(e, 3e) test on e-e correlations in helium

The angular variations of the five-fold differential cross section obtained by using different wave functions of helium are compared with experimental data. It is found that in the coplanar geometry two kinematical arrangements, (i) equal energy sharing between the two ejected electrons with one of them ejected along the momentum transfer direction and the other along varying direction and (ii) the Bethe ridge condition with fixed sum of ejected electron energies and varying angle between them, are very sensitive to e-e correlations contained in the target wave function. This comparison has been used to show that open-shell class of wave functions better incorporate e-e correlations than the closed-shell class.     

The Thermal Fragmentation of Some O-Arylsulfonyl Diphenylhydroxylamine Derivatives

Thermal fragmentation of O-Aryl-N,N-diphenylhydroxylamines I and II were investigated. Neat heating in an atmospheric nitrogen afforded arenes, biaryl, diaryl sulfide, diphenylamine, diaryl sulfone, phenols, arenesulfonic acid, carbazole, and thianthrene. In the presence of isoquinoline as a radical trap, I gave 1-phenylisoquinoline as well as the previous products. Analogous results were obtained on heating of I in boiling tetraline, which lead to the formation of 1-hydroxytetraline, α -tetralone, and 1,1′-bitetralyl as the major products. A free-radical mechanism has been postulated to take place through the initial homolysis of N─O and S─O bonds to account for the identified products.     

Tensile Properties of Graphene-Based Nanocomposites: a Comparative Study of Ultrasonication and Microcompounding Processing Methods

Mechanics of Composite Materials - Two methods are commonly used to disperse graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) in a polymer matrix system (PMS) — microcompounding and ultrasonication. In this...     

Theory of sheath in a collisional multi-component plasma

The aim of this brief report is to study the behaviour of sheath structure in a multi-component plasma with dust-neutral collisions. The plasma consists of electrons, ions, micron size negatively charged dust particles and neutrals. The sheath-edge potential and sheath width are calculated for collisionally dominated sheath. Comparison of collisionless and collisionally dominated sheath are made.     

Fast iterative methods for symmetric sinc-Galerkin systems

The symmetric sinc-Galerkin method developed by Lund, when appliedto the second-order self-adjoint boundary value problem, givesrise to a symmetric coefficient matrix has a special structureso that it can be advantageously used in solving the discretesystem. In this paper, we employ the preconditioned conjugategradient method with banded matrices as preconditioners. Weprove that the condition number of the preconditioned matrixis uniformly bounded by a constant independent of the size ofthe matrix. In particular, we show that the solution of an n-by-ndiscrete symmetric sinc-Galerkin system can be obtained in O(nlog n) operations. We also extend our method to the self-adjointelliptic partial differential equation. Numerical results aregiven to illustrate the effectiveness of our fast iterativesolvers.     

(e, 3e) Differential cross section of He (21 S) and He (23 S)

The angular distribution of the five-fold differential cross section for the electron impact double ionization of He (2¹ S) and He (2³ S) has been studied. The kinematical conditions for maxima/minima in the angular distribution for the two cases have been compared. The two-step process for the double ionization is found to contribute very little in the triplet case.     

Photochromism of tetrahydroindolizines. Part XIV: synthesis of cis-fixed conjugated photochromic pyridazinopyrrolo[1,2-b]isoquinolines incorporating carbon-rich linkers

New carbon-rich photochromic tetrahydroindolizines (THIs) bearing dihydroisoquinoline derivatives as heterocyclic bases (region B) have been synthesized via different chemical and photochemical pathways. Three alternative pathways for the synthesis of the target photochromic THI-based pyridazinopyrrolo[1,2-b]isoquinolines via in situ trapping with hydrazine hydrate have been established. In order to obtain high product yields, different Sonogashira-mediated coupling reactions have been optimized. Low temperature multichannel UV–vis and flash photolysis techniques were used to detect the photochromic and kinetic properties of the synthesized system.     

Microwave absorption studies of MgB2 superconductor

Microwave absorption studies have been carried out on MgB₂ superconductor using a standard X-band EPR spectrometer. The modulated low-field microwave absorption signals recorded for polycrystalline (grain size ∼ 10 μm) samples suggested the absence of weak-link character. The field dependent direct microwave absorption has been found to obey a ✓H dependence with two different slopes, which indicated a transition from strongly pinned lattice to flux flow regime.