We consider the thermodynamics of minimally coupled massive scalar field in 3+1 dimensional Taub-NUT background. The brick wall model of 't Hooft is used. When Schwarzschild like coordinates are used it is found that the usual radial brick wall cutoff parameter is required to regularize the solution. Free energy of the scalar field is obtained through explicit counting of states. It is found th...

This study focuses on the radiological characterisation of building materials manufactured in Albania by using a high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometer. The average activity concentrations of (40)K, (226)Ra and (232)Th were, respectively, 644.1±64.2, 33.4 ± 6.4 and 42.2 ± 7.6 Bq kg(-1) in the clay brick samples and 179.7 ± 48.9, 55.0 ± 5.8 and 17.0 ± 3.3 Bq kg(-1) in the cement samples. The cal...

The objective of this study was to detect the fluoride level in the drinking water and the urine of habitants aged 16-55 years living in Inner Mongolia China. Furthermore, fluoride concentration of the brick tea infusion samples which were drunk by Mongolia herdsmen in everyday life living in SumuErga village of Ejin Horo Banner, Inner Mongolia China was also determined. A total of 117 particip...

We calculate the statistical entropy of a scalar field on the background of three-dimensional De Sitter space in terms of the brick wall method and finally derive the perimeter law of the entropy. ∗Electronic address: [email protected] 1 Entropy of black holes has an universal area law [1] and the entropy of the well-known Schwarzschild black hole satisfies the area law by means of thermal...