Charged Pion Mass Determination and Energy — Calibration Standards Based on Pionic X-ray Transitions

Author(s):  
D. F. Anagnostopoulos ◽  
M. Augsburger ◽  
G. Borchert ◽  
D. Chatellard ◽  
P. El-Khoury ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 308
Author(s):  
D. F. Anagnostopoulos, et al.

X-ray transitions in pionic nitrogen were measured using a curved crystal spectrometer. From the transition energy, calibrated with the help of the copper Ka1,2 electronic transition, a value for the charged pion mass of (139.57071± 0.00053) MeV/c2 was deduced. In order to reduce the uncertainty of the charged pion mass in the level of 1 ppm, we propose the determination of pionic transition energy based on the more precisely known energies and line shapes of muonic transitions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 529-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia V. Blake ◽  
Haochuan Wei ◽  
Courtney M. Donahue ◽  
Kyounghoon Lee ◽  
Jason M. Keith ◽  
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PK-edge X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy is a powerful method for analyzing the electronic structure of organic and inorganic phosphorus compounds. Like all XANES experiments, PK-edge XANES requires well defined and readily accessible calibration standards for energy referencing so that spectra collected at different beamlines or under different conditions can be compared. This is especially true for ligandK-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy, which has well established energy calibration standards for Cl (Cs2CuCl4) and S (Na2S2O3·5H2O), but not neighboring P. This paper presents a review of common PK-edge XANES energy calibration standards and analysis of PPh4Br as a potential alternative. The PK-edge XANES region of commercially available PPh4Br revealed a single, highly resolved pre-edge feature with a maximum at 2146.96 eV. PPh4Br also showed no evidence of photodecomposition when repeatedly scanned over the course of several days. In contrast, we found that PPh3rapidly decomposes under identical conditions. Density functional theory calculations performed on PPh3and PPh4+revealed large differences in the molecular orbital energies that were ascribed to differences in the phosphorus oxidation state (IIIversusV) and molecular charge (neutralversus+1). Time-dependent density functional theory calculations corroborated the experimental data and allowed the spectral features to be assigned. The first pre-edge feature in the PK-edge XANES spectrum of PPh4Br was assigned to P 1s → P-C π* transitions, whereas those at higher energy were P 1s → P-C σ*. Overall, the analysis suggests that PPh4Br is an excellent alternative to other solid energy calibration standards commonly used in PK-edge XANES experiments.


2016 ◽  
Vol 759 ◽  
pp. 583-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Trassinelli ◽  
D.F. Anagnostopoulos ◽  
G. Borchert ◽  
A. Dax ◽  
J.-P. Egger ◽  
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Author(s):  
G. L. Borchert ◽  
B. Manil ◽  
D. Anagnostopoulos ◽  
J. P. Egger ◽  
D. Gotta ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
V. V. Damiano ◽  
R. P. Daniele ◽  
H. T. Tucker ◽  
J. H. Dauber

An important example of intracellular particles is encountered in silicosis where alveolar macrophages ingest inspired silica particles. The quantitation of the silica uptake by these cells may be a potentially useful method for monitoring silica exposure. Accurate quantitative analysis of ingested silica by phagocytic cells is difficult because the particles are frequently small, irregularly shaped and cannot be visualized within the cells. Semiquantitative methods which make use of particles of known size, shape and composition as calibration standards may be the most direct and simplest approach to undertake. The present paper describes an empirical method in which glass microspheres were used as a model to show how the ratio of the silicon Kα peak X-ray intensity from the microspheres to that of a bulk sample of the same composition correlated to the mass of the microsphere contained within the cell. Irregular shaped silica particles were also analyzed and a calibration curve was generated from these data.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiranjot ◽  
Mangalika Sinha ◽  
R. K. Gupta ◽  
P. K. Yadav ◽  
Mohammed H. Modi

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