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Proton Acceleration in Weak Quasi-parallel Intracluster Shocks: Injection and Early Acceleration

  • Kang, Hyesung;Ryu, Dongsu;Ha, Ji-Hoon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.42.1-42.1
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    • 2018
  • Collisionless shocks with low sonic Mach numbers, M<4, are expected to accelerate cosmic ray (CR) protons via diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) in the intracluster medium (ICM). However, observational evidence for CR protons in the ICM has yet to be established. Performing particle-in-cell simulations, we study the injection of protons into DSA and the early development of a nonthermal particle population in weak shocks in high ${\beta}$ plasmas. Reflection of incident protons, self-excitation of plasma waves via CR-driven instabilities, and multiple cycles of shock drift acceleration are essential to the early acceleration of CR protons in supercritical quasi-parallel shocks. We find that only in ICM shocks with $M{\geq}2.3$, a sufficient fraction of incoming protons are reflected by the overshoot in the shock electric potential and magnetic mirror at locally perpendicular magnetic fields, leading to efficient excitation of magnetic waves via CR streaming instabilities and the injection into the DSA process. Since a significant fraction of ICM shocks have M < 2.3 CR proton acceleration in the ICM might be less efficient than previously expected. This may explain why the diffuse gamma-ray emission from galaxy clusters due to proton-proton collisions has not been detected so far.

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Simultaneous Analysis of Cholesterol Oxidation Products (COPs) in Powdered Milk Using HPLC/UV-Vis

  • Lee, Jin Joo;Myung, Seung-Woon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.34 no.9
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    • pp.2787-2794
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    • 2013
  • Cholesterol and cholesterol oxidation products (COPs) may accumulate in foods of animal origin during processing or storage. An effective and sensitive analytical method was developed by increasing the UV absorption of compounds through derivatization by attaching a chromophore to the functional groups of cholesterols (cholesterol, 20-hydroxycholesterol, 7-ketocholesterol, cholestane-$3{\beta}$-$5{\alpha}$-$6{\beta}$-triol, 25-hydroxycholesterol, and $5,6{\alpha}$-epoxycholesterol). The influences of the reaction time, volume of reaction solvent, amounts of derivatizing reagent, and extraction solvents were investigated, as they may influence the reaction and extraction yield. The derivatized COPs were analyzed simultaneously on a C18 column (2.1 mm i.d. ${\times}$ 100 mm length, $3.5{\mu}m$ particle size) using a gradient elution with water and acetonitrile. The derivatized COPs showed increased sensitivity and selectivity in HPLC/UV-Vis. The LOD and LOQ were in the concentration ranges of 0.018-0.55 mg/kg and 0.059-1.84 mg/kg from the powdered milk. And the accuracy and precision were 78.1-116.7% and 1.1-9.9%, respectively.

Mechanical properties of materials for spectacle lens cutting(II) (안경렌즈 절삭용 재료의 기계적 특성(II))

  • Lee, Young-Il;Kim, Jin-Koo
    • Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.61-65
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    • 2000
  • ${\beta}$-SiC powder and ${\alpha}$-SiC powders of different particle sizes, containing 5.7wt% $Al_2O_3$ and 4.3wt% $Y_2O_3$ as sintering aids, were hot-pressed at $1780^{\circ}C$ and subsequently annealed at $1950^{\circ}C$ to initiate grain growth. All the hot-pressed and annealed materials consisted of large SiC grains and elongated SiC grains. Typical hardness and fracture toughness of materials for spectacle lens cutting were 15.6 GPa and $5.7MPa{\cdot}m^{1/2}$, respectively.

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Changes in Carotenoid Pigments of Oleoresin Red Pepper during Cooking (고추 Oleoresin 의 가열조리중 Carotenoid 색소의 변화)

  • 최옥수;하봉석
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.225-231
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    • 1994
  • As the way of mass process of red pepper, extraction of oleoresin, which is labile during distribtuion and long-term storage, is alternative way to minimize markdown of red pepper quality. Changes of carotenoid pigments in modified oleoresin during cooking at high temperature were investigated. Dried red peperwas milled to 100 mesh of size particle and oily compounds were extracted by reduced pressure steam distillation. The rest part was reetracted and concentrated. The extracts were combined . The same volume of water and 4 % of polyglycerol condensed ricinoleate (PGDR) were added to the combined extract, and emulsified to make oleroesin. Capsanthin among dried red pepper, was the most abundant carotenoid (97.80mg%) followed by $\beta$ -cartoene, cryptoxanghin ,violaxanthin, crypotocapsin, and capsorubin. Oleoresin is acquiesce in the same order of raw red pepper. Transmittal of color components from raw red pepper to oleroresin was over 85% in cryptoxanthin, crytocapsin, and $\beta$ -carotene, over 70% in capsolutein and hydroxycapsolutein, and under 50% in antheraxanthin and mutatoxanthi Crytocapsin cryptoxanthin, an capsorubin in oleoresin red pepper were remained 72.1, 51.8 and 25.25, respectively, after cooking for 5hours at10$0^{\circ}C$. Color compounds were unsteady by cooking , About 90% of color compounds were destroyed by 3 hours cooking at 15$0^{\circ}C$. But, they were more thermostable under nitrogen circumstance than air one.

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Synthesis of Si3N4 from Domestic Silica-stone by Direct Nitriding Method (규석광으로부터 직접 질화법에 의한 질화규소의 합성)

  • Sohn Yong-Un;Joo Sung-Min;Chung Hun-Saeng
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.358-362
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    • 2004
  • $Si_3$$N_4$ ceramics have been identified as one of the promising structural ceramics. This study has been carried out to investigate of the synthetic behaviors of $Si_3$$N_4$ derived from domestic silica-stone by direct nitriding method. The silicon nitridation reaction has been studied in the temperature range of $1300~1550^{\circ}C$. Below the $1400^{\circ}C$, the nitriding rate was measured to be 16%. For the temperatures higher than the $1400^{\circ}C$, $\beta$-$Si_3$$N_4$ phase was formed mainly, and the nitriding rate showed above 98%. With the increasing of sample weight of silicon powder, the nitriding rate and $\beta$-$Si_3$$N_4$ phase increased at $1400^{\circ}C$ for 2 hours. The shape and particle size of$ Si_3$$N_4$ powder synthesized at $1400^{\circ}C$ for 2 hours showed the irregular angular-type and 10 $\mu\textrm{m}$, respectively.

Hydrochloric Acid Leaching of Arsenic from Arsenic-Bearing Copper Slime. (동전련 부산물인 함비소 동슬라임으로부터 염산에 의한 비소의 침출)

  • 유용주;황필규
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.51-57
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    • 1992
  • The hydrochloric acid leaching has been studied as a fundamental experiment on the recovery of arsenic from arsenic-bearing copper slime in copper electrorefining. The slime is mainly composed of $\beta-Cu_3As$ Which is intermetallic compound of CU and As. And the minor components are $CU_2O$ and CusAs in the slime. The optimum conditions of leaching of the slime were found to be as follows : 6N hydrochloric acid, particle size passed through 140 mesh, leaching for 150 min at $60^{\circ}C$, ratio of HCI/slime of 3 to 1 ; where 98 percent of arsenic were leached out of the As-bearing slime.

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A Study on the Sensitivity of Self-Powered Neutron Detectors(SPNDs) and a new Proposal

  • Lee, Wanno;Gyuseong Cho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1997.05b
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    • pp.445-450
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    • 1997
  • Self-Powered Neutron Detectors(SPNDs) are currently used to estimate the power generation distribution and fuel burn-up in several nuclear power reactors in Korea. In this paper, Monte Carlo simulation is accomplished to calculate the escape probability of beta particle as a function of their birth position fur the typical geometry of rhodium-based SPNDs. Also, a simple numerical method calculates the initial generation rate of beta particles and the change of generation rate due to rhodium burn-up. Using the simulation and the numerical method, the burn-up profile of rhodium density and the neutron sensitivity are calculated as a function of burn-up time in the reactor. The sensitivity of the SPNDs decreases non-linearly due to the high absorption cross-section and the non-uniform burn-up of rhodium in the emitter rod. In addition, for improvement of some properties of rhodium-based SPNDs which are currently used, this paper presents a new material. The method used here can be applied to the analysis of other types of SPNDs and will be useful in the optimum design of new SPNDs for long term usage.

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A Study of the Inorganic Scintillator Properties for a Phoswich Detector (Phoswich 검출기 제작을 위한 무기 섬광체 특성 연구)

  • Lee, Woo-Gyo;Kim, Yong-Kyun;Kim, Jong-Kyung;Tarasov, V.;Zelenskaya, O.
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.251-256
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    • 2004
  • CsI(Tl), $CdWO_4(CWO),\;Bi_4Ge_3O_{12}(BGO)\;and\;Gd_2SiO_5:Ce(GSO)$ scintillators were studied to manufacture a phoswich detector. The maximum wavelengths of the CsI(Tl), CWO, BGO and GSO scintillators are 550 nm, 475 nm, 490 nm and 440 nm for the radioluminescence, and the absolute light outputs of the CsI(Tl), CWO, BGO and GSO scintillators are 54890 phonon/MeV, 17762 phonon/MeV, 8322 phonon/MeV and 8932 phonon/MeV with a neutral filter, and the decay time of the CsI(Tl), CWO, BGO and GSO scintillators is $1.3{\mu}s,\;8.17{\mu}s$, 213 ns and 37 ns by a single photon method. The phoswich detector which was manufactured with plastic and CsI(Tl) scintillators could separate the ${\beta}$ particle and ${\gamma}$ ray. The phoswich detector could also measure the pulse height spectra of the ${\beta}$ particle and ${\gamma}$ ray by a PSD method.

Nano Particle Charging Characteristics of Aerosol Charge Neutralizers (에어로졸 중화기의 나노 입자 하전 특성)

  • Ji, Jun-Ho;Bae, Swi-Nam;Hwang, Jung-Ho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.27 no.10
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    • pp.1489-1497
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    • 2003
  • Aerosol charge neutralizers with various radioactive sources have been used to apply an equilibrium charge distribution to aerosols of unknown charge distribution. However, the performance of aerosol charge neutralizers is not well known, especially for highly charged particles. Measurements of highly charged particles are needed in air cleaning devices, e.g. electrostatic precipitator, bag filter with a pre-charger, and electrical cyclone. In this study, the particle charging characteristics of two different aerosol charge neutralizers were experimentally investigated for singly charged monodisperse particles and highly charged polydisperse particles. One has radioactive source of $^{85}$ Kr (beta source, 2 mCi) and the other has $^{210}$ Po (alpha source, 0,5 mCi). The air flow rate passing through each aerosol charge neutralizer was changed from 0.2 to 2.5 L/min. The results show that the charge distribution of singly charged monodisperse particles passing through the $^{85}$ Kr aerosol charge neutralizer is well agreed with the Boltzmann equilibrium charge distribution at an air flow rate of 0.3 L/min, However, it deviates from the equilibrium charge distribution when the air flow rates are 0.6, 1,0, and 1,5 L/min, On the other hands, the effect of air flow rate is insignificant for the $^{210}$ Po aerosol charge neutralizer. The non-equilibrium character in charge distribution of highly charged polydisperse particles passing through the $^{85}$ Kr aerosol charge neutralizer greatly depends on the air flow rate, however it is insensitive to the air flow rate for the $^{210}$ Po aerosol charge neutralizer.

Evolution of cometary dust particles to the inner solar system: Initial conditions, mutual collision and final sinks

  • Yang, Hongu;Ishiguro, Masateru
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.48.3-49
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    • 2017
  • Interplanetary space of the solar system contains a large number of dust particles, referred to as Interplanetary Dust Particles (IDPs) cloud complex. They are observable through meteors and zodiacal lights. The relative contribution of possible sources to the IDPs cloud complex was an controversial topic, however, recent research (Yang & Ishiguro, 2015 and references therein) suggested a dominance of cometary origin. In this study, we numerically investigated the orbital evolution of cometary dust particles, with special concerns on different evolutionary tracks and its consequences according to initial orbits, size and particle shape. The effect of dust particle density and initial size-frequency distribution (SFD) were not decisive in total cloud complex mass and mass supply rate, when these physical quantities are confined by observed zodiacal light brightness and dust particle SFD at 1 au. We noticed that, if we assume the existence of fluffy aggregates discovered in the Earth's stratosphere and the coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the required mass supply rate decreases significantly. We also found out that close encounters with planets (mostly Jupiter) are the dominating factor of the orbital evolution of dust particles, as the result, the lifetime of cometary dust particles are shorter than Poynting-Robertson lifetime (around 250 thousand years). As another consequence of severe close encounters, only a small fraction of cometary dust particles can be transferred into the orbit < 1 au. This effect is significant for large size particles of ${\beta}$ < 0.01. The exceptional cases are dust particles ejected from 2P/Encke and active asteroids. Because they rarely encounter with Jupiter, most dust particles ejected from those objects are governed by Poynting-Robertson effect and well transferred into the orbits of small semimajor axis. In consideration of the above effects, we directly estimated probability of mutual collisions between dust particles and concluded that mutual collisions in the IDPs cloud complex is mostly ignorable, except for the case of large sized particles from active asteroids.

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