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Rhythmic Motion of a Droplet under a DC Electric Field
The effect of a stationary electric field on a water droplet with a diameter
of several tens micrometers in oil was examined. Such a droplet exhibits
repetitive translational motion between the electrodes in a spontaneous manner.
The state diagram of this oscillatory motion was deduced; at 0-20 V the droplet
is fixed at the surface of the electrode, at 20-70 V the droplet exhibits
small-amplitude oscillatory motion between the electrodes, and at 70-100 V the
droplet shows large-amplitude periodic motion between the electrodes. The
observed rhythmic motion is explained in a semi-quantitative manner by using
differential equations, which includes the effect of charging the droplet under
an electric field. We also found that twin droplets exhibit synchronized
rhythmic motion between the electrodes
Confirming the Detection of an Intergalactic X-ray Absorber Toward PKS 2155-304
We present new observations on PKS 2155-304 with the Chandra Low Energy
Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETG), using the Advanced CCD Imaging
Spectrometer (ACIS). We confirm the detection of an absorption line plausibly
identified as OVIII Ly-alpha from the warm-hot intergalactic medium associated
with a small group of galaxies along the line of sight, as originally reported
by Fang et al. 2002 (here after FANG02). Combining the previous observations in
FANG02 and five new, long observations on the same target, we increase the
total exposure time by a factor of three, and the total counts per resolution
element by a factor of five. The measured line equivalent width is smaller than
that observed in FANG02, but still consistent at 90% confidence. We also
analyze the XMM-Newton observations on the same target, as well as observations
using the Chandra LETG and the High Resolution Camera (HRC) combination. These
observations have been used to challenge our reported detection. While no line
is seen in either the XMM-Newton and the Chandra LETG+HRC data, we find that
our result is consistent with the upper limits from both data sets. We
attribute the non-detection to (1) higher quality of the Chandra LETG+ACIS
spectrum, and (2) the rather extended wings of the line spread functions of
both the XMM RGS and the Chandra LETG+HRC. We discuss the implication of our
observation on the temperature and density of the absorber. We also confirm the
detection of z ~ 0 OVII absorption and, comparing with previous Chandra
analysis, we obtain much tighter constraints on the line properties.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
Diamond chains with multiple-spin exchange interactions
We study the phase diagram of a symmetric spin-1/2 Heisenberg diamond chain
with additional cyclic four-spin exchange interactions. The presented analysis
supplemented by numerical exact-diagonalization results for finite periodic
clusters implies a rich phase diagram containing, apart from standard magnetic
and spin-liquid phases, two different tetramer-dimer phases as well as an
exotic four-fold degenerate dimerized phase. The characteristics of the
established spin phases as well as the nature of quantum phase transitions are
discussed, as well.Comment: 6 PRB pages, Added reference
Food Waste Gasification through Hydrothermal Carbonization Pre-treatment
Non-recyclable wastes promise great potential for the development of new and
robust Waste-to-Energy (WtE) technology. Most of these wastes consist of the vital
energy contents which could potentially be converted to various forms of useful
energy through advanced thermochemical processes such as gasification, thus
helping to reduce landfill of wastes. In gasification technology, syngas (synthesis
gas) as the energy source is produced, which mainly includes hydrogen (H2),
carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) contents. Food
waste has a great potential in the energy field as a feedstock and it has the
advantage in recovering energy since there is the high energy content help to
reduce landfill. The equilibrium model of food waste gasification initially is
developed by fixing the value of temperature at 1023K – 1173K with moisture
content of 0% - 40% and equivalence ratio of 0.2 – 0.4, by using air as a gasifying
agent. Secondly, mass and energy balance equations are solved to calculate the
gasification temperature thorugh an iterative procedure. For this research, food
waste has been collected and the ultimate and proximate analyses performed, and
the data then fed into a gasification equilibrium model to compare the syngas
production between non-pre-treatment and hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) pretreatment
food waste
Systematic Investigation of Possibilities for New Physics Effects in b --> s Penguin Processes
Although recent experimental results in b-->s penguin process seem to be
roughly consistent with the standard model predictions, there may be still
large possibilities of new physics hiding in this processes. Therefore, here we
investigate systematically the potential new physics effects that may appear in
time-dependent CP asymmetries of B --> phi K^0, B--> eta^\prime K^0 and B-->
K^0 \pi^0 decay modes, by classifying the cases for the values of the
mixing-induced indirect CP asymmetries, S_{phi K^0}, S_{eta^\prime K^0}, S_{K^0
pi^0} which are compared to S_{J/psi K^0}. We also show that several B_s decay
modes may help to resolve the ambiguities in such an analysis. Through
combining analysis with the time-dependent CP asymmetries of B_s decay modes
such as B_s --> phi eta^\prime, B_s--> eta^\prime pi^0 and B_s --> K^0
bar{K}^0, we can determine where the new CP phases precisely come from.Comment: 17 pages, version to be published in Prog.Theor.Phy
Exact static solutions for discrete models free of the Peierls-Nabarro barrier: Discretized first integral approach
We propose a generalization of the discrete Klein-Gordon models free of the
Peierls-Nabarro barrier derived in Nonlinearity {\bf 12}, 1373 (1999) and Phys.
Rev. E {\bf 72}, 035602(R) (2005), such that they support not only kinks but a
one-parameter set of exact static solutions. These solutions can be obtained
iteratively from a two-point nonlinear map whose role is played by the
discretized first integral of the static Klein-Gordon field, as suggested in J.
Phys. A {\bf 38}, 7617 (2005). We then discuss some discrete models
free of the Peierls-Nabarro barrier and identify for them the full space of
available static solutions, including those derived recently in Phys. Rev. E
{\bf 72} 036605 (2005) but not limited to them. These findings are also
relevant to standing wave solutions of discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger
models. We also study stability of the obtained solutions. As an interesting
aside, we derive the list of solutions to the continuum equation that
fill the entire two-dimensional space of parameters obtained as the continuum
limit of the corresponding space of the discrete models.Comment: Accepted for publication in PRE; the M/S has been revised in line
with the referee repor
The folded state of long duplex-DNA chain reflects its solution history
The higher-order structure of compacted single giant DNA induced by complexation with polypeptide (poly-Arg) in NaCl solution was investigated using fluorescence microscopy. As the poly-Arg concentration increased, the mean size of extended DNA chains gradually decreased. In the presence of excess poly-Arg, individual DNA chains collapsed into compact globules, and the degree of collapse of the DNA chains depended not only on the concentration of poly-Arg, but also on the time course of the addition of poly-Arg and NaCl, indicating that the structure of the collapsed DNA is not determined simply according to the minimum free energy. We discuss theoretically the presence of multiple-stationary states based on a consideration of simple kinetics in the process of binding. Depending on the past history, the number of poly-Arg and Na+ that bind to each DNA changes markedly. This interesting characteristic of long DNA is discussed in relation to the possible mechanism of self-regulation of gene expression in living cells
Submillimeter detection of the Sunyaev -- Zel'dovich effect toward the most luminous X-ray cluster at z=0.45
We report on the detection of the Sunyaev -- Zel'dovich (SZ) signals toward
the most luminous X-ray cluster RXJ1347-1145 at Nobeyama Radio Observatory (21
and 43 GHz) and at James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (350 GHz). In particular the
latter is the first successful detection of the SZ temperature increment in the
submillimeter band which resolved the profile of a cluster of galaxies. Both
the observed spectral dependence and the radial profile of the SZ signals are
fully consistent with those expected from the X-ray observation of the cluster.
The combined analysis of 21GHz and 350GHz data reproduces the temperature and
core-radius of the cluster determined with the ROSAT and ASCA satellites when
we adopt the slope of the density profile from the X-ray observations.
Therefore our present data provide the strongest and most convincing case for
the detection of the submillimeter SZ signal from the cluster, as well as in
the Rayleigh -- Jeans regime. We also discuss briefly the cosmological
implications of the present results.Comment: 11 pages, The Astrophysical Journal (Letters), in pres
Optimization of the Target Subsystem for the New g-2 Experiment
A precision measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, , was previously performed at BNL with a result of 2.2 - 2.7 standard
deviations above the Standard Model (SM) theoretical calculations. The same
experimental apparatus is being planned to run in the new Muon Campus at
Fermilab, where the muon beam is expected to have less pion contamination and
the extended dataset may provide a possible deviation from the SM,
creating a sensitive and complementary bench mark for proposed SM extensions.
We report here on a preliminary study of the target subsystem where the
apparatus is optimized for pions that have favorable phase space to create
polarized daughter muons around the magic momentum of 3.094 GeV/c, which is
needed by the downstream g 2 muon ring.Comment: 4 pp. 3rd International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2012)
20-25 May 2012, New Orleans, Louisian
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