Orbifolds, Sheaves and Groupoids

We characterize orbifolds in terms of their sheaves, and show that orbifolds correspond exactly to a specific class of smooth groupoids. As an application, we construct fibered products of orbifolds and prove a change-of-base formula for sheaf cohomology.     

Chemical composition and reaction analysis of single aerosol particles

In situ measurements of gas-liquid surface reactions of single aerosol microdroplets are presented. By means of optical levitation in combination with elastic (Mie) and inelastic (Raman) light scattering it is possible to get information on the chemistry of e.g. acid/base reactions as well as the physical behavior of single microparticles.     

Reactivity of sites on Al2O3 surface modified by Ni

It has been established that CO oxidation with excess O₂ on Ni/Al₂O₃ forms an inhomogeneous NiO contact surface that smoothes critical effects in the sharp reactivity change.     

Research on sound radiation from body in free field

I.IntroductionWhenastructurcvibratcs,itsvibratingsurfacewillmakesurroundingmediummovetogethcrwithit.Ifthernotionissofastthatthcmediumroundthestructureproduccaloca1contractionandcxpansionandthcypropagatefaraway,thesoundradiationisformed.Itispossiblctodcscribeanalytica11ytheradiationfic1dofsimplyandregularlyshapcdsourcessuchaspointsoundsourccs,spherica1soundsourccsandinflnite1engthllnearsoundsourccs,butitisa1mostimpossib1ctosolvetheradiationfiledbyanyanalyt-ica1methodforsourcesofvcrycomplicateds…     

Singular terms of helicity amplitudes at one loop in QCD and the soft limit of the cross sections of multi-parton processes

We describe a general method that enables us to obtain all the singular terms of helicity amplitudes of n-parton processes at one loop. The algorithm uses helicity amplitudes at tree level and simple color algebra. We illustrate the method by calculating the singular part of the one-loop helicity amplitudes of all 2 → 3 parton subprocesses. The results are used to derive the soft gluon limit of the cross sections of all 2 → 4 parton scattering subprocesses which provide a useful initial condition for the angular ordering approximation to coherent multiple soft gluon emission, incorporated in existing Monte Carlo simulation programs.     

Existence of stationary,collisionless plasmas in bounded domains

We consider a collisionless plasma, which consists of electrons and positively charged ions and is confined to a bounded domain in ?³. The distribution functions of the particles are assumed to satisfy specular reflections on the boundary of the domain and the boundary is assumed to be perfectly conducting. We establish the existence of stationary plasmas in the non-relativistic, electrostatic case described by the Vlasov–Poisson system as well as in the relativistic, electrodynamic case described by the relativistic Vlasov–Maxwell system.     

Quantitative electron probe microanalysis for the characterization of thin carbon-boron layers in fusion devices

Summary The first wall of the fusion device TEXTOR at the Forschungszentrum Jülich has been coated in situ with an amorphous hydrogen rich carbon/boron film (a-C/B:H) which reduces plasma impurities caused by the plasma surface interaction. The results of the coating process of the 35 m² large inner wall surface have been controlled by a recently developed modification of the quantitative electron probe microanalysis, which has been applied to 12 samples from specified positions inside the tokamak. The quantification itself is based on a Monte Carlo simulation of electron trajectories providing very accurate results for X-ray intensities emitted by elements present in the electron bombarded sample. The Monte Carlo results are used in the present work to calibrate the measured X-ray intensities emitted by boron and carbon from the a-C/B:H layers deposited on pure silicon substrates. As a result the total deposited mass of the layer per area unit as well as the composition of the layers (except hydrogen) could be determined very accurately. The relative errors were less than 7%. The limit of detectability were found to be in the range of one monolayer for boron as well as for carbon.     

Design and performance analysis of beam steering birefringent mercurous chloride acousto-optic device

I.IntroductionThepcrformanccsofAcousto-optic(AO)dcviccareoftenlimitcdbythepropertiesofAOmcdiawhenitisusedinAOsigna1processingsystems.Thespectrumanalyzersandcorre1ationreceivers,forinstancc,areexpcctcdtoimprovcthereso1utionanddynamicrangcwhilereducingtheproccssorvolume.Rccent1y,ancwclassofmateria1s,themercurousha1ides,promiscstocontributeimportantsolutionstosuchnccdsandisrefincdtopractica1uti1izations.Themecurousha1ideweconsidcrinthispapcrismecurouschloride(Hg,C1,).Thesing1ecrystalofHg,Cl…