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Recent integral cross section validation measurements at the ASP facility
This work presents new integral data measured at the ASP 14 MeV neutron
irradiation facility at Aldermaston in the UK, which has recently become
available for fusion-related work through the CCFE materials programme.
Measurements of reaction products from activation experiments using elemental
foils were carried out using gamma spectrometry in a high efficiency,
high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector and associated digital signal processing
hardware. Following irradiation and rapid extraction to the measurement cell,
gamma emissions were acquired with both energy and time bins. Integral cross
section and half-life data have been derived from these measurements. Selected
integral cross section values are presented from the measurement campaigns.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
The Origin of Sequential Chromospheric Brightenings
Sequential chromospheric brightenings (SCBs) are often observed in the
immediate vicinity of erupting flares and are associated with coronal mass
ejections. Since their initial discovery in 2005, there have been several
subsequent investigations of SCBs. These studies have used differing detection
and analysis techniques, making it difficult to compare results between
studies. This work employs the automated detection algorithm of Kirk et al.
(Solar Phys. 283, 97, 2013) to extract the physical characteristics of SCBs in
11 flares of varying size and intensity. We demonstrate that the magnetic
substructure within the SCB appears to have a significantly smaller area than
the corresponding H-alpha emission. We conclude that SCBs originate in the
lower corona around 0.1 R_sun above the photosphere, propagate away from the
flare center at speeds of 35 - 85 km/s, and have peak photosphere magnetic
intensities of 148 +/- 2.9 G. In light of these measurements, we infer SCBs to
be distinctive chromospheric signatures of erupting coronal mass ejections.Comment: 25 pages, 9 figures, 5 table
Specialization of the rostral prefrontal cortex for distinct analogy processes
Analogical reasoning is central to learning and abstract thinking. It involves using a more familiar situation (source) to make inferences about a less familiar situation (target). According to the predominant cognitive models, analogical reasoning includes 1) generation of structured mental representations and 2) mapping based on structural similarities between them. This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to specify the role of rostral prefrontal cortex (PFC) in these distinct processes. An experimental paradigm was designed that enabled differentiation between these processes, by temporal separation of the presentation of the source and the target. Within rostral PFC, a lateral subregion was activated by analogy task both during study of the source (before the source could be compared with a target) and when the target appeared. This may suggest that this subregion supports fundamental analogy processes such as generating structured representations of stimuli but is not specific to one particular processing stage. By contrast, a dorsomedial subregion of rostral PFC showed an interaction between task (analogy vs. control) and period (more activated when the target appeared). We propose that this region is involved in comparison or mapping processes. These results add to the growing evidence for functional differentiation between rostral PFC subregions
Theory and Simulation of the diffusion of kinks on dislocations in bcc metals
Isolated kinks on thermally fluctuating (1/2) screw, edge and
(1/2) edge dislocations in bcc iron are simulated under zero stress
conditions using molecular dynamics (MD). Kinks are seen to perform stochastic
motion in a potential landscape that depends on the dislocation character and
geometry, and their motion provides fresh insight into the coupling of
dislocations to a heat bath. The kink formation energy, migration barrier and
friction parameter are deduced from the simulations. A discrete
Frenkel-Kontorova-Langevin (FKL) model is able to reproduce the coarse grained
data from MD at a fraction of the computational cost, without assuming an a
priori temperature dependence beyond the fluctuation-dissipation theorem.
Analytic results reveal that discreteness effects play an essential r\^ole in
thermally activated dislocation glide, revealing the existence of a crucial
intermediate length scale between molecular and dislocation dynamics. The model
is used to investigate dislocation motion under the vanishingly small stress
levels found in the evolution of dislocation microstructures in irradiated
materials
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Analysis of Droplet Train/Moving Substrate Interactions in Ink-Jetting Processes
Ink-jetting technology has been applied to several processes in solid free-form
fabrication (SFF) wherein droplets impinge onto a substrate to deposit the build material.
Droplet impact behaviour on a surface has been the interest of many researchers; however,
few studies have been undertaken to investigate the interaction of droplets with the moving
substrate. This paper reports the impact behaviour of the droplets jetted at different
frequencies onto a substrate moving over a range of velocities. The phenomena associated
with the interaction were classified into three main regimes.Mechanical Engineerin
Monotonic Prefix Consistency in Distributed Systems
We study the issue of data consistency in distributed systems. Specifically,
we consider a distributed system that replicates its data at multiple sites,
which is prone to partitions, and which is assumed to be available (in the
sense that queries are always eventually answered). In such a setting, strong
consistency, where all replicas of the system apply synchronously every
operation, is not possible to implement. However, many weaker consistency
criteria that allow a greater number of behaviors than strong consistency, are
implementable in available distributed systems. We focus on determining the
strongest consistency criterion that can be implemented in a convergent and
available distributed system that tolerates partitions. We focus on objects
where the set of operations can be split into updates and queries. We show that
no criterion stronger than Monotonic Prefix Consistency (MPC) can be
implemented.Comment: Submitted pape
Quenching of pairing gap at finite temperature in 184W
We extract pairing gap in W at finite temperature for the first time
from the experimental level densities of W, W, and W
using "thermal" odd-even mass difference. We found the quenching of pairing gap
near the critical temperature MeV in the BCS calculations. It is
shown that the monopole pairing model with a deformed Woods-Saxon potential
explains the reduction of the pairing correlation using the partition function
with the number parity projection in the static path approximation plus
random-phase approximation.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in PR
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