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Blue-light receptor in a white mutant of Physarum polycephalum mediates inhibition of spherulation and regulation of glucose metabolism.
Photomorphogenesis in Physarum: induction of tubulins and sporulation-specific proteins and of their mRNAs.
High-Intensity and High-Brightness Source of Moderated Positrons Using a Brilliant gamma Beam
Presently large efforts are conducted towards the development of highly
brilliant gamma beams via Compton back scattering of photons from a
high-brilliance electron beam, either on the basis of a normal-conducting
electron linac or a (superconducting) Energy Recovery Linac (ERL). Particularly
ERL's provide an extremely brilliant electron beam, thus enabling to generate
highest-quality gamma beams. A 2.5 MeV gamma beam with an envisaged intensity
of 10^15 s^-1, as ultimately envisaged for an ERL-based gamma-beam facility,
narrow band width (10^-3), and extremely low emittance (10^-4 mm^2 mrad^2)
offers the possibility to produce a high-intensity bright polarized positron
beam. Pair production in a face-on irradiated W converter foil (200 micron
thick, 10 mm long) would lead to the emission of 2 x 10^13 (fast) positrons per
second, which is four orders of magnitude higher compared to strong radioactive
^22Na sources conventionally used in the laboratory.Using a stack of converter
foils and subsequent positron moderation, a high-intensity low-energy beam of
moderated positrons can be produced. Two different source setups are presented:
a high-brightness positron beam with a diameter as low as 0.2 mm, and a
high-intensity beam of 3 x 10^11 moderated positrons per second. Hence,
profiting from an improved moderation efficiency, the envisaged positron
intensity would exceed that of present high-intensity positron sources by a
factor of 100.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
Sensitivities of Low Energy Reactor Neutrino Experiments
The low energy part of the reactor neutrino spectra has not been
experimentally measured. Its uncertainties limit the sensitivities in certain
reactor neutrino experiments. The origin of these uncertainties are discussed,
and the effects on measurements of neutrino interactions with electrons and
nuclei are studied. Comparisons are made with existing results. In particular,
the discrepancies between previous measurements with Standard Model
expectations can be explained by an under-estimation of the low energy reactor
neutrino spectra. To optimize the experimental sensitivities, measurements for
\nuebar-e cross-sections should focus on events with large (1.5 MeV)
recoil energy while those for neutrino magnetic moment searches should be based
on events 100 keV. The merits and attainable accuracies for
neutrino-electron scattering experiments using artificial neutrino sources are
discussed.Comment: 25 pages, 9 figure
Components of Antineutrino Emission in Nuclear Reactor
New scattering experiments aimed for sensitive searches of
the magnetic moment and projects to explore small mixing angle
oscillations at reactors call for a better understanding of the reactor
antineutrino spectrum. Here we consider six components, which contribute to the
total spectrum generated in nuclear reactor. They are: beta
decay of the fission fragments of U, Pu, U and
Pu, decay of beta-emitters produced as a result of neutron capture in
U and also due to neutron capture in accumulated fission fragments
which perturbs the spectrum. For antineutrino energies less than 3.5 MeV we
tabulate evolution of spectra corresponding to each of the four
fissile isotopes vs fuel irradiation time and their decay after the irradiation
is stopped and also estimate relevant uncertainties. Small corrections to the
ILL spectra are considered.Comment: LaTex 8 pages, 2 ps figure
The nucleus ^198 Au investigated with neutron capture and transfer reactions. II. Construction of the level scheme and calculation of level densities
The level scheme of ^198 Au was constructed. Up to 1560 keV a total of 111 (d,p) and 125 (n,gamma) levels was included, frequently with spin and parity assignments. The results for level densities are calculated in interacting boson-fermion-fermion model (IBFFM) and Gaussian polynomial method (GPM) and are compared to the present data
The nucleus ^198 Au investigated with neutron capture and transfer reactions I. Experiments and evaluation
The transfer reaction ^197 Au(d,p)^198 Au was measured at the Tandem Accelerator in Munich. The ^197 Au(n,gamma)^198 Au and ^197 Au(n,e)^198 Au reactions were performed at the High Flux Reactor of ILL, Grenoble. Up to 1560 keV a total of 111 levels were observed by the (d,p) reaction and 125 by the (n,gamma) reaction. For many of the levels, spins and parities were assigned. Additional information was obtained from summed (n,gamma gamma) coincidences measured in Dubna
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