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Construction of a cosmic ray air shower telescope
The telescope under construction is mainly for the purpose of locating the arrival directions of energetic particles and quanta which generate air showers of sizes 10 to the 5th power to 10 to the 6th power. Both fast timing method and visual track method are incorporated in determining the arrival directions. The telescope is composed of four stations using scintillators and neon flash tubes as detectors. The system directional resolution is better than 1.5 deg
Measurement of shower electrons and muons using a small air shower array
A small air shower array has been used to measure the size spectrum of air showers at sea level in the size range 6.10 to the 3rd power to 10 to the 6th power. The result fitted with the power law gives an index 2.79 + or - 0.11 for the differential spectrum. Lateral distribution of electrons fitted with the well known NKG function results in an age parameter s = 1.35 for core distances less than 30m and s = 0.8 for longer core distances. Lateral distribution of muons follows the general shape of Greisen's relation but is much higher in intensity. Muon and electron densities at the same observation point are also compared
Effects of f(R) Model on the Dynamical Instability of Expansionfree Gravitational Collapse
Dark energy models based on f(R) theory have been extensively studied in
literature to realize the late time acceleration. In this paper, we have chosen
a viable f(R) model and discussed its effects on the dynamical instability of
expansionfree fluid evolution generating a central vacuum cavity. For this
purpose, contracted Bianchi identities are obtained for both the usual matter
as well as dark source. The term dark source is named to the higher order
curvature corrections arising from f(R) gravity. The perturbation scheme is
applied and different terms belonging to Newtonian and post Newtonian regimes
are identified. It is found that instability range of expansionfree fluid on
external boundary as well as on internal vacuum cavity is independent of
adiabatic index but depends upon the density profile, pressure
anisotropy and f(R) model.Comment: 26 pages, no figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1108.266
Profitable Scheduling on Multiple Speed-Scalable Processors
We present a new online algorithm for profit-oriented scheduling on multiple
speed-scalable processors. Moreover, we provide a tight analysis of the
algorithm's competitiveness. Our results generalize and improve upon work by
\textcite{Chan:2010}, which considers a single speed-scalable processor. Using
significantly different techniques, we can not only extend their model to
multiprocessors but also prove an enhanced and tight competitive ratio for our
algorithm.
In our scheduling problem, jobs arrive over time and are preemptable. They
have different workloads, values, and deadlines. The scheduler may decide not
to finish a job but instead to suffer a loss equaling the job's value. However,
to process a job's workload until its deadline the scheduler must invest a
certain amount of energy. The cost of a schedule is the sum of lost values and
invested energy. In order to finish a job the scheduler has to determine which
processors to use and set their speeds accordingly. A processor's energy
consumption is power \Power{s} integrated over time, where
\Power{s}=s^{\alpha} is the power consumption when running at speed .
Since we consider the online variant of the problem, the scheduler has no
knowledge about future jobs. This problem was introduced by
\textcite{Chan:2010} for the case of a single processor. They presented an
online algorithm which is -competitive. We provide an
online algorithm for the case of multiple processors with an improved
competitive ratio of .Comment: Extended abstract submitted to STACS 201
Space shuttle contamination due to backflow from control motor exhaust
Spacecraft contamination of the space shuttle orbiter and accompanying Spacelab payloads is studied. The scattering of molecules from the vernier engines and flash evaporator nozzle after impingement on the orbiter wing surfaces, and the backflow of molecules out of the flash evaporator nozzle plume flow field due to intermolecular collisions in the plume are the problems discussed. A method was formulated for dealing with these problems, and detailed results are given
Spin-dependent tunneling through a symmetric semiconductor barrier: the Dresselhaus effect
Spin-dependent tunneling through a symmetric semiconductor barrier is studied
including the k^3 Dresselhaus effect. The spin-dependent transmission of
electron can be obtained analytically. By comparing with previous work(Phys.
Rev. B 67. R201304 (2003) and Phys. Rev. Lett. 93. 056601 (2004)), it is shown
that the spin polarization and interface current are changed significantly by
including the off-diagonal elements in the current operator, and can be
enhanced considerably by the Dresselhaus effect in the contact regions.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in PR
Studies related to primitive chemistry. A proton and nitrogen-14 nuclear magnetic resonance amino acid and nucleic acid constituents and a and their possible relation to prebiotic
Preliminary proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies were made to determine the applicability of this technique for the study of interactions between monomeric and polymeric amino acids with monomeric nucleic acid bases and nucleotides. Proton NMR results for aqueous solutions (D2O) demonstrated interactions between the bases cytosine and adenine and acidic and aromatic amino acids. Solutions of 5'-AMP admixed with amino acids exhibited more complex behavior but stacking between aromatic rings and destacking at high amino acids concentration was evident. The multisite nature of 5'-AMP was pointed out. Chemical shift changes for adenine and 5'-AMP with three water soluble polypeptides demonstrated that significant interactions exist. It was found that the linewidth-pH profile of each amino acid is unique. It is concluded that NMR techniques can give significant and quantitative data on the association of amino acid and nucleic acid constituents
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