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Nucleate pool boiling in the long duration low gravity environment of the Space Shuttle
The results are presented of an experimental study of nucleate pool boiling performed in the low gravity environment of the space shuttle. Photographic observations of pool boiling in Freon 113 were obtained during the 'Tank Pressure Control Experiment,' flown on the Space Transportation System, STS-43 in August 1991. Nucleate boiling data from large (relative to bubble size) flat heating surfaces (0.1046 by 0.0742 m) was obtained at very low heat fluxes (0.22 to 1.19 kW/sq m). The system pressure and the bulk liquid subcooling varied in the range of 40 to 60 kPa and 3 to 5 C respectively. Thirty-eight boiling tests, each of 10-min duration for a given heat flux, were conducted. Measurements included the heater power, heater surface temperature, the liquid temperature and the system pressure as functions of heating time. Video data of the first 2 min of heating was recorded for each test. In some tests the video clearly shows the inception of boiling and the growth and departure of bubbles from the surface during the first 2 min of heating. In the absence of video data, the heater temperature variation during heating shows the inception of boiling and stable nucleate boiling. During the stable nucleate boiling, the wall superheat varied between 2.8 to 3.8 C for heat fluxes in the range of 0.95 to 1.19 kW/sq m. The wall superheat at the inception of boiling varied between 2 to 13 C
Effects of Quark Spin Flip on the Collins Fragmentation Function in a Toy Model
The recent extension of the NJL-jet model to hadronization of transversely
polarized quarks allowed the study of the Collins fragmentation function. Both
favored and unfavored Collins fragmentation functions were generated, the
latter purely by multiple hadron emissions, with 1/2 moments of opposite sign
in the region of the light-cone momentum fraction accessible in current
experiments. Hints of such behavior has been seen in the measurements in
several experiments. Also, in the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) hadron
emission probabilities, modulations of up to fourth order in sine of the polar
angle were observed, while the Collins effect describes just the linear
modulations. A crucial part of the extended model was the calculation of the
quark spin flip probability after each hadron emission in the jet. Here we
study the effects of this probability on the resulting unfavored and favored
Collins functions by setting it as a constant and use a toy model for the
elementary single hadron emission probabilities. The results of the Monte Carlo
simulations showed that preferential quark spin flip in the elementary hadron
emission is needed to generate the favored and unfavored Collins functions with
opposite sign 1/2 moments. For the TMD hadron emission modulations, we showed
that the model quark spin flip probabilities are a partial source of the higher
rode modulations, while the other source is the Collins modulation of the
remnant quark from the hadron emission recoil.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures. To appear in proceedings of HITES 2012,
Conference in Honor of Jerry P. Draayer, Horizons of Innovative Theories,
Experiments, and Supercomputing in Nuclear Physics, New Orleans, Louisiana,
June 4-7, 201
Evaluation of the utility of interphase cytogenetics to detect residual cells with a malignant genotype in mixed cell populations: a Burkitt lymphoma model
Strongly Variable z=1.48 FeII and MgII Absorption in the Spectra of z=4.05 GRB 060206
We report on the discovery of strongly variable FeII and MgII absorption
lines seen at z=1.48 in the spectra of the z=4.05 GRB 060206 obtained between
4.13 to 7.63 hours (observer frame) after the burst. In particular, the FeII
line equivalent width (EW) decayed rapidly from 1.72+-0.25 AA to 0.28+-0.21 AA,
only to increase to 0.96+-0.21 AA in a later date spectrum. The MgII doublet
shows even more complicated evolution: the weaker line of the doublet drops
from 2.05+-0.25 AA to 0.92+-0.32 AA, but then more than doubles to 2.47+-0.41
AA in later data. The ratio of the EWs for the MgII doublet is also variable,
being closer to 1:1 (saturated regime) when the lines are stronger and becoming
closer to 2:1 (unsaturated regime) when the lines are weaker, consistent with
expectations based on atomic physics. We have investigated and rejected the
possibility of any instrumental or atmospheric effects causing the observed
strong variations. Our discovery of clearly variable intervening FeII and MgII
lines lends very strong support to their scenario, in which the characteristic
size of intervening patches of MgII ``clouds'' is comparable to the GRB beam
size, i.e, about 10^16 cm. We discuss various implications of this discovery,
including the nature of the MgII absorbers, the physics of GRBs, and
measurements of chemical abundances from GRB and quasar absorption lines.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; ApJ Letters, accepte
Zero Modes in Electromagnetic Form Factors of the Nucleon in a Light-Cone Diquark Model
We use a diquark model of the nucleon to calculate the electromagnetic form
factors of the nucleon described as a scalar and axialvector diquark bound
state. We provide an analysis of the zero-mode contribution in the diquark
model. We find there are zero-mode contributions to the form factors arising
from the instantaneous part of the quark propagator, which cannot be neglected
compared with the valence contribution but can be removed by the choice of wave
function. We also find that the charge and magnetic radii and magnetic moment
of the proton can be reproduced, while the magnetic moment of the neutron is
too small. The dipole shape of the form factors, and
can be reproduced. The ratio decreases
with but too fast.Comment: 22 pages, 6 pages, accepted by J.Phys.
Tank Pressure Control Experiment: Thermal Phenomena in Microgravity
The report presents the results of the flight experiment Tank Pressure Control Experiment/Thermal Phenomena (TPCE/TP) performed in the microgravity environment of the space shuttle. TPCE/TP, flown on the Space Transportation System STS-52, was a second flight of the Tank Pressure Control Experiment (TPCE). The experiment used Freon 113 at near saturation conditions. The test tank was filled with liquid to about 83% by volume. The experiment consisted of 21 tests. Each test generally started with a heating phase to increase the tank pressure and to develop temperature stratification in the fluid, followed by a fluid mixing phase for the tank pressure reduction and fluid temperature equilibration. The heating phase provided pool boiling data from large (relative to bubble sizes) heating surfaces (0.1046 m by 0.0742 m) at low heat fluxes (0.23 to 1.16 kW/sq m). The system pressure and the bulk liquid subcooling varied from 39 to 78 kPa and 1 to 3 C, respectively. The boiling process during the entire heating period, as well as the jet-induced mixing process for the first 2 min of the mixing period, was also recorded on video. The unique features of the experimental results are the sustainability of high liquid superheats for long periods and the occurrence of explosive boiling at low heat fluxes (0.86 to 1.1 kW/sq m). For a heat flux of 0.97 kW/sq m, a wall superheat of 17.9 C was attained in 10 min of heating. This superheat was followed by an explosive boiling accompanied by a pressure spike of about 38% of the tank pressure at the inception of boiling. However, at this heat flux the vapor blanketing the heating surface could not be sustained. Steady nucleate boiling continued after the explosive boiling. The jet-induced fluid mixing results were obtained for jet Reynolds numbers of 1900 to 8000 and Weber numbers of 0.2 to 6.5. Analyses of data from the two flight experiments (TPCE and TPCE/TP) and their comparison with the results obtained in drop tower experiments suggest that as Bond number approaches zero the flow pattern produced by an axial jet and the mixing time can be predicted by the Weber number
A Revised Broad-Line Region Radius and Black Hole Mass for the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 NGC 4051
We present the first results from a high sampling rate, multi-month
reverberation mapping campaign undertaken primarily at MDM Observatory with
supporting observations from telescopes around the world. The primary goal of
this campaign was to obtain either new or improved Hbeta reverberation lag
measurements for several relatively low luminosity AGNs. We feature results for
NGC 4051 here because, until now, this object has been a significant outlier
from AGN scaling relationships, e.g., it was previously a ~2-3sigma outlier on
the relationship between the broad-line region (BLR) radius and the optical
continuum luminosity - the R_BLR-L relationship. Our new measurements of the
lag time between variations in the continuum and Hbeta emission line made from
spectroscopic monitoring of NGC 4051 lead to a measured BLR radius of R_BLR =
1.87 (+0.54 -0.50) light days and black hole mass of M_BH = 1.73 (+0.55 -0.52)
x 10^6 M_sun. This radius is consistent with that expected from the R_BLR-L
relationship, based on the present luminosity of NGC 4051 and the most current
calibration of the relation by Bentz et al. (2009a). We also present a
preliminary look at velocity-resolved Hbeta light curves and time delay
measurements, although we are unable to reconstruct an unambiguous
velocity-resolved reverberation signal.Comment: 38 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ, changes from v1
reflect suggestions from anonymous refere
The Near-Infrared Broad Emission Line Region of Active Galactic Nuclei -- I. The Observations
We present high quality (high signal-to-noise ratio and moderate spectral
resolution) near-infrared (near-IR) spectroscopic observations of 23 well-known
broad-emission line active galactic nuclei (AGN). Additionally, we obtained
simultaneous (within two months) optical spectroscopy of similar quality. The
near-IR broad emission line spectrum of AGN is dominated by permitted
transitions of hydrogen, helium, oxygen, and calcium, and by the rich spectrum
of singly-ionized iron. In this paper we present the spectra, line
identifications and measurements, and address briefly some of the important
issues regarding the physics of AGN broad emission line regions. In particular,
we investigate the excitation mechanism of neutral oxygen and confront for the
first time theoretical predictions of the near-IR iron emission spectrum with
observations.Comment: 45 pages, 17 figures, accepted by ApJ
Chiral thermodynamics of dense hadronic matter
We discuss phases of hot and dense hadronic matter using chiral Lagrangians.
A two-flavored parity doublet model constrained by the nuclear matter ground
state predicts chiral symmetry restoration. The model thermodynamics is shown
within the mean field approximation. A field-theoretical constraint on possible
phases from the anomaly matching is also discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of 6th International
Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD), 23-29 August
2010 at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russi
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