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GHOST commissioning science results - II: a very metal-poor star witnessing the early galactic assembly

This study focuses on Pristine_180956.78-294759.8 (hereafter P180956, [Fe/H] = -1.95 +/- 0.02), a star selected from the Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS), and followed-up with the recently commissioned Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) ...

Oxford Univ Press2024

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

Thomas Jean-François Ligonnet, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Elsa Merle

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

HighNESS conceptual design report: Volume II. The NNBAR experiment

Mina Akhyani, Xiaoxue Han, Davide Campi, Sheng Xu

A key aim of the HighNESS project for the European Spallation Source is to enable cutting-edge particle physics experiments. This volume presents a conceptual design report for the NNBAR experiment. NNBAR would exploit a new cold lower moderator to make th ...

Ios Press2023

The Pristine survey - XV. A CHIT ESPaDOnS view on the Milky Way halo and disc populations

Pascale Jablonka, Willem Suter, Carmela Lardo, Romain Ely Roland Lucchesi

We present a one-dimensional, local thermodynamic equilibrium homogeneous analysis of 132 stars observed at high resolution with ESPaDOnS. This represents the largest sample observed at high resolution (R similar to 40 000) from the Pristine survey. This s ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

The fragmentation mechanism of gold nanoparticles in water under femtosecond laser irradiation

Marcel Drabbels, Gabriele Bongiovanni, Ulrich Lorenz, Jonathan Mark Voss, Pavel Olshin, Chengcheng Yan

Plasmonic nanoparticles in aqueous solution have long been known to fragment under irradiation with intense ultrafast laser pulses, creating progeny particles with diameters of a few nanometers. However, the mechanism of this process is still intensely deb ...

2021

APT/TEM characterization of the element segregation in ferritic/martensitic steels after irradiation in SINQ

Lijuan Cui

Ferritic /martensitic (FM) steels are among the most important materials in various nuclear applications. As radiation-induced segregation (RIS) is one of the major factors for embrittlement of nuclear materials, thereofre it is essential to study the RIS ...

EPFL2021

The formation of the milky way halo and its dwarf satellites: a NLTE-1D abundance analysis. IV. Segue 1, Triangulumii, and Coma Berenices UFDs

Pascale Jablonka

We present atmospheric parameters and abundances for chemical elements from carbon to barium in metal-poor stars in Segue 1 (seven stars), Coma Berenices (three stars), and Triangulum II (one star) ultrafaint dwarf galaxies (UFDs). The effective temperatur ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

High intensity x-ray interaction with a model bio-molecule system: double-core-hole states and fragmentation of formamide

Christoph Bostedt, Yiming Li

Formamide, a simple model bio-molecule (HCONH2), is irradiated with high intensity, ultrashort pulses from an x-ray free electron laser. Ionic fragments resulting from photoionization and subsequent decay processes are recorded, as well as the electronic s ...

IOP Publishing2020

The Pristine survey IX. CFHT ESPaDOnS spectroscopic analysis of 115 bright metal-poor candidate stars

Pascale Jablonka, Carmela Lardo

A chemo-dynamical analysis of 115 metal-poor candidate stars selected from the narrow band Pristine photometric survey is presented based on CFHT high-resolution ESPaDOnS spectroscopy, We have discovered 28 new bright (V < 15) stars with I Fe/H]

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Homogeneity in the early chemical evolution of the Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Pascale Jablonka, Pierre North, Carmela Lardo, Romain Ely Roland Lucchesi

We present the high-resolution spectroscopic analysis of two new extremely metal-poor star (EMPS) candidates in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Sextans. These targets were preselected from medium-resolution spectra centered around the CaII triplet in the near- ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2020

VLT/FLAMES high-resolution chemical abundances in Sculptor: a textbook dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Pascale Jablonka

We present detailed chemical abundances for 99 red-giant branch stars in the centre of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy, which have been obtained from high-resolution VLT/FLAMES spectroscopy. The abundances of Li, Na, alpha-elements (O, Mg, Si, Ca Ti), ...

EDP Sciences2019

Early chemical enrichment of the Milky Way dwarf satellites from high-resolution and NLTE analysis of VMP stars

Pascale Jablonka, Pierre North

We present the NLTE abundances of 10 chemical species in 65 very metal-poor stars in eight dSphs and the Milky Way halo. The classical dSphs Sculptor, Ursa Minor, Sextans, and Fornax reveal a similar plateau at [alpha/Fe] = 0.3 for each of Mg, Ca, and Ti, ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2019

Shape staggering of midshell mercury isotopes from in-source laser spectroscopy compared with density-functional-theory and Monte Carlo shell-model calculations

Adriano Pastore

Neutron-deficient Hg177-185 isotopes were studied using in-source laser resonance-ionization spectroscopy at the CERN-ISOLDE radioactive ion-beam facility in an experiment combining different detection methods tailored to the studied isotopes. These includ ...

2019

14 MeV calibration of JET neutron detectors-phase 1: calibration and characterization of the neutron source

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Cristian Sommariva, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Alessandro Pau, Philippe Janson, Thomas Willem Jan de Geus, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Andrea Salmi, Javier García Hernández, Semin Kwak, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Riccardo Vannucci, Yao Zhou, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Davide Galassi, Sun Hee Kim, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Jan Horacek, Liang Yao, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Federico Nespoli, David Pfefferlé, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Bernhard Sieglin, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Hamish William Patten, Otto Asunta, Samuel Lanthaler, Robin Humphry-Baker, Fernando Cortes Salazar, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Alexis Gérald Page, Daniel Scott Alessi, Luca Carraro, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Tao Xu, Mario Joe Lehmann, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Matthew Brown, Michael Oliver Reinke, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, Wei Tang, Stefano Mattei, Lenke Horváth, Magalie Diane Bassan, Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa, Petre Alexandru Arion, Candice Megan T Young, Vlad Trifa, Stéphanie Prior, Lyne Moser, Daniel Molina Romero, Philippe Jean Buchs, Justin Robert Young, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia, Partha Dutta

In view of the planned DT operations at JET, a calibration of the JET neutron monitors at 14 MeV neutron energy is needed using a 14 MeV neutron generator deployed inside the vacuum vessel by the JET remote handling system. The target accuracy of this cali ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Ionic liquid containing electron-rich, porous polyphosphazene nanoreactors catalyze the transformation of CO2 to carbonates

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Zhangjun Huang, Jorge Gustavo Uranga, Haiyan Jia, Yefeng Wang

We show that ionic liquids (ILs) interact with electron-rich, porous polyphosphazene (PPZ), to form hybrid PPZ-IL nanoreactors able to simultaneously capture and transform CO2 into carbonates. The PPZ nanospheres swell in organic solvents and effectively a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2018

Longitudinal and Transverse Instability of Ion Acoustic Waves

Stephan Brunner

Ion acoustic waves are found to be susceptible to at least two distinct decay processes. Which process dominates depends on the parameters. In the cases examined, the decay channel where daughter modes propagate parallel to the mother mode is found to domi ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

The formation of the Milky Way halo and its dwarf satellites; a NLTE-1D abundance analysis II. Early chemical enrichment

Pascale Jablonka, Pierre North

We present the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) abundances of up to 10 chemical species in a sample of 59 very metal-poor (VMP, -4

Edp Sciences S A2017

The last stages of star formation in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Sextans

Romaine Theler

This thesis is anchored in the research of better understanding of the chemical evolution of galaxies. Many dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSph) are orbiting the Milky Way displaying various star formation histories. The formation of these dwarf galaxies and t ...

EPFL2015

The early days of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Pascale Jablonka, Pierre North, Yves Revaz

We present the high-resolution spectroscopic study of five -3.9

Edp Sciences S A2015

Experimental tests of an advanced proton-to-neutron converter at ISOLDE-CERN

The suppression of isobaric contaminations is of growing importance for many scientific programs using radioactive isotopes produced at isotope separation on-line (ISOL) facilities, such as ISOLDE-CERN. A solid tungsten proton-to-neutron converter has been ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014