a new method for analysis of benzene, toluene, and xylene (btx) using high performance liquid chromatography-uv detection (hplc-uv) is described and compared to the gas chromatography (gc) method. a charcoal adsorption tube connected to a small pump was used to obtain samples from an atmosphere chamber standard. samples were extracted with methanol and analyzed by hplc-uv. chromatography was is...

Little Higgs models with T parity contain an attractive dark matter candidate, the heavy photon. We compute the cross section of the heavy photon annihilation into Zphoton pairs, which turns out to be substantially higher than the previously computed cross section for the two photon final state. Unfortunately, even with this enhancement, the monochromatic photon flux from galactic heavy photon ...

In this study, we examined the effectiveness of using indirect methods to detect liars. College students viewed a video in which half of the people told some lies and half of the people were entirely truthful. Participants were either asked to detect the liars in the video or they were asked to identify people in the video whose behavior, mannerisms, or speech changed. Participants using the in...

Indirect astrophysical channels (such as gamma rays, neutrinos, and cosmic ray antimatter) are a cornerstone in the dark matter particle identification program. A review of the present constraints is presented, together with some perspectives for the near future: we argue that the approach of “fitting any spectral feature to a dark matter model” is unlikely to lead to a convincing indirect dete...

The topic of this report pertains to the detection and analysis of γ-rays emitted from the galactic center (GC) using the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS), a Cherenkov array system. The specific cause of γ-ray production around this region is speculated to be Dark Matter (DM). DM is an extension of the current standard model. The evidence for DM is so plentiful,...

Dark matter detection experiments are getting ever closer to the sensitivity needed to detect the primary particle physics candidates for nonbaryonic dark matter. Indirect detection methods include searching for antimatter and gamma rays, in particular gamma ray lines, in cosmic rays and high-energy neutrinos from the centre of the Earth or Sun caused by accretion and annihilation of dark matte...

We measured the 229 nm absolute ultraviolet (UV) Raman cross-sections of the explosives trinitrotoluene (TNT), pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine (RDX), the chemically related nitroamine explosive HMX, and ammonium nitrate in solution. The 229 nm Raman cross-sections are 1000-fold greater than those excited in the near-infrared and visible spectral regions. Deep...

In this study, different oxidation processes UVA-365 nm (photolysis), UV–A/H2O2, UV–A/H2O2/Fe2+, UV–A/S2O8, and UV–A/S2O8/Fe2+ were investigated to compare removal rates efficiencies of Oxytetracycline (OTC). The role the initial concentration oxidants, as well their inhibitory threshold regarding degradation mineralization OTC, was at pH. It found that pH solution had an important in photolysi...