Development of a method for calculating the LTEC anisotropy of Zr alloys

The accuracy of determining the LTEC with respect to metals and alloys with an HCP lattice based on inverse pole figures (IPF) is analyzed depending on the number of experimental points on the IPF using three averaging options: (1) taking into account the irregular arrangement of reflections on the stereographic triangle according to Morris; (2) by the multiplicity factor and (3) with the same weight of each orientation. It is shown that when evaluating the LTEC for semi-finished products with a basal texture, 17 reflections on the IPF are sufficient to provide an error of <1% when using Morris averaging and the multiplicity factor; in the case of a prismatic texture, an error of <1% is provided by all three averaging options, while Morris averaging is minimal.

Muon g − 2 from millicharged hidden confining sector

We provide a novel explanation to the muon g − 2 excess with new physics contributions at the two-loop level. In this scenario, light millicharged particles are introduced to modify the photon vacuum polarization that contributes to muon g − 2 at one additional loop. The muon g − 2 excess can be explained with the millicharged particle mass mχ around 10 MeV and the product of the multiplicity factor and millicharge squared of Nχε2 ∼ 10−3. The minimal model faces severe constraints from direct searches at fixed-target experiments and astrophysical observables. However, if the millicharged particles are also charged under a hidden confining gauge group SU(Nχ) with a confinement scale of MeV, hidden-sector hadrons are unstable and can decay into neutrinos, which makes this scenario consistent with existing constraints. This explanation can be well tested at low-energy lepton colliders such as BESIII and Belle II as well as other proposed fixed-target experiments.

Impact Analysis of the Number of Core on Hexagonal Multicore Fibre

The multicore fibre (MCF) is an effective and auspicious technology to overawe the limitation of the single-mode fibre. One of the important applications of MCF is power over fibre. In this paper, we have been designed eight different hexagonal structures by using 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 cores MCF. Those designs are categorized as even core multicore fibre (ECMCF) for 6, 8, 10 and 12 cores and odd core multicore fibre (OCMCF) for 7, 9, 11 and 13 number of cores. We also studied the impact analysis of odd or even number of the cores. The proposed designs having 140 µm diameter, large effective area of 1256 µ2m and two pitches d1=20 µm and d2=10 µm. The comparative analysis has been done by core multiplicity factor, electric field, coupled power, cross overpower parameter calculated for 10,000 samples. The hexagonal core shape MCF shows better performance if the number of the core in even number.

IMPROVEMENT OF FIRE EXTINGUISHING EFFICIENCY BY USING THE METHOD OF FOAM STABILITY INCREASE

It is stated that fire protection of facilities for oil and petrochemical industries is greatly facilitated by using foams with a different multiplicity factor as a tool for fighting fires. The main aspects of the inert gases influence on the foam stability, a multiplicity factor and the time of its complete destruction are studied. It is shown that when using the inert gas as an additive, the foam stability and the time of its collapse increase. It is also found that when adding an inert gas to the foaming agent the time of the foam complete destruction is doubled.