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Multiple phase transitions in single-crystalline NaFeAs
Specific heat, resistivity, susceptibility and Hall coefficient measurements
were performed on high-quality single crystalline NaFeAs. This
compound is found to undergo three successive phase transitions at around 52,
41, and 23 K, which correspond to structural, magnetic and superconducting
transitions, respectively. The Hall effect result indicates the development of
energy gap at low temperature due to the occurrence of spin-density-wave
instability. Our results provide direct experimental evidence of the magnetic
ordering in the nearly stoichiometric NaFeAs.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
A survey on composition and microbiota of fresh and fermented yak milk at different Tibetan altitudes
Yak milk is a type of milk that people are less familiar with due to its remote geographical location, the particular geographical environment and climatic conditions in Tibet, which may have significant effects on composition, microbiota and fermentation outcome. To investigate the chemical composition and microbiota of fresh and fermented yak milk, and to isolate and characterize the predominant microorganisms in the fermented milk, yak milk (24 fresh and 30 fermented milk samples) was collected from four areas of different altitudes in Tibet, and their microbiological profile and chemical composition were investigated. Yak milk had a higher fat, crude protein, lactose and dry matter content than cow milk. The fermented yak milk showed a great diversity in fat and dry matter levels due to the different ways of processing in different localities, and lower pH and higher lactic acid content compared with commercial cow milk yogurt. Fermented yak milk had a better sanitary quality than fresh yak milk. Three species of lactobacilli (Lactobacillus fermentum, Lactobacillus helveticus and Lactobacillus curvatus) and five species of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida kefyr, Candida lambica, Candida famat and Candida holmii) were identified phenotypically and encountered as predominant fermentation microbiota. The predominant lactic species in fermented milk was L. fermentu
Transmutation prospect of long-lived nuclear waste induced by high-charge electron beam from laser plasma accelerator
Photo-transmutation of long-lived nuclear waste induced by high-charge
relativistic electron beam (e-beam) from laser plasma accelerator is
demonstrated. Collimated relativistic e-beam with a high charge of
approximately 100 nC is produced from high-intensity laser interaction with
near-critical-density (NCD) plasma. Such e-beam impinges on a high-Z convertor
and then radiates energetic bremsstrahlung photons with flux approaching
10^{11} per laser shot. Taking long-lived radionuclide ^{126}Sn as an example,
the resulting transmutation reaction yield is the order of 10^{9} per laser
shot, which is two orders of magnitude higher than obtained from previous
studies. It is found that at lower densities, tightly focused laser irradiating
relatively longer NCD plasmas can effectively enhance the transmutation
efficiency. Furthermore, the photo-transmutation is generalized by considering
mixed-nuclide waste samples, which suggests that the laser-accelerated
high-charge e-beam could be an efficient tool to transmute long-lived nuclear
waste.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures, it has been submitted to Physics of Plasm
Dependent Event Types
International audienceIn the present theory, non-scopal noun phrases are entered into event types. This means that they end up restricting a role in a bare event type, because their scopal meaning is contributed to the meaning of the sentence by applying with generalized application an n-place event type to that scopal meaning
Superconductivity at 41 K and its competition with spin-density-wave instability in layered CeOFFeAs
A series of layered CeOFFeAs compounds with x=0 to 0.20 are
synthesized by solid state reaction method. Similar to the LaOFeAs, the pure
CeOFeAs shows a strong resistivity anomaly near 145 K, which was ascribed to
the spin-density-wave instability. F-doping suppresses this instability and
leads to the superconducting ground state. Most surprisingly, the
superconducting transition temperature could reach as high as 41 K. The very
high superconducting transition temperature strongly challenges the classic BCS
theory based on the electron-phonon interaction. The very closeness of the
superconducting phase to the spin-density-wave instability suggests that the
magnetic fluctuations play a key role in the superconducting paring mechanism.
The study also reveals that the Ce 4f electrons form local moments and ordered
antiferromagnetically below 4 K, which could coexist with superconductivity.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
and the tree amplitude in
The recently-observed decay is expected to proceed
mainly by means of a tree amplitude in the factorization limit: , . Under this assumption, we predict the
corresponding contribution of the tree amplitude to . We
indicate the needed improvements in data that will allow a useful estimate of
this amplitude with errors comparable to those accompanying other methods.
Since the factorization hypothesis for this process goes beyond that proved in
most approaches, we also discuss independent tests of this hypothesis.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. D (Brief
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