ANIMAL CALORIMETRY

Escape from the chamber: alternative methods for large animal calorimetry.

Over the last few decades measurement of the metabolic rates of farm animals has been made using large, static respiration chambers (e. 1940; W o l f f , 1958). The reasons for this divergence of apparatus lie mainly in the different questions which animal and human physiologists and nutritionists have been seeking to answer, and to a lesser degree in the constraints imposed by the behavioural ...

Gravitational Calorimetry

I generalize the quasilocal formulation of thermodynamics of Brown and York to include dilaton theories of gravity as well as Abelian and Yang-Mills gauge matter fields with possible dilaton couplings. The resulting formulation is applicable to a large class of theories including two-dimensional toy models and the low energy limit of string theory as well as to many types of matter such as mass...

Reaction Calorimetry

Adiabatic Reaction Calorimetry

Micromegas for imaging calorimetry

Gaseous detectors have been used in sampling calorimeters for several years and still remain an attractive option for future collider experiments. The use of Micromegas chambers as active elements of a hadronic calorimeter was proposed a few years ago and stirred up exciting developments of this technology. Basic building blocks of large size chambers acting as signal generating and processing ...