For the next generation of calorimeters, designed to improve the energy resolution of hadrons and jets measurements, there is a need for highly granular detectors requiring peculiar geometries. Heavy inorganic scintillators allow compact homogeneous calorimeter designs with excellent energy resolution and dual-readout abilities. These scintillators are however not usually suited for geometries ...

We report in-situ dating, and Hf O-isotope studies of zircon crystals, together with electron microprobe imaging garnet crystals from a migmatitic diorite containing noritic globules, in the Ursuya massif (French Pyrenees). Diorite have old inherited cores 295 ± 2 Ma rims, while those norite are homogeneous, lower U Pb, higher Th Th/U ratios than rims. The dates represent crystallization age hy...

Among the supercrustal formations of Ingul megablock, Paleoproterozoic rocks, represented by Ingul-Ingul series, are significantly predominant. In general, composition Ingul-Ingulets series includes (from bottom to top): Zelenorichen, Artemiv, Rodioniv, Kamyano-Kostovatsky (age analogue Spasivsk) and Roschakhiv Chechelivsk) worlds. The Chechelivsk suite is biotite garnet-biotite gneisses, place...

Many geochemical models of major igneous differentiation events on the Earth, the Moon, and Mars invoke the presence of garnet or its high-pressure majoritic equivalent as a residual phase, based on its ability to fractionate critical trace element pairs (Lu/Hf, U/Th, heavy REE/light REE). As a result, quantitative descriptions of mid-ocean ridge and hot spot magmatism, and lunar, martian, and ...

We report on magnetization dynamics triggered in a Co/garnet heterostructure by femtosecond laser pulses. Although laser excitation of a bare Co-doped yttrium iron garnet leads to magnetization precession, the phase of which strongly depends on the linear polarization of the light pulses, the deposition of an ultrathin Co layer on a top of a garnet film results in substantial changes of the las...

Abstract A sill covering an area of more than 15 km 2 , several dykes up to 5 m thick and a volcanoclastic deposit crop out with similar petrology in the sector Atienza (NW Iberian Chain, Spain). They consist calc-alkaline porphyritic andesites phenocrysts plagioclase, amphibole, biotite, garnet orthopyroxene. Based on U–Pb zircon analysis, age 290 ± 3 Ma (Sakmarian-Artinskian Cisuralian) has b...

A characteristic of every inorganic scintillator crystal is its light yield, i.e., the amount emitted scintillation photons per unit energy deposited in crystal. Light yield known to be usually non-linear with energy, which impacts spectroscopic properties scintillator. Cerium-doped gadolinium-aluminium-gallium garnet (GAGG:Ce) a recently developed several interesting properties, make it very p...

Quartz inclusion thermobarometry utilizes the pressureand temperature-sensitive Raman peak shifts of quartz inclusions in garnet to determine formation pressure and temperature (PT) conditions. The measured Raman shift indicates the pressure currently retained in the inclusions at ambient external conditions, such that entrapment PT conditions (i.e., P and T of garnet growth) can be determined ...

Temperature estimates obtained with various biotite-garnet thermometers are inconsistent in granulite facies rocks. Although the inconsistency lies partly in the lack of definition of equilibrium criteria, it still remains after rigorous selection of analyzed mineral pairs (isolated biotite and garnet cores for peak equilibrium conditions) and originate from minor element effects in garnet and ...

A study of band edge phenomena in ridge waveguide magnetophotonic crystals is presented. Normal mode analysis is used to examine the near-band edge and Bragg center-wavelength group velocities and their relation to the polarization. Large polarization departures from the input are observed in Bragg gratings patterned by focused-ion-beam milling on liquid-phase-epitaxial (LPE) (Bi,Lu)(2.8 0.1)Fe...