We examine the pion realization of the short ranged supersymmetric (SUSY) mechanism of neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ-decay). It originates from the R-parity violating quark-lepton interactions of the SUSY extensions of the standard model of the electroweak interactions. We argue that pions are dominant SUSY mediators in 0νββdecay. The corresponding nuclear matrix elements for potentially...

A general program was written which simulates radioactive labeling of RNA in viva. The program was used to determine the effect that different -distributions of half-lives would have on the composite decay curve observed in a pulse-chase experiment. Four biologically relevant points emerge: 1) The published, experimentally determined composite decay curves for eukaryotic mRNA are not compatible...

In the resonant process of nuclear excitation by electron capture (NEEC), a free electron is captured into a bound atomic shell with the simultaneous excitation of the nucleus. NEEC is a process analogous to dielectronic recombination (DR), and when followed by the radiative decay of the nucleus, it is a competing resonant channel of radiative recombination (RR). Partly due to the dominant RR b...