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Monte Carlo Simulation of the Prompt Dose Environment in the National Ignition Facility during Low Yield D-T Shots
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SHIELDING ANALYSIS FOR X-RAY SOURCES GENERATED IN TARGET CHAMBER OF THE NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY
Prompt doses from x-rays generated as result of laser beam interaction with target material are calculated at different locations inside the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The maximum dose outside a Target Chamber diagnostic port is {approx} 1 rem for a shot utilizing the 192 laser beams and 1.8 MJ of laser energy. The dose during a single bundle shot (8 laser beams) drops to {approx} 40 mrem. Doses calculated outside the Target Bay doors and inside the Switchyards (except for the 17 ft.-6 in. level) range from a fraction of mrem to about 11 mrem for 192 beams, and scales down proportionally with smaller number of beams. At the 17ft.-6 in. level, two diagnostic ports are directly facing two of the Target Bay doors and the maximum doses outside the doors are 51 and 15.5 mrem, respectively. Shielding each of the two Target Bay doors with 1/4 in. Pb reduces the dose by factor of fifty. One or two bundle shots (8 to 16 laser beams) present a small hazard to personnel in the Switchyards
Obstructed D-Branes in Landau-Ginzburg Orbifolds
We study deformations of Landau-Ginzburg D-branes corresponding to obstructed
rational curves on Calabi-Yau threefolds. We determine D-brane moduli spaces
and D-brane superpotentials by evaluating higher products up to homotopy in the
Landau-Ginzburg orbifold category. For concreteness we work out the details for
lines on a perturbed Fermat quintic. In this case we show that our results
reproduce the local analytic structure of the Hilbert scheme of curves on the
threefold.Comment: 44 pages; v3: typos correcte
On Some Classes of mKdV Periodic Solutions
We obtain exact periodic solutions of the positive and negative modified
Kortweg-de Vries (mKdV) equations. We examine the dynamical stability of these
solitary wave lattices through direct numerical simulations. While the positive
mKdV breather lattice solutions are found to be unstable, the two-soliton
lattice solution of the same equation is found to be stable. Similarly, a
negative mKdV lattice solution is found to be stable. We also touch upon the
implications of these results for the KdV equation.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, to appear in J. Phys.
Breather lattice and its stabilization for the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation
We obtain an exact solution for the breather lattice solution of the modified
Korteweg-de Vries (MKdV) equation. Numerical simulation of the breather lattice
demonstrates its instability due to the breather-breather interaction. However,
such multi-breather structures can be stabilized through the concurrent
application of ac driving and viscous damping terms.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, Phys. Rev. E (in press
A putative relay circuit providing low-threshold mechanoreceptive input to lamina I projection neurons via vertical cells in lamina II of the rat dorsal horn
Background:
Lamina I projection neurons respond to painful stimuli, and some are also activated by touch or hair movement. Neuropathic pain resulting from peripheral nerve damage is often associated with tactile allodynia (touch-evoked pain), and this may result from increased responsiveness of lamina I projection neurons to non-noxious mechanical stimuli. It is thought that polysynaptic pathways involving excitatory interneurons can transmit tactile inputs to lamina I projection neurons, but that these are normally suppressed by inhibitory interneurons. Vertical cells in lamina II provide a potential route through which tactile stimuli can activate lamina I projection neurons, since their dendrites extend into the region where tactile afferents terminate, while their axons can innervate the projection cells. The aim of this study was to determine whether vertical cell dendrites were contacted by the central terminals of low-threshold mechanoreceptive primary afferents.
Results:
We initially demonstrated contacts between dendritic spines of vertical cells that had been recorded in spinal cord slices and axonal boutons containing the vesicular glutamate transporter 1 (VGLUT1), which is expressed by myelinated low-threshold mechanoreceptive afferents. To confirm that the VGLUT1 boutons included primary afferents, we then examined vertical cells recorded in rats that had received injections of cholera toxin B subunit (CTb) into the sciatic nerve. We found that over half of the VGLUT1 boutons contacting the vertical cells were CTb-immunoreactive, indicating that they were of primary afferent origin.
Conclusions:
These results show that vertical cell dendritic spines are frequently contacted by the central terminals of myelinated low-threshold mechanoreceptive afferents. Since dendritic spines are associated with excitatory synapses, it is likely that most of these contacts were synaptic. Vertical cells in lamina II are therefore a potential route through which tactile afferents can activate lamina I projection neurons, and this pathway could play a role in tactile allodynia
Neuronal circuitry for pain processing in the dorsal horn
Neurons in the spinal dorsal horn process sensory information, which is then transmitted to several brain regions, including those responsible for pain perception. The dorsal horn provides numerous potential targets for the development of novel analgesics and is thought to undergo changes that contribute to the exaggerated pain felt after nerve injury and inflammation. Despite its obvious importance, we still know little about the neuronal circuits that process sensory information, mainly because of the heterogeneity of the various neuronal components that make up these circuits. Recent studies have begun to shed light on the neuronal organization and circuitry of this complex region
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the LHC
One of the major goals of the Large Hadron Collider is to probe the
electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism and the generation of the masses of the
elementary particles. We review the physics of the Higgs sector in the Standard
Model and some of its extensions such as supersymmetric theories and models of
extra dimensions. The prospects for discovering the Higgs particles at the LHC
and the study of their fundamental properties are summarised.Comment: 27 pages, 45 figures, uses LaTeX (insa.sty). Invited review for
volume on LHC physics to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of the Indian
National Science Academy, edited by Amitava Datta, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya and
Amitava Raychaudhuri. Expanded the acronym in the title in the annoncement.
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