The lightest isotope of Bh was produced in the new 209Bi(52Cr,n)260Bh reaction at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's 88-Inch Cyclotron. Positive identification was made by observation of eight correlated alpha particle decay chains in the focal plane detector of the Berkeley Gas-Filled Separator. 260Bh decays with a 35(-9)(+19) ms half-life by alpha particle emission mainly by a group ...

Commercialised mechanically alloyed yttria dispersion strengthened alloys exhibit unusual recrystallisation behaviour. In spite of their large stored energy content, they tend to recrystallise at temperatures close to melting. The recrystallised microstructure is often very coarse and highly anisotropic, characterised by columnar grains. Such a microstructure is often referred to as being “dire...

A systematic study of high energetic alpha particle interaction with microinstability driven turbulence (ITG) is presented. The alpha particles are considered to be passive, thus not modifying the fine structure of the turbulence, and modelled as Maxwellian distributed. Both the turbulent fields and the evolution of the alpha distribution are computed by means of an Eulerian, flux tube code. It...

so that 861 is of the form 1/2n (n 1) with n = 42. Both these numbers 861 and 42 turn up in very interesting ways in connection with nuclei and elementary particles, as will be shown in the sequel. Also 42 = 6 X 7 and the number 7 also appears frequently in connection with some of these quantities. The quantities concerned are the masses and binding energies of nuclei, both in the ground state ...

A two stage position-sensitive gas proportional counter has been constructed by tightly coupling a Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) with a Micro-Groove Detector (MGD). The GEM was used as the first amplifying stage and was optimised to transmit close to 100 % of the primary charge even at very high drift fields (10 kV/cm). Very narrow GEM– MGD separations (0–600 m) were used so that the active vol...

Gap junction intercellular communication/Cell killing/Potentially lethal damage repair/DNA damage/ Linear energy transfer of space radiation. Understanding the mechanisms that underlay the biological effects of particulate radiations is essential for space exploration and for radiotherapy. Here, we investigated the role of gap junction intercellular communication (GJIC) in modulating harmful ef...

A kinetics model for cellular repair and misrepair for describing multiple radiation-induced lesions (mutation-inactivation) is coupled to a twomutation model of initiation and promotion in tissue to provide a parametric description of tumor prevalence in the Harderian gland in a mouse. Doseresponse curves are described for -rays and relativistic ions. The e ects of nuclear fragmentation are al...

METHODS We have used 1 GeV/u and 600 MeV/u iron ions at NSRL, 300 kVp X-rays and 25 MeV/u nitrogen ions from the 88” cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. For measurements of DNA double-strand breaks we are using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with a dual label technique that includes control samples in each lane and the use of the most sensitive part of the FAR vs dose c...

In this paper we review the hole argument for the space-time points and elementary particles and we discuss the problem concerning the individuation of the objects in more general settings such that fiber manifolds, natural bundles and local diffeomorphisms, and fibered sets and n-ary relations. ∗Department of Physics and Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University †Department of Mathematics...

It is a common observation that complex systems have a nested or hierarchical structure: they consist of subsystems, which themselves consist of subsystems, and so on, until the simplest components we know, elementary particles. It is also generally accepted that the simpler, smaller components appeared before the more complex, composite systems. Thus, evolution tends to produce more complex sy...