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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Nambu–Goldstone Bosons in Quantum Many-Body Systems (2010)

Tomáš Brauner

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a general principle that constitutes the underlying concept of a vast number of physical phenomena ranging from ferromagnetism and superconductivity in condensed matter physics to the Higgs mechanism in the standard model of elementary particles. I focus on manifestations of spontaneously broken symmetries in systems that are not Lorentz invariant, which include both nonrelativistic systems as well as relativistic systems at nonzero density, providing a self-contained review of the properties of spontaneously broken symmetries specific to such theories. Topics covered include: (i) Introduction to the mathematics of spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Goldstone theorem. (ii) Minimization of Higgs-type potentials for higher-dimensional representations. (iii) Counting rules for Nambu–Goldstone bosons and their dispersion relations. (iv) Construction of effective Lagrangians. Specific examples in both relativistic and nonrelativistic physics are worked out in detail.

Emergent inert adjoint scalar field in SU(2) Yang-Mills thermodynamics due to coarse-grained topological fluctuation (2011)

Ulrich Herbst Ralf Hofmann

We compute the phase and the modulus of an energy- and pressure-free, composite, adjoint, and inert field φ in an SU(2) Yang-Mills theory at large temperatures. This field is physically relevant in describing part of the ground-state structure and the quasiparticle masses of excitations. The field φ possesses nontrivial S1-winding on the group manifold S3. Even at asymptotically high temperatures, where the theory reaches its Stefan-Boltzmann limit, the field φ, though strongly power suppressed, is conceptually relevant: its presence resolves the infrared problem of thermal perturbation theory.

Directed deposition of silicon nanowires using neopentasilane as precursor and gold as catalyst (2012)

Britta Kämpken Verena Wulf Norbert Auner Marcel Winhold Michael Huth Daniel Rhinow Andreas Terfort

In this work the applicability of neopentasilane (Si(SiH3)4) as a precursor for the formation of silicon nanowires by using gold nanoparticles as a catalyst has been explored. The growth proceeds via the formation of liquid gold/silicon alloy droplets, which excrete the silicon nanowires upon continued decomposition of the precursor. This mechanism determines the diameter of the Si nanowires. Different sources for the gold nanoparticles have been tested: the spontaneous dewetting of gold films, thermally annealed gold films, deposition of preformed gold nanoparticles, and the use of “liquid bright gold”, a material historically used for the gilding of porcelain and glass. The latter does not only form gold nanoparticles when deposited as a thin film and thermally annealed, but can also be patterned by using UV irradiation, providing access to laterally structured layers of silicon nanowires.

A versatile method for simulating pp -> ppe+e- and dp -> pne+e-p_spec reactions (2010)

Frank Dohrmann Ingo Fröhlich Tetyana Galatyuk Romain Holzmann Philipp K. Kählitz Burkhard Kämpfer Emilie Moriniere Yvonne C. Pachmayer Beatrice Ramstein Piotr Salabura Joachim Stroth Radoslaw Trebacz Jacques Van de Wiele

We have developed a versatile software package for the simulation of di-electron production in pp and dp collisions at moderate beam kinetic energies (1-2GeV). Particular attention has been paid to incorporate different descriptions of the Dalitz decay Δ rightarrow Ne + e - via a common interface. In addition, suitable parameterizations for the virtual bremsstrahlung process NN rightarrow NNe + e - based on one-boson exchange models have been implemented. Such simulation tools with high flexibility of the framework are important for the interpretation of the di-electron data taken with the HADES spectrometer and demonstrates the wide applicability within the field of nuclear and hadronic physics.

Human myocardial protein pattern reveals cardiac diseases (2012)

Jonas Bergquist Gökhan Baykut Maria Bergquist Matthias Witt Franz-Josef Mayer Doan Baykut

Proteomic profiles of myocardial tissue in two different etiologies of heart failure were investigated using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)/Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS). Right atrial appendages from 10 patients with hemodynamically significant isolated aortic valve disease and from 10 patients with isolated symptomatic coronary heart disease were collected during elective cardiac surgery. As presented in an earlier study by our group (Baykut et al., 2006), both disease forms showed clearly different pattern distribution characteristics. Interesting enough, the classification patterns could be used for correctly sorting unknown test samples in their correct categories. However, in order to fully exploit and also validate these findings there is a definite need for unambiguous identification of the differences between different etiologies at molecular level. In this study, samples representative for the aortic valve disease and coronary heart disease were prepared, tryptically digested, and analyzed using an FT-ICR MS that allowed collision-induced dissociation (CID) of selected classifier masses. By using the fragment spectra, proteins were identified by database searches. For comparison and further validation, classifier masses were also fragmented and analyzed using HPLC-/Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) time-of-flight/time-of-flight (TOF/TOF) mass spectrometry. Desmin and lumican precursor were examples of proteins found in aortic samples at higher abundances than in coronary samples. Similarly, adenylate kinase isoenzyme was found in coronary samples at a higher abundance. The described methodology could also be feasible in search for specific biomarkers in plasma or serum for diagnostic purposes.

Fragmentation of exotic oxygen isotopes (2003)

Armin Leistenschneider Thomas Aumann Konstanze Boretzky Luiz Felipe Canto Brett Vern Carlson Dolores Cortina Ushasi Datta Pramanik Thomas W. Elze Hans Emling Hans Geissel Alexander Grünschloss Kerttuli Helariutta Margareta Hellström Mahir S. Hussein Stamenko Ilievski Jens-Volker Kratz Reinhard Kulessa Le Hong Khiem Edvard Lubkiewicz Gottfried Münzenberg Rudrayoti Palit Peter Reiter Christoph Scheidenberger Karl-Heinz Schmidt Haik Simon Klaus Sümmerer Eugeniusz Wajda Wladek Walús

Abrasion-ablation models and the empirical EPAX parametrization of projectile fragmentation are described. Their cross section predictions are compared to recent data of the fragmentation of secondary beams of neutron-rich, unstable 19,20,21O isotopes at beam energies near 600 MeV/nucleon as well as data for stable 17,18O beams.

Measuring shear viscosity using correlations (2007)

Sean Gavin Mohamed Abdel-Aziz

Measurements of transverse momentum fluctuations can be used to determine the shear viscosity [1]. We use current data to estimate the viscosity-to-entropy ratio in the range from 0.08 to 0.3, and discuss how future measurements can reduce this uncertainty.

Ion beam analysis based on cellular nonlinear networks (2011)

Vanessa Senger Ronald Tetzlaff Hermine Reichau Ulrich Ratzinger

The development of a non- destructive measurement method for ion beam parameters has been treated in various projects. Although results are promising, the high complexity of beam dynamics has made it impossible to implement a real time process control up to now. In this paper we will propose analysing methods based on the dynamics of Cellular Nonlinear Networks (CNN) that can be implemented on pixel parallel CNN based architectures and yield satisfying results even at low resolutions.

Analysis of a hybrid TATA box binding protein originating from mesophilic and thermophilic donor organisms (2010)

Annette Kopitz Jörg Soppa Karin Hauser

The TATA Box Binding Protein (TBP) is a 20 kD protein that is essential and universally conserved in eucarya and archaea. Especially among archaea, organisms can be found that live below 0°C as well as organisms that grow above 100°C. The archaeal TBPs show a high sequence identity and a similar structure consisting of α-helices and β-sheets that are arranged in a saddle-shape 2-symmetric fold. In previous studies, we have characterized the thermal stability of thermophilic and mesophilic archaeal TBPs by infrared spectroscopy and showed the correlation between the transition temperature (Tm) and the optimal growth temperature (OGT) of the respective donor organism. In this study, a “new” mutant TBP has been constructed, produced, purified and analyzed for a deeper understanding of the molecular mechanisms of thermoadaptation. The β-sheet part of the mutant consists of the TBP from Methanothermobacter thermoautotrophicus (OGT 65°C, MtTBP65) whose α-helices have been exchanged by those of Methanosarcina mazei (OGT 37°C, MmTBP37). The Hybrid-TBP irreversibly aggregates after thermal unfolding just like MmTBP37 and MtTBP65, but the Tm lies between that of MmTBP37 and MtTBP65 indicating that the interaction between the α-helical and β-sheet part of the TBP is crucial for the thermal stability. The temperature stability is probably encoded in the variable α-helices that interact with the highly conserved and DNA binding β-sheets.

Meteorologische Untersuchungen in Osnabrück 1875 - 1983 : mit 9 Tabellen (1986)

Johannes Niemann Günter Schmidt

Im Jahre 1871 wurde durch den Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein Osnabrück (gegründet 1870) eine meteorologische Station eingerichtet. Sie hatte ihren Standort am Sommerhaus des damaligen Obergerichtsrats JOHANN-VOLLRATH KETTLER,Osnabrück, Ziegelstraße 7. KETTLER hat 1872 im 1. Jahresbericht des . Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins über die "Entstehung, Einrichtung und die ersten Ergebnisse" berichtet. Dieser Bericht ist hier wiedergegeben, legt er uns dar, daß alle Messungen exakt und gewissenhaft durchgeführt wurden.

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