Mining waste utilization in the production of building materials

Possibilities of utilization of Olenegorsk iron ore deposit and Khibiny apatite-nepheline ore deposit overburden rocks (Kola Peninsula, Russia) in the production of building materials have been considered. It has been shown that overburden rocks minerals, particularly nepheline, chemically react with cement phase thereby consolidating the contact zone. According to the obtained results the overburden rocks can be used in road building, civil and industrial engineering

Utilization of ferrous-magnesium slag for production of binding materials

Utilization of Pechenganickel, Severonickel and Norilsk Nickel smelter plants ferrous-magnesium slag for production of Portland slag cement, lime-slag cement and alkali-activated slag cement has been considered. Influence of mechanical activation of ferrous-magnesium slag, in air and in carbon dioxide atmosphere, on its binding properties has been studied. It has been shown that preliminary mechanical activation in CO2 results in an increase of compressive strength of alkali-activated slag cement. Interaction between mechanically activated slag and liquid glass has been characterized using SEM and microprobe technique

[Review] Biographical Dictionary of the Social Movements in Modern Japan

© 2012, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd. Variations in the atmospheric integrated water vapor obtained from the phase measurement by satellite navigation systems’ receivers are discussed. The comparison between numerical weather reanalysis fields and solar photometer measurements has shown an agreement with a relative deviation of less than 10%. Intraseasonal processes of 3–45 days in length significantly contribute to variations in the atmospheric integrated water vapor; their amplitude is 1–4 kg/m2. Variations with periods from 3 to 10 days are the most frequent

Variations in the atmospheric integrated water vapor from phase measurements made with receivers of satellite navigation systems

© 2012, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd. Variations in the atmospheric integrated water vapor obtained from the phase measurement by satellite navigation systems’ receivers are discussed. The comparison between numerical weather reanalysis fields and solar photometer measurements has shown an agreement with a relative deviation of less than 10%. Intraseasonal processes of 3–45 days in length significantly contribute to variations in the atmospheric integrated water vapor; their amplitude is 1–4 kg/m2. Variations with periods from 3 to 10 days are the most frequent

Variability of GPS-derived zenith tropospheric delay and some result of its assimilation into numeric atmosphere model

The total zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) is an important parameter of the atmo- sphere and directly or indirectly reflects the weather processes and variations. This paper presents a hardware and software complex for continuous measurements and prediction of atmospheric thermodynamics and radiowaves refraction index. The main part is a network of ground-based spatially separated GPS-GLONASS receivers, which allows the remote sensing zenith tropo- spheric delay. GPS-Derived Zenith Tropospheric Delay shows the day to day variation and mesoscale spatial and temporal variability. Comparison with the numerical weather reanalysis fields and solar photometer measurements showed agreement with the relative deviation of less than 10%. Hardware-software complex includes the numerical model of the atmosphere on a computational cluster. A variational assimilation system was used to examine the comparative impact of including satellite derived total zenith tropospheric delay from GPS and GLONASS ground observations. Preliminary results show that the initial field of radiowaves refraction index was improved by assimilating the satellite derived ZTD

PEN: a low energy test of lepton universality

Allowed charged $\pi$ meson decays are characterized by simple dynamics, few available decay channels, mainly into leptons, and extremely well controlled radiative and loop corrections. In that sense, pion decays represent a veritable triumph of the standard model (SM) of elementary particles and interactions. This relative theoretical simplicity makes charged pion decays a sensitive means for testing the underlying symmetries and the universality of weak fermion couplings, as well as for studying pion structure and chiral dynamics. Even after considerable recent improvements, experimental precision is lagging far behind that of the theoretical description for pion decays. We review the current state of experimental study of the pion electronic decay $\pi^+ \to e^+\nu_e(\gamma)$, or $\pi_{e2(\gamma)}$, where the $(\gamma)$ indicates inclusion and explicit treatment of radiative decay events. We briefly review the limits on non-SM processes arising from the present level of experimental precision in $\pi_{e2(\gamma)}$ decays. Focusing on the PEN experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland, we examine the prospects for further improvement in the near term.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures; paper presented at the XIII International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons, 22-27 May 2016, Blacksburg, Virginia, US

PEN experiment: a precise measurement of the pi+ -> e+ nu decay branching fraction

A new measurement of $B_{\pi e2}$, the $\pi^+ \to e^+\nu(\gamma)$ decay branching ratio, is currently under way at the Paul Scherrer Institute. The present experimental result on $B_{\pi e2}$ constitutes the most accurate test of lepton universality available. The accuracy, however, still lags behind the theoretical precision by over an order of magnitude. Because of the large helicity suppression of the $\pi_{e2}$ decay, its branching ratio is susceptible to significant contributions from new physics, making this decay a particularly suitable subject of study.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, talk given at the Tenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2009), La Jolla/San Diego, CA, 26-31 May 2009; to appear in Proceedings to be published by the American Institute of Physic

Spin physics with antiprotons

New possibilities arising from the availability at GSI of antiproton beams, possibly polarised, are discussed. The investigation of the nucleon structure can be boosted by accessing in Drell-Yan processes experimental asymmetries related to cross-sections in which the parton distribution functions (PDF) only appear, without any contribution from fragmentation functions; such processes are not affected by the chiral suppression of the transversity function $h_1(x)$. Spin asymmetries in hyperon production and Single Spin Asymmetries are discussed as well, together with further items like electric and magnetic nucleonic form factors and open charm production. Counting rates estimations are provided for each physical case. The sketch of a possible experimental apparatus is proposed.Comment: Presented for the proceedings of ASI "Spin and Symmetry", Prague, July 5-10, 2004, to be published in Czech. J. Phys. 55 (2005