Hollow particle tracks in AgCI-detectors

In selected Cd-doped monocristalline silverchloride detectors we observe developed tracks from particles at LET values > 300 keV/μm AgCl and charge state values > 9, without a visible central region: the “hollow track”. The microdensitometric lateral profile shows a density decrease near the track axis, up to a radial extension of some microns from highly charged particles as Fe or U-ions of several MeV/u; the tracks of fast U- or Fe-projectiles, moreover, represent an entanglement of delta-electron tracks only. A recent reanalysis of this “hollow track”-effect is suggested to be caused by recombination effects and structural distortions. They occure in areas of high delta-electron density; together with the characteristic process of track formation in crystalline AgCl/Cd they enable us to vizualise and to measure the radial range of distortion and to evaluate the threshold of the energy density above which the destruction occurs.     

On the second-moment condition of Stillinger and Lovett

The Stillinger-Lovett second-moment condition of electrolyte solutions is derived rigorously and simply from only some reasonable (but apparently never proven rigorously) assumptions concerning the asymptotic form of the direct correlation function and the Ornstein-Zernike equation. The derivation suggests that this condition is not the first member of a hierarchy of moment conditions and that there exists no simple result for a fourth-moment condition.Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.This work was partially supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, RO1 GM 20800-03 (to D.A.M.), by the Research Foundation of the State University of New York (USAEC Contract No. AT (30-1) 3668B) and the USAFOSR under Grant No. 68-1416B (to J.G.), and by the Petroleum Research Fund (A.S.).     

The Li-like KLL-Auger spectrum of foil excitation Ne-projectiles

KLL-Auger transitions of the three electron system in Ne have been recorded in a coincidence experiment free of contaminants from other systems. Energies as well as intensities are compared with calculated values.     

Lifetime measurements of the metastable 1s2s2p 4P52 state in the lithium-like N,O and Ne

Lifetimes of the metastable three electron 1s2s2p ⁴P_{$\text{5}\text{2}$} state have been studied with a time-of-flight beam-foil technique. The lifetimes were measured to be 53.5 ± 13, 20.0 ± 3 and 10.4 ± 1.5 nsec for nitrogen, oxygen and neon respectively. Lifetimes and energies of this state are in excellent agreement with theoretical values.     

Metal(II) complexes and metal(II) salts ofN-carbamoylpyrazole: N,O and N,N coordination

Summary Several new coordination compounds are reported withN-carbamoylpyrazole (Hcpz) as the ligand;viz. M(cpz)₂ where M = Cu^II and Ni^II; M(Hcpz)Cl₂ where M = Mn^II, Co^II, Cu^II, Zn^II and Cd^II; M(Hcpz)₂Cl₂ Where M = Fe^II, Co^II and Ni^II: M(Hcpz)₃(BF₄)₂ where M = Fe^II, Co^II, Ni^II, Zn^II and Cd^II; and Cu(Hcpz)₂(BF₄)₂. In the salts, Hcpz is coordinated through the nitrogen atoms of the pyrazole ring and the nitrogen atom of the carbamoyl group. In the Hcpz complexes, coordination takes place through the nitrogen atom of the pyrazole ring and the oxygen atom of the carbamoyl group.     

A unified analysis for a class of long-step primal-dual path-following interior-point algorithms for semidefinite programming

We present a unified analysis for a class of long-step primal-dual path-following algorithms for semidefinite programming whose search directions are obtained through linearization of the symmetrized equation of the central pathH _P (XS) [PXSP ^–1 + (PXSP ^–1) ^T ]/2 = I, introduced by Zhang. At an iterate (X,S), we choose a scaling matrixP from the class of nonsingular matricesP such thatPXSP ^–1 is symmetric. This class of matrices includes the three well-known choices, namely:P = S ^1/2 andP = X ^–1/2 proposed by Monteiro, and the matrixP corresponding to the Nesterov—Todd direction. We show that within the class of algorithms studied in this paper, the one based on the Nesterov—Todd direction has the lowest possible iteration-complexity bound that can provably be derived from our analysis. More specifically, its iteration-complexity bound is of the same order as that of the corresponding long-step primal-dual path-following algorithm for linear programming introduced by Kojima, Mizuno and Yoshise. © 1998 The Mathematical Programming Society, Inc. Published by Elsevier Science B.V.Corresponding author.This author's research is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants INT-9600343 and CCR-9700448 and the Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-94-1-0340.This author's research was supported in part by DOE DE-FG02-93ER25171-A001.     

Ultrafast intersystem crossing in 9,10-anthraquinones and intramolecular charge separation in an anthraquinone-based dyad

Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy was employed to determine quantitatively the ultrafast S1-T1 intersystem crossing in a 2-substituted 9,10-anthraquinone derivative (3), kisc = 2.5 x 10(12) s-1. Notwithstanding this rapid process, photoexcitation of dyad 1 is followed by competition between intersystem crossing and intramolecular charge separation, the latter leading to a short-lived (2 ps) singlet charge-transfer (CT) state. The local triplet state itself undergoes slower charge separation to populate a relatively long-lived (130 ns) triplet CT state. An earlier report about the formation of an extremely long-lived CT state (> 900 micros) in 1 was found to be erroneous and was related to the sacrificial photo-oxidation of the dimethylsulfoxide solvent used in that study. Finally, some important criteria have been formulated for future experimental validation of "unusually long-lived" CT states.     

1,2,4-Triazole complexes,part X. Complexes of transition metal(II) cyanates and thiocyanates with 1-phenyl-1,2,4-triazole

Summary Complex formation of transition metal(II) cyanates and thiocyanates (Z) with 1-phenyl-I,2,4-triazole (1-PhTr) is described. An assignment of the i.r. spectra of free and coordinated 1-phenyl-1,2,4-triazole is given. The products are mononuclear M(1-PhTr)₄Z₁ and polvnuclear M(1-PhTr)₂Z₂ compounds. The former occur ascis andtrans isomers; the latter include bridging (thio)cvanates. A tetrahedral coordination is found for zinc complexes.Part IX, D. W. Engelfriet, G. C. Verschoor and W. den Brinker, to be published.