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Lifetime Measurements with the Doppler Shift Attenuation Method Using a Thick Homogeneous Production Target — Verification of the Method

2016

International audience; Doppler Shift Attenuation Method (DSAM) analysis of excited-state lifetimes normally employs thin production targets mounted on a thick stopper foil (“backing”) serving to slow down and stop the recoiling nuclei of interest in a well-defined manner. Use of a thick, homogeneous production target leads to a more complex analysis as it results in a substantial decrease in the energy of the incident projectile which traverses the target with an associated change in the production cross section of the residues as a function of penetration depth. Here, a DSAM lifetime analysis using a thick homogeneous target has been verified using the Doppler broadened lineshapes of γ ra…

Diagrammatic expansion for positive spectral functions beyond GW : Application to vertex corrections in the electron gas

2014

We present a diagrammatic approach to construct self-energy approximations within many-body perturbation theory with positive spectral properties. The method cures the problem of negative spectral functions which arises from a straightforward inclusion of vertex diagrams beyond the GW approximation. Our approach consists of a two-steps procedure: we first express the approximate many-body self-energy as a product of half-diagrams and then identify the minimal number of half-diagrams to add in order to form a perfect square. The resulting self-energy is an unconventional sum of self-energy diagrams in which the internal lines of half a diagram are time-ordered Green's functions whereas those…

On complete metric spaces containing the Sierpinski curve

1998

It is proved that a complete metric space topologically contains the Sierpiński universal plane curve if and only if it has a subset with so-called bypass property, i.e. it has a subset K K containing an arc such that for each a ∈ K a\in K and for each open arc A ⊂ K A\subset K with a ∈ A a\in A , there exists an arbitrary small arc in K ∖ { a } K\setminus \{a\} joining the two components of A ∖ { a } A\setminus \{a\} .

Study of the correlation between columnar aerosol burden, suspended matter at ground and chemical components in a background European environment

2012

Although routinely monitored by ground based air quality networks, the particulate matter distribution could be eventually better described with remote sensing techniques. However, valid relationships between ground level and columnar ground based quantities should be known beforehand. In this study we have performed a comparison between particulate matter measurements at ground level at different cut sizes (10, 2.5 and 1.0 mm), and the aerosol optical depth obtained by means of a ground based sunphotometer during a multiinstrumental field campaign held in El Arenosillo (Huelva, Spain) from 28 June to 4 July 2006. All the PM fractions were very well correlated with AOD with correlation coef…

Air quality indices: a review

2010

National directives on air quality oblige nations to monitor and report on their air quality, allowing the public to be informed on the ambient pollution levels. The last is the reason for the always increasing interest, demonstrated by the number of publications on this topic in recent years, in air quality/pollution indices: since the concentration of individual pollutants can be confusing, concentration measurements are conveniently transformed in terms of an air quality index. In this way, complex situations are summarized in a single figure, letting comparisons in time and space be possible. In this paper we will give an overview about the Air Quality/Pollution Indices proposed in lite…

Book Review: Applied Homogeneous Catalysis with Organometallic Compounds. Vols. 1–3. 2nd. Edition. Edited by Boy Cornils and Wolfgang A. Herrmann

2002

Copolymerization of ethene with styrene using different methylalumoxane activated half-sandwich complexes

1997

Ethene was copolymerized with styrene using five different methylalumoxane (MAO) activated half-sandwich complexes of the general formula Me 2 Si(Cp)(N-R)MCl 2 , varying the substituents on the cyclopentadienyl ring and the substituent on the amide (Cp = tetramethylcyclopentadiene CBT, 1-indenyl IBT, 3-trimethylsilyl-1-indenyl SIBT, or fluorenyl FBZ, R = tert-butyl (complexes CBT,IBT, SIBT, FBZ ) or benzyl CAT), as well as the metal center ( M = Ti, except FBZ: M = Zr). Polymerization behavior was analyzed with respect to catalyst activity and polymerization kinetics, styrene incorporation, copolymer microstructure, and molecular weight. All complexes produced random poly(ethene-co-styrene)…

Highly trans-stereospecific Isoprene Polymerization by Neodymium Borohydrido Catalysts

2005

Highly stereospecific polymerization of isoprene was achieved using borohydridoneodymium complexes. In combination with stoichiometric amounts of dialkylmagnesium, Nd(BH4)3(THF)3 (1) and Cp*‘Nd(BH4)2(THF)2 (2) (Cp*‘ = C5Me4nPr) afford very efficient catalysts. The activity reaches 37300 (g of polyisoprene/mol of Nd)/h. Half-lanthanidocene 2 gives rise to polyisoprene, 98.5% trans-regular, the highest content yet described for a homogeneous organometallic catalyst. NMR experiments argue for the formation of bimetallic Nd(μ-BH4)Mg active species.

Copolymerization of ethylene with 1‐hexene over metallocene catalyst supported on complex of magnesium chloride with tetrahydrofuran

2004

The study of ethylene/1-hexene copolymerization with the zirconocene catalyst, bis(cyclopentadienyl)zirconium dichloride (Cp 2 ZrCl 2 )/methylaluminoxane (MAO), anchored on a MgCl 2 (THF) 2 support was carried out. The influence of 1-hexene concentration in the feed on catalyst productivity and comonomer reactivity as well as other properties was investigated. Additionally, the effect of support modification by the organoaluminum compounds [(MAO, trimethylaluminum (AlMe 3 ), or diethylaluminum chloride (Et 2 AlCl)] on the behavior of the MgCl 2 (THF) 2 /Cp 2 ZrCl/MAO catalyst in the copolymerization process and on the properties of the copolymers was explored. Immobilization of the Cp 2 ZrC…

Polynomial Fuzzy Models for Nonlinear Control: A Taylor Series Approach

2009

Classical Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models are formed by convex combinations of linear consequent local models. Such fuzzy models can be obtained from nonlinear first-principle equations by the well-known sector-nonlinearity modeling technique. This paper extends the sector-nonlinearity approach to the polynomial case. This way, generalized polynomial fuzzy models are obtained. The new class of models is polynomial, both in the membership functions and in the consequent models. Importantly, T-S models become a particular case of the proposed technique. Recent possibilities for stability analysis and controller synthesis are also discussed. A set of examples shows that polynomial modeling is…