Correlations in hypernuclear matter

We investigate short-range correlations in nuclear and hypernuclear matter. Self-energies due to short-range correlations and their influence on the nucleon and Λ -hyperon spectral functions are described in an approach accounting for a realistic treatment of mean-field dynamics and a self-consistently derived quasi-particle interaction. Landau-Migdal theory is used to derived the short-range interaction from a phenomenological Skyrme energy density functional, subtracting the long-range pionic contributions to the nucleonic spectral functions. We discuss our results for different hyperon-baryon ratios to show the influence of strangeness on the correlations in hypernuclear matter.     

低能量阈高纯锗探测器用于暗物质探测实验研究

一个位于韩国江原道襄阳郡地下实验室的暗物质WIMP探测实验中, 采用了低能量阈高纯锗探测器, 带有碘化铯晶体反符合探测器作为主动屏蔽体. 整个系统设置和能量标定已经完成, 并且已经积累了约155d的本底数据. 还应用外置伽玛源和中子源进行了实验, 以判断本底的来源. 介绍了数据的分析和初步结果, 并给出了实验诱人的前景.     

一种处理原子核多体问题的有效方法

由二级散射矩阵元出发计算了核物质内强子的二级自能修正, 并且归纳了一种研究原子核多体问题的有效方法. 另外, 还讨论了各种密度相关的相对论多体方法之间的关系.     

Exact results in modeling planetary atmospheres—I. Gray atmospheres

An exact model is proposed for a gray, isotropically scattering planetary atmosphere in radiative equilibrium. The slab is illuminated on one side by a collimated beam and is bounded on the other side by an emitting and partially reflecting ground. We provide expressions for the incident and reflected fluxes on both boundary surfaces, as well as the temperature of the ground and the temperature distribution in the atmosphere, assuming the latter to be in local thermodynamic equilibrium. Tables and curves of the temperature distribution are included for various values of the optical thickness. Finally, semi-infinite atmospheres illuminated from the outside or by sources at infinity is dealt with.     

Hierarchical structure in polymer‐based drug delivery systems as probed by calorimetric measurements

Thermoporosimetry (TPM), a differential scanning calorimetry technique that relies on the shift of transition temperatures caused by the confinement of liquids, was applied to elucidate the complex morphology of drug‐loaded polymeric microcapsules prepared by the emulsion solvent evaporation method. For the very first time, TPM has been applied simultaneously with two liquids as structural probes. It was found that Miglyol, which dissolves the selected drug (Ibuprofen), is confined inside vesicles having a mean radius of 26.3 nm, whereas water, which is the continuous phase, is trapped inside a swollen polymeric network of Eudragit with an average mesh radius of 1.7 nm. A proposed hierarchical structure is given, which predicts that Eudragit microcapsules are formed from a collection of inert oil vesicles partitioned by polymeric Eudragit membranes swollen by water. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 48: 1939–1945, 2010     

Identification of mononitropyrenes and mononitrofluoranthenes in air particulate matter via fused silica gas,chromatography combined with negative ion atmospheric pressure ionization mass spectrometry

This paper describes the use of high resolution capillary gas chromatography combined with negative ion atmospheric pressure ionization mass spectrometry (NIAPIMS) for the analysis of an air particulate extract for mononitropyrenes and mononitrofluoranthenes, some of which are powerful bacterial mutagens. The results are compared to those obtained by the electron impact mass spectrometric analysis of the same sample In addition, the NIAPIMS method confirmed the identification of 4-nitropyrene in the ambient air sample.     

Why Matter Occupies so Large a Volume？

The paper represents a rigorous treatment of the underlying quantum theory, not just in words but providing the underlying technical details, as to why matter occupies so large a volume and its intimate connection with the Pauli exclusion principle, as more and more matter is put together, as well as of the contraction or shrinkage of ＂bosonic matter＂, upon collapse, for which the Panli exclusion is abolished. From the derived explicit bounds of integrals of powers of the particle number densities, explicit bounds on probabilities of the occurrences of the events just described are extracted. These probabilities lead one to infer the change of the ＂size＂ or extension of such matter, upon expansion or contraction, respectively, as their content is increased.     

Stochastic self-oscillations in an extrinsic semiconductor under intense illumination

Summary We show that an extrinsic semiconductor (n-type), containing a deep level from impurity centres, may produce stochastic self-oscillations in the electron density and in the electric field, under intense illumination which ionizes the deep traps and heats the electrons. The feedback mechanism is the dependence of the capture coefficient of the deep centres on the electron temperature and the dependence of the deep energy level on electron temperature and concentration. The conditions for the occurrence of periodic and stochastic self-oscillations are explicitly given.

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Riassunto Si mostra che in un semiconduttore estrinseco (di tipon), contenente impurezze con un livello profondo, si possono produrre auto-oscillazioni stocastiche nella densità di elettroni in modo da ionizzare le impurezze e riscaldare gli elettroni. Il meccanismo responsabile è la dipendenza della sezione di cattura degli elettroni nel livello profondo della temperatura degli elettroni e la dipendenza dell’energia del livello dalla temperatura degli elettroni e dalla loro densitá. Si danno le esplicite condizioni per l’insorgere di auto-oscillazioni periodiche e stocastiche.

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Резюме Мы показываем, что собственный полупроводник (n-типа), содержащий глубокий уровень, связанный с примесными центрами, может производить стохастические автоколебания в электронной плотности и в электрическом поле при интенсивном облучении, которое ионизует глубокие ловушки и нагревает электроны. Этот механизм обратной связи представляет зависимость коэффициента захвата для глубоких центров от электронной температуры и зависимость глубокого энергетического уровня от температуры и концентрации электронов. В явном виде приводятся условия для возникновения периодических и стохастических автоколебаний.

     

On some measurements of the propagation properties of thermal waves in the Nb-H and Ta-H systems

Summary By means of an experimental technique based on a nonsteady-state method,i.e. on the propagation of thermal waves, we have measured at room temperature for oscillation frequencies between 6 and 30 mHz the thermal diffusivity, the lateral thermal-loss coefficient and the ?fractional heat loss? in Nb and Ta wires as a function of hydrogen doping. The appearance of hydride formation and precipitation notably changes the behaviour of these quantities. From these measurements it was also possible to calculate the propagation velocity and attenuation coefficient of thermal waves. It was found that the increase of the hydrogen concentration in the solid solution produces a gradual decrease in the velocity and increase in the attenuation coefficient until the solubility limit is reached. For larger hydrogen concentrations, the velocity showed a tendency to increase towards the value of the pure metal, while the attenuation coefficient decreased below the value of the pure metal. These results as a whole appear quite promising for studying the properties of hydrogenated systems. This work was supported by the Gruppo Nazionale di Struttura della Materia of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and by the Centro Interuniversitario di Struttura della Materia of the M.P.I., Roma (Italia).