The low-temperature rate of electron capture beta decay in magnetic materials

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (8) ◽  
pp. 5716
Author(s):  
L. M. Folan ◽  
V. I. Tsifrinovich ◽  
V. A. Sheverev
2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (HITEC) ◽  
pp. 000274-000279
Author(s):  
Arden P. Johnson ◽  
Cuiyang Wang ◽  
John S. Miller

Lithium-thionyl chloride cells are widely used in downhole applications where the temperatures exceed 100°C. These cells cannot be used above the melting point of lithium, 180°C, but modified oxyhalide cells are available that use higher-melting lithium alloy anodes that allow safe operation at temperatures as high as 200°C. However, the higher temperature capability comes at the cost of low temperature performance; the alloy cells typically show very poor rate capability below 50°C. The low temperature rate limitations can be particularly disadvantageous in cases where a tool is started up at the surface, where the ambient temperatures are cooler, before it is placed into operation downhole. Here we present test results defining and characterizing the capabilities and limitations of various types of lithium alloy cells at lower temperatures, as well as discharge results at higher temperatures for new cell types that have been designed for improved rate capability at both lower and higher temperatures.


Author(s):  
Wenping Feng ◽  
Nobuyasu Nakabayashi ◽  
Eri Inomata ◽  
Masakazu N. Aoki ◽  
Yukio Agatsuma

Ocean warming has facilitated the extension of Heliocidaris crassispina to Oga Peninsula, Japan, where the native species Mesocentrotus nudus has disappeared. To verify the temperature impacts on the physiology and behaviour of the two species, we reared small sea urchins at the increasing/decreasing temperature rate of 2.5°C week-1. The righting response, lantern reflex, gonad and gut carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) contents, and feeding rate were investigated. The high and low temperature limits of H. crassispina were 33.3°C and 3.9°C, respectively, which were higher than those of M. nudus. The optimal temperature ranges for behaviour and feeding in H. crassispina were 10.3–31.0°C and 10.3–33.4°C, respectively, which were higher than those in M. nudus. Feeding rates decreased significantly in both species when the temperature approached the high or low temperature limit, but the gut C and N contents of were not greatly affected. At 26–31°C, the feeding rate significantly decreased in M. nudus but not in H. crassispina, which may explain the replacement of M. nudus by H. crassispina in the Oga Peninsula.


Universe ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Pierluigi Belli ◽  
R. Bernabei ◽  
V.B. Brudanin ◽  
F. Cappella ◽  
V. Caracciolo ◽  
...  

Studies on double beta decay processes in 106Cd were performed by using a cadmium tungstate scintillator enriched in 106Cd at 66% (106CdWO4) with two CdWO4 scintillation counters (with natural Cd composition). No effect was observed in the data that accumulated over 26,033 h. New improved half-life limits were set on the different channels and modes of the 106Cd double beta decay at level of limT1/2∼1020−1022 yr. The limit for the two neutrino electron capture with positron emission in 106Cd to the ground state of 106Pd, T1/22νECβ+≥2.1×1021 yr, was set by the analysis of the 106CdWO4 data in coincidence with the energy release 511 keV in both CdWO4 counters. The sensitivity approaches the theoretical predictions for the decay half-life that are in the range T1/2∼1021−1022 yr. The resonant neutrinoless double-electron capture to the 2718 keV excited state of 106Pd is restricted at the level of T1/20ν2K≥2.9×1021 yr.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (17) ◽  
pp. 1950129
Author(s):  
R. Basak ◽  
V. I. Tsifrinovich

In this paper, we compute the spin excess for the neutrinos radiated in the process of electron capture beta decay of partially polarized nuclei. The results of computation are presented for the [Formula: see text] nuclei polarized by the strong hyperfine field in a ferromagnetic substance. This system was suggested as a possible source of monoenergetic neutrino radiation with a preferable direction of neutrino propagation. We directly compute the spin excess of radiated neutrinos and show that it is slightly greater than that estimated previously under simplifying assumptions.


2012 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 221-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.J. Hoyos ◽  
A.A. Ghilarducchi ◽  
H.R. Salva ◽  
J.M. Vélez

The evolution of martensitic carbon steel during low temperature tempering was studied using internal friction. The steel containing 0.71wt.% carbon was heated at 1093K for 5min and then rapidly cooled into water (quenched), and tempered for 10 min at 340, 380, 420 and 460K. Additionally, other samples were tempered at 380K for 1 and 20 hours. Internal friction was measured by using a forced vibration pendulum, in a temperature range from 300 to 600K, with deformation amplitude 3 x 10-6 and temperature rate of 0.8 K/min. The internal friction spectrum is decomposed into three Debye peaks: P1 at 380K, P2 at 420K and P3 at 480K, for 3 Hz. P1 is attributed to the epsilon carbide precipitation. P2 and P3 are associated to the dislocation relaxation process. P2 appears when dislocations are pinning with epsilon carbide and P3 appears when dislocations are pinning with cementite carbide.


2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 582-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Halvick ◽  
Thierry Stoecklin ◽  
Pascal Larrégaray ◽  
Laurent Bonnet

2006 ◽  
Vol 446 (1) ◽  
pp. 367-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Wernli ◽  
P. Valiron ◽  
A. Faure ◽  
L. Wiesenfeld ◽  
P. Jankowski ◽  
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