Evidence for anchimeric assistance in the expulsion of bromine from ring-substituted β-phenylethyl bromides: When is a simple cleavage a rearrangement?

Using the principles of the quasi-equilibrium theory, substituent effects, deuterium labeling and comparison of compound behavior, we provide strong evidence for aryl participation in the expalsion of Br· from the molecular ion of β-phenylethyl bromide and eleven of its ringsubstitued derivatives. This reaction shows a kinetic behavior which is typical of rearrangements, its activation energy is lower than that of similar reactions where participation is partially or completely precluded and substitute effects are not only consistent with a particular process, but are also consistent with those predicted from solution chemistry.     

Competition cusps in (α, γ) reactions

Absolute cross sections are presented for the reactions ³⁷Cl(α, γ)⁴¹K for 2.90 MeV ≦ E^lab_α ≦ 5.23 MeV, ${}^{62}\text{Ni}\text{(α, γ)}{}^{66}\text{Zn}\text{for}\text{5.07}\text{MeV}\text{≦ E}{}_{\mathrm{\alpha }}{}^{\mathrm{?2}}\text{lab}\text{≦ 8.64}\text{MeV}\text{,}{}^{62}\text{Ni}\text{(α,}\text{n}\text{)}{}^{65}\text{Zn}$ for energies near the (α, n₀) threshold at $\text{E}{}_{\mathrm{\alpha }}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>lab</mtext>}}\text{= 6.90}\text{MeV up to}\text{8.76}\text{MeV}\text{,}{}^{64}\text{Ni}\text{(α, γ)}{}^{68}\text{Zn for}\text{4.50 ≦ E}{}_{\mathrm{\alpha }}{}^{\mathrm{<mtext>lab</mtext>}}\text{≦ 7.45}\text{MeV}$, and for ⁶⁴Ni(α, n)⁶⁷N from E_α^lab = 5.30 MeV up to E_α = 7.45 MeV. Substantial competition cusps were observed in the excitation function for all three (α, γ) reactions. The data were found to be in reasonable agreement with the predictions of the current versions of global Hauser-Feshbach models used in nucleosynthesis calculations. Including width fluctuation corrections and realistic neutron strength functions generally improves the ability of the models to predict the depth of the (α, γ) competition cusps; the depths of the predicted (α,γ) cusps are insensitive to the degree of isospin mixing. Taken together with studies of competition effects in proton-induced reactions, the present data confirm the importance of width fluctuation and strength function effects, and indicate essentially complete isospin mixing between T^< and T^> states in the compound nucleus.     

A characterization of certain weak1-closed subalgebras of L∞

Let $\text{R}$ denote the real line and L^∞(R), the class of all Borel measurable L^∞-functions of $\text{R}$. Let S ≠ {0} or φ, be a linear subspace of L^∞(R) which is (i) translation invariant, (ii) weak¹-closed, (iii) self-adjoint, i.e., f?S implies f?S, and (iv) an algebra. Then either (a) S = all constant functions in L^∞; or (b) S = L^∞; or (c) there is a unique c > 0 such that S consists of all L^∞-functions which are periodic of period c.Extension of the above characterization of periodic subalgebras of L^∞ to LCA groups are presented. Also it is shown that the above characterization is in various ways best possible.     

Optical transitions in antiferromagnets in the saturated paramagnetism region

The behaviour of the spins of the photoexcited ions and its nearest antiferromagnetic neighbours in a two-sublattice antiferromagnet with isotropic Heisenberg interaction in the saturated paramagnetism region has been theoretically studied. It has been shown that the magnetic moments of the ions may be oriented in this region noncollinear to the magnetic field in the case whether the exchange integral in the excited state is larger than in the ground state or there is strong uniaxial single-ion “easy plane” anisotropy in the excited state. The exciton-magnon transitions intensity may, as a result, also alter in the saturated paramagnetism region.     

Topological and leading particle cross sections for 147 GeV/c π− -p interactions

Results are reported based on a study of π^?p interactions at 147 GeV/c in the FERMILAB 30-inch Proportional Wire Hybrid Bubble Chamber System. We have measured the topological cross sections and separated two-prong elastic and inelastic channels. In addition, we have extracted leading particle cross sections using the increased momentum resolution of the downstream proportional wire chambers. We have compared our results with experiments and predictions of a simple fragmentation hyphothesis.