CLINICAL CALORIMETRY

Prospective applications of calorimetry in the clinical laboratory.

Calorimetric analysis depends on the direct proportionality between the heat changes that occur during chemical reactions and the amount of reacting substances. Potential uses of calorimetry in the clinical laboratory are discussed, with examples. The calorimetric technique does not require optically clear specimens, and if the specificity of the measured reaction is assured, calorimetry can be...

Gravitational Calorimetry

I generalize the quasilocal formulation of thermodynamics of Brown and York to include dilaton theories of gravity as well as Abelian and Yang-Mills gauge matter fields with possible dilaton couplings. The resulting formulation is applicable to a large class of theories including two-dimensional toy models and the low energy limit of string theory as well as to many types of matter such as mass...

Reaction Calorimetry

Adiabatic Reaction Calorimetry

Micromegas for imaging calorimetry

Gaseous detectors have been used in sampling calorimeters for several years and still remain an attractive option for future collider experiments. The use of Micromegas chambers as active elements of a hadronic calorimeter was proposed a few years ago and stirred up exciting developments of this technology. Basic building blocks of large size chambers acting as signal generating and processing ...