The UV absorption spectrum of C60 (buckminsterfullerene): A narrow band at 3860 Å

The absorption spectrum of the special C60 cluster buckminsterfullerene has been studied in a supersonic beam by laser depletion of the cold van der Waals complexes of C60 with benzene and methylene chloride. Both complexes were found to display a single, isolated absorption band in the near ultraviolet superimposed on a structureless absorption continuum. For the methylene chloride complex this feature is centered at 3860 Å, and is roughly 50 cm−1 wide. In the benzene van der Waals cluster, the corresponding feature is located at 3863 Å, and has a similar width. This spectrum is tentatively assigned to the 0–0 band of the lowest 1T1u<--1Ag (LUMO+1<--HOMO) transition of a truncated icosahedral carbon shell structure, broadened by coupling to the underlying quasicontinuum of ground state vibrational levels

A Glacial History of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

A glacial geology program was conducted in the South Shetland Islands. Field investigations concentrated on Byers Peninsula, Fildes Peninsula and in coastal embayments. The tentative glacial history reconstructed for the South Shetland Islands demonstrates at least two distinct ages of glaciation separated by a warmer climate interval that is interpreted as the Sangamon Interglacial. Radiocarbon dates and lichenometric ages suggest that two late Neoglacial advances occurred at approximately 1475 A.D. and 1720 A.D. The ice margins have thinned gradually since the Neoglacial fluctuations probably in response to the secular warming trend that commenced recently and extended until about 1940. Both the long-term and short-term glacial fluctuations in the South Shetland Islands appear to be broadly synchronous with world-wide climatic trends.National Science Foundation Grants GV-2889 and OPP74-01939

Dwarfism in beef cattle and the influence of dwarfism genes on physiological response to hormone-induced stress

This bulletin reports on Department of Animal Husbandry research project 198, 'Improvement of Beef Cattle Through Breeding'--P. [2].Digitized 2007 AES.Includes bibliographical references (pages 50-55)

Photophysics of buckminsterfullerene and other carbon cluster ions

The laser-induced fragmentation behavior of positive carbon cluster ions has been investigated by tandem time-of-flight techniques for the jet-cooled clusters up to 80 atoms in size. Two distinct photophysical regimes were found. The first applies to clusters with 34 atoms or more, all of which dissociate to produce even numbered fragments. Large even clusters fragment by the loss of the high energy species C2, odd ones lose a C atom. The second regime applies to clusters composed of 31 or less atoms, all of which fragment by the loss of C3. These two regimes are sharply separated by C + 32 which fragments to produce small cluster ions in the 10–19 atom size range. Fragmentation of the large clusters occurs on a microsecond or faster time scale only at very high levels of excitation (>12.8 eV). These photophysical results are interpreted as consequences of the large even clusters having edgeless, spheroidal cage structures while the small ones have linear chain or ring structures

Enrichment of CH3F nuclear spin isomers by resonant microwave radiation

Theoretical model of the coherent control of nuclear spin isomers by microwave radiation has been developed. Model accounts the M-degeneracy of molecular states and molecular center-of-mass motion. The model has been applied to the 13CH3F molecules. Microwave radiation excites the para state (J=11,K=1) which is mixed by the nuclear spin-spin interaction with the ortho state (9,3). Dependencies of the isomer enrichment and conversion rates on the radiation frequency have been calculated. Both spectra consist of two resonances situated at the centers of allowed and forbidden (by nuclear spin) transitions in the molecule. Larger enrichment, up to 7%, can be produced by strong radiation resonant to the forbidden transition. The spin conversion rate can be increased by 2 orders of magnitude at this resonance.Comment: REVTEX, 14 pages + 6 eps figure

Predicting High-Grade Glioma Response to Chemoradiation via MRI-Calibrated

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Coherent control of enrichment and conversion of molecular spin isomers

A theoretical model of nuclear spin conversion in molecules controlled by an external electromagnetic radiation resonant to rotational transition has been developed. It has been shown that one can produce an enrichment of spin isomers and influence their conversion rates in two ways, through coherences and through level population change induced by radiation. Influence of conversion is ranged from significant speed up to almost complete inhibition of the process by proper choice of frequency and intensity of the external field.Comment: REVTEX, 13 pages + 6 eps figure

Magnetic Properties of Undoped C60C_{60}

The Heisenberg antiferromagnet, which arises from the large $U$ Hubbard model, is investigated on the $C_{60}$ molecule and other fullerenes. The connectivity of $C_{60}$ leads to an exotic classical ground state with nontrivial topology. We argue that there is no phase transition in the Hubbard model as a function of $U/t$, and thus the large $U$ solution is relevant for the physical case of intermediate coupling. The system undergoes a first order metamagnetic phase transition. We also consider the S=1/2 case using perturbation theory. Experimental tests are suggested.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures (included

Semiconductor cluster beams: One and two color ionization studies of Six and Gex

Supersonic beams of clusters of Si and Ge atoms have been produced by laser vaporization followed by supersonic expansion in a helium carrier. The cluster beams were characterized by F2(7.9 eV) and ArF(6.4 eV) excimer laser ionization accompanied by time-of-flight mass analysis. In addition, the feasibility of a resonant two-photon ionization (R2PI) spectroscopic study was explored by two-color experiments involving initial excitation with the second (2.36 eV) and third (3.54 eV) harmonics of the Nd:YAG followed by excimer laser ionization. All two-photon ionization processes were found to produce extensive fragmentation of the larger clusters. The observed fragmentation pattern for the silicon and germanium clusters were remarkably similar to each other, but drastically different from that seen for metal clusters in the same apparatus. Unlike metal clusters, which tend to lose one atom at a time, these semiconductor clusters appear to fragment by a fission process, the daughter ions falling almost exclusively in the size range from 6 to 11 atoms. Time delay studies in the two-color experiments established that clusters of both Si and Ge have excited electronic states with lifetimes of approximately 100 ns. This again is dramatically different from the behavior found with metal clusters, and indicates the feasibility of R2PI spectroscopy on these cold semiconductor particles. The existence of such long-lived excited states indicates that there is probably an energy gap between the band of electronic states being excited and the ground electronic state