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Fermentação em estado sĂłlido: uma alternativa para o aproveitamento e valorização de resĂduos agroindustriais tropicais.
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Strange quark matter in explosive astrophysical systems
Explosive astrophysical systems, such as supernovae or compact star binary
mergers, provide conditions where strange quark matter can appear. The high
degree of isospin asymmetry and temperatures of several MeV in such systems may
cause a transition to the quark phase already around saturation density.
Observable signals from the appearance of quark matter can be predicted and
studied in astrophysical simulations. As input in such simulations, an equation
of state with an integrated quark matter phase transition for a large
temperature, density and proton fraction range is required. Additionally,
restrictions from heavy ion data and pulsar observation must be considered. In
this work we present such an approach. We implement a quark matter phase
transition in a hadronic equation of state widely used for astrophysical
simulations and discuss its compatibility with heavy ion collisions and pulsar
data. Furthermore, we review the recently studied implications of the QCD phase
transition during the early post-bounce evolution of core-collapse supernovae
and introduce the effects from strong interactions to increase the maximum mass
of hybrid stars. In the MIT bag model, together with the strange quark mass and
the bag constant, the strong coupling constant provides a parameter
to set the beginning and extension of the quark phase and with this the mass
and radius of hybrid stars.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, talk given at the International Conference on
Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2009), Buzios, Brasil, September 28 - October
2, 2009, to be published in Journal Phys.
Fungos potencialmente ocratoxĂgenos em cafĂ©.
Micotoxinas. Fatores que influenciam a produção de micotoxinas. Influência da atividade de água. Fungos associados aos frutos e grãos de café. Fungos produtores de OTA. Ocratoxina em café. Alteração da qualidade provocada por fungos associados aos grãos de café. Interação da OTA e outras micotoxinas. Considerações finais.bitstream/item/65527/1/2003-DOC-0053.pd
Electron localization by a magnetic vortex
We study the problem of an electron in two dimensions in the presence of a
magnetic vortex with a step-like profile. Dependending on the values of the
effective mass and gyromagnetic factor of the electron, it may be trapped by
the vortex. The bound state spectrum is obtained numerically, and some limiting
cases are treated analytically.Comment: 8 pages, latex, 4 figure
Limit on suppression of ionization in metastable neon traps due to long-range anisotropy
This paper investigates the possibility of suppressing the ionization rate in
a magnetostatic trap of metastable neon atoms by spin-polarizing the atoms.
Suppression of the ionization is critical for the possibility of reaching
Bose-Einstein condensation with such atoms. We estimate the relevant long-range
interactions for the system, consisting of electric quadrupole-quadrupole and
dipole-induced dipole terms, and develop short-range potentials based on the
Na_2 singlet and triplet potentials. The auto-ionization widths of the system
are also calculated. With these ingredients we calculate the ionization rate
for spin-polarized and for spin-isotropic samples, caused by anisotropy of the
long-range interactions. We find that spin-polarization may allow for four
orders of magnitude suppression of the ionization rate for Ne. The results
depend sensitively on a precise knowledge of the interaction potentials,
however, pointing out the need for experimental input. The same model gives a
suppression ratio close to unity for metastable xenon in accordance with
experimental results, due to a much increased anisotropy in this case.Comment: 15 pages including figures, LaTex/RevTex, uses epsfig.st
Chiral phase transition in the presence of spinodal decomposition
The thermodynamics of a first order chiral phase transition is considered in
the presence of spinodal phase separation within the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL)
model. The properties of the basic thermodynamic observables in the coexistence
phase are discussed for zero and non-zero quark masses. We focus on observables
that probe the chiral phase transition. In particular, the behavior of the
specific heat and entropy as well as charge fluctuations are calculated and
analyzed. We show that the specific heat and charge susceptibilities diverge at
the isothermal spinodal lines. We determine the scaling behavior and compute
the critical exponent of the net quark number susceptibility at the
isothermal spinodal lines within the NJL model and the Ginsburg-Landau theory.
We show that in the chiral limit the critical exponent at the
tricritical point as well as along the isothermal spinodal lines. On the other
hand, for finite quark masses the critical exponent at the spinodal lines,
, differs from that at the critical end point, ,
indicating a change in the universality class. These results are independent of
the particular choice of the chiral Lagrangian and should be common for all
mean field approaches.Comment: 12 pages, 11 figure
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