Coagulating activity of the blood, vascular wall, and myocardium under hypodynamia conditions

In order to study the effects of hypodynamia on the coagulating properties of the blood, vascular wall, and myocardium, chinchilla rabbits were kept for varying periods in special cages which restricted their movements. At the end of the experiment, blood samples were taken and the animals were sacrificed. Preparations were made from the myocardium venae cavae, and layers of the aorta. Two resultant interrelated and mutually conditioned syndromes were discovered: thrombohemorrhagic in the blood and hemorrago-thrombotic in the tissues

Simulation of Light Antinucleus-Nucleus Interactions

Creations of light anti-nuclei (anti-deuterium, anti-tritium, anti-He3 and anti-He4) are observed by collaborations at the LHC and RHIC accelerators. Some cosmic ray experiments are aimed to find the anti-nuclei in cosmic rays. To support the experimental studies of the anti-nuclei a Monte Carlo simulation of anti-nuclei interactions with matter is implemented in the Geant4 toolkit. The implementation combines practically all known theoretical approaches to the problem of antinucleon-nucleon interactions.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure

Shape of primary proton spectrum in multi-TeV region from data on vertical muon flux

It is shown, that primary proton spectrum, reconstructed from sea-level and underground data on muon spectrum with the use of QGSJET 01, QGSJET II, NEXUS 3.97 and SIBYLL 2.1 interaction models, demonstrates not only model-dependent intensity, but also model-dependent form. For correct reproduction of muon spectrum shape primary proton flux should have non-constant power index for all considered models, except SIBYLL 2.1, with break at energies around 10-15 TeV and value of exponent before break close to that obtained in ATIC-2 experiment. To validate presence of this break understanding of inclusive spectra behavior in fragmentation region in p-air collisions should be improved, but we show, that it is impossible to do on the basis of the existing experimental data on primary nuclei, atmospheric muon and hadron fluxes.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev.

Simulations of a micro-PET System based on Liquid Xenon

The imaging performance of a high-resolution preclinical microPET system employing liquid xenon as the gamma ray detection medium was simulated. The arrangement comprises a ring of detectors consisting of trapezoidal LXe time projection ionization chambers and two arrays of large area avalanche photodiodes for the measurement of ionization charge and scintillation light. A key feature of the LXePET system is the ability to identify individual photon interactions with high energy resolution and high spatial resolution in 3 dimensions and determine the correct interaction sequence using Compton reconstruction algorithms. The simulated LXePET imaging performance was evaluated by computing the noise equivalent count rate, the sensitivity and point spread function for a point source, and by examining the image quality using a micro-Derenzo phantom according to the NEMA-NU4 standard. Results of these simulation studies included NECR peaking at 1326 kcps at 188 MBq (705 kcps at 184 MBq) for an energy window of 450 - 600 keV and a coincidence window of 1 ns for mouse (rat) phantoms. The absolute sensitivity at the center of the field of view was 12.6%. Radial, tangential, and axial resolutions of 22Na point sources reconstructed with a list-mode maximum likelihood expectation maximization algorithm were <= 0.8 mm (FWHM) throughout the field of view. Hot-rod inserts of < 0.8 mm diameter were resolvable in the transaxial image of a micro-Derenzo phantom. The simulations show that a liquid xenon system would provide new capabilities for significantly enhancing PET images

Розрахунок магнітної сприятливості виродженого ідеального газу електронів у випадку анізотропної ефективної маси

Dependence of the diamagnetic susceptibility of a degenerate ideal gas of electrons on the orientation of the magnetic field strength vector relative to the crystal axes, which is due to the anisotropy of the effective mass of electrons is considered. The presence of a diamagnetic susceptibility of a degenerate ideal gas of electrons is one of the fundamental results of the application of quantum mechanics and statistical physics to the description of magnetic phenomena. For an ideal gas of electrons in vacuum, the magnetic susceptibility has diamagnetic and paramagnetic components, the origin of which is due to different mechanisms. At low values of the magnetic field strength and high temperatures, their values are proportional to each other. Since the total value of the susceptibility is measured, it is impossible to separate them. Moreover, when measuring the magnetic susceptibility of a crystal, the contribution of conduction electrons cannot be&nbsp;separated from the contributions of the electrons of atoms, unless some features of the behavior of the magnetic susceptibility of conduction electrons are known. In this article, the calculation of the angular dependence of the effective mass of electrons due to the anisotropy is carried out. The angular dependence of the diamagnetic susceptibility is calculated for the practically important case when the distances between the nearest magnetic levels are small compared to the temperature. It is shown that the angular dependence of the diamagnetic susceptibility coincides with the angular dependence of the cyclotron mass squared, which can be determined from independent cyclotron resonance experiments. It is proposed to use the results obtained to separate the diamagnetic susceptibility of conduction electrons from susceptibilities due to other mechanisms. Pages of the article in the issue: 108 - 111 Language of the article: UkrainianРозглянуто вплив анізотропії ефективної маси на компоненти тензора діамагнітної сприятливості виродженого ідеального газу електронів провідності у кристалах. Обраховано залежність цих компонент від орієнтації магнітного поля відносно кристалічних висей. Отримані результати можуть бути використані для відокремлення діамагнітної сприятливості електронів провідності від сприятливостей обумовлених іншими механізмами

Розрахунок кумулянтів і параметрів функції розподілу методом Монте-Карло та із рівняння для неї

Calculations results of the moments, central moments, cumulants and parameters of the distribution function of a beam of ions implanted in a solid body were analyzed. To analyze the differences between the results of modeling this process by the Monte Carlo method, which is widely used for practically important targets, and the results of the solution of the corresponding integrodifferential equations that describe ions distribution analytically, in the simple case of axial symmetry of the ion beam, when all moments of odd order along the transverse Cartesian coordinate is considered equal to zero due to the symmetry of the problem. It is shown that the same moments obtained by the Monte Carlo method is not exactly equal to zero, but slowly decrease with an increase in the number of ions, as predicted by statistics, and then remain approximately constant. Increasing the number of ions for Monte Carlo simulation reduces the statistical component of this error, but does not affect on the component arising from the application of a simplified model of ion-atom collisions. Pages of the article in the issue: 112 - 115 Language of the article: UkrainianПроаналізовано результати розрахунку моментів, центральних моментів, кумулянтів та параметрів функції розподілу пучка іонів імплантованих у тверде тіло. Для аналізу відмінностей між результатами моделювання цього процесу методом Монте-Карло, який широко використовується для практично важливих мішеней, та результатами розв’язку інтегродиференціальних рівнянь, які його описують аналітично, розглянуто випадок осьової симетрії пучка іонів, коли всі моменти непарного порядку по поперечній декартовій координаті рівні нулю в силу симетрії задачі. Показано, що ці ж самі моменти, отримані методом Монте-Карло повільно спадають до нуля із збільшенням кількості іонів, як і передбачається статистикою, і залишаються приблизно сталими

Beta-Delayed fission of 230Am

The exotic decay process of β-delayed fission (βDF) has been studied in the neutron-deficient isotope Am230. The Am230 nuclei were produced in the complete fusion reaction Pb207(Al27,4n)Am230 and separated by using the GARIS gas-filled recoil ion separator. A lower limit for the βDF probability PβDF(Am230)>0.30 was deduced, which so far is the highest value among all known βDF nuclei. The systematics of βDF in the region of Am230 will be discussed

On inconsistency of experimental data on primary nuclei spectra with sea level muon intensity measurements

For the first time a complete set of the most recent direct data on primary cosmic ray spectra is used as input into calculations of muon flux at sea level in wide energy range $E_\mu=1-3\cdot10^5$ GeV. Computations have been performed with the CORSIKA/QGSJET and CORSIKA/VENUS codes. The comparison of the obtained muon intensity with the data of muon experiments shows, that measurements of primary nuclei spectra conform to sea level muon data only up to several tens of GeV and result in essential deficit of muons at higher energies. As it follows from our examination, uncertainties in muon flux measurements and in the description of nuclear cascades development are not suitable to explain this contradiction, and the only remaining factor, leading to this situation, is underestimation of primary light nuclei fluxes. We have considered systematic effects, that may distort the results of the primary cosmic ray measurements with the application of the emulsion chambers. We suggest, that re-examination of these measurements is required with the employment of different hadronic interaction models. Also, in our point of view, it is necessary to perform estimates of possible influence of the fact, that sizable fraction of events, identified as protons, actually are antiprotons. Study of these cosmic ray component begins to attract much attention, but today nothing definite is known for the energies $>40$ GeV. In any case, to realize whether the mentioned, or some other reasons are the sources of disagreement of the data on primaries with the data on muons, the indicated effects should be thoroughly analyzed