Hadron cancer-therapy with high-energetic heavy-ions (HI) as available at the SIS facility at GSI Darmstadt [1] as well as the research with beams stopped in biological material as realized at the UNILAC at GSI in general require the precise knowledge of the applied dose within less than 1% in most cases. Solid state detectors based on various materials read out via thermally stimulated light e...

We have carried out a theoretical and experimental investigation of the beryllium K-edge soft x-ray absorption fine structure of beryllium compounds in the oxygen group, considering BeO, BeS, BeSe, and BeTe. Theoretical spectra are obtained ab initio, through many-body perturbation theory, by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE), and by supercell calculations using the core-hole approximat...

Startle disease is an inherited neurological disorder that causes affected individuals to suffer noise- or touch-induced non-epileptic seizures, excessive muscle stiffness and neonatal apnea episodes. Mutations known to cause startle disease have been identified in glycine receptor subunit (GLRA1 and GLRB) and glycine transporter (SLC6A5) genes, which serve essential functions at glycinergic sy...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is a science mission led by the European Space Agency, being developed for launch in 2023. Ganymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) an instrument onboard JUICE, whose main scientific goals are to understand ice tectonics based on topographic data, subsurface structure measuring tidal response, and small-scale roughness albedo of surface. In addition, from perspecti...

Auger-electron spectra associated with Be atoms in the pure metal lattice and in the stoichiometric oxide have been investigated for different incident charged particles. For fast incident electrons, for Ar7+ and Ar15+ ions as well as Xe15+ and Xe31+ ions at velocities of 6% to 10% the speed of light, there are strong differences in the corresponding spectral distributions of Be-K Auger lines. ...

The decay rate of 7Be depends on the electron density at the nucleus and therefore may vary with the chemical environments of the Be atom. Using a 100% efficiency high-purity germanium detector, the decay constants of Be in Be2C(OH2)4, Be(OH)2 and BeO have been measured at unprecedented high precision (of š0.01%), resulting in T1=2 D 53.69 d, 53.42 d, and 54.23 d, respectively. The observed dif...

Bergamot essential oil (BEO) is the result of mechanical manipulation (cold pressing) exocarp (flavedo) hesperidium Citruslimon (L.) Osbeck Group (synonym Citrus × bergamia Risso & Poit.), resulting in bursting cavities embedded flavedo and release their contents. It chemically dominated by monoterpene hydrocarbons (i.e., limonene), but with significant percentages oxygenated monoterpenes l...