A thin metallic coating is required on the inside of central detector beryllium beampipes at high-current ee colliders in order to suppress detector backgrounds that arise from scattered synchrotron radiation. As part of two CESR/CLEO upgrades, three beryllium beampipes have been coated with gold using a magnetron sputtering technique. The apparatus will be described as well as the factors that...

Enhanced diffusion of aluminum in shock activated beryllium has been observed. Cylindrical samples of aluminum coated beryllium rods were axisymetrically loaded up to 40 Gpa and a total residual strain of up to 6.74. The defect microstructure produced by both the shock wave and strain enabled the transport of aluminum in beryll~um to exceed its equilibrium solid state saturation. This "super sa...

We report on a attempt to detect beryllium in two dwarf stars of the Galactic halo with metallicities below one thousandth solar. The data were obtained during the Commissioning of the Ultraviolet and Visible Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) mounted on the ESO VLT Kueyen telescope, and show the potential of UVES for studies in the UV-optical domain. We claim a beryllium detection in LP 815–43 ([Fe/H...

The ITER reference materials have been tested separately in tokamaks, plasma simulators, ion beams and high heat flux test beds. In order to perform a fully integrated material test JET has launched the ITER-like Wall Project with the aim of installing a full metal wall during the next major shutdown. As a result of R&D projects in 2005–2006, bulk tungsten tiles are foreseen at the outer horizo...

We present results of out-of-equilibrium transport measurements made on strongly localized Beryllium films and demonstrate that these films exhibit all the earmarks of intrinsic electron glasses. These include slow logarithmic relaxation, memory effects, and more importantly, the observation of a memory dip that has a characteristic width compatible with the carrier concentration of beryllium. ...

Design of neutral receptor molecules (ionophores) for beryllium(II) using unsaturated carbonitrile models has been carried out via density functional theory, G3, and G4 calculations. The first part of this work focuses on gas phase binding energies between beryllium(II) and 2-cyano butadiene (2-CN BD), 3-cyano propene (3-CN P), and simpler models with two separate fragments; acrylonitrile and e...