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A compact design for a magnetic synchrotron to store beams of hydrogen atoms
We present a design for an atomic synchrotron consisting of 40 hybrid
magnetic hexapole lenses arranged in a circle. We show that for realistic
parameters, hydrogen atoms with a velocity up to 600 m/s can be stored in a
1-meter diameter ring, which implies that the atoms can be injected in the ring
directly from a pulsed supersonic beam source. This ring can be used to study
collisions between stored hydrogen atoms and molecular beams of many different
atoms and molecules. The advantage of using a synchrotron is two-fold: (i) the
collision partners move in the same direction as the stored atoms, resulting in
a small relative velocity and thus a low collision energy, and (ii) by storing
atoms for many round-trips, the sensitivity to collisions is enhanced by a
factor of 100-1000. In the proposed ring, the cross-sections for collisions
between hydrogen, the most abundant atom in the universe, with any atom or
molecule that can be put in a beam, including He, H, CO, ammonia and OH can
be measured at energies below 100 K. We discuss the possibility to use optical
transitions to load hydrogen atoms into the ring without influencing the atoms
that are already stored. In this way it will be possible to reach high
densities of stored hydrogen atoms.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
Interleukin-5 Potentiates Sulfidopeptide Leukotriene Production by Human Eosinophils
Interleukin-5 (IL-5) has been shown to be a selective eosinophil
growth and differentiation factor. In the present study, the effect
of recombinant human IL-5 on human eosinophil sulfidopeptide
leukotriene production was investigated. IL-5 did not affect
leukotriene synthesis in unstimulated eosinophils. However, IL-5
potentiated leukotriene synthesis by eosinophils stimulated with
serum treated zymosan (STZ) or the calcium ionophore A23187 by
69% and 135%, respectively. The priming effect of IL-5
was dose dependent, with significant stimulation occurring at 1 000
U/ml for STZ and 100-1 000 U/ml for A23187. Pre-incubation with IL-5
did not increase leukotriene synthesis further
Phonon-induced polariton superlattices
We show that the coherent interaction between microcavity polaritons and externally stimulated acoustic phonons forms a tunable polariton superlattice with a folded energy dispersion determined by the phonon population and wavelength. Under high phonon concentration, the strong confinement of the optical and excitonic polariton components in the phonon potential creates weakly coupled polariton wires with a virtually flat energy dispersion
Comparison of computational codes for direct numerical simulations of turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection
Computational codes for direct numerical simulations of Rayleigh-B\'enard
(RB) convection are compared in terms of computational cost and quality of the
solution. As a benchmark case, RB convection at and in a
periodic domain, in cubic and cylindrical containers is considered. A dedicated
second-order finite-difference code (AFID/RBflow) and a specialized
fourth-order finite-volume code (Goldfish) are compared with a general purpose
finite-volume approach (OpenFOAM) and a general purpose spectral-element code
(Nek5000). Reassuringly, all codes provide predictions of the average heat
transfer that converge to the same values. The computational costs, however,
are found to differ considerably. The specialized codes AFID/RBflow and
Goldfish are found to excel in efficiency, outperforming the general purpose
flow solvers Nek5000 and OpenFOAM by an order of magnitude with an error on the
Nusselt number below . However, we find that alone is not
sufficient to assess the quality of the numerical results: in fact,
instantaneous snapshots of the temperature field from a near wall region
obtained for deliberately under-resolved simulations using Nek5000 clearly
indicate inadequate flow resolution even when is converged. Overall,
dedicated special purpose codes for RB convection are found to be more
efficient than general purpose codes.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
Very long spatial and temporal spontaneous coherence of 2D polariton condensates across the parametric threshold
VITAL, Monitoring and Control for Virus Safe Pork
VITAL is an ongoing (2008-2011) EU funded project on monitoring and control of food-borne viruses. The concept of VITAL is the integrated risk assessment and management of contamination of the European farm to market food chain by pathogenic viruses, such as norovirus and hepatitis E virus. The project’s focus is on the production and processing phase, moving away from the concept of endpoint monitoring towards input monitoring
Revolutionizing (robot-assisted) laparoscopic gamma tracing using a drop-in gamma probe technology
Imaging- and therapeutic targets in neoplastic and musculoskeletal inflammatory diseas
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