274 research outputs found
Measurement of the reaction \gamma p \TO K^ + \Lambda(1520) at photon energies up to 2.65 GeV
The reaction \gamma p \TO K^+\Lambda(1520) was measured in the energy range
from threshold to 2.65 GeV with the SAPHIR detector at the electron stretcher
facility ELSA in Bonn. The production cross section was
analyzed in the decay modes , , , and
as a function of the photon energy and the squared
four-momentum transfer . While the cross sections for the inclusive
reactions rise steadily with energy, the cross section of the process \gamma p
\TO K^+\Lambda(1520) peaks at a photon energy of about 2.0 GeV, falls off
exponentially with , and shows a slope flattening with increasing photon
energy. The angular distributions in the -channel helicity system indicate
neither a nor a exchange dominance. The interpretation of the
as a molecule is not supported.Comment: 11 pages, 16 figures, 4 table
Measurement of gamma p --> K+ Lambda and gamma p --> K+ Sigma0 at photon energies up to 2.6 GeV
The reactions gamma p --> K+ Lambda and gamma p --> K+ Sigma0 were measured
in the energy range from threshold up to a photon energy of 2.6 GeV. The data
were taken with the SAPHIR detector at the electron stretcher facility, ELSA.
Results on cross sections and hyperon polarizations are presented as a function
of kaon production angle and photon energy. The total cross section for Lambda
production rises steeply with energy close to threshold, whereas the Sigma0
cross section rises slowly to a maximum at about E_gamma = 1.45 GeV. Cross
sections together with their angular decompositions into Legendre polynomials
suggest contributions from resonance production for both reactions. In general,
the induced polarization of Lambda has negative values in the kaon forward
direction and positive values in the backward direction. The magnitude varies
with energy. The polarization of Sigma0 follows a similar angular and energy
dependence as that of Lambda, but with opposite sign.Comment: 21 pages, 25 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J.
Evidence for the positive-strangeness pentaquark in photoproduction with the SAPHIR detector at ELSA
The positive--strangeness baryon resonance is observed in
photoproduction of the final state with the SAPHIR detector at
the Bonn ELectron Stretcher Accelerator ELSA. It is seen as a peak in the invariant mass distribution with a confidence level. We find
a mass MeV and an upper limit of the width
MeV at 90% c.l. From the absence of a signal in
the invariant mass distribution in at the
expected strength we conclude that the must be isoscalar.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
β-thymosins and interstitial lung disease: study of a scleroderma cohort with a one-year follow-up
Background: beta-thymosins play roles in cytoskeleton rearrangement, angiogenesis, fibrosis and reparative process, thus suggesting a possible involvement in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis. The aim of the study was to investigate the presence of thymosins beta(4), beta(4) sulfoxide, and beta(10) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of scleroderma patients with interstitial lung disease and the relation of these factors with pulmonary functional and radiological parameters.
Methods: beta-thymosins concentrations were determined by Reverse Phase-High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Electrospray-Mass Spectrometry in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of 46 scleroderma patients with lung involvement and of 15 controls.
Results: Thymosin beta(4), beta(4) sulfoxide, and beta(10) were detectable in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of patients and controls. Thymosin beta(4) levels were significantly higher in scleroderma patients than in controls. In addition, analyzing the progression of scleroderma lung disease at one-year follow-up, we have found that higher thymosin beta(4) levels seem to have a protective role against lung tissue damage. Thymosin beta(4) sulfoxide levels were higher in the smokers and in the scleroderma patients with alveolitis.
Conclusions: We describe for the first time beta-thymosins in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and their possible involvement in the pathogenesis of scleroderma lung disease. Thymosin beta(4) seems to have a protective role against lung tissue damage, while its oxidation product mirrors an alveolar inflammatory statu
Generalized Modeling of Photoluminescence Transients
Time resolved photoluminescence TRPL measurements and the extraction of meaningful parameters involve four key ingredients a suitable sample such as a semiconductor double heterostructure, a state of the art measurement setup, a kinetic model appropriate for the description of the sample behavior, and a general analysis method to extract the model parameters of interest from the measured TRPL transients. Until now, the last ingredient is limited to single curve fits, which are mostly based on simple models and least squares fits. These are often insufficient for the parameter extraction in real world applications. The goal of this article is to give the community a universal method for the analysis of TRPL measurements, which accounts for the Poisson distribution of photon counting events. The method can be used to fit multiple TRPL transients simultaneously using general kinematic models, but should also be used for single transient fits. To demonstrate this approach, multiple TRPL transients of a GaAs AlGaAs heterostructure are fitted simultaneously using coupled rate equations. It is shown that the simultaneous fits of several TRPL traces supplemented by systematic error estimations allow for a more meaningful and more robust parameter determination. The statistical methods also quantify the quality of the description by the underlying physical mode
K0-Sigma+ Photoproduction with SAPHIR
Preliminary results of the analysis of the reaction p(gamma,K0)Sigma+ are
presented. We show the first measurement of the differential cross section and
much improved data for the total cross section than previous data. The data are
compared with model predictions from different isobar and quark models that
give a good description of p(gamma,K+)Lambda and p(gamma,K+)Sigma0 data in the
same energy range. Results of ChPT describe the data adequately at threshold
while isobar models that include hadronic form factors reproduce the data at
intermediate energies.Comment: 4 pages, Latex2e, 4 postscript figures. Talk given at the
International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics
(HYP97), Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, October 13-18, 1997. To be
published in Nucl. Phys. A. Revised version due to changes in experimental
dat
Resonant Lifetime of Core-Excited Organic Adsorbates from First Principles
We investigate by first-principles simulations the resonant electron-transfer
lifetime from the excited state of an organic adsorbate to a semiconductor
surface, namely isonicotinic acid on rutile TiO(110). The
molecule-substrate interaction is described using density functional theory,
while the effect of a truly semi-infinite substrate is taken into account by
Green's function techniques. Excitonic effects due to the presence of
core-excited atoms in the molecule are shown to be instrumental to understand
the electron-transfer times measured using the so-called core-hole-clock
technique. In particular, for the isonicotinic acid on TiO(110), we find
that the charge injection from the LUMO is quenched since this state lies
within the substrate band gap. We compute the resonant charge-transfer times
from LUMO+1 and LUMO+2, and systematically investigate the dependence of the
elastic lifetimes of these states on the alignment among adsorbate and
substrate states.Comment: 24 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Journal of Physical Chemistry
The {\eta}'-carbon potential at low meson momenta
The production of mesons in coincidence with forward-going
protons has been studied in photon-induced reactions on C and on a
liquid hydrogen (LH) target for incoming photon energies of 1.3-2.6 GeV at
the electron accelerator ELSA. The mesons have been identified
via the decay
registered with the CBELSA/TAPS detector system. Coincident protons have been
identified in the MiniTAPS BaF array at polar angles of . Under these kinematic constraints the
mesons are produced with relatively low kinetic energy (
150 MeV) since the coincident protons take over most of the momentum of the
incident-photon beam. For the C-target this allows the determination of the
real part of the -carbon potential at low meson momenta by
comparing with collision model calculations of the kinetic energy
distribution and excitation function. Fitting the latter data for
mesons going backwards in the center-of-mass system yields a potential depth of
V = (44 16(stat)15(syst)) MeV, consistent with earlier
determinations of the potential depth in inclusive measurements for average
momenta of 1.1 GeV/. Within the experimental
uncertainties, there is no indication of a momentum dependence of the
-carbon potential. The LH data, taken as a reference to check
the data analysis and the model calculations, provide differential and integral
cross sections in good agreement with previous results for
photoproduction off the free proton.Comment: 9 pages, 13 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1608.0607
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