Archives : Dec, 2014
Interview: Springer Japan
Radiological characteristics of MRI-based VIP polymer gel under carbon beam irradiation
Abstract:
We study the radiological characteristics of VIP polymer gel dosimeters under carbon beam irradiation with energy of 135 and 290 AMeV. To evaluate dose response of VIP polymer gels, the transverse (or spin–spin) relaxation rate R2 of the dosimeters measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a function of linear energy transfer (LET), rather than penetration depth, as is usually done in previous reports. LET is evaluated by use...
A diffusion-free and linear-energy-transfer-independent nanocomposite Fricke gel dosimeter
Abstract:
We report a new magnetic-resonance-imaging (MRI) based nanocomposite Fricke gel (NC-FG) dosimeter system, which is free from two main drawbacks of conventional Fricke gel dosimeters, namely, the diffusion of the radiation products and the linear-energy-transfer (LET) dependence of the radiation sensitivity when used for ion beams. The NC-FG dosimeter was prepared by incorporating 1% (w/w) clay nanoparticles into deaerated F...
The structure of approximate two electron wavefunction in intense laser driven ionization dynamics
Abstract:
The structure of approximate two-electron wavefunctions in strong-field-driven ionization dynamics is investigated in depth, both theoretically and numerically. Theoretical analyses clarify that for two-electron singlet systems, the previously proposed time-dependent extended Hartree–Fock (TD-EHF) method (1995 Phys. Rev. A 51 3999) is equivalent to the multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree–Fock method with two occupied orbitals...
Analysis of strong-field enhanced ionization of molecules using Bohmian trajectories (2014)
Abstract:
We theoretically investigate the mechanism of enhanced ionization in two-electron molecules by analyzing Bohmian trajectories for a one-dimensional hydrogen molecule in an intense laser field. We identify both types of ionizing trajectories corresponding to the ejection from the up-field and down-field cores. The electronic correlation plays an important role in the former while it is negligible in the latter. The contributions fro...
Pulse-delay effects in the angular distribution of near-threshold EUV + IR two-photon ionization of Ne (2014)
Abstract:
Photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) from two-photon near-threshold ionization of Ne atoms by the combined action of femtosecond pulses from an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) free-electron laser and infrared (IR) laser have been studied experimentally and theoretically. Solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation indicate that the PADs strongly depend on the time delay between EUV and IR pulses. The experimental results o...