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Effects of Forage Species and Stage of Maturity on \u3cem\u3ein Situ\u3c/em\u3e Disappearance of Organic Matter and Fibre Fractions
Nutrient utilisation by ruminants is altered by the forage species and its maturity. Maturity is the major factor affecting forage morphology and quality. Forage quality is reduced with maturity due to a decrease in the leaf:stem ratio and an increase in fibre components (Ugherughe, 1986). Improving forage utilisation by ruminants depends on accurate measurements of their nutritive value by using in vitro and in situ methods. The objective of this study was to assess the nutritive value (i.e., extent of in situ disappearance of organic matter [OM], neutral detergent fibre [NDF], and acid detergent fibre [ADF]) of four grass species that were grown under the same conditions and were harvested at two stages of maturity
A study of local approximation for polarization potentials
We discuss the derivation of an equivalent \textit{l}-independent
polarization potential for use in the optical Schr\"{o}dinger equation that
describes the elastic scattering of heavy ions. Three diffferent methods are
used for this purpose. Application of our theory to the low energy scattering
of the halo nucleus Li from a C target is made. It is found that
the notion of \textit{l}-independent polarization potential has some validity
but can not be a good substitute for the \textit{l}-dependent local equivalent
Feshbach polarization potential.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Matrix Elements of Random Operators and Discrete Symmetry Breaking in Nuclei
It is shown that several effects are responsible for deviations of the
intensity distributions from the Porter-Thomas law. Among these are genuine
symmetry breaking, such as isospin; the nature of the transition operator;
truncation of the Hilbert space in shell model calculations and missing
transitionsComment: 8 pages, 3 figure
A doorway to Borromean halo nuclei: the Samba configuration
We exploit the possibility of new configurations in three-body halo nuclei -
Samba type - (the neutron-core form a bound system) as a doorway to Borromean
systems. The nuclei Be, B, N and F are of such
nature, in particular N with a half-life of 37.7 s and a halo radius of
6.07 fm is an excellent example of Samba-halo configuration. The fusion below
the barrier of the Samba halo nuclei with heavy targets could reveal the so far
elusive enhancement and a dominance of one-neutron over two-neutron transfers,
in contrast to what was found recently for the Borromean halo nucleus He +
U.Comment: Accepted for publication in Modern Physics Letters
Hydrological Study of Groundwater and its Appropriateness for Irrigation
Irrigation in most countries represents the largest share of all water use. Groundwater is the main water resource after the water of the Nile River in Egypt. The water situation in the future is not optimistic due to the economic development, the increase in population growth and the increase in the agricultural area, especially after the completion of the construction of Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, so suitable alternatives must be provided for irrigation water. This paper presents a hydrological study on groundwater for use in irrigation in Assiut, Upper Egypt, so that alternatives can be provided to the Nile River for water used for irrigation purposes and appropriate uses. The experiments were performed using an experimental form created to achieve the purpose of the study. The model consisted of a cascade aerator and a sand filter. packed bed filter was added to be filled with some media before the sand filter. The media that were used in the study were plastic balls (80 mm), gravel (5-8 mm) and coarse gravel (15-30 mm). The results showed that use of water leads to improving the efficiency of groundwater and thus making it suitable for irrigation purposes. Using this model with the addition of the media used in this study, groundwater was improved by up to 90% and therefore it could be used for irrigation. Finally, it is believed that the results of this study are useful in hydrological studies of groundwater for conditions similar to the ones under which this study was conducted
Kinetic energy sum spectra in nonmesonic weak decay of hypernuclei
We evaluate the coincidence spectra in the nonmesonic weak decay (NMWD)
\Lambda N\go nN of hypernuclei He, He,
C, O, and Si, as a function of the
sum of kinetic energies for . The strangeness-changing
transition potential is described by the one-meson-exchange model, with
commonly used parameterization. Two versions of the Independent-Particle Shell
Model (IPSM) are employed to account for the nuclear structure of the final
residual nuclei. They are: (a) IPSM-a, where no correlation, except for the
Pauli principle, is taken into account, and (b) IPSM-b, where the highly
excited hole states are considered to be quasi-stationary and are described by
Breit-Wigner distributions, whose widths are estimated from the experimental
data. All and spectra exhibit a series of peaks in the energy
interval 110 MeV MeV, one for each occupied shell-model state.
The IPSM-a could be a pretty fair approximation for the light He
and He hypernuclei. For the remaining, heavier, hypernuclei it is
very important, however, to take into account the spreading in strength of the
deep-hole states, and bring into play the IPSM-b approach. Notwithstanding the
nuclear model that is employed the results depend only very weakly on the
details of the dynamics involved in the decay process proper. We propose that
the IPSM is the appropriate lowest-order approximation for the theoretical
calculations of the of kinetic energy sum spectra in the NMWD. It is in
comparison to this picture that one should appraise the effects of the final
state interactions and of the two-nucleon-induced decay mode.Comment: v1: 20 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, submitted for publication; v2:
minor corrections, improved figures, published versio
Role of virtual break-up of projectile in astrophysical fusion reactions
We study the effect of virtual Coulomb break-up, commonly known as the dipole
polarizability, of the deuteron projectile on the astrophysical fusion reaction
3He(d,p)4He. We use the adiabatic approximation to estimate the potential shift
due to the E1 transition to the continuum states in the deuteron, and compute
the barrier penetrability in the WKB approximation. We find that the
enhancement of the penetrability due to the deuteron break-up is too small to
resolve the longstanding puzzle observed in laboratory measurements that the
electron screening effect is surprisingly larger than theoretical prediction
based on an atomic physics model. The effect of the 3He break-up in the
3He(d,p)4He reaction, as well as the 7Li break-up in the 7Li(p,alpha)4He
reaction is also discussed.Comment: 9 pages, 2 eps figure
Interference effects in the Coulomb dissociation of 15,17,19C
In this work the semiclassical model of pure Coulomb excitation was applied
to the breakup of 15,17,19C. The ground state wave functions were calculated in
the particle-rotor model including core excitation. The importance of
interference terms in the dipole strength arising after including core degrees
of freedom is analyzed for each isotope. It is shown that Coulomb interference
effects are important for the case of 17C.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures accepted to Physical Review
Conductance peaks in open quantum dots
We present a simple measure of the conductance fluctuations in open ballistic
chaotic quantum dots, extending the number of maxima method originally proposed
for the statistical analysis of compound nuclear reactions. The average number
of extreme points (maxima and minima) in the dimensionless conductance, , as
a function of an arbitrary external parameter , is directly related to the
autocorrelation function of . The parameter can be associated to an
applied gate voltage causing shape deformation in quantum dot, an external
magnetic field, the Fermi energy, etc.. The average density of maxima is found
to be , where is a universal constant
and is the conductance autocorrelation length, which is system specific.
The analysis of does not require large statistic samples,
providing a quite amenable way to access information about parametric
correlations, such as .Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted to be published - Physical Review
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