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The situation on the ukrainian stock market and suggestion on its improvement
The stock market in our country is very young comparing to the majority
markets in the world. However, we created something that needs to be further
developed. The securities market of Ukraine consists of an organized trading
system PFTS. It is Ukrainian abbreviation and it means “перша фондова торгова
система”, (The First Fund Trading System). There are also 4 other securities
exchanges: the Ukrainian Stock Exchange, The Donetsk Stock Exchange, the
Ukrainian Interbank Stock Exchange, the Kiev International Stock Exchange. In
reality trading activity is concentrated mostly in PFTS. PFTS has been acting as an
organizer of securities trading since 1997. It consists of “Quote-driven” and “Orderdriven”
markets. Quote-driven market is used for the secondary trade of stocks.
Order-driven market is used for selling government securities and liquid stocks
The situation on the ukrainian stock market and suggestion on its improvement
The stock market in our country is very young comparing to the majority
markets in the world. However, we created something that needs to be further
developed. The securities market of Ukraine consists of an organized trading
system PFTS. It is Ukrainian abbreviation and it means “перша фондова торгова
система”, (The First Fund Trading System). There are also 4 other securities
exchanges: the Ukrainian Stock Exchange, The Donetsk Stock Exchange, the
Ukrainian Interbank Stock Exchange, the Kiev International Stock Exchange. In
reality trading activity is concentrated mostly in PFTS. PFTS has been acting as an
organizer of securities trading since 1997. It consists of “Quote-driven” and “Orderdriven”
markets. Quote-driven market is used for the secondary trade of stocks.
Order-driven market is used for selling government securities and liquid stocks
Quest for double beta decay of 160-Gd and Ce isotopes
The double beta decay study of 160-Gd has been performed in the Solotvina
Underground Laboratory with the help of Gd_2SiO_5(Ce) crystal scintillator
(volume 95 cc). The background of the detector in the vicinity of the 2 beta
energy of 160-Gd was reduced to 1.0 cpd/keV kg. The new improved half-life
limits have been established for neutrinoless 2 beta decay of 160-Gd to the
ground and first excited levels of 160-Dy: T1/2 > 2.3(1.3)E21 yr at 68%(90%)
C.L. The T1/2 bounds have been also set for two neutrino mode as well as for 2
beta decay with Majorons emission. Also the limits were established for
different 2 beta decay processes in 136-Ce, 138-Ce and 142-Ce.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Nucl. Phys.
Search for long-lived superheavy eka-tungsten with radiopure ZnWO crystal scintillator
The data collected with a radioactively pure ZnWO crystal scintillator
(699 g) in low background measurements during 2130 h at the underground (3600 m
w.e.) Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (INFN, Italy) were used to set a
limit on possible concentration of superheavy eka-W (seaborgium Sg, Z = 106) in
the crystal. Assuming that one of the daughters in a chain of decays of the
initial Sg nucleus decays with emission of high energy particle
( MeV) and analyzing the high energy part of the measured
spectrum, the limit N(Sg)/N(W) < 5.5 10 atoms/atom at
90% C.L. was obtained (for Sg half-life of 10 yr). In addition, a limit on
the concentration of eka-Bi was set by analysing the data collected with a
large BGO scintillation bolometer in an experiment performed by another group
[L. Cardani et al., JINST 7 (2012) P10022]: N(eka-Bi)/N(Bi) < 1.1
10 atoms/atom with 90% C.L. Both the limits are comparable with those
obtained in recent experiments which instead look for spontaneous fission of
superheavy elements or use the accelerator mass spectrometry.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures; in press on Physica Script
High sensitivity double beta decay study of 116-Cd and 100-Mo with the BOREXINO Counting Test Facility (CAMEO project)
The unique features (super-low background and large sensitive volume) of the
CTF and BOREXINO set ups are used in the CAMEO project for a high sensitivity
study of 100-Mo and 116-Cd neutrinoless double beta decay. Pilot measurements
with 116-Cd and Monte Carlo simulations show that the sensitivity of the CAMEO
experiment (in terms of the half-life limit for neutrinoless double beta decay)
is (3-5) 10^24 yr with a 1 kg source of 100-Mo (116-Cd, 82-Se, and 150-Nd) and
about 10^26 yr with 65 kg of enriched 116-CdWO_4 crystals placed in the liquid
scintillator of the CTF. The last value corresponds to a limit on the neutrino
mass of less than 0.06 eV. Similarly with 1000 kg of 116-CdWO_4 crystals
located in the BOREXINO apparatus the neutrino mass limit can be pushed down to
m_nu<0.02 eV.Comment: 29 pages, LaTex, 9 eps figure
Improvement of radiopurity level of enriched CdWO and ZnWO crystal scintillators by recrystallization
As low as possible radioactive contamination of a detector plays a crucial
role to improve sensitivity of a double beta decay experiment. The radioactive
contamination of a sample of CdWO crystal scintillator by thorium
was reduced by a factor , down to the level 0.01 mBq/kg
(Th), by exploiting the recrystallization procedure. The total alpha
activity of uranium and thorium daughters was reduced by a factor ,
down to 1.6 mBq/kg. No change in the specific activity (the total
activity and Th) was observed in a sample of ZnWO crystal produced
by recrystallization after removing mm surface layer of the
crystal.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures and 2 table
Radioactive contamination of ZnWO4 crystal scintillators
The radioactive contamination of ZnWO4 crystal scintillators has been
measured deep underground at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) of the
INFN in Italy with a total exposure 3197 kg x h. Monte Carlo simulation,
time-amplitude and pulse-shape analyses of the data have been applied to
estimate the radioactive contamination of the ZnWO4 samples. One of the ZnWO4
crystals has also been tested by ultra-low background gamma spectrometry. The
radioactive contaminations of the ZnWO4 samples do not exceed 0.002 -- 0.8
mBq/kg (depending on the radionuclide), the total alpha activity is in the
range: 0.2 - 2 mBq/kg. Particular radioactivity, beta active 65Zn and alpha
active 180W, has been detected. The effect of the re-crystallization on the
radiopurity of the ZnWO4 crystal has been studied. The radioactive
contamination of samples of the ceramic details of the set-ups used in the
crystals growth has been checked by low background gamma spectrometry. A
project scheme on further improvement of the radiopurity level of the ZnWO4
crystal scintillators is briefly addressed.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables, submitted for publicatio
The half-life of Po
The half-life of Po was measured with the highest up-to-date accuracy
as ns by using thorium-loaded liquid scintillator.Comment: 28 pages, 13 figures, 4 table
Proceedings of the third French-Ukrainian workshop on the instrumentation developments for HEP
The reports collected in these proceedings have been presented in the third
French-Ukrainian workshop on the instrumentation developments for high-energy
physics held at LAL, Orsay on October 15-16. The workshop was conducted in the
scope of the IDEATE International Associated Laboratory (LIA). Joint
developments between French and Ukrainian laboratories and universities as well
as new proposals have been discussed. The main topics of the papers presented
in the Proceedings are developments for accelerator and beam monitoring,
detector developments, joint developments for large-scale high-energy and
astroparticle physics projects, medical applications.Comment: 3rd French-Ukrainian workshop on the instrumentation developments for
High Energy Physics, October 15-16, 2015, LAL, Orsay, France, 94 page
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