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Investigation of PNC Effects in the Radiative Capture of Polarized Neutrons the Case of H2 (n,γ) and Cd113 (n,γ). EUR 3053.
Chacaltaya: towards a solution of the knee ....?
Cosmic rays physics is currently being studied with rather sophisticated
detectors running in a variety of experimental conditions and atmospheric
depths around the world. In this paper we describe the reasons why cosmic ray
physics experiments at high altitudes like Chacaltaya are so important for
resolving some of the open problems in cosmic physics. A discussion on the
future prospects of the high altitude mountain laboratories such as Chacaltaya
for cosmic ray physics is presented.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Proceedings of the "Chacaltaya
Meeting on Cosmic Ray Physics", Il Nuovo Ciment
The 23 year reminiscence of the SN1987A
Twenty three years ago on February 23, 1987, the explosion of the SN in the L.M.C. was observed both optically and by underground detectors. The optical observations were done in Chile and Australian observatories while the neutrino burst was detected by several underground experiments in the Northern Hemisphere, running at that time: Mt. Blanc in Italy, Kamioka in Japan, and Baksan in Russia and IMB in the USA. For the first time in the history of human existence, an astrophysical phenomenon has been observed in underground detectors. In this astrophysical event, the Mt. Blanc experiment detected five pulses on-line that were not at the same time, as detected by the other three detectors around five hours later. It is still not clear to astrophysicists why two bursts at two different times have been detected and how an SN can generate two neutrino bursts. After 23 years a model has proposed an explanation for a double stage collapse at two different times, as recently suggested by V.S. Imshennik and O. Ryazhskaya. In this paper, a detailed occurrence of something strange that happened on February 23rd is presented while most of the scientific information has been exhibited in other published papers
Role of the electromagnetic processes in the high-energy muon production
The muon pair production by gammas in the atmosphere is discussed as a mechanism of “prompt” muon production at very high energies. It is shown that this process dominates over the conventional muon production through pion and kaon decay at energies greater than several PeV
Experimental scheme for unambiguous discrimination of linearly independent symmetric states
We propose an optimal discrimination scheme for a case of four linearly
independent nonorthogonal symmetric quantum states, based on linear optics
only. The probability of discrimination is in agreement with the optimal
probability for unambiguous discrimination among N symmetric states [Phys.
Lett. A \textbf{250}, 223 (1998)]. The experimental setup can be extended for
the case of discrimination among nonorthogonal symmetric quantum states
Modulation of Host Immunity by Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Virulence Factors: A Synergic Inhibition of Both Innate and Adaptive Immunity
Indexación: Web of Science; Scopus.The Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (hRSV) is a major cause of acute lower respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) and high rates of hospitalizations in children and in the elderly worldwide. Symptoms of hRSV infection include bronchiolitis and pneumonia. The lung pathology observed during hRSV infection is due in part to an exacerbated host immune response, characterized by immune cell infiltration to the lungs. HRSV is an enveloped virus, a member of the Pneumoviridae family, with a non-segmented genome and negative polarity-single RNA that contains 10 genes encoding for 11 proteins. These include the Fusion protein (F), the Glycoprotein (G), and the Small Hydrophobic (SH) protein, which are located on the virus surface. In addition, the Nucleoprotein (N), Phosphoprotein (P) large polymerase protein (L) part of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase complex, the M2-1 protein as a transcription elongation factor, the M2-2 protein as a regulator of viral transcription and (M) protein all of which locate inside the virion. Apart from the structural proteins, the hRSV genome encodes for the non-structural 1 and 2 proteins (NS1 and NS2). HRSV has developed different strategies to evade the host immunity by means of the function of some of these proteins that work as virulence factors to improve the infection in the lung tissue. Also, hRSV NS-1 and NS-2 proteins have been shown to inhibit the activation of the type I interferon response. Furthermore, the hRSV nucleoprotein has been shown to inhibit the immunological synapsis between the dendritic cells and T cells during infection, resulting in an inefficient T cell activation. Here, we discuss the hRSV virulence factors and the host immunological features raised during infection with this virus.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2017.00367/ful
Efecto de la composición del gas de refinería sobre las características del proceso de combustión
En este artículo de investigación científica se analiza el efecto del cambio de la composición del gas combustible (Gas de Refinería (GR) por Gas Natural (GN)) sobre las características del proceso combustión en hornos de la industria de refinación del petróleo; se evaluó el poder calorífico, el índice de Wobbe (IW) y exceso de oxígeno, para mezclas combustibles de composición variable. Mediante simulación computacional del proceso de combustión se calculó la temperatura adiabática de lama, eficiencia y la composición de los productos de combustión. Se evaluaron mezclas de gases combustibles con poderes caloríficos entre 800-2500 Btu/pie3 y se compararon con la combustión de gas natural. Se registró variabilidad en la temperatura adiabática y la eficiencia en función de la composición del gas y el exceso de oxígeno, lo que genera inestabilidad en el horno y mayor impacto ambiental
Biexciton oscillator strength
Our goal is to provide a physical understanding of the elementary coupling
between photon and biexciton and to derive the physical characteristics of the
biexciton oscillator strength, following the procedure we used for trion.
Instead of the more standard two-photon absorption, this work concentrates on
molecular biexciton created by photon absorption in an exciton gas. We first
determine the appropriate set of coordinates in real and momentum spaces to
describe one biexciton as two interacting excitons. We then turn to second
quantization and introduce the "Fourier transform in the exciton sense" of the
biexciton wave function which is the relevant quantity for oscillator strength.
We find that, like for trion, the oscillator strength for the formation of one
biexciton out of one photon plus a \emph{single} exciton is extremely small: it
is one biexciton volume divided by one sample volume smaller than the exciton
oscillator strength. However, due to their quantum nature, trion and biexciton
have absorption lines which behave quite differently. Electrons and trions are
fermionic particles impossible to pile up all at the same energy. This would
make the weak trion line spread with electron density, the peak structure only
coming from singular many-body effects. By contrast, the bosonic nature of
exciton and biexciton makes the biexciton peak mainly rise with exciton
density, this rise being simply linear if we forget many-body effects between
the photocreated exciton and the excitons present in the sample
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