311 research outputs found
Kinematics of CO2 fluxes in the tropical Atlantic ocean during the 1983 northern summer
CO2 evasion within the Atlantic equatorial belt (5°N-5°S) increases from the East to the West (Andrié et al., 1986). Many factors contribute the variations of pCO2 in the equatorial surface waters. To assess their relative importance, a kinematic box model is developed. A 2° x 2° box whose depth is defined by the 24.90 °/°° isopcynal level flows westward from 4°W to 38°W within the Equator-2°S band with the south equatorial current. Time (zonal) evolution of nitrate, total CO2, total alkalinity and mass, and of the corresponding water pCO2, are simulated taking into account advection, meridional divergence, diffusion, biological activity and gas exchange. Initial and boundary conditions are taken from the FOCAL 4 (July-August 1983) data se
Effects of upwelling duration and phytoplankton growth regime on dissolved-oxygen levels in an idealized Iberian Peninsula upwelling system
Abstract. We apply a coupled modelling system composed of a
state-of-the-art hydrodynamical model and a low-complexity biogeochemical
model to an idealized Iberian Peninsula upwelling system to identify the
main drivers of dissolved-oxygen variability and to study its response to
changes in the duration of the upwelling season and in the phytoplankton growth
regime. We find that the export of oxygenated waters by upwelling front
turbulence is a major sink for nearshore dissolved oxygen. In our
simulations of summer upwelling, when the phytoplankton population is generally
dominated by diatoms whose growth is boosted by nutrient input, net
primary production and airâsea exchange compensate dissolved-oxygen
depletion by offshore export over the shelf. A shorter upwelling duration
causes a relaxation of upwelling winds and a decrease in offshore export,
resulting in a slight increase of net dissolved-oxygen enrichment in the
coastal region as compared to longer upwelling durations. When phytoplankton
is dominated by groups less sensitive to nutrient inputs, growth rates
decrease, and the coastal region becomes net heterotrophic. Together with the
physical sink, this lowers the net oxygenation rate of coastal waters, which
remains positive only because of airâsea exchange. These findings help in
disentangling the physical and biogeochemical controls of dissolved oxygen
in upwelling systems and, together with projections of increased duration of
upwelling seasons and phytoplankton community changes, suggest that the
Iberian coastal upwelling region may become more vulnerable to hypoxia and
deoxygenation.
This research has been supported by the IDEX UNITI â University of Toulouse (TEASAO IDEX UNITI â Univer- sity of Toulouse)
Sensitivity of tensor analyzing power in the process to the longitudinal isoscalar form factor of the Roper resonance electroexcitation
The tensor analyzing power of the process , for forward
deuteron scattering in the momentum interval 3.7 to 9 GeV/c, is studied in the
framework of exchange in an algebraic collective model for the
electroexcitation of nucleon resonances. We point out a special sensitivity of
the tensor analyzing power to the isoscalar longitudinal form factor of the
Roper resonance excitation. The main argument is that the ,
and resonances have only isovector longitudinal
form factors. It is the longitudinal form factor of the Roper excitation, which
plays an important role in the dependence of the tensor analyzing power. We
discuss possible evidence of swelling of hadrons with increasing excitation
energy.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figure
Generalized parton distributions in the deuteron
We introduce generalized quark and gluon distributions in the deuteron, which
can be measured in exclusive processes like deeply virtual Compton scattering
and meson electroproduction. We discuss the basic properties of these
distributions, and point out how they probe the interplay of nucleon and parton
degrees of freedom in the deuteron wave function
Reactions of an aluminum(I) reagent with 1,2-, 1,3-, and 1,5-dienes: dearomatization, reversibility, and a pericyclic mechanism
Addition of the aluminum(I) reagent [{(ArNCMe)2CH}Al] (Ar = 2,6-di-iso-propylphenyl) to a series of cyclic and acyclic 1,2-, 1,3-, and 1,5-dienes is reported. In the case of 1,3-dienes, the reaction occurs by a pericyclic reaction mechanism, specifically a cheletropic cycloaddition, to form aluminocyclopentene-containing products. This mechanism has been examined by stereochemical experiments and DFT calculations. The stereochemical experiments show that the (4 + 1) cycloaddition follows a suprafacial topology, while calculations support a concerted albeit asynchronous pathway in which the transition state demonstrates aromatic character. Remarkably, the substrate scope of the (4 + 1) cycloaddition includes styene, 1,1-diphenylethylene, and anthracene. In these cases, the diene motif is either in part, or entirely, contained within an aromatic ring and reactions occur with dearomatisation of the substrate and can be reversible. In the case of 1,2-cyclononadiene or 1,5-cyclooctadiene, complementary reactivity is observed; the orthogonal nature of the CâC Ï-bonds (1,2-diene) and the homoconjugated system (1,5-diene) both disfavor a (4 + 1) cycloaddition. Rather, reaction pathways are determined by an initial (2 + 1) cycloaddition to form an aluminocyclopropane intermediate which can in turn undergo insertion of a further CâC Ï-bond, leading to complex organometallic products that incorporate fused hydrocarbon rings
A precise measurement of the deuteron elastic structure function A(Q^2)
The A(Q^2) structure function in elastic electron-deuteron scattering was
measured at six momentum transfers Q^2 between 0.66 and 1.80 (GeV/c)^2 in Hall
C at Jefferson Laboratory. The scattered electrons and recoil deuterons were
detected in coincidence, at a fixed deuteron angle of 60.5 degrees. These new
precise measurements resolve discrepancies between older sets of data. They put
significant constraints on existing models of the deuteron electromagnetic
structure, and on the strength of isoscalar meson exchange currents.Comment: 3 LaTeX pages plus 2 PS figure
Measurement of Tensor Polarization in Elastic Electron-Deuteron Scattering at Large Momentum Transfer
Tensor polarization observables (t20, t21 and t22) have been measured in
elastic electron-deuteron scattering for six values of momentum transfer
between 0.66 and 1.7 (GeV/c)^2. The experiment was performed at the Jefferson
Laboratory in Hall C using the electron HMS Spectrometer, a specially designed
deuteron magnetic channel and the recoil deuteron polarimeter POLDER. The new
data determine to much larger Q^2 the deuteron charge form factors G_C and G_Q.
They are in good agreement with relativistic calculations and disagree with
pQCD predictions.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, for associated informations, see
http://isnwww.in2p3.fr/hadrons/t20/t20_ang.html clarification about several
topics, one figure has been had, extraction of form factors use AQ
interpolation in our Q2 range onl
Point-Form Analysis of Elastic Deuteron Form Factors
Point-form relativistic quantum mechanics is applied to elastic
electron-deuteron scattering. The deuteron is modeled using relativistic
interactions that are scattering-equivalent to the nonrelativistic Argonne
and Reid '93 interactions. A point-form spectator approximation (PFSA)
is introduced to define a conserved covariant current in terms of
single-nucleon form factors. The PFSA is shown to provide an accurate
description of data up to momentum transfers of 0.5 , but falls
below the data at higher momentum transfers. Results are sensitive to the
nucleon form factor parameterization chosen, particularly to the neutron
electric form factor.Comment: RevTex, 31 pages, 1 table, 13 figure
The HPS electromagnetic calorimeter
The Heavy Photon Search experiment (HPS) is searching for a new gauge boson, the so-called âheavy photon.â Through its kinetic mixing with the Standard Model photon, this particle could decay into an electron-positron pair. It would then be detectable as a narrow peak in the invariant mass spectrum of such pairs, or, depending on its lifetime, by a decay downstream of the production target. The HPS experiment is installed in Hall-B of Jefferson Lab. This article presents the design and performance of one of the two detectors of the experiment, the electromagnetic calorimeter, during the runs performed in 2015â2016. The calorimeter's main purpose is to provide a fast trigger and reduce the copious background from electromagnetic processes through matching with a tracking detector. The detector is a homogeneous calorimeter, made of 442 lead-tungstate (PbWO4) scintillating crystals, each read out by an avalanche photodiode coupled to a custom trans-impedance amplifier
Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering off the neutron
The present experiment exploits the interference between the Deeply Virtual
Compton Scattering (DVCS) and the Bethe-Heitler processes to extract the
imaginary part of DVCS amplitudes on the neutron and on the deuteron from the
helicity-dependent D cross section measured at =1.9
GeV and =0.36. We extract a linear combination of generalized parton
distributions (GPDs) particularly sensitive to , the least constrained
GPD. A model dependent constraint on the contribution of the up and down quarks
to the nucleon spin is deduced.Comment: Published in Phys. Rev. Let
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