Triaxial deformations are considered for determining the binding energies of open-shell, unpolarized HeN clusters. The shapes of He clusters are found to be close to spherical, in contrast to the well-deformed shapes of alkali-metal clusters. As a result, odd-even alternations and subshell closures between major shells are absent in the size evolution of the chemical potentials, and the second-...

INTRODUCTION In cementless hip arthroplasty fixation of acetabular cups is often achieved using a press-fit between the cup and the bone, where the acetabulum is typically under-reamed by 1-4mm [1-4] with respect to the size of the cup. Deformation of the cups during insertion remains a concern as it could lead to changes in the clearance and sphericity of the bearing, which can adversely affec...

Prolate-oblate shape coexistence close to the ground state in strongly-deformed proton-rich A?120 nuclei is reported for first time. One of four bands 119Cs, built on a 11/2? at 670 keV, consists nearly degenerate signature partners, and has properties which unequivocally indicate strongly-coupled ?h11/2[505]11/2? configuration associated with oblate shape. Together decoupled ?h11/2[541]3/2? ba...

By applying filtering techniques to remove straight filaments in the 20-cm VLA radio image of the Galactic Center Arc region, we have shown that numerous concentric radio shells of radii 5 to 20 pc are surrounding the Pistol and Sickle region, which we call Galactic Center Shells (GCS). Each shell has thermal energy of the order of 10 erg. Several CO-line shells are associated, whose kinetic en...

Ultrasound contrast microbubbles have been successfully targeted to a number of intravascular disease markers. We hypothesized that targeted delivery could be improved further, by making the microbubbles deformable, leading to increased microbubble-endothelium adhesion contact area and stabilized adhesion. Activated leukocytes utilize such strategy; they deform after binding to inflamed endothe...

Mass parameters for collective variables of a dinuclear system and strongly deformed mononucleus are microscopically formulated with the linear response theory making use of the width of single particle states and the fluctuation– dissipation theorem. For the relative motion of the nuclei and for the degree of freedom describing the neck between the nuclei, we calculate mass parameters with bas...

Experimental values for r.m.s. charge density radii show deviations from a simple A dependence of several percent for statically deformed nuclei and around shell closures. These data, for both stable nuclei and nuclei away from the valley of stability, are well described by Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov calculations carried out at Bruyères-le-Châtel. By using the neutron and proton r.m.s. radii from ...

Mass parameters for collective variables of a dinuclear system and strongly deformed mononucleus are microscopically formulated with the linear response theory making use of the width of single particle states and the fluctuation– dissipation theorem. For the relative motion of the nuclei and for the degree of freedom describing the neck between the nuclei, we calculate mass parameters with bas...

Within the nuclear DFT approach, we determined magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments for paired states corresponding to proton (neutron) quasiparticles blocked in π11/2− (ν13/2+) intruder configurations. We performed calculations all deformed open-shell odd nuclei with 63≤Z≤82 82≤N≤126. Time-reversal symmetry was broken intrinsic reference frame self-consistent shape spin core polariz...