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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2016-08-27
    Description: Doppler-free saturation spectroscopy provides a very powerful method to obtain detailed information about the electronic structure of the atom through measurement of the spectral line profile. This is achieved through a significant decrease in the Doppler broadening and essentially an elimination of the instrument broadening inherent to passive spectroscopic techniques. In this paper we present the technique and associated physics of Doppler-free saturation spectroscopy in addition to how one selects the appropriate transition. Simulations of H δ spectra are presented to illustrate the increased sensitivity to both electric field and electron density measurements.
    Print ISSN: 0034-6748
    Electronic ISSN: 1089-7623
    Topics: Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology , Physics
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    Publication Date: 2012-06-30
    Description: Influenza A virus (IAV) infection leads to variable and imperfectly understood pathogenicity. We report that segment 3 of the virus contains a second open reading frame ("X-ORF"), accessed via ribosomal frameshifting. The frameshift product, termed PA-X, comprises the endonuclease domain of the viral PA protein with a C-terminal domain encoded by the X-ORF and functions to repress cellular gene expression. PA-X also modulates IAV virulence in a mouse infection model, acting to decrease pathogenicity. Loss of PA-X expression leads to changes in the kinetics of the global host response, which notably includes increases in inflammatory, apoptotic, and T lymphocyte-signaling pathways. Thus, we have identified a previously unknown IAV protein that modulates the host response to infection, a finding with important implications for understanding IAV pathogenesis.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3552242/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3552242/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jagger, B W -- Wise, H M -- Kash, J C -- Walters, K-A -- Wills, N M -- Xiao, Y-L -- Dunfee, R L -- Schwartzman, L M -- Ozinsky, A -- Bell, G L -- Dalton, R M -- Lo, A -- Efstathiou, S -- Atkins, J F -- Firth, A E -- Taubenberger, J K -- Digard, P -- 073126/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 088789/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- G0700815/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G0700815(82260)/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- G9800943/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- MR/J002232/1/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- Intramural NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jul 13;337(6091):199-204. doi: 10.1126/science.1222213. Epub 2012 Jun 28.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22745253" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Cell Line ; Codon ; Conserved Sequence ; Female ; *Frameshifting, Ribosomal ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genome, Viral ; HEK293 Cells ; Humans ; Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype/*genetics/growth & development/pathogenicity ; Influenza A virus/*genetics/metabolism ; Lung/pathology/virology ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; *Open Reading Frames ; Orthomyxoviridae Infections/genetics/immunology/pathology/*virology ; Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs ; Proteome ; RNA Replicase/chemistry/*genetics/*metabolism ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; RNA, Viral/genetics/metabolism ; Reassortant Viruses/genetics ; Repressor Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/*metabolism ; Viral Nonstructural Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/*metabolism ; Viral Proteins/biosynthesis/chemistry/*genetics/*metabolism ; Virus Replication
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    [S.l.] : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
    Review of Scientific Instruments 59 (1988), S. 1614-1616 
    ISSN: 1089-7623
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics , Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
    Notes: Electron cyclotron emission (ECE) from the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) torsatron will allow measurement of plasma electron temperature. For low-field operation (0.95 T) the second harmonic is cut off at a relatively low density; therefore, third-harmonic emission from 67 to 83 GHz is used to yield central electron temperatures. At high-field operation (1.9 T) second-harmonic emission from 82 to 114 GHz is optically thick and can provide Te(r) information. A vertical view of the saddle-point geometry of the ATF mod B spatial contours provides a line of sight along which the mod B contours are symmetric with respect to flux surfaces. A single horn–lens viewing beam system with a vertical view is designed to cover the entire 67–114-GHz range, providing a spot size on the order of 6 cm. Radiation will be delivered to one of three waveguide mixers by C-band waveguide. Each of the three mixers covers a 16-GHz segment of the emission spectrum, downconverting it to the 2–18-GHz intermediate-frequency band, where it is processed by a 16-channel array of bandpass filters, providing 1-GHz frequency resolution.
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    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Density fluctuations in low-collisionality, low-beta (β∼0.1%), currentless plasmas produced with electron cyclotron heating (ECH) in the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) torsatron [Fusion Technol. 10, 179 (1986)] have been studied using a 2 mm microwave scattering diagnostic. Pulsed gas puffing is used to produce transient steepening of the density profile from its typically flat shape; this leads to growth in the density fluctuations when the temperature and density gradients both point in the same direction in the confinement region. The wave number spectra of the fluctuations that appear during this perturbation have a maximum at higher k⊥ρs (∼1) than is typically seen in tokamaks. The in–out asymmetry of the fluctuations along the major radius correlates with the distribution of confined trapped particles expected for the ATF magnetic field geometry. During the perturbation, the relative level of the density fluctuations in the confinement region (integrated over normalized minor radii ρ from 0.5 to 0.85) increases from ñ/n∼1% when the density profile is flat to ñ/n∼3% when the density profile is steepened. These observations are in qualitative agreement with theoretical expectations for helical dissipative trapped-electron modes (DTEMs), which are drift-wave instabilities associated with particle trapping in the helical stellarator field; they suggest that trapped-electron instabilities may play a role in constraining the shape of the density profile in ATF, but have little effect on global energy confinement. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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    ISSN: 1089-7666
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Experiments involving plasma improvement, confinement scaling, bootstrap currents, and edge fluctuations have been carried out in the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) torsatron [Fusion Technol. 10, 179 (1986)]. Average densities n¯e≤9×1019 m−3 have been obtained, with global energy confinement times τ@B|E≤20 msec. Confinement times generally follow the stellarator/torsatron empirical scaling law, τSL =0.17×P−0.58n0.69eB0.84a2R0.75 (with τSL in seconds, power P in megawatts, density ne in 1020 m−3, and plasma radius a and major radius R in meters). Gas injection during neutral beam injection (NBI) causes increases in ne, so that τ*E does not decrease during NBI. Edge plasma fluctuations are found to exhibit a mode change near the peak of the energy confinement time. Plasma currents observed during electron cyclotron heating have been identified as bootstrap currents.
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    ISSN: 1089-7666
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Recent experiments in the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) [Fusion Technol. 10, 179 (1986)] have been directed toward investigations of the basic physics mechanisms that control confinement in this device. Measurements of the density fluctuations throughout the plasma volume have provided indications for the existence of theoretically predicted dissipative trapped electron and resistive interchange instabilities. These identifications are supported by results of dynamic configuration scans of the magnetic fields during which the magnetic well volume, shear, and fraction of confined trapped particles are changed continuously. The influence of magnetic islands on the global confinement has been studied by deliberately applying error fields which strongly perturb the nested flux-surface geometry, and the effects of electric fields have been investigated by means of biased limiter experiments.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1089-7666
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Access to the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) second stability regime has been achieved in the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) torsatron [Fusion Technol. 10, 179 (1986)]. Operation with a field error that reduced the plasma radius and edge rotational transform resulted in peaked pressure profiles and increased Shafranov shift that lowered the theoretical transition to ideal MHD second stability to β0≈1.3%; the experimental β values (β0≤3%) are well above this transition. The measured magnetic fluctuations decrease with increasing β, and the pressure profile broadens, consistent with the theoretical expectations for self-stabilization of resistive interchange modes. Initial results from experiments with the field error removed show that the pressure profile is now broader. These later discharges are characterized by a transition to improved (×2–3) confinement and a marked change in the edge density fluctuation spectrum, but the causal relationship of these changes is not yet clear.
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    ISSN: 1089-7666
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: The Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) torsatron [Fusion Technol. 10, 179 (1986)] has completed experiments focusing on microwave scattering measurements of density fluctuations and transport studies utilizing the modulation of dimensionless parameters. Microwave scattering measurements of electron density fluctuations in the core of low-collisionality electron cyclotron heated (ECH) plasmas show features that might be evidence of trapped electron instabilities. Starting from gyro-Bohm scaling, the additional dependence of confinement on the dimensionless parameters ν* and β (collisionality and beta) has been investigated by modulating each of these parameters separately, revealing the additional favorable dependence, τE∝τgBν*−0.18β+0.3.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1089-7666
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Recent experiments in the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) torsatron [Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research 1990 (IAEA, Vienna, in press)] have emphasized the role of magnetic configuration control in transport studies. Long-pulse plasma operation up to 20 sec has been achieved with electron cyclotron heating (ECH). With neutral beam injection (NBI) power of ≥1 MW, global energy confinement times of 30 msec have been obtained with line-average densities up to 1.3×1020 m−3. The energy confinement and the operational space in ATF are roughly the same as those in tokamaks of similar size and field. The empirical scaling observed is similar to gyro-reduced Bohm scaling with favorable dependences on density and field offsetting an unfavorable power dependence. The toroidal current measured during ECH is identified as the bootstrap current. The observed currents agree well with predictions of neoclassical theory in magnitude and in parametric dependence. Variations of the magnetic configuration in discharges heated by ECH alone and by NBI change plasma transport and plasma profiles. Magnetic fluctuations respond to the concomitant pressure profile variations. Comparative studies of edge fluctuations in the Texas experimental tokamak (TEXT) [Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research 1990 (IAEA, Vienna, in press)] and the ATF stellarator showed remarkable similarity in the levels of fluctuations and the existence of a velocity shear layer.
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  • 10
    ISSN: 1089-7666
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Runaway electron formation and confinement occur readily in pulsed torsatrons and heliotrons because of the high loop voltages during initiation and termination of the helical and vertical fields ("field ramping'') and the inherently good containment of the electrons on the flux surfaces in the vacuum fields. This has been confirmed for the Advanced Toroidal Facility (AFT) [Fusion Technol. 10, 179 (1986)] and other stellarators by orbit calculations. Since runaway electrons can cause an unacceptable level of hard x rays near the machine, a runaway electron suppression system was incorporated in ATF. The main component of the system is a movable paddle, which is normally left in the center of the plasma chamber during the field ramps. This device, in conjunction with programmed vertical field ramping, which reduces the volume of good flux surfaces, has proved to be very effective in reducing the runaway electron population. Measurements of hard x rays from ATF have shown that the runaway electrons are produced primarily during the field ramping but that there is usually also a small steady-state runaway electron component during the"flat-top'' portion of the fields. The paddle is the main source of the hard x radiation (thick-target bremsstrahlung). There is evidence that some of the runaway electrons may be confined to islands. The maximum x-ray energy found by pulse height analysis is ∼12–15 MeV. The mean energy appears to be a few million electron volts. There is a noticeable forward peaking of the bremsstrahlung from the paddle. The limiters do not appear to be major sources of x rays.
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