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Powermod™1 the Power You Need Sm INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS 1 PowerMod™ The Power You Need sm High Voltage.Solid-State Modulators At Diversified Technologies, we manufacture leading-edge solid state, high power modulators from our patented, modular design. PowerMod™ systems can meet your pulsed power needs - at up to 200 kV, with peak currents up to 2000 A. V PowerMod*™ HVPM 100-300 30 MWModulator (36" x 48" x 60") PowerMod™ HVPM 20-150 Pulse: 20 kV, 100A, ljis/div PowerMod™ Modulators deliver the superior benefits of solid state technology including: • Very high operating efficiencies • < 3V/kV voltage drop accross the switch PowerMod™ HVPM 20-300 6 MW Modulator (19" x 30" x 24") • <1mA leakage • Arbitrary pusewidths from less than 1 jus to DC • PRFsto30kHz • Opening and closing operation Call us or visit our website today to learn more about the PowerMod™ line of solid-state high power systems. DIVERSIFIED TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 35 Wiggins Avenue Bedford, MA 01730 781-275-9444 www. d i vt ecs.com PowerMod*™ HVPM 2.5-150 3 75 KW Modulator (19" x 19.5" x 8.5") D 1999 Diversified Technologies, Inc. PowerMod™ is a trademark of Diversified Technologies, Inc. Contents Covering current developments in high- energy physics and related fields worldwide CERN Courier is distributed to Member State governments, institutes and laboratories affiliated with CERN, and to their personnel. It is published monthly except January and August, in English and French editions. The views expressed are not necessar­ ily those of the CERN management. CERN Editor: Gordon Fraser CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland E-mail [email protected] Fax +41 (22) 782 1906 Web http://www.cerncourier.com COURIER Advisory Board VOLUME 39 NUMBER 5 JUNE 1999 R Landua (Chairman): F Close, E Lillest0l, H Hoffmann, C Johnson, K Potter, PSphicas Laboratory correspondents Argonne National Laboratory (USA): D Ayres Brookhaven, National Laboratory (USA): PYamin Cornell University (USA): D G Cassel DESY Laboratory (Germany): Ilka Flegel, P Waloschek Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (USA): Judy Jackson GSI Darmstadt (Germany): G Siegert INFN (Italy): A Pascolini IHEP, Beijing (China): Qi Nading Jefferson Laboratory (USA): S Corneliussen JINR Dubna (Russia): B Starchenko KEK National Laboratory (Japan): A Maki Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (USA): B Feinberg Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA): C Hoffmann Chameleon complex pll Chasing CP violation p22 AMS results p7 NIKHEF Laboratory (Netherlands): Margriet van der Heijden Novosibirsk Institute (Russia): S Eidelman Orsay Laboratory (France): Anne-Marie Lutz Physicswatch 5 PSI Laboratory (Switzerland): P-R Kettle Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK): Jacky Hutchinson Saclay Laboratory (France): Elisabeth Locci News 6 IHEP, Serpukhov (Russia): Yu Ryabov Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (USA): M Riordan Space Shuttle experiment reveals unexplained particle behaviour. 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DNA acts like a semiconductor Scientists at Basel have demonstrated that (10~7 mbar), the ropes were broken using a the current with voltage, obeying Ohm's Law, DNA ca'n conduct electricity - a property that mechanical point.This was watched using a was measured in the ±20mV range.The DNA could lead to an effective way to repair a DNA low-energy electron point source microscope had a resistivity of about 1 M^/cm - equiva­ helix after radiation damage. (a coherent beam of 20-300 eV electrons), lent to that of a good semiconductor. DNA in water was dropped onto a gold- which produced holographic images. The details of the conduction mechanism coated carbon foil punctured with an array of The point was then used to create a poten­ are not understood, but the fact that DNA 2 (Lim holes. Blotting paper removed most of tial difference between the loose end of the chains of up to several tens of milimetres can the liquid, leaving ropes of DNA molecules DNA rope and the foil, to which the other end easily be made means that DNA is suited for spanning the holes in the foil. of the rope was attached. Current flowed use as quantum wires in mesoscopic devices Inside an ultrahigh vacuum chamber along the molecules and a linear variation of (largerthan 1 nm butsmallerthan 1 ^m). Is sonoluminescence solved? Laser makes antimatter Gas bubbles trapped in a liquid and excited by sound waves expand then collapse, emit­ Experiments with the Petawatt laser at ting an intense burst of light - a process Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have known as sonoluminescence.Typically, a created antimatter - something that is usually bubble can expand by up to 50 |im before the preserve of high-energy physics. collapsing, usually within 50 LIS, to a radius of The laser (1 petawatt in a 1 fs pulse) was less than 1 Lim, but remain stable. focused on a thin gold disc, ripping electrons This had never been fully explained, but from the gold atoms and accelerating them to now a team of scientists from Harvard, several mega-electronvolts.The electrons col­ Marburg in Germany and Twente in the lided with other atoms, producing X-rays with Netherlands has proposed a model to explain enough energy to release neutrons and the bubble's stability and the light emission. induce fission in a sample of uranium metal. New features include the dependence of However, the researchers also observed the bubble's temperature on its radius and an positrons being created - more than 100 from allowance for the small emissivity of the a single laser shot and consistent with the weakly ionized noble gas inside the bubble expected rate of electron-positron pair pro­ (after recent experiments demonstrated that duction by X-rays. AIP all molecules other than noble gases diffuse from the bubble). The team has suggested that the light is In sonoluminescence, a gas bubble in a Atomic laser emitted by radiation from the ionized gas liquid-filled cell is excited using sound (thermal bremsstrahlung) and by the recom­ waves, causing it to expand before Several steps towards building an atomic bination of ions within the bubble. collapsing and emitting a visible flash. laser have been made by groups in the US, Japan, Israel and Germany.
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