Search results for "elemental"

Time-of-flight - Energy spectrometer for elemental depth profiling - Jyväskylä design

2014

Abstract A new time-of-flight elastic recoil detection spectrometer has been built, and initially the main effort was focused in getting good timing resolution and high detection efficiency for light elements. With the ready system, a 154 ps timing resolution was recorded for scattered 4.8 MeV 4 He 2+ ions. The hydrogen detection efficiency was from 80% to 20% for energies from 100 keV to 1 MeV, respectively, and this was achieved by having an additional atomic layer deposited Al 2 O 3 coating on the first timing detector’s carbon foil. The data acquisition system utilizes an FPGA-card to time-stamp every time-of-flight and energy event with 25 ns resolution. The different origins of the ba…

Improvement of time-of-flight spectrometer for elastic recoil detection analysis

2013

A search for t[bar over t] resonances in lepton+jets events with highly boosted top quarks collected in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS de…

2012

A search for resonant production of high-mass top-quark pairs is performed on 2.05 fb[superscript −1] of proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV collected in 2011 with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. This analysis of the lepton+jets final state is specifically designed for the particular topology that arises from the decay of highly boosted top quarks. The observed t[bar over t] invariant mass spectrum is found to be compatible with the Standard Model prediction and 95% credibility level upper limits are derived on the t[bar over t] production rate through new massive states. An upper limit of 0.7 pb is set on the production cross section times branching fraction of a narr…

Chemical fingerprint of outdoor PM2.5 in Malta

2015

Intro: RESPIRA (EU Funded - Italia-Malta 07-13) indicated that living in Malta is a risk factor for asthma. Aim: To determine the chemical profile of PM2.5 in Malta, and compare with reference values. Methods: Using FAI pumps at 10l/min/48hr, samples were collected on Teflon and Quartz filters from 6 schools and 46 homes in Malta. Total ICP-MS measurement (Residual+extracted), X ray Fluorescence, and thermo-optical methods(TO) were used for analysis by CNR in Rome. Aeroqual IQM60 counters were used for total PM2.5 mass. All data in ng/m3, Mean, (1st to 3rd quartile) of all 48 hour measurements.

Confirmation of in situ exposure of fish to secondary treated bleached-kraft mill effluent using a laboratory simulation

1998

To corroborate the responses in whitefish (Coregonus Iavaretus L.) exposed to elemental chlorine free (ECF) bleached-kraft pulp mill effluent (BKME) in situ, a 30-d laboratory exposure was carried out at concentrations simulating the field conditions. The flow-through exposures were conducted at four secondary (activated sludge) treated effluent (STE) concentrations: 1.3, 2.3, 3.5, and 7%. To evaluate the role of the secondary treatment, fish were also exposed to one concentration (3.5%) of pretreated effluent (PTE) from the mill. Compared to the control, whitefish liver 7-ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) activity was twofold in fish exposed to 3.5% STE, which was similar to monooxygenas…

Searching the most appropriate sample pretreatment for the elemental analysis of wines by inductively coupled plasma-based techniques.

2008

Different sample preparation methods were evaluated for the simultaneous multielement analysis of wine samples by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Microwave-assisted digestion in closed vessel, thermal digestion in open reactor, and direct sample dilution were considered for the determination of Li, Be, Na, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Sr, Y, Mo, Cd, Ba, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Tl, Pb, and Bi in 12 samples of red wine from Valencia and Utiel-Requena protected designation of origin. ICP-MS allows the determination of 17 elements in most…

Upper limit on the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy tau neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory

2008

The surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory is sensitive to Earth-skimming tau neutrinos that interact in Earth’s crust. Tau leptons from ντ charged-current interactions can emerge and decay in the atmosphere to produce a nearly horizontal shower with a significant electromagnetic component. The data collected between 1 January 2004 and 31 August 2007 are used to place an upper limit on the diffuse flux of ντ at EeV energies. Assuming an E−2ν differential energy spectrum the limit set at 90% C.L. is E2νdNντdEν<1.3×10−7  GeV cm−2 s−1 sr−1 in the energy range 2×1017 eV<E<2×1019  eV.

Chemometric Tools to Point Out Benchmarks and Chromophores in Pigments through Spectroscopic Data Analyses

2021

Spectral preprocessing data and chemometric tools are analytical methods widely applied in several scientific contexts i.e., in archaeometric applications. A systematic classification of natural powdered pigments of organic and inorganic nature through Principal Component Analysis with a multi-instruments spectroscopic study is presented here. The methodology allows the access to elementary and molecular unique benchmarks to guide and speed up the identification of an unknown pigment and its recipe. This study is conducted on a set of 48 powdered pigments and tested on a real-case sample from the wall painting in S. Maria Delle Palate di Tusa (Messina, Italy). Four spectroscopic techniques …

Modulation of immune parameters of roach, Rutilus rutilus, exposed to untreated ECF and TCF bleached pulp effluents

2000

Abstract The present study was designed to assess the effects of elemental chlorine free (ECF) and totally chlorine free (TCF) pulp and paper mill effluents on the immune defence of the roach ( Rutilus rutilus ). Fish were exposed for 5 weeks to concentrations of 0, 0.6, 2, 6 and 20% of untreated effluents from ECF or TCF bleaching processes. In order to study the capability to respond to foreign antigens the fish were immunised with bovine γ-globulin (BGG) 3 weeks before sampling. The numbers of anti-BGG antibody-secreting cells and immunoglobulin-secreting cells in the spleen and blood, as well as the levels of the anti-BGG antibodies and concentrations of immunoglobulin in plasma and the…

Eine einfache Darstellung von 8-Azidoadenosin-5′-triphosphat; ein Agens zur Photoaffinitätsmarkierung von ATP-bindenden Proteinen

1978

Eine vereinfachte Synthese von 8-Azido-ATP (3) wird beschrieben. Die neue Methode ist kurzer und fuhrt zu wesentlich besseren Ausbeuten als die bekannte Methode. Neben 3 entstehen dabei 8-Azido-ADP und 8-Azido-AMP. Es wurden mit einem Reaktionsansatz alle drei 8-Azidonucleotide gleichzeitig erhalten. 8-Azido-ATP (3) wurde durch Elementaranalyse, Dunnschichtchromatographie, Infrarotspektroskopie und UV-Absorptionsspektroskopie charakterisiert. Die Photolyse bei verschiedenen pH-Werten wurde untersucht. Durch F1ATPase wird 3 umgesetzt. A Facile Synthesis of 8-Azidoadenosine 5′-Triphosphate; a Photoaffinity Label for ATP-Binding Proteins A simple procedure for the synthesis of 8-azido-ATP (3) …