The observation of long-lived electronic quantum coherence in a photosynthetic light harvesting system [Engel et al. Nature 2007, 446, 782] has led to much effort being devoted to elucidation of the quantum mechanisms of the photosynthetic excitation energy transfer. In this paper we examine the question of whether the decay of the coherent beating signal is due to quantum mechanical decoherenc...

Mass spectra of methyl esters of ,three common drinking water chlorination by-products, bromodichloroacetic acid, dibromochloroacetic acid and tribromoacetic acid, are presented. The spectra are obtained in electron impact and chemical ionization modes, using a quadrupole mass spectrometer. Proposed fragment ion assignments are presented in detail. Fragment clusters were identified from their r...

Most existing Mass Spectra (MS) analysis programs are automatic and provide limited opportunity for editing during the interpretation. Furthermore, they rely entirely on publicly available databases for interpretation. VEMS (Virtual Expert Mass Spectrometrist) is a program for interactive analysis of peptide MS/MS spectra imported in text file format. Peaks are annotated, the monoisotopic peaks...

SUMMARY Tandem mass spectra obtained from fragmenting peptide ions contain some peptide sequence specific information, but often there is not enough information to sequence the original peptide completely. Several proprietary software applications have been developed to attempt to match the spectra with a list of protein sequences that may contain the sequence of the peptide. The application TA...

We study the π-spectra obtained in 2, 4, 6 and 8A GeV Au–Au collisions within the thermal model. We find that the main features of the data can be well described after we include the pions from the decay of the ∆-resonance with medium mass modification. PACS. 25.75.-q Relativistic heavy-ion collisions – 24.10.Pa Thermal and statistical models – 25.75.Dw Particle and resonance production – 24.10...