High Energy Density Physics

We calculate the incoherent resonant and non-resonant scattering production of sterile neutrinos in the early universe. We find ranges of sterile neutrino masses, vacuum mixing angles, and initial lepton numbers which allow these species to constitute viable hot, warm, and cold dark matter (HDM, WDM, CDM) candidates which meet observational constraints. The constraints considered here include energy loss in core collapse supernovae, energy density limits at big bang nucleosynthesis, and those stemming from sterile neutrino decay: limits from observed cosmic microwave background anisotropies, diffuse extragalactic background radiation, and Li-6/D overproduction. Our calculations explicitly include matter effects, both effective mixing angle suppression and enhancement (MSW resonance), as well as quantum damping. We for the first time properly include all finite temperature effects, dilution resulting from the annihilation or disappearance of relativistic degrees of freedom, and the scattering-rate-enhancing effects of particle-antiparticle pairs (muons, tauons, quarks) at high temperature in the early universe.

This study describes the use of electrodeposited nanostructured hybrid nickel–cobalt hexacyanoferrate in electrochemical supercapacitors. Herein, various compositions of nickel and cobalt hexacyanoferrates (Ni/CoHCNFe) nanostructures are electrodeposited on an inexpensive stainless steel substrate using cyclic voltammetric (CV) method. The morphology of the electrodeposited nanostructures is studied using scanning electron microscopy, while their electrochemical characterizations are investigated using CV, galvanostatic charge and discharge and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The results show that the nanostructures of hybrid metal cyanoferrate, shows a much higher capacitance (765 F g−1) than those obtained with just nickel hexacyanoferrate (379 F g−1) or cobalt hexacyanoferrate (277 F g−1). Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy results confirm the favorable capacitive behavior of the electrodeposited materials. The columbic efficiency is approximately 95% based on the charge and discharge experiments. Long cycle-life and excellent stability of the nanostructured materials are also demonstrated during 1000 cycles.► Nanostructured hybrid nickel–cobalt hexacyanoferrate is used in supercapacitors. ► A high capacitance (765 F g−1) is obtained at a specific current of 0.2 A g−1. ► Long cycle-life and excellent stability are demonstrated during 1000 cycles.

Fick’s model together with Arrhenius relationship were successfully used to evaluate water absorption of chickpea during soaking at a temperature range of 20–97 °C with 25 kHz 100 W, 40 kHz 100 W and 25 kHz 300 W ultrasound treatments. Use of ultrasound, increase in ultrasound power and soaking temperature significantly (P < 0.05) increased the water diffusion coefficient (Deff) of chickpea during soaking. Average gelatinization temperature of chickpea was found as 61.47 °C. Activation energy (Ea) values of chickpea for below and above gelatinization temperature were found to be 28.69 and 9.34 kJ mol−1, respectively. Ultrasound treatments significantly decreased the soaking time of chickpea.

We present an exact solution of the n-dimensional (n > 4) vacuum Einstein field equations with a Bianchi type I metric. The solution may be interpreted as a four-dimensional anisotropic cosmological model. The extra dimensions are related to the energy density and pressures in the model. The physics of the results is discussed at the end of the paper.

Lithiated layered transitional metal oxide materials of the LiMO2 type and especially LiCoO2 presents interesting specific properties as high energy density, long cycle life and constant discharging properties in a wide range of working conditions as well as a good safety. These properties made these materials excellent candidates as active compounds for high capacity cathode materials for rechargeable lithium batteries. LiCoO2 is the most common lithium storage material for lithium rechargeable batteries, used widely to power portable electronic devices. Operation of lithium rechargeable batteries is dependent on reversible lithium insertion and extraction processes into and from the host materials of lithium storage. In this study, LiCoO2 thin films were prepared by the sol–gel spin coating technique using metal acetate and citric acid as starting materials. Citric acid acts as a chelating agent, which promotes the preliminary reaction between lithium and cobalt and suppresses the precipitation of acetates. The sol–gel method is well known as one of promising thin-film preparation methods, which has good advantages such as low fabrication cost, relatively easy stoichiometry control, high deposition rate and also known as a low-temperature synthesis method for various ceramics. In addition, the crystal phases involved in the thin film can also be controlled by changing the chemical compositions of the sol. The crystallinity, microstructure and electrochemical properties of final films are also studied by XRD, SEM, AFM and galvanostatic charge/discharge cycling test. Films heat-treated under appropriate conditions exhibit high capacity and good crystallinity so those films are considered to be candidates as cathodes for thin-film micro batteries.

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A new method has been applied for the study of intermittency in the collisions of 28 Si + AgBr at 14.6 A GeV for the produced relativistic charged particles by using the method of mixed factorial moment (MFM). In this paper an analysis has been made for the presence of fractal behavior with three different approaches of Scaled factorial Moments (SFMs) named as-horizontal, vertical and mixed (horizontal and vertical together). The non-statistical fluctuations of relativistic charged particles have been calculated on events with different degree of centrality. These results have been compared with the results of simulated data obtained from UrQMD model and we find a good agreement between experimental data and simulated data.

This paper presents a convenient calculation formula of energy density for nuclear fuel or nuclear battery that outputs energy by whatever decay. Also a relative formula is deduced for easy comparison between different fuels. At last, with the convenient formula, the energy density comparison and possibility of applying different isomer beta fuels are proactively calculated and aggressively discussed.