Comment on the new AdS universe

We show that Bonnor's new Anti-de Sitter (AdS) universe and its D-dimensional generalization is the previously studied AdS soliton.Comment: 2 pages; version 2: major changes including the titl

Static Cylindrical Matter Shells

Static cylindrical shells composed of massive particles arising from matching of two different Levi-Civita space-times are studied for the shell satisfying either isotropic or anisotropic equation of state. We find that these solutions satisfy the energy conditions for certain ranges of the parameters.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, Latex; Final version, To appear in General Relativity and Gravitatio

Notes on static cylindrical shells

Static cylindrical shells made of various types of matter are studied as sources of the vacuum Levi-Civita metrics. Their internal physical properties are related to the two essential parameters of the metrics outside. The total mass per unit length of the cylinders is always less than 1/4. The results are illustrated by a number of figures.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figure

First test of an enriched 116^{116}CdWO4_4 scintillating bolometer for neutrinoless double-beta-decay searches

For the first time, a cadmium tungstate crystal scintillator enriched in $^{116}$Cd has been succesfully tested as a scintillating bolometer. The measurement was performed above ground at a temperature of 18 mK. The crystal mass was 34.5 g and the enrichment level ~82 %. Despite a substantial pile-up effect due to above-ground operation, the detector demonstrated a high energy resolution (2-7 keV FWHM in 0.2-2.6 MeV $\gamma$ energy range), a powerful particle identification capability and a high level of internal radiopurity. These results prove that cadmium tungstate is an extremely promising detector material for a next-generation neutrinoless double-beta decay bolometric experiment, like that proposed in the CUPID project (CUORE Upgrade with Particle IDentification)

Exact Relativistic Static Charged Dust Disks and Non-axisymmetric Structures

The well-known ``displace, cut and reflect'' method used to generate disks from given solutions of Einstein field equations is applied to the superposition of twoextreme Reissner-Nordstrom black holes to construct disks made of charged dust and alsonon-axisymmetric planar distributions of charged dust on the z=0 plane. They are symmetric with respect to twoor one coordinate axes, depending whether the black holes have equal or unequal masses, respectively.For these non-axisymmetric distributions of matter we also study the effective potential for geodesic motion of neutral test particles.Comment: Classical and Quantum Gravity (in press). 15 pages, LaTex, 8 .eps fig

Algebraically special axisymmetric solutions of the higher-dimensional vacuum Einstein equation

A d-dimensional spacetime is "axisymmetric" if it possesses an SO(d-2) isometry group whose orbits are (d-3)-spheres. In this paper, algebraically special, axisymmetric solutions of the higher dimensional vacuum Einstein equation (with cosmological constant) are investigated. Necessary and sufficient conditions for static axisymmetric solutions to belong to different algebraic classes are presented. Then general (possibly time-dependent) axisymmetric solutions are discussed. All axisymmetric solutions of algebraic types II, D, III and N are obtained.Comment: 28 page

Gravitation: following the Prague inspiration : a volume in celebration of the 60th birthday of Jiri Bicak

This volume is dedicated to Jirí Bicák on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The authors are his former students who currently work in the fields of general relativity, astrophysics, theoretical physics and cosmology. Unlike in traditional Festschrifts with many short contributions, they present several comprehensive surveys and elaborate original works. The subjects range from the motion of stars in galactic nuclei to quantum mechanics on a boundary, and include current topics such as cosmological perturbations, effects of a repulsive cosmological constant, discs around black holes and gravi

Application of FT-IR technique to bituminous materials

Spektroskopia to podstawowa metoda oceny struktury związków chemicznych na podstawie ich widm, czyli wykresów zależności transmisji od długości fali z zakresu podczerwieni. Spektroskopia w podczerwieni IR umożliwia np. identyfikację substancji i zanieczyszczeń w tej substancji. W szczególności urządzenia FT-IR pozwalają na analizę złożonych mieszanin bez uprzedniego ich rozdzielania. Spektrometry FT-IR rejestrują pochłanianie energii elektromagnetycznej przez określone wiązania międzyatomowe w cząsteczkach. Wyniki są zwykle naniesione na spektrogramie i pokazują miarę pochłaniania w funkcji długości fali elektromagnetycznej. Poszczególne maksima są identyfikowalne w spektrogramie i mogą być wykorzystywane do identyfikacji np. związku chemicznego w zmienionej mieszance, gdy jej wykres podczerwieni jest znany z analizy w stanie czystym. W ostatnich latach metodę FT-IR stosuje się coraz częściej do oceny i kontroli materiałów budowlanych, np. cementu portlandzkiego, asfaltu, itd.Spectroscopy is a fundamental method used in the material science that relies on the interaction of the electromagnetic radiation with a matter. Infrared spectroscopy allows for material fingerprinting as well as detection and quantification of compounds in a sample. In principle, IR spectrometers record the absorption of electromagnetic energy by chemical bounds in a sample as a function of wavelength. Chemical bounds have unique spectra bands at specific wavelengths regardless of the composition of the remaining molecular structure. The absorbance at these specific wavelengths can be used to quantify a particular functional group in the analyzed material. Absorbance peaks are easily identified on the IR spectra and can be used to fingerprint a compound in a mixture, especially when compared to the original unmodified IR spectra. In the recent years, the FT-IR method has become a popular tool for the quality assurance in the practical applications as well as it became a very useful tool in studying various construction materials, e.g. portland cement, bitumen, etc