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Measurement of the transient shielding effectiveness of shielding cabinets
Recently, new definitions of shielding effectiveness (SE) for high-frequency and transient electromagnetic fields were introduced by Klinkenbusch (2005). Analytical results were shown for closed as well as for non closed cylindrical shields. In the present work, the shielding performance of different shielding cabinets is investigated by means of numerical simulations and measurements inside a fully anechoic chamber and a GTEM-cell. For the GTEM-cell-measurements, a downscaled model of the shielding cabinet is used. For the simulations, the numerical tools CONCEPT II and COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS were available. The numerical results agree well with the measurements. They can be used to interpret the behaviour of the shielding effectiveness of enclosures as function of frequency. From the measurement of the electric and magnetic fields with and without the enclosure in place, the electric and magnetic shielding effectiveness as well as the transient shielding effectiveness of the enclosure are calculated. The transient SE of four different shielding cabinets is determined and discussed. © Author(s) 2008
Measurement of the transient shielding effectiveness of enclosures using UWB pulses inside an open TEM waveguide
Recently, new definitions of shielding effectiveness (SE) for high-frequency and transient electromagnetic fields were introduced by Klinkenbusch (2005). Numerical results were shown for closed as well as for non closed cylindrical shields. In the present work, a measurement procedure is introduced using ultra wideband (UWB) electromagnetic field pulses. The procedure provides a quick way to determine the transient shielding effectiveness of an enclosure without performing time consuming frequency domain measurements. For demonstration, a cylindrical enclosure made of conductive textile is examined. The field pulses are generated inside an open TEM-waveguide. From the measurement of the transient electric and magnetic fields with and without the shield in place, the electric and magnetic shielding effectiveness of the shielding material as well as the transient shielding effectiveness of the enclosure are derived
Resonance Production on Nuclei at High Energies: Nuclear-Medium Effects and Space-Time Picture
The influence of nuclear matter on the properties of coherently produced
resonances is discussed. It is shown that, in general, the mass distribution of
resonance decay products has a two-component structure corresponding to decay
outside and inside the nucleus. The first (narrow) component of the amplitude
has a Breit-Wigner form determined by the vacuum values of mass and width of
the resonance. The second (broad) component corresponds to interactions of the
resonance with the nuclear medium. It can be also described by a Breit-Wigner
shape with parameters depending e.g. on the nuclear density and on the cross
section of the resonance-nucleon interaction. The resonance production is
examined both at intermediate energies, where interactions with the nucleus can
be considered as a series of successive local rescatterings, and at high
energies, , where a change of interaction picture occurs. This
change of mechanisms of the interactions with the nucleus is typical for the
description within the Regge theory approach and is connected with the nonlocal
nature of the reggeon interaction.Comment: 22 pages LaTeX, 1 Postscript file containing 7 figures; addition in
beginning of Ch. 2; Nucl. Phys. A, to be publishe
Enhanced antiproton production in Pb(160 AGeV)+Pb reactions: evidence for quark gluon matter?
The centrality dependence of the antiproton per participant ratio is studied
in Pb(160 AGeV)+Pb reactions. Antiproton production in collisions of heavy
nuclei at the CERN/SPS seems considerably enhanced as compared to conventional
hadronic physics, given by the antiproton production rates in and
antiproton annihilation in reactions. This enhancement is consistent
with the observation of strong in-medium effects in other hadronic observables
and may be an indication of partial restoration of chiral symmetry
In Vivo Evolution of Butane Oxidation by Terminal Alkane Hydroxylases AlkB and CYP153A6
Enzymes of the AlkB and CYP153 families catalyze the first step in the catabolism of medium-chain-length alkanes, selective oxidation of the alkane to the 1-alkanol, and enable their host organisms to utilize alkanes as carbon sources. Small, gaseous alkanes, however, are converted to alkanols by evolutionarily unrelated methane monooxygenases. Propane and butane can be oxidized by CYP enzymes engineered in the laboratory, but these produce predominantly the 2-alkanols. Here we report the in vivo-directed evolution of two medium-chain-length terminal alkane hydroxylases, the integral membrane di-iron enzyme AlkB from Pseudomonas putida GPo1 and the class II-type soluble CYP153A6 from Mycobacterium sp. strain HXN-1500, to enhance their activity on small alkanes. We established a P. putida evolution system that enables selection for terminal alkane hydroxylase activity and used it to select propane- and butane-oxidizing enzymes based on enhanced growth complementation of an adapted P. putida GPo12(pGEc47{Delta}B) strain. The resulting enzymes exhibited higher rates of 1-butanol production from butane and maintained their preference for terminal hydroxylation. This in vivo evolution system could be useful for directed evolution of enzymes that function efficiently to hydroxylate small alkanes in engineered hosts
The Quantum Speed Limit of Optimal Controlled Phasegates for Trapped Neutral Atoms
We study controlled phasegates for ultracold atoms in an optical potential. A
shaped laser pulse drives transitions between the ground and electronically
excited states where the atoms are subject to a long-range 1/R^3 interaction.
We fully account for this interaction and use optimal control theory to
calculate the pulse shapes. This allows us to determine the minimum pulse
duration, respectively, gate time T that is required to obtain high fidelity.
We accurately analyze the speed limiting factors, and we find the gate time to
be limited either by the interaction strength in the excited state or by the
ground state vibrational motion in the trap. The latter needs to be resolved by
the pulses in order to fully restore the motional state of the atoms at the end
of the gate.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures, 1 tabl
Observation of Coulomb-Assisted Dipole-Forbidden Intraexciton Transitions in Semiconductors
We use terahertz pulses to induce resonant transitions between the
eigenstates of optically generated exciton populations in a high-quality
semiconductor quantum-well sample. Monitoring the excitonic photoluminescence,
we observe transient quenching of the exciton emission, which we attribute
to the terahertz-induced -to- excitation. Simultaneously, a pronounced
enhancement of the -exciton emission is observed, despite the -to-
transition being dipole forbidden. A microscopic many-body theory explains the
experimental observations as a Coulomb-scattering mixing of the 2 and 2
states, yielding an effective terahertz transition between the 1 and 2
populations.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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