Kesan teknik pengaktifan bermangkin berbeza terhadap prestasi terma penyebar haba cip balikan(Effects of different catalytic activation techniques on the thermal performance of flip chip heat spreader)

Kertas ini membentangkan kesan dua teknik pengaktifan bermangkin yang berbeza terhadap prestasi terma bagi penyebar haba cip balikan. Penyaduran nikel tanpa elektrik digunakan sebagai salah satu teknik saduran kerana ia boleh membentuk satu lapisan nikel yang ketebalannya seragam ke atas substrat kuprum. Proses pengaktifan bermangkin perlu dilakukan dahulu untuk mengenapkan sesetengah atom nikel ke atas substrat kuprum, supaya enapan nikel mampu untuk memangkinkan proses penurunan yang seterusnya. Dua jenis teknik pengakitfan telah dikaji, iaitu pemulaan galvani dan penyaduran nipis nikel-kuprum. Ujian simpanan suhu tinggi telah dijalankan untuk mengkaji takat resapan antara logam bagi lapisan nikel and kuprum. Kemeresapan terma bagi penyebar haba telah dikaji dengan menggunakan peralatan Nano-flash. Keputusan yang diperolehi menunjukkan bahawa penyebar haba yang diproses dengan penyaduran nipis nikel-kuprum mempunyai nilai kemeresapan terma (35-65 mm2 s-1) yang lebih rendah berbanding dengan penyebar haba yang diproses dengan teknik pemulaan galvani (60-85 mm2 s-1). Selain daripada itu, kajian ini juga menemui ketebalan lapisan antara logam nikel-kuprum dalam penyebar haba ini bertambah daripada 0.2 μm pada keadaan asal kepada 0.55 μm selepas 168 jam simpanan suhu tinggi. Lapisan antara logam nikel-kuprum mempunyai kekonduksian terma yang lebih rendah berbanding dengan kuprum tulen, ini telah merendahkan kemeresapan terma bagi penyebar haba. Kesimpulannya, teknik pemulaan galvani meyediakan prestasi terma yang lebih baik untuk penyebar haba yang digunakan dalam pembungkusan semikonduktor

Are deviation from bi-maximal mixing and none-zero U_{e3} related to non-degeneracy of heavy Majorana neutrinos?

We propose a scenario that the mass splitting between the first generation of the heavy Majorana neutrino and the other two generations of degenerate heavy neutrinos in the seesaw framework is responsible for the deviation of the solar mixing angle from the maximal mixing, while keeping the maximal mixing between the tau and muon neutrinos as it is. On top of the scenario, we show that the tiny breaking of the degeneracy of the two heavy Majorana neutrinos leads to the non-zero small mixing angle $U_{e3}$ in the PMNS matrix and the little deviation of the atmospheric neutrino mixing angle from the maximal mixing.Comment: 12 pages, model claified, references added and correcte

Large Mixing Induced by the Strong Coupling with a Single Bulk Neutrinos

Neutrino is a good probe of extra dimensions. Large mixing and the apparent lack of very complicated oscillation patterns may be an indication of large couplings between the brane and a single bulk neutrino. A simple and realistic five-dimensional model of this kind is discussed. It requires a sterile in addition to three active neutrinos on the brane, all coupled strongly to one common bulk neutrino, but not directly among themselves. Mindful that sterile neutrinos are disfavored in the atmospheric and solar data, we demand induced mixing to occur among the active neutrinos, but not between the active and the sterile. The size $R$ of the extra dimension is arbitrary in this model, otherwise it contains six parameters which can be used to fit the three neutrino masses and the three mixing angles. However, in the model those six parameters must be suitably ordered, so a successful fit is not guaranteed. It turns out that not only the data can be fitted, but as a result of the ordering, a natural connection between the smallness of the reactor angle $\theta_{13}$ and the smallness of the mass-gap ratio $\Delta M^2_{solar}/\Delta M^2_{atmospheric}$ can be derived.Comment: Misprints above eq. (22) corrected. To appear in PR

The second and third Sonine coefficients of a freely cooling granular gas revisited

In its simplest statistical-mechanical description, a granular fluid can be modeled as composed of smooth inelastic hard spheres (with a constant coefficient of normal restitution $\alpha$) whose velocity distribution function obeys the Enskog-Boltzmann equation. The basic state of a granular fluid is the homogeneous cooling state, characterized by a homogeneous, isotropic, and stationary distribution of scaled velocities, $F(\mathbf{c})$. The behavior of $F(\mathbf{c})$ in the domain of thermal velocities ($c\sim 1$) can be characterized by the two first non-trivial coefficients ($a_2$ and $a_3$) of an expansion in Sonine polynomials. The main goals of this paper are to review some of the previous efforts made to estimate (and measure in computer simulations) the $\alpha$-dependence of $a_2$ and $a_3$, to report new computer simulations results of $a_2$ and $a_3$ for two-dimensional systems, and to investigate the possibility of proposing theoretical estimates of $a_2$ and $a_3$ with an optimal compromise between simplicity and accuracy.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures; v2: minor change

Mode of presentation and mortality amongst patients hospitalized with heart failure? A report from The First Euro Heart Failure Survey

Background: Heart failure is heterogeneous in aetiology, pathophysiology, and presentation. Despite this diversity, clinical trials of patients hospitalized for HF deal with this problem as a single entity, which may be one reason for repeated failures. Methods: The first EuroHeart Failure Survey screened consecutive deaths and discharges of patients with suspected heart failure during 2000–2001. Patients were sorted into seven mutually exclusive hierarchical presentations: (1) with cardiac arrest/ventricular arrhythmia; (2) with acute coronary syndrome; (3) with rapid atrial fibrillation; (4) with acute breathlessness; (5) with other symptoms/signs such as peripheral oedema; (6) with stable symptoms; and (7) others in whom the contribution of HF to admission was not clear. Results: The 10,701 patients enrolled were classified into the above seven presentations as follows: 260 (2%), 560 (5%), 799 (8%), 2479 (24%), 1040 (10%), 703 (7%), and 4691 (45%) for which index-admission mortality was 26%, 20%, 10%, 8%, 6%, 6%, and 4%, respectively. Compared to those in group 7, the hazard ratios for death during the index admission were 4.9 (p ≤ 0.001), 4.0 (p < 0.001), 2.2 (p < 0.001), 2.1 (p < 0.001), 1.4 (p < 0.04) and 1.4 (p = 0.04), respectively. These differences were no longer statistically significant by 12 weeks. Conclusion: There is great diversity in the presentation of heart failure that is associated with very different short-term outcomes. Only a minority of hospitalizations associated with suspected heart failure are associated with acute breathlessness. This should be taken into account in the design of future clinical trials

Manifestations of Extra Dimensions in a Neutrino Telescope

Theories with large extra dimensions provide the possibility that a flavor neutrino, localized in a 3+1 brane, can mix with a singlet neutrino living in the bulk. This mixing leads to unconventional patterns of neutrino matter oscillations and we examine in details how these oscillations depend upon two parameters: the brane-bulk coupling $\xi$ and the effective mass $\mu$ of the flavor neutrino inside matter. We find that high energy $(E \ge 50$ GeV) $\nu_\mu$ neutrinos, to be detected by neutrino telescopes, can give signals of extra dimensions. With a 1 k$m^{3}$ neutrino telescope extra dimensions with radius down to $1\mu m$ can be tested directly, while for smaller radius an indirect evidence can be established.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, added conclusion

Calculation of parity and time invariance violation in the radium atom

Parity (P) and time (T) invariance violating effects in the Ra atom are strongly enhanced due to close states of opposite parity, the large nuclear charge Z and the collective nature of P,T-odd nuclear moments. We have performed calculations of the atomic electric dipole moments (EDM) produced by the electron EDM and the nuclear magnetic quadrupole and Schiff moments. We have also calculated the effects of parity non-conservation produced by the nuclear anapole moment and the weak charge. Our results show that as a rule the values of these effects are much larger than those considered so far in other atoms (enhancement is up to 10^5 times).Comment: 18 pages; LaTeX; Submitted to Phys. Rev.