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Synthesis and characterization of polymeric linseed oil grafted methyl methacrylate or styrene
Syntheses of wholly natural polymeric linseed oil (PLO) containing peroxide groups have been reported. Peroxidation, epoxidation and/or perepoxidation reactions of linseed oil, either under air or under oxygen flow at room temperature, resulted in polymeric peroxides, PLO-air and PLO-ofl, containing 1.3 and 3.5 wt.% of peroxide, with molecular weights of 2100 and 3780 Da, respectively. PLO-air contained cross-linked film up to 46.1 wt.% after a reaction time of 60 d, associated with a waxy, soluble part (PLO-air-s) that was isolated with chloroform extraction. PLO-ofl was obtained as a waxy, viscous liquid without any cross-linked part at the end of 24 d under visible irradation and oxygen flow. Polymeric peroxides, PLO-air-s and PLO-ofl initiated the free radical polymerization of both methyl methacrylate (MMA) and styreine (S) to give PMMA-graft-PLO and PS-graft-PLO graft copolymers in high yields with M-w varying from 37 to 470 kDa. The polymers obtained were characterized by FT-IR. H-1 NMR, TGA, DSC and GPC techniques. Cross-linked polymers were also studied by means of swelling measurements. PMNA-graft-PLO graft copolymer film samples were also used in cell-culture studies. Fibroblast cells were well adhered and proliferated on the copolymer film surfaces, which is important in tissue engineering
Probe of anomalous neutrino couplings to W and Z in medium energy setup of a beta-beam facility
Capability of medium energy setup of a beta beam experiment to probe new
physics contributions to neutrino-W and neutrino-Z couplings are investigated.
We employ the effective lagrangian approach of Buchmuller and Wyler and obtain
95% confidence level limits on neutrino couplings to these gauge bosons without
assuming the flavor universality of the coupling of neutrinos. We show that a
beta beam facility can place 3 to 20 times more restrictive limits than present
ones on the deviations from the electron neutrino couplings in the Standard
Model.Comment: 22 pages, 10 figure
Composite particles in the Theory of Quantum Hall Effect
The formation of composite particles in the electron liquid under QHE
conditions discussed by Jain in generalizing Laughlins many-particle state is
considered by using a model for two-dimensional guiding center configurations.
Describing the self-consistent field of electron repulsion by a negative
parabolic potential on effective centers and an inter-center amount we show
that with increasing magnetic field the ground state of so-called primary
composite particles , , is given for higher
negative quantum numbers of the total angular momentum. By clustering of
primary composite particles due to absorption or emission of flux quanta we
explain phenomenologically the quasi-particle structure behind the series of
relevant filling factors , .
Our considerations show that the complicate interplay of electron-magnetic
field and electron-electron interactions in QHE systems may be understood in
terms of adding flux quanta to charges and binding of charges by
flux quanta.Comment: RevTeX 3.0, LaTeX, 10 pages, one table at th en
Anomalous WWgamma couplings in gamma-proton collision at the LHC
We examine the potential of pp-> p gamma p -> p W q X reaction to probe
anomalous WWgamma couplings at the LHC. We find 95% confidence level bounds on
the anomalous coupling parameters with various values of the integrated
luminosity. We show that the reaction pp -> p gamma p -> p W q X at the LHC
highly improve the current limits.Comment: 12 pages,3 figure
Search for electromagnetic properties of the neutrinos at the LHC
Exclusive production of neutrinos via photon-photon fusion provides an
excellent opportunity to probe electromagnetic properties of the neutrinos at
the LHC. We explore the potential of processes pp-> p gamma gamma p -> p nu
anti-nu p and pp -> p gamma gamma p -> p nu anti-nu Z p to probe
neutrino-photon and neutrino-two photon couplings. We show that these reactions
provide more than seven orders of magnitude improvement in neutrino-two photon
couplings compared to LEP limits.Comment: 11 pages, 4 tables, New backgrounds have been adde
Controlling the spontaneous spiking regularity via channel blocking on Newman-Watts networks of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons
We investigate the regularity of spontaneous spiking activity on Newman-Watts
small-world networks consisting of biophysically realistic Hodgkin-Huxley
neurons with a tunable intensity of intrinsic noise and fraction of blocked
voltage-gated sodium and potassium ion channels embedded in neuronal membranes.
We show that there exists an optimal fraction of shortcut links between
physically distant neurons, as well as an optimal intensity of intrinsic noise,
which warrant an optimally ordered spontaneous spiking activity. This doubly
coherence resonance-like phenomenon depends significantly, and can be
controlled via the fraction of closed sodium and potassium ion channels,
whereby the impacts can be understood via the analysis of the firing rate
function as well as the deterministic system dynamics. Potential biological
implications of our findings for information propagation across neural networks
are also discussed.Comment: 6 two-column pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in
Europhysics Letter
Double Inverse Stochastic Resonance with Dynamic Synapses
We investigate the behavior of a model neuron that receives a
biophysically-realistic noisy post-synaptic current based on uncorrelated
spiking activity from a large number of afferents. We show that, with static
synapses, such noise can give rise to inverse stochastic resonance (ISR) as a
function of the presynaptic firing rate. We compare this to the case with
dynamic synapses that feature short-term synaptic plasticity, and show that the
interval of presynaptic firing rate over which ISR exists can be extended or
diminished. We consider both short-term depression and facilitation.
Interestingly, we find that a double inverse stochastic resonance (DISR), with
two distinct wells centered at different presynaptic firing rates, can appear.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figure
Kaluza-Klein Reduction of a Quadratic Curvature Model
Palatini variational principle is implemented on a five dimensional quadratic
curvature gravity model, rendering two sets of equations which can be
interpreted as the field equations and the stress-energy tensor. Unification of
gravity with electromagnetism and the scalar dilaton field is achieved through
the Kaluza-Klein dimensional reduction mechanism. The reduced curvature
invariant, field equations and the stress-energy tensor in four dimensional
spacetime are obtained. The structure of the interactions among the constituent
fields is exhibited in detail. It is shown that the Lorentz force naturally
emerges from the reduced field equations and the equations of the standard
Kaluza-Klein theory is demonstrated to be intrinsically contained in this
model.Comment: 10 page
The non-Abelian Weyl-Yang-Kaluza-Klein gravity model
The Weyl-Yang gravitation gauge theory is investigated in the framework of a
pure higher-dimensional non-Abelian Kaluza-Klein background. We construct the
dimensionally reduced field equations and energy-momentum tensors as well as
the four dimensional modified Weyl-Yang+Yang-Mills theory from an arbitrary
curved space which is a extension of our previous model. In
particular, the coset space case is considered to obtain explicitly the
interactions between the gravitational and the gauge fields. The results not
only appear to be generalization of the well-established equations of
non-Abelian theory but also contain intrinsically the generalized gravitational
source term and the Lorentz force density.Comment: 10 page
Probe of unparticles at the LHC in exclusive two lepton and two photon production via photon-photon fusion
The exclusive production pp->pXp is known to be one of the most clean
channels at the LHC. We investigate the potential of processes pp -> p l-l+ p
and pp-> p gamma gamma p to probe scalar and tensor unparticles by considering
three different forward detector acceptances; 0.0015<xi<0.15, 0.0015<xi<0.5 and
0.1<xi<0.5. We obtain 95% confidence level sensitivity limits on the unparticle
couplings for various integrated luminosities.Comment: 27 pages, 17 figure
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