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Mass Parameterizations and Predictions of Isotopic Observables
We discuss the accuracy of mass models for extrapolating to very asymmetric
nuclei and the impact of such extrapolations on the predictions of isotopic
observables in multifragmentation. We obtain improved mass predictions by
incorporating measured masses and extrapolating to unmeasured masses with a
mass formula that includes surface symmetry and Coulomb terms. We find that
using accurate masses has a significant impact on the predicted isotopic
observables.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Comparisons of Statistical Multifragmentation and Evaporation Models for Heavy Ion Collisions
The results from ten statistical multifragmentation models have been compared
with each other using selected experimental observables. Even though details in
any single observable may differ, the general trends among models are similar.
Thus these models and similar ones are very good in providing important physics
insights especially for general properties of the primary fragments and the
multifragmentation process. Mean values and ratios of observables are also less
sensitive to individual differences in the models. In addition to
multifragmentation models, we have compared results from five commonly used
evaporation codes. The fluctuations in isotope yield ratios are found to be a
good indicator to evaluate the sequential decay implementation in the code. The
systems and the observables studied here can be used as benchmarks for the
development of statistical multifragmentation models and evaporation codes.Comment: To appear on Euorpean Physics Journal A as part of the Topical Volume
"Dynamics and Thermodynamics with Nuclear Degrees of Freedo
Description Of Rhodnius Marabaensis Sp. N. (hemiptera, Reduviidade, Triatominae) From Pará State, Brazil
Fundação de Amparo Ă Pesquisa do Estado de SĂŁo Paulo (FAPESP)Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de NĂvel Superior (CAPES)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientĂfico e TecnolĂłgico (CNPq)Rhodnius marabaensis sp. n. was collected on 12 May 2014 in the MurumurĂş Environmental Reserve in the city of Marabá, Pará State, Brazil. This study was based on previous consultation of morphological descriptions of 19 Rhodnius species and compared to the identification key for the genus Rhodnius. The examination included specimens from 18 Rhodnius species held in the Brazilian National and International Triatomine Taxonomy Reference Laboratory in the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The morphological characteristics of the head, thorax, abdomen, genitalia, and eggs have been determined. Rhodnius prolixus and R. robustus were examined in more detail because the BLAST analysis of a cyt-b sequence shows they are closely related to the new species, which also occurs in the northern region of Brazil. The most notable morphological features that distinguish R. marabaensis sp. n. are the keel-shaped apex of the head, the length of the second segment of the antennae, the shapes of the prosternum, mesosternum and metasternum, the set of spots on the abdomen, the male genitalia, the posterior and ventral surfaces of the external female genitalia, and the morphological characteristics of the eggs. Rhodnius jacundaensis Serra, Serra and Von Atzingen (1980) nomen nudum specimens deposited at the Maraba Cultural Center Foundation - MCCF were examined and considered as a synonym of R. marabaensis sp. n. © Eder dos Santos Souza et al.201662145622010/15386-3, FAPESP, Fundação de Amparo Ă Pesquisa do Estado de SĂŁo Paulo23038-005285/2011-2012, CAPES, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de NĂvel SuperiorCNPq, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientĂfico e TecnolĂłgicoFundação de Amparo Ă Pesquisa do Estado de SĂŁo Paulo (FAPESP)Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de NĂvel Superior (CAPES)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientĂfico e TecnolĂłgico (CNPq
Asymptotically Improved Convergence of Optimized Perturbation Theory in the Bose-Einstein Condensation Problem
We investigate the convergence properties of optimized perturbation theory,
or linear expansion (LDE), within the context of finite temperature
phase transitions. Our results prove the reliability of these methods, recently
employed in the determination of the critical temperature T_c for a system of
weakly interacting homogeneous dilute Bose gas. We carry out the explicit LDE
optimized calculations and also the infrared analysis of the relevant
quantities involved in the determination of in the large-N limit, when
the relevant effective static action describing the system is extended to O(N)
symmetry. Then, using an efficient resummation method, we show how the LDE can
exactly reproduce the known large-N result for already at the first
non-trivial order. Next, we consider the finite N=2 case where, using similar
resummation techniques, we improve the analytical results for the
nonperturbative terms involved in the expression for the critical temperature
allowing comparison with recent Monte Carlo estimates of them. To illustrate
the method we have considered a simple geometric series showing how the
procedure as a whole works consistently in a general case.Comment: 38 pages, 3 eps figures, Revtex4. Final version in press Phys. Rev.
Incorporation Of Nanocrystals With Different Dimensionalities In Hybrid Tio2/p3ht Solar Cells
We investigate the effect of TiO2 nanoparticles-nanospheres and nanorods-inserted in the poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) matrix of TiO2?P3HT inverted hybrid solar cells. X-ray diffraction, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, small-angle x-ray scattering, photoluminescence, and photoelectrochemical experiments were employed to investigate the structure, morphology, and photoactivity of TiO2 nanoparticles modified with 2-thiopheneacetic acid, mixed or not with P3HT. Both TiO2 nanospheres and TiO2 nanorods presented a good dispersion in the polymer matrix. The incorporation of TiO2 nanospheres and nanorods has improved the photocurrent generation, and devices with efficiency values up to 1.35% were obtained. Our results reveal that the nanoscale morphology enables an enhanced interfacial area for exciton dissociation. In particular, the nanospheres contribute with their high specific area, and the nanorods contribute with their high aspect ratio.51Lee, C.-K., Pao, C.-W., Chen, C.-W., Correlation of nanoscale organizations of polymer and nanocrystals in polymer/inorganic nanocrystal bulk heterojunction hybrid solar cells: Insights from multiscale molecular simulations (2013) Energy Environ. Sci., 6, pp. 307-315Huynh, W.U., Dittmer, J.J., Alivisatos, A.P., Hybrid nanorod: Polymer solar cells (2002) Science, 295, pp. 2425-2427Sian, S., Chen, C.-W., Polymer-metal-oxide hybrid solar cells (2013) J. Mater. Chem. A, 1, pp. 10574-10591Das, J., A facile nonaqueous route for fabricating titania nanorods and their viability in quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (2010) J. Mater. Chem., 20, pp. 4425-4431Cozzoli, P.D., Kornowski, A., Weller, H., Low-temperature synthesis of soluble and processable organic-capped anatase TiO2 nanorods (2003) J. Am. Chem. 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Isospin Effects in Nuclear Multifragmentation
We develop an improved Statistical Multifragmentation Model that provides the
capability to calculate calorimetric and isotopic observables with precision.
With this new model we examine the influence of nuclear isospin on the fragment
elemental and isotopic distributions. We show that the proposed improvements on
the model are essential for studying isospin effects in nuclear
multifragmentation. In particular, these calculations show that accurate
comparisons to experimental data require that the nuclear masses, free energies
and secondary decay must be handled with higher precision than many current
models accord.Comment: 46 pages, 16 figure
Maximally-localized Wannier functions for entangled energy bands
We present a method for obtaining well-localized Wannier-like functions (WFs)
for energy bands that are attached to or mixed with other bands. The present
scheme removes the limitation of the usual maximally-localized WFs method (N.
Marzari and D. Vanderbilt, Phys. Rev. B 56, 12847 (1997)) that the bands of
interest should form an isolated group, separated by gaps from higher and lower
bands everywhere in the Brillouin zone. An energy window encompassing N bands
of interest is specified by the user, and the algorithm then proceeds to
disentangle these from the remaining bands inside the window by filtering out
an optimally connected N-dimensional subspace. This is achieved by minimizing a
functional that measures the subspace dispersion across the Brillouin zone. The
maximally-localized WFs for the optimal subspace are then obtained via the
algorithm of Marzari and Vanderbilt. The method, which functions as a
postprocessing step using the output of conventional electronic-structure
codes, is applied to the s and d bands of copper, and to the valence and
low-lying conduction bands of silicon. For the low-lying nearly-free-electron
bands of copper we find WFs which are centered at the tetrahedral interstitial
sites, suggesting an alternative tight-binding parametrization.Comment: 13 pages, with 9 postscript figures embedded. Uses REVTEX and epsf
macro
Higher Order Evaluation of the Critical Temperature for Interacting Homogeneous Dilute Bose Gases
We use the nonperturbative linear \delta expansion method to evaluate
analytically the coefficients c_1 and c_2^{\prime \prime} which appear in the
expansion for the transition temperature for a dilute, homogeneous, three
dimensional Bose gas given by T_c= T_0 \{1 + c_1 a n^{1/3} + [ c_2^{\prime}
\ln(a n^{1/3}) +c_2^{\prime \prime} ] a^2 n^{2/3} + {\cal O} (a^3 n)\}, where
T_0 is the result for an ideal gas, a is the s-wave scattering length and n is
the number density. In a previous work the same method has been used to
evaluate c_1 to order-\delta^2 with the result c_1= 3.06. Here, we push the
calculation to the next two orders obtaining c_1=2.45 at order-\delta^3 and
c_1=1.48 at order-\delta^4. Analysing the topology of the graphs involved we
discuss how our results relate to other nonperturbative analytical methods such
as the self-consistent resummation and the 1/N approximations. At the same
orders we obtain c_2^{\prime\prime}=101.4, c_2^{\prime \prime}=98.2 and
c_2^{\prime \prime}=82.9. Our analytical results seem to support the recent
Monte Carlo estimates c_1=1.32 \pm 0.02 and c_2^{\prime \prime}= 75.7 \pm 0.4.Comment: 29 pages, 3 eps figures. Minor changes, one reference added. Version
in press Physical Review A (2002
Effect Of Pasteurization On The Decay Of Mycobacterium Bovis In Milk Cream
Milk cream must be pasteurized in order to be sold in Brazil. However, there are no specific legal requirements for this product, and producers set their own pasteurization parameters using the ones approved for milk as a reference. Considering that fat protects bacteria from heat, that no thermal inactivation studies have been performed on Mycobacterium bovis present in cream, and that bovine tuberculosis is endemic in Brazil, the aim of this study was to evaluate the inactivation of M. bovis in milk cream subjected to commercial parameters of pasteurization. Milk cream samples were contaminated and pasteurized in a water bath at 75, 80, 85, and 90°C for 5 and 15 s. M. bovis cells were plated onto Stonebrink-Leslie medium, incubated at 36°C for 45 days, and quantified; the result was expressed in log CFU mL-1. The fat content of the samples ranged from 34% to 37% and the average initial load of M. bovis was 8.0 Log CFU mL-1. The average decay of the M. bovis populations was 4.0, 4.3, 4.9 and 6.7 log CFU mL-1 when the cream was treated for 15 sec at 75, 80, 85 and 90°C, respectively, showing that the efficiency of the heat treatment was improved by increasing the temperature of the process. Given the lipophilic nature of M. bovis, the cream should be subjected to more intense parameters of pasteurization than those applied to milk.3753737374
IMF Emission in the 14-N + nat-Ag, Au Reactions at E/A = 60-100 MeV
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-931478
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