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Feed efficiency during early lactation in cows of specialized and dual purpose genotypes
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Improved sensitivity of H.E.S.S.-II through the fifth telescope focus system
The Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) works by imaging the very
short flash of Cherenkov radiation generated by the cascade of relativistic
charged particles produced when a TeV gamma ray strikes the atmosphere. This
energetic air shower is initiated at an altitude of 10-30 km depending on the
energy and the arrival direction of the primary gamma ray. Whether the best
image of the shower is obtained by focusing the telescope at infinity and
measuring the Cherenkov photon angles or focusing on the central region of the
shower is a not obvious question. This is particularly true for large size IACT
for which the depth of the field is much smaller. We address this issue in
particular with the fifth telescope (CT5) of the High Energy Stereoscopic
System (H.E.S.S.); a 28 m dish large size telescope recently entered in
operation and sensitive to an energy threshold of tens of GeVs. CT5 is equipped
with a focus system, its working principle and the expected effect of focusing
depth on the telescope sensitivity at low energies (50-200 GeV) is discussed.Comment: In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference
(ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil
Impalement transitions in droplets impacting microstructured superhydrophobic surfaces
Liquid droplets impacting a superhydrophobic surface decorated with
micro-scale posts often bounce off the surface. However, by decreasing the
impact velocity droplets may land on the surface in a fakir state, and by
increasing it posts may impale droplets that are then stuck on the surface. We
use a two-phase lattice-Boltzmann model to simulate droplet impact on
superhydrophobic surfaces, and show that it may result in a fakir state also
for reasonable high impact velocities. This happens more easily if the surface
is made more hydrophobic or the post height is increased, thereby making the
impaled state energetically less favourable.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Europhysics Letter
Optical Limiting in Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Suspensions
Optical limiting behaviour of suspensions of single-walled carbon nanotubes
in water, ethanol and ethylene glycol is reported. Experiments with 532 nm, 15
nsec duration laser pulses show that optical limiting occurs mainly due to
nonlinear scattering. The observed host liquid dependence of optical limiting
in different suspensions suggests that the scattering originates from
microbubbles formed due to absorption-induced heating.Comment: 10 pages, 5 eps figures, to appear in Chem. Phys. Let
Piercing an interface with a brush: collaborative stiffening
The hairs of a painting brush withdrawn from a wetting liquid self-assemble
into clumps whose sizes rely on a balance between liquid surface tension and
hairs bending rigidity. Here we study the situation of an immersed carpet in an
evaporating liquid bath : the free extremities of the hairs are forced to
pierce the liquid interface. The compressive capillary force on the tip of
flexible hairs leads to buckling and collapse. However we find that the
spontaneous association of hairs into stronger bundles may allow them to resist
capillary buckling. We explore in detail the different structures obtained and
compare them with similar patterns observed in micro-structured surfaces such
as carbon nanotubes "forests".Comment: 9 pages, 6 figure
van der Waals interaction in nanotube bundles : consequences on vibrational modes
We have developed a pair-potential approach for the evaluation of van der
Waals interaction between carbon nanotubes in bundles.
Starting from a continuum model, we show that the intertube modes range from
to . Using a non-orthogonal tight-binding approximation
for describing the covalent intra-tube bonding in addition, we confirme a
slight chiral dependance of the breathing mode frequency and we found that this
breathing mode frequency increase by 10 % if the nanotube lie inside a
bundle as compared to the isolated tube.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Superconductivity in Ropes of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
We report measurements on ropes of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNT) in
low-resistance contact to non-superconducting (normal) metallic pads, at low
voltage and at temperatures down to 70 mK. In one sample, we find a two order
of magnitude resistance drop below 0.55 K, which is destroyed by a magnetic
field of the order of 1T, or by a d.c. current greater than 2.5 microA. These
features strongly suggest the existence of superconductivity in ropes of SWNT.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
High-field 1/f noise in hBN-encapsulated graphene transistors
Low-frequency 1/f noise in electronics is a conductance fluctuation, that has
been expressed in terms of a mobility "-noise" by Hooge and
Kleinpenning. Understanding this noise in graphene is a key towards
high-performance electronics. Early investigations in diffusive graphene have
pointed out a deviation from the standard Hooge formula, with a modified
expression where the free-carrier density is substituted by a constant density
. We investigate hBN-encapsulated
graphene transistors where high mobility gives rise to the non-linear
velocity-saturation regime. In this regime, the -noise is accounted for
by substituting conductance by differential conductance , ressulting in a
bell-shape dependence of flicker noise with bias voltage . The same analysis
holds at larger bias in the Zener regime, with two main differences: the first
one is a strong enhancement of the Hooge parameter reflecting the hundred-times
larger coupling of interband excitations to the hyperbolic phonon-polariton
(HPhP) modes of the mid-infrared Reststrahlen (RS) bands of hBN. The second is
an exponential suppression of this coupling at large fields, which we attribute
to decoherence effects. We also show that the HPhP bands control the amplitude
of flicker noise according to the graphene-hBN thermal coupling estimated with
microwave noise thermometry. The phenomenology of -noise in graphene
supports a quantum-coherent bremsstrahlung interpretation of flicker noise.Comment: v2, main + SI, added reference to open data on Zenodo repositor
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