Coherent bremsstrahlung from relativistic channelled positrons

Poor beam collimation leads to overcompensation of suppression of coherent bremsstrahlung in the axial channelling case. This fact has been used to study the effect of beam divergence on the radiation emitted by relativistic (axially) channelled positrons. It has been found that due to beam divergence in the experiment of Alguard and co-workers in which radiation of 56 MeV positrons channelling along 〈110〉 rows of a silicon crystal is observed, coherent bremsstrahlung becomes an important contributing factor to the high frequency part of the observed spectrum.     

In-beam gamma-ray and electron spectroscopy following the75As(p,n)75Se reaction

The level scheme of⁷⁵Se has been studied through the⁷⁵As (p, n) reaction at proton energies from 1.5 to 5.0 MeV.γ-ray and internal conversion electron measurements were made using NaI (T1) and Ge(Li) detectors and a six-gap electron spectrometer. A proportional counter and a thin window NaI(T1) detector were used to detectγ-rays with energies less than 30 keV. The level scheme has been established by observing the thresholds of variousγ-rays and byγ-γ and e^?-γ coincidence measurements. New levels at 133.0, 293.2, 790.0, 953.0, 1020.8, 1184.3, 1198.5 and 1258.2 keV not observed in earlier (p, n) studies have been established. Conversion coefficients of most of the low-lying transitions have been determined. Angular distributions of some of theγ-rays were also measured and compared with the statistical model calculations. DefiniteJ ^π assignments have been made to most of the low-lying levels. Life-times of the 112.1, 133.0, 286.7 and 293.2 keV levels have been measured to be 0.69±0.12, 5.3±0.6, 1.35±0.15 and 31±2 nsec respectively. The reduced transition probabilities for various low-lying transitions have been determined and compared with recent calculations. The 1/2^? and 9/2⁺ levels hitherto unknown in this nucleus has been identified. The structure of the low-lying levels is discussed in terms of the existing models.     

A parallel search algorithm for directed acyclic graphs

A parallel algorithm for depth-first searching of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) on a shared memory model of a SIMD computer is proposed. The algorithm uses two parallel tree traversal algorithms, one for the preorder traversal and the other for therpostorder traversal of an ordered tree. Each of these traversal algorithms has a time complexity ofO(logn) whenO(n) processors are used,n being the number of vertices in the tree. The parallel depth-first search algorithm for a directed acyclic graphG withn vertices has a time complexity ofO((logn)²) whenO(n ^2.81/logn) processors are used.     

A consistent form of reduced density matrices of superfluids

The present paper aims at deriving a systematic expression of the second order reduced density matrixΩ ₂ in the case of a condensed system of identical spinless bosons. The derivation lends itself to generalization leading to higher order reduced density matricesΩ _n ,n>2, that are consistent with the hierarchical set of equations of motion for the differentΩ _n .     

Determination of the amine content of chitosan by pyrolysis-gas chromatography

Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry has been applied to the study of N-acetyl-d-glucosamine, chitin and chitosans of varying degrees of deacetylation prepared from chitin. An examination of the pyrograms of samples of chitosan revealed that there is a direct correlation between the amine content and the ratio of the areas of the peaks derived from the glucosamine and N-acety-d-glucosamine moieties.