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Corporate Acquisitions and Firm-level Uncertainty: Domestic versus Cross-Border Deals
This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions on the uncertainty faced by acquiring firms. We use data for UK public companies from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with difference-in-differences to control for the endogenous selection of firms into acquiring status. Acquisitions exert a large and persistent effect on the volatility of stock returns of acquirers and is characterized by a pecking order: domestic takeovers lead to a reduction in the uncertainty faced by the acquirer, while cross-border acquisitions|particularly those involving target firms in emerging markets|engender a positive response in acquirers' volatility
Parametrization of the Driven Betatron Oscillation
An AC dipole is a magnet which produces a sinusoidally oscillating dipole
field and excites coherent transverse beam motion in a synchrotron. By
observing this coherent motion, the optical parameters can be directly measured
at the beam position monitor locations. The driven oscillation induced by an AC
dipole will generate a phase space ellipse which differs from that of the free
oscillation. If not properly accounted for, this difference can lead to a
misinterpretation of the actual optical parameters, for instance, of 6% or more
in the cases of the Tevatron, RHIC, or LHC. The effect of an AC dipole on the
linear optics parameters is identical to that of a thin lens quadrupole. By
introducing a new amplitude function to describe this new phase space ellipse,
the motion produced by an AC dipole becomes easier to interpret. Beam position
data taken under the influence of an AC dipole, with this new interpretation in
mind, can lead to more precise measurements of the normal Courant-Snyder
parameters. This new parameterization of the driven motion is presented and is
used to interpret data taken in the FNAL Tevatron using an AC dipole.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, and 1 tabl
Magnetic spin moment reduction in photoexcited ferromagnets through exchange interaction quenching: Beyond the rigid band approximation
The exchange interaction among electrons is one of the most fundamental
quantum mechanical interactions in nature and underlies any magnetic phenomena
from ferromagnetic ordering to magnetic storage. The current technology is
built upon a thermal or magnetic field, but a frontier is emerging to directly
control magnetism using ultrashort laser pulses. However, little is known about
the fate of the exchange interaction. Here we report unambiguously that
photoexcitation is capable of quenching the exchange interaction in all three
ferromagnetic metals. The entire process starts with a small number of
photoexcited electrons which build up a new and self-destructive potential that
collapses the system into a new state with a reduced exchange splitting. The
spin moment reduction follows a Bloch-like law as , where is
the absorbed photon energy and is a scaling exponent. A good agreement
is found between the experimental and our theoretical results. Our findings may
have a broader implication for dynamic electron correlation effects in
laser-excited iron-based superconductors, iron borate, rare-earth
orthoferrites, hematites and rare-earth transition metal alloys.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, one supplementary material fil
v4 for identified particles at RHIC from viscous hydrodynamics
Using ideal and viscous hydrodynamics, the ratio of azimuthal moments
v4/(v2)^2 is calculated for pions, protons, and kaons in sqrt{s}=200 A*GeV
Au+Au collisions. For any value of viscosity here is little dependence on
particle species. Ideal hydrodynamics and data show a flat curve as a function
of pt. Adding viscosity in the standard way destroys this flatness. However, it
can be restored by replacing the standard quadratic ansatz for delta f (the
viscous correction to the distribution function at freeze-out) with a weaker
momentum dependence.Comment: Proceedings of Hot Quarks 2010, 21-26 June 2010 La Londe Les Maures,
4 pages, 2 figure
Influence of chloride ions on progress of carbonation in concretes
Our infrastructure and environment face unprecedented challenges in addressing a low carbon future with limited natural resources, expanding population, increased pollution and climatic uncertainties. Adaptation and innovations must therefore play a vital role in addressing the anticipated wide ranging complex scenarios ahead. The environment in which construction
materials will need to function will become far more complex and aggressive and hence a fundamental revaluation of the most appropriate materials for future infrastructure and
environment will be required in order to tackle those challenges. This paper focuses on a class of
construction materials, both old and new, based on magnesia (MgO). They include a wide range
of materials from those that contain MgO as a small additive to those which solely consist of MgO.
They include concrete with MgO as an expansive additive, pervious concrete, alkali-activated
cements, magnesium phosphate cements, carbonated products, stabilising additives for ground
improvement, self-healing additives, carbon capture and storage materials and binders for waste
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and contaminated land remediation. Those materials and products offer a range of technical and
sustainability benefits for a range of structural, geotechnical and environmental applications. The
paper highlights the applications and benefits that would be achieved with magnesia-bearing
construction materials
Study on the immobilisation mechanism of chromium under microwave sintering
Chromium (Cr) salts have been widely used in various industries and the discharged waste has caused soil
contamination. Among them, Cr(VI) is the main concern due to its high solubility and strong carcinogenic
properties. This paper compares the performance of a novel microwave sintering technique with the
conventional sintering technique for immobilising Cr contaminated soil. The most significant advantage of the
microwave sintering is that it can provide controlled atmosphere (such as reduction atmosphere), which
means Cr(Vl) can be reduced to less hazardous Cr(III) during the sintering process. The potential secondary
contamination can, thus, be significantly reduced. The XRD results show that with microwave sintering,
stronger and sharper peaks were observed, indicating minerals with higher crystallinity have been formed.
On the other hand, the SEM results reveal that with conventional electric sintering, the microstructure was
dominated by glassy phases, whilst a mixture of glassy and crystalline phases has been identified with
microwave sintering. The leaching results show that the contaminated soil processed with microwave has
met both British and Chinese leaching standards, and is better than that from the electric sintering technique
Generating high-order optical and spin harmonics from ferromagnetic monolayers
High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has entered a new phase of
intensive research, with envisioned band-structure mapping on an ultrashort
time scale. This partly benefits from a flurry of new HHG materials discovered,
but so far has missed an important group. HHG in magnetic materials should have
profound impact on future magnetic storage technology advances. Here we
introduce and demonstrate HHG in ferromagnetic monolayers. We find that HHG
carries spin information and sensitively depends on the relativistic spin-orbit
coupling; and if they are dispersed into the crystal momentum space,
harmonics originating from real transitions can be -resolved and carry
the band structure information. Geometrically, the HHG signal is sensitive to
spatial orientations of monolayers. Different from the optical counterpart, the
spin HHG, though probably weak, only appears at even orders, a consequence of
SU(2) symmetry. Our findings open an unexplored frontier -- magneto-high-order
harmonic generation.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figure
High sensitivity microwave detection using a magnetic tunnel junction in the absence of an external applied magnetic field
In the absence of any external applied magnetic field, we have found that a
magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) can produce a significant output direct voltage
under microwave radiation at frequencies, which are far from the ferromagnetic
resonance condition, and this voltage signal can be increase by at least an
order of magnitude by applying a direct current bias. The enhancement of the
microwave detection can be explained by the nonlinear resistance/conductance of
the MTJs. Our estimation suggests that optimized MTJs should achieve
sensitivities for non-resonant broadband microwave detection of about 5,000
mV/mW
Study on interoperation and its' implementation of MES to support virtual factory
© 2020 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. The data interoperation between VF (virtual factory) platform and MES (Manufacturing Execution System) plays an important role in intelligent factory construction. The study focuses on the integration strategy between the VF and the MES by incorporating VF manufacturing assets in two ways, i.e., vertical integration (used for production line performance evaluation) and the horizontal integration (cloud manufacturing based on manufacturing assets services discovery and their composition). The VF platform which integrates the manufacturing assets in two manners is designed as the bottom layer in the entire integration framework. It has been applied to build a four tiers integration model in an intelligent production system construction of a domestic ship manufacturer and verified its feasibility and availability
Multiwavelength Observations of the BL Lacertae Object PKS 2155-304 with XMM-Newton
The optical-UV and X-ray instruments on-board XMM-Ndewton provide an
excellent opportunity to perform simultaneous observations of violently
variable objects over a broad wavelength range. The UV and X-ray bright BL Lac
object PKS 2155-304 has been repeatedly observed with XMM-Ndewton about twice
per year. In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of the simultaneous
multiwavelength variability of the source from optical to X-rays, based on the
currently available XMM-Ndewton observations. These observations probed the
intra-day multiwavelength variability at optical-UV and X-ray wavelengths of
the source. The UV variability amplitude is substantially smaller than the
X-ray one, and the hardness ratios of the UV to X-rays correlates with the
X-ray fluxes: the brighter the source, the flatter the UV-X-ray spectra. On
2000 May 30-31 the UV and X-ray light curves were weakly correlated, while the
UV variations followed the X-ray ones with no detectable lags on 2000 November
19-21. On 2001 November 30 the source exhibited a major X-ray flare that was
not detected in the optical. The intra-day UV and X-ray variability presented
here is not similar to the inter-day UV and X-ray variability obtained from the
previous coordinated extensive multiwavelength campaigns on the source,
indicating that different ``modes'' of variability might be operating in PKS
2155-304 on different timescales or from epoch to epoch.Comment: Accepted by Ap
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