Backbending in 50Cr

The collective yrast band and the high spin states of the nucleus 50Cr are studied using the spherical shell model and the HFB method. The two descriptions lead to nearly the same values for the relevant observables. A first backbending is predicted at I=10\hbar corresponding to a collective to non-collective transition. At I=16\hbar a second backbending occurs, associated to a configuration change that can also be interpreted as an spherical to triaxial transition.Comment: ReVTeX v 3.0 epsf.sty, 5 pages, 5 figures included. Full Postscript version available at http://www.ft.uam.es/~gabriel/Cr50art.ps.g

Clonagem de fragmentos de DNA de um baculovirus patogênico à lagarta-do-álamo.

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Environmental impacts of selective laser melting: do printer, powder, or power dominate?

This life cycle assessment measured environmental impacts of selective laser melting, to determine where most impacts arise: machine and supporting hardware; aluminum powder material used; or electricity used to print. Machine impacts and aluminum powder impacts were calculated by generating life cycle inventories of materials and processing; electricity use was measured by in-line power meter; transport and disposal were also assessed. Impacts were calculated as energy use (megajoules; MJ), ReCiPe Europe Midpoint H, and ReCiPe Europe Endpoint H/A. Previous research has shown that the efficiency of additive manufacturing depends on machine operation patterns; thus, scenarios were demarcated through notation listing different configurations of machine utilization, system idling, and postbuild part removal. Results showed that electricity use during printing was the dominant impact per part for nearly all scenarios, both in MJ and ReCiPe Endpoint H/A. However, some low-utilization scenarios caused printer embodied impacts to dominate these metrics, and some ReCiPe Midpoint H categories were always dominated by other sources. For printer operators, results indicate that maximizing capacity utilization can reduce impacts per part by a factor of 14 to 18, whereas avoiding electron discharge machining part removal can reduce impacts per part by 25% to 28%. For system designers, results indicate that reductions in energy consumption, both in the printer and auxiliary equipment, could significantly reduce the environmental burden of the process

r-PROCESS CALCULATIONS WITH A MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION OF THE FISSION PROCESS

We computed the fission properties of nuclei in the range of 84 ≤ Z ≤ 120 and 118 ≤ N ≤ 250 using the Barcelona–Catania–Paris–Madrid (BCPM) Energy Density Functional (EDF). For the first time, a set of spontaneous and neutron-induced fission rates were obtained from a microscopic calculation of nuclear collective inertias. These fission rates were used as a nuclear input in the estimation of nucleosynthesis yields on neutron star mergers. We founded that the increased stability against the fission process predicted by the BCPM allows the formation of nuclei up to A = 286. This constitutes a first step in a systematic exploration of different sets of fission rates on r-process abundance predictionsS.A.G., G.M.P. and M.-R.W. acknowledge support from the Helmholtz Association through the Nuclear Astrophysics Virtual Institute (VH-VI417), and the BMBF-Verbundforschungsprojekt number 05P15RDFN1. M.-R.W. acknowledges support from the Villum Foundation (Project No. 13164) and the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF91). The work of L.M.R. was supported in part by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), under contracts Nos. FIS2012-34479, FPA2015- 65929, FIS2015-63770 and by the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Program MULTIDAR

Susceptibilidad "in vitro" de dermatofitos frente a Griseofulvina y Tolnaftato de sodio

Se ha informado acerca de una evolución de la susceptibilidad de Griseofulvina frente a Dermatofitos.Por otra parte, desconociendo el comportamiento de las cepas de estos hongos aislados en nuestro medio, como también frente al Tolnaftato de Sodio se estudian las C.I.M de estas drogas por el Método de Chmel Louria.Se comparan estos dos antifúngicos, ya que muchas veces se utilizan como un tratamiento combinado. El 97,5% de las cepas estudiadas fue sensible a una concentración igual o inferior a 1,0 microgramos por ml. de Griseofulvina y el 96,6% a 0,16 microgramos por ml. de Tolnaftato de Sodio.El 97,5% de las cepas estudiadas fue sensible a una concentración igual o inferior a 10 microgramos de Griseofulvina y el 96,6% lo es frente a 0,16 microgramos o menos de Tolnaftato de Sodio

Neutrino spectra evolution during proto-neutron star deleptonization

The neutrino-driven wind, which occurs after the onset of a core-collapse supernova explosion, has long been considered as the possible site for the synthesis of heavy r-process elements in the Universe. Only recently, it has been possible to simulate supernova explosions up to ~10 seconds, based on three-flavor Boltzmann neutrino transport. These simulations show that the neutrino luminosities and spectra of all flavors are very similar and their difference even decreases during the deleptonization of the proto-neutron star. As a consequence, the ejecta are always proton rich which rules out the possible production of heavy r-process elements (Z>56). We perform a detailed analysis of the different weak processes that determine the neutrino spectra. Non-electron flavor (anti)neutrinos are produced and interact only via neutral-current processes, while electron (anti)neutrinos have additional contributions from charge-current processes. The latter are dominated by ve absorption on neutrons and anti-ve absorption on protons. At early times, charge-current processes are responsible for spectral differences between. However, as the region of neutrino decoupling moves to higher densities during deleptonization, charge-current reactions are suppressed by final state Pauli-blocking. anti-ve absorption on protons is suppressed due to the continuously increasing chemical potential of the neutrons. ve absorption on neutrons is blocked by the increasing degeneracy of the electrons. These effects result in negligible contributions from charge-current reactions on timescales on the order of tens of seconds, depending on the progenitor star. Hence, the neutrino spectra are mainly determined from neutral-current processes which do not distinguish between the different flavors and results in the convergence of the spectra. These findings are independent of the charge-current reaction rates used...Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, submitted to PR

Intrinsic vs. laboratory frame description of the deformed nucleus 48Cr

The collective yrast band of the nucleus $^{48}$Cr is studied using the spherical shell model and the HFB method. Both approaches produce basically the same axially symmetric intrinsic state up to the - accurately reproduced - observed backbending. Agreement between both calculations extends to most observables. The only significant discrepancy comes from the static moments of inertia and can be attributed to the need of a more refined treatment of pairing correlations in the HFB calculation.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX 3.0 using psfig, 6 Postscript figures included using uufile

Spatially inhomogeneous condensate in asymmetric nuclear matter

We study the isospin singlet pairing in asymmetric nuclear matter with nonzero total momentum of the condensate Cooper pairs. The quasiparticle excitation spectrum is fourfold split compared to the usual BCS spectrum of the symmetric, homogeneous matter. A twofold splitting of the spectrum into separate branches is due to the finite momentum of the condensate, the isospin asymmetry, or the finite quasiparticle lifetime. The coupling of the isospin singlet and triplet paired states leads to further twofold splitting of each of these branches. We solve the gap equation numerically in the isospin singlet channel in the case where the pairing in the isospin triplet channel is neglected and find nontrivial solutions with finite total momentum of the pairs. The corresponding phase assumes a periodic spatial structure which carries a isospin density wave at constant total number of particles. The phase transition from the BCS to the inhomogeneous superconducting phase is found to be first order and occurs when the density asymmetry is increased above 0.25. The transition from the inhomogeneous superconducting to the unpaired normal state is second order. The maximal values of the critical total momentum (in units of the Fermi momentum) and the critical density asymmetry at which condensate disappears are $P_c/p_F = 0.3$ and $\alpha_c = 0.41$. The possible spatial forms of the ground state of the inhomogeneous superconducting phase are briefly discussed.Comment: 13 pages, including 3 figues, uses RevTeX; minor corrections, PRC in pres