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CLAIRE DOUAT
Postdoc Dr. Claire Douat (Eindhoven University of Technology) besucht vom 5.-31. März 2015 Postdoktorand bei Simon Hübner (Experimentalphysik II).
Ihr RAPID-Projekt ER2 ist das "Design of dedicated equipment for time and spatially resolved measurements in atmospheric-pressure plasma". Das wissenschaftliche Ziel dieses europäischen Projekts ist die Entwicklung von reaktiven Plasmaquellen, die bei Atmosphärendruck betrieben werden und sich nicht im Gleichgewicht befinden (d.h. die Elektronentemperatur ist höher als die Temperatur der schweren Spezies). Der Betrieb bei Atmosphärendruck hat den Vorteil, dass kein Vakuumsystem erforderlich ist. Außerdem werden mehr Anwendungen möglich, wie z. B. die Plasmamedizin, da das Plasma direkt mit einem biologischen Ziel interagieren kann.
Für die Entwicklung dieses Projekts ist es notwendig, das Plasma zu diagnostizieren, um die im Plasma stattfindenden physikalischen und chemischen Phänomene zu verstehen und sie für zukünftige Anwendungen zu kontrollieren.
The project of the ER-2 position is to build a portable diagnostic, based on infrared absorption spectroscopy, to diagnose in terms of density of species, the different plasmas being used by the partners in the Network. A quantum cascade laser (QCL) is used as light source for this diagnostic.
Non-equilibrium plasma creates a multitude of species: positive and negative ions, electrons, and reactive atomic and molecular species, to just name a few. Some of the molecular species, such as CO, CO2, CH4 or NO, are able to absorb infrared light due to their molecular nature. It is similar to an optical filter: particular colors are not able to go through the plasma due to the presence of some molecules. As showed in Figure 1, the intensity of the light before absorption, I0, is higher than I. The Beer Lambert law formulates that by comparing these intensities, the density of the absorbing species can be known.
A quantum cascade laser is a laser able to emit a light in the mid-infrared. By changing the temperature of this laser, the main color of the laser can be tuned. However, this tuning has a limit range and to emit a laser with a wavelength outside this range, a different QCL must be used. In this project, the portable setup is composed of three different QCLs, which allows to measure the absolute density of several species, such as NO, CO and N2O.
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MEETING: ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES WITH LIQUIDS FOR FUTURE APPLICATIONS
The 2nd Annual meeting of COST Action TD1208 was held in the wonderful city of Barcelona. The meeting took place at the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB), part of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), from the 23rd to the 26th February 2015. The meeting was also open to non-members of the COST TD1208. Jun.-Prof. Jan Benedikt participated.
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PROF. DR. TOSHIAKI MAKABE
Prof. Dr. Toshiaki Makabe (Vice-President Keio University, Yokohama / Japan) will be a guest of Prof. Czarnetzki (Chair of Plasma and Atomic Physics) from 23-24 February.
On 24.2. he will give two lectures on: 1) Today and Tomorrow in Keio University, Japan and 2) Formulation of momentum-transfer scattering at an inelastic collision on electron transport.
The talk (or the two talks) will have been held at 10:15 am in NABF05/694. Interested parties are welcome to attend!
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BEATA HERGELOVA
Beata Hergelova, RAPID fellow from projekt ESR-9, is visiting RUB from February 9th-20th, 2015. Her project ESR-9 is "Interaction of metal and semiconductor surfaces with atmospheric-pressure plasmas".
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JEAN-PAUL HOANG-HOA-DUNG
Jean-Paul Hoang-Hoa-Dung, PhD student from CNRS PROMES Perpignan, is staying at Experimental Physics II (RUB) from February 2nd till March 31st, 2015. He is working for the Marie Curie - Initial Training Network Reactive Atmospheric Plasma processIng (RAPID).
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Workshop "Cosmic Ray Anisotropies"
Physics Center, Bad Honnef, 26.01 - 30.01.2015
Organizer: Julia Tjus & Klaus Scherer
http://helio_cr.tp4.rub.de/CRA-2015/home.php
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PROF. RICHARD SYDORA
In January 2015, Prof. Dr. Richard Sydora from the University of Alberta, Canada, is again a guest in Bochum. In the context of the collaboration with the research group 1048 and the RD Plasma, he dealt intensively with the current results of the FlareLab experiment.
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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP "COSMIC RAY ANISOTROPIES"
This interdisciplinary workshop will give a synoptic overview of the cosmic ray anisotropy observations by the large area telescopes as IceCube, Milagro, the Tibet airshower array among others, and those observed by spacecraft especially by the Voyager and Pamela spacecraft and the AMS instrument, as well as the theory and modeling efforts including that of the large scale heliosphere. The anisotropies in the cosmic ray flux appear from the high energy range (TeV) to low energy range (keV to MeV) that is in the propagation of galactic cosmic rays to the propagation of solar energetic particles as well as that of Jovian electrons. Recent Voyager observations also suggest that the low energy flux at the heliopause is anisotropic.
To describe the anisotropic transport a couple of models are discussed in literature. In the inner heliosphere focussed transport theories are used, which are solved numerically with the help of the equivalent stochastic differential equations. In the heliotail, for the high energy, the gyroradius is of the order of the cylindric diameter of the tail and thus one has to use the full orbit theory.
In addition all the transport models need as input the state of the local plasma enviroment. The latter is provided by large scale magnetohydrodynamic models.
Finallly, the transport of cosmic rays depends on the diffusion tensor, which is affected by the local magnetic field fluctuations and its turbulence. The acceleration or deceleration depends on the local structure of the shock fronts.
The positron anisotropy observed by Pamela spacecraft and the AMS instrument onboard of the ISS are another aspect of anomalies in the cosmic ray spectra, and some aspects shall be discussed with the emphasis on anisotropic distribution functions.
The workshop takes place at Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, 26 - 30 Januar 2015.
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PROF. DR. SATOSHI HAMAGUCHI
Prof. Dr. Satoshi Hamaguchi will be a guest of Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki (Experimental Physics V) on January 27/28, 2015.
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SHAOJUN XU
PhD student Shaojun Xu from University of Manchester is staying at Experimental Physics II (RUB) from January 26th-30th, 2015. He is working for the Marie Curie - Initial Training Network Reactive Atmospheric Plasma processIng (RAPID).
Working with Simon Hübner, Gert Willems, Simon Große-Kreul and other students and staffs in our group, Shaojun was here to carry out the mass spectroscopic study of UV-catalysis system, which was to study the UV photocatalysis effect for ions generation in different air humidity with and without TiO2. The ions Mass Specs and neutral Mass Specs are employed for measurement. The results was expected to show the synergistic effect between UV and TiO2 catalyst. The effect of air humidity was also discovered.
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PROF. JAN BENEDIKT AT SAPP CONFERENCE
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jan Benedikt has an invited talk “Study of plasma-chemistry processes in atmospheric plasmas: Absolute density measurements of radicals, VUV spectroscopy and some simulations” at the SAPP XX conference. This is the 20th Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes (SAPP XX), which was this year combined with the COST TD1208 Workshop on Application of Gaseous Plasmas with Liquids. The symposium is held every two years in Slovakia and was located at Hotel SLOVAN in Taranská Lomnica, Vysoké Tatry between January 17 and January 22, 2015.
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