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High level of He polarization of 81\% Maintained in an on-beam He spin filter using SEOP
Maintaining high levels of 3He polarization over long periods of time is
important to many areas of fundamental and particle beam physics. Long
measurement times are often required in such experiments and the data quality
is a function of the 3He polarization. This is the case for neutron scattering
where the 3He can be used to analyze the spin of a scattered neutron beam and
relatively small fluxes of polarized neutrons leads to experiment times longer
than several days. Consequently the J\"ulich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS)
is developing spin-exchange optical pumping (SEOP) systems capable of
polarizing the 3He gas in place on a typical neutron instrument. Using a
polarizer device we constructed a high level of 3He polarization of 81 % \pm2%
was maintained with good time stability. Such levels of polarization maintained
over time will be able to reduce the measurement times for such experiments and
eliminate time dependent data corrections.Comment: 4 pages 2 figure
Application of Surface Roughness Data for the Evaluation of Depth Profile Measurements of Nanoscale Multilayers
A secondary neutral mass spectrometric (SNMS) depth profile study of electrodeposited Co/Cu multilayers was performed. Depth
profile measurements were performed both in the conventional way (i.e., starting the sputtering from the final deposit surface) and
in the reverse manner (i.e., detaching the multilayers from the substrate and starting the analysis from the substrate side, which was
very smooth as compared to the final deposit surface). The latter method could yield significantly larger intensity fluctuations in
the SNMS spectra. Surface roughness data were measured with atomic force microscopy (AFM) for multilayers with different
bilayer numbers but otherwise exhibiting the same layer structure as those used for the depth profiling. The experimental AFM
surface roughness evolution was used to calculate the result of the depth profile measurements quantitatively. An excellent
agreement was obtained between this calculation and the SNMS measurements. It was shown that the decrease in the intensity
fluctuations during the depth profile analysis stems mainly from the increase in surface roughness of the samples studied,
especially in the conventional sputtering mode. It was also concluded that the thickness fluctuation of the entire multilayer deposit
and that of each layer are strongly correlated
Benthic foraminiferal assemblages and test accumulation in coastal microhabitats on San Salvador, Bahamas
Benthic foraminiferal populations were studied in a shallow bay of San Salvador
Island, the Bahamas. Surface sediments and marine macrophytes were collected
from 14Â sample sites along a 500 m transect at Grahams Harbour to
investigate the foraminiferal assemblage in each microhabitat and to test the
link between dead foraminiferal test accumulation patterns and living
epiphytic and sedimentary foraminiferal assemblages, macrophyte distribution,
and environmental gradients. The analyses include grain size measurements,
macrophyte biomass quantification, and qualitative and quantitative
studies of benthic foraminifera. The foraminifera found attached to
macrophytes differed between macrophyte habitats. However, a correlation
between these living communities and the dead assemblages in the sediments at
the same sites could not be observed. Principal component analysis (PCA) and
redundancy analysis (RDA) suggest that the presence of the macroalgae
Halimeda explains 16 % of the residual faunal variation in the dead
foraminiferal assemblage after the effects of sorting according to fall speed
are
partialled out. The RDA also reflects a positive correlation between
foraminifera larger than 1.0 mm in diameter and the 0.25–0.5 mm sediment
grain size, indicating sedimentological processes as the main factor
controlling the sedimentary epiphytic foraminiferal assemblages. These
sedimentary processes overprint most effects of ecological features or
macrophyte-specific association.</p
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