Spectroscopic study of Mo, Mo, and Mo

Kumar, V.*; Chapman, R.*; Ollier, J.*; Orlandi, R.; Smith, J. F.*; Spohr, K.-M.*; Torres, D. A.*; Wady, P.*; 他10名*

Physical Review C, 110(4), p.044308_1 - 044308_18, 2024/10

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.110.044308

Excited states of the molybdenum isotopes Mo were populated in two experiments which used fusion-fission and binary grazing reactions. In the first experiment, the GASP array of Ge detectors was used to detect rays from fusion-fission products from the S + Yb reaction at 230 MeV. In the multinucleon transfer experiment, a 530-MeV beam of Zr ions was incident on a thin Sn target; projectile-like ejectiles were detected and identified using the PRISMA magnetic spectrometer and their associated rays detected using the CLARA array of Clover detectors. Previously known bands were extended in all isotopes, and a new g band was established in Mo. The observed level schemes were compared with shell-model calculations, which reproduce the general features of the energy spectrum of excited states of Mo, Mo, and Mo, although not in detail. For the h negative-parity decay sequences of the three isotopes studied, evidence is presented for nuclear shape changes with increasing neutron number.

Fission of Hg* and Pt* nuclei at intermediate excitation energies

Kozulin, E. M.*; Knyazheva, G. N.*; Itkis, I. M.*; Itkis, M. G.*; Mukhamejanov, Y. S.*; Bogachev, A. A.*; Novikov, K. V.*; Kirakosyan, V. V.*; Kumar, D.*; Banerjee, T.*; et al.

Physical Review C, 105(1), p.014607_1 - 014607_12, 2022/01

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.014607

Asymmetric fission in the neutron-deficient Hg region was first observed about 10 years ago at ISOLDE, and caused a revision of the current understanding of fission in this region. In this work, the fission of Hg and Pd were studied using the time-of-flight spectrometer CORSET at the Flerov Laboratory in Dubna. The observed fission fragments mass distributions of the different isotopes suggest the presence of four concurrent fission modes, one symmetric and three asymmetric fission modes. The asymmetric modes differ in the total kinetic energies and fragment mass splits. These results point out the existence of a well deformed proton shell at =36 and a less deformed proton shell at =46.

Modifications in the nanoparticle-protein interactions for tuning the protein adsorption and controlling the stability of complexes

Kumar, S.*; Saha, D.*; 高田 慎一; Aswal, V. K.*; 瀬戸 秀紀

Applied Physics Letters, 118(15), p.153701_1 - 153701_7, 2021/04

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0046745

We report the pathways to suppress or enhance the protein adsorption on nanoparticles and thereby control the stability of the nanoparticle-protein complexes with the help of selective additives. This has been achieved by tuning the electrostatic interaction between the nanoparticles and proteins, in the presence of surfactant and multivalent counterions. The preferential binding of the proteins with the surfactant and multivalent ions induced charge reversibility of nanoparticles can lead to adsorption of an otherwise non-adsorbing protein and vice versa. The findings are demonstrated for anionic silica nanoparticles and two globular proteins [lysozyme (cationic) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) (anionic)] as model systems, in the presence of two ionic surfactants [anionic sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and cationic dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB)], and ZrCl as multivalent salt.

Nature of the Dirac gap modulation and surface magnetic interaction in axion antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBiTe

Shikin, A. M.*; Estyunin, D. A.*; Klimovskikh, I. I.*; Filnov, S. O.*; Kumar, S.*; Schwier, E. F.*; 宮本 幸治*; 奥田 太一*; 木村 昭夫*; 黒田 健太*; et al.

Scientific Reports (Internet), 10, p.13226_1 - 13226_13, 2020/08

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70089-9

Modification of the gap at the Dirac point (DP) in axion antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBiTe and its electronic and spin structure have been studied by angle- and spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) under laser excitation at various temperatures, light polarizations and photon energies. We have distinguished both large and reduced gaps at the DP in the ARPES dispersions, which remain open above the Nel temperature of = 24.5 K. We propose that the gap above remains open due to a short-range magnetic field generated by chiral spin fluctuations. Spin-resolved ARPES, XMCD and circular dichroism ARPES measurements show a surface ferromagnetic ordering for the large gap sample and apparently significantly reduced effective magnetic moment for the reduced gap sample.

Dirac gap opening and Dirac-fermion-mediated magnetic coupling in antiferromagnetic Gd-doped topological insulators and their manipulation by synchrotron radiation

Shikin, A. M.*; Estyunin, D. A.*; Surnin, Yu. I.*; Koroleva, A. V.*; Shevchenko, E. V.*; Kokh, K. A.*; Tereshchenko, O. E.*; Kumar, S.*; Schwier, E. F.*; 島田 賢也*; et al.

Scientific Reports (Internet), 9(1), p.4813_1 - 4813_17, 2019/03

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41137-w

A new kind of magnetically-doped antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulators (TIs), BiGdSbTe, has been studied by angle-resolved photoemission, superconducting magnetometry (SQUID) and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD). It has been shown that this TI is characterized by the Dirac gap at the Fermi level. In the paramagnetic phase, a surface magnetic layer is supposed to develop, where the coupling between the Gd magnetic moments is mediated by the topological surface states (TSSs). This assumption can be confirmed by opening a gap at the Dirac point indicated by the surface-sensitive ARPES, a weak hysteresis loop measured by SQUID, the XMCD showing a surface magnetic moment and the temperature dependence of electrical resistance demonstrating a mid-gap semiconducting behavior, which correlates with the temperature dependence of the surface magnetization and confirms the conclusion that only TSSs are located at the Fermi level.

Fast magnetic field annihilation driven by two laser pulses in underdense plasma

Gu, Y. J.*; Klimo, O.*; Kumar, D.*; Bulanov, S. V.; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Weber, S.*; Korn, G.*

Physics of Plasmas, 22(10), p.103113_1 - 103113_9, 2015/10

AA2015-0547.pdf:4.08MB

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4933408

The magnetic field generated by the laser pulses annihilates in a current sheet formed between the pulses. Magnetic field energy is converted to an inductive longitudinal electric field, which efficiently accelerates the electrons of the current sheet. This new regime of collision less relativistic magnetic field annihilation with a timescale of tens of femtoseconds can be extended to near-critical and overdense plasma with the ultra-high intensity femtosecond laser pulses.

Real-time X-ray diffraction of metastable phases during solidification from the undercooled LuFeO melt by two-dimensional detector at 1 kHz

Kumar, M. V.*; 栗林 一彦*; 長汐 晃輔*; 石川 毅彦*; 岡田 純平*; Yu, J.*; 依田 眞一*; 片山 芳則

Applied Physics Letters, 100(19), p.191905_1 - 191905_4, 2012/05

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4712124

制御された酸素分圧o下での過冷却LuFeO融体から形成される準安定相のその場観察による同定を、放射光光源におけるX線回折測定によって行った。1kHzの高速イメージングシステムによって、oが110PaでのLuFeO及びLuFeO相の単一リカレッセンス中のそれぞれの相の生成と成長を実時間で観察することができた。LuFeO系で観察された準安定相の回折パターンはLu-Fe-O系で報告されている準安定及び安定相のものと矛盾しない。