Chaotic Expansion of Elements of the Universal Enveloping Algebra of a Lie Algebra Associated with a Quantum Stochastic Calculus

The functional Ito formula, in the form df() = f( + d ) –f(),is formulated and proved in the context of a Lie algebra L associatedwith a quantum (non-commutative) stochastic calculus. Here fis an element of the universal enveloping algebra U of L, andf() + d() – f() is given a meaning using the coproductstructure of U even though the individual terms of this expressionhave no meaning. The Ito formula is equivalent to a chaoticexpansion formula for f() which is found explicitly. 1991 MathematicsSubject Classification: primary 81S25; secondary 60H05; tertiary18B25.     

A New Bacterial Adenosine-Derived Nucleoside as an Example of RNA Modification Damage

The fields of RNA modification and RNA damage both exhibit a plethora of non-canonical nucleoside structures. While RNA modifications have evolved to improve RNA function, the term RNA damage implies detrimental effects. Based on stable isotope labelling and mass spectrometry, we report the identification and characterisation of 2-methylthio-1,N6-ethenoadenosine (ms²ϵA), which is related to 1,N6-ethenoadenine, a lesion resulting from exposure of nucleic acids to alkylating chemicals in vivo. In contrast, a sophisticated isoprene labelling scheme revealed that ms²ϵA biogenesis involves cleavage of a prenyl moiety in the known transfer RNA (tRNA) modification 2-methylthio-N6-isopentenyladenosine (ms²i⁶A). The relative abundance of ms²ϵA in tRNAs from translating ribosomes suggests reduced function in comparison to its parent RNA modification, establishing the nature of the new structure in a newly perceived overlap of the two previously separate fields, namely an RNA modification damage.     

Effect of Na+ and Ca2+ ions on the photochemical formation of hydrogen peroxide in frozen aqueous solutions of adenine derivatives

Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A - The content of hydrogen peroxide is determined in NaCl-containing (0.001–0.1 M) aqueous solutions of adenosine-5'-diphosphate (ADP) and adenosine...     

Nuclear reactions triggered by laser-accelerated relativistic electron jets

A relativistic electron beam, generated by relativistic self-focusing of an ultra-high-intensity laser pulse in a He gas jet, was targeted onto high-Z materials for conversion to high-energy bremsstrahlung. Nuclear reactions in the primary converter materials as well as in secondary and tertiary targets placed directly behind the converter were analyzed with time-resolved -spectroscopy. The electron-jet temperature of more than 35 MeV, matching the giant dipole resonances of heavy nuclei, enabled us to efficiently generate photo-induced nuclear reactions. The measured temperatures are significantly higher than suggested by ponderomotive scaling. We supplemented our earlier measurement of the (, n) reaction cross section of ¹²⁹I with a method solely based on nuclear reactions. The photo-induced transmutation yields were increased by two orders of magnitude compared to earlier experiments. Simulations with the Monte Carlo code MCNPX confirm the experimental results . PACS 52.38.Ph; 25.20.Lj     

Search for correlated neutral strange particles and muon production in π−p interactions at 225 GeV

A measurement is made of the production correlation between neutral strange particles V and muons. The interactions originated in a streamer chamber containing a Lucite target bombarded by 225 GeV π^? mesons. The experiment has a sensitivity of 10 events per nanobarn and yields no evidence for new particles.