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ВАСИЛЬ ЗЕНЬКОВСЬКИЙ ПРО РОЛЬ СІМ’Ї В ДУХОВНО-МОРАЛЬНОМУ ВИХОВАННІ ДИТИНИ (Vasyl Zenkovskyi about family role in spiritual and moral education of a child)
Стаття присвячена аналізу поглядів В. Зеньковського на роль сім’ї в духовно-моральному вихованнідитини на різних етапах становлення її особистості.
(The article is dedicated to the analyses of Zenkovskyi’s views on the family role in the moral and spiritual
education of a child at its personality stages formation.
Final results of an experiment to search for 2beta processes in zinc and tungsten with the help of radiopure ZnWO4 crystal scintillators
A search for the double beta decay of zinc and tungsten isotopes has been
performed with the help of radiopure ZnWO4 crystal scintillators (0.1-0.7 kg)
at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories of the INFN. The total exposure of the
low background measurements is 0.529 kg yr. New improved half-life limits on
the double beta decay modes of 64Zn, 70Zn, 180W, and 186W have been established
at the level of 10^{18}-10^{21} yr. In particular, limits on double electron
capture and electron capture with positron emission in 64Zn have been set:
T_{1/2}(2\nu 2K) > 1.1 10^{19} yr, T_{1/2} (0\nu 2\epsilon) > 3.2 10^{20} yr,
T_{1/2} (2\nu \epsilon \beta^+) > 9.4 10^{20} yr, and T_{1/2} (0\nu \epsilon
\beta^+) > 8.5 10^{20} yr, all at 90% C.L. Resonant neutrinoless double
electron capture in 180W has been restricted on the level of T_{1/2} (0\nu
2\epsilon) > 1.3 10^{18} yr. A new half-life limit on alpha transition of 183W
to the metastable excited level 1/2^- 375 keV of 179Hf has been established:
T_{1/2} > 6.7 10^{20} yr.Comment: This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article
published in J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. IOP Publishing Ltd is not
responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or
any version derived from it. The definitive publisher authenticated version
is available online at doi: 10.1088/0954-3899/38/11/11510
Search for long-lived superheavy eka-tungsten with radiopure ZnWO crystal scintillator
The data collected with a radioactively pure ZnWO crystal scintillator
(699 g) in low background measurements during 2130 h at the underground (3600 m
w.e.) Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (INFN, Italy) were used to set a
limit on possible concentration of superheavy eka-W (seaborgium Sg, Z = 106) in
the crystal. Assuming that one of the daughters in a chain of decays of the
initial Sg nucleus decays with emission of high energy particle
( MeV) and analyzing the high energy part of the measured
spectrum, the limit N(Sg)/N(W) < 5.5 10 atoms/atom at
90% C.L. was obtained (for Sg half-life of 10 yr). In addition, a limit on
the concentration of eka-Bi was set by analysing the data collected with a
large BGO scintillation bolometer in an experiment performed by another group
[L. Cardani et al., JINST 7 (2012) P10022]: N(eka-Bi)/N(Bi) < 1.1
10 atoms/atom with 90% C.L. Both the limits are comparable with those
obtained in recent experiments which instead look for spontaneous fission of
superheavy elements or use the accelerator mass spectrometry.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures; in press on Physica Script
Investigation of rare nuclear decays with BaF crystal scintillator contaminated by radium
The radioactive contamination of a BaF scintillation crystal with mass of
1.714 kg was measured over 101 hours in the low-background DAMA/R&D set-up deep
underground (3600 m w.e.) at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories of INFN
(LNGS, Italy). The half-life of Po (present in the crystal scintillator
due to contamination by radium) was measured as Po) =
298.80.8(stat.)1.4(syst.) ns by analysis of the events' pulse
profiles. The Rn nuclide is known as 100% decaying via emission of
particle with = 3.82 d; however, its decay is also
energetically allowed with keV. Search for decay chains of
events with specific pulse shapes characteristic for or for
signals and with known energies and time differences allowed us
to set, for the first time, the limit on the branching ratio of Rn
relatively to decay as % at 90% C.L. (equivalent to
limit on partial half-life y). Half-life limits of
Pb, Rn and Ra relatively to decays are also
improved in comparison with the earlier results.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, 2 table
Rejection of randomly coinciding events in LiMoO scintillating bolometers using light detectors based on the Neganov-Luke effect
Random coincidences of nuclear events can be one of the main background
sources in low-temperature calorimetric experiments looking for neutrinoless
double-beta decay, especially in those searches based on scintillating
bolometers embedding the promising double-beta candidate Mo, because of
the relatively short half-life of the two-neutrino double-beta decay of this
nucleus. We show in this work that randomly coinciding events of the
two-neutrino double decay of Mo in enriched LiMoO
detectors can be effectively discriminated by pulse-shape analysis in the light
channel if the scintillating bolometer is provided with a Neganov-Luke light
detector, which can improve the signal-to-noise ratio by a large factor,
assumed here at the level of on the basis of preliminary
experimental results obtained with these devices. The achieved pile-up
rejection efficiency results in a very low contribution, of the order of counts/(keVkgy), to the background counting rate
in the region of interest for a large volume ( cm)
LiMoO detector. This background level is very encouraging in
view of a possible use of the LiMoO solution for a bolometric
tonne-scale next-generation experiment as that proposed in the CUPID project
Search for double beta decay of Ce and Ce with HPGe gamma detector
Search for double decay of Ce and Ce was realized
with 732 g of deeply purified cerium oxide sample measured over 1900 h with the
help of an ultra-low background HPGe detector with a volume of 465
cm at the STELLA facility of the Gran Sasso National Laboratories of the
INFN (Italy). New improved half-life limits on double beta processes in the
cerium isotopes were set at the level of ~yr;
many of them are even two orders of magnitude larger than the best previous
results.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables; version accepted for publication on
Nucl. Phys.
First test of an enriched CdWO scintillating bolometer for neutrinoless double-beta-decay searches
For the first time, a cadmium tungstate crystal scintillator enriched in
Cd has been succesfully tested as a scintillating bolometer. The
measurement was performed above ground at a temperature of 18 mK. The crystal
mass was 34.5 g and the enrichment level ~82 %. Despite a substantial pile-up
effect due to above-ground operation, the detector demonstrated a high energy
resolution (2-7 keV FWHM in 0.2-2.6 MeV energy range), a powerful
particle identification capability and a high level of internal radiopurity.
These results prove that cadmium tungstate is an extremely promising detector
material for a next-generation neutrinoless double-beta decay bolometric
experiment, like that proposed in the CUPID project (CUORE Upgrade with
Particle IDentification)
Political and legal aspects of the information warfare
This article describes the technological features of information warfare and possible lawful mechanisms to counter information attacks. The aim of the article is to analyse the political and legal features of information warfare. The tactics of the aggressor state’s behaviour in a hybrid war was substantiated using the case of the information war between Russia and Ukraine. The channels of information dissemination, which are most often used for disintegration and disinformation purposes, were studied. Problematic issues of the domestic public space that most often appear in the perspective of disinformation attacks on the Internet are determined: the activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, cooperation between Ukraine and the EU, reforms in Ukrainian society, temporarily occupied territories and annexed Crimea, corruption in Ukraine. The tactics of confrontation between countries in the information space was analysed — attempts to establish their “security belt” from other actors in international relations and to maintain their own dominant influence in certain regions by spreading misinformation. Promising areas of further research will be the analysis of the peculiarities of the national legal systems’ development in order to counter misinformation in the context of the continuous development of democracy in the world
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