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Superconductivity in diamond
We report the discovery of superconductivity in boron-doped diamond
synthesized at high pressure (8-9 GPa) and temperature (2,500-2,800 K).
Electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, and
field-dependent resistance measurements show that boron-doped diamond is a
bulk, type-II superconductor below the superconducting transition temperature
Tc=4 K; superconductivity survives in a magnetic field up to Hc2(0)=3.5 T. The
discovery of superconductivity in diamond-structured carbon suggests that Si
and Ge, which also form in the diamond structure, may similarly exhibit
superconductivity under the appropriate conditions.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
PHENIX detector overview
The PHENIX detector is designed to perform a broad study of A-A, p-A, and p-p collisions to investigate nuclear matter under extreme conditions. A wide variety of probes, sensitive to all timescales, are used to study systematic variations with species and energy as well as to measure the spin structure of the nucleon. Designing for the needs of the heavy-ion and polarized-proton programs has produced a detector with unparalleled capabilities. PHENIX measures electron and muon pairs, photons, and hadrons with excellent energy and momentum resolution. The detector consists of a large number of subsystems that are discussed in other papers in this volume. The overall design parameters of the detector are presented. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved