In Diamond Health

In contrast to the sparkling gemstone, diamond-like carbon (DLC) is a thin film coating that is dense, inert, low friction and hard wearing. Interdisciplinary research, involving materials scientists, physicists, mechanical engineers, biomedical specialists and clinicians, is continuously expanding the potential and applications of DLC and enhanced carbon-based materials in the medical sector

Unbroken SU(2)SU(2) at a 100 TeV collider

A future 100 TeV pp collider will explore energies much higher than the scale of electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking. In this paper we study some of the phenomenological consequences of this fact, concentrating on enhanced bremsstrahlung of EW gauge bosons. We survey a handful of possible new physics experimental searches one can pursue at a 100 TeV collider using this phenomenon. The most dramatic effect is the non-negligible radiation of EW gauge bosons from neutrinos, making them partly visible objects. The presence of collinear EW radiation allows for the full reconstruction of neutrinos under certain circumstances. We also show that the presence of EW radiation allows one to distinguish the $SU(2)$ quantum numbers of various new physics particles. We consider examples of two completely different new physics paradigms, additional gauge groups and SUSY, where the bremsstrahlung radiation of $W$ and $Z$ from $W'$s, $Z'$s or stops allows one to determine the couplings and the mixing angles of the new particles (respectively). Finally, we show how the emission of $W$s and $Z$s from high $p_T$ Higgs bosons can be used to test the couplings of new physics to the Higgs boson.Comment: 27 pages, 10 figure

Factors Affecting the Electrochemical Responses of Metal Complexes at Pyrolytic Graphite Electrodes Coated with Films of Poly(4-Vinylpyridine)

Electrochemical responses from the reduction of RuIII (edta) coordinatedto films of high molecular weight poly(4-vinylpyridine) on pyrolytic graphiteelectrodes were studied as functions of film thickness, temperature, supportingelectrolyte composition, and solvent. Responses at filmed electrodes from metalcomplexes that do not coordinate to the films were also examined. With filmsthicker than ca. 1000Å, the current responses are limited by the rates of molecularmotions within the films. Penetration of counterions, segmental motion ofsections of the polymer chains, and juxtapositioning of pairs of attached metalcomplexes to facilitate intercomplex electron transfer within the film or combinationsof the three are suggested as likely current limiting processes