₂-CO-Br = 110.7(1.5)°, ∠CO-CH₂-Br = 111.7(1.8)°, ∠H-C-H = 109.5°(assumed), ∠ø (gauche torsion angle relative to 0° for the anti form) = 105.0°(assumed). The structural results are discussed in connection with the structures of related molecules.     

Über das «pK» elektronisch angeregter Azulenium-Kationen

It is shown that azulenium cations in the first electronically excited state S₁ are stronger acids than in the ground state S₀. Their apparent pK″*, obtained from the H₀-dependence of the quenching of the azulenium cation S₁ → S₀ fluorescence does not correspond to a true acid-base equilibrium in the electronically excited state S₁. The pK″* values are kinetically controlled, the rate of reprotonation of azulene in the S₁ state being too low to compete with the internal conversion to S₀.     

Klassifikation der verallgemeinerten Regelflächen durch ihre Kommerellhyperflächen

In this paper we investigate (k+1)-dimensional generalized ruled surfaces generated by a one-parameter family of k-dimensional linear subspaces of the n-dimensional Euclidean space \(\mathbb{E}^n \) .     

Asymptotic observables on scattering states

In quantum mechanical potential scattering theory we use selected observables to describe the asymptotic properties of scattering states for long times. E.g., we show for the position and momentum operators that for Ωε?^cont(H), $$\left( {m\frac{x}{t} - p} \right)e^{ - iHt} \Psi \to 0,$$ and that the set of outgoing states is absorbing. This is obtained easily without any detailed analysis of the interacting time evolution. The class of forces includes highly singular and very long range potentials. The results may serve as an intermediate step in a proof of asymptotic completeness; as a particular application we present a simple proof of completeness for Coulomb systems.