[1] During polarity reversals of the Earth’s internal geomagnetic field, the paleomagnetosphere must have undergone dramatic changes because the core field was essentially different from the present-day case, where the dipole moment is approximately aligned with the Earth’s rotation axis (axial dipole) and perpendicular to the solar wind flow. According to one of the possible transition scenari...

The electric dipole moment of the muon (dμ) is evaluated in a two Higgs doublet model with a softly broken discrete symmetry. For tan β ≡ |v2|/|v1| ∼ 1, contributions from two loop diagrams involving the t quark and the W boson dominate; while for tan β ∼ > 10, contributions from two loop diagrams involving the b quark and the τ lepton are dominant. For 8 ∼ > tan β ∼ > 4, significant cancellati...

Fusion of neuraminidase or trypsin pretreated human erythrocytes and untreated cells was performed. The obtained doublets had a permanent dipole moment which disappeared as a function of time. Since the dipole moment disappearance is due to protein interdiffusion the lateral diffusion constant may be determined. This was performed by fixing fused cells in different time intervals following the ...

We present radio line observations from the SEST. On the basis of 13 CO (J=1–0) measurements we estimate the H 2 mass associated with the globules CG 30/31A-C/38 to be ∼43 M. The gas kinetic temperature of the globules is in the range 5 to 14 K. Line wings seen in the 12 CO spectra as well as higher dipole moment molecules towards CG 30, indicate that a dense molecular outflow is present. Espec...

Photochromic switches are essential for the control and manipulation of nanoscale reactions and processes. The expansion of their application to aqueous environments depends strongly on the development of optimized water-soluble photoswitches. Here we present a femtosecond time-resolved investigation of the photochromic reactions (transition between the open and the closed form) of a water-solu...