Discovery of Highly Excited Long-Lived Isomers in Neutron-Rich Hafnium and Tantalum Isotopes through Direct Mass Measurements

A study of cooled Au-197 projectile-fragmentation products has been performed with a storage ring. This has enabled metastable nuclear excitations with energies up to 3 MeV, and half-lives extending to minutes or longer, to be identified in the neutron-rich nuclides Hf-183,Hf-184,Hf-186 and Ta-186,Ta-187. The results support the prediction of a strongly favored isomer region near neutron number 116.

DNA重离子辐照敏感性序列的探索

DNA是辐射损伤的关键靶分子．有关高LET射线诱导的D＼A双链断裂（DSB）的机理之一，即DNA上是否存在辐射敏感性序列己逐步成为辐射生物学研究的热点基于重离子对DNA损伤的重要性和复杂性，刘DNA DSB非随机分布现象和DNA上是否存在敏感性序列，口前仍颇有争议，对其机理没有统一的解释．木论文瞄准DNA辐照敏感性这一前沿课题，从实验和理论两个方面进行研究．本研究的两个主要目的：1．实验卜用重离子对体外D狱照射，验证垂离子诱导的DSB非随机分布．2．理论上建立模型，揭示DNA簇损伤机理，预测。SB的分布．实验的材料与方法：采用兰州重离子加速器装置引出的7.19MeV/u20UNe7+，5.19 MeV/u 22No2+离了辐照质粒DNA．对辐照样晶，采用凝胶电泳分析！〕M链断裂分布；采用红外技术分析DM的微观损伤．理论模型：对DSB非随机分布机理提出假设：一方面与重离子在其径迹周围产生的人量低能次级电子有关；另一方而与DNA碱基的化学性质以及碱基的排列特征有关，即DNA上存在敏感性序列．建立了DNA吸附低能电子共振激发引起D＼A损伤模型，探索了将量子化学从头计算用在DNA损伤机理的研究中．结果：1．电泳结梁证实了DSB片断的非随机性分布，结果还发现，大剂量照射时DNA出现严重的交联，剂量越大交联产额越高，而且交联片断分布也是非随机的．2．红外分析发现DNA上关键基团的特征峰振动强度随剂量的增加而增加，剂量效应明显．3．得出了质粒DNA三种形式变化与剂量的关系。4.掌握了基于LinLlx系统的Trax对重离子深度剂量模拟．5．用量子化学计算了小分子的电子激发势能面以及DNA上小官能团，以及寡核营酸的化学性质．

Cluster assistant generation of C2+ and C3+ ions in nanosecond laser ionization of seeded benzene beam

Cluster assisted photoionization processes of benzene, which was seeded in argon, induced by an intense 25 ns Nd-YAG laser has been studied by means of time-of-flight mass spectrometry. At the laser intensity of 10(11) W/cm(2), multicharged ions Cq+ (q = 2-3) with kinetic energy up to 150 eV were observed in the mass spectra. Strong evidences Support that these ions are formed in the Coulomb explosion of multicharged benzene cluster ions. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.