Molten salt reactors (MSRs) are one type of GEN-IV advanced that adopt melt mixtures heavy metal elements and molten as both fuel coolant. The liquid allows MSRs to perform online refueling, reprocessing, helium bubbling. utilization, safety, economics can be enhanced, while some new physical mechanisms phenomena emerge simultaneously, which would significantly complicate the numerical simulati...

In this note we study half-BPS operators in N = 4 super Yang-Mills for gauge group SU(N) at finite N. In particular we elaborate on the results of hep-th/0410236, providing an exact formula for the null basis operators algorithmically constructed there. For gauge groups U(N) and SU(N) we show that this basis is dual to the basis of multi-trace operators with respect to the two point function. W...

We describe how to construct solutions to 11-dimensional supergravity corresponding to M5-branes wrapped on holomorphic 2-cycles embedded in C. These solutions preserve N = 1 supersymmetry in four dimensions. In the near-horizon limit they are expected to be dual to N = 1 large N gauge theories in four dimensions by Maldacena’s duality. USITP-00-19 DTP/00/111 hep-th/0012194 email: brinne@physto...

We find solutions of 11-dimensional supergravity for M5-branes wrapped on Riemann surfaces. These solutions preserve N = 2 fourdimensional supersymmetry. They are dual to N = 2 gauge theories, including non-conformal field theories. We work out the case of N = 2 Yang-Mills in detail. USITP-00-11 DTP/00/55 hep-th/0009047 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] email: [email protected] email...

In this note we study half-BPS operators in N = 4 super Yang-Mills for gauge group SU(N). In particular we elaborate on the results of hep-th/0410236, providing an exact formula for the null basis operators algorithmically constructed there. For gauge groups U(N) and SU(N) we show that this basis is dual to the basis of multi-trace operators with respect to the two point function. We use this t...

N = 2 closed strings have been recently divided in hep-th/0211147 to two T-dual families denoted by α and β. In (2, 2) signature both families have one scalar in the spectrum. The scalar in the β-string is known to be a deformation of the target space Kähler potential and the dynamics is that of self-dual gravity. In this paper we compute the effective action of the scalar in the α-string. The ...

Metastable, supersymmetry-breaking configurations can be created in flux geometries by placing antibranes in warped throats. Via gauge/gravity duality, such configurations should have an interpretation as supersymmetry-breaking states in the dual field theory. In this paper, we perturbatively determine the asymptotic supergravity solutions corresponding to D3-brane probes placed at the tip of t...

BACKGROUND The association between dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and low thyroid hormone (TH) levels has been previously described. In these patients abnormal thyroid function is significantly related to impaired left ventricular (LV) function and increased risk of death. Although TH was originally thought to be produced exclusively by the thyroid gland, we recently reported TH biosynthesis in t...