Nuclear axial currents from scale-chiral effective field theory

By incorporating hidden scale symmetry and hidden local symmetry in the nuclear effective field theory,combined with the double soft-pion theorem, we predict that the Gamow-Teller operator coming from the space component of the axial current should remain unaffected by the QCD vacuum change caused by the baryonic density,whereas the first forbidden beta transition operator coming from the time component should be strongly enhanced.While the latter has been confirmed for some time, the former was given support by a powerful recent ab initio quantum Monte Carlo calculation for light nuclei, which also confirmed the old?chiral filter hypothesis." Formulated in terms of the Fermi-liquid fixed point structure of strong-coupled nuclear interactions, we offer an extremely simple resolution to the long-standing puzzle of the?quenched g A," g_A~(eff) ≈1 [1], found in nuclear Gamow-Teller beta transitions, giant Gamow-Teller resonances, and double beta decays.     

Micromechanism of sulfurizing activated carbon and its ability to adsorb mercury

The effect of ambient environment (dry or wet) and overlapping laser pulses on the laser ablation performance of brass has been investigated. For this purpose, a Q-switched, frequency doubled Nd:YAG laser with a wavelength of 532 nm, pulse energy of 150 mJ, pulse width of 6 ns and repetition rate of 10 Hz is employed. In order to explore the effect of ambient environments, brass targets have been exposed in deionized water, methanol and air. The targets are exposed for 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 succeeding pulses in each atmosphere. The surface morphology and chemical composition of ablated targets have been characterized by using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) techniques. In case of liquid environment, various features like nano- and micro-scale laser-induced periodic surface structures with periodicity 500 nm–1 μm, cavities of size few micrometers with multiple ablative layers and phenomenon of thermal stress cracking are observed. These features are originated by various chemical and thermal phenomena induced by laser heating at the liquid–solid interfaces. The convective bubble motion, explosive boiling, pressure gradients, cluster and colloid formation due to confinement effects of liquids are possible cause for such kind of features. The metal oxides and alcohol formed on irradiated surface are also playing the significant role for the formation of these kinds of structure. In case of air one huge crater is formed along with the redeposition of sputtered material and is ascribed to laser-induced evaporation and oxide formation.     

Soft ZnSe nanobelts: Characterization and feasibility for assembling tubular ZnSe nanostructures

Soft ZnSe nanobelts were synthesized by taking Triton X-100 as the template surfactant in a microemulsion. Orderly alternating grooves and bulges on the surface of the nanobelts were first observed via TEM images, and potentially divide a nanobelt into quantum wire bundles. We found that the as-prepared nanobelts show remarkable varied photon scattering and optical properties. A tubular ZnSe structure was successfully obtained with extra treatment. This is an important phenomenon because that the regular folded nanobelts should help us to understand the plastic mechanical properties in a nanoscale assembled tubular structure of nanomaterials and modulate the optical properties of semiconductors.     

Fractal localized structures related to Jacobian elliptic functions in the higher-order Broer－Kaup system

This work reveals a novel phenomenon—that the localized coherent structures of a (2﹢1)﹣dimensional physical model possesses fractal behaviours. To clarify the interesting phenomenon, we take the (2﹢1)﹣dimensional higher-order Broer－Kaup system as a concrete example. Starting from a B?cklund transformation, we obtain a linear equation, and then a general solution of the system is derived. From this some special localized excitations with fractal behaviours are obtained by introducing some types of lower-dimensional fractal patterns that related to Jacobian elliptic functions.     

Robust supergain beamforming for circular array via second-order cone programming

The phenomenon of supergain for a circular array and its robust beamforming are presented. The coplanar superdirective array gain of the circular array, although it is not so extreme as an endfire line array, outperforms a lot over that of a conventional delay-and-sum beamformer in isotropic noise fields when the inter-element spacings are much smaller than one-half wavelength. However, optimum beamforming algorithms can be extremely sensitive to slight errors in array characteristics. The performance are known to degrade significantly if some of underlying assumptions on the sensor array is violated. Therefore, white noise gain constraint is used to improve the robustness of the supergain beamformer against random errors. We show that the design of the weight vector of robust supergain beamformer can be reformulated as a form of second-order cone programming and resolved efficiently via the well-established interior point method. Results of computer simulation for a 24-element circular array confirm satisfactory performance of the approach proposed in this paper.     

Coherence phenomena in the phase-sensitive optical parametric amplification inside a cavity

We theoretically and experimentally demonstrate coherence phenomena in optical parametric amplification inside a cavity. The mode splitting in the transmission spectra of a phase-sensitive optical parametric amplifier is observed. Especially, we show that a very narrow dip and peak, which are the shape of a delta function, appear in the transmission profile. The origin of the coherence phenomenon in this system is the interference between the harmonic pump field and the subharmonic seed field in cooperation with dissipation of the cavity.     

Difference-frequency ultrasound generation from microbubbles under dual-frequency excitation

The difference-frequency (DF) ultrasound generated by using parametric effect promises to improve detection depth owing to its low attenuation, which is beneficial for deep tissue imaging. With ultrasound contrast agents infusion, the harmonic components scattered from the microbubbles, including DF, can be generated due to the nonlinear vibration. A theoretical study on the DF generation from microbubbles under the dual-frequency excitation is proposed in formula based on the solution of the RPNNP equation. The optimisation of the DF generation is discussed associated with the applied acoustic pressure, frequency, and the microbubble size. Experiments are performed to validate the theoretical predictions by using a dual-frequency signal to excite microbubbles. Both the numerical and experimental results demonstrate that the optimised DF ultrasound can be achieved as the difference frequency is close to the resonance frequency of the microbubble and improve the contrast-to-tissue ratio in imaging.     

以间质隔离法研究CH3O分子在p-H2间质中的红外吸收光谱

本研究利用低温间质隔离技术搭配红外光谱仪研究CH3ONO在p-H2间质中的光解产生CH3O。实验观察到位于689.3/694.6cm-1、945.9/951.7cm-1、1041.8cm-1、1224.7cm-1、1235.5cm-1、1347.7cm-1、1365.4cm-1、1427.5cm-1、1519.5cm-1、1522.3cm-1等处的CH3O红外吸收谱线,并分析得出各振动模式分别为电子态E1/2a1对称性的ν6、电子态E1/2a2对称性的ν6、电子态E3/2对称性的ν2、电子态E3/2e对称性的ν6、电子态E1/2e对称性的ν6、电子态E1/2a1对称性的ν5、电子态E3/2对称性的ν2、电子态E1/2对称性的ν2、电子态E3/2e对称性的ν5及电子态E1/2e对称性的ν5。     

Investigation of superharmonic sound propagation and imaging in biological tissues in vitro

This article presents both theoretical and experimental studies on the superharmonic generation and its imaging in biological tissues. A superharmonic component is defined as a summation of the third-, fourth-, and fifth-order harmonics. A superharmonic signal is produced using an 8-mm-diam, 2.5-MHz planar piston source that is excited by eight-cycle, 2.5-MHz tone bursts. Axial and lateral field distributions of the superharmonic component and the second harmonic are first calculated based on the nonlinear KZK model and then compared with those experimentally determined at two different source pressures of 0.5 and 1 MPa. Results indicate that the amplitude of the superharmonic component can exceed that of the second harmonic, depending on the axial distance and the fundamental pressure amplitude. Also, the 3-dB beamwidth of the superharmonic component is about 23% narrower than that of the second harmonic. Additional experiments are performed in vitro using liver and fatty tissues in transmission mode and produced two-dimensional images using the fundamental, the second harmonic, and the superharmonic signals. Although the clinical applicability of this work still needs to be assessed, these results indicate that the superharmonic image quality is better than that of the other two images.