Cored Dark Matter halos in the Cosmic Neutrino Background

We study the impact of the interaction between DM and the cosmic neutrino background on the evolution of galactic dark matter halos. The energy transfer from the neutrinos to the dark matter can heat the center of the galaxy and make it cored. This effect is efficient for the small galaxies such as the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and we can put conservative constraint on the non-relativistic elastic scattering cross section as $\sigma_{\chi\nu}\lesssim 10^{-31} {\rm cm}^2$ for 0.1 keV dark matter and 0.1 eV neutrino.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure

Sterile neutrino dark matter with dipole interaction

We consider the possibility of the lightest sterile neutrino dark matter which has dipole interaction with heavier sterile neutrinos. The lifetime can be long enough to be a dark matter candidate without violating other constraints and the correct amount of relic abundance can be produced in the early Universe. We find that a sterile neutrino with the mass of around MeV and the dimension-five nonrenormalizable dipole interaction suppressed by ?5 greater than or similar to 1015 GeV can be a good candidate of dark matter, while heavier sterile neutrinos with masses of the order of GeV can explain the active neutrino oscillations

Current status and future projections of LNG demand and supplies: A global prospective

An unceasing growth of gas consumption in domestic households, industry, and power plants has gradually turned natural gas into a major source of energy. Main drivers in this development are the technical and economic advantages of natural gas. It is a clean, versatile, and easily controllable fuel. On this basis, natural gas is often considered the form of energy that will be the "bridging fuel" to a sustainable energy system, sometime after 2050. Unlike other main sources of energy, such as oil and coal, gas is not traded on an actual world market. This paper provides an overview on demand and supplies of natural gas (LNG) in the past as a function of gas prices, gas technology (gas sweetening, liquefaction, shipping and re-gasification), and gas market and how they have changed recently. It also discusses the likely developments in global LNG demand for the period to the year 2030.LNG Demand Supply

Preparation of LiCoPO4 and LiFePO4 coated LiCoPO4 materials with improved battery performance

Olivine LiCoPO4 material has been successfully synthesized by solid-state reaction method without any carbon coating. The X-ray diffraction pattern shows that LiCoPO4 has a well developed orthorhombic structure with Prima space group The SEM analysis shows the particulate nature of the prepared materials with <200 nm size. The TEM analysis confirms that a 2-3 nm thick LiFePO4 layer is coated onto LiCoPO4. The LiFePO4 coated LiCoPO4 cell delivers a high initial discharge capacity of 132 mAhg(-1), which is 19 mAhg(-1) higher than the parent LiCoPO4 Furthermore, the LiFePO4 coated LiCoPO4 cell exhibits an improved capacity retention compared to the original LiCoPO4 during cycling Crown Copyright (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier B V. All rights reserved