The seesaw mechanism for the small neutrino mass has been a popular paradigm, yet it has been believed that there is no way to test it experimentally. We present a conceivable outcome from future experiments that would convince us of the seesaw mechanism. It would involve data from the CERN Large Hadron Collider, International Linear Collider, cosmology, underground, and low-energy flavor experiments to establish the case. 相似文献
High voltage electron microscopy studies have been performed on irradiated pure silica and borosilicate glasses to check their long-term stability when these materials are employed near high energy radioactive sources, such as in fusion reactors and during the storage of nuclear waste. The intense energetic beam of electrons produced by the Harwell 1 MeV microscope, ranging from 1017 to 1020 e/cm2/s has been focused upon specimens of various composition and impurity content at different temperatures up to about 850°C. Pure silica samples have also been bombarded with 46.5 MeV Ni+6 ions at the Variable Energy Cyclotron. It is found that while no significant changes are detectable in pure irradiated silica, clear evidence is present in complex borosilicate glasses for the growing of large defect clusters (over 1000 Å, resembling gas bubbles) after electron doses of about 8.5 × 1019 e/cm2 and dose rates exceeding 2 × 1018 e/cm2/sec. Moreover, small regions, about 100 Å wide, scattering electrons more than the matrix are also present. The nature of this fine microstructure has been established as a phase separation into crystalline tridymite. The observations are discussed in terms of their dependence on temperature, sample thickness, dose and dose rates. 相似文献
Silica gels doped with [Cu(C5H5N)4]2+ (C5H5N = Py), CuCl2-HOCH2CH2OH and Cu(CH3COO)2-NH2(CH2)3Si-(OC2H5)3 (CH3COO = OAc, C2H5 = Et) have been prepared and examined by X-ray diffraction, electron spin resonance, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), thermal gravimetric analysis and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Different dopants have different interactions with the silica alcogels depending on the chemistry of the dopants: [Cu(Py)4]2+ forms chemical bonds with the hydroxyl oxygens on the surface of the silica matrix; in Cu(OAc)2-NH2(CH2)3Si(OEt)3-doped alcogels, the siloamine enters into the sol-gel reaction and Cu(OAc)2 coordinates to the -NH2(CH2)3 ligand of the precursor. However, there is no evidence for bond formation between copper and the hydroxyl groups on the silica surface in the CuCl2-HOCH2CH2OH-doped alcogels. The TEM images show a homogeneous and uniform distribution of copper particles on the reduced CuCl2-HOCH2CH2OH- and Cu(OAc)2-NH2(CH2)3Si(OEt)3-doped xerogel surface. The type of nitrogen adsorption isotherms of doped silica xerogels are unaffected by the dopant concentration. However, their surface areas do depend on the level of dopant. The microstructure of the silica matrix is primarily determined by the pH of the initial reactants, at least in the [Cu(Py)4]2+-doped case. 相似文献
Tea is rich in polyphenols and has a variety of biological activities. In order to better understand the biological effects of tea constituents on human health, markers for their exposure and their metabolic fates are needed. Previously, we have characterized several catechin metabolites in the blood and urine, but more information on the metabolite profile of tea polyphenols is needed. In the present study, the human urinary metabolite profile of tea polyphenols was investigated using liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry with data-dependent acquisition. With data-dependent MS/MS analysis by collecting the MS2 and MS3 spectra of the most intense ions in the sample, we identified more than twenty metabolites of tea polyphenols from human urine samples. (-)-Epigallocatechin (EGC) glucuronide, methylated EGC glucuronide, methylated EGC sulfate, (-)-epicatechin (EC) glucruronide, EC sulfate, methylated EC sulfate, as well as the glucuronide and sulfate metabolites of the ring-fission metabolites of tea catechins, 5-(3',4',5'-trihydroxyphenyl)-gamma-valerolactone (M4), 5-(3',4'-dihydroxyphenyl)-gamma-valerolactone (M6) and 5-(3',5'-dihydroxyphenyl)-gamma-valerolactone (M6'), were the major human urinary metabolites of tea polyphenols. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the direct simultaneous analysis of the human urinary metabolite profile of tea polyphenols using single sample analysis. This method can also be used for thorough investigations of the metabolite profiles of many other dietary constituents. 相似文献
In this paper it is shown that the projective cover of the trivial irreducible module of a finite-dimensional solvable restricted Lie algebra is induced from the one dimensional trivial module of a maximal torus. As a consequence, the number of the isomorphism classes of irreducible modules with a fixed p-character for a finite-dimensional solvable restricted Lie algebra L is bounded above by pMT(L), where MT(L) denotes the maximal dimension of a torus in L. Finally, it is proved that in characteristic p > 3 the projective cover of the trivial irreducible L-module is induced from the one-dimensional trivial module of a torus of maximal dimension, only if L is solvable. 相似文献
Determining the spin of new particles is critical in identifying the true theory among various extensions of the Standard Model at the next generation of colliders. Quantum interference between different helicity amplitudes was shown to be effective when the final state is fully reconstructible. However, many interesting new physics processes allow only for partial reconstruction. In this Letter, we show how the interference effect can be unambiguously extracted even in processes that have two-fold ambiguity, by considering the correlation between two decay planes in e+e− collisions. 相似文献
The missing link : Ferrocene and porphyrin monolayers are tethered on silicon surfaces with short (see picture, left) or long (right) linkers. Electron transfer to the silicon substrate is faster for monolayers with a short linker.
We describe ColliderBit, a new code for the calculation of high energy collider observables in theories of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). ColliderBit features a generic interface to BSM models, a unique parallelised Monte Carlo event generation scheme suitable for large-scale supercomputer applications, and a number of LHC analyses, covering a reasonable range of the BSM signatures currently sought by ATLAS and CMS. ColliderBit also calculates likelihoods for Higgs sector observables, and LEP searches for BSM particles. These features are provided by a combination of new code unique to ColliderBit, and interfaces to existing state-of-the-art public codes. ColliderBit is both an important part of the GAMBIT framework for BSM inference, and a standalone tool for efficiently applying collider constraints to theories of new physics. 相似文献