Relating a System’s Hamiltonian to Its Entropy Production Using a Complex Time Approach by Michael C. Parker, Chris Jeynes

“…In particular, the thermodynamics of two unitary entities are considered: the alpha particle, which is absolutely stable (that is, trivially reversible with zero entropy production), and a black hole whose unconditional irreversibility is characterized by a non-zero entropy production, for which we show an alternate derivation, confirming our previous one. …”
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Using intermediate energy knockout, pickup, and charge exchange reactions with invariant mass spectroscopy for investigating nuclear structure beyond the proton drip line by L. G. Sobotka, L. G. Sobotka, R. J. Charity

“…Unlike binary alpha decay, the part of the Chart of the Nuclides this mini review will focus on can undergo decay into many-particle final states and invariant-mass spectroscopy is the frame-invariant and multi-particle replacement for simple binary alpha-particle spectroscopy. Here we highlight how pairing is reflected in the zig-zaggy pattern of the drip line, the decay of nuclides beyond the drip lines, and what the masses of nuclides exterior to the p-drip line have taught us about shell structure. …”
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Radiative damping of toroidal Alfvén eigenmode in low-shear plasmas by B.N. Breizman, S.E. Sharapov

“…The threshold value of alpha-particle pressure for exciting AEs depends critically on the damping rate of AEs. …”
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The effect of geometrical parameters on the radon emanation coefficient and different radon parameters by Entesar H. El-Araby, A. Azazi

“…The emanation coefficient affects the values of the radiation dose of an alpha particle.…”
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Magnetic Helicity Associated with the Proton Temperature Anisotropy Instabilities in the Presence of an Imbalanced Solar Wind Turbulence by S. A. Markovskii, Bernard J. Vasquez

“…The symmetry of the unstable system is violated by alpha-particle streaming with respect to protons along the mean magnetic field. …”
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First time-resolved measurement of infrared scintillation light in gaseous xenon by Mona Piotter, Dominick Cichon, Robert Hammann, Florian Jörg, Luisa Hötzsch, Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia

“…Our setup consists of a gaseous xenon target irradiated by an alpha particle source and is instrumented with one IR- and two UV-sensitive photomultiplier tubes. …”
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Micronuclei induction in AG01522 cells is independent of temperature and linear energy transfer by Buchanan, Carrie C

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Analysis of radiation shielding effectiveness of hydride and borohydride metals for nuclear industry by A.M. Osman

“…Secondly, the charged particle (electron, proton and alpha particle) interactions were examined by using ESTAR (Stopping Powers and Ranges for Electrons) and SRIM (The Stopping and Range of Ions in Matter) programs. …”
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Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 expression in women with uterine cervix adenocarcinoma from Appalachian Kentucky by Charles A. Kunos, Denise Fabian, Dava W. Piecoro, Dana Napier, Rachel W. Miller, Frederick R. Ueland

“…IntroductionHigh-risk human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive adenocarcinomas associate with early recurrence and death, prompting consideration of novel radiotherapeutic options like a trastuzumab-linked thorium-227 alpha-particle emitting radionuclide.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective pilot biomarker study of uterine cervix cancers among patients in Appalachian Kentucky, to characterize an exploitable triage biomarker like HER2 expression before starting a prospective phase 0 trial.ResultsMost (60%) adenocarcinomas showed HER2 cell-surface overexpression, whereas squamous cell carcinomas (4%) did not do so.DiscussionFurther validation tests of HER2 expression as a triage biomarker for radiopharmaceutical selection are warranted.…”
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Determination of the Bulk Etch Rate of the Nuclear Track Detector LR-115 by Y. Kasim, S. Al-Nia’emi

“…The detector was irradiated with energies 1.8, 2.47, 3.29 and 3.95 MeV of alpha particles under normal incidence. A 1Ci241Am source emits alpha particles with the main energy of 5.485 MeV was used in irradiation of the detector. …”
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⁶LiF Converters for Neutron Detection: Production Procedures and Detector Tests by Antonio Massara, Simone Amaducci, Luigi Cosentino, Fabio Longhitano, Carmelo Marchetta, Gaetano Elio Poma, Martina Ursino, Paolo Finocchiaro

“…Several methods to detect thermal neutrons make use of the naturally occurring ⁶Li isotope, as it has a rather high cross-section for neutron capture followed by a decay into an alpha particle and a triton. Due to the high chemical reactivity of lithium, the use of the stable isotopic salt ⁶LiF is generally preferred to the pure ⁶Li. …”
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Co-Doping Effects in CdWO4 Scintillator Thin Films as Alpha Counters: Ag and Gd Cases by Nooshin Heydarian Dehkordi, Morteza Raeisi, Sanaz Alamdari

“…The precision of the Monte Carlo technique for the computation of alpha particle trajectories in CWO-20wt. % PES and co-doped CWO-20wt. % PES thin films were 55 and 53 µm, respectively, which approximately agreed with FE-SEM images. …”
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Fast ion confinement in quasi-axisymmetric stellarator equilibria by P.J. Bonofiglo, D.W. Dudt, C.P.S. Swanson

“…Uniform marker deposition is used to probe the general confinement properties of the equilibria while a realistic beam-born population is provided from the BEAMS3D code and an alpha particle population is calculated from a fusion source integrator. …”
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Behaviour, use and safety aspects of astatine-211 solvated in chloroform after dry distillation recovery by Emma Aneheim, Ellinor Hansson, Chiara Timperanza, Holger Jensen, Sture Lindegren

“…Astatine-211 can be produced in medium energy cyclotrons by alpha particle bombardment of natural bismuth. The produced astatine is then commonly recovered from the irradiated solid target material through dry distillation. …”
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Does the Mott problem extend to Geiger counters? by Schonfeld Jonathan F.

“…The Mott problem is a simpler version of the quantum measurement problem that asks: Is there a microscopic physical mechanism – based (explicitly or implicitly) only on Schroedinger’s equation – that explains why a single alpha particle emitted in a single spherically symmetric s-wave nuclear decay produces a manifestly nonspherically symmetric single track in a cloud chamber? …”
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Proton and alpha radiation-induced mutational profiles in human cells by Tiffany M. Delhomme, Maia Munteanu, Manuela Buonanno, Veljko Grilj, Josep Biayna, Fran Supek

“…To this end, we exposed cultured cell lines from the human blood, breast and lung to fractionated proton and alpha particle (helium nuclei) beams at doses sufficient to considerably affect cell viability. …”
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AniMAIRE‐A New Openly Available Tool for Calculating Atmospheric Ionising Radiation Dose Rates and Single Event Effects During Anisotropic Conditions by C. S. W. Davis, F. Baird, F. Lei, K. Ryden, C. Dyer

“…AniMAIRE expands the physics of the MAIRE + model such that dose rate calculations can be performed for anisotropic solar energetic particle conditions by supplying a proton or alpha particle rigidity spectrum, a pitch angle distribution, and the conditions of Earth's magnetosphere. …”
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Probing Cluster Transfer in Peripheral Collisions of 40Ar on 64Ni at 15 MeV/nucleon by Giannitsa Chrysi, Souliotis Georgios, Depastas Theo, Koulouris Stergios, Gkatzogias Konstantinos, Veselsky Martin, Yennello Sherry, Bonasera Aldo

“…Motivated by the current activity on clustering, we focused our attention on the channel corresponding to the production of the 36S ejectile, which may have resulted from the removal of an alpha particle cluster from the 40Ar projectile. The experimental distributions were compared with two dynamical models, the deep-inelastic transfer (DIT) model and the constrained molecular dynamics (CoMD) model, followed by the de-excitation code GEMINI. …”
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Radionuclides as inorganic contaminants of the aquatic environment by Agnieszka Dołhańczuk-Śródka, Daniel Janecki, Alicja Gawdzik

“…Radon-222 is produced from the decay of Ra-226 and is an alpha particle emitter. Radon generated in the ground has the ability to migrate into the upper layers of soil, the atmosphere, and natural water reservoirs. …”
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Theranostics for neuroblastoma: making molecular radiotherapy work better by Gawne, PJ, Bryant, HE, DuBois, SG, George, SL, Gray, J, Knox, L, Matchett, KB, Peet, C, Vallis, KA, Wallace, HJ, Wan, S, Gaze, MN

“…These include development of alternative vectors targeting somatostatin receptors and GD2, isotopes such as alpha particle and Auger electron emitters with different radiation characteristics, and combinations with external beam radiotherapy, immunotherapy and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage repair inhibitors. …”