{"title":"Emission of electrons and photons and formation of cascade ions during the decay of 125I radionuclide","authors":"A.P. Chaynikov, A.G. Kochur, A.I. Dudenko","doi":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109348","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109348","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emission of electrons and photons during the cascade decay of inner-shell vacancies created after the decay of unstable <sup>125</sup>I radionuclide is simulated by construction and analysis of the cascade decay trees in isolated-ion approximation. The yields of final cascade ions, the number of emitted electrons and photons, and their spectra, are calculated. During one transformation of <sup>125</sup>I, the total energy emitted to the environment is 61.7 keV, of which 43.3 keV is emitted by photons, mostly high-energy <em>KL</em> photons produced at the first step of the decays of the 1<em>s</em> vacancies. If <sup>125</sup>I is used as an agent for Auger therapy of cancer, only the energy absorbed by the tumor tissues in the nearest vicinity of the emitter is important. This energy is 18.6 keV, most of which is provided by cascade-produced electrons. The contribution of low-energy photons and cascade-produced ions to local energy deposition are 0.15 keV and 0.7 keV, respectively. Additional monopole ejection of electrons (shake off) during the cascades progression, and upon the internal conversion of <sup>125</sup>Te* nuclide produced by the electron capture decay of <sup>125</sup>I, is shown to affect little the final ions charges and emitted energies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer","volume":"334 ","pages":"Article 109348"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142990275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speed up the beam shape coefficient evaluation by using scalar spherical wave expansion and scalar translational addition theorem","authors":"Jianqi Shen , Yu Wang , Shiliang Zhong , Yiqian Tian , Haoyu Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109343","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109343","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The work proposes a two-step indirect method for evaluating the beam shape coefficients (BSCs) of the electromagnetic (EM) field of shaped beams. The spherical wave expansion of the EM field is based on the expansion of the scalar potential function so that the BSCs of the EM field are obtained as the linear combinations of the BSCs of the potential function. By using the scalar translational addition theorem, the BSCs of the potential function in the particle coordinate system are obtained from those in the beam system. The beams having circular profile and carrying no topological charge are considered in the work. The method simplifies the formulation of the BSCs and speeds up the numerical calculations. The numerical results for the Gaussian beam validate the method in evaluating the BSCs and reproducing the beam field in both accuracy and efficiency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer","volume":"334 ","pages":"Article 109343"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new theoretical method for remotely assessing the health of date palm trees using the scattering/absorption ratio of obliquely incident electromagnetic waves","authors":"Afshin Moradi , Mohammed M. Bait-Suwailam","doi":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109342","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109342","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present work explores the application of microwave remote sensing to distinguish between healthy and infested date palm trees, using a novel approach centered around the scattering to absorption width ratio (SAWR). Through comprehensive analytical formulations and numerical modeling, we investigate the interaction of palm trees with microwaves at oblique incidence, specifically at a frequency of 2.45 GHz (ISM-band). The study examines the behavior of TE<span><math><msup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mi>z</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> and TM<span><math><msup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mi>z</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> polarizations waves (relative to the <span><math><mi>z</mi></math></span>-axis), providing detailed analyses of their scattering and absorption characteristics as functions of incident angles. Our findings demonstrate that the SAWR metric is a promising indicator for assessing palm tree health, effectively differentiating between healthy and pest-infested trees. This research offers a non-destructive, real-time method for monitoring tree health, with significant implications for pest detection in agricultural practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer","volume":"333 ","pages":"Article 109342"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huiling Liu, Xingxing Han, Bei Zhao, Jing Shi, Le Zhu
{"title":"Characteristics of photonic jet formed by an eccentrically coated dielectric sphere","authors":"Huiling Liu, Xingxing Han, Bei Zhao, Jing Shi, Le Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109340","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109340","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To analyze the influence of eccentricity and the properties of a focused beam on the features of photonic jets (PJs) formed by an eccentrically coated sphere, light scattering of an eccentrically coated sphere illuminated by a focused Gaussian beam is investigated by using the generalized Lorenz-Mie theory. Variations of internal and near-surface field distributions are calculated with the change of the core locations inside of the particle. Numerical results concerning the behaviors of PJs, including the position of maximum intensity, focal distance, value of peak intensity, and transversal dimension of PJ expressed by full width half maximum (FWHM), are presented. The results show that by properly tuning the location of core, the PJ parameters can be efficiently engineered. The PJs can also be further adjusted by varying the beam waist radius of the incident Gaussian beam, which provide an extra way to adjust the PJ patterns for a particle with fixed structure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer","volume":"334 ","pages":"Article 109340"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142990277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation of backscattering phase function with the geometric optics method using a paired ray-tracing technique","authors":"Chen Zhou , He Huang , Lei Bi","doi":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109341","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2025.109341","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Geometric optics methods with intensity mapping have been widely used to calculate the single-scattering properties of randomly oriented non-spherical particles with large size parameters, but the backscattering phase functions are often underestimated. The primary reason is that the coherent backscatter enhancement (CBE) is not addressed when the intensity mapping technique is used. In this paper, the phase difference between each pair of conjugate reversible rays is computed in the ray-tracing module of the improved geometric optics method (IGOM), and the effect of CBE is incorporated by considering the interference between conjugate rays. The phase functions of regular hexagons, roughened hexagons, and spheroids with different size parameters and refractive indices are simulated using both the original IGOM and the IGOM with CBE considered (IGOM-CBE), and the results are compared to rigorous numerical simulations that solve Maxwell's equations. The results show that the near-backscattering phase functions calculated with the IGOM-CBE are more consistent with rigorous numerical simulations for all cases, indicating that the paired ray-tracing process effectively improves the backscatter simulated by the geometric optics method.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer","volume":"334 ","pages":"Article 109341"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luka Rajačić, Nikodin V. Nedić, Dejan Dojić, Miloš Skočić, Srdjan Bukvić
{"title":"Saha–Boltzmann method in plasma diagnostics: What can we obtain from a strict approach?","authors":"Luka Rajačić, Nikodin V. Nedić, Dejan Dojić, Miloš Skočić, Srdjan Bukvić","doi":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109338","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109338","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we discuss the technical and numerical aspects related to a specific diagnostic tool, the Saha–Boltzmann plot, introduced in plasma spectroscopy by Yalcin et al. in 1999. The method has a clear physical background and requires only common spectroscopic data as input parameters. The output parameters are the electron temperature and the electron density of the investigated plasma. In this paper, we explain how to correctly estimate the uncertainties of electron temperature and electron density, regardless of whether the accuracy of the input parameters is known or not. In addition, we offer a computer program, as part of a free web service, that efficiently solves the ’Saha–Boltzmann plot’ task.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer","volume":"333 ","pages":"Article 109338"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gérard Gouesbet , Leonardo A. Ambrosio , Jianqi Shen
{"title":"On a relationship between acoustical (more generally scalar) beam shape coefficients and electromagnetic beam shape coefficients of some T-matrix theories for structured beams","authors":"Gérard Gouesbet , Leonardo A. Ambrosio , Jianqi Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109329","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109329","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>On one hand, we consider two T-matrix theories, namely “Generalized Lorenz–Mie theory” (GLMT) and “Extended Boundary Condition Method” (EBCM), in which structured beams may be expanded over Vector Spherical Wave Functions (VSWFs), with expansion coefficients expressed by using electromagnetic Beam Shape Coefficients (BSCs). On the other hand, we consider acoustical (more generally scalar) fields which may be expressed similarly by an expansion over basic functions, with expansion coefficients expressed using acoustical (scalar) BSCs. We establish relationships between electromagnetic and scalar BSCs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer","volume":"333 ","pages":"Article 109329"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142929285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global carbon monoxide retrieval from the hyperspectral infrared atmospheric sounder-II onboard FengYun-3E in a dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbit","authors":"Zhao-Cheng Zeng","doi":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109336","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109336","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study presents an information content analysis of the retrieval of global carbon monoxide (CO) from the 2<sup>nd</sup> generation of Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder on board Fengyun-3E (FY-3E/HIRAS-II), which is the world's first dawn-dusk orbiting meteorological satellite for civilian use with equatorial overpass times at about 5:30am/pm. Using the distinctive absorption features of CO around 2145 cm-1 in the infrared band, a retrieval algorithm based on optimal estimation is first developed to retrieve the CO profiles from FY-3E/HIRAS-II. The thermal contrast, defined as the temperature difference between the surface and the lower atmosphere, is then examined for the FY-3E/HIRAS-II observations to investigate the potential sensitivity of the observations. Retrievals of CO columns on four representative days over four seasons reveal strong enhancements from global wildfire emissions. Furthermore, the information content from the spectra, quantified by the degree of freedom for signal (DOFS), is assessed using the retrievals. The retrievals are compared with model simulations, which show good agreement. Finally, synthetic experiments are performed to investigate the impacts of thermal contrast and the vertical structure of wildfire-induced CO enhancement on the observational sensitivity. The result highlights the effectiveness of observing wildfire-induced CO enhancement during the dawn and dusk hours, even when thermal contrast conditions are not favorable. This study demonstrates the capability of FY-3E/HIRAS-II to monitor global CO, which sheds light on the potential benefits of adding dawn-dusk orbit observations to the current global air quality observations from mid-morning and early-afternoon orbit constellations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer","volume":"333 ","pages":"Article 109336"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142929289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Randika Dodangodage , Peter F. Bernath , Matthew Wyatt , Chris Boone
{"title":"Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) satellite observations of aerosols and SO2 emissions from the 2024 Ruang volcanic eruption","authors":"Randika Dodangodage , Peter F. Bernath , Matthew Wyatt , Chris Boone","doi":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109333","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109333","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Indonesia’s Ruang volcano erupted on April 16, 2024, with subsequent eruptions on April 17 and 30. The resulting plume was observed rising to altitudes of up to 12 km. 10 days after the eruption of the Ruang volcano in April 2024, the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) observed notable increases in SO<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> volume mixing ratios and aerosol extinction at an altitude of approximately 20 km. It was confirmed that the aerosols present were sulfate aerosols from their infrared spectra. The composition and size of the stratospheric sulfate aerosol particles were determined by fitting the infrared transmission spectra. The sulfate aerosols observed in the plume were about 64% (by weight) sulfuric acid, and the droplets had an average median radius of 0.127 <span><math><mi>μ</mi></math></span>m.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer","volume":"333 ","pages":"Article 109333"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142929288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ro-vibrational levels of acetylene isotopologues calculated from new potential energy surface","authors":"Alexander E. Protasevich, Andrei V. Nikitin","doi":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109337","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.109337","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ro-vibrational energy levels of acetylene isotopologues are reported using variational nuclear motion calculations from empirically optimized full six-dimensional potential energy surface (PES) in the ground electronic state. This surface is based on pure ab initio PES of H<sup>12</sup>C<sup>12</sup>CH which took into account the triple, quadruple and quintuple excitations as well as relativistic and diagonal Born-Oppenheimer corrections (DBOC). Variational calculations of the motion of nuclei for all isotopologues were carried out using one exact kinetic energy operator in which only the masses of the atoms were changed. Experimental values of 1529 ro-vibrational levels up to <em>J</em> = 10 of the main isotopologue were used to empirically adjust some 58 lower-order parameters of the PES. The unweighted average RMS for empirically optimized PES is 0.0953 cm<sup>−1</sup>. Ro-vibrational energy levels of H<sup>12</sup>C<sup>12</sup>CH, H<sup>13</sup>C<sup>13</sup>CH, D<sup>12</sup>C<sup>12</sup>CD, D<sup>13</sup>C<sup>13</sup>CD, H<sup>12</sup>C<sup>13</sup>CH, H<sup>12</sup>C<sup>12</sup>CD, H<sup>12</sup>C<sup>13</sup>CD, H<sup>13</sup>C<sup>12</sup>CD, D<sup>12</sup>C<sup>13</sup>CD up to <em>J</em> = 10 were calculated in the ground electronic state. Calculated ro-vibrational energy levels of H<sup>12</sup>C<sup>12</sup>CH, H<sup>13</sup>C<sup>13</sup>CH, D<sup>12</sup>C<sup>12</sup>CD, H<sup>12</sup>C<sup>13</sup>CH, H<sup>12</sup>C<sup>12</sup>CD isotopologues were compared with high precision empirical energy levels available in literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16935,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer","volume":"333 ","pages":"Article 109337"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142929287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}