We review recent progress in the determination of the subsaturation density behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy from heavy-ion collisions as well as the theoretical progress in probing the high density behavior of the symmetry energy in heavy-ion reactions induced by high energy radioactive beams. We further discuss the implications of these results for the nuclear effective interactions an...

Background & Aims of the Study:  Soil and water pollution to heavy metals is a serious threat for environment and human health. Finding an effective way for refining water from these metals is very important. The aim of this study was modifying electrospun polymeric nano fibers and studying its efficiency for copper ion omission in water solutions. Materials & Method...

The needs of contemporary accelerator and space projects led to significant efforts made to include description of heavy ion interactions with matter in general-purpose Monte Carlo codes. This paper deals with an updated model of heavy ion ionization energy loss developed previously for the MARS code. The model agrees well with experimental data for various projectiles and targets including sup...

Heavy-ion radiotherapy has demonstrated the advantages over conventional radiotherapy , taking advantage of its improved dose conformation and higher relative biological effectiveness (Jakel et al., 2008). Telomerase is active in about 90% cancer cells which is important for cancer cells to maintain their immortalization. But the effects of heavy-ion radiation on telomere are largely unknown. U...

The results of the analyses are reported of the 0_0 potential calculated by the use of the resonating group method as a typical example of the potential between two light heavy-ion nuclei. The analyses are on such basic properties as the shape, . its energy-dependence and its angularmomentum-dependence. Our main purpose is to study what features are similar and dissimilar between the heavy-ion ...

Two-ion component electrostatic ion cyclotron (EIC) waves are studied in a single-ended Q-machine containing variable concentrations of Cs + and K + ions. Measurements of the excitation and propagation characteristics of the waves are presented and compared with available theories. The waves are internally excited by drawing an electron current along the magnetic field to an 11-mm exciter disk....

Significant progress has been made on addressing critical issues for inertial fusion energy (IFE) chambers for heavy-ion, laser and Z-pinch drivers. A variety of chamber concepts are being investigated including drywall (currently favored for laser IFE), wetted-wall (applicable to both laser and ion drivers), and thickliquid-wall (favored by heavy ion and z-pinch drivers). Recent progress and r...

Heavy metals are highly poisonous in the environment, even in small quantities, and endanger certain species and all live beings. Current methods of removing heavy metals from aqueous media include chemical sequestration, ion exchange, surface absorption, membrane processes, oxidation and revival procedures which have high investment and exploitation costs. Hence, it is significantly necessary ...

Direct photons are a powerful probe to study the properties of the unique matter created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. They carry information on the various stages of a heavy-ion collision. At different transverse momenta (pT), different production processes dominate the direct photon yield in heavy-ion collisions. Photons at high pT can be used to study initial hard scattering pro...

In the last years, there has been a lot of interest in the description of electron-nucleus collisions at high energies. The results of current analysis show that future electronnucleus colliders at HERA and RHIC, probably could determine whether parton distributions saturate and constraint the behavior of the nuclear gluon distribution in the full kinematical range . However, until these collid...