The major challenge in assisted reproduction technologies remains producing oocytes with optimal developmental competence. Such developmental competence can be defined as the ability of the oocyte to fulfill maturation, undergo successful fertilization, reach the blastocyst stage and yield a viable and healthy progeny. The main follicular parameters linked to oocyte competence are presented in ...

It is noted that a surface layer of matter in contact with a sufficiently superEddington, radially combed photon flux typically attains a relativistic coasting state whereby the radiation does not accelerate the matter. Radiation that scatters off this layer is most likely to be observed along the velocity vector of the matter, where it would be strongly polarized. Subject headings: black hole ...

The main goal of this work is the evaluation energy saving achievable in railway drive when using coasting technique extensively, with reference to a practical case Italian network taken as an example. This consists exploiting kinetic accumulated by running train whenever possible. To implement driving style on purpose, only driver contribution not enough; indeed, it necessary provide embedded ...

The electron-proton instability in the IPNS-Upgrade RCS is investigated in this report. A dispersion relation applicable to the coasting beam is derived, and the approximations used are stated in order to facilitate the understanding of the underlying mechanism of the instability. The threshold of instability in terms of neutralization of the circulating beam is found for the ENS-Upgrade RCS. T...

We review recent experiments at the Heidelberg Test Storage Ring which apply advanced laser cooling techniques to stored ion beams. Very high phase-space densities are achieved by threedimensional laser cooling of a coasting 9Be+ beam at 7.3 MeV. Laser-cooled, trapped Cs atoms are used as an ultracold precision target for the study of ion–atom interactions with a 74 MeV beam of 12C6+ ions.

Evidence is presented to show the transfer, via a collective electrostatic instability, of transverse energy to the longitudinal direction if the axial temperature of a beam is sufficiently low. Two-dimensional r,z electrostatic PIC simulations of a long coasting space-charge-dominated beam propagating in a uniform focused channel are presented to illustrate, for typical parameters, the develop...

A beam-tracking simulation has been done for study of the electron-cooling bunching of ion beams around a few hundred MeV/u. In the simulation, the field due to the space charge of a beam in a round vacuum chamber is calculated from the charge distribution of macro-particles and the image particles due to the macro-particles. The simulation results show that the bunched beams meet a transverse ...