Photoluminescence and electron spin resonance measurements have been performed in bulk a-red P. We observe a photoluminescence band at 1.40 eV which exhibits a sensitivity to the excitation energy employed. Specifically, the peak of this band progresses to lower energies for higher energy excitation. Electron spin resonance measurements indicate -lo1? spins/cm3 for "cold dark" and optically ind...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Physical properties of peat 2.1. Decomposition degree of peat 2.2. Water retention property of peat 2.3. Specific gravity and bulk density of peat 3.

For the fixed-target heavy-ion experiment CBM at FAIR, a low-mass silicon tracking detector system is being developed that can track at high rates the hundreds of charged particles that will be created when an intense beam of heavy nuclei interacts with the target [1]. The detector is based on silicon microstrip detector technology. Fast self-triggering front-end electronics will be located at ...

Recently, the search for deeply bound nuclear states with antikaons has attracted large interest. It was recently found [1] that the p+p reaction might be well suited for the production of (K−pp) nuclear bound states. We have proposed to perform an exclusive measurement using the FOPI detector [2] exploiting the reaction p+p at 3.5GeV and to build for this purpose a dedicated trigger device. Th...

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, which has been demonstrated as a noninvasive diagnostic technique, relies on quantitative models for extracting optical property values from turbid media, such as biological tissues. We review and compare reflectance models that have been published, and we test similar models over a much wider range of measurement parameters than previously published, with spec...

The next great energy frontier in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions is quickly approaching with the completion of the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS experiment is poised to make important contributions in understanding QCD matter at extreme conditions. While designed for high-pT measurements in high-energy p+ p collisions, the detector is well suited to study many aspects of heavy ion coll...