a+0 (980)-resonance production in pp-->dK+K-0 reactions close to threshold

The reaction pp-->dK+K(-)0 has been investigated at an excess energy of Q=46 MeV above the K+K(-)0 threshold with ANKE at the cooler synchrotron COSY-Jülich. From the detected coincident dK(+) pairs, about 1000 events with a missing K(-)0 were identified, corresponding to a total cross section of sigma(pp-->dK+K(-)0)=[38+/-2(stat)+/-14(syst)] nb. Invariant-mass and angular distributions have been jointly analyzed and reveal s-wave dominance between the two kaons, accompanied by a p wave between the deuteron and the kaon system. This is interpreted in terms of a(+)0 (980)-resonance production.     

Modified Tilting-Plate Method for Measuring Contact Angles

The additivity of the dynamic curvature of a thermocapillary depression and the static curvature of liquid meniscus is experimentally confirmed. A high sensitivity of response shape to the static curvature of liquid surface is used to improve the tilting-plate method. The results of measuring contact angles by this method are well consistent with the data obtained by the sessile drop method. The behavior of meniscus is analyzed in the tilting of a plate with various positioning of its rotation axis in relation to the liquid–gas interface. The applicability limits of the modified method are indicated.     

Steering in computational science: Mesoscale modelling and simulation

This paper outlines the benefits of computational steering for high performance computing applications. Lattice-Boltzmann mesoscale fluid simulations of binary and ternary amphiphilic fluids in two and three dimensions are used to illustrate the substantial improvements which computational steering offers in terms of resource efficiency and time to discover new physics. We discuss details of our current steering implementations and describe their future outlook with the advent of computational grids.     

Quantum shuttle phenomena in a nanoelectromechanical single-electron transistor

An analytical analysis of quantum shuttle phenomena in a nanoelectromechanical single-electron transistor has been performed in the realistic case, when the electron tunneling length is much greater than the amplitude of the zero point oscillations of the central island. It is shown that when the dissipation is below a certain threshold value, the vibrational ground state of the central island is unstable. The steady state into which this instability develops is studied. It is found that if the electric field E between the leads is much greater than a characteristic value E(q), the quasiclassical shuttle picture is recovered, while if E0) shuttle vibrations.     

Investigation of the a 0 + (980)-resonance with ANKE

Two experiments on the production of the a ₀ ⁺ (980)-resonance in the reaction were performed with the ANKE spectrometer at COSY-Jülich. The decay channels and were measured simultaneously at energies T = 2.65 GeV and T = 2.83 GeV. For the reaction a total production cross-section of nb has been deduced for T = 2.65 GeV. Further goals of the data analysis are to determine differential cross-sections like angular distributions and the branching ratio .Received: 30 September 2002, Published online: 22 October 2003PACS: 13.75.Cs Nucleon-nucleon interactions (including antinucleons, deuterons, etc.) - 25.40.Ve Other reactions above meson production thresholds (energies > 400 MeV)P. Fedorets: For the ANKE Collaboration: Complete collaboration list available via: http: //www.fz-juelich.de/ikp/ankeV. Kleber: For the ANKE Collaboration: Complete collaboration list available via: http: //www.fz-juelich.de/ikp/anke     

Thermocapillary deformation of a water layer at local heating

A horizontal water layer of 0.29-0.44 mm thickness, locally heated from the substrate, is investigated. The value of thermocapillary deformation occurring at local heating is measured by an inverted laser scanning confocal microscope Zeiss LSM 510 Meta. The heater in the form of strip of 0.5-mm width, 40-mm length, and 0.5-mm height made of indium oxide is sputtered on a sapphire substrate. The water temperature from the side of the substrate is measured using the infrared scanner Titanium 570M. We studied in detail the effect of the initial layer thickness and heating power on the value of thermocapillary deformation and temperature field. It is shown that deformation increases with an increase in thermal capacity and decrease in the layer thickness. Results of numerical simulation are in good qualitative agreement with the measurement results.     

Isolobal analogy between trivalent boron and divalent silicon

Singlet organosilylenes with a lone pair and an emptyp orbital are isolobal to trivalent borane if a B-H is equated to the lone pair on Si. Using this analogy, a particular isomer of CSi₂H₂ (24) is predicted to be a stable structure. MNDO calculations on24 and many of its possible isomers suggest that24 is at global minimum on the potential energy surface of CSi₂H₂.Ab initio calculations using a, minimal STO-3G basis set, on some selected structures also support these results.     

Radiative strength functions for nuclei in which the number of protons is close to the magic number of Z=28

The distribution of the radiative strength in nuclei where the number of nucleons of one type is nearly magic (Z=28±1) and where there are a few valence nucleons of the other type is investigated. It is shown that the statistical approach that is based on Fermi liquid theory and which takes into account temperature and the shell structure of nuclei leads to good agreement with experimental data on radiative strength functions below the neutron binding energy in such nuclei. Only for the ⁵⁹Co and ⁶⁵Cu nuclei, which have the largest number of valence neutrons among the cobalt and copper isotopes being investigated, is the energy dependence of the radiative strength compatible with a Lorentz distribution as well.     

Application of a droplet cluster to visualize microscale gas and liquid flows

The possibility of using microdroplets, which form a dissipative droplet-cluster structure, as tracers localized in the boundary layer of a gas adjoining a liquid-gas interface is experimentally demonstrated. Examples of the visualization of boundary layer flow fields generated by both processes in the gaseous phase and liquid convection are considered.     

a 0 + (980)-resonance production in the reaction pp → dπ + η close to the K\bar K threshold

The reaction pp → dπ ⁺ η has been measured at a beam energy of T _p = 2.65 GeV (p _p = 3.46 GeV/c) using the ANKE spectrometer at COSY-Julich. The missing-mass distribution of the detected dπ ⁺ pairs exhibits a peak around the η mass on top of a strong background of multipion pp → dπ ⁺(nπ) events. The differential cross section d ⁴ σ/dΩ_d dΩ _π ⁺ dp _d dp _π ⁺ for the reaction pp → dπ ⁺ η has been determined model independently for two regions of phase space. Employing a dynamical model for the a ₀ ⁺ production allows one then to deduce a total cross section of σ(pp → da ₀ ⁺ → dπ ⁺ η) = 1.1 ± 0.3_stat ± 0.7_syst μb for the production of π ⁺ η via the scalar a ₀ ⁺ (980) resonance and σ(pp → dπ ⁺ η) = 3.5 ± 0.3_stat ± 1.0_syst μb for the nonresonant production. Using the same model as for the interpretation of recent results from ANKE for the reaction , the ratio of the total cross sections is , which is in agreement with branching ratios in the literature. The text was submitted by the authors in English.