We describe a number of striking features of a class of smooth solitons in gauged and ungauged minimal supergravity in five dimensions. The solitons are globally asymptotically flat or asymptotically AdS without any KaluzaKlein directions but contain a minimal sphere formed when a cycle pinches off in the interior of the spacetime. The solutions carry a local magnetic charge and many have rathe...

A falling particle in the digital registration systems for elementary particles active pixel detector induces electric charge, the value of which describes the parameters of the particle in the detector. Since the electric charge induced by a single particle is relatively weak, the detector signal is first processed (amplified and shaped) right in the zone of irradiation and only then transmitt...

A conducting spherical shell with a circular orifice of half angle θ0 is at electric potential V0. Show that the difference between the charge densities on the inner and outer surfaces is independent of position, and estimate the ratio of the electric charge on the inner surface to that on the outer. Correct results can be inferred from “elementary” arguments based on superposition, and more “e...

Counterion-induced inversion of the DNA charge was characterized through extensive molecular dynamics simulations. We observed reversal of the DNA motion in an external electric field upon increasing the concentration of trivalent or quadrivalent counterions. In the case of a divalent electrolyte, inversion of the DNA's electric charge was observed at high concentrations of the electrolyte but ...

The deflection of interstellar dust grains in the magnetic field near the heliopause depends on their surface electric charge. We study the electric charging of the grains with emphasis on the secondary electron emission because of its importance in the hot plasma environment near the heliopause. We correct previous models of the secondary electron emission that overestimate the electric charge...

After the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson [1], it was natural to consider that electrons are constituents of atoms, but if electrons in an atom are small electric charges moving in circular orbits, they would emit electromagnetic radiation and the radius of the orbit would quickly collapse to zero. In 1903, Thomson pointed out [3, 4] that a uniform ring of electric charge, rotating ab...

Perhaps the most prominent characteristic of the electron is the fact that it carries electric charge. Together with the rules of quantum mechanics, the electric forces among electrons and nuclei determine the chemical properties of atoms and molecules. Manipulation of electrons in semiconductors using electric forces, which couple to the charge, is the principle behind the revolution in the el...

This paper presents a new concept for an active high voltage insulation system with dynamic and adaptive features. The governing principle is based on surface charge accumulation on dielectrically covered electrodes in air under atmospheric pressure. This accumulation results in a charge-induced electric field component which steers the field distribution within the system advantageously. At eq...

In soliton models expressed in terms of the non-linear chiral field, the electric current has an anomalous gauge-field contribution as the baryon current does. We study the spin polarized Skyrmions coupled with the electromagnetic field via the gauged Wess-Zumino term and calculate configurations of the Skyrmion and the gauge field with boundary conditions to ensure the physical charge number f...

Charge collection measurements performed on heavily irradiated p-spray dofz pixel sensors with a grazing angle hadron beam provide a sensitive determination of the electric field within the detectors. The data are compared with a complete charge transport simulation of the sensor which includes signal trapping and charge induction effects. A linearly varying electric field based upon the standa...