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Phonon anharmonicity of rutile TiO_2 studied by Raman spectrometry and molecular dynamics simulations
Raman spectra of rutile titanium dioxide (TiO_2) were measured at temperatures from 100 to 1150 K. Each Raman mode showed unique changes with temperature. Beyond the volume-dependent quasiharmonicity, the explicit anharmonicity was large. A new method was developed to fit the thermal broadenings and shifts of Raman peaks with a full calculation of the kinematics of three-phonon and four-phonon processes, allowing the cubic and quartic components of the anharmonicity to be identified for each Raman mode. A dominant role of phonon-phonon kinematics on phonon shifts and broadenings is reported. Force-field molecular dynamics calculations with the Fourier-transformed velocity autocorrelation method were also used to perform a quantitative study of anharmonic effects, successfully accounting for the anomalous phonon anharmonicity of the B_1_(g) mode
Quark charge balance function and hadronization effects in relativistic heavy ion collisions
We calculate the charge balance function of the bulk quark system before
hadronization and those for the directly produced and the final hadron system
in high energy heavy ion collisions. We use the covariance coefficient to
describe the strength of the correlation between the momentum of the quark and
that of the anti-quark if they are produced in a pair and fix the parameter by
comparing the results for hadrons with the available data. We study the
hadronization effects and decay contributions by comparing the results for
hadrons with those for the bulk quark system. Our results show that while
hadronization via quark combination mechanism slightly increases the width of
the charge balance functions, it preserves the main features of these functions
such as the longitudinal boost invariance and scaling properties in rapidity
space. The influence from resonance decays on the width of the balance function
is more significant but it does not destroy its boost invariance and scaling
properties in rapidity space either. The balance functions in azimuthal
direction are also presented.Comment: 9 figure
Quark number scaling of hadronic spectra and constituent quark degree of freedom in -Pb collisions at TeV
We show that the experimental data of spectra of identified hadrons
released recently by ALICE collaboration for -Pb collisions at
TeV exhibit a distinct universal behavior --- the quark
number scaling. We further show that the scaling is a direct consequence of
quark (re-)combination mechanism of hadronization and can be regarded as a
strong indication of the existence of the underlying source with constituent
quark degree of freedom for the production of hadrons in -Pb collisions at
such high energies. We make also predictions for production of other hadrons.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
A chemical method for the investigation of chemical changes in fish during smoking
This report surveys the literature on the effects of smoking on the nutritive value of flesh foods and the chemical changes associated with such processing methods. The development of a dye
binding method for use in assessing protein damage in smoked Coley (Pollachius vireus) fillets is described. The use of blacking reagents with dye binding permitting estimation of lysine content is also described and the results so determined are compared with values for lysine obtained by the use of fluoro-dinitrobenzene. The possibility of interference from smoke components in the dye binding and the fluoro-dinitrabenzene methods was also examined
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