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    Super-heavy fermion material as metallic refrigerant for adiabatic demagnetization cooling

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    Low-temperature refrigeration is of crucial importance in fundamental research of condensed matter physics, as the investigations of fascinating quantum phenomena, such as superconductivity, superfluidity and quantum criticality, often require refrigeration down to very low temperatures. Currently, cryogenic refrigerators with 3^3He gas are widely used for cooling below 1 Kelvin. However, usage of the gas is being increasingly difficult due to the current world-wide shortage. Therefore, it is important to consider alternative methods of refrigeration. Here, we show that a new type of refrigerant, super-heavy electron metal, YbCo2_2Zn20_{20}, can be used for adiabatic demagnetization refrigeration, which does not require 3He gas. A number of advantages includes much better metallic thermal conductivity compared to the conventional insulating refrigerants. We also demonstrate that the cooling performance is optimized in Yb1x_{1-x}Scx_xCo2_2Zn20_{20} by partial Sc substitution with xx\sim0.19. The substitution induces chemical pressure which drives the materials close to a zero-field quantum critical point. This leads to an additional enhancement of the magnetocaloric effect in low fields and low temperatures enabling final temperatures well below 100 mK. Such performance has up to now been restricted to insulators. Since nearly a century the same principle of using local magnetic moments has been applied for adiabatic demagnetization cooling. This study opens new possibilities of using itinerant magnetic moments for the cryogen-free refrigeration

    Monumente en gedenktekens op Weermagsterreine

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    Daar is twee gedenktekens op die Grahamstad Militere Basis terrein, naamlik die "Savannah Shellhole" (MOTH) gedenkteken en die 6 SAl Bn gedenkteken

    Frauen und lixae im militärischen Umfeld. Bemerkungen zum Fundplatz Kalkriese im Jahre 11 nach Beginn der archäologischen Forschungen

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    Frauen und lixae im militärischen Umfeld. Fundplatz Kalkriese im Jahre 11 nach Beginn der archäologischen Forschungen. Seit den ersten archäologischen Sondierungen und Prospektionen im Jahr 1987 vermehren sich die eindeutigen Hinweise auf den geschichtsträchtigen Boden am Kalkrieser Berg. Funde und Befunde haben die Geschichte um die ausgedehnten römisch-germanischen Grenz- und Interessenkonflikte und, basierend auf den numismatischen Forschungsergebnissen, vornehmlich die Ereignisse des Jahres 9 n.Chr. in das Blickfeld der wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen gerückt. Die vielgesuchte Örtlichkeit der Niederlage römischer Truppen im Kampf gegen verbündete germanische Stammesverbände scheint am Kalkrieser Berg tangiert zu sein. Initiiert und in Szene gesetzt durch den Fundplatz auf dem Oberesch wird dem Besuchenden das Areal bei Kalkriese unter dem Slogan "Varusschlacht" präsentiert. ..

    NEUTRALIZATION OF HE+ AND HE-2+ ON PB SURFACES

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    The neutralization of slow He+ and He2+ ions on Pb surfaces allows the study of Auger capture, resonant capture into autoionizing states and of a Landau-Zener-type two-state charge exchange process. In the primary energy range of 300 eV to 6 keV the processes are experimentally accessible by measuring the reflected ion energy spectra and the secondary electron energy spectra. The results lead to estimates of the transition rates (1.7-3.0 x 10(15) s-1 for Auger capture and 4.2 x 10(15) s-1 for resonant capture into autoionizing states) of the charge exchange processes and of the distances (3.55-4.0 angstrom for the Landau-Zener process) where these processes in front of the metal surface occur

    2.2. Χάρις

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    Interaction of Low-Energy Ions, Atoms and Molecules with Surfaces

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