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Controlling On-Surface Photoactivity: The Impact of π-Conjugation in Anhydride-Functionalized Molecules on a Semiconductor Surface

Christian Wäckerlin

On-surface synthesis has become a prominent method for growing low-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials on metal surfaces. However, the necessity of decoupling organic nanostructures from metal substrates to exploit their properties requires either trans ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

Higher-order moments of the elliptic flow distribution in PbPb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Qian Wang, Yiming Li, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Yi Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Xin Chen, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Sun Hee Kim, Davide Di Croce, Jian Zhao, Rakesh Chawla, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Anna Mascellani, Federica Legger, Matteo Galli, Gabriele Grosso

The hydrodynamic flow-like behavior of charged hadrons in high-energy lead-lead collisions is studied through multiparticle correlations. The elliptic anisotropy values based on different orders of multiparticle cumulants, v(2){2k}, are measured up to the ...

Springer Nature2024

Tool Developments in the OpenMC Code: Correlated Sampling and Transient Fission Matrix Approach Coupled to OpenFOAM

Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Thomas Jean-François Ligonnet

This article outlines the advancements made in broadening the application scope of the OpenMC neutron transport code to include thermohydraulic coupling and nuclear data uncertainty propagation. These developments primarily involve the incorporation of the ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2024

Electromagnetic processes of nuclear excitation: from direct photoabsorption to free electron and muon capture

Simone Gargiulo

In the vast expanse of the Universe and on our planet, nuclei exist in a state of excitement. These excited nuclear states (isomers) can persist for varying periods, from fractions of a second to billions of years and beyond, before decaying to their groun ...

EPFL2023

Analysis of the preliminary campaign for the PETALE program

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Thomas Jean-François Ligonnet

The PETALE program aims to provide new experimental data to constrain the stainless steel nuclear data. In this frame, a preliminary measurement campaign has been performed to characterize the neutron flux in key positions of the CROCUS reactor and to deve ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2023

Development of next-generation microfluidic systems for enhanced, faster, and cost-effective immunoassays for tissue diagnostics - Ac electrothermal flow & Acoustofluidics

Muaz Salama Abdelmonem Draz

The application of microfluidics in the field of surface-based assays and more specifically, the spatial molecular profiling of tumor tissues has gained a lot of interest, especially with the increased interest in personalized medicine and targeted therapy ...

EPFL2023

JET D-T scenario with optimized non-thermal fusion

Javier García Hernández, Mikhail Maslov, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin

In JET deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasmas, the fusion power is produced through thermonuclear reactions and reactions between thermal ions and fast particles generated by neutral beam injection (NBI) heating or accelerated by electromagnetic wave heating in t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Dynamical Control of Nuclear Isomer Depletion via Electron Vortex Beams

Fabrizio Carbone, Simone Gargiulo

Some nuclear isomers are known to store a large amount of energy over long periods of time, with a very high energy-to-mass ratio. Here, we describe a protocol to achieve the external control of the isomeric nuclear decay by using electron vortex beams who ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

A concept for the extraction of the most refractory elements at CERN-ISOLDE as carbonyl complex ions

João Pedro Fernandes Pinto Ramos

We introduce a novel thick-target concept tailored to the extraction of refractory 4d and 5d transition metal radionuclides of molybdenum, technetium, ruthenium and tungsten for radioactive ion beam production. Despite the more than 60-year old history of ...

2022

Nuclear Excitation by Free Muon Capture

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Simone Gargiulo

Efficient excitation of nuclei via exchange of a real or virtual photon has a fundamental importance for nuclear science and technology development. Here, we present a mechanism of nuclear excitation based on the capture of a free muon into the atomic orbi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Design, prototyping, and thermo-mechanical modelling of a neutron spallation target impacted by high-energy proton-beam pulses in the n_TOF facility at CERN

Raffaele Esposito

This manuscript describes the design work and the R&D activities carried out for the third-generation neutron production target in the neutron Time-Of-Flight (n_TOF) facility at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN). The facility is composed ...

EPFL2022

Numerical simulations of gas puff imaging using a multi-component model of the neutral-plasma interaction in the tokamak boundary

Paolo Ricci

A three-dimensional simulation of gas puff imaging (GPI) diagnostics is carried out by using a self-consistent multi-component model of the neutral-plasma interaction. The simulation, based on the drift-reduced Braginskii model for the plasma and a kinetic ...

AIP Publishing2022

A spectroscopic inference and SOLPS-ITER comparison of flux-resolved edge plasma parameters in detachment experiments on TCV

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing, Artur Perek

This work presents the use of a collisional-radiative model to infer plasma parameters from 2D emissivities of several deuterium Balmer lines. The emissivities were obtained by MANTIS, an absolutely calibrated, ten-camera imaging polychromator with

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

The influence of sulfate addition on hydration kinetics and C-S-H morphology of C3S and C3S/C(3)A systems

Karen Scrivener, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva

A comprehensive understanding of hydration kinetics, sulfate requirement and phase assemblage of Portland cement is crucial for further optimization of early-age performance, especially when part of cement is replaced by mineral additions in blended cement ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2022

Solar reduction of carbon dioxide on copper-tin electrocatalysts with energy conversion efficiency near 20%

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu, Dan Ren, Jing Gao, Jun Li, Meng Xia

Solar-driven carbon dioxide reduction has witnessed a renaissance in the past decades, but the system suffers from low reaction rates. Here the authors develop a copper/tin-oxide electrocatalyst, achieving a new benchmark solar-to-CO energy conversion effi ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Efficient Semiclassical Evaluation of Electronic Coherences in Polyatomic Molecules

Jiri Vanicek, Nikolay Golubev

Exposing a molecule to an intense light pulse can create a nonstationary quantum state, thus launching correlated dynamics of electrons and nuclei. Although much had been achieved in the understanding of fundamental physics behind the electron-nuclear inte ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2022

Schiff base ligands derived from 1,2-bis(2 '-nitro-/amino-phenoxy)-3-R-benzene and 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde and their Cu/Zn(II) complexes: synthesis, characterization, X-ray structures and computational studies

Rosario Scopelliti

1,2-Bis(2'-nitrophenoxy)-3-R-benzenes {R = H (1), CH3 (2) and OCH3 (3)} have been prepared from the S-N-Ar reaction between 1-fluoro-2-nitrobenzene and 3-R-catechol (aromatic diol), and are then reduced to the corresponding diamines 1,2-bis(2'-aminophenoxy ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Design of the third-generation lead-based neutron spallation target for the neutron time-of-flight facility at CERN

Roland Logé, Nicola Colonna, Raffaele Esposito

The neutron time-of-flight (n_TOF) facility at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) is a pulsed white-spectrum neutron spallation source producing neutrons for two experimental areas: the Experimental Area 1 (EAR1), located 185 m horizontall ...

2021

Experimental validation of an integrated modelling approach to neutron emission studies at JET

Henri Weisen

An integrated modelling methodology for the calculation of realistic plasma neutron sources for the JET tokamak has been developed. The computational chain comprises TRANSP plasma transport and DRESS neutron spectrum calculations, and their coupling to the ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Measurement of the prompt-production cross-section ratio sigma(chi(c2))/sigma(chi(c1)) in pPb collisions at root s(NN)=8.16 TeV

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Chao Wang, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yi Wang, Aurelio Bay, Ho Ling Li, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Liang Sun, Lesya Shchutska, François Fleuret, Liupan An, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Preema Rennee Pais, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Elena Graverini, Michel De Cian, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Sebastian Schulte, Tommaso Colombo, Donal Patrick Hill, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Minh Tâm Tran, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Maria Vieites Diaz, Marie Theres Christin Bachmayer, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Serhii Cholak, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Ettore Zaffaroni, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Surapat Ek-In, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Sara Celani, Carina Trippl, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Sonia Amina Bouchiba, Thi Dung Nguyen, Maxim Karpov, Alison Maria Tully, Mâu Chung Nguyên, Maarten Willibrord Uriël Van Dijk, Simone Meloni, Xiaoqing Zhou, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Alexandre Brea Rodriguez, Marco Guarise

This article reports the first measurement of prompt chi(c1) and chi(c2) charmonium production in nuclear collisions at Large Hadron Collider energies. The cross-section ratio sigma(chi(c2))/sigma(chi(c1)) is measured in pPb collisions at root s(NN) = 8.16 ...

2021