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Crystal effects in the Neutralization of He+ ions in the low energy ion scattering regime
4 pages.-- PACS nrs.: 34.35.+a, 68.47.De, 68.49.Sf, 79.20.Rf.Investigating possible crystal effects in ion scattering from elemental surfaces, measurements of the positive ion fraction P+ are reported for He+ ions scattered from single and polycrystalline Cu surfaces. In the Auger neutralization regime, the ion yield is determined by scattering from the outermost atomic layer. For Cu(110) P+ exceeds that for polycrystalline Cu by up to a factor of 2.5, thus exhibiting a strong crystal effect. It is much less pronounced at higher energies, i.e., in the reionization regime. However, there a completely different angular dependence of the ion yield is observed for poly- and single crystals, due to massive subsurface contributions in nonchanneling directions.This work was partially supported by the Austrian
Science Fund FWF, project number P16469.Peer reviewe
Crystal effects in the Neutralization of He+ ions in the low energy ion scattering regime
4 pages.-- PACS nrs.: 34.35.+a, 68.47.De, 68.49.Sf, 79.20.Rf.Investigating possible crystal effects in ion scattering from elemental surfaces, measurements of the positive ion fraction P+ are reported for He+ ions scattered from single and polycrystalline Cu surfaces. In the Auger neutralization regime, the ion yield is determined by scattering from the outermost atomic layer. For Cu(110) P+ exceeds that for polycrystalline Cu by up to a factor of 2.5, thus exhibiting a strong crystal effect. It is much less pronounced at higher energies, i.e., in the reionization regime. However, there a completely different angular dependence of the ion yield is observed for poly- and single crystals, due to massive subsurface contributions in nonchanneling directions.This work was partially supported by the Austrian
Science Fund FWF, project number P16469.Peer reviewe
Magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of (MnCo)1-xGe compounds
The crystal structure, magnetic properties, and heat capacity of the (MnCo)1-xGe compounds with x ≤ 0.05 have been studied. It was found that, as the deviation from the MnCoGe stoichiometric composition increases, the temperature of structural transition from the low-temperature phase with the orthorhombic TiNiSi-type structure to the high-temperature phase with the hexagonal Ni2In-type phase decreases rapidly, whereas the magnetic ordering temperature varies slightly. The temperature of structural transition for the composition with x = 0.02 approximately coincides with the Curie temperature of the hexagonal phase, and the transition is accompanied by a significant entropy change, namely, ΔS = 34 J/(kg K). The application of high magnetic field in the transition-temperature range causes an increase in the relative volume of the orthorhombic phase. An analysis of magnetocaloric properties of these compounds, which was performed with the formal application of the Maxwell's relationship near the temperature of first-order structural phase transition, is shown to give overestimated values of the entropy change. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2013
New materials of RMn2Ge2 type for thermomagnetic devices
The new type of the working media for thermomagnetic devices is proposed: the intermetallic compounds which have large magnetocrystalline anisotropy and exhibit the spontaneous phase transition from the antiferromagnetic (AF) to ferromagnetic (F) state when the temperature increases above the critical value T. Moreover, the anisotropy in AF state in the fields below the critical AF-F transition field must be much lower than in the F state. In the present paper the GdSmMnGe compound belonging to the tetragonal RMnGe system is investigated. This compound has the critical temperature T = 280 K. The thermomagnetic cycle can be realized on the AF-F-AF transition near T. The interval of the working temperatures can be shifted with the change of the Gd and Sm concentration
Curvature-Induced Defect Unbinding in Toroidal Geometries
Toroidal templates such as vesicles with hexatic bond orientational order are
discussed. The total energy including disclination charges is explicitly
computed for hexatic order embedded in a toroidal geometry. Related results
apply for tilt or nematic order on the torus in the one Frank constant
approximation. Although there is no topological necessity for defects in the
ground state, we find that excess disclination defects are nevertheless
energetically favored for fat torii or moderate vesicle sizes. Some
experimental consequences are discussed.Comment: 12 pages, 15 eps figure
Continuous selections of multivalued mappings
This survey covers in our opinion the most important results in the theory of
continuous selections of multivalued mappings (approximately) from 2002 through
2012. It extends and continues our previous such survey which appeared in
Recent Progress in General Topology, II, which was published in 2002. In
comparison, our present survey considers more restricted and specific areas of
mathematics. Note that we do not consider the theory of selectors (i.e.
continuous choices of elements from subsets of topological spaces) since this
topics is covered by another survey in this volume
How to obtain division algebras used for fast-decodable space-time block codes
We present families of unital algebras obtained through a doubling process from a cyclic central simple algebra D, employing a K-automorphism tau and an invertible element d in D. These algebras appear in the construction of iterated space-time block codes. We give conditions when these iterated algebras are division which can be used to construct fully diverse iterated codes. We also briefly look at algebras (and codes) obtained from variations of this method
Performance of the first prototype of the CALICE scintillator strip electromagnetic calorimeter
A first prototype of a scintillator strip-based electromagnetic calorimeter
was built, consisting of 26 layers of tungsten absorber plates interleaved with
planes of 45x10x3 mm3 plastic scintillator strips. Data were collected using a
positron test beam at DESY with momenta between 1 and 6 GeV/c. The prototype's
performance is presented in terms of the linearity and resolution of the energy
measurement. These results represent an important milestone in the development
of highly granular calorimeters using scintillator strip technology. This
technology is being developed for a future linear collider experiment, aiming
at the precise measurement of jet energies using particle flow techniques
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