We present a measurement of the rate of gluon splitting into bottom quarks, g → bb̄, in hadronic Z decays collected by SLD from 1996 to 1998. The analysis was performed by looking for secondary bottom production in 4-jet events of any primary flavor. A topological vertex mass technique was used to tag the two jets with the smallest angle between them as b/b̄. We obtained a rate of g → bb̄ per hadr...

We consider combinatorial problems motivated by sensor networks for beacon-based point-to-point routing and covering. A beacon b is a point that can be activated to effect a ‘magnetic pull’ toward itself everywhere in a polygonal domain P . The routing problem asks how many beacons are required to route between any pair of points in a polygonal domain P . In simple polygons with n vertices we s...

an efficient and convenient protocol for synthesis of 3-hydroxy-3-indolyl-2-oxindoles and 3,3-diindolyl-2-oxindoles is presented here. the syntheses were achieved selectively under catalysis of liclo4 whereby the products were obtained purely.

The thermal degradation of polyethylene (PE) was carried out in the absence and presence ofcatalystes X-Zeolite and Silica-Alumina at different temperatures. The optimum PE/Catalysisratio was 0.25:0.05 g/g, which produced highest degradation value. PE and PE/Catalysis werecharacterized by thermogravimetric analysis. The thermal degradation properties of polymerhave been studied by Infrared spec...

a method for the degradation of pyrrolidine in water is described. the method relaies on the photocatalytic degradation of pyrrolidine to co2 and nh3 by uv irradiation and using titanium dixide semiconductor as a photocatalyst. compared with direct photolysis, the semiconductor catalytic photolysis gave consistently higher degradation yields for pyrrolidine in water. the effects of variable par...